The Small Screen Diaries- 03/27/24

X-Men 97 (Disney Plus) is still blowing me away. I loved the section with all the nightmare fuel caused by the Goblin Queen, and how well described that all was by the team at Deluxe. This is excellent, top tier audio description. There was a lot of complex imagery thrown as the Jean Greys battled it out through astral projection, and the description was very well written and voiced. I appreciate it.

I am enjoying Constellation (Apple Plus), which is doing a good job of balancing what is increasingly a weirder show. Clearly, there are two dimensions to work with here, and two versions of each character. Who is the real person?

Will Trent (Hulu) left so much on the floor this episode. There were so many opportunities, where it seemed like we should know what something was because characters are talking about a thing, or reacting to something, and we got nothing. For example, Will is shown a drawing or image of a “Boo Hag”, to which he makes some comment about having nightmares. There was no reference to what he was looking at, either the depiction of the Boo Hag (which was the central focus of the episode), or even what the image was in or on. But the whole episode is about this one thing. bottom tier audio description, for sure. I love this narrator though, and she needs to run from Vi-Tech and get hired at a better company.

Ghosts (Paramount Plus) dove more into their new addition, and how it will work having ex-spouses as ghosts. She dies with her purse, and the other Ghosts really want her butterscotch. Also, Jay needs money for the restaurant. Solid audio description, as usual. Middle tier.

I really do not understand how One Day (Netflix) has gotten me this long. Every week, I think it’s because it is a half-hour show. This show does nothing for me. The audio description is fine. Middle tier as well.

Yeah, I’m liking the tier thing.

Apples Never Fall (Peacock) finally took advantage of Allison Brie, and centered an episode mostly around her, so we learned more about her, and her drama, and more about her personality. I love Alison Brie, so I was so much more engaged in an episode where she was more centered than her siblings, or that awful actress playing (Savannah?) The audio description here is fine too, though a bit more upbeat than it should be given the material of the show. I think the narrator is probably fine on other things, but this is miscast. I’ll leave it in the middle tier though.

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