I need to find a WordPress theme that works for me. I guess this current one has no search bar? I’m sorry about that, and I’ll be seeing if I can fix the issues of this one, or change it again. I just had an old theme that was centered a lot around having places for images I don’t use, so I wanted something that matches what I do, and wasn’t image driven. it shouldn’t be that hard.

TV Shows watched: We Were Liars: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Nine Perfect Strangers: S2E5 (Hulu) with audio description, Secrets We Keep: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, The Narrow Road To The Deep North: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, Euphoria: S1E2 (MAX) with audio description, America’s got Talent: Most recent (Peacock) with audio description, F1: The Academy: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Peaky Blinders: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and SNL: Walton Goggins (Peacock) with audio description.

Best Episode: Secrets we Keep, runner Up: Euphoria

Best Audio Description: America’s Got Talent, runner Up: Euphoria

Best Performance: Jacob Elordie (The Narrow Road to The deep North), Runner Up: Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria)

Best Moment Of Audio description: definitely would be two of the acts from AGT. there was a magician, some dance acts, and some silly things that have no definition, but had great description.

We Were Liars- If you like every other series on TV right now, you’ll like this! Falling off the same bandwagon as My Life With The Walter Boys, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Ginny and Georgia, Motorheads, and everything that dates back to the WB/CW era of programming like Dawson’s Creek, Summerland, 7th heaven, Everwood, and like minded shows, we have a group of well to do youth coming of age in a destination we would have all likely wanted to come of age. I’m not 100% sure if this is set in Traverse City, MI or the UP, but a character specifically name checked a brand of fudge that is only from that area. So, it is somewhere up there. there’s kind of a mystery here, but it also is going to meander a lot like the other shows, and let their casts find themselves. I didn’t have any major problems with the audio description, but it probably could have done more considering the apparent affluence on display.

Nine Perfect Strangers- Emotionally hollow. An episode that should have resonated was wrapped up too much in this shows over arching narrative to have the gut punch it needed. we haven’t spent enough time with Mark Strong, and his reaction to everything was flat and somewhat baffled, but mostly disconnected. the fact they devoted the entire episode to just Kidman and Strong was a misfire, at the midway point in the season. this feels like it earns itself in the penultimate episode, but we aren’t there yet.

Secrets we keep- TTS be damned. that was a great reveal in the finale. there’s this one last twist in the last five minutes that is such a mic drop moment for the show.

the narrow Road To the Deep North- A great show, but the most depressing thing I’ve seen since the multiple holocaust dramas we got last spring (we were The lucky Ones, The tattooist Of Auschwitz).

Euphoria- the kids are not all right, but at least one has figured out how to monetize their online persona by telling a grown man when he can and can’t masturbate. Honestly, this job is fun, but that job seems so simple, and pays very well. i could do that for a living.

America’s Got Talent- I just want to know, at this point, what is it like to get the live audio description experience to Peacock? I don’t need to keep watching this to know it has one of the best audio description tracks, especially for its format. in fact, it might have the best for its format. I know I ahven’t seen enough reality TV yet to make that conclusion, but this has some truly excellent description. I just don’t love AGT, but I do want American Idol to learn from this formula and provide audio description.

F1: The Academy- I’m a little bored, if I’m being honest. I know I only have seven episodes, but part of me wanted this to be more like a reality competition series, and I just don’t like racing enough to watch much more. Even Earnhardt felt like a stretch at 4 episodes.

Peaky Blinders- is this TTS? We changed voices, and this female voice isn’t nearly as solid as the male one, but I think it might be. There’s some audio ducking here. However, I did like the way they described the opera in this episode, so some writing is still strong. Also, no company takes credit in the credits, even if you happen to know who made it. Which makes me wonder… why don’t you want to be credited for the work you do?

SNL- mostly good. However, SNl failed to rise to the top when there was text on screen for us at home, I’m assuming the live narrator just didn’t get to see. At the end of the gun sketch, there’s some text about what happened to Matt which completes the punchline, but it wasn’t in the audio description. Otherwise, it did a pretty nice job. I didn’t love all of the sketches, and some were just dumb. the “it may be your last” wasn’t silly enough to even warrant existing.

Worst Of…- Everything had audio description. Most of whaat I saw was very mid, which allowed Secrets We Keep to come out of nowhere to take the Best Episode spot. we were Liars has work to do, that was my least favorite episode of nine perfect Strangers this season, Narrow Road is so depressing, Euphoria was actually pretty interestin and I liked the second episode more than the pilot, I’m not a fan of AGT but I love the AD, F1 is boring me, Peaky Blinders takes a minute to get off the ground, and SNL was mixed. Was there one clear loser? No. Worst Episode? Nine Perfect Strangers. Least interesting Show: F1. Worst performance: Mel B, who seems to be trying to get herself actively murdered by the audience in America’s Got Talent. Worst AD? Narrow road (the audio quality sucks). Of all those losers, Mel B’s edit of seeming to hate every thing tht touched the stage, while the audience sounded like they were about to riot was so odd. I’m going to pick her as the loser of the day, either because she is one, or she lost because the show was edited to make her look extra nasty in some super cut of “Mel B Hates everything”. She said Yes maybe twice. The odd thing was, in order to not move on, an act would need two No votes. Yet, the show was distinctly edited that whenever Mel spoke, she got the largest reaction from the audience. Then again, some of the other No votes had nicer comments.