TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E3 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Dexter: Resurrection: S1E8 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Ginny And Georgia: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E6 (Amazon) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E9 (Hulu) with audio description, Match Game: Most Recent (Hulu) with audio description, Who Wants To Be A millionaire: Most Recent (Hulu) with audio description

Peacemaker- A strong audio description track is given another sequence in which to shine. This week, Peacemaker stops a group of terrorists in truly brutal fashion. While seeing what life is like in the better world was certainly fun, and it has a very different version of Hardcort, the episodes scene stealer is Tim Meadows and his utterly ridiculous Argus agent with bird blindness. “What kind of man takes advantage of another man’s bird blindness?” I have concerns about any organization that would let him run an operation, but at the same time, he’s perfect for this show.

Dexter: Resurrection- A complex set of ideas unfurling about the difference between right and wrong. this season, we’ve seen how Harrison has shades of his father, but also isn’t driven by the same need to kill. In this episode, Dexter accidentally lets slip something about Blessing that wasn’t meant to be said aloud, and Blessing is broken by Dexter’s betrayal. Dexter thinks of it rather simplistically, as he was helping, and anyone would forgive Blessing for his past as a child soldier. However, what he can’t relate to is how blessing lives every day with the shame knowing that as a child soldier, he killed someone. Dexter doesn’t know what it means to actually feel shame from killing, and as such, is unable to truly understand why blessing is upset. Of the three spinoffs Dexter has had thus far, this is by far the best.

Ginny and Georgia- we pick up where we left off in Season 2, with Georgia in jail for murdering Cynthia’s husband. We don’t know what evidence they have on her, but we know it is serious. the first episode plays a lot with the other characters and who thinks she actually did it, with some wondering how big of a deal it really is since the man was terminally ill anyway. We might dive into some interesting and heavy topics this season. Perhaps, I’ll finally like Georgia. but, one thing is true, and that is XTrax apparently was eaten alive by Descriptive Video Works. DVW is now providing audio description for Ginny and Georgia, and while I didn’t really have a problem with the original, it does make me feel good about it going forward. Although, as some have pointed out online, when series and movies are able to retain the same narrator, that’s nice. I might have tried to hire the same guy. I don’t think that happened here. All joking aside, if XTrax died as an AD company, that sucks, because there are certainly two companies still producing audio description on a consistent basis that is nearly useless.

The Summer I turned Pretty- belly is all up in her feelings. Does she still have feelings for Connor? OMG. Girl, your series is in its final season. Pick a lane. You can’t flip flop right up to the last shoe dropping.

The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball- this show is so silly all the time. I love it.

Match Game- Does the AD track describe things I can’t see? Sure. Does it describe all of the right things? Not really. I stand by the fact that the answers are key, and the focal point. If the answer is only shown and not read aloud, you *have* to read the answer in some form. Regardless of dialogue. Trample it all. The whole purpose is to see these weird answers from celebrities, so if they don’t vocalize it, why else are we even here?

who Wants to Be A Millionaire- I think, if I had verbatim taken al of the words spoken in the audio description track, I could have still put it in a tweet, and not exceeded the word count. At times, I forgot the AD was even on. When we go to 50/50, it is helpful to say what that is, again, unless it is vocalized immediately by jimmy or the contestants. I feel like the audio description for Match Game and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire are being written by people who conceptually don’t understand the projects for which they are writing.