Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-30 (Thursday)

On 1/31/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Another day where going into work for a little bit turned into going to work for half a day. So, yesterday I only got through soaps, and then decided to close out the day as "mildly" as I could by watching "Shifting Gears":
soaps: DOOL - Wed's ep. OK, this is kind of amusing - Belle is appalled that she and EJ had sex, so they bicker, then have sex *again*! and then get caught by Marlena! Marlena is disgusted and chews Belle out and kicks EJ out of her place! And Shawn witnesses it! Meanwhile, Chanel wakes up at Shawn's wondering if they slept together, and he tells her that they did not - that she just "slept it off" at his place. Shawn then encourages Chanel to "forgive" Johnny [roll], and later Chanel tells Johnny all of this... More shenanigans, as the Lady in White holds Ava captive, and sends Brady a text telling Brady that Ava has gone to Hong Kong indefinitely. (Can't wait until Ava gets free and clocks this bitch!)
    GH - Thur's ep. A scattered episode... Boooo! Brennan and Carly don't "do it", when she pumps the breaks! - Instead, they have cocktails in the snow, and Carly mostly pumps Brennan for info on/history of Brennan and Valentin... Jason doesn't believe Sasha's claim that Michael said she could raise the baby alone, and goes to discuss the situation with Diane Miller. Cody overhears part of Jason's convo with Sasha, and assumes Jason is the father, telling this to Maxie and Lulu... NuNuNuMolly again clashes with Cody, finding him disagreeable (which in soapland means they are destined to "do it" soon!). Later Alexis tells Molly and Kristina (who is annoying about it) that Sam was murdered... Brook Lynn has a long, rambling conversation with Lois (who is visibly uncomfortable by the topic) and Brook Lynn eventual decides to tell Chase that she gave a baby up for adoption (Gio!!) two decades ago.
Then, because today is the first full "teaching day" of the semester, I needed to watch something "mild" before bed, so I watched "Shifting Gears":
Shifting Gears (Hulu) - Episodes #2-4.
    The networks (this one is ABC) are up to their old tricks again, as episodes #2 and #3 were clearly shown out of order (IOW, flipped order). I thought ep. #4 might have also been shown out of order, but Wiki seems to confirm that it was supposed to be ep. #4 (even if it felt like ep. #2 in the order!).
    I thought all of these were better than the pilot - ep's #2 & #3 actually managed to do a better job of working in Seann William Scott and Daryl 'Chill' Mitchell into the action - though ep. #4 was the weakest of these and wasn't much better than the pilot (if at all!).
    The best of these was ep. #2, which apparently had Brenda Song as a guest star (she looks so different that I didn't even recognize her!), which probably explains why ABC showed this episode second, even though it should have gone third.
    The show is mostly following a pretty familiar formula where Allen "crotchety old guys" some conservative viewpoint or old guy behavior, which Kat Dennings needles him for, though she usually also gets hers by the end.
    This is breaking no new ground, but it's like a pair of comfy old socks, which makes it perfect for "mild" TV viewing when you don't want to be challenged by your TV show.
What did you watch?