TV Shows watched: Monster: The Ed Gein Story: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description, From: S3E6 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Dexter: S6E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, My Life With The Walter Boys: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Next Gen Chef: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: First SemiFinal (Amazon) with audio description

Monster- This franchise makes me uncomfortable. Season 1 I didn’t watch. cannibalism isn’t my favorite thing to watch, and the victims families were pretty outspoken about not supporting the show, which Ryan Murphy just ignored. Then we moved on to The Menéndez Brothers, which took such an apologetic tone, even leaning into stories that could be fabricated at the expense of victims actually having experienced certain things, leading to an increased support for the actual release of Monsters. I feel like if you watch this series and sympathize with the subject, we’ve taken the wrong path. So, I did committ to at least one episode of this. Charlie Hunnam is definitely getting an Emmy Nomination. No question. Laura Linney seems well positioned if her character continues to appear. the audio description is great. I don’t want to see this. I just don’t. I’m not scared of it, I’m scared of where Murphy will take it, following Monsters. It’s a hard sell after the first episode for people to fall in love with Ed gein, but I’m not looking forward to exploring him at all. One and done. Removed from watchlist. However, if this is your thing, the audio description was solid. it probably could lean in even more on the gore in a few areas, especially toward the end with the description of that body, but it wasn’t bad. I just know this dude eventually wears human skin, so… you might as well get people ready for it.

From- On the other hand, we have From, which has certainly had some crazy gore in its three season run, but is just a better told and supported story. yes, it is fictional, but it is also damn near perfect at times. It continues to build more lore than answers, and ends on a note of another impossibility. No character deaths for a change, which was fine since the previous episode ended on such a disturbing and weird death. Really good audio description.

dexter- I had a very macabre Saturday. Dexter is also a show about a serial killer that is far easier to sit with than monster, because he’s fictional, and also trying to stop other killers. Dexter also doesn’t eat anyone or wear them. So, the bar is low, and he clears it, even in a creatively weak sixth season. Lumen didn’t ruin dexter, but Season 6 might have.

My Life With The Walter Boys- In this episode, we find out the Walter boys are all serial killers. Damn. I needed something lighter. By the way… didn’t the Walter family have a daughter? Where is she? I swear they had a girl in Season 1. Was she abducted? Where is Parker? we’re stuck on a dozen storylines, and it seems like Parker got sidelined pretty hard. Alex does rodeo, there’s still drama over the use of the land for tourism, and Jackie is stuck in a will she or won’t she with a Walter.

Next Gen Chef- Not even trying to hide the fact that it is knocking off top chef, we enter into what is essentially restaurant Wars where the remaining contestants are asked to come up with an idea for a fast casual restaurant. Then two ideas win, and those chefs pick their teams and open their restaurants. You know, like in restaurant wars. I think this also might be the end of this show for me. Netflix can have a reality competition cooking show, but if it can’t come up with a new twist, it doesn’t get to copy an existing one.

Pop Culture Jeopardy- first of the three semifinals. I’m so close to the end I can taste it.Props to roundabout which has won me over in their ability to audio describe game shows. You would think it would be easy, but you would be wrong.