TV Shows Watched: Forever: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Wondla: S2E7 (Apple plus) with audio description, You: S5E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Motorheads: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, Department Q: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, 911: S8E18 (Hulu) with audio description, Euphoria: S1E1 (MAX) with audio description, Government Cheese: S1E10 (Apple plus) with audio description, and last Week Tonight: Most Recent (MAX)

Best Episode: Forever- This coming of age story beat out another more lauded coming of age story that I’m trying to get through a second time after abandoning it. Forever continues to grow on me every episode, and Keisha’s dad was a lot. As barriers started to come up for Justin and Keisha, we wondered if this romance would truly be…for forever.

Runner Up: Motorheads- Yes. I even enjoyed this fluffy teen drama more than the Emmy winning teen drama. It gives me all the vibes of shows that aired on the CW between like 2005 and 2015. Motorheads is from a different time, but hits new beats, and loves having a radio friendly mix of songs in every episode to blare at you. If you ever wanted The CW to make a teen Fast and furious, well, Amazon did. Just years after The CW collapsed.

Best Audio Description: You-Even if I’m starting to worry about how this show ends, I still can’t shake the fact that this show has excellent audio description.

Runner Up: Forever- This too, also has great audio description. there’s a scene where Justin takes Keisha out to eat at a fancy restaurant, and the description actually caught their hairstyles. They updated us on the look of these characters despite the fact we’re in Episode 7. they took the time. I appreciate things like that so much, because it helps a show feel lived in. And, for a limited series, it somehow feels more monumental because we’re only shaping these characters for a short period of time, not for multiples years and seasons.

Best Performance: Zendaya (Euphoria)- So there’s a lot I don’t get or like about Euphoria, and some entire characters that make me uncomfortable. But Zendaya is technically near perfection as Rue. She balances being problematic with also needing the audience to like her as the lead of the series, to some extent, and is also our narrator and introduction to this world of teen drug use and ubiquitous sexual content.

Runner Up: Angela Bassett (911)- Just in case she doesn’t come back, for the season finale, she is throw yet another preposterous situation for Athena to have to go through. 911 gets increasingly nuts as the series goes on, and she’s been asked to do a lot of really profoundly dumb shit in Season 8. This was a season that started with her needing to land a plane after a mid air collision. Athena grant isn’t just an excellent police officer, she’s a fucking Avenger. This is the strongest of female leads, and the only reason this character works AT ALL is because of Bassett. If ABC wants to keep this show alive, they just need to write a check for whatever she asks for, because this show cannot survive without her.

Best moment Of Audio Description: The hair (Forever)- it’s such a small thing, but it really did stand out. We don’t always get updates on character looks in shows, and the fact that these characters freshened up their look was noted impressed me.

Runner Up: Jules (Euphoria)- Everything having to do with the handling of the introduction to Jules is done perfectly. Correct use of pronouns, and translating how the show chooses to use and represent Jules moving forward.

Worst Of…- Only Last Week Tonight lacked audio description. I’m still of the belief that HBO adds this later, so I don’t use that as a loser. But, beating this dead horse, would you believe that my third device logged me out of Hulu? And I had used this device while the others were getting logged out. it has to be a timing thing for them, but hilariously, its is like one device dies a day apart from another. i still need to sign back in on another. However, the losers of the day might end up being ABC if they are unwilling to back up the truck for Angela Bassett and give her the money she deserves. With Peter Krause gone, this is her show. She’s the biggest name, and should be the biggest earner. If she isn’t making mid-six figures per episode, something isn’t right. Get paid. Get what you are worth for these absurd plot lines. I remember one time, John Malkovich talked about being approached to be a villain in a Marvel movie, which creatively he didn’t want to do, because it would have been a lot of green screen and harness work. So, he told the studio to pay him, and they didn’t think he was worth it and went with someone else. That is what this is. Creatively, 911 is beneath Bassett, so at least she can get paid to do it.