Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-26 (Wednesday)

On 2/27/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Yesterday was effectively a half-workday, and I was smarter about it - I knew if I tried to wait until the evening, I'd be too tired to watch anything (and it turns out I would have been!), so this time I watched stuff in the afternoon after I got home!
This allowed me to get thru a couple more "Paradise" ep's, watch soaps, and even watch a movie I recorded off Lifetime a few months ago:
Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #1.5 & 1.6.
    Some
    SPOILERS
    here
    I guess...
    These episodes were better, as they focused more on the mysteries of the case.
    I didn't read too closely, not wanting to be spoiled, but I think BTR objected to something in episode #5: they show the Washington Monument almost completely submerged under water - the monument is over 550-ft tall! So the oceans rose (or the continents sunk?) by 500-ft?! This seems wildly insane.
    Later, the daughter also claims that Atlanta was nuked on the same day. None of this "apocalypse" stuff is making any sense - have the writers worked all this through at all?!!
    Ep. #5 gives us background Pres. Bradford's last day - this seems to be where he found out that the exploration mission outside was assassinated on "Sinatra's" orders (and also that that mission had found an actual live human being), after figuring out obscure clues from his dementia-ridden father (Gerald McRaney). He tries to pass this info off to his son, but his crummy son rebuffs any overtures. (I don't feel sorry for the son about his guilt on this at all.) Also in this ep., Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and Robinson (Krys Marshall) finally start working together, as both now suspect Sinatra had Bradford and Agent Billy Pace killed. In the end, Collins and Robinson decide to do something radical. However, in what I found to be a really dumb plot twist, it's revealed that Collins' daughter is the one who stole Bradford's tablet o' secrets.
    Sidenote: Enuka Okuma (Rookie Bleu!) appears in this episode as Collins' wife, and apparently she was uncredited which I find kind of inexplicable.
    Episode #6 was better still (mostly), generally dispensing with flashbacks, and focusing on Collins' and Robinson's plot to basically launch a revolution in Paradise. This episode is disappointing in showing that Sarah Shahi's Dr. Gabriela is basically nothing more than Sinatra's lackey and stooge (is she really so dumb that she can't see what is really going on here?!). Anyway, while Collins distracts Sinatra (and Gabriela), Robinson steals all of the weapons out of the armory in Paradise, and then she and Collins assemble a "crew" of the security types (luckily for them sans the young and cute but EVOL! bitchface, Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom)) to stage an armed revolt. Meanwhile, Sinatra orders Jane to eliminate Collins, but when Jane can't find Collins, she targets the daughter instead. During the armed insurrection, Sinatra orders the "sky" shutdown, reminding everyone they're hiding in a cave, and breaking the social cohesion that Dr. Gabriela has worked to hard to build. The ending of this one was disappointing - rather than put a bullet in Sinatra, Collins lets her talk, and she claims that Collins wife is still alive somewhere (which I am assuming is an outright lie) - I would have shot her in the face on the spot!
soaps: DOOL - Disappointing - they finally get back to EJ and Rafe, and reveal that Rafe was injected with the memory-erasing drug because Kristen had interrupted their struggle. But EJ plans to reinsert amnesiac Rafe back into his life. Meanwhile, everyone else seems to figure out FauxRafe is Arnold Feniger - NuGabi even gets a hair sample and intends to run a DNA test (I pray that she does!). But when Jada and Shawn go to confront Feniger, they find Rafe who can't even remember his own name... Meanwhile, in another tedious round, Brady confronts Kristen and vows to have her arrested, and for the umpteenth time she plays the "Rachel" card, and once again Brady looks ready to crumble.  >:/
    GH - Love this! - NuJackBrennan plays every mindgame in the book! and convinces dumb Josslyn to agree to be a WSB agent!! Can't wait to see where this goes!!... As expected, Drew lies about not being Jason's alibi, causing Carly to castigate him and then tear a strip off Willow for being a braindead dupe (true!) which causes Willow to get all defensive. (Can't wait to see what happens when Willow figures out she has been duped!!)... Brook Lynn and Chase disagree about next steps in child rearing. Tracy blocks Drew from using the "Quartermaine" name, which causes others, esp. Lois and Gio to be outraged. Curtis plans to meet with a fellow Congressman to block Drew for any real power.
Don't Let Him Find You (recorded off Lifetime in late November) - Well, the best I can say about this one is that it kind of kept me guessing most of the way through.
    But, it turns out - this is another Lifetime flick where the title actually gives it away!!
    Recent Lifetime staple Brianna Cohen plays a wife and mom who apparently has a secret past (pre-name change) that she's trying to run away from. But when she saves a woman's life, and displays obvious medical knowledge - which is all caught on phone cam! - her cover is blown as the footage is picked up by media.
    She is at first blackmailed by a shady internet "true crime" podcaster(?) - but when he ends up dead, she's the prime suspect. Then she starts getting creepy texts, and is maybe being followed. Is her life in danger?! (And I'm starting to wonder if her husband (Philip Boyd) is behind this...)
    Then there's the whole subplot of why she dropped off the grid in the first place.
    Anyway, this was OK, but I felt like the ending really let things down - this needed a much better Third Act to pull everything together.
What did you watch?