Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-13 (Friday)

On 6/14/25 8:37 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

soaps: DOOL - Fri's ep. They finally moved on from John's funeral. This episode primarily concerned Xander, whom everyone considers a villain now - Sarah uses that leverage to get Xander to agree to only visitation of their daughter approved by Sarah. (Sarah also talked about leaving town to Maggie, so I wonder if Linsey Godfrey is about to bolt again.) Meanwhile Kate looks over coma Philip. Later, she goes to see Alex K. - interrupting Alex and Stephanie nearly in flagrante (I'm surprised that Kate didn't figure out then and there that Stephanie wrote the smutty manuscript!) - to tell Alex that she lost the manuscript. (It's still in the hospital - Kayla nearly discovered it!) At the end, Xander goes for another attempt to kill Philip to try to eliminate the only witness to his crime.
    GH - Thur's ep. Turns out, this episode wasn't too spoiled for me by my visit to the barber! This was pretty good. In what I consider to be an unrealistic development (at least, not without someone paying off the judge), the family court judge declares Willow to be a negligent mother and gives full custody to NuMichael! At first I couldn't figure out why Willow wasn't reacting!... But then Willow suddenly get that she's been stripped of her kids, and has a complete emotional meltdown right there!! She ends up getting put in GH under Lizzie's care (and I wonder if they are going to send Willow off to Ferncliff!) Nina demolishes Drew for this, telling him that he is solely responsible for melting down Willow's life and sanity (mostly true!!). Meanwhile, while Kristina explains her dumb sinister plan to a skeptical Alexis, Cody starts working to seduce Ava, but demands more money from Kristina to do so (good for him!!). And Natalia (Booby Vista) goes to Sonny to "warn" him that the ADA is trying to coerce Natalia to testify or provide evidence against Sonny - but really I think Natalia was trying to subtly shake Sonny down!! (I wonder if he will throw her to the wolves!?!)
Watched some of Day 2 of the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club outside of Pittsburgh.
Bride or Die (LMN) - This 2025 flick opens in very dramatic fashion when the psycho ex of the groom bursts into the engagement party, hurling threats and insults, and then goes at the bride (Kelley Jakle, from the "<s>B</s>Pitch Perfect" series, and a few Lifetime and Hallmark flicks) with a knife before being subdued by the party goers!
    From here we shift to several weeks(?) later, as the bride's three besties (Rachele Schank from Lifetime's 2021 flick "How I Met Your Murderer" though it looks like Schank wasn't acting between that film and now; Kara Royster from various Lifetime & Tubi flicks; and Mary Kate Wiles) insist upon taking the bride to a cabin in the woods to "relax" after the harrowing ordeal.
    But, on the way, the besties find out that the psycho ex-girlfriend of the groom has been released from jail, and decide not to tell the bride. (What could possibly go wrong?!!)
    Soon enough, though, disturbing stuff starts to happen. Is the psycho ex back to take out the bride for good?! Or is something else going on?...
    Unfortunately, I figured out rather quickly what was actually going on (they didn't do much to hide it, though I will say the casting played against expectations on this...). Still, I actually enjoyed this, even though I anticipated everything that happened until the actual denouement.
    Interestingly, I can tell from the end-credits that this was not a Lifetime (or Tubi) flick - it appears to have been a "real film" (it premiered at a festival) that was soon after picked up by LMN for TV airing.
What did you watch?