Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-12 (Sunday)

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:04:47 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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On 1/13/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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What did you watch?

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One thing I forgot to mention for Arthur on Saturday is that I watched
"Demolition Man" - it's amazing how many people are in this film as
virtual babies!... including Denis Leary!! This is one of my fave 1990s
dystopian action flicks!  :)
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Feeling a little better yesterday, I actually ran an errand, and then
did actual work stuff. I watched:
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I was still pretty tired so last night I just decided to put on the Fox
lineup after football, to sample some shows:
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Doc - Pilot. This was OK. Canuck actress Molly Parker plays a brilliant
doctor and chief of internal medicine with horrible bedside manner -
this is obviously filmed in Toronto, as Rebecca Liddiard plays a patient
abused by Parker's horrible bedside manner. (The chief of staff's new
wife(?) is also played by Sarah Allen.)
   But Parker's Doc has a car crash (texting while driving!!),
resulting in a head injury. After brain surgery, she doesn't remember
the preceding 8 years. Which means she doesn't know that she's divorced
from the guy who is now the chief of staff(?), that her daughter is now
a teenager, that her young son died 7 years before, nor that she's
carrying on an affair with a much younger underling (Jon Ecker).
   Anyway, it looks like this is going to devolve into a slog as she
tries to get her life and career back, presumably with a new attitude.
IOW, while this wasn't terrible, I doubt I'm going to go out of my way
to watch it again.

Yeah, it wasn't a bad story but there's that likelihood of it being a
slog as the show develops.

Animal Control - What I gather was ep. #3.2. What made this more
enjoyable than usual was that Lucy Punch was the guest star. Aside from
that this show is OK - it has some amusing bits, and characters, but
also gets tedious in places. And McHale is playing the usual "Joel
McHale" character here, so it's not breaking new ground.
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Going Dutch - This one I was actively disappointed by: instead of just
letting Denis Leary be the "Denis Leary-esque" crotchety commander of a
lax base in the Netherlands, they screw this up by adding the fact that
his daughter is one of the officers immediately under him - if I want to
watch that kind of show, I'll watch "Shifting Gears"! I don't want this
show messed up by estranged father-daughter dynamics!
   Anim will love this as Catherine Tate has a significant role as a
prostitute(?) who befriends Leary (is it my imagination or do all Leary
series seem to push prostitution?!) - Tate is *much* more subdued here
than she was on "Doctor Who"; Joe Morton also appears as the superior
officer determined to ruin Leary's career.

Haven't tried the second episode yet as the first one left me
expecting this to be cancelled before the end of the season.

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What did you watch?