TV Shows Watched: Squid Game: S3E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Black Mirror: S3E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Disney POV: Five Videos (Disney plus) no audio description, And Just Like That: S3E8 (HBo MAX) with audio description, too Much: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S5E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, All Of us Are Dead: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description

Squid Game- I love how the words on the wall are spelled out, so if you want to look them up, you can. Episode 5 answered the big question of how many people will be left in competition at the end of the episode. The funny thing is, even with spoilers, I would be able to guess where the series goes from here. I will say, these platforms they were on felt huge. You have nine people on them, and they have some room on them to move about.I normally talk about size relativity in terms of height, or girth, but I’ve never really thought about having to apply it to a platform until Squid Game. I honestly don’t know how I would have communicated better the size of what they are standing on. When you think about spaces we inhabit, and the floors you stand on, uniformity is rare. You can’t say “as big as a living room”, because people have different size living rooms. As big as… what? What is so uniform, and that answer is sports. The problem with that is I’m pretty sure this platform isn’t the size of a football field, a basketball court, a baseball diamond, or a tennis court. all of those have regulatory sizes, so it is a place to start with, but likely the platform wasn’t even the size of half-court basketball, or even half-court tennis. While not all blind people will immediately get those references, blind and low vision people do watch sports, and most people have a passing understanding of these places. I’m intrigued, but the platform certainly felt like it had more space than I initially interpreted.

Black Mirror- Some nice description here, especially when we see our characters as they really are. I liked this episode, and I have learned to try and find the “Black Mirror” of it all right away. So, when she says she’s just trying to get her bearings, I immediately pegged this as some kind of virtual experience, and I was right. while nearly every episode of this show could be turned into a series, this one actually has. But, it was by Amazon, and it’s called Upload. I did like the more dramatic take, and the story behind Mackenzie Davis’s character was particularly poignant.

Disney POV’s- So, i already wrote a big long piece on this separately yesterday about the missed opportunity to include audio description in these videos. Some of the rides don’t have audio description at the park, because your headphones would go flying off, or get wet. So, this could give even a blind person who had been to Disneyland the kind of context perhaps they lacked initially. sadly, they created another experience we don’t get to fully be a part of. And that, is the magic of Disney.

And Just Like That- Maybe Aiden has fans. I don’t know. But every time he pops up, I want to run from this series. If he and Carrie got married, I’d quit it. Flat out. I’m glad Seema and Adam found something, but we need Carrie to have apparently an opportunity so huge that she runs from Aiden. I don’t know what that is. Maybe she can become a princess of a made up country or something. Anything.

too Much- I initially compared the show to Emily In Paris, because it is a valid comparison, however the second episode has this deep conversation about Anal sex, so it is really more like if Lena Dunham had gotten to write Emily In Paris. Darren Star used to have his Sex and the city girls have all kinds of frank conversations, but Emily is rather tame.

Dexter- I’m starting to see the problem with Lumen. I’ll say that. And, for the amount of dead bodies Dexter has seen, he has to stop having traumatic flashbacks every single time he looks at a bathtub. He’s a serial killer, and also a blood splatter analyst. this guy has seen some shit. in one scene earlier in the season, he just walks in and there’s a decapitated head and he has zero reaction. I know he had a connection with his wife, which is why I initially quit this show when the killed her off, but we are now at a point where he’s just not making sense anymore.

All of us Are dead- More violence, more people turn, and the humans cannot figure out how to stop the spread. the written narration is solid, the voice is perhaps a little too upbeat, and I’ve heard worse mixes. I’m happy there is audio description here.