Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-14 (Tuesday)

On 1/15/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Did work, and had a meeting yesterday, then ran an errand. So I only saw stuff in the afternoon and evening:
soaps: DOOL - Mon's ep. Convoluted - Stephanie tells Sarah the truth about Philip's letter, and rather than go tell Xander, instead Sarah goes to confront Philip and Kate who seem to talk her out of telling Xander (why?!!). Meanwhile, Stephanie goes to her mother to winge about her terrible love life! Chad discovers Cat is staying in town. Marlena can't track down John.
    GH - Tue's ep. Tracy refuses to let Willow's kids off the property (I hope Martin Gray has her arrested!). Sasha butts in where she has zero business, and pretty much gets her head handed to her by Willow. Lucky and Josslyn "compare notes" on their respective Cyrus Renault investigations, and then Lucky tries to figure out what all the victims have in common with Lizzie and Lucas.
The Rings of Power (Apple TV+) - Ep's #2.3 & 2.4.
    Yikes - ep. #2.3 is not good, with too much Numenor stuff. The Numenor stuff isn't worth repeating. The Dwarves are offered rings, and seem to be willing to take them.
    Ep. #2.4 was at least better in parts. Yeah, the Isildur-Arondir parts end up in Ents (another thing this show should have stayed away from). And the show compounds idiocy by having the Stranger come across Tom Bombadil [roll] while his two companions come across other halflings called Stoors. But at least the Galadriel's and Elrond's party try to make it to Celebrimbor parts were interesting.
Initiation (Prime) - A 2020 horror movie. What's interesting about this is that is was co-written and co-produced by the film's lead, Lindsay LaVanchy (an actress I have never come across before). Considering all of that, it actually has a passable cast, as they got Yancy Butler and Lochlyn Munro to show up for this.
    My one issue is that the film takes way too long to get going.
    It starts out being about a sorority and a frat and its members and pledges. At a party, the lead's (LaVanchy) pledge (Isabella Gomez from Netflix's "One Day at a Time") is roofied and apparently raped by some of the frat guys, potentially including the lead's brother.
    Eventually, a masked figure starts offing the frat guys in particularly brutal ways - is the killer eliminating the "weak links" to protect the frat?
    Anyway, this gets better the longer it goes, though I would say the final sequence with the sorority sisters (Shireen Lai plays the third sorority sister) trapped together in a college building with the killer probably goes on too long.
    So, I have never seen Lindsay LaVanchy before, and this was definitely her biggest role to date. Then COVID hit and she basically did nothing else since this... until just recently - it looks like she, Gomez and Lai are working together on another new upcoming horror flick.
What did you watch?