Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-24 (Thursday)

On 4/25/2025 5:34 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 4/25/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 My work from home day, so just soaps:
 soaps: DOOL - Wed's ep. OMG, this was such a joke! This "fund raiser" was a total joke. Do the writers think we're dumb?! This stupid "city fair" idea would be nearly enough to get a hospital anywhere close to out of financial insolvency! Even Gabi's $25k wouldn't have been a drop in the bucket! I can't even synopsize this episode because this malarkey so distracted me with its idiocy!
    Y&R - More ep's from earlier in April. Filis[sic!] and Sharon and Nick find out that "Alan" is a suspect in Filis[sic!] and Sharon's kidnapping and psychological torture. Traci tells "Alan" that she wants to slow things down, and "Alan" reacts very un-Alan-like - yeah, I think there's no way this guy isn't the evil twin pretending to be Alan again... Meanwhile, Victor is such a scum bag! - He wants to hire Audra to "seduce" Kyle to break up Kyle and dumb Claire. Audra is an absolute idiot if she agrees to do this. And (Nu)Summer finally admits to Chance that she's jealous of Claire with Kyle (so dumb! she really is Filis' daughter!).
 And that was pretty much it. In fact, I was hit by a cable outage during the afternoon, and was forced to put on "Beyond the Gates" (the new CBS soap) as background noise at one point.
 What did you watch?
 

This is a two day catch-up.  I watched:
Ghosts - I caught up on the last couple of episodes, including the last new episode which aired last night.  There seems to be a common theme where someone mishears or misunderstands something, or flat out lies, then wackiness ensues.  They *really* need to stop listening to those ghosts!  Every episode listening to those stupid ghosts brings nothing but trouble.
Sherlock & Daughter - "The Challenge" - The pilot episode.  I pulled this off of OnDemand.  The first episode has a young woman making her way to England where she tracks down Sherlock Homes (David Thewlis) and claims he is her father.  Holmes doesn't believe it, but he puts her to work helping him on a kidnapping case.
"The Common Thread" - Episode 2 has Sherlock & Daughter continuing to work on the same kidnapping case.
Until Dawn (theatrical) New horror movie based on a video game.  (MILD SPOILERS)
I never played the game before, but apparently the movie pretty much ignores everything about the game.  Anyway, the premise of the movie is a young woman goes missing so her sister and a few friends make a trip touring her last known locations.  The group make their way to a mysterious cabin in the woods (or it might as well have been a cabin) where they all find themselves murdered.  But as soon as they're dead the evening resets and they are all alive again, except something different kills them each time.  The movie is sort of a mashup between, "The Cabin in the Woods" and "Happy Death Day" although not as good as either.  The movie itself was OK, but I was a little frustrated because based on the trailer I was expecting a bit more variety in the different horror genres.  There was also the common movie trope where they try something once, it doesn't work, and instead of trying it again but avoiding what didn't what the first time, they just ignore it all together.  At least I'm assuming that's the case, the movie conveniently didn't show every time loop, so maybe they did try and it still didn't work.