TV Shows Watched: The Old Man: S2E1 (Hulu) with audio description, How To Die Alone: S1E1 and S1E2 (Hulu) with audio description, Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, 911: S6E15 and S6E16 (Hulu) with audio description, Futurama: S5E4 (Hulu) no audio description, King Of The Hill: S1E4 (Hulu) no audio description, and ACloser Look Primetime Special (On Demand) No Audio Description.

Podcasts: Matter Of Opinion (Politics), Americacast (politics), The Rings Of Power Aftershow (Recap)

YouTube: Chris Stuckmann (Review: speak no Evil), Jeremy Jahns (Review: Speak No Evil), The Awards Contender (Review: The Brutalist), Fish Jelly Film Reviews (Review: Nutcrackers), Oscar Expert (Review: Saturday night), the critical Drinker (Review: Beetlejuice beetlejuice), and Ryan Castleman (Review: Queer).

Movies: Happy campers (Screener copy) now with Audio Description, and Uglies (Netflix) with audio description (IDC, Written By Dakota green, Narrated By Frankie Corso)

So, the Peacock app on Roku doesn’t allow for my screen reader to read the keyboard in search, and I browsed the hell out of Peacock for that Closer Look special. I’m at least 75% sure it isn’t on there. It was, however, still on my On Demand through my spectrum app, so I accessed it there, where sadly no secondary audio track existed.

Lots of new shows to talk about, but I’m tackling the one I’m not watching again. Lego Star Wars: rebuild The Galaxy. I was hoping it would aim a bit higher, but this just wasn’t made for me. I’m not sure who it is for, but I didn’t even finish the episode. It was painful to try and get through, and I at least was able to watch two episodes of Dora. So, it might just be bad. but your kids might love this? I don’t know. I liked last years Lego Marvel Avengers: code Red, but this I couldn’t stand.

From a purely audio description perspective, these characters have seemingly no description to them. I realize they all resemble yellow Lego minis, but they all have some kind of unique look. I assume this isn’t hot garbage. I still had my sight for things like The Lego movie, lego Ninjago, and The Lego Batman movie, so i know what is capable visually, and the audio description really made a bland show even blander. I’m fairly certain this was done by a company I’m familiar with, and I think I recognized the narrator’s voice, but no one seemed to have any defining characteristics to describe. Yes, the action was fine. And, they used names so I knew who was where, and what they were doing. It had some functionality to it, but it just lacked depth in terms of helping differentiate what these characters actually looked like.

I also hereby reserve the right to be an idiot, and this could be like the 3rd or 4th entry in some Lego Star Wars series that I wasn’t following, and the characters all were in something before, meaning that I jumped into a sequel. in which case, that’s on me a little bit. I don’t think that’s the case, since this series starts off with our lead character recapping the entire Star Wars film franchise in about 60 seconds for anyone too lazy to watch the films.