Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-14 (Saturday)

On 6/15/25 9:55 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

What Did You Watch?

Yesterday, I took all afternoon to clean my place (it took hours!!). And I've burned through most of my soaps from this past week (I have Fri's GH for today/Sunday). So, consequently, I only got through a couple of Lifetime flicks and golf yesterday:
golf - Day 3 at the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. Play was dominated by Sam Burns and J.J. Spaun, with oldster Adam Scott lurking. This Open feels unusual as Scott was the only one of the "usual suspects" near the top of the leaderboard.
Girl Taken (recorded off Lifetime on May 18) - This is one of those Lifetime flicks that I had to "correct" on IMDb recently - the IMDb cast listing was missing Erica Durance, who as the kidnapped girl's mother, is basically the "star" of this flick! And Durance is one of those people IMDb has "red-flagged", so I usually try to send extra proof to IMDb when I add people like this to a cast listing, as otherwise IMDb will reject the addition...
    Anyway, Durance plays the mom to a HS senior (Kennedy Rowe). The daughter gets dumped by her boyfriend (who in a weird dramatic choice is *never* portrayed in this movie!), and they argue about it. The next morning, the daughter heads out a dawn to confront the boyfriend - they live in a rural area, so it's a ways to get to him, and she dumbly hitchhikes. A local sleazeball (Eric Hicks) picks her up, intending to kidnap the high schooler, to essentially make her an indentured servant to him and his pregnant girlfriend(?)/wife(?) (Tavia Cervi) whom he is mildly abusive towards. Sidenote: The pregnant girlfriend(?) is seemingly portrayed as being "simple", though they never outright say if she's "mentally challenged" or not.
    And this is where I had my biggest problem with this flick - I could buy him kidnapping the high schooler if he's a human trafficker. And I could buy him kidnapping the high schooler if he intended to make her his (captive!) "wife". But I could not buy the idea that this guy was kidnapping a high schooler, whom he knew! just to basically make her his servant/slave.
    Once Durance realizes the daughter's missing, she starts shaking local trees looking for her, and involves the sheriff. Meanwhile, there's a subplot involving a detective from a nearby town investigating a murder. (Hmmm.... Could these two plotlines be connected?!!)
    This was OK, if you can overlook the whopper of a premise.
Girl in the Attic (Lifetime) - This was *way* darker than I was expecting - Keenan Tracey place a complete and utter scumbag here.
    He kidnaps a young woman (Sophia Carriere), taking her captive in his attic (which he soon "sounproofs"), eventually torturing and raping her. And this is supposed to take place over 15 months!!
    When his wheelchair bound mother (Jean Louisa Kelly) discovers this (much later), he takes her captive too, denying his mother crucial medication which pretty much renders her immobile/unmoving.
    I might have liked this more if it wasn't so dark. Kelly is good in this - it looks like this is her first acting gig in about a couple of years, so hopefully she gets more work from it.
What did you watch?