Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-24 (Monday)

On 2/25/2025 7:43 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 2/25/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Another day with unfulfilled TV(/movie) ambitions - I intended to watch ep's #5 & #6 of "Paradise" after getting some work done, but I ran out of gas after doing that. So all I got through was soaps:
 

I still need to get to episode 2.

soaps: GH - Largely uneventful. Josslyn is all twitchy now that she's a murderer, but on the spot comes up with an amazingly good lie to Trina about grieving Dex on Valentine's Day to explain everything that's going on with her - maybe she should become a spy!; later, Joss finds out that Jason has been arrested as the prime suspect in Cyrus' murder. It looks like Jack Brennan and co. must have planted evidence implicating Jason in the crime. Dante tells Alexis, Molly and awful Kristina why Sam was murdered, and that Cyrus is "missing"... Brooklyn recounts to Lois that she told Chase about giving birth as a teen, which causes Lois to sweat buckets! but Brooklyn then states that she didn't tell Chase who the father was and Lois relaxes.
    DOOL - Meh. As expected, Jada is going boff Shawn. NuGabi tears one off FauxRafe, and he basically tells her to shove it! After FauxRafe makes an unwanted advance, Stephanie (of all people!) may have figured this all out! as she somehow knows about Arnold Fenniger, and tells Alex about it. Leo talks his way back on to the paper with Chad, but not as "Lady Whistleblower" and instead as a full-blown reporter (what could possibly go wrong?!). Marlena tells Kat, and then Chad, that the hospital is about to close.
 And that was pretty much it.
 What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Watson "Wait for the Punchline" - House, I mean Watson, and his team investigate a comedian who fainted while performing a routine on stage. Watching this particular episode, the absurdity of it all really hit home.  So House, I mean Watson, says people lie so he sends his team to find the truth about the patient's family history, including visiting a family member in prison.  It took 2 doctors to make that trip.  And I'm thinking to myself, they are using a ridiculous amount of medical resources, an entire team of doctors, to treat one patient who fainted. And I started to wonder how in the world did House get away with this nonsense every week, and then I remember House and his team actually treated more than one patient at any given time.  But an entire team of doctors devoted themselves to one person who fainted, not only fainted, but no one else really thought there was a much of a medical mystery until House, I mean Watson, decided to look into it after determining the patient lied about something.  But I am curious to see where the Sherlock Holmes side of the story goes. They are definitely building up to something very unpleasant happening to Watson, but it's unclear exactly what.
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) - This one took me a while to work my way through.  It's Spanish (mostly) language musical starring Zoe Saldaña as a lawyer in Mexico who is hired by a Mexican drug lord to fake his death and facilitate his transition into a woman.  The drug lord arranges for his wife and kids (who think he's dead) to move to Switzerland.  But after a few years the former drug lord decides she wants her wife and kids back.  The wife and kids are pretty much forced back to Mexico against their will, thinking the woman is a distant relative.  She also tries to turn over a new leaf and make amends for all the harm she did when she was a drug lord, but the past catches up with her.  And Zoe is forced to go along for the ride.  I watched this because of all the award nominations (and wins).  Including currently being nominated for Best picture, director, and actress by the Academy Awards. That and there's been a bit of controversy, and when people don't want me to watch a movie, that tends to make me want to watch it more.
A Complete Unknown (theatrical) Another movie I went out of my way to watch because of all the Academy Award nominations.  This is a biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Boyd Holbrook as Jonny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger.  I never heard of half of these people before, and I was never a fan of Dylan, who in my opinion can't sing.  But like I said, Oscar nominations so I forced myself to sit through it.  As biopics go, this was different. Usually with a musician biopic the musician is battling drugs and/or alcohol, or battling government censorship, or at least the record company is the bad guy.  In this movie, the record company is more or less on the side of good.  Dylan has no real struggles he has to overcome, other than being a jerk to the women in his life.  And the big issue that has the audience on the edge of their seats is will Dylan play electric or acoustic guitar at a music festival. And I assume fans of Dylan already knew the answer to this question.  Anyway, it was a well made movie so it has that, and I'm sure Dylan fans will like it.