Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-07 (Saturday)

On 12/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I took it easy yesterday, so not too much:
DOOL - Wed's & Thur's ep's. They're moving beyond Doug's memorial, but not in particularly interesting ways - Doug's "grandson" (Disney's Peyton Meyer) shows up, and he's stolen a necklace... Meh. Why should I care about this? And why have they brought him on? - There's almost no one to pair him with - Stephanie? Chanel? Joy, if she sticks around? Meh... Meanwhile, I enjoyed Xander clashing with Stephanie - he kind of has her number!
Lioness (Pee+) - First two episodes of season #2.
    Ep. #2.1 is a barn-burner - Cartel types enter the El Paso(?) house of a U.S. Congresswoman, kill her husband and child, and kidnap her. Without even her own team (who were not in ep. #2.1 at all), Joe is ordered into Mexico to retrieve the Congresswoman, though she's backed by a team consisting of Max Martini (The Unit) and Taylor Sheridan himself!! They retrieve the Congresswoman with EXTREME PREJUDICE! - I love how they just eliminated the banditos like swatting flies. Then they waste probably about three dozen Mexican federales and Mexican army troops on the way back to the border!
    Ep. #2.2 brings back Joe's team (sans Cruz), along with Martini and Sheridan, and CIA bro Kyle (Thad Luckinbill, who's now main cast in season #2, along with Michael Kelly and Morgan Freeman) for their new mission - plant a new lioness inside the Cartel to track down the Chinese Intelligence operative who organized the original kidnapping. The new lioness? - A U.S. Army(?) captain and chopper pilot who also happens to be the niece of the Cartel's head. But Carrillo, the new lioness, seems even more problematic than Cruz was. And this mission isn't even an assassination mission, but a "trojan horse" operation!
I otherwise left Christmas TV movies or the Oregon-Penn State game on as background noise, until:
Sugarplummed (Hallmark) - New X-Mas flick starring Maggie Lawson and Janel Parrish.
    This started out really promisingly, as it was basically a spoof and "meta" examination of Hallmark's own X-Mas movies. It started out turning the formula on its head, but explicitly examining it.
    Unfortunately, the film succumbs to all the very tropes it was originally satirizing in the Third Act.
    Too bad, because Hallmark was coming dangerously close to breaking the formula with this one...
What did you watch?