The Small Screen Diaries: 09/20/26
Normally, when I do the Small Screen Diary, I start with the actual order in which I watched the shows. Today, I actually want to throw American Hostage, Season 1, Episode 1, right up at the top. This is the new MGM+ drama, and it was actually one of the later things I watched during the day, but it also had one of the more interesting audio description tracks. I didn’t get to listen to the credits at the end, so I don’t have the full AD information yet, but some choices are definitely being made here. This is the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/20/26
Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear
I often refer to documentaries like this as content creation, because it seems like with the rise of streaming services has come the rise of, “Let’s send a camera crew to follow a celebrity that people will want to watch a documentary about, and let’s bring in some easy views.” You can tell which ones they didn’t put a lot of time and attention into, and which ones are actually a labor of love. Something like last year’s John Candy documentary comes to mind, or even this year’s Martin Short documentary, directed by his longtime friend Lawrence Kasdan. Then you … Continue reading Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear
Pressure
Literally every time I think of this movie and its title, I think of “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie, specifically that bassline right at the top, the one Vanilla Ice repurposed for “Ice Ice Baby” and then got into some legal trouble over. I hear it every single time. I don’t know why, but that is the pressure that has been put on me by the film Pressure: trying to remember the lyrics to a Queen and David Bowie song. Pressure is a nice, pleasant surprise for the year, a World War II drama that somehow manages to … Continue reading Pressure
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/19/26
Kicking off the diary this week, we start with a look at the week ahead, which is actually quite busy, far busier than many other weeks. There’s a whole slate of movies scheduled to hit streaming services. Stop That Train releases today on Netflix. Tuner, the excellent Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman film, hits Paramount+ tomorrow. Toy Story 5 lands on Disney+ on Wednesday. Backrooms hits HBO Max on Friday. In addition, there’s also a new Amazon Prime movie, The Love Hypothesis, landing on Wednesday, and on Friday Netflix is debuting Unabomber, starring Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe, and Shailene Woodley. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/19/26
Where Did The Adults Go?
I am pleasantly surprised that this little indie film, with actors no one would necessarily consider bankable, yet who are very talented, somehow managed to get an audio description track. I think the selling point here is the fact that disability is actually central to the story, which you would think would initiate the demand for accessibility across the board. Sadly, that’s not true. I would point toward Netflix and its release of Color Book this summer, a film where a disabled youth was at the center of the story, yet the film did not have an audio description track. … Continue reading Where Did The Adults Go?
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/26
Unfortunately, we have to start off the Small Screen Diary for today with a sad bit of news. Not really, because I gave up on the show after the first episode, but I’m sure someone out there cares. Netflix has canceled Sweet Magnolias, which really indicates to me, following the cancellation of Ransom Canyon, that there’s a very specific audience that has either abandoned Netflix or that Netflix is looking at abandoning. And if I was a fan of Virgin River, I would be afraid. I would be very afraid. I mean, I am casually a fan of Virgin River, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/26
Supergirl (2026)
I hate to say it, but I think Greta Gerwig would have killed this movie. It could have been great. Instead, for reasons unbeknownst to everybody, we got Craig Gillespie, who sort of lacks a singular voice as a director and is utilized a bit more to plug into various different genres. He just seems to be able to make a broad film for audiences, whether it’s comedy, action, horror, or something else. He’s touched all of the genres, and now he’s coming for Supergirl. The problem is that he’s coming for James Gunn’s Supergirl. Because make no mistake, this … Continue reading Supergirl (2026)
A Good Girls Guide To Murder: Season 2
The biggest revelation coming out of streaming might be that there’s enough data now to show that shows filmed within a tighter window and released in a reasonable amount of time perform better and retain more of their audience from season to season than shows with longer breaks. I would say, especially for shows with large ensembles, difficult plot structures, and fantastical worlds we’re somehow supposed to remember years later, that has to be true. I definitely look at certain shows coming up where I know I saw the first season, and there’s a new season coming out, and I … Continue reading A Good Girls Guide To Murder: Season 2
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/17/26
And we’re back, looking a little bit more normal than usual, I guess, with a few more shows on the list and starting to work my way back to normalcy. As far as life updates go, Best Buy is actively trying to rectify the issue. YouTube is not. And Amazon, from which I have a package I’ve been waiting for and watching them continuously push back for seven days, multiple times, has now just listed it as delayed. After making me wait all the way until their drivers stopped delivering at 10 p.m. to let me know it wasn’t coming … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/17/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/16/26
I guess after a few weird days, you’re finally getting some semblance of normalcy with today’s post, although I’m still kind of knocked out from these things and not watching quite what I used to. I haven’t seen a movie in a few days, which is unusual for me. I actually haven’t even posted a review to my YouTube channel since YouTube told me that my opinion did not matter. So, did I watch any shows to fill out a Small Screen Diary today? I think so. I did start off with Ted Lasso, Season 4, Episode 7 on Apple … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/16/26
The Best Buy Diaries- 09/15/26
Man, when it rains, it pours. When you get in the shit, the shit just falls more on top of you until eventually you find yourself swimming in it. So, I will start today on a positive note instead of going straight to the negative. The positive note is that I did watch at least a tiny fraction of television yesterday, so we can talk about that. I finished the second season of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix, which was somewhat unsatisfying because I felt like we didn’t really solve the Max storyline. I guess that’ll be … Continue reading The Best Buy Diaries- 09/15/26
The Small Scream Diary: 09/14/26
So it happened again. I just didn’t write a specific article about it, but we’ll get to that in a second. First, I do want to congratulate some Emmy winners. Not that I agree with all of them, or that I would’ve voted for all of them, but good shows won Emmys, and that’s enough for me. Except in the Limited Series category, because I really hated DTF St. Louis. I was Rotten on that show, and it doesn’t have a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score anyway, so I don’t feel too bad about my review. I just don’t get the … Continue reading The Small Scream Diary: 09/14/26
The Small Screen diaries: 09/13/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Dead city: S3E8 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E6 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, My brilliant Career: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, The Shards: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Have I Got News For you: S5E1 (HBO MAX) no audio description, jeopardy Masters: S4E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The paper: S2E1 (Peacock) with audio description Dead City- Already reviewed, but 1 of 8 episodes with audio description is not accessibility. If eight kids were dropped off at day care, and one survived, that daycare doesn’t remain open. Tomb Raider King- … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 09/13/26
Going In Blind: The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3
Seth Hoffman clearly had some thoughts. Luckily, AMC was willing to listen, because as The Walking Dead: Dead City was sort of headed nowhere, Hoffman stepped in, asked someone to hold his beer, and figured out how to alter the course of a series quickly headed for cancellation. If you look at the live ratings for Dead City compared to The Walking Dead at basically any point during its run, they’re critically lower. I know we’re not really into linear television anymore, but let’s also be honest: not that many people have AMC+. The benefit of AMC+ used to be … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3
My Brilliant Career: Season 1
I choose me. What a bold decision. Never before done by anyone in any film or television series, limited or otherwise. But those big, beautiful words, that power, and so many strong female leads, along with a few strong male leads, are becoming awfully redundant and more than a little derivative. Of course, it’s hard to call Netflix’s My Brilliant Career derivative when it’s adapted from a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. A lot of the characters who have followed Sybylla Melvyn and had their own self-awakenings may, in fact, have knocked off this novel to begin with. It’s not … Continue reading My Brilliant Career: Season 1