Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-12 (Sunday)

On 1/13/2025 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 1/13/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 One thing I forgot to mention for Arthur on Saturday is that I watched "Demolition Man" - it's amazing how many people are in this film as virtual babies!... including Denis Leary!!

I thought he was a bit more established by this point, but you're right.   He hadn't been in much.
This is one of my fave 1990s

dystopian action flicks!  :)
 Feeling a little better yesterday, I actually ran an errand, and then did actual work stuff. I watched:
 Wild Card football - I watched all 3 games yesterday.
    In the morning game, at the beginning, it seemed like Denver was going to make a game of it - they were trying every trick in the book to try to. But, as expected, it quickly got away from them and Buffalo ended up dominating, winning easily.
    The afternoon game was Green Bay vs. Phili, which Green Bay managed to keep somewhat close throughout most of the game, despite playing pretty awfully. (Further buttressing my belief that Phili is overrated!) But, in the end, Phili did what they needed to to win.
    The best game of the Wild Card set was last night's game, Washington vs. Tampa Bay, which was close pretty much throughout the whole game. Unfortunately, Washington won it in a less second field goal, which "doinked" in off the upright (seemingly the fifth or sixth time that has happened late this season).
    Just Rams vs. Vikings left for tonight.
 I was still pretty tired so last night I just decided to put on the Fox lineup after football, to sample some shows:
 Doc - Pilot. This was OK. Canuck actress Molly Parker plays a brilliant doctor and chief of internal medicine with horrible bedside manner - this is obviously filmed in Toronto, as Rebecca Liddiard plays a patient abused by Parker's horrible bedside manner. (The chief of staff's new wife(?) is also played by Sarah Allen.)
    But Parker's Doc has a car crash (texting while driving!!), resulting in a head injury. After brain surgery, she doesn't remember the preceding 8 years. Which means she doesn't know that she's divorced from the guy who is now the chief of staff(?), that her daughter is now a teenager, that her young son died 7 years before, nor that she's carrying on an affair with a much younger underling (Jon Ecker).
    Anyway, it looks like this is going to devolve into a slog as she tries to get her life and career back, presumably with a new attitude. IOW, while this wasn't terrible, I doubt I'm going to go out of my way to watch it again.
 Animal Control - What I gather was ep. #3.2. What made this more enjoyable than usual was that Lucy Punch was the guest star. Aside from that this show is OK - it has some amusing bits, and characters, but also gets tedious in places. And McHale is playing the usual "Joel McHale" character here, so it's not breaking new ground.
 Going Dutch - This one I was actively disappointed by: instead of just letting Denis Leary be the "Denis Leary-esque" crotchety commander of a lax base in the Netherlands, they screw this up by adding the fact that his daughter is one of the officers immediately under him - if I want to watch that kind of show, I'll watch "Shifting Gears"! I don't want this show messed up by estranged father-daughter dynamics!
    Anim will love this as Catherine Tate has a significant role as a prostitute(?) who befriends Leary (is it my imagination or do all Leary series seem to push prostitution?!) - Tate is *much* more subdued here than she was on "Doctor Who"; Joe Morton also appears as the superior officer determined to ruin Leary's career.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Mayfair Witches - "Ten of Swords" - Season 2, episode 2.  Lasher is an adult now, I think played by a different actor, but I'm not sure.  And he's out in the world killing Mayfair Witches while Rowan hand wringing over what to do about it.
The Boy and the Heron (4K disc) 2023 Japanese animated movie written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.  This is a fantasy film with a slightly hard to describe plot.  The story follows a young boy during WWII who moves to an isolated home with his father and new step mother.  He then has to rescue his step mother from a fantasy world.  It held my interest more or less, but Miyazaki has done much better.
The Bear (Hulu) - I binged through a couple more episodes.
Saved for later: Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale