TV Shows Watched: Twisted Metal: S2E7 (Peacock) with audio description, butterfly: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, Long Story Short: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Mindhunter: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, and only murders In the building: S5E1 (Hulu) with audio description

Twisted Metal- The first challenge happens, reducing the amount of racers from 12 to 8, and basically everyone I expected to make it to the next round did. There are only a handful of characters likely to make it to the end. If we’re doing a third season, for example, I can’t see them doing it without Sweet tooth, whether he wins or not. Mayhem feels like a wildcard. The audio description was perhaps less terrible than some of the previous episodes, as it seemed to acknowledge the visuals this time around. It doesn’t make up for the rest of the shit already made, but I’m trying to be fair, and Episode 7 had above average audio description for this series.

Butterfly- Rebecca is taken by Juno, who finds out about Oliver, and sees her world collapsing. However, Juno seems to pull at the right strings, and turns Rebecca into a big fucking problem for David. No spoilers. Now the series just got realy interesting. We’re in a whole new world now. It’s like this became a brand new show. I’m excited for the next few episodes.

Long Story Short- the little conversation about where to place your sperm donation was funny, like there are guys out there so dumb they might use a different receptacle to deposit their “Michael Phelpses” into. If you haven’t started watching it, it is one of the rare adult animated shows that seems to be striving for more realistic and relatable moments, like King Of The Hill (which is a better show). However, not everything was perfect right out of the gate, and I’d trust the team behind bojack Horseman to take a pretty good series and make it great in season 2 based on feedback.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox- the trial begins, and holy shit I’m never traveling to Italy. Good lord. I’m not crazy about what we’ve got going on over here, but hearing these cops being this dumb, and realizing how the trial is really not set up in a defendants favor (your jury is not sequestered, and you face criminal and civil proceedings simultaneously), I’m surprised Knox ever got out. It’s a miracle.

Mindhunter- Season 2 kicks off with a new narration team. It’s better. I noticed it. It also isn’t so wildly different that you feel the shift in a staggering way, but the narration feels less robotic and more human, and the writing got a tad better. It’s not like watching From, which seems to have commissioned three entirely different teams for each season, but Netflix just leveled up the AD for Season 2 of Mindhunter, and I appreciate it.

Only Murders in the Building- Featuring guest stars like Keegan Michael Key (as a hilariously desperate Mayoral candidate) and Renee Zellweger, the Emmy nominated hit is back. The main trio are on their game, and trying to figure out if their doorman was murdered or not, when a finger is found, which may point them to a mob wife looking for her husband. And Oliver believes he owes the mob a lot of money. I enjoy gags like that. The audio description was fine, though I wonder if sighted people saw the finger, and if so… would it have been possible to mention it to us? Eventually, we do figure it out, but for those who watch with other people, are we being left two steps behind?