TV Shows Watched: Black Rabbit: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Twisted Metal: S2E11 (Peacock) with audio description, Task: S1E7 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Boots: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Sausage party: S2E8 (Amazon) with audio description, Last Week Tonight: Most recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet

Black rabbit- What a great day of TV. Black Rabbit is an excellent way to start the day, as it consistently proves itself to e one of the most engaging shows on television right now. there’s a twist here about Vince’s past and something from his childhood which I’m sure is going to dramatically color the finish to this series. Again, some really terrific audio description. I think this will be a contender come Emmy’s and also the Golden Globes. Bateman and Law feel like one must get a Globe nomination between them, but which one?

Twisted Metal- Tired of discussing the audio description to this, I’ll just say I constantly give notes about size relativity, and I needed more of that with the final boss here. Also, I’ll finish the season, but I’m assuming this is the final season. As it stands, based on this episode, they took a chess piece off the board that is a dealbreaker for me. So, I’m either expecting a course correction if they want a third season, or I couldn’t care a less if this got cancelled or not.

Task- A grueling and brutal episode. It’s amazing how much happens, and there’s still like 45 minutes left. This thing opens guns blazing, an then after all this shit, you realize they haven’t even given you the title card yet. The ending of this is nice. I assume next week is the finale, and Ruffalo is coming for vengeance. Excellent series, great audio description.

Boots- I thought this was going to lean more on the sitcom angle, but it takes a bit more of a serious approach to the subject, while bringing some levity. It’s a show about a gay kid who joins the Marines with his best friend on a recruitment deal where if they join together, they’ll continue to be placed together. Some troubling stuff happens in the first episode, but it just made me realize I was in for more of a ride than I got from Norman Lear’s second to last sitcom, which was the failed Laverne Cox show on Amazon from earlier this year. Yes, Norman Lear’s final show is Boots.

Sausage Party- I’d say they leave it open for a third season, should Amazon want one. I’m not sure we need it. I’m not sure we need any of this. some of it is really clever though.

Last Week tonight- John Oliver spent most of the episode dissecting the new head of CBS News, and he’s right. This is not a journalist, and this is further blurring the lines of what is news, and what isn’t. It also had him reminding his viewers that he isn’t news, no matter how well researched his stuff is, and it made me think about how many (admittedly, like me) get their news from shows like Last Week tonight and The Daily Show, which process some heavy stories with humor so it doesn’t feel like a constant doom scroll. Even the news I do watch, I’m still specific about who the host is, because the shit is already bleak, and I don’t need someone leaning in on it. As an LGBTQ member, I’ll say I specifically hate this bitch based on her attempt at a joke. She tries to find common ground with a group of conservative republicans by opening with the room agreeing that her marriage to another woman shouldn’t be legal, but laughing it off as OK, because they want to lower taxes. Your human rights and rights of those like you come first, not party politics and sucking up to contributors. Could you imagine a black man making a joke at a clan rally? “I know some of you believe I shouldn’t exist, but at least we all love the south, am I right?” The first thing is far more important. Laughing about how a room full of people view you as a second class citizen, who isn’t worthy of basic rights and equality, is not a punchline. then again, for a lesbian who doesn’t seem to realize she’s the token one in the room to continue to rail against DEI, perhaps her problem isn’t so much the lack of self awareness, but the lack of situational awareness about why she is where she is to begin with. For the same reason many people have “a black friend”, the right can’t be homophobic because… her. I hate her, and everyone else that is willing to sell out their own equality to be used as a political prop. Now she runs an entire news organization. I can’t wait for the breaking news stories to come out of that mind. If she’s willing to sell herself to the highest bidder, imagine all the other things she’s willing to compromise for a whole lot less.