TV Shows Watched: And Just Like that: S3E2 (MAX) with audio description, Stick: S1E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Better Sister: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, top Chef: S22E12 (Peacock) with audio description, Lazarus: S1E9 (MAX) with audio description, Bad thoughts: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Ginny And Georgia: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Grimmsburg: S1E10 (Netflix) with audio description, Your Friends And Neighbors: S1E8 (MAX) with audio description, and The Four Seasons: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description

New Show Alert! Stick is a new Apple Plus comedy with a runtime for the pilot that is a little unnecessary for a comedy series, but it has those Ted Lasso vibes, where you know you will be hit in the feels at some point. Owen Wilson is a former pro golfer whose life has collapsed, and now he sells golf clubs and struggles to hold onto his home. His marriage is over, but prospects look up when he notices a young prodigy he believes he can take on the road. They can win, and he can get respect again. it’s a solid show out of the gate, though I don’t know if I need every episode to push an hour. i did like the audio description. Will it make any of the lists below?

Best Episode: Stick- Well, tht was fast. Yes, Owen Wilson’s new comedy has a really strong pilot episode that introduces you to any character you might need to know moving forward, gives you a hint at motivations, back story, and a direction for the future. it is the kind of pilot that is strong out of the gate, so you can figure out if the show is your thing or not, instead of having to wait for it to “get good”. It might still improve, but at least the foundation is set early on, which not every show does since few have to deliver pilots.

runner Up: the Four seasons- I’m as shocked as you are. this show threw itself a curveball, one it didn’t really need, but found a lovely, if not predictable way of pulling itself back together. but, what Episode 8 really does is deliver strong performances from the cast, notably Coleman Domingo, who almost does too much compared to everyone else. He’s better than the rest of them, and I’m not sure he knows it.

Best Of The Rest: The better Sister, And Just Like that, and Your Friends And Neighbors round out the top five.

Best Audio Description: Your Friends And neighbors- This is really close.Everything was pretty even today, but this has a pretty strong track across the season, and there were a few drugged out moments that allowed this to have some standout memorable pieces to put on top. Today is really hard, because every show is almost the same level or quality of audio description.

Runner Up: The better Sister- As the murder continues to be investigated, little visual clues are revealed, like the hiding of a cell phone. So, I’ll use that as an edge.

Best Of The Rest: Stick, The Four Seasons, and Ginny and Georgia- these narrowly round out the top 5.

Best Performance: Coleman Domingo (The Four Seasons)- He’s just on another level. he’s on Oscar mode, and his scene partner can’t keep up. However, in other moments, I found the rest of the cast to deliver as well, but Domingo has that one scene where he feels touched by god or something. It was on a totally different level than the entire series. This is why he is a two-time Oscar nominee.

runner Up: Owen Wilson (Stick)- If you’re loving him throughout the pilot, he really earns his keep in the final scene of the episode. Stick is going to be something special, I can feel it.

Best of The rest: Kerry Kinney (The four Seasons), Jessica Biel (the better Sister), and Jon Hamm (your friends And Neighbors)- I feel really good about these five performances.

Best Moment Of Audio description: The Club (your Friends And Neighbors)- A bit chaotic, drugs are involved, and the description kept up.

Runner Up: The Cell Phone (the better Sister)- Stealth mode. Honestly, the scene around it is good, but that little tidbit really doesn’t help the person hiding the phone.

Runner Up 2- Taking the Shot (Stick)- Owen asks his young prodigy to take a shot in the parking lot, with everyone watching. the description did a good job of managing everyone else in the scene, and the result.

Runner up 3- Checking In On Jenny (The Four Seasons)- There’s this little thing done where because they keep trying to push Nick’s girlfriend just outside the bubble, she is frustrated, and we have to become invested in her, because she’s not wrong, and unbeknownst to everyone, she meant a lot more… no spoilers.

Runner Up 4- Flashbacks (Ginny and Georgia)- i suppose I could spoil since I’m in season 1 of a three season and running show, but I won’t. Georgia has some impactful and important flashbacks in this episode that are described well.

Worst of…- Ten shows with audio description seemingly never happens for me. The worst thing I watched was probably bad thoughts, but this episode was also better than the last. The thing I disliked the most is my favorite Top chef contender got the axe, so now I’m left with thre people I don’t want to win, and my second choice. I’ll either be pretty happy with the finale, or disappointed. the worst track is probably Lazarus, but only because of sound mixing. The writing isn’t bad, the track itself just doesn’t sound good. the worst performer probably was John Corbett, but only because Ive never liked Aiden. the return of the wet blanket. but, none of those things were really individually ruining my day. however, Hulu did force a logout on a device, and while Hulu constantly does lose, they lose again, on a day when I didn’t even watch a Hulu show. It makes my life exponentially harder, as i have to waste time logging back in. I tried the shortcut, but my screenereader couldn’t find the box to input the activation code. it told me to put in one, and continue. there was nothing I could click on and input the number. Add to that, it was on a Roku, which reads you the code once… so you’d better get that shit right. I ended up having to do it the long way, which took more time, which I had already wasted… and for what? I don’t get signed out of the other services. MAX does it once a year. Hulu seems to do it every six months, and across the devices, it adds up. I don’t think I’ve ever been forced to sing out of Netflix, Paramount Plus, peacock, or Apple. Maybe Prime? but I think this is a Disney thing, and even in that, it seems to be more of a Hulu thing.