I watched a few things this week!
The Devil Wears Prada 2
While skimming through the services looking for a show, I came across The Devil Wears Prada 2. I have not seen The Devil Wears Prada 1, and I'm such a goof, I thought I was watching the first film. While watching, I was confused that the Andrea character was a journalist and not just some fashionista wannabe who craved working for Miranda Priestly. Because at some time in the past, images and clips from the original filtered into my consciousness.
In any case, while I enjoyed the film for the most part, I didn't love it or any of the characters except for Andrea's roommate, and Nigel. I thought the construction guy Peter seemed way too old for Andrea's character. Did not like the Emily character at all though I wanted to because I like Emily Blunt.
I'm not curious to watch The Devil Wears Prada 1 to see the origins of everyone.
The Last Ship Season One Episode One Phase Six
I don't recall this series which came out in 2014 and lasted five seasons. What was I doing in the 2000's that I missed so many shows? I worked two nights a week and every Saturday, so I suppose that's the reason.
Even so, I like post apocalyptic stories, and this is certainly that. A naval ship spends months in the arctic watching over a couple of scientists. Its radio silence, until the scientists appear to have found what they're looking for, and next thing you know out of nowhere Russian helicopters and sled teams attack the scientists and the teams guarding them. While the teams make it back to the ship, it takes the full force of the battleship's weaponry to shoot down the copters and rescue their people.
They break radio silence to report the attack and find that a plague has killed 80% of the worlds population, and there is little in the way of US or global governments. They're told to make their way to North Carolina where the head researcher can try to make a vaccine.
My problem with the show was that all of the characters were impossibly grim every moment. Nobody was likeable. I have to have someone to root for.
Voicemails for Isabelle
Jill has left her home in Texas to go to baking school in San Francisco. The instructor is brutal dealing with his students, and one of the ways Jill copes is to call her sister Isabelle with all the details of her day.
She and her sister are close, and the best of friends. Isabelle has always been ill, in and out of hospitals and lives somewhat vicariously through Jill. They leave each other hilarious voicemails as well, sharing everything.
Then Isabelle takes a sudden turn and though Jill rushes home she's gone before they can say goodbye.
When Jill goes home she listens to old voicemails from Isabelle, and begins sending voicemails herself to Isabelle's number. Unknown to her, the phone number has been given to a Texas real estate agent as his work phone. He hears Jill's voicemails, and doesn't know what to do. He knows he should let Jill know, but he's in a place where he finds her charming, and begins to fancy that she might be the girl for him.
It's a lovely story. Both characters are engaging and you want them to get together but there's no clear path for Wes to introduce himself, yet he does.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season Four Eps 1 and 2
Ep 1: Valles Marineris
Caught in a solar storm, the Enterprise is sent back 65 million years to ancient earth. While a landing party tries to find detected iridium to get the Enterprise home, the ship is taken and boarded by an alien commander and her crew to be stripped of anything that will help the aliens fight an insectoid menace which is devouring their homeworld.
While the Enterprise crew try to talk the aliens out of destroying the insectoid's planet, the decision has been made. Pike decides that since the insectoid world doesn't exist in his time or history, and that Mars has always been uninhabitable, he has to let history take its course.
Ep 2: The Griffin Incident
Star Trek goes full on horror with a "haunted house" of an abandoned ship that still has a presence aboard. The presence is that of Rose Harper, last crew member alive on the Griffin, a ship that disappeared nine years ago. She's a remnant of her humanity and it's unclear if she's a ghost or some other sort of manifestation. Everyone on the ship went mad, she says in her logs, and she had to kill them all.
Fresh from a conference, La'an, Kirk and Spock try to solve the mystery of the Griffin, but soon are affected by whatever has made the ship a place of madness. They each experience horrifying scenarios alone and together, and even when help comes from the Enterprise, those crew are rapidly affected and add to the bloodbath.
Very scary episode. Not one I'd watch a second time.
