Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-10-23 (Wednesday)

On 10/24/2024 6:05 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 10/24/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I took it easy yesterday, and did not attempt to watch movies:
 soaps: Mon's & Tue's ep's. These ep's did not concern Sharon or Daniel, and so weren't very interesting. In maybe the most interesting bit, Audra talks to Lily as they both been screwed over by Victor; this was after Nikki again tried to smooth things over with Lily, and Lily effectively told her to shove it. Aside from that, not much of importance happened except that Billy and Sally kissed (who didn't see that coming?!), and Filis[sic] is still trying to work with Billy at Chancellor. Adam releases a hit piece against Billy.
    GH - Tue's ep. Ha! As expected, Ric Lansing's legal maneuvers work too well, and he gets Heather Webber (who wasn't in this ep) sprung from jail! Then he has to go tell Portia and co. about that! Holly tells Anna the truth about being Sasha's mom, etc., and Anna lays Holly out for it and tells her to leave town. Then Holly goes to Sonny to "strike a deal". Molly and TJ drift further apart. Sam gets ready for surgery (and her DOOM!!).
 After that, I put "The Face I Can't Forget" (with EVOL!! Victoria Baldesarra!) on LMN on in the background, while I did other stuff.
  What did you watch?
 

This will be a multiday catch=up.  Over the past couple of days, I watched:
The Equalizer - "The Lost Ones" Season 5, episode 1.  McCall rescues a kidnapped girl.  They had to jump through some serious logical hoops to explain why the police couldn't just be called.  And considering the kidnapper was a gun runner, I'm sure the police would have loved the heads up.  And now that I think about it for a minute, were they really just going to give the gun runner back the guns?
Superman & Lois - "A Perfectly Good Wedding" - I didn't give this episode my full attention, but Superman is back and training his kids. But why is Luthor still walking around instead of pulverized into mist? Or at least stranded on the top of a mountain?
Survivor - "Feel the FOMO" - The editing this season continues to be so much better than it used to be.  It's much more enjoyable when I can follow the talk about who is getting voted out and then see that person get voted out!
Agatha All Along (Disney+) "Death's Hand in Mind" - This episode was Patti LuPone's time to shine.  Her character can divine the future (or past) through tarot cards, but mentally she has become unstuck in time. This season whenever she speaks it's never clear if she is speaking about the past, present, or future.  This episode does a lot of time jumping and clears it all up as we see events unfold from her perspective.  This was one of, if not the best episodes this season.
Venom (4K disc) 2018 movie starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a newspaper writer, not for the Daily Bugle, who does not know Peter Parker/Spider-man, and yet nevertheless finds himself attached to Spider-man's enemy.  Without a Spider-Man around it's up to Venom to be the hero of the story.  I guess it's an OK movie if you have low expectations.  It was actually a little better than I remembered.  But It definitely felt like there was 20 or 30 minutes of story that they cut.  What made that even more awkward is the movie's run time is just under two hours, but at a little over the 90 minute mark the credits started to roll, with 20 minutes of credits!
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (4K disc) 2021 sequel which this time finds Venom (Tom Hardy) fighting Venom's son Carnage (Woody Harrelson).  This was a mess of a movie but was mercifully short.  Don't get me wrong, as long as your brain is turned *all* the way off, it's more or less watchable.  It will kill 90 minutes of time so it has that going for it.   They very wisely keep these Venom movies very short.