TV Shows Watched: FUBAR: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Bet: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, The Pitt: S1E8 (MAX) with audio description, The Better Sister: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Love Death And Robots: S4E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Silicon Valley: S2E6 (MAX) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Berlin ER: S1E8 (Apple plus) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description

Best Episode: The Pitt, Runner Up: the Daily Show

Best Audio Description: Love Death and Robots, Runner Up: Bet

Best Performance: Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), Runner Up: Jessica Biel (The better Sister)

Best Moment Of Audio Description: We Have The Guy… (FUBAR), Runner Up: Then You’d Better Lead (FUBAR)

FUBAR- I gave it both of the memorable moments, and it would have cracked the top 2, except they were fighting a group of mercenaries at the end that I felt was super undetermined. The main guy suggested he had them outnumbered, which would have meant at least 6, since Arnold had four people on his team plus the guy he was rescuing, but i truly had no idea how many that was. We only had a few segments of individual fighting. However, it had the two most memorable individual well described moments otherwise. i just couldn’t validate putting a show that also left me confused in the top. Again, this show needs a better team around Arnold. It was an answer on Jeopardy last night, and none of the three contestants knew it.

Bet- Again, I’m obsessed. i really wanted more from this hunt though. it didn’t feel like it reached its full potential. I also am worried that this show truly believes Netflix will give it a second season (it won’t), and there will be a lot of loose ends at the end. The audio description is always solid and fun.

The Pitt- this episode wrecked me. It’s funny how my first watch, because of so many medical dramas at the same time, I quit after 3 or 4 episodes, and it keeps getting better. This eighth episode is a tissue destroyer, as we find out whaat an honor walk is, and an adorable little child will talk to a bear and break your cold dead heart.

the Better Sister- While the acting is good, I’m deeply bored. I picked Biel because she has this conversation with the ghost of her late husband, and I really liked it. But, the actual mystery of this show has stalled, and it just feels like two sisters who have a backstory, and we aren’t getting there quick enough. I don’t know how many episodes this has, but I’m afraid. I already shifted it down in preparation for my next weekly rankings.

Love, Death, and Robots- A short battle based episode that felt on brand, but also wasn’t nearly as fun as the previous cat episode. but, the description is still kicking ass.

Silicon Valley- Picking up some more rewatches, and I had started to try and get through this last summer, so I’m pushing through it again. I had never seen it, heard good things, and I know it was an Emmy nominee. It took me a minute to remember what was happening, and I was surprised to hear Dave Wallace on this. Or maybe his clone. I am surprised I forgot that.

Berlin-ER- Finished this show, and it lands with a very similar message to one that has an undercurrent in The Pitt. If you are a fan of The Pitt, this isn’t quite as good, but it is still an interesting show I’m glad I never kicked off my list, and finished eventually, The dub cast (it is a German show) is surprisingly solid.

Ginny and Georgia- This show can be a bit much at times, as these characters navigate frivolity with also some heavy subject matter. Georgia’s sister is in town, and she kicks her out, even after she reveals that after Georgia left, their father/step-father then turned and started molesting her. but, Georgia’s eccentric personality is somehow supposed to get us past her questionable life choices every time. she’s a mother trying to do her best, while at her worst. I also haven’t heard from XTrax in a while. Did they die? Their description isn’t bad, and at least a few companies working in description now are worse than this for sure.

The Daily Show- Jon Stewart killed it. He had *a lot* to talk about, but eventually turned all the talk about Los Angeles around on the people who never want to talk about gun violence when the gun isn’t being fired by a person of color. He had so many excellent juxtapositions. I’ve loved how Jon Stewart, even on his Apple show, went after politicians for failing to do anything about gun violence in America beyond “thoughts and prayers”, and he took full advantage of his airtime tonight. Also, he basically bodyslammed Netanyahu out of a window with his savage timeline that made him look like the boy crying wolf for over a decade. He’s also the perfect person to do it, as a lot of the discourse around Israel’s politics and view on bombing the fuck out of everything often gets turned into retorts of anti-semitism, because you can’t be pro-Jewish and also anti-carpet bombing. But, Stewart can talk about it all he want, because it is hard to throw claims of anti-semitism at someone who is Jewish. I honestly wish he had bumped John Mulaney and just put this episode out into the world as is, because it was basically everything we needed right now.

The Worst Of…- I liked everything I watched for the second day in a row. the Daily Show has quick turn around, so I’m not as concerned about the audio description for something that has to tape that day. Comedy Central also isn’t a cable channel required to do AD, and some of the devoted news channels filed for exemptions to audio description, because presumably they didn’t see value, or it was too cumbersome. If I hold The Daily Show to task for no audio description, I have to hold all news to task. Even the live audio description done for SNL doesn’t port next day to Peacock with the episode. It takes a bit to get the track attached and uploaded. I’ve called out American Idol, but their closest comp would be America’s Got Talent, which has audio description for the first set of episodes that were pre-taped, and then does air live audio description, which I’m assuming is later ported to Peacock. Why else did you think I was watching AGT all of a sudden? Because Idol should be able to follow the same model. Without someone successfully doing what The Daily Show does, as a comp, it becomes nebulous to demand it match something that seemingly does not exist, and it was the only show without audio description. So let’s keep up the streak of no losers.