Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday)

On 3/17/2024 8:50 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 Friday Night Sext Scandal (LMN) - "Inspired by real stories"... Blech!!
    This went pretty much as you would expect, except for the dude's mother refusing to let him confess to the police and helping him destroy evidence (a hard drive).
    The lead kid (Anthony Timpano, who in a bit of feminist highhandedness is credited second, despite clearly being the film's lead and main focus)

More likely whoever got top credit had a better agent or was better known to the producers.

must be small! as he was barely taller than Devyn Nekoda, and she's *tiny*!! (former ballet dancer).
    Anyway, this is one of those flicks that will not be worth a rewatch, as it's both unpleasant and depressing (and also unsatisfying, as nobody really *pays* in the end...)
 What did you watch?
 

The Twilight Zone S4E03 'Valley of the Shadow' - DVR
A reporter (Ed Nelson) visits a town whose inhabitants can manipulate time, energy and matter.  With James Doohan.  (Comcast)
A reporter stumbles into a peaceful town where miracles seem to occur due to technology and the townsfolk won't let him leave.  (IMDb)
Trivia: James Doohan (Mr. Johnson) is one of 4 regular Star Trek (1966) actors to have been in The Twilight Zone. William Shatner was in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963) and Nick of Time (1960) . Leonard Nimoy was in A Quality of Mercy (1961), and George Takei in The Encounter (1964).
David Opatoshu (Mr. Dorn) also played the head of another place with strange secrets; in A Taste of Armageddon (1967) he was Anan 7, head of the council on planet Eminiar VII, in which the Enterprise landing party were also unable to leave, having been condemned to death by the computer-fought war.
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The Twilight Zone S4E05 'Mute' - DVR
Parents raise their daughter (Ann Jillian) without verbal communication in order to fully develop her telepathic powers.  (Comcast)
The orphaned daughter of telepathic parents must learn to speak and deal with a world she cannot communicate in.  (IMDb)
Trivia: The main street that Ilsa runs across is the same one used in I Sing the Body Electric (1962). Located on the MGM backlot in Culver City, it was known as the "New England Street", and is same set that was featured in the Andy Hardy movies, starring Mickey Rooney., Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock", Frank Sinatra's "Some Came Running" and the 1970s musical fantasy "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band", starring The Bee Gees, which was the last major film shot there. Much of the MGM backlot had been demolished in 1974, and the remainder, including the New England Street, was pulled down in 1978, soon after filming wrapped on "Sgt Pepper's".
Well, one good thing about working through all these TZ episode, my DVR is down to below 50% full.  :P
What Did You Watch?
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