Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-11 (Wednesday)

On 12/12/2024 8:03 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 12/12/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 With things starting to wind down a little for the year, I got through soaps... and a Tubi movie yesterday!
 soaps: GH - Tue's and Wed's ep's. A lot of this was NuNuLulu (aka. "Babe"!) on the warpath - "Babe", I mean Lulu! confronts Nina about where Charlotte is, not understanding that Nina and Valentin broke up years ago, and Nina doesn't appreciate the intrusion! Carly then takes Lulu to see Jack Brennan, and Lulu insists that Brennan call Valentin, which Brennan does, but there's no answer. Brennan goes back to the WSB office, where it's revealed he now wants Valentin found as well, as Valentin is bringing down too much heat now. Finally, Maxie finally meets up with Lulu and they catch up on the last 4 years... Anna, Jason and Spinelli maybe get a clue on Valentin's whereabouts by coercing Martin Gray... Curtis tests Drew, but Drew punts, so Curtis confirms that Drew intends to betray him; Curtis complains to Jordan, and then Portia about this, and Curtis reveals that he has convinced Michael to help him get Drew booted from Aurora Inc... Weird! Dex's new partner is Gina Vitori! GH keeps hiring Lifetime and Asylum vets! Anyway, after Dex and his new partner (Vitori) break up a fight between drunk college students, Dex is stabbed by someone (almost certainly Cyrus), with Felicia witnessing most of it... Bitch Willow is still giving Sasha the cold shoulder (after Sasha gave Willow a dose of the cold truth!), and Maxie asks for an explanation.
 Shark Bait (Tubi) - A 2022 Tubi Original flick!
    This is one of those annoying flicks that has a bunch of (unknown!) British actors pretending to be Americans (from Kansas!).

Kansas?  How did the shark get in someone's backyard swimming pool?  And why didn't people see the shark before they got into the pool?  Or did the shark ring people's doorbells pretending to be a candygram?
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  What did you watch?
 

This is a multiday catch up.  I watched:
Dune: Prophecy (HBOMax) - "Twice Born" - A lot went down in this episode.  The highlight was once again Travis Fimmel (I swear he's reprising his role from "Raised by wolves!") who with the emperor's blessing is now openly going after anyone who uses thinking machines. The sisterhood of course has many plans within plans, but Fimmel is there to keep throwing monkey-wrenches in them.  I never read the original novels, but from what I'm hearing this series is pulling in a lot from the novels including various aliens and technologies which were never explored before in the movies.
The Equalizer I caught up on two more episodes.  I think they were "Sacrifice" where the team saves an obnoxious hacker.  And "Take My Life...Please!" where the team saves an obnoxious comic.  With the comic in particular, if there's a murderer out to get him, the wife needs to just go to the police where the comics want her to or not.
Serpico (4K disc) 1973 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino as the only honest cop in New York.  It holds up pretty well. Watching this has put "Dog Day Afternoon" back on my radar.  I might get around to watching it soon.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+) "Very Interesting, as an Astrogation Problem" - Episode 3, in a bit of a step up from episode 2, Jude Law and the kids escape the pirate base and make their way to one of Jude's old frenemies for help in locating the kid's home world.  I did like the conversation the kids had as to if Jude's a Jedi or not.  And if not how did he make something float along with the list of multiple ways he could have pulled that off in the Star Wars universe.
Subservience (Netflix) New 2024 sc-fi movie starring Megan Fox as a fembot who is purchased by a man with a sick wife in the hospital.  The man expects his new fembot, that looks like Megan Fox, to cook, clean, and care for the kids.  But soon the Megan Fox lookalike has her robotic heart on replacing the wife (in all wifely duties) and ridding the man of anything that might be bothering him.  If he had just watched the season finale of "Accused," he would have known better than to buy a fembot, but some people have to learn the hard way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgdidCE3y1s