The Small Screen Diaries- 06/21/24

Kicking off my day, I chose Sweet Tooth (Netflix), as I savor the final season of a show I liked enough that I could have gone another season for sure. The third episode of the season featured our gang headed for this boat to get to Alaska. They reach it too late, have to build a boat, but the wolves show up and not everyone makes it on board. We also get the backstory of where the wolf hybrids came from,and why they are so feral. What I don’t like about the show is that everyone always magically finds where they need to go, even though they are far from home, during an apocalypse, with no GPS, no maps, nothing. They just always find the most specific places. Every character too. It is not just limited to Gus.

Then, I got into the second episode of Presumed Innocent (Apple Plus), which is already giving Jake Gyllenhaal these big moments. I complained last time in the pilot about a certain actor who mumbles everything, and there’s still a bit of that in the second episode, though it is much improved. He also spoke less, and one of his scenes was a courtroom scene where he had to use his big boy voice so the judge could hear. Gyllenhaal is giving 110% and I think it might be too obvious for him to be guilty at the end of this. The Paramount Plus series Fatal Attraction certainly made different choices.

I got the audio description information for Queenie (Hulu), which really finally starts to pay off in Episode 3, and I can understand why a show that has a main character with a snarky inner voice is being considered a drama. That narrator voice is Tansy Alexander, and the studio is Point 360. I would say, particularly in those final moments of the third episode, as audio description is so great at bringing alive the facial expressions, Queenie as a show also starts to take another step forward.

And I hate to say it, but everything else was an older episode, not from a current season. I am still catching up on Season 1 of We Are Lady Parts (Peacock), Season 5 of 911 (Hulu), and going even older with Veep (MAX) and The Man In The High Castle (Amazon).

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