Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-16 (Wednesday)

On 4/17/2025 8:50 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:

 Got this and replied to Ob Veeus this morning
 Ob Veeus:
SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER:  The first episode of this CW show that felt a lot
like a PBS series.
 

This is already airing?  I have seen *zero* commercials for this.  I've only seen a couple of pictures online that made me vaguely aware it existed.
I watched:
The Continental: From the World of John Wick (Peacock) This is a new prequel series that follows a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell as a younger version of Ian McShane's character from the movies.  The series is made up of three feature length episodes.  I watched the first two episodes last night.
"Brothers in Arms" - This first episode is set in the 70s and opens with a robbery at the Continental Hotel by Frankie Scott.  Frankie is Winston's estranged brother.  Frankie goes missing so the people who run the Hotel (Mel Gibson plays the current person running the hotel) kidnap Winston and bring him to the U.S. to find his brother.  I think.  Up until just now as I was writing out the events, I'm not at all sure I was following what was happening.  The series is shot ridiculously dark, it's hard to see what is happening.  The plot was convoluted with way too many characters.
"Loyalty to the Master" - Episode 2. - I followed episode 2 even less than I followed the first episode.  It was pretty much just background noise.  But I did notice the character of "Charon" who was placed by Lance Reddick in the movies plays a larger role.  He's working for Mel Gibson, but befriends Winston.  Basically what I could gleam from episode 2 was Winston is planning on attacking the hotel and trying to seize control using his own army, which includes the homeless people who were were introduced in John Wick 2. I haven't noticed a younger version of Lawrence Fishburne's character yet.