TV Shows Watched: Squid Game: S3E4 (Netflix) with audio description, From: S2E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description, We Were Liars: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, Too much: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Such good girls: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Peaky Blinders: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, the Art Detectives: S1E2 (Acorn) no audio description, and Breaking Bad: S1E9 (Netflix) with audio description

Best Episode: Breaking Bad, Runner Up: from

Best Audio Description: Squid Game, Runner Up: Breaking Bad

Best Performance: Scott McCord (from), runner Up: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)

best moment of Audio Description: Finishing Up Jump Rope (Squid Game), Runner Up: Hallucinations Or Nightmares (From)

Squid Game- Jump Rope turned chaotic as a few players decided this would be a great time to push others. So, the numbers dropped rapidly, and I’m left with our returning winner and a bunch of people I don’t care about. I get that’s the point, since now there’s a baby here, and the moral dilemma becomes about saving something that didn’t choose to be here. There are too many random numbers we know nothing about left in the final nine. I’m hoping, based on what our lead is asked to do, that the nameless is intentional.

From- I picked Scott McCord, who continues to impress as victor, the guy who has been here forever. He’s clearly stunted, as a kid who lost his parents and grew up in hell without them. He’s also forced to relive traumatic memories from his past, which is why he got the win today. Also, the audio description around these nightmares and hallucinations a handful of characters are getting is pretty good. It’s mainly Kenny in this episode, though he also shares a possible hallucination with someone.

We Were Liars- The AD voice, in a very rare case, is so distracting it actually is affecting how I enjoy this show. Like, this episode does not have a happy ending, but it is narrated like Dorothy just followed the yellow brick road to Oz. I have so many questions. Did the narrator have access to see what they were narrating, and thought this was the right tone, or were they only given a script? I’ve heard depending on the project, and the company, sometimes narrators don’t get access to what they’re narrating.Still though, some of the context of what is narrated, cause it is well written, really makes me think even if, how did you read what was written and interpret it this way? Oddly, because Revival is so deeply inadequate, and poorly written, this isn’t the worst AD track I’m listening to.

too Much- if i were a network executive, and shows were on my Network and I was trying to figure out lineups for the night, Too Much would be my hot new fall comedy that would premiere as the lead out to a new season of Emily In Paris. watch Emily, stay for Too much. Lena Dunham’s American girl in London series has strong Emily In Paris vibes, but instead of being run by the guy who brought us Sex and The city, it is run by the person who brought us Girls. Thematically similar, tonally different enough to exist in the same space. If you like Emily In PAris even a little, you should check out Too Much. it’s in the half hour format, and our lead character does a lot of narration over her own life, so i wouldn’t call it robust audio description, but it isn’t inadequate either. It seems to be giving what it can and should give us based on the given time for audio description.

Such Brave Girls- A third episode I just didn’t get, and I dropped this from my watchlist. It fell out of the top 60, so RIP you odd little British comedy. I miss Extraordinary now, and a dozen other comedies from the UK that are’t this and aren’t still airing new episodes.

Ginny and Georgia- man, mother and daughter are gonna fight this season, I can feel it. The friend group needs to be repaired, not because I need those four girls together, but because Maxine is insuffferable now, and I feel like they’re pushing the other girl to an inevitable suicide attempt. Ginny also is wise to her mother using her and her brother for credit purposes, so Ginny’s credit score is in the 300’s.

Peaky Blinders- I guess we’re bringing Churchill into this. I didn’t think we were striving for historical accuracy, but sure. No incredibly specific headshots in the audio description in this episode to rave about.

the Art Detectives- While I was watching this episode, which was easier to follow than the pilot, they would say things like “Do you see that?”, or ‘what is that?”, an it made me wish I had the editing skills to make a video of me doing blind MST3K on things without audio description. “What is that?” “I’m glad you asked, because I have no fucking idea because Acorn doesn’t know what audio description is.” Maybe it isn’t quite as funny as MST3K, but it still has some bite to it.

breaking Bad- Hank is trying to find Walt, and Walt and Jesse are trying to survive Tuco. Meanwhile, because I’ve seen Better Call Saul first, when I started hearing that damn bell again, I was reminded of how expertly Better Call Saul navigated around breaking Bad without putting Saul in before he premiered.