Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-11 (Wednesday)

On 6/12/25 8:34 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

After morning errands, I played my video game all yesterday in a doomed effort to win a tournament. [roll] But I did manage to get through:
soaps: DOOL - Part 3 of John's funeral. This was better as the kind words about "John" were almost certainly directed more at late actor Drake Hogestyn - Booster Brady's speech on "John's eyebrow" acting antics alone was worth the price of admission. Meanwhile, barely recovered from his coma, Bo (Peter Reckell) insists upon showing up at John's funeral to give the final speech (which, again, seemed more directed at Hogestyn than "John Black"). I'm guessing today's ep will be the memorial reception after the funeral.
    GH - Tue's ep. Willow holds her own on the stand against evol Diane Miller the lawyer, and likely did enough to ensure she won't outright lose the custody case. (I can't wait until Willow finds out that Drew did what Michael accused him of!) Meanwhile, Brook Lynn tells Tracy that she intends to take revenge! REVENGE!! on Lulu (hopefully this spectacularly backfires on Brook Lynn). And evol Kristina hires Cody to seduce Ava (and, disappointingly, Cody didn't tell her to "Shove it!").
Seduced by His Lies (recorded off Lifetime on Sunday night) - Lauren Lee Smith stars in this as a (now older) "babe in the woods", so to speak! She buys a town house but when she tries to move in, a dude (Christopher Russell) is already living there, claiming he bought the same townhouse too!
    Now Christopher Russell usually plays dopey hunks on Hallmark-type flicks, but his presence here is an obvious red flag that the dude, no matter how hunky and friendly here, is up to no good.
    But Lauren Lee Smith's character is a dope, so as she starts investigating into the scam that was perpetrated, she tells the hunky dude every step of her investigation along the way! (So dumb!! She doesn't know this dude from Adam! She doesn't know if this dude is involved in the scam or not! She should tell him nothing!!)
    Anyway, of course it's not long before she's boffing this hunky sketchy dude as only Lauren Lee Smith can!
    You can pretty much tell where this is heading, especially when it becomes clear that there's apparently an overall "crime boss" calling the shots (conservation of characters makes it very clear who that has to be if it's not Russell's character). So no real surprises here.
    If this is enjoyable at all, it's because Smith and her character are so plucky. But her character is such a moron that it's hard to find the reward in this.
Then, before I went to bed, I tried to catch up on fixing the cast listings on IMDb for Lifetime flicks that have premiered over the past several months that I've been shirking my duties on! I was only able to do about 2/3 of them - the other 1/3 are flicks that aired more than a month ago, and have not shown up on LMN yet so I can't get the correct cast lists from the Lifetime website's film library.
What did you watch?