Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-23 (Sunday)

On 3/24/25 2:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Yesterday, I did some household chores (cleaning), and also did work, so I mostly just left golf and March Madness on in the background. I also kind of watched "Suits LA" fully for the first time:
soaps: Fri's ep's.
    DOOL - So, EJ's gambit to inject Kristen's crazy mommy with the memory-erasing drug fails after she anticipated this move and threw out the memory-erasing drug! In response, EJ either murdered her, or kidnapped her and sent her away, or most likely has her stashed in the DiMera catacombs! Kristen is irate when she discovers mommy missing... Tate and Holly "make up", and Tate tells Holly that NuTheresa has already left town again. Julie comes across Melinda Trask wearing the Horton diamond necklace, and threatens to have her arrested, and intends to file a police report after JJ has to decline to arrest Melinda absent one; Melinda warns Doug that if she goes down, she's taking Doug with her!
    GH - Meh - mostly wheel-spinning. Willow declares her intention to move in with Drew after all, and Nina is just pathetic by refusing to put her foot down. Both Ava and Portia are desperate - Ava because she's broke, and Portia because Drew is blackmailing her. Valentin makes a deal with Jason to give Jason information on Jack Brennan (who wasn't in this ep); then Valentin wants Alexis to represent him. Lucas tries to talk Carly out of seeing Brennan, but to no avail.
golf - You got to feel bad for Justin Thomas - for a while during the last day of the Valspar Championship in St. Pete, it looked like he was in the driver's seat to win! But Thomas wilted down the stretch, even bogeying the 18th hole, while Victor Hovland gained at the end, overtaking Thomas and relegating Thomas to second place.
March Madness - St. Mary's could never catch up to Alabama, who beat St. Mary's by 14. Colorado St. blew their lead against Maryland. In the first half, it looked like New Mexico had a chance to beat Michigan St. - but as always happens in these cases, New Mexico wilted in the second half, and lost by 8. Unfortunately, Arizona beat Oregon.
    And with these results, and UCLA losing on Saturday, I've mostly lost interest in the tourney again.  :|
Suits LA - So I paid attention to last night's ep. more for the first time. Stephen Amell plays a jerk, but unlike Harvey Spector who you still generally wanted to root for, Amell's character is *just* a jerk!
    I guess Amell's character was ejected from his old law firm(?), and so has started his own firm(?), which focuses on "Hollywood law", though rather than dealing with contracts, Amell is somehow a trial lawyer. He is defending a Hollywood murder defendant (Kevin Weisman), with a co-council (Maggie Grace, who still looks pretty great) that he's brought in, and he's up against a horrible unscrupulous prosecutor-type (Sofia Pernas).
    There are machinations within Amell's firm, and with his rival one, though I am less interested in that. (Azita Ghanizada from "Alphas" seems to be playing the one in charge of Amell's firm's rookie lawyers.)
    What's interesting here is that rather than follow "Suits'" old basic formula of "one-case-per-episode" this show seems to be stringing one trial over multiple episodes (and maybe over the whole season).
    Another interesting difference: "Suits LA" makes the firm's investigator (Troy Winbush) a major character. On the original "Suits", I don't remember there being a main investigator character - indeed, I want to say multiple investigators came and went on "Suits", and none of them were major characters.
What did you watch?