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I watched:

Elliot Page is Achillesa The Odyssey is DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVl6SMrMlSA

Neil Gaiman's Scandal DESTROYED Good Omens And The Reviews PROVE It! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRF8OohEk0

Squirrel And Hedgehog | Making Fun Of Old Cartoons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkspbfo3AI

The REAL Reason Stephen Colbert is a Money-Losing Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDr0NXXst3c

The View Starts a FIGHT With Spencer Pratt, What Happens Next is
GOLD!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlIvrXnroU

The Worst Hotel Hell Episode Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-0Ajued2M

What did you watch?
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Verily, in article <UBI20260515@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
deliver unto us this message:

Neil Gaiman's Scandal DESTROYED Good Omens And The Reviews PROVE It! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRF8OohEk0

The show tanked during S2. It's no coincidence that this was when they
decided to make the two main characters into a gay couple.

To be clear, this is *not* another rant about degeneracy on TV. I am
speaking of this particular work. It's important to the story that an
angel and a demon *become friends*, choosing that personal connection
over what they're told. It's a choice they make. If they just have the
hots for each other, it makes no sense for immaterial beings *and*
hollows their choice. I'd say the same thing if one looked female.

What did you watch?

Nothing interesting.
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On 5/16/2026 9:26 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
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What did you watch?

Nothing interesting.

I will do a mutli-day catch up. Let's see if I can remember what I
watched. Over the last few days I watched:


Silver Linings Playbook (DVR) 2012 movie directed by David O. Russell
and starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. Cooper plays a man freshly out of a mental hospital who moves
back home with his parents. His father played by Robert DeNiro is a superstitious gambling addict. Lawrence plays a neighbor who has her
eyes on Cooper, but Cooper is obsessed with his ex-wife who has a
restraining order against him. It's an OK movie.


American Hustle (4K disc) 2013 movie directed by David O. Russell and
starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. Cooper plays an FBI agent in the late 70s who coerces a pair
of con artists played by Christian Bale and Amy Adams into entrapping a politician played by Jeremy Renner. Lawrence plays Bale's wife, and she
is way more trouble than she's worth.


The Boys (Amazon streaming) "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man
Called Mother's Milk" - Penultimate episode. Can't say much about this without getting into spoiler territory. I am curious to see how they
wrap things up in the finale.


Law & Order - "Liberty" - Season finale.
Law & Order: SVU - "Monster" - Season finale.


The Punisher: One Last Kill (Disney+) One shot episode of the Punisher
written by the Punisher himself. The plot has the grieving widow/mother
of several of Punisher's victims hiring an army of killers to take him
out. This forces the Punisher to punish everyone for trying to kill
him. There is a scene in the third Austin Powers movie where Austin
Powers' dad berates a henchman for daring to even consider attacking him
and tells the henchman to just fall down on his own. I immediately
thought of that scene while watching The Punisher, when some random
henchman decided to attack the Punisher. As a matter of fact, this guy
didn't even rate henchman. He was random thug #4. Didn't random thug
#4 just see the Punisher get thrown off a building, and as he was
falling make two head shots of the guys who threw him before landing unscathed? Didn't random thug #4 see the Punisher grab some other thug
and use him as a human shield? And now random thug #4 thinks he's got a
shot at the Punisher?!? Needless to say, the Punisher killed random
thug #4 with extreme punishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OR2lKvPoZE


Obsession (theatrical) New horror movie written and directed by Curry
Barker. The film follows a young man who buys a novelty toy that grants
the buyer one wish. As it turns out it works, but with a monkey's paw
effect. The young man wishes that a woman he likes would love him more
than anyone else. She then becomes obsessed with him in ways that I
can't say due to spoilers. I have been seeing this movie get rave
reviews online, but I'm still unsure what to make of it. I can't shake
the feeling it was heavily edited to remove a character or subplot.
That in and of itself doesn't make a movie bad, but it just felt like
certain things were glossed over or clearly missing. For example, the
movie established early on that multiple people had purchased the
novelty toy and made a wish that went bad. But nothing ever came of
that. I can easily see there being a character who also made a wish who
the protagonist joined forces with, and then for whatever reason that character was cut from the movie. And speaking of the protagonist,
maybe it was just me, but I did not like the protagonist. At all. And
that can really bring a movie down if you don't like the main character.
Because if you don't like the main character, you don't really care
about all the bad things that the newly obsessive girlfriend is doing to
him, especially when it was his fault in the first place.
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Silver Linings Playbook (DVR) 2012 movie directed by David O. Russell
and starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer >Lawrence. Cooper plays a man freshly out of a mental hospital who moves >back home with his parents. His father played by Robert DeNiro is a >superstitious gambling addict. Lawrence plays a neighbor who has her
eyes on Cooper, but Cooper is obsessed with his ex-wife who has a >restraining order against him. It's an OK movie.

The two leads were supposed to be fairly ordinary looking. If I recall correctly, Jennifer Lawrence's character is supposed to be decades older
and overweight. Cooper should have looked like, well, the way he looked
at the beginning of Limitless the year before. I saw this once in
theater and then again on tv within the last two years or so.

American Hustle (4K disc) 2013 movie directed by David O. Russell and >starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. Cooper plays an FBI agent in the late 70s who coerces a pair
of con artists played by Christian Bale and Amy Adams into entrapping a >politician played by Jeremy Renner. Lawrence plays Bale's wife, and she
is way more trouble than she's worth.

Saw this in theater. It's supposed to be ABSCAM. I would have preferred straight drama. The comedy was farscical and felt forced.

Law & Order - "Liberty" - Season finale.

Wow. Even for tv, the political machinations were absurd. Baxter,
inexplicably, is up for re-election, and he's vulnerable to an evil
political rival who somehow has White House ties. Behind the scenes,
BECAUSE PLOT, the career of a Nathan Jessup-like admiral is being
protected and he's up for promotion. Why? It is not stated. The
political types know he is corrupt, and inconveniently, committed murder
to cover up corruption.

They still want him promoted. How does this not hurt the president of
the Un8ted States?

The murder victim is a vice admiral. How the hell is this even being investigated by Riley, Walker, and Brady? The FBI are already
investigating the corruption and the murder should be investigated under federal law, if not under the UCMJ since the corruption is official
duty.

To keep this guy's promotion viable (Huh? After a murder trial?), the
unseen evil actors corrupt the trial court judge to make bad legal
decisions by promising a seat on an appellate court.

Get this: Baxter confronts the chief judge about how the corrupt judge
ended up assigned to the case. He asked for it! What, in Manhattan,
court officers aren't randomly assigned to prevent corruption?

Price ends up making a corrupt deal with the defense, allowing a plea
down to lesser, inapplicable, charges. When Baxter confronts him, Price
says he's saving Baxter's career. What dirty deed does Price have to do
to be fired by Baxter?
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On 5/16/2026 11:27 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Silver Linings Playbook (DVR) 2012 movie directed by David O. Russell
and starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. Cooper plays a man freshly out of a mental hospital who moves
back home with his parents. His father played by Robert DeNiro is a
superstitious gambling addict. Lawrence plays a neighbor who has her
eyes on Cooper, but Cooper is obsessed with his ex-wife who has a
restraining order against him. It's an OK movie.

The two leads were supposed to be fairly ordinary looking. If I recall correctly, Jennifer Lawrence's character is supposed to be decades older
and overweight. Cooper should have looked like, well, the way he looked
at the beginning of Limitless the year before. I saw this once in
theater and then again on tv within the last two years or so.

They sort of did that if you consider Hollywood starlet who just stepped
out of the pages of a fashion magazine the same as decades older and overweight. And you know maybe Cooper looked like a Hollywood actor who forget to shower and shave that morning. Close enough.

American Hustle (4K disc) 2013 movie directed by David O. Russell and
starring an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer
Lawrence. Cooper plays an FBI agent in the late 70s who coerces a pair
of con artists played by Christian Bale and Amy Adams into entrapping a
politician played by Jeremy Renner. Lawrence plays Bale's wife, and she
is way more trouble than she's worth.

Saw this in theater. It's supposed to be ABSCAM. I would have preferred straight drama. The comedy was farscical and felt forced.

I still associate this movie with "science oven." That was literally
the only thing I remembered about this movie going into it.

Law & Order - "Liberty" - Season finale.

Wow. Even for tv, the political machinations were absurd. Baxter, inexplicably, is up for re-election, and he's vulnerable to an evil
political rival who somehow has White House ties. Behind the scenes,
BECAUSE PLOT, the career of a Nathan Jessup-like admiral is being
protected and he's up for promotion. Why? It is not stated. The
political types know he is corrupt, and inconveniently, committed murder
to cover up corruption.

They still want him promoted. How does this not hurt the president of
the Un8ted States?

I think it depends on how much the President cares.

The murder victim is a vice admiral. How the hell is this even being investigated by Riley, Walker, and Brady? The FBI are already
investigating the corruption and the murder should be investigated under federal law, if not under the UCMJ since the corruption is official
duty.

I kept wondering about that. I know the crime took place in New York
City, but if one officer is accused of killing another officer, from the
same ship that's docked in that city, maybe the military might want to investigate it. And avoid things like the ship's captain refusing to
let local law enforcement on the boat.

To keep this guy's promotion viable (Huh? After a murder trial?), the
unseen evil actors corrupt the trial court judge to make bad legal
decisions by promising a seat on an appellate court.

Get this: Baxter confronts the chief judge about how the corrupt judge
ended up assigned to the case. He asked for it! What, in Manhattan,
court officers aren't randomly assigned to prevent corruption?

But, but, he said he knew about the navy.

Price ends up making a corrupt deal with the defense, allowing a plea
down to lesser, inapplicable, charges. When Baxter confronts him, Price
says he's saving Baxter's career. What dirty deed does Price have to do
to be fired by Baxter?

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