Yesterday, i did attend another panel at the American Council Of The Blind’s virtual conference, this one on TTS audio description. I still squeezed in a lot of shows, because it was shorter, and most of these are half hour shows.

Also, in TV News! Melissa McBride has reportedly rejoined the Daryl/Carol spinoff, instead of taking a break. or maybe she just didn’t need a long break. NBC also announced that the second half of Magnum PI’s 5th season (which they rescued), will be its last. Then, Paramount Plus said HOLD MY BEERR! They promptly cancelled 4 shows, and immediately removed them from the service. This included Grease: Rise Of The Pink ladies (no one cared anyway), The Game (how many times can this show be revived and cancelled?), Star Trek prodigy (A co-production with Nickelodeon that had previously gottten more episodes ordered), and Queen Of The Universe ( during Pride month of all things. Girl, bye.) To fans of those 4 shows, it’s bad enough to know your show has been cancelled, and it makes it worse when the streamer gaslights you into believing it never existed by pulling it.

12) Futurama (Hulu)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Revived

Not that any show was bad, but all i remembered from this episode was a good joke about Bender going to Bending School, which i thought was a solid joke, given his name.

Episode Grade: B

11) Blindspotting (Starz)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: not yet Renewed

Best part of the episode was Dante Basco doing the opening “last time on…”, which made me hopeful that he was going to take over this series Rufio style. instead, this was a little hard to follow due to lack of audio description, but I’m fairly certain Helen hunt asked her son, who is in jail, to help her with her taxes.

Episode Grade: B

10) All In The Family (FreeVee)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Archie and Edith attend their class reunion. Archie is thrown when he sees a black guy there. He doesn’t remember any black guys from his class. Big surprise.

Episode Grade: B

9) Dinosaurs (Disney Plus)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

earl buys the last of something as an anniversary present for his wife, but is thrown into chaos when his boss finds out and threatens to eat him if he doesn’t give him his wife’s rare gift. Things that other sitcom’s didn’t get to cover: being worried about being eaten by your boss.

Episode Grade: B

8) Mulligan (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Not Yet renewed

The President throws a party, but he’s bad at parties, so he bombs England to start a war to distract from… oh look. Tina fey’s character has a musical number with an alien. Alien/human love.

Episode Grade: B

7) Friends (MAX)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Buffy needs to stop an ancient prophecy from happening, but owen is really hot and she wants a date. It’s that personal life./end of the world life balance she has to master.

Episode Grade: B_+

5) Cheers (Paramount plus)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Sam wants to be more of a host so he hires a new bartender, but when that doesn’t work out, he has to let one go. Either the new guy, or Woody. Turns out the new guy has adorable little kids, and has been struggling to find work, so this is surprisingly a hard decision.

Episode Grade: B+

4) Unstable (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Renewed

Maybe someone shouldn’t have shown Rob Lowe the movie Waiting To Exhale. A hilarious finale to the season. Well done.

episode Grade: A-, Season 1 Grade: A-

3) The traitors Australia (Peacock)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Unknown

Another traitor is found, which means this group has hunted 4 traitors. if they were never told how many there are, who are they still hunting? The American version started with 3, and invited 1 for 4 total. if I was down to this few, I would assume they got the last traitor and vote to end it, unless they are planning on voting for Louis. But, now, since someone is getting murdered, that means a traitor has to still be there, and if the host reveals another was recruited then all bets are off. Can either of these recruited traitors actually win this season?

Episode Grade: A-

2) The Other Two (MAX)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Please Renew This

One of the funniest shows around. This week, i watched this in the morning, and i was certain that finally, I would have no reason to put another show on top. Watching Carrie essentially Pleasantville his way through a bunch of bad actors was hilarious, and his sister is over there trying to “do good”, with a collective that means nothing and has no purpose. Oh, and Chase has a cocaine problem. The problem is that he won’t do cocaine. only on this show. if Emmy voters were bold, this would get a series nomination.

Episode Grade: A+

1) Better Call Saul (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Final Season

Wow. Just. Wow. I spent the whole episode wondering what Lallo was up to, and that finish… I didn’t see that coming at all. Total misdirection. 100%. This is great writing at it’s finest. No AI technology would have made this episode. I mean, there is an oh my God ending, and it took my breath away.

Episode Grade: A+