Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-18 (Tuesday)

On 2/19/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I now have a small backlog of recorded Lifetime/LMN films, and last night I had enough time to get through one of these as partly "background noise". I also got through some soaps:
soaps: DOOL - Mon's ep. Tate comes in on Holly in her skivvies and Doug; Doug quickly takes his leave after having admitted to Holly that he's totally in to her!; Tate then tells Holly the news that Johnny and Chanel may want to adopt his and Sophia's baby. Johnny and Chanel try to figure out if they can/should adopt the baby. Alex and Stephanie have Valentine's date. Steve explains to Kayla that he's not thrilled about Stephanie and Alex dating.
    GH - Tue's ep. Mostly stale episode, marked by the fact that Jonathan Jackson was temporarily out as Lucky, and a storyline that was supposed to feature Maxie sported Spinelli instead (did both Jackson and Kirsten Storms get sick at the same time?! did a virus race through GH's cast at the time?!)... Anyway, the only decent part of this episode was Anna pleading with Jason not to kill Cyrus before letting him go from police custody. And Dante tries to catch Lulu up on what she missed. Otherwise, the rest of this episode was Valentine's Day nonsense which isn't worth going over.
Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (recorded of Lifetime) - By pure coincidence, I think this is reairing on LMN on Thursday - but I recorded this off Lifetime back in Oct. and decided to pull the trigger on it last night.
    Another of Lifetime's "true crime" flicks, I'm not sure how I had never heard about this case before!
    The actual crime happened in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pladl_triple_murder_and_suicide
    Jackie Cruz stars as the killer's abused estranged wife, Alyssa. Alyssa married the dude after he groomed her online when she was 15 and he was 21(?). He was abusive towards their first daughter, so Alyssa insists they put the baby up for adoption. Inexplicably, Alyssa stays with this dude for *years*, and they have two more daughters, one of whom is somewhat autistic.
    About 18 years after their first daughter's birth, she shows up as a teen wanting to meet her bio parents. Cruz's character Alyssa is less than thrilled, knowing the monster her husband is, but doesn't put a stop to this. Alyssa quickly finally leaves the dude, taking the 2 younger daughters with her, but Alyssa is unable to take the reunited oldest daughter with her as she's 18, and the monster father has already gotten in her ear and poisoned her against Alyssa the mom.
    Soon enough, the dude actually seduces the oldest daughter. (This has got to at least partially be on the oldest daughter - who let's themselves be seduced by their biological dad?!!) Estranged mom Alyssa finds out about this and sicks the cops on him, though the dad and the daughter both get arrested for incest.
    The title is misleading - in most (fictional) Lifetime flicks, the evol! party is murdering people all throughout the movie, but in this one, the actual killings don't come until the very end of the movie. But this flick ends up where you would have expected if you'd thought about it.
    I'm not a fan of Lifetime's "true crime" flicks, but this one at least had the virtue that I had never heard this story before, and that its storyline (dad-daughter consensual incest!) is so off-the-wall as to be novel.
What did you watch?