Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-01 (Wednesday)

On 5/2/2024 6:01 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/2/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 My longest workday of the week was even longer than usual this week (same will be true, for the last time, next week). So I basically just got through soaps:
 soaps: Tues' ep's.
    GH - Geez. Booby Vista is playing one of the most unpleasant characters I have ever seen! - She has, like, no redeeming qualities: her character is a harpy of a stage mother, and spends the entire episode hectoring Maxie into trying to say something negative about Brook Lynn... Dumb Willow unknowingly catches Drew and Nina together after their second session of "hate sex", which they conceal from Willow, and Willow takes it as a sign that Drew and Nina have buried the hatchet and that maybe Willow should forgive Nina too! Later, Nina discusses her "hate sex" sessions with Drew with Maxie... Olivia hires Sasha to be the new family cook, and Sasha and Cody are more "couple-y" now... In the episode's best bit, Jason "debriefs" Dex about Sonny and Pikeman, and then Jason and Anna figure out that Valentin has been running Pikeman and that Valentin has been lying to Anna this whole time - so Anna is going to go "under cover" with Valentin to "sting" him!
    DOOL - Marlena interrupts a "Pawn" session between Constantine and John, and afterwards Marlena and John figure out that something is up here, but they aren't sure what. Earlier, Marlena runs across "Everett" (it was pretty clearly the "Bobby Stein" personality) who dismissively ends their professional relationship (how is Marlena not suspicious here?!!), and then seems to slap the make on a very suspicious Stephanie... Chad follows up on Nicole's "tip" about Paulina's questionable actions while under radiation quarantine, but she kind of stonewalls him; later, Chad quizzes Julie about it - I think Chad has a real story here. Chanel is sick, and a worried Paulina and Johnny take her to the hospital (I'm now wondering if, in a twist, it will turn out that Chanel is preggers!).
 I put "Chicago Med" on, but paid it no attention, so I could not tell you what happened.
 I then had "Chicago Fire" on - Violet gets Severide to offer Jocelyn Hudon's character (Lyla Novak?) a permanent paramedic gig, but Novak turns it down; at the end of the episode, Violet again pitches Novak on signing up to stay at "15" permanently. Meanwhile, a new "floater" firefighter catches Kidd's attention, but the dude is a sketchy "fanboy" of Severide, et al, and he seems to be up to something. Other stuff happened, but it wasn't important.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Fall Guy (theatrical) New action comedy based on the TV series. Ryan Gosling stars as a stuntman who doubles for a famous action star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) in a movie being directed by his on again off again girlfriend (Emily Blunt).  When the movie's star goes missing Gosling is tasked with tracking him down.  This is a very meta movie and love letter to stuntmen.  It's sort of a cross between "F/X" and "The Player."  Although not a lot of celebrity cameos, just a movie about making movies.  With loads of gratuitous stunt work.  I didn't even know that could be a thing until now.  Overall I'd say it was a mediocre movie that can wait until home viewing.
Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix) - I finished the last two episodes of the seasons.  SPOILERS!!!!
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"The Case of the Very Long Stairway" - Penultimate episode.  Picking up right where the last episode ended, Edwin has been dragged to hell by a demon and Charles is determined to travel to hell to rescue his best friend.  The Hell in this series is a bit of a mixture between "Hellraiser" hell and "What Dreams May Come" hell with various individual and collective Hells to travel through.  "Despair" (Donna Preston reprising her role from Sandman) makes a cameo.  Crystal offers to make the journey but Edwin says no since nothing living can return from hell.  So while Charles is fighting his way through hell Crystal is tracking down the demon that used to posses her in hopes of forcing him to open a portal to hell for her.  Meanwhile the Witch and the Cat King have a not so pleasant encounter with each other.  Their fight gave a clear power ranking of the Witch and the Cat King.  The Witch is way more powerful than I thought!  Great episode.
"The Case of the Hungry Snake" - Season finale.  Freshly escaped from hell and with everyone else free from any demons or curses the gang plans to bug out of town with the quickness!  But the Witch still has revenge and plans for ultimate power on the mind so no one is going anywhere just yet.  It just occurred to me this season was sort of like "Buffy" where there would be a Big Bad in the background all season while the Scooby gang fought the monster of the week until the finale where they would unite to fight the Big Bad.  That was basically this.