Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-09 (Monday)

On 6/10/2025 9:41 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/10/25 4:12 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
 

What Did You Watch?

 Not much, as I focused on household chores.
 soaps: DOOL - The "John Is Dead!!" (wait, I am sure I've heard this somewhere else before!....) tour continues. Ominously, Mon's ep gets a "Part 1" title card - I have a bad feeling that the *entire week* is going to be taken up with this! Anyway, this is John's funeral. I got only two, maybe three, things out of this: 1) I had forgotten that Tate and Ariana are cousins (can't wait until Tate finds out that Ari has been boffing Doug III!), 2) it's subtly revealed that Kat is working for the ISA(?) (stop trying to "save" this character! it's too late!!), and

I thought that too, but wasn't Shane on the scene when they found her? But maybe not and she's undercover.

3) Steve (Patch!) is retiring Black Patch - I have no idea what Steve will do now that he's not PI'ing anymore.

He'll find something to freelance wit.

 The Last of Us (Max) - Ep's #2.4 & 2.5.
    As predicted, this show is a *lot* less interesting after the developments in ep. #2.2.

I thought so too.

    In fact, this show is quickly devolving into a "The Walking Dead" clone (and, FTR, I did *not* like "The Walking Dead"!).
    Anyway, there was a lot of stupid in here with Ellie and her new girfriend (Isabela Merced, nee: Moner), and with the Seattle stuff (with both the "militia" people and the "cult" people being wholly unsympathetic).
    At least there was a tiny bit of payoff at the end of ep. #2.5, when Ellie finally gets some righteous revenge! REVENGE!! against one of the team she's been hunting, both slowly turning her into a fungus zombie *and* torturing her for info.
    Just two more episodes to go. Clearly, they are not going to in any significant way tie up season #2's storylines by the "finale", though I'm guessing Ellie is going to finish off Seattle and turn them all into fungus zombies before this is done.
    Sidenote: Josh Peck (Josh from "Drake & Josh"!) pops up here for a quick second as a red shirt!!
  What did you watch?