Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-18 (Sunday)

On 5/19/2025 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/19/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I've been (work) busy for days, which is why I haven't posted to RAT much this weekend. I'm giving two of my three final exams today, which means I'll be grading for the next few days, but hopefully won't be busy cover-to-cover anymore... We'll see.
 Anyway, I haven't watched much over the past 2 or 3 days:
 soaps: DOOL - Wed to Fri's ep's. Philip's scheme to steal the drug for Bo goes awry (aside: Philip's nerdy friend does seem familiar - like the same actor was on the show as a teen years ago...). When Xander finds out, he threatens to kill Philip. Meh. 'Cos we know he won't... Alex wants to publish Stephanie's trashy manuscript... then they have sex. (Quelle surprise!) They claim to Marlena that they've found John (off- screen) - then Susan Banks has a dark premonition. [roll]
    GH - Thur's & Fri's ep's. Three main thrusts here. One: Carly and Willow prepare for the coming custody hearing - Sonny is appalled when he hears about Carly's scheme gone awry, and he goes to Willow to try to negotiate a deal. Two: Curtis has figured out that Drew is blackmailing Portia - first he tells Nina (who secretly already knows!) about it, then goes to confront Drew, while Ava pleads with Portia to come clean before it's too late. (Can't wait for Portia's life to fall apart soon!) Three: Lulu lets Cody in on her "Gio is Brook Lynn's son (and Brook Lynn knows it [she doesn't!!])" theory, and then they both try to prove it... Oh, and Alexis (and, separately, Lucky) try to track down the wreckage of Ric's totalled car, but Ava and Ric are seven steps ahead of them!
 

Well, now that Buffy is back Xander and Willow will have to stop slumming it on soaps and move to New Sunndydale.  ;-)

golf - Anticlimactic. Jonathan Vegas led after Day 2 of the US Open, but Scottie Scheffler took over the lead on Day 3, and never looked back. Scheffler led the entire way (most of the time, by a lot!) on the final day - even upon bogeying the final hole, Scheffler still won by 5 strokes!
    Anyone else who tried to challenge seemed to quickly fall apart - the LIV tour guys really don't seem to be competitive anymore!
    This is Scheffler's third major win. He really has been dominating golf the last 2 or 3 years.
 And that was pretty much all I've been able to watch.
 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Law & Order: SVU - "Post-Rage" - Season 26 finale.  Team SVU go after a psycho who is gouging out the eyes of therapists before murdering them.
Welcome to Wrexham - "All In?" and "High Hopes" - First 2 episodes of season 4.  They are really struggling to make this team which has been on a multiyear winning streak and has international fame, feel like an underdog.
Found - "Missing While Dying" - Series finale.  They pretty much wrapped everything up, but doing it in a way that they can quickly undo it if the show comes back for a new season.  Of the two kidnapping stories they closed out with, one of them, I honestly couldn't tell if the person was kidnapped or not.  And the "rescue" for person involved the police kicking the door down, without knocking, with guns drawn, and the person they"recused" never said thanks or anything else to indicate they were being held against their will.  And I don't think they arrested the person they were with.  I'm still not sure if they were being held against their will or not.  Then there was the other kidnapping case, where the person was clearly being held against their will, at gun point.  And the police apparently came to the location and all decided to wait outside in secret for no other reason than so Gabby could go inside and make a speech, then allow for a dramatic reveal when the kidnapper walked out.
Lilo & Stitch (Disney+) 2002 Disney animated movie.  I never saw this before now, but with a live action remake on the way I decided to see what all the fuss is about.  The movie opens in outer space with a group of aliens putting a mad scientist on trial for creating an evil monster.   The monster is super intelligent and has no purpose of than to destroy.  The monster manages to steal a spaceship and escape to Earth where it crash lands in Hawaii.  The monster then pretends to be a dog, which is not particularly convincing, but a troubled young girl named Lilo, falls in love with her new "dog" (she names it Stitch) and doesn't care that it looks weird.  Meanwhile the aliens send a team to kill the monster, but they can't get a clear shot because the monster, which is well aware there's a hit squad hunting him, keeps hiding behind the little girl.  This was actually an OK movie.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (4K disc) 2023, Seventh entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise.  This one opens with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) being sent on a mission to find Rebecca Ferguson's disavowed MI6 character.  Along the way his team (Ving Rhames and Simpon Pegg) discover there is an evil AI out to take over the world, while the world's governments want to control the evil AI.  To stop this from happening Ethnan will have to team up with a thief (Hayley Atwell) who has been caught up in this.  Vanessa Kirby also returns as the arms broker and Henry Czweny returns, reprising his character from the first movie, who is now the director of the CIA.  This is another solid entry in the franchise.  What makes this one stand out are the villains, and this one has some good villains.  Starting with the AI itself.  I won't spoil what the AI does, but it's good.  Then there are the AIs two henchman played by Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff.  Both are good at twirling their mustaches and as usual the stunts are great.