Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-05 (Sunday)

On 1/6/25 7:55 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

This will probably be the last thread I can start this week.

That's A-OK - I should be back to a normal schedule tomorrow.

Mayfair Witches (AMC) "Lasher" - Season 2, episode 1.  (Spoilers for season 1 finale and mild spoilers for premier.)

Yeah, there's no way I'm watching this show weekly - there's no way I could follow it that way...

Recorded for later: Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale.

What is this?...

What did you watch?

Yesterday was a "football day", as it was the last day of the regular season. For once, I enjoyed the results of (most of!) the games:
    In the morning game, it took them a while, but eventually Tampa Bay bested New Orleans, sewing up the NFC South title (Atlanta also lost their last game which put an exclamation point on that).
    In the afternoon games, first CBS decided the air the Kansas City-Denver game over the San Diego-Las Vegas(Oakland!!) game (WHAT?!!), which was a big mistake as Kansas City already had sown up the #1 seed in the AFC Playoffs, and so played their *fourth-string(!!)* players in this last game, which allowed Denver to absolutely crush Kansas City on Denver's way to a shutout win! Eventually CBS got the hint and switched to the San Diego-Las Vegas game, which at least was somewhat competitive, until the Chargers pulled away in the fourth quarter to batter the Raiders! The Chargers secure the #5 seed in the AFC Playoffs!! - The Chargers vs. the Texans will be the first Wild Card Playoff game this coming Saturday!  :)
    The other afternoon game was way more disappointing, as the 49ers cap off their awful 2024 season by losing (badly!) to the Arizona Cardinals.  :/
    In the evening game - in the game to decide who gets the #1 seed in the NFC Playoffs - Detroit played Vikings for the NFC North title. After a fairly even start, the Lions ended up manhandling the Vikings (probably as expected) to win the NFC North title, and the #1 seed (and 'bye') in the NFC Playoffs, with a 15-2 record, tying Kansas City for the best record in the league.
    Outside of the 49ers' awful effort this year, and Seattle not making the playoffs, I'm actually fairly interested in this year's NFL Playoffs.
Sunday night, I managed to get through another Lifetime flick I missed recently by pulling it off OnDemand:
Vanished Out of Sight (Lifetime via OnDemand) - A certain percentage of Lifetime flicks are indie flicks produced for theatrical distribution that fail to find a distributor and so get bought by Lifetime instead (e.g. "Stockholm, Pennsylvania", and the recent "Held Hostage in My House"). This flick is one of these - originally titled "Blind River", it is very clearly intended to be a theatrical indie (e.g. it's much higher budget, with a "bigger" soundtrack, than a standard Lifetime flick).
    As an indie flick, it's a odd choice (IOW, it's not surprising it wasn't picked up by a distributor).
    Annalise Basso stars as a blind woman, single mother and rape survivor with PTSD, trying to raise her 5(?)-year old daughter on her own. Of course, she's overly protective. And, of course, she's freezing out her current boyfriend (Tracy Campbell).
    Anyway, as you'd expect, her daughter goes missing, and she doesn't trust the local cops led by Steven Ogg (Basso's co-star on the "Snowpiercer" TV series). So this PTSD blind woman starts searching for her daughter on her own.
    Then her support dog goes missing. Then the boyfriend goes missing.
    I'm not really giving anything away by saying that the blind woman's earlier rape likely plays into the daughter's and boyfriend's disappearances.
    Like "Stockholm, Pennsylvania", this makes for a very odd Lifetime flick. But also as an indie flick, I can't figure out who the filmmakers thought the audience for this film would be.
    Anyway, I liked Basso and Ogg in this. But I can't say I liked the film overall very much.