What Did You Watch? 2025-02-27 (Thursday)

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Ian J. Ball

2025-02-28 14:06:23 UTC

Despite yesterday being the "day I don't (physically) go into work", I
still did a fair amount of work yesterday - this will likely be the case
for most of my Thursday "at home" days.

So I didn't really watch any movies yesterday (I did rewatch a Lifetime
flick), and just got through soaps:

soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. Mariah and Nick figure out that Sharon has been
missing for about the same length of time that Filis[sic!] has been
missing. So Chance calls them together with Daniel and Summer to see if
they can figure anything else. (Sidenote: We haven't seen either Faith
or Lucy in ages now - both actresses must be back in school or
something.) At the end, it's revealed that Filis and Sharon are out cold
in some slum-like apartment(?) - 10-to-1 says Ian Ward has kidnapped
(which means an almost 80-year old man healed from a gunshot wound
incredibly quickly! Meanwhile, shockingly, Audra admits to Nate that she
knew Holden from her past - Nate seems to take the news well.
Both of the following were Thur's ep's:
DOOL - In a pathetic display, Brady begs Ava V. to drop the charges
against Kristen and her mother (and EJ) - Ava should tell him to shove
it, but pathetically doesn't... Meanwhile, I see where they're going
with this - Jada and Shawn are convinced that amnesiac Rafe is actually
Arnold Feniger faking amnesia; meanwhile, Gabi takes the DNA sample to
Kayla. So this will all "prove" that amnesiac Rafe "is" Arnold Feniger.
It will probably take them months to figure this all out... :/
GH - An uneventful episode - no Josslyn, no Willow/Drew, etc. Chase
and Brook Lynn agree that Finn is the wrong choice to be any kind of
sperm donor. Martin threatens Tracy to drop her cease-and-desist order;
but Tracy becomes convinced that Martin is lying to Lulu about
something. Lizzie plants one on Lucky (boring!!). NuJack Brennan
continues to woo Carly, and threatens Jenz Sidwell to leave Carly alone.
Laura warns Sonny about Drew's and Sidwell's plans to take Sonny's docks
from him.

I then rewatched "The Last Thing She Said" with Kylee Bush (sidenote: I
didn't remember that Bush was in an episode of "The Magicians"...) on
LMN. It's an OK thriller, but it's not one that lets Bush look her best,
as she's tied to a bed through much of this flick. :|

What did you watch?

suzeeq

2025-02-28 14:28:03 UTC

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You'd think they'd fingerprint him when they took him into custody. Then
compare them to the ones they had when they arrested him before.
Or to Rafe's, which they must have on file.

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GH - An uneventful episode - no Josslyn, no Willow/Drew, etc. Chase
and Brook Lynn agree that Finn is the wrong choice to be any kind of
sperm donor. Martin threatens Tracy to drop her cease-and-desist order;
but Tracy becomes convinced that Martin is lying to Lulu about
something. Lizzie plants one on Lucky (boring!!). NuJack Brennan
continues to woo Carly, and threatens Jenz Sidwell to leave Carly alone.
Laura warns Sonny about Drew's and Sidwell's plans to take Sonny's docks
from him.
I then rewatched "The Last Thing She Said" with Kylee Bush (sidenote: I
didn't remember that Bush was in an episode of "The Magicians"...) on
LMN. It's an OK thriller, but it's not one that lets Bush look her best,
as she's tied to a bed through much of this flick. :|
What did you watch?

Ian J. Ball

2025-02-28 20:44:29 UTC

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Post by suzeeq

You'd think they'd fingerprint him when they took him into custody. Then
compare them to the ones they had when they arrested him before.
Or to Rafe's, which they must have on file.

Either fingerprints, or even a blood test, would have solved this issue
ages ago.

One of the problems I have with esp. DOOL's writers is that they treat
us (the audience) like we're idiots.

They long ago should have lifted their writing game to match the times.

This whole Rafe storyline has been an entire waste of time. At least
something like the Sophia storyline is grounded in some reality...

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Arthur Lipscomb

2025-02-28 15:39:54 UTC

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Post by Ian J. Ball
Despite yesterday being the "day I don't (physically) go into work", I
still did a fair amount of work yesterday - this will likely be the case
for most of my Thursday "at home" days.
So I didn't really watch any movies yesterday (I did rewatch a Lifetime
soaps: Y&R - Mon's ep. Mariah and Nick figure out that Sharon has been
missing for about the same length of time that Filis[sic!] has been
missing. So Chance calls them together with Daniel and Summer to see if
they can figure anything else. (Sidenote: We haven't seen either Faith
or Lucy in ages now - both actresses must be back in school or
something.) At the end, it's revealed that Filis and Sharon are out cold
in some slum-like apartment(?) - 10-to-1 says Ian Ward has kidnapped
(which means an almost 80-year old man healed from a gunshot wound
incredibly quickly! Meanwhile, shockingly, Audra admits to Nate that she
knew Holden from her past - Nate seems to take the news well.
DOOL - In a pathetic display, Brady begs Ava V. to drop the charges
against Kristen and her mother (and EJ) - Ava should tell him to shove
it, but pathetically doesn't... Meanwhile, I see where they're going
with this - Jada and Shawn are convinced that amnesiac Rafe is actually
Arnold Feniger faking amnesia; meanwhile, Gabi takes the DNA sample to
Kayla. So this will all "prove" that amnesiac Rafe "is" Arnold Feniger.
It will probably take them months to figure this all out... :/
GH - An uneventful episode - no Josslyn, no Willow/Drew, etc. Chase
and Brook Lynn agree that Finn is the wrong choice to be any kind of
sperm donor. Martin threatens Tracy to drop her cease-and-desist order;
but Tracy becomes convinced that Martin is lying to Lulu about
something. Lizzie plants one on Lucky (boring!!). NuJack Brennan
continues to woo Carly, and threatens Jenz Sidwell to leave Carly alone.
Laura warns Sonny about Drew's and Sidwell's plans to take Sonny's docks
from him.
I then rewatched "The Last Thing She Said" with Kylee Bush (sidenote: I
didn't remember that Bush was in an episode of "The Magicians"...) on
LMN. It's an OK thriller, but it's not one that lets Bush look her best,
as she's tied to a bed through much of this flick. :|
What did you watch?

I watched:

Invincible (Amazon Prime) - "All I Can Say Is I'm Sorry" - A man still
grieving the deaths of his relatives during a fight Invincible had years
earlier powers up and becomes a new supervillain (or hero depending on
your perspective) to battle Invincible.

Severance (AppleTV+) - "Chikhai Bardo" - THis episode was mostly
flashbacks showing how Mark and Gemma met and lots of flashback details
on Gemma filling in her back story before and after the car accident. I
shouldn't necessarily say filling in since the show remains as opaque as
ever.

Law & Order - "A Price to Pay" - I was half asleep towards the second
half of the episode so I wasn't paying full attention. But from what I
saw team L&O investigated the murder of an actor. I slept through the
motive part of the episode, but I think I saw the end which switched
focus from the killer to a reluctant witness.

Adam H. Kerman

2025-02-28 22:19:55 UTC

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Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Law & Order - "A Price to Pay" - I was half asleep towards the second
half of the episode so I wasn't paying full attention. But from what I
saw team L&O investigated the murder of an actor. I slept through the
motive part of the episode, but I think I saw the end which switched
focus from the killer to a reluctant witness.

You fell asleep during the bestest episode ever! The script was well
plotted and gave everybody clear motivations!

In part it was based on the death of Matthew Perry, but why this actor,
perfectly healthy while Perry wasn't, used a hell of a lot of ketamine
made no sense. How the cops came across the drug dealer made no sense
either.

Shaw encountered his old training officer at a retirement party for a
detective from his previous precinct, but the guy hadn't been a cop in
decades. The timing made no sense. He must have been a cop for 15 years
to be a T.O. Then he joined the Marines in his mid to late 30s? It would
make sense if he had some sort of professional specialty but he wasn't
even a military police officer or shore patrol.

How long has Shaw been a cop, 10 years?

There were several people preying on the actor, including a corrupt
doctor writing ketamine prescriptions. The doctor was all set to take a
plea and testifyy against the drug dealer, but Price's case got ruined
because the witness for the prosecution committed suicide.

Price asked the judge for a two-week continuance, but she gave him till
the next commercial break.

Riley and Shaw did negligible investigation. But Detective Yee did all
the work, miraculous finding evidence in video footage. I've never
understood how she finds so much video footage, never physically leaving
the police station.

In The Plot Twist You Never Saw Coming, Shaw spots his old T.O. in the
footage Yee found. He's a customer of the murderer.

You know? It's almost a relief when the episode goes from mediocre to
relentlessly awful as we all expect this to happen.

Due to PTSD, the Marine has some sort of light duty assignment in New York
with subsidized housing, but he's receiving zero medical care. He decided
that ketamine will treat his PTSD. But he'll get discharged from the
Marines and will lose his subsidized home if his bosses learn any of this.

As a former detective, he sees that his drug dealer has blood on her
shoes, the very shoes she disposed of, which is why Price is prosecuting
a case with no circumstantial evidence. Price doesn't do this all the
time, just the prosecutions he does on Thursdays.

Shaw, Riley, and Brady approach Baxter, begging him not to use him as a
witness. Shaw argues the unfairness, 'cuz no one cared that the actor
abused significant amounts of ketamine whereas the Marine is using just
enough to keep his symptoms at bay.

Now, Shaw's argument is beyond stupid. The actor isn't losing his career
and isn't being prosecuted for one reason: He's the murder victim. He
may have been a drug abuser and stiffed his ex wife on alimony but he
was murdered because he didn't pay his drug dealer. Cops and prosecutors
are supposed to send a strong signal to society that murder is taken
seriously and that they seek justice on behalf of the dead.

Baxter wants the witness on the stand regardless of consequence.

Now, Price and Maroun have been directly informed that this witness will
not come forward voluntarily, and they know that as a former detective
he can recognize evidence of foul play and STILL didn't come forward,
that they need to immediately supeona him.

Maroun decides to wait 18 hours to serve the supeona.

Off screen, Shaw warned him off. He talked his bosses into transferring
him to Okinawa. Price and Baxter discuss whether he can be forced to
return to take the stand but Price again emphasizes that the judge won't
agree to a continuance.

Uh, he might have asked anyway.

Baxter orders a plea. Man 2

The actors relatives are disappointed. Price confronts Shaw, and tells
him he can be prosecuted for witness tampering. Shaw smarmily justifies
his behavior. Episode ends before Price picks up the LART to pound the
clue into the side of Shaw's skull.

I nominate this episode as Shaw's must unethical behavior yet.

Arthur Lipscomb

2025-03-01 03:14:22 UTC

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Post by Adam H. Kerman

You fell asleep during the bestest episode ever! The script was well
plotted and gave everybody clear motivations!
In part it was based on the death of Matthew Perry,

Good catch. With so many celebrity deaths over the past few days, I was
surprised to see this as the plot of the episode.

but why this actor,

Post by Adam H. Kerman
perfectly healthy while Perry wasn't, used a hell of a lot of ketamine
made no sense. How the cops came across the drug dealer made no sense
either.
Shaw encountered his old training officer at a retirement party for a
detective from his previous precinct, but the guy hadn't been a cop in
decades. The timing made no sense. He must have been a cop for 15 years
to be a T.O. Then he joined the Marines in his mid to late 30s? It would
make sense if he had some sort of professional specialty but he wasn't
even a military police officer or shore patrol.
How long has Shaw been a cop, 10 years?
There were several people preying on the actor, including a corrupt
doctor writing ketamine prescriptions. The doctor was all set to take a
plea and testifyy against the drug dealer, but Price's case got ruined
because the witness for the prosecution committed suicide.

Why did he kill himself? Didn't his lawyer negotiate a sweetheart deal
for him?

Post by Adam H. Kerman
Price asked the judge for a two-week continuance, but she gave him till
the next commercial break.
Riley and Shaw did negligible investigation. But Detective Yee did all
the work, miraculous finding evidence in video footage. I've never
understood how she finds so much video footage, never physically leaving
the police station.
In The Plot Twist You Never Saw Coming, Shaw spots his old T.O. in the
footage Yee found. He's a customer of the murderer.
You know? It's almost a relief when the episode goes from mediocre to
relentlessly awful as we all expect this to happen.
Due to PTSD, the Marine has some sort of light duty assignment in New York
with subsidized housing, but he's receiving zero medical care. He decided
that ketamine will treat his PTSD. But he'll get discharged from the
Marines and will lose his subsidized home if his bosses learn any of this.
As a former detective, he sees that his drug dealer has blood on her
shoes, the very shoes she disposed of, which is why Price is prosecuting
a case with no circumstantial evidence. Price doesn't do this all the
time, just the prosecutions he does on Thursdays.
Shaw, Riley, and Brady approach Baxter, begging him not to use him as a
witness. Shaw argues the unfairness, 'cuz no one cared that the actor
abused significant amounts of ketamine whereas the Marine is using just
enough to keep his symptoms at bay.
Now, Shaw's argument is beyond stupid. The actor isn't losing his career
and isn't being prosecuted for one reason: He's the murder victim. He
may have been a drug abuser and stiffed his ex wife on alimony but he
was murdered because he didn't pay his drug dealer.

I think I slept through that detail. But if they murder him, then how
do they expect to be paid? Seems like they could get a lot more money
out of him if he was alive and using.

Cops and prosecutors

Post by Adam H. Kerman
are supposed to send a strong signal to society that murder is taken
seriously and that they seek justice on behalf of the dead.
Baxter wants the witness on the stand regardless of consequence.
Now, Price and Maroun have been directly informed that this witness will
not come forward voluntarily, and they know that as a former detective
he can recognize evidence of foul play and STILL didn't come forward,
that they need to immediately supeona him.
Maroun decides to wait 18 hours to serve the supeona.
Off screen, Shaw warned him off. He talked his bosses into transferring
him to Okinawa.

I think I must have slept through that bit too. I thought the friend
testified or am I misremembering it?

Price and Baxter discuss whether he can be forced to

Post by Adam H. Kerman
return to take the stand but Price again emphasizes that the judge won't
agree to a continuance.
Uh, he might have asked anyway.
Baxter orders a plea. Man 2
The actors relatives are disappointed. Price confronts Shaw, and tells
him he can be prosecuted for witness tampering. Shaw smarmily justifies
his behavior. Episode ends before Price picks up the LART to pound the
clue into the side of Shaw's skull.
I nominate this episode as Shaw's must unethical behavior yet.

Thanks for the summary! A lot of times if I fall asleep I'll rewind
back and rewatch the next day. I must have slept through more than I
realized or I wouldn't have hit the delete button at the end.

Adam H. Kerman

2025-03-01 03:40:42 UTC

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Post by Adam H. Kerman

You fell asleep during the bestest episode ever! The script was well
plotted and gave everybody clear motivations!
In part it was based on the death of Matthew Perry,

Good catch. With so many celebrity deaths over the past few days, I was
surprised to see this as the plot of the episode.
but why this actor,

Why did he kill himself? Didn't his lawyer negotiate a sweetheart deal
for him?

Out of shame, in dialogue, but yeah, it came out of nowhere.

My guess is the writer started with the premise that Shaw would do
something unethical that Price would allow him to get away with, and
wrote the earlier parts of the script to lead to that, no matter how
illogical.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

I think I slept through that detail. But if they murder him, then how
do they expect to be paid? Seems like they could get a lot more money
out of him if he was alive and using.

Exactly. There's no logic in the plot.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Cops and prosecutors

I think I must have slept through that bit too. I thought the friend
testified or am I misremembering it?

Shaw forced him to state what he observed, which Shaw then reported to
Price, but he never testified.

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Price and Baxter discuss whether he can be forced to

Thanks for the summary! A lot of times if I fall asleep I'll rewind
back and rewatch the next day. I must have slept through more than I
realized or I wouldn't have hit the delete button at the end.

You missed no entertainment.

BTR1701

2025-03-01 21:23:18 UTC

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Post by Adam H. Kerman
Maroun decides to wait 18 hours to serve the supeona.
Off screen, Shaw warned him off. He talked his bosses into transferring
him to Okinawa.

I think I must have slept through that bit too. I thought the friend
testified or am I misremembering it?

Shaw forced him to state what he observed, which Shaw then reported to
Price, but he never testified.

If Shaw had no problem subverting justice and putting his friend's needs above
the law, why didn't he just ignore his friend's name on the customer list from
the get-go and act like he didn't recognize him from the footage Yee dug up?
Would have saved a lot of time and all Shaw's friends and colleagues wouldn't
now know that he can't be trusted.

Instead, he makes a big deal out of bringing the Marine's identity forward so
that everyone knows about him, and *then* obstructs justice.

BTR1701

2025-03-01 21:18:44 UTC

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Post by Adam H. Kerman

As she was ethically required to do by the Canon of Law & Order Judge Ethics.

She was already walking on thin ice by not denying Price's request for a
continuance altogether.

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Riley and Shaw did negligible investigation. But Detective Yee did all
the work, miraculous finding evidence in video footage. I've never
understood how she finds so much video footage, never physically leaving
the police station.

She's like Penelope Garcia, or the analysts in the JOC on Missy Peregrym's
FBI, who instantly can hack into any CCTV footage, even privately-owned
systems. They never seem to get hung up on the warrant requirement for any of
it, although I suppose if they hack into, say, a bar's CCTV without a warrant
it won't matter at trial because the defendant can only assert a violation of
his *own* rights, not a violation of the bar owner's rights. Not having a
warrant would only come back to bite them if they were trying to prosecute the
owner of the CCTV system.

Post by Adam H. Kerman
Now, Shaw's argument is beyond stupid. The actor isn't losing his career
and isn't being prosecuted for one reason: He's the murder victim. He
may have been a drug abuser and stiffed his ex wife on alimony

I thought it was hilarious at the end that we see the ex-wife with tears
streaming down her face because she was robbed of justice for the death of her
ex-husband when earlier in the show, she made it clear that she was hardly
grieving his death and the only reason she was upset about it was that now
there'd be no more alimony and "For god's sake, I'm going to be evicted from
my cushy 5th Avenue condo!"

Why would a woman like that even be at the trial in the first place, let alone
start crying when the drug dealer only got 10 years instead of 30?

Post by Adam H. Kerman
Baxter wants the witness on the stand regardless of consequence.
Now, Price and Maroun have been directly informed that this witness will
not come forward voluntarily, and they know that as a former detective
he can recognize evidence of foul play and STILL didn't come forward,
that they need to immediately subpeona him.
Maroun decides to wait 18 hours to serve the subpeona.
Off screen, Shaw warned him off. He talked his bosses into transferring
him to Okinawa.

Which was what immediately occurred to me. He didn't even need to transfer
overseas or anything as dramatic as that. Just have Shaw suggest to him that
maybe right now would be a good time to take vacation time and go somewhere
unreachable for a few weeks.

We already know that the judge is not in any mood to prolong the trial and
that Price will be forced to proceed with or without the Marine's testimony
and Shaw knows this because Price said so in the big meeting with Baxter, so
just have Shaw tell his friend to take a camping trip somewhere (and leave his
cell and credit cards at home, for gawd's sake) for a few weeks, at which
point the trial will be long over (we all know L&O trials only last one or two
days, max) and there will be no further need for his testimony.

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Price and Baxter discuss whether he can be forced to
return to take the stand but Price again emphasizes that the judge won't
agree to a continuance.
Uh, he might have asked anyway.
Baxter orders a plea. Man 2
The actors relatives are disappointed. Price confronts Shaw, and tells
him he can be prosecuted for witness tampering. Shaw smarmily justifies
his behavior. Episode ends before Price picks up the LART to pound the
clue into the side of Shaw's skull.
I nominate this episode as Shaw's must unethical behavior yet.

Yeah, this guy has a history of putting everything from personal relationships
to Black Lives Matter above his ethical and legal duty to enforce the law.

He's a bad cop.