Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-17 (Monday)

On 6/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

First day of summer work (so a little hectic). But I still got through a movie:
soaps: DOOL - Ha! They didn't forget about the DNA test results in the DiMera safe!! Stefan blackmails EJ (over the paternity results), and is forcing EJ to try to get his old job, as DA, back. (If this happens, I can't wait to see the look on Melinda Trask's face!) Brady fills Tate in on how NuTheresa used him to get Alex back; later, Tate runs across Holly, and they're almost about to make out when Theresa catches them.
    GH - Ugh - a birthday party for stupid Willow! (I lost life levels watching this!!) Meanwhile, Alexis confronts Finn who continues to be a mean drunk. Lizzie blows the whistle on drunk Finn to his boss, Portia.
    Y&R - Half of this ep before work - Audra continues to take her Revenge!! and stick it to Tucker (you go girl!).
Emily (Showtime via Pee+) - Been meaning to get to this 2022 bio pic of Emily Bronte, starring Emma Mackey, for a while, and nothing on Tubi was grabbing me last night, so I decided to watch this.
    Hey! This was written and directed by Frances O'Connor - I wasn't sure she was still around!
    The problem here is that this begins with an out-of-sequence opening scene (unnecessary), and is heavily, heavily fictionalized, making up a lover for Emily (no mention of this anywhere in Bronte's biographies!!), and gets basic details wrong, like implying that Charlotte Bronte didn't write "Jane Eyre" until after Emily died (in fact, "Jane Eyre" was published a month before "Wuthering Heights"!). They also in some places make Charlotte the villain, which I didn't appreciate. And the film completely downplays Anne Bronte's role in Emily's life, which is also an unwelcome change.
    Mackey is good in the role though, and the film successfully convinces you that Emily Bronte was an odd duck (in modern terms, you have to wonder if she was "on the spectrum"...).
What did you watch?