Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-15 (Tuesday)

On 4/16/2025 5:46 AM, shawn wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:32:15 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 4/16/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Just a soap:
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soaps: GH - Tue's ep. As expected, Alexis chickened out on Diane, and
won't have Kristina committed. Hopefully this means that Kristina is
ultimately arrested for her crimes, and thrown in jail forever so we
never have to see her again. This also means that Alexis knuckles under
to Ava's blackmail, though Ava ups the blackmail price just to stick to
Alexis. Ric is forced to listen to dumb Molly talk about how great it is
to have her relationship with Kristina back (so dumb!!). This ep had
other nonsense, like Lizzie going home and Amy being her home-care
nurse, and Amy driving everyone nuts. Also, the (evol?) Professor dude
(Daniel Goddard) takes a shine to Emma (I'm wondering if he's going to
seduce dumb Emma...), which is a problem for Joss because her spy
mission is to get herself the job as the Professor's assistant which
won't happen if Emma gets the gig.
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What did you watch?
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 Bits on Youtube but nothing else.

I also will find myself watching stuff on YouTube, especially reaction videos.
I watched:
Ghosts - "Alexander Hamilton and the Ruffle Kerfuffle" - Season 4, episode 14 from a few weeks ago.  This episode has Isaac recounting the time he had a conflict with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay's name gets dropped way too many times.  I'm guessing someone in the writer's room saw "Hamilton" the musical and wanted to make an episode about it.
Found - "Missing While a Caualty" - Team missing attempt to find the father of a young man who needs a kidney transplant.  This is one of those episodes that if you think about it a little, did they *really* need team Missing for this?  I guess Team Missing did call a press conference, but they seem to do that in every episode.  But is calling a press conference really finding someone?  I guess you're not supposed to think too much about it.
Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+) - "Straight to Hell" - Season 1, episode 9, the season finale.  Fisk goes full on super villain as Kingpin uses his position as mayor to consolidate power and money for himself. Meanwhile Daredevil teams up with The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) to I guess, try and stop Kingpin.  I don't know.  This finale was a bit of a mess.  But it did manage to be even more graphically ultra violent than last week.  At least this is airing on Disney where people expect that sort of thing.  If you don't want to see someone's head get ripped open as they scream in agony and blood gushes everywhere, then stay on the safe family friendly networks like HBO and Cinemax.
The Accountant 2 (theatrical) The movie kicks off with J.K. Simmons who was in the first movie, but is now a private investigator.  Simmons has a mysterious meeting with someone when a team of killers show and kill Simmons (this is all in the trailer).  Before dying Simmons wrote a message on his arm to get the Accountant.  Presumably to avenge his death. Cynthia Addai-Robinson who was also in the first movie, and now has Simmons old job gets the message and recruits the Accountant (Ben Affleck) for help.  The Account recruits his brother (Jon Bernthal). For all intents and purposes Affleck is Batman and Bernthal is The Punisher.  The movie then consists of Batman and The Punisher teaming up to kill and torture people while a federal agent rides along complaining that they killing and torturing people.  She should have thought of that before she called them!  And I don't won't to hear any more complaints about the criminal they kidnapped and stuffed in the trunk of her car, that they now expect her to transport somewhere.  Just do it! Besides The Punisher had a point when he said if you pull out one eyeball and show it to a man, he'll talk.  That's 100% true!
The Accountant's phone tech support person is back in a much larger role this movie and all of those scenes were great.  Except the federal agent once again complaining about all the laws they were breaking.  But you can't go down a path of violent vengeance without breaking a few laws, and torturing and killing a lot of people. She really should have thought of that before she called them!
Anyway, if you liked the first movie then you'll like the sequel. There's slightly less counting in this one, but there is one scene where the Accountant shows off his math skills and another where he gives tax advice.  :-)