Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-08 (Wednesday)

On 1/9/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Unfortunately, I started getting sick and feverish yesterday evening. So I feel like crap.
Before that, I had a work meeting yesterday.
So I primarily continued catching up on soaps, and got through another (lousy!) Lifetime flick:
soaps: Y&R - I think I may be all caught up here. Primarily these episode concerned the Newmans (and Mariah) confronting EVOL! Ian Ward. Auntie Jordan doesn't murder Sharon, deciding to keep her for insurance... Just as Filis[sic!] swears off revenge against Sharon, Ian and Jordan intend to frame Filis for Sharon's murder!... P.S. This incarnation of Faith is kind of whiny and annoying.
    DOOL - Chanel is a dope, and quits the soap-within-a-soap over Johnny's and Joy's "cheating" (they didn't even do the deed!!). The new Lady Whistleblower continues to cause havoc in the soap-within-a-soap, and dumb Stephanie has been tasked with figuring out who the new Lady Whistleblower is. The identity of the new Lady Whistleblower is revealed, and it's exactly who you would think it would be. Bonnie wants to get Hattie her old job back on the soap.
    GH - Still not clear if they are going to kill Michael off, or put him in an indefinite coma or something. But most of this episode is people like Carly, Josslyn and Nina & Willow finding out about Michael's severe burns... Joss wants revenge against Dex's killer... Brook Lynn and Chase discuss with others their difficulties in getting pregnant - they remind us that Brook Lynn (and Dante) had a baby years ago that was given up for adoption - could it be Gio?!
Vanished in Death Valley (LMN via OnDemand) - First off, Spectrum OnDemand is actually the worst at ad-insertion in stuff like this: they're worse than Pluto or Hulu or whoever - ads get dropped randomly into scene, and most of the ads are very short - only like 5 seconds long - which just breaks up the flow of scenes.
    Aside from that, this flick wasn't very good.
    Based on the opening, I was hoping the two storylines would merge with the two teen girls being kidnapped by the same people. No such luck.
    Instead, they went with the much more cliched story - bratty teen (Ava Bianchi) of mean mom (Aryè Campos) disappears in Death Valley when kidnapped by the mean mom in the film's opening (Katherine Joan Taylor) whose fight with her bratty daughter (Brinly Marum) led to the latter's accidental death. So mean mom in the film's opening is determined to "replace" her dead daughter with Bianchi's bratty teen.
    This was nothing we haven't seen before from Lifetime/LMN, and done better before.
The last Lifetime flick I need to go back and catch up on, "Dressed to Kill" (2025), is not available OnDemand, so I will have to record its reairing on LMN this Sunday night.
What did you watch?