TV Shows Watched: Black Mirror: S5E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Black rabbit: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Task: S1E5 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Dr Seuss’s Horton: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball: S1E11 (Hulu) with audio description, and last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet.

Black Mirror- Striking Vipers offers up an interesting premise, but as with most black Mirror episodes, it scrapes the surface. As a gamer, I immediately had a lot of questions about this game because having been a gamer before losing sight, it is impossible to play with random on a law of averages without playing with a minor. So obviously, what happens in the game… and the fact that one of the characters mentions they did, in fact, play with randoms, makes me wish they had directly tackled that. The episode actually takes a different turn at the end, but there’s almost a connection they could have made, as Mackie’s character became a father, to his son playing on the console, and him having a full circle moment of realization of what this all means, and a larger dissection of the premise. Instead, it is a conversation on bros making a choice I really don’t think many would have.

Black Rabbit- We catch up finally to the heist, and we see which characters were behind the masks and also who doesn’t make it out alive. Because the revelations have such deep repercussions, this is not the end of the show. On another note, audio description often does a lot with facial expressions and body movement. Realizing how much Troy is in this, I wish the AD had supported his character more. the AD we got for Coda supported a lot of the choices he made as an actor, including that affecting moment where he puts his head to his daughter’s chest to feel the vibrations of her singing. I feel like the audio description is doing nearly everything perfectly, but the more I’m with his character, the more I realize we really don’t get much from him. You know… the Oscar winning actor. in fact, the only Oscar winning actor in the cast.

Task- Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelfrey spend a lot of time together.I thought Ruffalo here really soared in overplaying just how old his character is, and how unassuming. I totally didn’t realize Ruffalo was as old as he is. 57. Time flies.The scene with the guy at the house while Sam was there too was really tense.

Dr Seuss’s Horton- I reviewed Red Fish blue Fish, so why not? This one actually, oddly enough, feels more like a preschool show. It feels like The Lion Guard, where they take characters and make them younger and have them go on adventures. Horton is joined by other Seuss characters, and they all talk, unlike Red Fish. The audio description is fine, but a different team than Red Fish. It also can’t be as verbose, because the characters here do talk. If you have little ones, and they watch things like Jake and the Neverland Pirates, the Lion Guard, or any other preschool type show where you aren’t directly there for learning, but the age demographic is clear, they’ll like this.

The Wonderfully weird World of Gumball- In contrast, you may like this one as an adult, if you are really into adult animation. It isn’t as risqué as some other adult animation shows, but the humor is a lot broader for older audiences, and caters less to younger kids. I think if you are too young, a lot of the gags, or themes, won’t make sense. This episode was about being desensitized to how the media manipulates you. that isn’t a preschool concept. Age rage here is probably 10+, but maybe 8?

Last Week tonight- John Oliver dissects Presidential Libraries. My favorite part was in the Bad bunny reactions, we watched a TV host be educated in real time by their guest that Puerto Rico is part of America, therefore, Bad bunny is American. One of the rare times I really wish I could have seen the specific look on her face, realizing she was live on air, and made to look like a fool. That moment? priceless. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.