TV Shows Watched: Squid Game: Series Finale (Netflix), Black Mirror: S3E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Adults: S1E8 (Hulu) with audio description, Drag Race All Stars: S10E12 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Untamed: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Match Game: S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S1E27 (Amazon) with audio description
Squid Game and Adults will both be getting a full review shortly.
Black Mirror- men Against Fire presents itself initially as maybe the future of war, but instead becomes a cautionary tale and extremely troubling look at the future of genocide. the ability to hack into your brain to show a human you believe needs ethnically cleansed, as not human at all. In a day where we’re piling up brown people in the Everglades in a concentration camp, this is a very relevant episode. Imagine if they didn’t have to try and convince you people were bad, but instead they were rounding up vampire like monsters they call “roaches”, which is slang often used in genocidal terms to dehumanize. A brilliant episode.
Drag Race All Stars- My hometown girl won. Four seasons. It took a long time, but this was a very happenstance moment for me to jump back into drag Race. The audio description really does try, I’m just not sure it can fully capture the experience. A valiant effort.
Untamed- In what feels like the finale, we get to the end and they push their luck with… oh wait.. he’s coming. There’s more. Great. I cannot wait to be done with this. the audio description is terrific though.
Match Game- Martin Short is hosting now, so I don’t know if this is considered a reboot of a reboot. But the first part was hilarious, as both guests flirted with Marty, and the panelists were fun. However, I didn’t love the audio description. it really seemed to be having a tough time figuring out where to come in, and if it should talk or not. It did go on top of others talking, which I found incredibly distracting. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Roundabout does a better job on pop Culture Jeopardy.
Pop Culture Jeopardy- Finally. 27 knock out rounds. My God. I’ve been watching this for 27 weeks. Ish. Now onto the semifinals.