The Small Screen Diaries: 09/27/26
First, before I start my Small Screen Diary for the day, I figured I would address the fact that you may start seeing a few other writers around here. I wanted to give other aspiring blind film critics the opportunity to write about film, television, or audio description, and since I have a platform, why not? This isn’t monetized. They’re not being paid. I’m not being paid. The struggle is real for all of us. But I do have a platform, and if I can use it to give some other blind writers an opportunity to get their voices out … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/27/26
Stuart Fails To Save The universe: Season 1
I’m not really sure that I can consider myself officially a Big Bang Theory fanatic, or even truly a fan, since I have not sat through every single episode of The Big Bang Theory, which I think would be necessary in order to qualify me as a true fan. I have seen quite a bit of The Big Bang Theory, but doing a straight-through binge watch is something I have not accomplished. So I was certainly aware of Stuart Bloom and the comic book store that the guys frequented, but never in a million years would I have imagined that … Continue reading Stuart Fails To Save The universe: Season 1
The Love Hypothesis
I’m just gonna straight-up say it: The Love Hypothesis is joyful nonsense. That may be my pull quote. Just rip that Band-Aid off right now. The thing about The Love Hypothesis is that it proves Lili Reinhart is ready to be a rom-com star. She is effortless. She hits every single beat and mark, even when the film around her doesn’t make sense. That is the true evidence of a rom-com queen: someone who can take what is essentially a mediocre or even below-mediocre concept, a script that frequently becomes nonsensical, and even a co-star who might be miscast or … Continue reading The Love Hypothesis
unabomber
September seems to be the season when Netflix clears out most of what it doesn’t really intend on having as its high-profile Oscar contenders. Even one of its better offerings that kicked off awards season a few years ago, Fair Play, still ended up not making much of an impact in the awards race despite being generally well liked. Well, we won’t have that problem with Unabomber, because I can’t imagine critics piling onto this movie. It’s deeply unsatisfying, aimless, and rather pointless. It’s a film that isn’t sure what its structure should be, how much of either story it … Continue reading unabomber
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/26
Since it’s Sunday morning, let’s start by looking at a couple of shows coming up this week that you may be interested in. From what I can tell, one of the biggest premieres is War, the new HBO Max legal drama starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller, which has a lot of buzz around it and drops on Thursday. That’s the same day as East of Eden, Zoe Kazan’s new adaptation starring Florence Pugh, which premieres on Netflix. We also have some returning favorites this week, including Scrubs on ABC, plus the Animation Domination block with The Simpsons, Grimsburg and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/26
Well, to start off my Friday, of course I watched the season finale of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max with audio description narrated by Elliot Schiff. The finale, “Spoiler: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience,” of course has people divided, but the one thing we shall not be divided on is the excellent audio description that Elliot has provided all season long. I actually liked this show way more than I thought I would when they conceptually announced that there would be yet another Big Bang Theory spinoff. I figured it would continue to deplete the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/26
Going In Blind: The Incomer
Sumerian Pictures popped up on my radar earlier this year when they snapped up Sundance darling Josephine, surprising a lot of people who did not know what Sumerian was and weren’t entirely sure what that meant for the future of Josephine in terms of its awards possibilities. Despite the critical acclaim and its success at Sundance, will it actually go on to land any Oscar nominations this year? That’s still a question that has to be answered. But Sumerian picked up more than just Josephine. They also picked up The Incomer, the new Scottish comedy written and directed by Louis … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Incomer
Going In Blind: The Deputy
There are a lot of small towns out there. A lot of murders. That’s what I’ve learned from my years on this planet watching television shows and movies. Murder is not just limited to New York, although the Law & Order franchise would certainly suggest that crime happens there on a pretty consistent basis. No, sometimes murder breaks out in a small town where there’s a sheriff and a deputy, and not necessarily a whole squad of police officers or different departments scattered across the city. Sometimes there are just a couple of guys responsible for keeping everybody safe from … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Deputy
Going In Blind: Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story
I didn’t even know we had made a Dane Cook documentary, and it gave me a Tourgasm. Boy, I wanted it to. Ultimately, though, despite my adoration of Dane Cook, and despite the fact that he seems to have fallen completely and totally out of fashion, I struggled with Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story. The documentary is interesting if you know nothing about the situation involving Dane and his half-brother, Darryl McCauley, who stole millions of dollars from him while managing his finances. Dane and Darryl apparently had a strong familial connection despite technically being half-brothers, which obviously makes … Continue reading Going In Blind: Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/24/26
I think the biggest, and really only relevant, TV news to kick this off today is the fact that Netflix has once again proven the term “limited series” means absolutely nothing. They have picked up The Beast in Me for a second season. Originally billed as a limited series, the show is coming back with Claire Danes set to return as Aggie Wiggs following her Emmy-nominated work in the first season. We’ll see if this turns out to be a good decision for Netflix or not. In other TV news, only because I don’t think I’ve mentioned it yet, Disney+ … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/24/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/23/26
I am definitely going to hit a point where I’m watching too many damn television shows at the same time again, because there is an onslaught of television coming our way thanks to the fall season. And, of course, the streaming services that continue to increase their prices are bringing us more and more entertainment at the same time everyone else is. They have to, because in case you missed the news yesterday, Disney+ is raising its prices, and I just got a notification from Apple that they’re also raising their price. Cool, cool. Thanks, bro. Really appreciate the mad … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/23/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/22/26
Kicking off today, I continued with Furious, season one, episode two, which is available on Hulu and through Disney+ with Hulu, with audio description. This definitely is a winner. I can understand a bit more now as to why it has become a breakout hit. Lola Petticrew is still captivating here as this killer with a sympathetic angle, allowing you to follow her as a protagonist instead of purely as an antagonist. Sort of like the mysterious person in The Shards, it would be hard to justify everything that she does, but the way Furious shapes Petticrew’s mysterious character allows … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/22/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/21/26
I feel like I consistently come in here with bad news all the time, and apparently we’re opening with bad news again. Ride or Die, the Prime Video series starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham, has been inexplicably canceled after one season. This is particularly surprising considering it outperformed other Prime Video shows that have already been renewed. I’ve seen the trades breaking down the viewership data that is available and lining it up against shows like Off Campus, Elle, and some of the other younger-skewing series Amazon has picked up, and Ride or Die was ahead of several of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/21/26
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
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/12/26
A lot coming up this week for fans of returning shows. Not only do we kick off the week on Monday with The Emmys, but Dancing With The Stars (ABC), RJ Decker (ABC), The Voice (NBC), Masterchef (FOX), Kitchen Nightmares (FOX), Slow horses (Apple), South Park (Comedy), Mobland (Paramount plus), and Outlander Blood Of My Blood (Starz) all return, the latter of them may not have audio description. Netflix is also smashing the Lizzie Borden story with Eileen Wurnos for reasons unbeknownst to anyone but Ryan Murphy in Monster. Perhaps because there’s already a well known film titled Monster that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/12/26
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Sometimes being able to Monday morning quarterback a film is a little bit more interesting, because you get to see the car accident of film critics clashing over the initial release, fighting to get their opinions out there and determining whether or not they have the most valid opinion in the marketplace. Well, hold my beer, because the blind film critic has entered the chat. I did not see The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen. Of course, I really don’t see anything on the big screen, thus the blind film critic part. Instead, I watched this with audio … Continue reading The Mandalorian and Grogu
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/26
TV Shows Watched: Stuart Fails: S1E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Trying: S5E1 (Apple) with audio description, Black Clover: S1E4 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Rise Of The teenage Mutant Ninja turtles: S2E12 (Paramount) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description, and Jeopardy Masters: S4E2 (Disney plus) with audio description Stuart Fails- Loved the opening credits about the dog. Another brilliant episode with terrific audio description. The show also has massive recaps at the beginning, so if you somehow missed an episode on streaming, and are too lazy to click back to it, you catch up really … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/26
Lucky: Series Review
I definitely saw quite a bit of buildup for Apple TV’s new limited series Lucky, which hit the streamer in July and ratcheted up the tension over seven episodes. Perhaps the premise was pulling people in, feeling like a crime thriller with a little bit of a survival vibe thrown in for good measure, or it could be the fact that Anya Taylor-Joy just feels very much of the moment right now. I wish she was a little bit more of the moment, because it’s possible more people would have seen Furiosa if that were true. But she is popular … Continue reading Lucky: Series Review
Tyler Perry’s Why did I Get Married Again
The benefit of having aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes is that you can find critics who come from all various walks of life, with different perspectives, approaching each film from a different angle, with a different background and a different subset of films that we’ve seen throughout our lifetimes. Different upbringings, different life struggles, so on and so forth. And in this regard, you have stumbled onto a review of a Tyler Perry movie. But not just any Tyler Perry movie. The third film in the Why Did I Get Married? franchise. And you get to read this from the perspective … Continue reading Tyler Perry’s Why did I Get Married Again
Going In Blind: The Weight
Jumping back into the review fray with Vertical’s acquisition out of Sundance, The Weight. This Ethan Hawke historical drama premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it was eventually acquired by Vertical for distribution, landing on a September release date. This didn’t used to be a strong month for releases, but every once in a while somebody throws a strong blockbuster into September, confusing people and making them think it’s suddenly a valid month for consumers. Really, what usually happens is they have a title so big it doesn’t matter where it opens because it’s going to draw people … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Weight
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/10/26
Never Forget. Yesterday, Netflix surprisingly axed Ransom canyon, which dipped over 40% from Season 1 to season 2. It is a recurring problem with streaming TV. The longer the wait, the bigger the drop. Despite feeling like it fit perfectly along Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias, with a dash of the Taylor Sheridan vibe, Ransom canyon couldn’t buy its audience back. Also, in blind news, sighted gamers are complaining about the existence of accessibility within the new Wolverine game, and Neon’s Hope topped Spider-Man: Brand New Day in its first day of release, despite not having an English Audio Description … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/10/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/09/26
For the Small Screen Diaries today, I definitely made more of an effort to dig myself out of the hole I’m in while I wait patiently for my YouTube appeal to go through. Fingers crossed on that. I started my day with Ted Lasso because we all need that level of optimism in our lives. I watched season four, episode six, “Don’t Jump Around Much Anymore,” which airs on Apple TV with audio description from Pixel Logic. I thought the episode was fine. It’s set on New Year’s Eve, with Ted reconsidering his own love life while talking to his … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/09/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/08/26
I’m still trapped in my own personal hell, so welcome back to Reinventing the Small Screen Diaries for the time being. I tried to watch some things today, and while my attention span wasn’t always willing to cooperate, I did manage to bounce among four very different shows. First up was the new Netflix series My Brilliant Career, which follows Sybylla Melvyn, a young Australian woman who wants to become a writer and has absolutely no interest in getting married. She doesn’t necessarily want to leave her family behind either, but they’re poor, have too many children to support, and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/08/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/07/26
For my Small Screen Diaries today, I figured I would actually try to mention something about the shows I watched, even though I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do this. But I should at least honor the few titles I managed to check out before Doomsday happened. Let’s start by giving a shout-out to Lanterns, Season 1, Episode 4, which is available on HBO Max with audio description produced by International Digital Center, written by Dakota Green, and narrated by Ren Leach. I was, of course, excited to see this episode when I woke up, like anyone who didn’t … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/07/26
Well…
I have so many amazing memories of film, and not just of watching movies. I’ve spent my life working in and around them, seeing them on big screens and little ones, working in movie theaters, studying film in college and writing about movies online. I always hoped I would eventually gain some kind of clout as a film critic, and, to be fair, I have. I’m Rotten Tomatoes certified, and I’ve been welcomed into several critics’ organizations. I can’t say that my entire existence as a blind film critic has been a complete and total wash. Still, there is something … Continue reading Well…
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/06/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking Dead: Dead City: S3E7 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Black Torch: S1E2 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Elle: S1E8 (Amazon) with audio description,Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S4E7 (Netflix) with audio description, The Doomies: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description Dead City- No audio description again. Only one episode this season dropped with it. Baffling. Also, this episode revealed the writers are still unable to write eight episode seasons. You did not earn this episode. Black Torch- Fairly easy to understand fantasy series about an aspiring ninja with the ability to talk to animals merging with an … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/06/26
The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Series Review
This is not the first adaptation of the Lockerbie bombing, but it might be the best. That’s a hard thing to say when I haven’t seen every other version of the story, but I don’t know how another dramatization could necessarily surpass this one. We have a tendency to sensationalize true stories, oftentimes almost embarrassingly so, completely rewriting history to fit a decidedly more audience-friendly narrative. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 does simplify things and admittedly features composite characters who are amalgamations of multiple people who worked across more than a decade to bring justice to the victims, but … Continue reading The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Series Review
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/26
Coming up this week for you to add to watch lists: Season 2 of The Paper (Peacock) returns Wednesday, the final season of Colin From Accounts (Paramount Plus) returns Thursday, and The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives (Hulu) has a truncated fifth season. new shows A Tale of Two cities (MGM Plus), Dang! (Netflix), Crew Girl (Netflix) and Last Seen (Apple) hope to draw in new viewers, while Peacock airs a retrospective for The office fans on Monday, and HBO celebrates Band Of Brothers on Wednesday. Several 9/11 specials are planned for Friday, and in film Supergirl lands on HBo … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/26
Silo: Season 3
Silo Season 1 became a new obsession of mine the minute it dropped. I knew this was something I would want to consume as much of as humanly possible. After the second season aired, Apple announced that Silo had received a two-season renewal but would finish with its fourth season. It was a happy-sad moment because I knew I had two more seasons coming, but it also meant the series already had an end goal in sight. Once that seed has been planted, people become expendable. Instead of simply building the world around these characters, the show is now working … Continue reading Silo: Season 3
The Whisper Man
Do you know the Whisper Man? He’s nothing like the Muffin Man, so if you do know the Whisper Man, you might want to stay away. Maybe not from this film, though. The Whisper Man has sort of its own identity in that it’s not as terrible as a slew of other Netflix original titles, but it’s also not going to launch into the upper echelon of the few, the proud, the Netflix originals that make the subscription worthwhile. It’s basically a one-time-watch type of film, especially given how much it hinges upon a twist ending. Directed by James Ashcroft, … Continue reading The Whisper Man
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/04/26
TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E10 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E7 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E18 (Disney Plus) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E17 (Peacock) with audio description, Berlin: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description Silo- Plan to review the whole thing, but this episode does a lot, in both timelines, and answers the question about the air outside, Silo 1, and how we buried the lead on cryo. Pixel Logic did another solid track. Stuart Fails- But this show is excellent as well, and with all the timeline hopping in this one, and the variations … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/04/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
TV Shows Watched: The Shrouds: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E4 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Lucky: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, Rick And Morty: S9E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Oasis: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description The Shrouds- I actually started the day thinking I’d knock this series out either in full, or in part, but it is a miserable watch, so i couldn’t do it.The Troller is just such a disgusting distraction from an 80’s piece that could actuall have something to say about sexual fluidity from the eyes of Bret Easton Ellis. Instead, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
TV Shows Watched: Ted Lasso: S4E5 (Apple) with audio description, Elle: S1E7 (Amazon) with audio description, Black Clover: S1E3 (CrnuchyRoll) with audio description, and The Comeback: S2E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description Ted Lasso- i feel like they are trying really hard to justify Roy’s presence in the show. Other than that, it is nice to have Ted and his mostly cheery and friendly disposition back. This is still a very well written show, even if it isn’t flying as high as the first three seasons. I also like the AD here, which I can’t say about every show on … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/01/26
TV shows Watched: Lucky:S1 E1-5 (Apple) with audio description, and The Doomies: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description Lucky- My newest attempt to knock out a show while busy brought me pretty damn close, since there are only 7 episodes of Lucky. But this series is a blast from start to finish if you haven’t started. A huge cast, led by Anya Taylor Joy, but also featuring Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey, William Fichtner, Aunjuane Ellis-Taylor, and Clifton Collins Jr. Not bad at all. Pixel Logic has done some nice work on the audio description for a somewhat frenetic … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/01/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/26
TV Shows Watched: Lanterns: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Black Torch: S1E1 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, elle: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, American Classic: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description I almost finished a fifth show, but alas, I did not. Lanterns- A fantastic flashback origin story for John Stewart, and how his family worked hard to ensure he’d be the next Green Lantern. IDC, Dakota Green, and ren Leach continue to produce good work. I liked how the guardian was described, and little details about the passage of time during John’s sniper mission. Black Torch- A fairly easy … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/30/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Dead City: S3E6 (AMC Plus) with audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E10 (Apple) with audio description, Sheriff Country: Season finale (Paramount) with audio description, The Legend of Vox Machina: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Five Star Weekend: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S4E9 (Netflix) with audio description, Hacks: S5E9 (HBO MAX) with audio description Dead City- AMC Plus failed to get the AD up for this alternate reality version of The Walking Alive, where the zombie apocalypse never happened, and Negan and Maggie still have a fateful meeting. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed- … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/30/26