Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-21 (Wednesday)

On 5/22/2025 7:07 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/22/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 Multi-day catch-up here (I don't know how many! I don't think I've done one of these since Sunday...).
 Mostly, I've watched soaps since my last WDYW? post.
 soaps: DOOL - Xander beats Philip to a bloody pulp, nearly killing him - in revenge! Philip sort of throws Sarah under the bus. Alex gets Stephanie's trashy manuscript to Kate to review/edit, but does this before Stephanie pleads with Alex to drop shopping it! (Oops!) The show continues to annoy me in writing people I like out (I think Rafe just disappeared off the show without as much as a goodbye!) and bringing on new people I don't care - the latest is (Nu)Gabi's daughter Ari (as a child, Ari was a blonde - now she's full-on Latina played by Marissa Reyes!!). I am hoping, though, that Ari will effectively replace NuSophia on the show, as I don't like NuSophia at all here.
    GH - As the divorce/custody hearing for Willow's kids nears, Carly reverts to evil bitch form and she and Nina come to blows (honestly, I was hoping Nina would just kill Carly!). It looks like they have already recast Michael (after publicly announcing months ago that they had "no plans to recast the part"! makes my hopeful that Y&R will do the same with Summer Newman after publicly announcing the same!). Curtis fishes for info from Drew and gets Drew to admit that he is blackmailing Portia. Drew has Tracy arrested after framing her for drugging him. Lulu gets closer to proving that Gio is Brook Lynn's son. The Nurses Ball begins, with Nina forced to co-host the "Red Carpet Show" with Drew - there were some good bits in here.
 On Monday, I put "Wild Cards" and "Family Law" (on the All DEAD! CW!!) on as background noise. I payed no attention to "Wild Cards", but I actually mostly watched "Family Law" - it makes me sad how old Jewel Staite looks now.  :(  Also, they try to ruin this show by including Lauren Holly! but luckily she was in very few scenes in the epie. Genelle Williams is also in the cast of this show. Anyway, they kind of play "Family Law" as funny/wacky, with Staite's character seeming permanently exasperated.
 Last night, I put the "Chicago" shows on - they were airing their season finales:
 Chicago Med - I was floored when Rachel DiPillo showed up in this episode! She literally hasn't acted since 2018 when she left this show at the start of season #4! but I guess she's shown up in a few episodes in the current season (10) of "Med" that I did not know about! I wonder if DiPillo is poised to rejoin this show, at least as a recurring character.
 Chicago Fire - Contrived malarkey in which the captain played by Dermot Mulroney is accused of murder!! and Severide had to clear his name. Bah.
 Chicago PD - I swear - every season finale of this show I have ever seen is the same - they are always "Voight episodes", and in every single one of them some corrupt higher up in Chicago's PD is always trying to shut down Voight's Intelligence unit! In this one, Voight takes care of the problem by having the higher up executed in front of a bunch of fellow cops!! Wow. At least they're not getting away from the "Voight is really a bad guy" origin story!... I reiterate again, though - Burgess (Marina Squerciati) cannot carry this show alone! They need another hottie in the cast ASAP!... Anyway, at the end, Burgess and Ruzek get married. [roll]
  What did you watch?
 

I watched:
Family Guy - I binged through a few episodes of the current season.  I'm way behind and still have about a half dozen episodes to go to catch up.
Survivor - I watched the season finale.
The Last of Us - I forgot to mention this the other day, I watched the latest episode.  It was a flashback episode, but OK.