In case you missed it, Paramount cancelled the NCIS spinoff Tony and Ziva. Also recently cancelled was Apple TV’s The Last Frontier, and Netflix’s Boots. I bring this up, because I started a series that Netflix cancelled after they had already finished the second season, so while I jumped back into Tomb Raider, they jumped out of it. Surprisingly, HBO hasn’t picked up Welcome To Dairy, which based on its viewership, it just insane. I’d say criminally insane, but it isn’t. It should be though. Most shows would kill to have those viewership numbers for a linear premiere next day air show.

TV Shows Watched: Tomb Raider: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Stumble: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description, Pluribus: S1E2 (Apple TV) with audio description, Rob Reiner: Scenes From A Life (Paramount Plus) no audio description, A Man On The Inside: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description

Tomb Raider- the AD is a bit anemic for this style of show, but plenty of people like flat audio description. The second season deals with Lara trying to retrieve an artifact from her father’s collection which she already donated, and perhaps there’s more to this artifact than meets the eye.

Stumble- A funny show. I was charmed by the premiere, and I continue to be. I wonder if this show can work well enough for NBC. Though if I had to choose between this and St Dennis Medical, I’d give the hospital crew a ten season order. Headed to the farmer’s market?

Pluribus- This show is the new hotness, I can feel it. I can see this being a new obsession, like Severance. In the second episode, we see what happens when Carol (Rhea Seahorn) gets too angry. In the second episode, she is resolved to meet some of the others who aren’t part of the “we”, and that may not go as she expects, and not everyone may share her opinion on the state of the world. Excellent audio description, and a brilliant show.

Rob Reiner: Scenes From A Life- Considering they threw this together in a week, not bad. It jumps around, and sometimes being first isn’t the best. Although, ABC has already aired a Reiner special focusing more on the murders. I was more drawn to this, because it barely mentions what happened, and focuses on his life, and his big hits. Considering CBS leans right, I’m surprised they didn’t get James Woods to discuss his relationship with Reiner, and represent Ghosts Of Mississippi, which earned Woods an Oscar nomination. The talent that participated were Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Kathy Bates, Mandy Patinkin, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, and Albert Brooks. there’s a lot of archival footage here too, but I could tell those were all new interviews. They just totally ignored half his career, barely grazed All In the family, never even mentioned Penny Marshall, his first wife. It was so odd. I appreciate the effort, but considering the head of CBS News just made headlines for withholding a piece about the horrors of that El Salvadorian jail we keep sending migrants too, because “it wasn’t ready”, I’d argue this wasn’t ready. No mention of The Sure Thing? You couldn’t get John Cusack or Anthony Edward’s? And I think Billy Crystal was missing, which just is a big WTF for this. Who represented When Harry Met Sally? Ghosts Of Mississippi is an Oscar nominated film. Other actors have spoken about their love of Rob, and this felt lazy, opportunistic, and to quote the new head of CBS News “not ready”. The only thing I can say, is that Many Patinkin clearly is not OK. Someone hug him.

A Man On The Inside- I’ve been programmed to hear certain narrators and associate them with low quality AD. So, I’m paying attention here, but other than the missed opportunity on the size of the needle in this episode, which I’m told was comically large, I think the AD was fine. I’m not sure Vito screams “comedy”, but he keeps being given sitcoms. He’d be a solid documentary narrator, and lord knows there are plenty of documentaries and docuseries.