Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-23 (Sunday)

On 6/24/24 1:16 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 6/24/2024 10:30 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/24/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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I mostly took it easy yesterday - I only got through one flick off Tubi, and one Lifetime flick. However, I did go back to start up a series I couldn't watch/finish before:
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School Spirits (Pee+) - So a few days ago, I saw an article about the filming of the second season of "School Spirits". And then yesterday I was sitting around trying to figure out what streaming series I would watch next (after having finished "Daisy Jones & The Six" in a single day!!), and then I realized - "Hey! I have Pee+! - I can go back and watch "School Spirits" now!!"
    So, I rewatched the pilot, which I had seen before (they ran just the pilot on Paramount Network once, and I DVR'ed it), and then later in the day watched episode #1.2.
    I feel like Arthur mentioned this, but their "rules for ghosts" are all over the place! Where are they getting paper to write on?! Where did the donuts come from?!!

 I don't think I've ever watched this before.  You're probably thinking of "Dead Boy Detectives" on Netflix.  That was a pretty good show and it is in the same universe with "The Sandman" and even shared some characters/actors.

Nah - it it wasn't you, it must have been shawn.

    At the end of the pilot, Maddie's (Peyton List The Younger) bestie Simon (Kristian Flores) is able to see her, despite no living person ever seeing any of the other ghosts on campus.
    Episode #2 picks up with Maddie and Simon rather arbitrarily deciding that Maddie's boyfriend (Spencer MacPherson) is the one who killed her, just because he's a cheater, and trying to gather evidence to prove this, but we know in any mystery series that the first "suspect" is always a red herring, so there's no way he did it.
    Hopefully, they get to some other suspects in ep. #3.
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Devil on Campus: The Larry Ray Story (Lifetime) - Directed by Elisabeth Röhm! (who also co-stars as the main victim's mother).
    Wow - this may be the absolute *least* sympathetic Lifetime "victim" ever! I was actually rooting for Larry Ray to kill her by the end!
    This is based on the true story of 50-year old conman/psycho Larry Ray who in the early 2010s moved himself into his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence College, and quickly sets up a quasi-cult.
    Based on this film, I would *never* send a kid to Sarah Lawrence *ever*: The film portrays the main victim's parents as going to the college administration about Larry Ray living on campus, and the admin just shrugs - you can't tell me that colleges can't control who is living in their on-campus housing!! (IOW, that they can't kick out people not enrolled in the college!)

 You just reminded me, I lived in a college dorm my first semester and I do recall one day seeing some, I guess, parents/relatives of a student hanging around for a weekend visit.
 But as far as I know they didn't try to start a cult.  I'm pretty sure if they had, the RAs would have kicked them out!  LOL

If college administrations don't have language that they can kick people out of the dorms who are not enrolled, then nobody should be sending their kids away to college!
I have no idea if Sarah Lawrence "fixed this" after the fact. I doubt they did. One of Ray's victims should sue the college as allowing this all to happen.

    Anyway, the film's "heroine" (she's clearly not IMO) is named Claudia Drury (this is a real person, apparently), played by Tedra Rogers, and she is initially skeptical of Larry (obvi!), but then soon crumbles and becomes his willing... victim? dupe? Renfeld?
    In general, I don't like Lifetime's "con/cult" movies because you have to be a weak idiot to fall for any of this garbage. And this film's "heroine"/victim was the weakest idiot of them all (at least, as portrayed here).
    So I didn't have a whole lot of sympathy.
    One thing I did find interesting is how Larry Ray's daughter was a willing participant/lieutenant in his crimes - though she only got 4 years in jail (it likely should have been more!).
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What did you watch?

  This is a multi-day catch up.  I watched:
  House of the Dragon - "Rhaenyra the Cruel" - Season 2, Episode 2.

Still waiting to just binge this after all of the episodes have dropped...