Finally, a day with some television to discuss. Although, I feel like my bottom pick is controversial.

11) Saturday Night Live (Peacock)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: It’s in Season 49, Do You Really Think It Won’t Hit 50?

I know he has fans. I know he’s not really from my generation. He actually was fine in Cassandro. But, I didn’t think Bad Bunny was funny. I could talk about the blindness issue of SNL not having audio description, and me using my Spanish skills from my still unfinished DuoLingo course to follow the Espanol segments, but even when Bunny was in English, he never made me laugh. it was the main cast around him that lifted every sketch. In the nun sketch, Mick Jagger steals that, not bad bunny. And anytime we get Boen Yang as George Santos is a gift. Plus, James Austin Johnson doing his Trump is always amazing.

Episode Grade: C

10) The Gold (Paramount Plus)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Limited?

This series opens strong before dialing it way back, like it remembered it was a TV show. I thought it started moving slower and slower, and I became less engaged. We’ll see what the next episode brings, but the concept is strong. A season long heist could work well, but an episode count shouldn’t make the energy of the story suffer.

Episode Grade: C+

9) Dinosaurs (Disney Plus)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Charlene wants a new jacket… that talks to her. Audio description would have helped. But her quest to be popular predictably backfires on her.

Episode Grade: B-

8) Alf (Peacock)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Ended

Alf is eating his family out of house and home. It’s time for him to get a job.

Episode Grade: B

7) Still Up (Apple Plus)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Not Yet Renewed

Almost non-stop dialogue propels this pilot episode forward as one lady who can walk around the city FaceTimes with a guy who is agoraphobic and can’t even get a damn pizza. It had some moments of levity, but it was just an insane amount of relentless talking, and not all of it worked. Some of the silly parts did.

Episode Grade: B

6) Wrestlers (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Limited

This docuseries chronicles the lives of non-WWE wrestlers trying to make it. It’s like a documentary version of Heels.

Episode Grade: B

6) Futurama (Hulu)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Revived

In this Season 3 episode, I was reminded of Body Wars. It’s a ride that used to exist at EPCOT. Fry is wormy, and the team goes in to kill the worms,and I’m sure this would have been even better with audio description.

Episode Grade: B

4) All Rise (OWN)

English Audio Description?: No

Status: Final Season

Lola is overseeing a trial about a father who protected his young daughter from a young bully. She’s also asked for her opinion on another case, which prompted an interesting conversation. Another character has a date, Luke still wants kids, and these photos are going to wreck Lola’s marriage.

Episode Grade: B+

3) Frasier (Paramount Plus)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Not Yet Renewed

I think the second episode starts to reveal how the cast really lays out. Obviously, Frasier is the star, and Freddie gets a ton of screentime, but some of the other characters from the pilot saw a noticeable drop. Sure, it was a nice parallel to the first episode, but at the same time, I’m worried about this cast gelling.

Episode Grade: B+

2) Wilderness (Amazon)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Unknown

The fallout from the push takes the series in a new direction. I love that this show is reinventing itself and keeping it fresh.

Episode Grade: A-

1) Fall of The House Of Usher (Netflix)

English Audio Description?: Yes

Status: Limited

A huge bounce back. I felt like I knew the characters better, and when it came time to say goodbye to an usher, I knew who they were, as well as having an actual feeling about whether they should live or die. Animal lovers should avoid this, but otherwise, it’s a brutal hour. S1E3 is where it is at, and Mark Hamill was fire.

Episode Grade: A-