Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-23 (Sunday)

On 3/24/2025 6:12 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 3/24/25 2:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Yesterday, I did some household chores (cleaning), and also did work, so I mostly just left golf and March Madness on in the background. I also kind of watched "Suits LA" fully for the first time:
 soaps: Fri's ep's.
    DOOL - So, EJ's gambit to inject Kristen's crazy mommy with the memory-erasing drug fails after she anticipated this move and threw out the memory-erasing drug! In response, EJ either murdered her, or kidnapped her and sent her away, or most likely has her stashed in the DiMera catacombs! Kristen is irate when she discovers mommy missing... Tate and Holly "make up", and Tate tells Holly that NuTheresa has already left town again. Julie comes across Melinda Trask wearing the Horton diamond necklace, and threatens to have her arrested, and intends to file a police report after JJ has to decline to arrest Melinda absent one; Melinda warns Doug that if she goes down, she's taking Doug with her!
    GH - Meh - mostly wheel-spinning. Willow declares her intention to move in with Drew after all, and Nina is just pathetic by refusing to put her foot down. Both Ava and Portia are desperate - Ava because she's broke, and Portia because Drew is blackmailing her. Valentin makes a deal with Jason to give Jason information on Jack Brennan (who wasn't in this ep); then Valentin wants Alexis to represent him. Lucas tries to talk Carly out of seeing Brennan, but to no avail.
 golf - You got to feel bad for Justin Thomas - for a while during the last day of the Valspar Championship in St. Pete, it looked like he was in the driver's seat to win! But Thomas wilted down the stretch, even bogeying the 18th hole, while Victor Hovland gained at the end, overtaking Thomas and relegating Thomas to second place.
 March Madness - St. Mary's could never catch up to Alabama, who beat St. Mary's by 14. Colorado St. blew their lead against Maryland. In the first half, it looked like New Mexico had a chance to beat Michigan St. - but as always happens in these cases, New Mexico wilted in the second half, and lost by 8. Unfortunately, Arizona beat Oregon.
    And with these results, and UCLA losing on Saturday, I've mostly lost interest in the tourney again.  :|
 Suits LA - So I paid attention to last night's ep. more for the first time. Stephen Amell

I thought he was on some other show.
plays a jerk, but unlike Harvey Spector who you

still generally wanted to root for,

I dumped Suits after the first or second season, but I don't recall ever wanting to root for Harvey.  But it was a long time ago, maybe I did and just don't remember.
  Amell's character is *just* a jerk!

    I guess Amell's character was ejected from his old law firm(?), and so has started his own firm(?), which focuses on "Hollywood law", though rather than dealing with contracts, Amell is somehow a trial lawyer. He is defending a Hollywood murder defendant (Kevin Weisman), with a co- council (Maggie Grace, who still looks pretty great) that he's brought in, and he's up against a horrible unscrupulous prosecutor-type (Sofia Pernas).
    There are machinations within Amell's firm, and with his rival one, though I am less interested in that. (Azita Ghanizada from "Alphas" seems to be playing the one in charge of Amell's firm's rookie lawyers.)
    What's interesting here is that rather than follow "Suits'" old basic formula of "one-case-per-episode" this show seems to be stringing one trial over multiple episodes (and maybe over the whole season).
    Another interesting difference: "Suits LA" makes the firm's investigator (Troy Winbush) a major character. On the original "Suits", I don't remember there being a main investigator character - indeed, I want to say multiple investigators came and went on "Suits", and none of them were major characters.
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
The Raid (4K disc) 2011 movie written and directed by Gareth Evans.  The movie stars Iko Uwais as a cop in Indonesia who takes part on a raid of a high rise building that's being run by a drug kingpin but the crooks who run the building are too much for even the police.  Iko and a few surviving cops then have to fight their way out.  The Judge Dredd reboot had the same plot.  The movie holds up great.
The Raid 2 (blu-ray) 2014 sequel written and directed by Gareth Evans. Picking up where the first movie ends, Iko is recruited by a secret police task force that is hunting high level criminals who run the city as well as the crooked cops who help them.  They send Iko *deep* undercover which includes his having to serve 3 years in prison before he can get out and join the criminal underworld and take then down from the inside.  This movie is awesome and even better than the first one. One thing that always sort of bugged me is during the three years Iko was in prison, he was so deep under cover that not even his wife knew where he was or what he was doing, yet when he gets out of prison he calls her and she seems to be still faithfully waiting for him.  I wonder, was he getting paid all those years with the checks going to his wife? Was someone checking in on her and reassuring her, her husband was still alive?  Because that part was extremely unclear! Even the part about his getting paid was unclear because he was so deep undercover and they knew the high level cops were crooked, that then needed him off the books.
9-1-1 - "Holy Mother of God" - Season 8, episode 11.  Bobby has to come to terms with his estranged mother after getting called out to the mega church she scams, I mean runs.  This episode crossed over with Doctor Odyssey but by the time I realized there was a second half it was too late.
Reacher (Amazon) - I binged season 2.  I hadn't planned on doing that. I hadn't even planned on watching a single episode, but once I watched one, I just kept going until I finished out the season.  One thing that sort of bugged me was how Reacher and his team just casually straight up murdered anyone they felt like killing and everyone just kept looking the other way, while simultaneously Reacher was worried about getting arrested for assault or other nonlethal offenses.  Punching someone in the face, Reacher has to go into hiding.  Shooting or strangling someone to death then burring their corpses, confess, no one cares.  That's our Reacher.  Anyway, the season was pretty good.  And now I can move on to season 3.