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

On 5/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I got through more grading yesterday (as predicted, it will take me until today to finish the second exam...), but still managed to watch more TV than I was expecting to:
soaps: Fri's ep's.
    GH - Sonny goes to Dante, to basically imply that Dante shouldn't "trust" Dex (IOW, shouldn't allow him to become a cop); later, Dante wonders to Sam if he shouldn't be a cop anymore (talk about an overreaction!!). Carly goes to Sonny's to confront him, and after swatting Ava away, confronts Sonny and tells him she won't allow their daughter to come over anymore. She then becomes convinced that Sonny "isn't taking his medication" with (a guilty!) Ava looking on. Josslyn discusses whether she should carry on her path to med school with Trina, and later spies Dex and is clearly not over him.
    DOOL - A drunk Leo spills the beans to EJ, but stupidly doesn't get any extorted money out of it. EJ races over to confront Sloan, who informs EJ that the baby isn't his!! Eric figures out that Leo has been blackmailing Sloan, and races over to confront him, but finds nothing but a sad sack of drunk in Leo. Constantine manages to "activate" the pawn to successfully steal the prenup out of Maggie's safe. Holly is all stressed out about school, and has to have Marlena calm her down.
golf - At the Byron Nelson in Dallas, Day 3 leader Jake Knapp kind of fell apart on Day 4. This allowed Canuck Taylor Pendrith to vault into the lead to win it. American Ben Kohles came in second. (As you can see, none of the "big names" played this one apparently.)
My Life Is on the Line (Lifetime) - This was actually a pretty good thriller. Unfortunately, the setting and background made it hard to watch - the lead (Andrea Pazmino) is a hardscrabble loser, apparently in the midst of divorce, who works at a bank call center. She has to meet with a mediator (about custody of her son?), but her clueless, unsympathetic (and useless - as she's not available when needed) supervisor boss won't let her have the time off.
    Of course, she also gets conned by a caller who doesn't have the passcode for his "wife's account", but who claims she just had a medical emergency, and who needs to money "immediately" to pay the medical bills. (It's the kind of story that, if you think about it for a second, doesn't make any sense!) Of course, the downbeat loser of a mom approves the money transfer without supervisor's approval.
    She fairly soon realizes that she's been conned when the real "wife" on the account calls in to find out why her account has been frozen!
    The rest of the flick is the woman trying to scramble to block the transfer while the original caller starts to lean on her to complete the fraudulent transfer anyway.
    Parts of this were a good thriller. But parts were hard to watch because the main character has such a shitty life/job, which she will likely lose when her mistake is made public.
What did you watch?