Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-05 (Saturday)

On 4/6/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

I finished "Reacher" season #3, watched a dumb movie off Tubi, and watched the "Who Shot EJ?" episode of DOOL, along with some golf:
soaps: DOOL - Thur's ep. This is really dumb - Why are they playing coy with who shot EJ?! Hint: It's the character that was shown tossing a gun, and then just left town possibly for good (Ava). I don't know why they are trying to make a mystery out of this!! Anyway, Ava gets written out of the show in this ep. (which pisses me off!!). And nothing else important except for EJ getting shot happened.
golf - Day 3 of the (Valero) Texas Open. Honestly, I wasn't paying much attention, except to note that older guy Brian Harman was in the lead by several strokes and should win this unless he melts down on Day 4.
Reacher (Prime) - Ep's #3.7 & #3.8, the season finale.
    Overall, I did enjoy season #3 quite a bit, definitely more than season #2, and maybe even more than season #1 (though I liked that season #1 was patented "Reacher against town", which they've definitely gotten away from since then).
    I was disappointed that Reacher never got to bang the cute French maid before she was killed (and his cover was blown).
    I was also disappointed that we didn't get any real naked nudity from Sonya Cassidy (after Willa Fitzgerald ponied up for that back in season #1).
    I definitely enjoyed ep. #3.5, where Reacher's cover is blown and he barely escapes with his life, but taking a whole bunch of thugs and giving him the "CW-Arrow" treatment!
    In fact, this season is a departure from the previous two in how many people Reacher just summarily executes rather than killing in "self-defense"!
    I did enjoy the Reacher-vs-Paulie fight in the finale, though it went on, like, two segments too long (Paulie definitely should have been dead at the end of the "ocean" segment!), though I did like how Reacher ultimately dispatched Paulie!
    I also liked how Sonya Cassidy dumped *Reacher* at the end, rather than the other way around - nice change of pace!
    Good work from Anthony Michael Hall in these ep's.
    This show has already had Hall and Robert Patrick as "baddies" - I will be disappointed if Neal McDonough (or Ron Perlman) don't show up as the main baddie of season #4!
    But I look forward to season #4 - though I am curious about what book they will choose to adapt next (that has not been announced).
Zero Hour (Tubi) - There are *multiple movies* with this title, including the post-apocalyptic 1957 flick "Zero Hour!" with Dana Andrews... But this was a low-budget 2023 entry that clocks in at about 70 minutes.
    Even that was too long.
    I watched this mainly because it stars Mikaela Hoover - who is literally probably best known for being in 2 episodes of "Two Broke Girls" (so she's not a major actress!) - and Sarah Dumont (who, based on the name, I confused with *Emma* Dumont!).
    This was a one-man movie show: written, directed and co-starring Justin Groetsch (who?!) - well, it was actually him and his wife (or sister?), as she produced.
    Did Groetsch really think he was being clever with this flick?!
    He tries a "twist" at the end, but that lasts for all of about a minute, before he launches a "double-twist" ending which didn't work for me at all. And he keeps showing flashbacks to explain/justify these lame twists. This didn't work at all either.
    The only parts that work (very!) mildly are the parts in the middle with Hoover trying to escape late-night intruders into her office. But this flick takes too long to get going, isn't all that great in the middle, and pretty much falls apart at the end with the lame "twists".
    Bah!
What did you watch?