TV Shows watched: High Potential: S2E7 (Disney plus) with audio description, Chad Powers: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Anne Rice’s Talamaska (AMC Plus) no audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Murdock: S1E4 (Disney plus) with audio description, The Chosen Adventures: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description

High Potential- The Fall Finale. The Thomas crown Affair meets High Potential as an art piece goes missing, and it’s up to our team to recover it. but when the insurance company associated with the owners of the painting sends in a recovery expert, it starts becoming a case of can Morgan spot all the clues? this episode ends on a cliffhanger, unresolved, for the spring season when it resumes. The audio description was mostly just fine. I didn’t have any major questions. Sometimes High Potential is done at an acceptable level, and sometimes it is missing some choices. This one was fine.

Chad Powers- My favorite new thing in this world only has six episodes. Since it doesn’t resolve, I really hope Hulu renews this, and with more than six episodes next time. Glen Powell is fantastic. I definitely feel like I’m going to review this. I don’t know what its Tomatometer score is, but I love Chad Powers. It could be at a zero, and I’d still go to bat for it.

talamaska- AMC Plus shows are a varying range of unwatchable but likely great television. I’ve seen Interview With A Vampire’s first two seasons,but not any other Anne rice material. this one has a cameo from someone from Interview. In terms of a pilot episode, without audio description, if I’m being honest, I wasn’t absolutely miserable like I was the last season of Daryl Dixon. it does a lot of set up and explaining, and has a lot of walk and talk moments where our lead is being recruited by the Talamaska, and learns about what this secret society is, and why him. HE’s also clairvoyant, so he can hear what people are thinking, further filling the spaces. I do not know how this series will play out long term, considering the Talamaska deal with Vampires, Demons, Ghosts, Witches, (but not zombies), and it’s going to eventually really lean into those horror elements. interview With A vampire has some really intelligible dialogue sequences, but also has things that scream to be audio described. I would never tell someone to get AMC Plus for a non-audio described show, but if you were wondering about this and already have it for some reason, the pilot isn’t the least watchable thing on the planet.

House Of Guinness- After eight episodes, I don’t know if I care enough to review it. Between Chad Powers and House Of Guinness, plus the shows I’m still behind on (and movies), I might just let this go. It isn’t a bad show, but it could be dull enough at times that I wouldn’t give it a fresh, but I also wouldn’t give it a very low rotten score. I just can’t give it that warm hug of endorsement. I’d rather watch other things, and if there was a second season, I’m not sure I’d come back.

Murdock- Alec is starting to reap what he sews in the fourth episode. People are finally starting to see beyond the last name. He’s facing mounting pressure, his housekeeper just died, and people still want justice for Steven Smith.

The Chosen Adventures- I’ve been sleeping on this voice cast. I happened to notice thanks to X-ray that Paul Walter hauser was in the voice cast. I just assumed they got some random voice actors for this. Nope. Jordan Sparks and Yvonne Orji . I’m still not finding any problems with this new replacement for veggieTales.

The Daily Show- Stewart kills it for the first half, then sits down with Joe Mansion. Man, that guy tried to seem as folksy as ever. We’ve skipped over how he went from rural and poor to multi-millionaire. I wonder how many “of the people” things he still retains from his stories about whitewashing (not used metaphorically, but like actual Tom Sawyer whitewashing) his grandmother’s basement as she took in the train jumpers.