The Small Screen Diaries: 03/28/26

Coming up this week, Season 2 of Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple) on Friday, Season 3 of XO Kitty (Netflix) on Thursday, and a brand new Real Housewives spinoff, this time in Rhode Island (Bravo) on Thursday. several films drop this week as well, including The Testament Of Ann Lee (Hulu) on Tuesday, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Netflix) on Tuesday, Crime 101 (Amazon) on Wednesday, and the new Pizza Movie (Hulu) on Friday. TV Shows Watched: Vladimir: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Pluribus: S1E7 (Apple) with audio description, High Potential: S2E12 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Heated Rivalry: … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/28/26

The Plastic Detox

Netflix has a new documentary, which I’m sure is a shock to you. What is a shock to me is that while I agree with the sentimentality behind the film, I just don’t think the movie actually functions well as a non fiction work. The Plastic Detox is designed to feature six couples struggling with infertility who detox from plastic, and get the negative side effects out of their system. The problem is, it isn’t just that. The other half of the film is a four alarm documentary on the various dangers and health concerns regarding plastic, how our world … Continue reading The Plastic Detox

Going In Blind: Sentimental Value

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Neon has made the choice to not create or provide an accessible English Audio description track for this film. Typically, blind and low vision moviegoers would use this to get all the visual aesthetics translated through a secondary audio track on an assistive device. I was nervous about Neon’s reliance on International titles going into awards season. it isn’t that they haven’t produced audio description for titles not in the English language. They managed to wake up on Anatomy Of a fall in time to help that get audio description for Oscar season.However, they … Continue reading Going In Blind: Sentimental Value

Going In Blind: Your Attention Please

Earlier this week, you may have noticed that a court ruled against Alphabet and Meta in regards to liability in a civil suit. What’s also interesting is timing. On the same day that verdict hit, I had just finished watching Your Attention Please, which is a documentary exploring the dangers of social media on our youth, and how these companies study scientifically how to keep us online. If we are online, our attention is monetized, in the forms of ads, or even sponsoring content creators already in your feed. This documentary does try and start at the beginning, moving through … Continue reading Going In Blind: Your Attention Please

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/27/26

TV Shows Watched: Free Bert: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Wondla: S3E4 (Apple) with audio description, Shifting Gears: S2E12 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Fall and rise Of Reggie Deakins: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, School Spirits: S3E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Greatest Average American: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, and The Lincoln Lawyer: S4E3 (Netflix) with audio description Free Bert- Recently renewed for a second season, Bert is making up with the fancy family he made fun of earlier, while encouraging his daughter to pursue a relationship with the boy he knows medically cannot perform. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/27/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/26/26

TV Shows Watched: Something Very Bad Is gonna Happen: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Paradise: S2E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Pitt: S2E9 (HBO MAX) with audio description, CIA: S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E3 (MGM Plus) with audio description, and The Masked Singer: S14E? (Disney Plus) no audio description Something Very Bad Is Gonna happen- Deeply unsettling, unnerving, and uncomfortable, this new show from the team behind Brand New Cherry Flavor, and The Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), shows us a wedding that doesn’t look like it ends well, and backs us up five days when … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/26/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/25/26

TV Shows Watched: Daredevil: Born Again: S2E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, One Piece: S2E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Down Cemetery Road: S1E8 (Apple) with audio description, Malice: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Dreaming Whilst Black: S2E3 (Paramount) with audio description Daredevil Born Again- I loved that Kingpin’s suit was labeled Iconic, acknowledging that there could very well be blind comic book nerds watching who would know exactly what you mean when you say that. The episode was solid overall, with some really excellent audio description. Even the recap was audio described. Matt is still trying to save New York … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/25/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/24/26

TV Shows Watched: American Idol:S24E9 (Disney plus) no audio description, The Forsyths: S1E1 (PBS) with audio description, Finding Her Edge: 4 (Netflix) with audio description, DTF: St Louis: S1E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Crutch: S1E5 (Paramount) with audio description, and Last Week Tonight: Monday (HBO MAX) no audio description American Idol- Man, the cuts are going to be brutal. I do wish this show had audio description, so we could know more about these singers, and the other singers already cut, but this was a tight night. I wonder how the voting is going. Keila really shut down everything … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/24/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/23/26

TV Shows Watched: The Count Of Monte Cristo: S1E1 (PBS) with audio description, The Night Agent: S3E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Hijack: S2E6 (Apple) with audio description,Love Story: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, and BatFam: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description The Count Of Monte Cristo- Obviously, this has been adapted to death, but this newest Masterpiece adaptation starring Sam Claflin seems to be getting off to an interesting start. The pacing in the pilot was interesting, giving us a glimpse into the future of Edmund through a confessional, but then showing us basically everything that leads up to him … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/23/26

Mercy (2026)

I’m begging you for Mercy, why won’t you release me? Amazon, who seems to have an increasing trend of isolationist films on their slate, with War Of The Worlds, Mercy, and Project Hail Mary all three requiring n actor to spend the overwhelming majority of the film by himself, or in the case of Project Hail Mary, at least as the only man with a face. Mercy is another dystopian thriller about a future not so far from ours, where our privacy has been given up to a world full of cameras and screens, and algorithms and artificial intelligence now … Continue reading Mercy (2026)

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/22/26

TV Shows Watched: Dynasty: The Murdocks: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Comeback: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, America’s Culinary Cup: S1E1 (Paramount) with audio description, Have I Got News For You: S4E9 (HBO MAX) no audio description, Celebrity Jeopardy: S4E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description Dynasty: the Murdocks- Succession was basically this in dramatized form, and this confirms it. Turns out the Murdoch kids were big fans of the series, three of the four of them, and this is the story of four siblings fighting for Daddy’s love, but in real life. Documentary style. VSI did the audio … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/22/26

One Mile: Chapter 1

This may surprise you, but they already filmed One Mile: Chapter 2. Despite no box office, this Ryan Phillippe franchise secured enough funding to film two films back to back from September 2024 to November 2024. After post-production, and what I can only assume was a desperate attempt to obtain some kind of domestic theatrical release, One Mile landed on PVOD platforms in February 2026. As of this, I’ve only seen the first chapter. I’m holding with bated breath waiting for the right moment to jump into the thrilling second chapter.So, what is this? A prequel to 8 Mile? Directed … Continue reading One Mile: Chapter 1

The Beast In Me: Season 1

the audio description properly disturbed me. There was a use of the word “concave” that has stuck with me. The Beast In Me is a fun, dark game of cat and mouse, where the question is whether or not the cat is a cat, or if the cat can even be trusted. When a grieving author (Claire Danes) finds herself with a new neighbor (Matthew Rhys), who is someone with a missing wife that he may or may not have killed, she finds herself unwittingly pulled into his world. he is clearly a narcissist, someone who values power and money, … Continue reading The Beast In Me: Season 1

The Small Screen Diaries: 03/21/26

Coming up this week are a ton of film premieres including Mercy (Amazon) on Sunday, Anaconda (Netflix) and Primate (Paramount) on Wednesday, and Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice (Hulu) on Friday. The jury is still out as to whether or not Bambi: The Reckoning (Peacock) will have audio description on Friday, but unless a miracle happened, Sentimental Value (Hulu) on Monday will not. In terms of series, Sunday brings the long awaited return of The Comeback (HBO) while PBS takes a swing at The Count Of MOnte Cristo. Tuesday evening willl bring us the first new episode of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 03/21/26

Do Not Enter

I suppose it isn’t a good thing when the films I feel have the closest connection to Do Not Enter are Truth Or Dare and Tarot, two of the worst horror films of the last ten years.Considering the film takes place inside a haunted hotel,The Shining would have been a better comparison, but it has the sensibilities of a skin deep teen horror. The really scary thing is, I kinda liked it. I wasn’t just miserable like I was with Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, or bored like This Is Not A Test. I was engaged by what is ultimately … Continue reading Do Not Enter