Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-06 (Friday)

On 12/7/2024 8:44 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

After a very long day of grading and giving exams, I just wanted to get home to chill out. So I watched:
 soaps: Y&R - Thur's and Fri's ep's. Not much happened here, though I did enjoy Filis[sic!] giving Billy a hard time about being with Sally (what does Filis[sic!] have against Sally?!). Cricket (who's leaving town anyway!) becomes convinced that there's more to Filis being run off the road than there appears. I also enjoyed the look on the Mustache's face when Jack revealed he had reassembled the pieces of Glaucade(sp?) after Victor had sold them off - I don't think ol' Vic was expecting that!... Claire reveals to Summer that she won't be the nanny anymore as she's going to work for Nikki, and then Summer passive-aggressively reveals it to Kyle before Claire can! Summer does not like this relationship!! Aunt Jordan is outraged - I wasn't sure if it was because Claire was with Kyle, or because Claire is going to work with Nikki...
 Lioness (Pee+) - Last 4 episodes of season #1. This ended about how I expected it to, right down to the revealed lesbian angle.
    This was a well-made and entertaining military/spy thriller, but it definitely felt like it contained all the usual Taylor Sheridan "tropes".
    I did like how all the "pol" characters (e.g. Morgan Freeman) got cold feet when it looked like Joe's team was actually going to successfully kill the target - as Joe's boss's boss pointed out, if they didn't want they guy dead, he shouldn't have been on the target list!!
    I also liked how Cruz dispatched the target (and the groom) with ruthless efficiency, but didn't like how she whined and blubbered about it the whole time, esp. afterwards - Joe should have had Cruz busted down to buck private after that!
    BTR claims season #2 is better than season #1, so I am looking forward to tacking that next.
 I looked around after "Lioness", and it looks like about a half-a-dozen movies (at least!) have come to streaming over the last couple of weeks that I now have to find the time to watch!
  What did you watch?
 

I binged through the crime anthology series, "Accused."
"Margot's Story" - Season 2, episode 5 - Debra Winger plays a woman charged with partnering with a con artist to defraud her friends.
"Val's Story" - Season 2, episode 6 - Cobie Smulders plays a woman charged with murdering her abusive ex husband.
"Eugene's Story" - Season 2, episode 7 - Ken Jeong and Jamie Chung star in this one.  The plot was too convoluted to try and summarize, and I don't think they even bothered to show the crime.  But basically Jeong is married to Chung but she turns out to have a shady past which Jeong gets caught up in, when Chung's ex gets out of prison and starts threatening them.
"Megan's Story" - Season 2, episode 8, the season finale.  Normally this series is pretty straight forward in their episodes, but this one was a straight up sci-fi episode.  I wonder if maybe they are testing the waters to maybe go in a new direction if the show comes back for a third season.  Anyway, this episode starred Sonequa Martin-Green as a business woman who buys her husband (Mike Colter) a sex robot (Kiara Barnes) to avert his attentions from her.  At first Colter wants nothing to do with the fembot, but he soon warms to it and starts to prefer the robot over his own wife. The wife does not take this well...