Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-21 (Saturday)

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

A Carpenter Christmas Romance (Lifetime) - I only really watched this
because it stars Sasha Pieterse (PLL, bitches!).
   Pieterse was always substantially younger than the rest of the PLL
cast, even Janel Parrish (who just looks younger) - Pieterse isn't even
30 yet. As such, she still looks good. She's lost some weight from her
peak (which was probably at the end of PLL), though is by no means
skinny now.

Colorblind casting if she played Karen, then. Can she act anorexic
believably?

   Anyway, this was the usual malarkey, though maybe a cut above the usual.
   Pieterse plays a somewhat prickly fantasy novelist who is hit by a
P.R. crisis - she intends to kill off the main character in her fantasy
series, and her fans find out and are in an uproar. So her
sister(?)-manager sends her back home to hide out and finish the latest
novel. There, of course, she runs across her high school
crush(?)/boyfriend(?) (Mitchell Slaggert) (I didn't pay enough attention
to this part to figure out which he was), who is now a
carpenter/woodworking(?) artist.
   Complications and hott sex enuse!
   This didn't break any new ground, but it went down a little easier
than most, and I liked that Pieterse's heroine was much more subdued
than most of the female lead characters of these things.

That... doesn't sound awful.