TV Shows Watched: Alien Earth: S1E4 (Hulu) with audio description, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description, The buccaneers: S2E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Great north: S5E19 (Hulu) no audio description, All Of us Are Dead: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Irish Blood: S1E5 (Acorn) no audio description

Alien Earth- I love developing description. What I mean by that is description that continues to build the world, realizing there’s some element it could still mention, and perhaps didn’t earlier. Often this can come in letting us know a physical attribute we didn’t get in initial introduction. Here, it is used to casually mention that two characters are married. It isn’t a visual cue, but it is also the type of juicy description we can get if an AD writer is aware of what they missed, and still need to catch up with in terms of describing the characters in the world. Otherwise, it was a solid episode, and I think Joe’s about to be really happy he no longer has organic lungs, and I’m sure some hardcore Alien fans hated the end to this episode, to which I say… its time to do something different, isn’t it? Also, the scene with the sheep is well described, and i feel like… foreshadowing.

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf- Taylor Kitsch and Chris Pratt are both back… because this takes place before The Terminal List. While Pratt was the star of the first, this story is centered around Kitsch’s character. Catching bad guys. I do have one big question though. Like, stop the presses. So, if you can see, and have seen this episode… there’s a scene between Kitsch and a bad guy, and in the subtitles… are they really ending all of their verbal attacks against each other with the word dog? Because if not… kill this AD with fire. It was so distracting, because I spent the entire time thinking… has Amazon told them they can’t curse in the audio description, and how infantilizing that whole thing is. Like, we can listen to a violent show about people being murdered, but if bitch appears, you must translate it to dog. But, again, we’re between “Oh, that was nice description with a weird twist” and “I think the people who wrote this track believe I’m either emotionally or learning disabled, and am unable to process a curse word in the audio description for a show… whose characters curse in English, and murder people.” Quite frankly, I’m asking, is this censorship?

The Buccaneers- I did not expect to have serious emotional feelings about this episode, but this was such a well done episode. Very triggering for some, I’m sure, who have been in abusive relationships. Devastating consequences. At least, now, the show has every reason to permanently get rid of James. despite the two previous titles being bigger shows, this was the best thing I watched yesterday, and the best episode of the series so far.

The Great North- no audio description, but Ham gets in on doing the weather for the local news. I watched True detective: Night Country, and I’m pretty sure the weather forecast is “don’t go outside”.

All Of Us Are Dead- I’m so torn, because I wanted AD on this show for like two years. I also wanted human audio description, and for this to be Netflix’s next Squid Game. The fact that it has a TTS track depresses me, but I also am happy that I’m finally getting to watch it. Like, I bitch all the time about Netflix enabling Alfonso Cuaron’s ableist bullshit of not having an English Audio Description track on Roma. If Netflix finally gave me a TTS one, I’d be sad, but I’d also be saying “about damn time” for a Best Picture nominee. If I ever have a serious conversation with Netflix, my first question is “why on God’s green earth does Roma still not have English Audio Description?”

Irish Blood- Still benefitting from that Prime deal on Acorn for two months at 99 cents. Irish blood isn’t the hardest show to get through, though I am missing a lot. but I’m following it better than Art detectives, and this has Alicia Silverstone. Not saying anyone should run out and get an Acorn subscription, but if you ever get frisky with one of their 99 cent deals, since Acorn has no description, I’d say do this over art Detectives. And that is as far as that recommendation goes.

So… is Dark Wolf censoring for blind audiences? That is the question.