Margo’s Got Money Troubles: Season 1
Apple TV has quite a few shows on its roster that somehow always seem to fly under the radar. Even during awards season, when they have critical praise and plenty of support, they never seem to get quite the attention they deserve. The math just never adds up. A show like Stick, which certainly had its fair share of awards potential, walked away empty-handed this year, along with series like Smoke, Criminal Record, Down Cemetery Road, For All Mankind, and the recently returned Trying, which has always eluded Emmy voters. Yet Margo’s Got Money Troubles, with the pedigree of David … Continue reading Margo’s Got Money Troubles: Season 1
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/25/26
Coming up this week, a few movies to note, The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Disney Plus) on Wednesday, The Drama (HBO MAX) on Friday, and the new The Devil’s Mouth (Amazon) on Wednesday with Katherine Newton and Lana Condor. Returning shows include The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC Plus) today, Batman: The Caped Crusader (Amazon) on Friday, and a few new ones including The Bombing Of Pam Am 103 (Netflix) and Furious (Hulu) with Emmy Rossum and Lola Pettigrew (it sounds a little like Killing Eve to me). TV Shows Watched: I Will Find You: Full Series (Netflix) with audio … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/25/26
I Will Find You: Series Review
I’m not a Harlan Coben fan. I think he’s highly overrated, or at least his television adaptations are. I’ve enjoyed very few of them. Previously, I would have said Shelter was the best adaptation of one of his books. However, this Sam Worthington-led limited series, running eight episodes, features a stacked cast, delivers a fairly thrilling ride, and even though I saw certain twists coming, it’s far better than I expected it to be. Sometimes Coben’s stories reach a little too far. They swing too wide, becoming increasingly nonsensical as they go. The adaptations I’ve liked the most are the … Continue reading I Will Find You: Series Review
Mortal Kombat 2
Instantly comparing sequel to sequel, Mortal Kombat 2 scores a flawless victory over Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the original sequel to the 1995 film that launched this franchise onto the big screen. That movie is atrocious. I probably should review it at some point, but that would require me to actually sit down and watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation again, which feels a bit like asking someone to intentionally contract food poisoning or drive their car into a lake. We all know those are terrible ideas, and no reasonable person should be expected to volunteer for them. Mortal Kombat 2 is also … Continue reading Mortal Kombat 2
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/24/26
TV Shows Watched:Silo: S3E4 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails To Save The Universe: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Detective Hole: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Off Campus: S1E7 (Amazon) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E16 (Disney Plus) with audio description, and Abbott Elementary: S5E22 (Disney Plus) with audio description Silo- So everyone will talk about that last scene. Get this episode in before your friends spoil it for you. The AD here was fine, like it has been thus far. I have no problems with Silo, and I love the series. I won’t go into the episode, since … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/24/26
They Fight
My first encounter with They Fight came during the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. I had the opportunity to screen the film in advance, but it would have meant watching it without audio description. At the time, I already knew it was headed to Hulu in the near future, and the option to wait for the accessibility I need was more important to me than getting an early review. With all due respect to the wonderful cast and crew, it’s hard out here for a blind film critic. As I’m writing this review, I’m currently being ignored by another studio because … Continue reading They Fight
Man On Fire: Season 1
Perhaps I should give the Tony Scott-directed Denzel Washington film Man on Fire another look, because after watching Netflix’s adaptation starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, a recent Emmy nominee for Wonder Man, I’m reconsidering the entire concept. It’s possible there was something I missed more than 20 years ago when I watched the original film, which at the time didn’t resonate with me. I wasn’t much of a fan despite strong performances from both Denzel Washington and a very young Dakota Fanning. The Netflix series changes a number of things, mostly so that if they decide to continue Man on Fire … Continue reading Man On Fire: Season 1
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/23/26
Apple announced that the upcoming fifth season of The Morning Show, slated to land in 2027, will be its last. TV Shows Watched: Big Mistakes: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Deli Boys: S2E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E16 (Paramount) with audio description, Star City: S1E7 (Apple) with audio description, The Comeback: S1E13 (HBo MAX) with audio description, and Who Wants To Be A millionaire: S5E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description Big Mistakes- 1 episode away from finishing the season. Thank God this is human. I at least started my day with wonderful, human written, human narrated audio … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/23/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/22/26
TV Shows Watched: X-Men 97: S2E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Legends- S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Widows Bay: S1E8 (Apple) with audio description, Scarpetta: S1E7 (Amazon) with audio description, St Dennis medical: S2E11 (Peacock) with audio description, Stranger Things: Tales From 88- S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, and The Daily Show (Paramount) no audio description X-Men 97- So, this episode is nuts. But,at least the AD is complete, and also Disney fixed the AD on the previous episode. I think it’s synthetic, but I can’t prove it, so much like the female narrator I refer to as She-Ra. X-Men … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/22/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/21/26
TV Shows Watched: Man On Fire: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Your Friends And Neighbors: S2E8 (Apple) with audio description, Tales Of The TMNT: S2E9 (Paramount) with audio description, The Bear: S5E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Daemons Of The Shadow Realm: S1E7 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, The Audacity: S1E5 (AMC Plus) no audio description, and The Rookie: S8E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description Man On Fire- Finished. Fully intend to review. Excellent work by IDC, Steven Christopher, and Sri Gordon. Your Friends And Neighbors- I give Amanda Peet a lot of shit sometimes, but she’s very good in this … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/21/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 07/20/26
TV Shows Watched: House Of The Dragon: S3E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Unconditional: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, Million Dollar Secret: S2 Top 6 (Netflix) with audio description, The Miniature Wife: S1E7 (Peacock) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E11 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Life Larry And THe Pursuit Of Unhappiness: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Elzabeth: S3E17 (Paramount) with audio description House Of the Dragon- I’ll throw my sword down right now. Best AD to a show I’m currently watching. There’s just so much going on here, so much detail, now we have cats to track. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/20/26
Mortal Kombat (2021)
The year is 2026, and Mortal Kombat 2 is finally upon us. As such, it led me to revisit Mortal Kombat, the 2021 reboot of the classic video game franchise. I wasn’t just revisiting it out of some completionist need either, because I definitely had seen the film before. I know I had. The pandemic years were kind of a blur, but I remembered enough to know I’d watched it, while somehow remembering almost nothing about what actually happened. That’s never a great sign for a movie, and it’s exactly why I wanted to give it another shot before diving … Continue reading Mortal Kombat (2021)
Vladimir: Season 1
Vladimir is one of those shows where there’s something quirky and ambitious going on, and I’m not entirely sure it all works. For me at least, I actually think this limited series would have worked even better if it had been even more limited. Stay with me here, because I promise I’ll explain. The plot revolves around the Professor, played by Rachel Weisz, who is clearly sexually unfulfilled, even if she’d very much like not to be. When a younger professor named Vladimir, played by Leo Woodall, joins the faculty at her liberal arts college, she quickly becomes consumed by … Continue reading Vladimir: Season 1
Going In Blind: Middle Life
Since this movie is called Middle Life, of which I would currently identify, I felt triggered by the simple existence of the movie. Being in the middle part of my life, being asked to review Middle Life is like living through some weird curse. I get it. I have not yet achieved all that I should have, and likely never will. The insignificance of humanity. The idea that we will go on to do far greater things than we ever actually do. For the main characters in Middle Life, Andy and Ryan, they just have to get through a movie … Continue reading Going In Blind: Middle Life
The Small Screen Diaries:07/19/26
The Odyssey took up so much of my day, so this list is a bit light for the second day in a row. Mea culpa. TV Shows Watched: The Westies: S1E3 (MGM Plus) with audio description,The Hawk: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Top Chef: Top 4 (Peacock) with audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E12 (Netflix) with audio description, and Breaking Bad: S4E5 (Netflix) with audio description The Westies- With one of their own on the line, the Irish have to figure out how to level the playing field, so Sweeney gains favor … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries:07/19/26