Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-21 (Wednesday)

On Thu, 22 May 2025 07:07:22 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 5/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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Multi-day catch-up here (I don't know how many! I don't think I've done
one of these since Sunday...).
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Mostly, I've watched soaps since my last WDYW? post.
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soaps: DOOL - Xander beats Philip to a bloody pulp, nearly killing him -
in revenge! Philip sort of throws Sarah under the bus. Alex gets
Stephanie's trashy manuscript to Kate to review/edit, but does this
before Stephanie pleads with Alex to drop shopping it! (Oops!) The show
continues to annoy me in writing people I like out (I think Rafe just
disappeared off the show without as much as a goodbye!) and bringing on
new people I don't care - the latest is (Nu)Gabi's daughter Ari (as a
child, Ari was a blonde - now she's full-on Latina played by Marissa
Reyes!!). I am hoping, though, that Ari will effectively replace
NuSophia on the show, as I don't like NuSophia at all here.
   GH - As the divorce/custody hearing for Willow's kids nears, Carly
reverts to evil bitch form and she and Nina come to blows (honestly, I
was hoping Nina would just kill Carly!). It looks like they have already
recast Michael (after publicly announcing months ago that they had "no
plans to recast the part"! makes my hopeful that Y&R will do the same
with Summer Newman after publicly announcing the same!). Curtis fishes
for info from Drew and gets Drew to admit that he is blackmailing
Portia. Drew has Tracy arrested after framing her for drugging him. Lulu
gets closer to proving that Gio is Brook Lynn's son. The Nurses Ball
begins, with Nina forced to co-host the "Red Carpet Show" with Drew -
there were some good bits in here.
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On Monday, I put "Wild Cards" and "Family Law" (on the All DEAD! CW!!)
on as background noise. I payed no attention to "Wild Cards", but I
actually mostly watched "Family Law" - it makes me sad how old Jewel
Staite looks now.  :(  Also, they try to ruin this show by including
Lauren Holly! but luckily she was in very few scenes in the epie.
Genelle Williams is also in the cast of this show. Anyway, they kind of
play "Family Law" as funny/wacky, with Staite's character seeming
permanently exasperated.
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Last night, I put the "Chicago" shows on - they were airing their season
finales:
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Chicago Med - I was floored when Rachel DiPillo showed up in this
episode! She literally hasn't acted since 2018 when she left this show
at the start of season #4! but I guess she's shown up in a few episodes
in the current season (10) of "Med" that I did not know about! I wonder
if DiPillo is poised to rejoin this show, at least as a recurring character.
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Chicago Fire - Contrived malarkey in which the captain played by Dermot
Mulroney is accused of murder!! and Severide had to clear his name. Bah.
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Chicago PD - I swear - every season finale of this show I have ever seen
is the same - they are always "Voight episodes", and in every single one
of them some corrupt higher up in Chicago's PD is always trying to shut
down Voight's Intelligence unit! In this one, Voight takes care of the
problem by having the higher up executed in front of a bunch of fellow
cops!! Wow. At least they're not getting away from the "Voight is really
a bad guy" origin story!... I reiterate again, though - Burgess (Marina
Squerciati) cannot carry this show alone! They need another hottie in
the cast ASAP!... Anyway, at the end, Burgess and Ruzek get married. [roll]
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What did you watch?
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I got in the Survivor finale for the season. I thought Joe was a lock
to win the finale but things turned out differently.

I also got in the 2016 movie SPECTRAL. In this movie there is a civil
war underway in a remote country which is being aided by the US Army.
Only they've run into something they don't understand and call in an
expert who is also confused by what is happening. There are specter
like things that will kill you if they pass through your body. No one
knows where they are coming from or what they are. Just that they are
deadly. Luckily the expert eventually figures it out and with the help
of the many soon to be dead soldiers they are able to bring an end to
the slaughter (and what a slaughter it is.)

What did you watch?