Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-15 (Saturday)

On 6/16/2024 11:35 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

golf - Bah! Bryson DeChambeau surged on Day 3 of the U.S. Open to take a
3 stroke lead. I'm not saying DeChambeau has this thing sown up, but he
does seem to have this thing mostly sown up, unless he chokes on the
final day.

 Si? Si. Sue. See. Sigh.
 sewn
 He's not sowing seeds.
 

Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story (Lifetime) - This was
pretty much exactly what I expected - Lifetime's take is, not
surprisingly, that Armstrong was an incredibly insecure/needy, bat-shit
*crazy* woman.

 Never heard of this plot before.
 

    (I like how the subplot was that Armstrong's background in "finance"
made her a bad yoga teacher! - Like "finance" is somehow the root of all
EVOL!!1!  ;>  )

 Now there's that Lifetime plot.
 

    Armstrong here is played by Caity Lotz (is this typecasting?!  ;p  ).

I recognized the name but had to look her up to put a face to the name. This looks to be her first project since Legends.  I hope she made this movie by choice instead of out of necessity.

    The movie also posits that her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Colin
Strickland the cyclist (Kyle Schmid), was a major dummy and douche bag,
something you could easily pick up from the concurrent articles on the
case as it unfolded in 2022. (Though his friend in the film who dumps
him after the murder comes off as an even bigger douche that Strickland!)
    The victim, Moriah Wilson (Larissa Dias, who earlier in her career
went by Larissa Albuquerque), is portrayed as completely innocent and an
unjustified victim, which seems right.
    It's amazing that Armstrong was able to beat it out of the country
like she did - the movie portrays it like she was just 2 minutes ahead
of the cops, but I doubt it was that dramatic. The movie also sort of
implies that Armstrong's sister was complicit in this, but she was never
charged AFAIK.