Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-20 (Thursday)

On 2/21/2025 5:34 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/21/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 I spent all day yesterday grading, and with that I still only got through two of my three classes! (Tells you how many students I have this semester!)
 So yesterday I only got through soaps - I didn't even have something like LMN on as "background" the rest of the time:
 soaps: Both Wed's ep's.
    DOOL - Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to this episode, as it mostly involved stuff I don't care about. Philip moves into the Kiriakis mansion, and Sarah gives him another warning. (Meh.) JJ and NuGabi "do it". (Meh.) Shawn supports Jada after the whole (Faux)Rafe mess. (Meh.) In the only semi-interesting storyline, Belle continues her downward spiral by doubling-down on her romance with EJ - she must really hate her sister Sami to continue with this trainwreck!!
    GH - Disappointing - they really are going with "Cyrus was being an angel of death" rather than "Cyrus was killing people for base nefarious reasons, and this 'God stuff' is all just an act!" Well, except for Sam's and Dex's murders... Cyrus confesses all of this to lil' Lizzie, right before he intended to kill her, but TempLucky bursts in (they never explain why he came back to Lizzie's) and stops Cyrus, but gets himself injected with the digitalis instead... Drew and Willow go to Curtis' night club for Valentine's Day, but Curtis kicks Drew out so they leave; even Brad feels sorry for Willow in her current pathetic state. Emma continues to be completely unlikeable, this time hectoring Josslyn about her dumb student group - I wish Gio would drop her like it's hot!
 And that was it.
 What did you watch?
 

This is a multi-day catch up.  I watched:
Watson - "Redcoat" - episode 2.  House, I mean Watson and his team look into the case of a man who was shot in the head and now claims to be a Revolutionary War era British soldier, complete with fake accent.  This show is clearly just using left over "House" scripts.  They aren't even trying to hide it.  But they are trying to shoehorn in the Sherlock Holmes angle to give it a twist.
Paradise (Hulu) - "Wildcat Is Down" - Season 1, episode 1.  Sterling K. Brown stars as a secret service agent assigned to protect the President (James Marsden).  I was prompted to watch after glimpsing something that implied this was a sci-fi show.  But I had no context and went in not knowing what to expect.  I have to say I was completely caught off guard by the ending.  I'll keep watching to see where this goes.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us - "No More Mister Knife Guy" - The first magician was really good.  When I watch an act even if I don't know how they did it, if I've seen the trick before I assume P&T will know how it's done. But with the first magician I had no idea how he was doing it, and even P&T who were both on stage in front of him looked amazed at what they were seeing.  They didn't even bother to go back and discuss the trick afterwards.
Family Guy - "Fat Gun" - Season 23, my DVR says this was the first episode of the season, but Wikipedia says there were two episodes from last year, that I guess aired on Hulu.  Anyway, this was a parody of Top Gun and the sequel.
The Monkey (theatrical) New horror comedy written and directed by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) based on a Stephen King story.  This is sort of like if "Final Destination" was embodied in a physical object.  The story follows a family over 25 years that has possession of a toy monkey that when wound up plays a drum and when that happens people die.  They die in weird "Tube Goldberg machine" ways.  I think I was expecting a bit more horror, and less comedy, but the director had other ideas.  Anyway, over the 25 year period Theo James plays the president day dual role of twin brothers dealing with the monkey and Christian Convery plays him and his twin as children.  With Tatiana Maslany playing their mother.