Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-29 (Friday)

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:46:52 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

Less to watch yesterday. But I got through:
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NFL football: The game between the Chiefs and the Raiders (the latter
came into this game 2-9!) shouldn't have been anywhere as close as it
was. But the Raiders did indeed lose, but in the most embarrassing
fashion possible, when on the last play of the game (when the Raiders
were in go-ahead field goal range!), the center hiked the ball to the
Raiders QB before the QB was ready - so the Raiders fumbled the ball on
the last play allowing the Chiefs to recover. This was high school
football-level incompetence!
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I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.
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And thanks to my niece's Netflix account, I was finally able to watch:
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Anyone But You (the 'Flix) - Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell (from
"Twisters" - where did this guy come from?!) star in an amusing,
semi-raunchy romcom.
   Sweeney, whose character is a klutz, meets cute Powell's character
at a coffee shop. They have a wonderful night together, but then due to
a misunderstanding they end up not staying together, with prejudice!
   Months later, they are reunited for Sweeney's sister's (relative
newcomer Hadley Robinson) lesbian wedding to Alexandra Shipp, in Australia!
   Their mutual antipathy for each other is threatening to ruin the
wedding, so the others at the wedding conspire to get the two back
together. But Sweeney's character quickly figures this out, and gets
Powell's character to agree to act like the scheme is working to thwart
to interferers!
   Comedic wackiness ensues!
   This wasn't deep, and it breaks little new ground (the Aussie himbo
played by Joe Davidson was amusing), but Sweeney and Powell make this
entertaining.
   I would have preferred an ending that at least attempted to break
the romcom mold, but otherwise this was mostly fun.
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What did you watch?
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I watched much of the Georgia-Georgia Tech game which almost matched
the record for overtimes as it ended after 8 OTs (the record is 9
OTs.) I wanted Georgia to win because I want to see SEC do well, but I
also wanted Ga Tech to do well due to having spent a few years there.
Either way both teams put on a good show with GT putting on a great
show in the first half with the basically shutting down Georgia. Sadly
that didn't remain the case as Georgia came back and tied up the game
putting them into overtime.

I also watched the first episode of THE AGENCY. I was not sure what
the show was going to be like but now I know it's going to be a slow
moving show as it is intended to be more realistic. So you don't get
much action unlike many spy shows. Apparently this is going to be a
retelling of the French show, THE BUREAU. The first episode as the
main character being a field agent who is recalled to London which
forces him to leave behind his girlfriend. Someone whom he has gotten
a bit too close to but is hiding that from the Agency.

Then it turns out that the girl friend has been moved to London and
the field agent hooks up with her. Even though his old Syrian ID has
been killed off and he's not supposed to have any contact with people
from Syria that knew him under the old fake ID. Which raises a
question of how does it happen that he gets called back to London and
shortly after his GF is also sent to London. Is she a spy trying to
work him or is it just coincidence that she's in London?

Also it turns out that one of the people working with the CIA but not
for the CIA may be either trying to restart his life elsewhere as he
has gone missing or he's been taken by someone, likely to try and get
information on all the CIA projects that he knows.

It's a well made show but I don't expect it to last more than a season
based on the story they are trying to tell.

What did you watch?