Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-23 (Sunday)

On 2/24/2025 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/24/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

[What did you watch?]

 Yesterday I needed to get stuff done,

Same.  Well, I needed to clean and I got a ton of cleaning done.
and it's the night before a

workday which means early bed. So all I got through was soaps:
 soaps: Y&R - Thur's & Fri's ep's. Mostly taken up with Summer and Daniel freaking out about Filis[sic!] going "missing", though she hasn't shown up in Paris yet and Billy doesn't know where she is. Later, Summer continues to be a passive-aggressive b*tch to Claire and then cries on Kyle's shoulder which irritates Claire. (Summer better be careful - I'm not sure that Claire won't just murder Summer if she gets annoyed enough!) Most of the rest of these were taken up with Damien drama,

Someone intentionally named their kid Damien?  So he's evil, right?

along with Audra trying to keep her past "acquaintance" with Holden secret.
    GH - Fri's ep. Ha! NuJack Brennan reveals what he's really been after - he tells Josslyn that he had proof that Cyrus had killed Dex all along and instead was feeding her clues because he wants to see if she's worth recruiting as a spy! And tells Joss he wants her to be a spy!! Meanwhile, she's still all twitchy from having shot Cyrus dead!... Drama with Lucky "almost dying" (but we knew he wouldn't). Brooklyn tells Chase that she was pregnant as a teen and gave the baby up for adoption. Jason tries to bury the hatchet with NuDrew for the kids' sake, but Drew viciously rebuffs Jason. Tracy immediately reneges on not pestering Sasha, and starts getting all "Quartermaine" about the baby after Sasha "admits" that the baby's father is "Jason".
 And that was pretty much it - the golf this weekend was the Mexico Open (this tournament has gone through a zillion name changes over the past several years, but I guess now it's back to the "Mexico Open"!) which I don't care about and didn't watch.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Jackie Brown (4K disc) 1997 movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.  Pam Grier stars as a flight attendant who works for a gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson) helping to get his money through customs.  Michael Keaton plays a DEA agent who busts her with Jackson's cash prompting Jackson to hire a bail bondsman (Robert Forster) to bail her out so he can keep an eye on her.  From there things get interesting.  The movie holds up great.
Out of Sight (4K disc) 1998 movie directed Steven Soderbergh based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.  George Clooney stars as a bank robber who breaks out of prison and Jennifer Lopez plays the federal marshal who falls in love with him while trying to track him down.  Michael Keaton also makes an appearance reprising his role from "Jackie Brown."  I was surprised to see Samuel L. Jackson show up in a cameo at the end.  He plays a different character from "Jackie Brown" and you don't get a clear look at his face, but it's him.
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (4K disc) 2003 movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.  Uma Thurman stars as "The Bride" a mysterious woman and former assassin who was shot in the head and left for dead by Bill (David Carradine) and her former partners.  She spend the movie murdering her way to her former partners on her way to Kill Bill.  The movie holds up great and is probably Tarantino's best film.
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (4K disc) 2004 sequel written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.  The Bride continues her rampage, killing her way to Kill Bill (David Carradine) with a little more backstory about what really happened and why.
The Mayfair Witches - "Michaelmas" and "A Tangled Web" - I caught up with the last two episodes.  Rowan, her boyfriend, and Cortland travel to Scotland to get Lasher back. It feels like they are retconning Lasher in real time.  If last season wasn't so long ago I'd have a better memory of it.  But as I recall, last season Lasher was basically an evil demon.  And by season's end he has implanted himself in Rowan's womb. Either he killed the child she had growing inside her and took it's place or he put himself inside of her.  Either way she really shouldn't like him much. Then this season starts and she gives birth to Lasher who just a few weeks ago was a baby, then overnight grew into a toddler, teenager, and now adult man.  All the while he's murdering people.  This all just happened within a few weeks (If even that long)!  But these last two episodes has had Rowan going on and on about how Lasher is her "son."  And she's not leaving without him because she loves him or some nonsense.  And now suddenly Lasher remembers that maybe he's not evil. So we're just supposed to forget about all the people who murdered because he says he had good intentions?
And are they cutting scenes or something?  Because I could have sworn a few episodes back they wiped the boyfriend's memory, but now he's tagging along to Scotland, and I assume he knows everything because they aren't hiding magic from him.  And who just drops everything, hops on a plane and flies to Scottland at a moment's notice?  I guess it's a good thing everyone had passports on the ready.
And I don't even want to get into what's up with Harry Hamlin's character.  The show really feels like they change writers and creative direction every few episodes and the new team that comes in doesn't bother to watch what came before.