What Did You Watch? 2025-03-07 (Friday)

On Friday, I had to give exams to 3 classes, so that took most of the day.
Despite that, I decided to finish off season #1 of "Paradise" yesterday, and then did yesterday night's LMN flick, plus I did soaps:
soaps: Both Thur's ep's.
    GH - NuNuLulu goes to Carly for advice (is she DAFT, or something?!?!!), and despite Lulu wanting to tell Dante the truth (very clearly Lulu's purpose would actually be to take Brook Lynn down!!), Carly points out the parallels to both Bobby's and Carly's earlier pregnancy situations, which seems to get Lulu to mostly back off, though Lulu says she'll know what to do when she sees Dante. More Quartermaine drama with Gio. [roll] Portia consults Ric about what to do about Drew's blackmail, and he tells her to string Drew along until he figures out what to do. Isaiah wants Willow to be an ER nurse (uh... can Willow be trusted in a crisis?! I think not!).
    DOOL - This was mostly Joy Wesley and Rafe drama - Stephanie resists the urge to tell Alex that Joy might be pregnant, while Joy seems to be telling everyone she can get her hands on about it, including JJ and the stripper from FauxRafe's bachelor party!... Meanwhile, in a dumb development, Rafe suddenly remembers everything, except what happened after he surprised Arnold Feniger and was knocked out. Jada runs his fingerprints (really?! no one did this before?!!) and confirms it's Rafe, and is elated. NuGabi goes to EJ demanding to know where Rafe is, and she then pulls a gun on EJ (man, I was hoping the bitch would just shoot him!!), but JJ stops Gabi at the last second by telling her that they've found Rafe. Oh, and that DiMera stooge lady tells EJ that she had to find a "permanent solution" for the Arnold Feniger problem, but never explains what she means by that!
Paradise (Hulu) - Ep's #1.7 & 1.8, the last two ep's of "Paradise" season #1.
    I can't help but admit that I was disappointed by a significant portion of these.
    While ep. #1.7 was taut, I didn't buy its central conceit - that a massive natural disaster would inevitably lead to Total Global Thermonuclear War(tm!) (didn't they retire this chestnut with "WarGames"?! ;p ) - to say that would be counterproductive to all involved is an understatement. (I also didn't buy that Russia would take on China - in present circumstances, that would be nigh on impossible!) So I didn't buy a lot of what happened in this ep. They also keep taking about the 300-ft tsunami wave, when it was clearly more like a 500-ft tall tsunami wave, which the "experts" would have figured out pretty damn quickly. And what was the random nuke that Collins saw from the plane?! 'Cos it sure as heck wasn't Denver! And I also didn't buy that the U.S. and Bradford have a massive "Off" Button that could stop Total Global Thermonuclear War(tm!) dead in its tracks... And then finally, we get the unwelcome reveal that You-Know-Who is still alive.
    Ep. #1.8 continues with the massive disappointment going back to ep. #1.6 - and that's Collins not just shooting Sinatra (whom these episodes do confirm, is indeed a monster!) right between the eyes. And, of course, he "jumps" for Sinatra as soon as she claims she is holding Collins' daughter (I don't even remember Collins verifying this fact!). This leads to the reveal of Bradford's killer - the good news is that at least it ties into earlier events. The bad news is that the killer's motive doesn't even make sense (shouldn't the killer have rightly wanted to take out Sinatra?!). I also dislike the dropped character of the "city designer" dude - is he not in Paradise with the rest of them?! If not, why not?!... I did like Jane turning on Sinatra; I didn't like that Jane just seems to be a garden-variety psycho - I was really hoping there would be a reveal where Jane was some kind of criminal mastermind. And are we going to finally get some background on the Jane character in season #2? Where the Hell did Jane come from?!... In the end, the finale does wrap up the show's main storyline, but puts Sinatra on indefinite ice (I guess Jane is such an amazing shot that she can bring you right up to the brink of death without taking you over!!) and sends Collins "outside". And this was another dumb sequence - I thought it was volcanic/nuclear winter outside, with the sun blotted out for years(?)/decades(?), and yet Collins literally "flies off into the sunset"?!! Bah.
Deadly Girls Trip (LMN) - I recorded this, but it wasn't getting my full attention, to the point that I literally had to rewind more than once just to see what I had missed while I wasn't paying attention!!
    This was pretty silly - four 40-ish gals head out for a weekend(?) away, when one of them (Kate Dickey, who in the past has played villains as often as not!) ends up dead. This makes the main one (recent Lifetime staple Kristi Murdock, who has probably starred in more Lifetime flicks lately than even Brianna Cohen!) suspicious, which makes her start investigating, which pisses off her other two friends (Charlotte Hemmings, and Lesa Wilson who is way taller than I thought she was!), who of course are complicit in the death somehow.
    But there's way more going on here than just that - Murdock's character is convinced her husband (Alex Trumble, disappointingly not playing a villain in a Lifetime flick this time!) is about to cheat on her (if he hasn't already!), and one of the other ones (Hemmings) is fleeing an abusive husband.
    Pretty much all of these storylines end up predictably converging. Meh.
What did you watch?