Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-10 (Friday)

On Sat, 11 May 2024 08:36:32 -0700
"Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On Friday pay day(!), after getting some work done (but not
enough!!), I resolved to make yesterday a "movie day" when I got
home, so I basically did.
 
First, I put "Double Jeopardy" on Showtime on in the background. This
is a long-time guilty pleasure of mine, but I haven't see it in
likely over a decade. This time, I noticed that Keegan Connor Tracy
has a bit part in this (context: this film is set in Washington state
and New Orleans, but was primarily filmed in Vancouver!) - I didn't
know Tracy has been around that long!! Also, I had forgotten that
Michelle Stafford (Y&R, and one-time GH) almost had a film career,
having a notable bit part in this film too!
    In watching this, I realized there hasn't been a film like this
in a long-time, and Hollywood needs to put out another flick like
this with a plucky betrayed woman/wife on a mission of revenge!
Righteous REVENGE!! while being pursued by somebody like Tommy Lee
Jones!!
 

I remember enjoying that at the time. Maybe it's time for a rewatch!

[snip]

 
What did you watch?!
 

S.W.A.T. - the penultimate (second-last) episode of season 7. Nobody
else retires, either voluntarily or as a result of workplace injury,
but Hondo finds himself despised in his own community when he has a
shootout with a guy at a neighbourhood basketball court. Hondo shoots
the perp but the perp's gun goes missing for a minute, during which
neighbourhood observers accuse Hondo of shooting an unarmed man and
even of "not being black"!

Blue Bloods - the penultimate episode of season 14A. Season 14B will
apparently be just 4 episodes unless the cast and producers of the show
manage to convince CBS to un-cancel it. Frankly - forgive the
inadvertent pun - if I was another network with some holes in my Friday
night schedule, I'd look seriously at picking this up. Apparently, the
ratings are still very strong (despite the ever-weaker writing) and
everyone still wants to do it so why not?

As for plot, we see the first time in a very long time where
Danny's plumper son finally got something to do but sit at the dinner
table. After being robbed on campus, he and his dad set out to catch
the robber. Also, Eddie and her partner untangle a landlord-tenant
dispute that turns out to be more complicated than it appears. Erin
discovers a legal aid attorney is not giving his client good advice and
works to take down the attorney which has unexpected consequences for
the client. Jamie and Joe Hill actually engage in some off-duty
fisticuffs - with each other! - and Frank has to figure out how to make
them get along.

--
Rhino