TV Shows Watched: Back To The Frontier: S1E1 (MAX) with audio description, Building The Band: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Sandman: S2E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Adults: S1E6 (Hulu) with audio description, Euphoria: S1E5 (HBOMAX) with audio description, Countdown: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Invasion: S1E2 (Apple plus) with audio description, King Of The Hill: S2E5 (Hulu) no audio description, Breaking Bad: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, and Sherlock and Daughter: S1E5 (HBOMAX) no audio description

Best Episode: Breaking Bad, Runner Up: Adults

Best Audio Description: The sandman, Runner Up: breaking Bad

best performance: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), tom Sturridge (The sandman)

Best Moment Of Audio Description: dream Struggles To Stay In Form (The Sandman), Walt Is Shellshocked (Breaking Bad)

Back To the frontier- A mew reality series that sends modern families out to live like it’s the 1800’s, and they have to survive without their creature comforts. kids have to do chores. They have to figure out how to eat. One mother in the first episode is distressed that her kids have to eat canned meat. The show has a built in narrator, so the audio description has even more it has to work around.

Building The Band- Cool concept, but a pasión in the ass for audio describers. 50 singers compete for a chance to be in one of six bands. And by bands, the show is hosted by AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys, and at the top of the first episode, he dedicates the series to Liam Payne, who tragically passed after filming, and is a judge later in the season. the first episode has a bunch of singers trying to get likes. they need at least five to stay. I was impressed we got as many names as we did, but not everyone can have character descriptions because there just isn’t any time. if I was tasked with this show, I would try and pay attention to who I had managed to describe, and see if later in the season, i can’t add a little description to other singers time didn’t initially allow for. The singers are all good. I’m here for this show. seems like everyone in the singing and reality game can figure out audio description except American Idol.

the sandman- Some great description again with Azazel, but I really liked the little scene with Dream and Nada, as he shifts into his more human form for their conversation, but struggles to stay in it and glitches back to his Dream state. That was a fun description to get to hear. however, the series direction cops out, having Nada seemingly unchanged from spending 10,000 years in Hell. She has only stories, and doesn’t act changed at all by being tortured for all of time.

Adults- They try to have a nice grown up adulting style dinner, but everything goes horribly wrong. I was thinking, they call him Mr. Teacher so many times, like as a nickname, wouldn’t it make sense to call him that in the description? he’s just nameless, because part of the gag is no one remembers his name. You learn it in this episode, but I also highly doubt he’ll be back.

Euphoria- I think I liked the last so episodes more, but there certainly is more to this show in terms of dramatic weight than just a lot of uncomfortable sex and drug use. I would have put it third behind Adults for the day, and also third in audio description.

countdown- I keep hoping this show can get out of its own way. There’s this scene, where they are trying to break this one guy and get him to give them information, and one of the characters (I wish I liked this show enough to remember her name), goes in with “hold my beer” confidence, and just berates this guy with shame over the presumed future where his daughter finds out about him and becomes a drug addict. she basically just paints a really bleak future of his child, and suddenly this guy breaks. What? Really?

Invasion- we’re learning more, slowly, about the event that transpired. I think the reason i quit this show is because it is kind of slow. For a science fiction series, it just is slow. I don’t think it is patient, or working hard on world building and character development. Sometimes, it just sits. The audio description by Jedidiah Barton is nice though.

King Of The Hill- No audio description, but hank crushes Bobby’s dreams of being a plus sized model.

Breaking Bad- I picked this because I thought Walt and Jesse’s fear of death was really shown quite well in several scenes, leading Walt to make Ricin to try and kill Tuco. the scene I picked was Walt coming home and just blankly staring at a TV after watching a man die, and realizing how close death not from cancer might actually be. he then has an encounter with Skylar, which is a little too aggressive, and she calls him on it. of course, he can’t tell her what is going on with him. But she’s still right.

Sherlock and daughter- they continue to investigate, and without audio description. I feel less compelled to say a lot about shows that don’t have audio description, even more so new shows like this.