What Did You Watch? 2023-03-27 (Monday)

[shawn]

I didn't get in a lot but did watch the following:

Rabbit Hole episode 1

In this one we have Kiefer Sutherland running a private company that
specializes in helping out other high finance companies through extra
legal means like arranging for bad news (whether real or faked) to
come out about their competition. In this episode we have the team
involved first in giving a high net worth individual some bad stock
information that he then acts on leading to a huge loss for him and
his company which the team's client takes advantage of. Supposedly
this high net worth individual is also worthy of fleecing as Kiefer's
character (John Weir) likes to take from people who he considers
worthy of fleecing. Consider him a sort of Robin Hood who takes from
the unworthy rich to give to his team and their clients.

Then he gets asked to do another job by an old friend/work mate where
he arranges for two people to be seen meeting and apparently
exchanging something. Two people that would never meet without the
teams intervention as one is a member of the US Treasury Department
and the other is the CEO of the Bannomar Group. So they go through a
complex setup to get the two to meet and pass an envelope between them
while they are photographed which are then passed over to his old
friend at Arda Analytics. All well and good as it all goes off
without a hitch.

Then we get Weir being accused of murdering the treasury official,
evading the police and sneaking into Arda Analytics through the use of
a fake bomb, confronting his friend as to what is going on. Said
friend gets a phone call and a message telling him to "Do it now!" and
walks out on to his office balcony and leaps to his death. Needless to
say now Weir is being accused of killing his friend and has to use the
fake bomb to do a batman style escape through the use a smoke grenade
and a Tesla with self driving. He then proceeds back to his office
just in time to see it blow up, presumably with his entire team
inside.

Now if that wasn't enough there's an unexpected twist at the end of
the first episode. If you haven't picked up in it there's non-stop
action of a sort in the show as Weir is moving from situation to
situation along with a constant bit of paranoia from Weir. Which may
not be uncalled for as it does appear that there are other people at
work here with some unknown plan.

Law & Order
Here there was an older retired Jewish reporter who gets killed after
having the side of his home painted "Jew" in black paint. Turns out
that the killer is found but the anonymous source that led to his
discovery won't come forward and the reporter that was with the killed
man won't disclose their identity. So a deal needs to be made with the
white supremacist that painted "Jew" on the guys home because he saw
the killer at the guys block when the killing happened and saw him
with the murder weapon, but this neo-Nazi has committed his own
heinous crime and put a woman in the hospital just because he heard
her speaking in Hebrew.

So the question becomes do they cut loose the neo-Nazi in order to get
him to testify and put away the murderer? Who by the way only killed
the reporter because he was about to reveal the murderer as having
bilked the city out of millions of dollars by having set up a fake
company that then led to the death of six people when the company
didn't do certain safety upgrades it was paid to complete. Jack is on
board to make the deal but they had to have the attorney in charge of
the case wavering on what to do since both options (making the deal
and letting the neo-Nazi go free or letting the murderer go free) is
ideal. In the end the deal is made, the murderer gets convicted and
the neo-Nazi goes free, for now.


What did you watch?

[Ubiquitous]

I watched:

THE NEWS AND WHY IT MATTERS
https://youtu.be/hkF0DKmj0RA

HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES:
"Blackbeard's Lost Treasure". One of history's most notorious pirates,
Blackbeard, is said to have had a treasure worth millions of dollars. After
centuries of searching, the legendary hoard remains missing. As new evidence
is unearthed, the mystery endures: what became of Blackbeard's lost treasure.

HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES:
"Decoding The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism". An ancient mechanical device
found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has become known as the world's first
computer. The machine is centuries more advanced than historians thought
possible, but its origin and true purpose are shrouded in secrecy. Examining
if modern technology can finally unveil what the mysterious Antikythera
Mechanism actually is.

What did you watch?

--
Let's go Brandon!

[NoBody]

MSM coverage of the school shooting.

[Ian J. Ball]

On 2023-03-28 10:38:15 +0000, shawn said:

> I didn't get in a lot but did watch the following:
>
> Rabbit Hole episode 1
>
> In this one we have Kiefer Sutherland running a private company that
> specializes in helping out other high finance companies through extra
> legal means like arranging for bad news (whether real or faked) to
> come out about their competition. In this episode we have the team
> involved first in giving a high net worth individual some bad stock
> information that he then acts on leading to a huge loss for him and
> his company which the team's client takes advantage of. Supposedly
> this high net worth individual is also worthy of fleecing as Kiefer's
> character (John Weir) likes to take from people who he considers
> worthy of fleecing. Consider him a sort of Robin Hood who takes from
> the unworthy rich to give to his team and their clients.

This actually sounds sort of like "Leverage"...

> [snip]

The later parts do sound more like "24".

I don't like the bait-and-switch you seem to be describing at the end, though.

But this is on Pee+, so I will never see it.

> What did you watch?

Somewhat long workday, and I had to do grading, so just:

soaps: DOOL - Fri's & Mon's ep's. In the good news department, they
seem to be moving to wrap up the Megan Hathaway story quickly, which I
am already sick to death of. But I'm annoyed that Kate is supposedly
murdered (of course, I don't believe she's dead...), and people like
Kayla just seem to be rolling with it like they don't care!! (For
example, no one is saying - "Where did you shoot her? Where is the
body?!")
But the bad news is that we are being treated to extraneous stories
I don't care about, like Hope and <s>Jason Morgan</s> this Harris dude,
and even worse Ciara (whom I no longer care about) and Ben (I already
prefer him as Alex K.!!) having another baby! (And the John actor
doesn't even hold a gun properly!!)
Can we please get back to the relevant storylines?!!

Beyond that, I just left the "Ruby"/so-called "Landry Family" saga V.C.
Andrews miniseries on LMN on in the background in the evening while I
tried to grade. Lifetime is already advertising their next V.C. Andrews
miniseries (for this summer?), the "Dawn Cutler" series, that stars
Brec Bassinger (Stargirl SG-1!), and features Fran Drescher(!) and
Donna Mills(!!).

Recorded for later: Just GH.


--
"Who would ever do this to him!?" - HottCiara on DOOL (04-27-2020), asking
who would stab Victor Kirakis... How about ANYONE WHO'S EVER MET HIM??!!

[shawn]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:15:42 -0700, Ian J. Ball <IJB...@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 2023-03-28 10:38:15 +0000, shawn said:
>
>> I didn't get in a lot but did watch the following:
>>
>> Rabbit Hole episode 1
>>
>> In this one we have Kiefer Sutherland running a private company that
>> specializes in helping out other high finance companies through extra
>> legal means like arranging for bad news (whether real or faked) to
>> come out about their competition. In this episode we have the team
>> involved first in giving a high net worth individual some bad stock
>> information that he then acts on leading to a huge loss for him and
>> his company which the team's client takes advantage of. Supposedly
>> this high net worth individual is also worthy of fleecing as Kiefer's
>> character (John Weir) likes to take from people who he considers
>> worthy of fleecing. Consider him a sort of Robin Hood who takes from
>> the unworthy rich to give to his team and their clients.
>
>This actually sounds sort of like "Leverage"...

Yeah, the idea at the start is similar, but then it quickly turns into
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR or "24."

>> [snip]
>
>The later parts do sound more like "24".
>
>I don't like the bait-and-switch you seem to be describing at the end, though.

It's not what you would call a bait and switch. Just something
unexpected that sets up what should be an interesting second episode.

[anim8rfsk]

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
> I watched:
>
>

> HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES:

I thought that said HISTORIES, GREATEST, MONSTERS and wondered why the hell
they were doing a show about Jimmy Carter every week.


>
>
> What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

Bit by bit my streaming apps are all failing me. Some just don’t work, like
pee +. Others are starting to charge ala carte to watch anything. Some are
burying the programming in commercials. Two or three have lost watch list
and search functions, so they are basically unusable. And almost all of
them have lost any interest in showing you the next episode of a TV series
and instead just bounce to something random. So I decided to just let it
happen for a while and see what I end up watching.

War of the Worlds.
I’ve been letting the DVR gather these, since they’re showing in completely
random order, until I had the first couple episodes, which are the ones
with the ships from the movie. My god, this is a horrible show. Writing,
acting, directing, effects, it’s all like a bad SNL skit.

Boston Strangler.
On the Hulu, which barely has any programming of interest anymore. If it
wasn’t free, I’d cancel it.
This was just ghastly. They shot the whole thing with zero depth of field
so it’s three hours of people talking and everything in front and behind
them is out of focus. And in fact, the depth of field is so narrow if they
even turn their head, they lose focus on it. But at least they have shifted
it all to a horrid blue green overall hue for some reason. Almost nothing
happens involving the strangler, instead, it focuses on all the pig men
folk, being nasty to the two women who are the only reporters in the world
that care. By the end we find out that all the men police got it wrong, and
that Tony Curtis was innocent. Keira Knightley is just painfully thin. And
at the end they tell us that after the movie was over she dumped her
husband who was constantly supportive of her in every possible way. Because
men suck.

Submarine Seahawk.
I deliberately watched some Stargate SG ones that were being talked about
in other threads like the one with Bobby Phillips dancing. Interestingly on
Amazon they are SD and 4:3 aspect ratio. But over on Pluto, they are HD and
16:9 aspect ratio and the wide looks pretty good, like maybe they were shot
intending this. But the services bounced me around a couple times, as if
they didn’t all have every episode. Then they finally jumped me over to
Submarine Seahawk, a 1950s black and white World War II movie shot in a
bathtub with tiny models and featuring incredibly improbable action. I used
to watch stuff like this on TV when I was about six years old. Then, for no
reason I can possibly imagine it dumped me over to:

3 Days to Kill
From 2014, Kevin Costner plays a spook who marries wonder woman’s mother
and breeds Hawkeye’s daughter. He’s recruited by a very thin very brunette
Amber Heard. He’s got some hideous disease that’s going to kill him
horribly and only she has the cure. Directed by McG, who’s directing style
is basically to assemble random stuff and have somebody else stick it
together for him. The evil villain is known simply as “the albino“

Now, why do you think they call him the albino?
Think about it for a moment
Ready?
They call him the albino because he doesn’t have a single hair on his head.
Blink.
Blink, blink.

They should have called him The Alopecian

All I can figure is that the people that made the movie didn’t know what an
albino was. Not one of them.

Serbia stands in for Paris.

And then the next thing that started up was:


White House Down
I’ve seen other variations of this movie where the bad guys are trying to
take the White House and the heroic (in this case would be) Secret Service
agent must save the day. It wasn’t bad, I just can’t imagine why anybody
thought I should see it. With the alien from earth final conflict as a
human! And a redhead that Ian likes.

Then it asked me if I was still watching TV. Because I said, yes, it
started

The Darkest Minds.
Almost all the children of the world die, and the ones that don’t get super
powers and a evil government made up of adults puts them all in training
camps. I don’t know what the hell happened or why and I fell asleep and
didn’t bother to go back and watch the end of it again.

So then it started playing

News of the World
This is a very strange film, starring Tom Hanks, as an ex- pastor, either
immediately after the Civil War or five years after the Civil War (I’ve
heard it both ways), who is now eeking out a living as a newsreader, going
to towns, presumably full of people that can’t read, and reading the
newspapers to them for a dime a head. He does do some commentary and acts
out parts and makes it into a little show.
Then he picks up the classic blond child captured by Indians, who looks
disturbingly like that retard Greta, and decides to find her kinfolk. This
results in them traveling everywhere, and it turns into a Monty Python film
without the laughs, because every single place they go instantly has a
horrible and often life-threatening disaster. And it ends exactly like you
think it’s going to.

Death in Paradise
Continuing to squander my tax dollars, my PBS station has this scheduled
all over the place all week, playing the episode where Ben Miller gets
killed, and the worst cop shows up and stays.

>
> --
> Let's go Brandon!
>
>

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

[Dimensional Traveler]

On 3/28/2023 3:38 AM, shawn wrote:
>
> What did you watch?

Thank you for asking!

Not much, just...

Stargate: SG-1 *whaps Anim*

S1E13 'Hathor'
An expedition to a pyramid in Mexico uncovers a gou'ald sarcophagus in
which Hathor is in suspended animation. They make the mistake of
opening it with unhappy results for them. The sarcophagus is shipped to
Jackson at SGC and Hathor shows up soon afterwards. Using pheromones
Hathor starts mesmerizing the male members of SGC. She explains to the
entranced Jackson that she is, in effect, a gou'ald "queen bee", a
breeder of gou'ald. Then she, very pleasantly, collects some "code of
life" from Jackson and starts birthing larval human-compatible gou'ald.
As she is turning O'Neill into a Jaffa and setting him up to be
implanted with a gou'ald Captain Carter, Doctor Frasier and some of the
other women on base move against her. With the help of an unaffected
Teal'c they save O'Neill and use the sarcophagus to undo his
transformation. Hathor arrives with reinforcements too late to stop it
but the resulting firefight destroys the sarcophagus and injures Teal'c
and Fraiser. O'Neill and Carter get some tranquilizer guns and go after
Hathor again. They kill the larva she's already created but don't
realize she got away until she dials the Star Gate out and leaves for
Chulak.

What did you watch?

--

I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 3/28/2023 7:15 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 2023-03-28 10:38:15 +0000, shawn said:
>
>> I didn't get in a lot but did watch the following:
>>
>> Rabbit Hole  episode 1
>>
>> In this one we have Kiefer Sutherland running a private company that
>> specializes in helping out other high finance companies through extra
>> legal means like arranging for bad news (whether real or faked) to
>> come out about their competition. In this episode we have the team
>> involved first in giving a high net worth individual some bad stock
>> information that he then acts on leading to a huge loss for him and
>> his company which the team's client takes advantage of. Supposedly
>> this high net worth individual is also worthy of fleecing as Kiefer's
>> character (John Weir) likes to take from people who he considers
>> worthy of fleecing. Consider him a sort of Robin Hood who takes from
>> the unworthy rich to give to his team and their clients.
>
> This actually sounds sort of like "Leverage"...
>
>> [snip]
>
> The later parts do sound more like "24".
>
> I don't like the bait-and-switch you seem to be describing at the end,
> though.
>
> But this is on Pee+, so I will never see it.
>

I never watched Leverage, but I am curious about this show. I've mostly
avoided the commercials (and reviews) so I don't really know what it's
about. The main draw is Sutherland. I think Peacock is moving from
free tier to paid tier soon so I have plans to binge everything I can on
the network before I have to cancel my subscription. But there's a good
chance I won't get around to doing that...

>> What did you watch?
>
> Somewhat long workday, and I had to do grading, so just:
>
> soaps: DOOL - Fri's & Mon's ep's. In the good news department, they seem
> to be moving to wrap up the Megan Hathaway story quickly, which I am
> already sick to death of. But I'm annoyed that Kate is supposedly
> murdered (of course, I don't believe she's dead...), and people like
> Kayla just seem to be rolling with it like they don't care!! (For
> example, no one is saying - "Where did you shoot her? Where is the body?!")
>   But the bad news is that we are being treated to extraneous stories I
> don't care about, like Hope and <s>Jason Morgan</s> this Harris dude,
> and even worse Ciara (whom I no longer care about) and Ben (I already
> prefer him as Alex K.!!) having another baby! (And the John actor
> doesn't even hold a gun properly!!)
>   Can we please get back to the relevant storylines?!!
>
> Beyond that, I just left the "Ruby"/so-called "Landry Family" saga V.C.
> Andrews miniseries on LMN on in the background in the evening while I
> tried to grade. Lifetime is already advertising their next V.C. Andrews
> miniseries (for this summer?), the "Dawn Cutler" series, that stars Brec
> Bassinger (Stargirl SG-1!), and features Fran Drescher(!) and Donna
> Mills(!!).
>
> Recorded for later: Just GH.
>
>

I watched

The Blacklist - "The Dockery Affair" - I already forgot what happened
(something about investigating a murdered judge) but I know WUjing
picked up a new friend. Although I wouldn't be surprised if his
"friend" is secretly still on Red's side.


Succession (HBO) "The Munsters" - Season 4 premier. I watched the first
half on Sunday night but was half asleep. I decided on Monday to just
watch the entire episode from the start again. Even wide awake I still
couldn't follow this convoluted show!

9-1-1 - "Recovery" - Bobby, who is a firefighter, investigates the
murder of his friend. It's a shame he doesn't know anyone in law
enforcement he could have gone to for help...


Pearl (Netflix disc rental) 2022 "slasher" movie and prequel to the 2022
movie "X." Being a A24 movie I figured "X" was probably skippable, but
with all the hype for the two movies, I figured if I'm going to watch
"X" I should probably watch the prequel first. This prequel is set in
1918 and stars Mia Goth as a young woman living on a farm taking care of
her sick father, but she dreams of a life as a famous actress. The only
thing holding her back, aside from her lack of talent, is her
uncontrollable desire to murder people. I really don't know what to
make of this movie. I guess it was OK.


X (Showtime) 2022 "slasher" movie that takes place in 1979 and follows a
group of young people including Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow and Mia
Goth, who rent an old farmhouse to secretly make an adult film. But the
old folks who rent them the farm turn out to be psycho murderers.

I was actually confused when this movie started and saw a young Mia Goth
as one of the young leads. Mia Goth played the younger version of the
old psycho woman in "Pearl" but then I realized that Mia played a dual
role in this movie as both the young would be starlet and the old psycho
woman. I really don't know *why* they structured the movie like that,
the similarities in appearance is referenced, but since she played the
old woman in "X" it was easy enough to take off the old age make up and
play the younger version of the character in the prequel. Considering
the prequel came out the same year I wonder if that was perhaps always
the intent.

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:

> Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

>> HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES:
>
>I thought that said HISTORIES, GREATEST, MONSTERS and wondered why the hell
>they were doing a show about Jimmy Carter every week.

There is a LOT of material to cover,

>> What did you watch?
>
>Hey, thanks for asking!
>

>War of the Worlds.
>I've been letting the DVR gather these, since they're showing in completely
>random order, until I had the first couple episodes, which are the ones
>with the ships from the movie. My god, this is a horrible show. Writing,
>acting, directing, effects, it's all like a bad SNL skit.

Yeah, but it's fun in a cheesy way.

>3 Days to Kill
>From 2014, Kevin Costner plays a spook who marries wonder woman's mother
>and breeds Hawkeye's daughter. He's recruited by a very thin very brunette
>Amber Heard. He's got some hideous disease that's going to kill him
>horribly and only she has the cure. Directed by McG, who's directing style
>is basically to assemble random stuff and have somebody else stick it
>together for him. The evil villain is known simply as “the albino“
>
>Now, why do you think they call him the albino?
>Think about it for a moment
>Ready?
>They call him the albino because he doesn't have a single hair on his head.
>Blink.
>Blink, blink.
>
>They should have called him The Alopecian

Isn't that a skin disease I keep seeing in commercials?

[BTR1701]

On Mar 28, 2023 at 8:46:13 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> 3 Days to Kill
> From 2014, Kevin Costner plays a spook who marries wonder woman’s mother
> and breeds Hawkeye’s daughter. He’s recruited by a very thin very brunette
> Amber Heard. He’s got some hideous disease that’s going to kill him
> horribly and only she has the cure. Directed by McG, who’s directing style
> is basically to assemble random stuff and have somebody else stick it
> together for him. The evil villain is known simply as “the albino“
>
> Now, why do you think they call him the albino?
> Think about it for a moment
> Ready?
> They call him the albino because he doesn’t have a single hair on his head.
> Blink.
> Blink, blink.
>
> They should have called him The Alopecian

Or simply... The Fish.

> White House Down
> I’ve seen other variations of this movie where the bad guys are trying to
> take the White House and the heroic (in this case would be) Secret Service
> agent must save the day. It wasn’t bad, I just can’t imagine why anybody
> thought I should see it.

This was by far the stupider of the two "terrorists attack the White House"
movies that came out the same summer several years back.

I knew it was going to be dumber than shit when Channing Tatum shows up at the
White House for a job interview to be a USSS agent and the interview is
conducted by the SAIC of the Presidential Protective Division.

There's not a facepalm big enough or hard enough for that bit of nonsense.

And the cherry on that shit sundae is that Tatum brings his kid with him to
the interview. Who the F does that?

Oh, and just in case you're wondering... no, the windows on the armored limo
do not roll down. Nor does it have a sun roof, for Christ's sweet sake.

[BTR1701]

On Mar 28, 2023 at 9:42:21 AM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb"

<art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> Succession (HBO) "The Munsters" - Season 4 premier. I watched the first
> half on Sunday night but was half asleep. I decided on Monday to just
> watch the entire episode from the start again. Even wide awake I still
> couldn't follow this convoluted show!

Yes, much like BILLIONS and INDUSTRY, I have to watch this show was
closed-captions on to have any hope of keeping up with all the high-finance
jargon, and even then I don't know what they're talking about half the time
and I'm starting to suspect neither do the writers.

[shawn]

Essentially it is about the same thing as THE NIGHT AGENT, the Netflix
new show. Both are about groups trying to destabilize the nation and
apparently from groups that are actually made up of US citizens.
Though NIGHT AGENT seems to be more action oriented while RABBIT HOLE
ties more into Weir's (Kiefer's character) paranoia. At least that's
what I get from what I've seen and read.

[Ian J. Ball]

On 2023-03-28 16:42:21 +0000, Arthur Lipscomb said:

> I watched

>
> Pearl (Netflix disc rental) 2022 "slasher" movie and prequel to the
> 2022 movie "X." Being a A24 movie I figured "X" was probably
> skippable, but with all the hype for the two movies, I figured if I'm
> going to watch "X" I should probably watch the prequel first. This
> prequel is set in 1918 and stars Mia Goth as a young woman living on a
> farm taking care of her sick father, but she dreams of a life as a
> famous actress. The only thing holding her back, aside from her lack
> of talent, is her uncontrollable desire to murder people. I really
> don't know what to make of this movie. I guess it was OK.
>
>
> X (Showtime) 2022 "slasher" movie that takes place in 1979 and follows
> a group of young people including Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow and Mia
> Goth, who rent an old farmhouse to secretly make an adult film. But
> the old folks who rent them the farm turn out to be psycho murderers.
>
> I was actually confused when this movie started and saw a young Mia
> Goth as one of the young leads. Mia Goth played the younger version of
> the old psycho woman in "Pearl" but then I realized that Mia played a
> dual role in this movie as both the young would be starlet and the old
> psycho woman. I really don't know *why* they structured the movie like
> that, the similarities in appearance is referenced, but since she
> played the old woman in "X" it was easy enough to take off the old age
> make up and play the younger version of the character in the prequel.
> Considering the prequel came out the same year I wonder if that was
> perhaps always the intent.

I believe it is - I think it's apparently a planned trilogy. The third
movie is supposed to be Mia Goth's porn star character in the 1980s in
the porn industry, and I think she's willing to do *anything* to become
a star! (I'm guessing she'll follow Pearl's lead and start killing
people!)

I really wanted to like "X" better. Parts of it were interesting, and
Mia Goth is lovely nekkid. But the horror elements came off as purely
perfunctory (there was no... "spark", as it were), and I agree with you
that the underlying story of this horny old lady causing all of these
murders was kind of laughable.

I haven't seen "Pearl" yet, but if it shows up on Showtime too, I'll
certainly give it a watch.

[Ian J. Ball]

Thanks for the summaries - means I can give both of these series a
pass. I've seen far too many "evil Republicans are actually traitors
and Nazis!!1!" type TV shows ("Jericho" being one of the worst
examples), and am totally uninterested in that.

[anim8rfsk]

Not to mention a concealed carry handgun. I don’t care what kind of permit
he might have. Why the hell would you leave that in the car or the lockbox
at home?

> Oh, and just in case you're wondering... no, the windows on the armored limo
do not roll down. Nor does it have a sun roof, for Christ's sweet sake.
>

>

[Dimensional Traveler]

There is a third movie in the franchise in development if not already in
production, which would support the "always the intent" theory.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Of the two movies I'd argue "Pearl" was technically better. There was
actual character development and you could see Pearl's transition from
almost sane to total psycho. With "X" she's already a psycho with no
explanation. I know psycho's don't need a reason why, but like you
said, it lacked a spark that "Pearl" at least had.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Ubiquitous]

nanof...@notforg.m.a.i.l.com wrote:

> I didn't get in a lot but did watch the following:

You might want to watch RAT-U so you don't post duplicate threads.

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In article <tvusqe$3pd3n$1...@dont-email.me>, IJB...@mac.invalid wrote:
> On 2023-03-28 10:38:15 +0000, shawn said:

>> In this one we have Kiefer Sutherland running a private company that
>> specializes in helping out other high finance companies through extra
>> legal means like arranging for bad news (whether real or faked) to
>> come out about their competition. In this episode we have the team
>> involved first in giving a high net worth individual some bad stock
>> information that he then acts on leading to a huge loss for him and
>> his company which the team's client takes advantage of. Supposedly
>> this high net worth individual is also worthy of fleecing as Kiefer's
>> character (John Weir) likes to take from people who he considers
>> worthy of fleecing. Consider him a sort of Robin Hood who takes from
>> the unworthy rich to give to his team and their clients.
>
> This actually sounds sort of like "Leverage"...

It reminded me of ShadowRun.