Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-22 (Friday)

On 11/23/2024 8:35 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Yesterday, I shifted gears and watched neither soaps nor a movie. In the evening, I made a "census" of many of the recent streaming TV shows I should add to "my list", and also some movies on the various streamers I may want to watch.
 Basically, that led me to the decision to start watching a streaming TV series now, but one that I could watch "semi-casually" (IOW, not feel the need to necessarily watch it *every* consecutive day until I finished).

I generally only watch them about twice a week or at most, every other day.

 So I settled on:
 Lioness (Pee+) - First two episodes of season #1.
    This series strikes me as being very "Taylor Sheridan" - despite having two female leads, it's a very "macho" show.
    <s>Gamora</s> <s>Eva from "Center Stage"</s> (starring Amanda Schull as a baby! it's on the Tubi right now!!) Zoe Saldana stars as "Joe", a... well, they never really do come out and say what she is! I guess she's CIA. But they never say what her background was - like whether she was ex-military, or what... Anyway, as the series opens Joe's most recent asset gets herself killed by ISIS in Syria because of a hidden tattoo she didn't disclose - Joe calls in the missile strike that kills the asset. Meh.
    Meanwhile, Laysla De Oliveira lives a life of not-so-quiet desperation, and signs up for the Marines. In typical over-the-top Taylor Sheridan fashion, De Oliveira's Cruz (that's her first name?!!) scores in, like, the Top 0.1% of Marine recruits, so the higher ups quickly boot her into special forces stuff.
    Then she crosses Joe's path.
    Joe & co. (which includes a very butch Jill Wagner, as BTR warned - I wondered if she was just season #1, but apparently Wagner is back in season #2, and Wagner is an E.P. on the show, along with Zaldana) set up an operation - to take down a richie rich Arab terrorist financier by planting Cruz (who they claim is half-Arab) with the financier's daughter (Stephanie Nur).
    In subplots, we see Joe's family, a child oncologist doctor husband (Dave Annable) - why go into this line of work?!! - her rebellious teen older daughter (who seems like she needs to given away to human traffickers 'cos she's so awful!!), and her precious younger daughter (who disappears in the second episode, and whom I wondered about being memory-holed, but apparently the younger daughter is just recurring).
    This is decent stuff, certainly watchable. But it looks like I made the correct call with this one, as I can watch it casually, and not be put off with myself if I don't watch it for a day or two...
  What did you watch?