TV Shows Watched: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: S1E3 (HBO mAX) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, and Steal: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms- I still refuse to stand down on my stance that this show has problems in tonal shifts. It relishes in potty humor, and then also nearly rapes a woman, and curb stomps a man. Like, pick a lane. And normally, I wouldn’t think too much about the episode starting with a shitting horse, except… that’s how the first episode started, just with a human. Someone here has a fetish they are working out, and it is killing this show.

Wonder Man- I’m still annoyed, but this was fantastic. Episode 4 is almost entirely a stand alone, as Wonder Man references another powered individual who tried to act, and it did not go well in the end. Watching this episode was heartbreaking, but I would recommend watching the stuff that leads up to it. There are themes running through the first three episodes that are made better when reinforced by episode 4. This show is terrific, and while Disney ignored me, I’ve reached the point of being beyond jokes. This is a blast, and better than any Marvel TV project from 2025. All of them. Yes, all of them.

The Beauty- Ryan Murphy saw The Substance. It’s as silly and trashy as you’ll come to expect from Ryan Murphy, with the over the top gore of The substance. I’m going to blow minds here. Unles this track is straight up lying, it is actually a really great track. It is surprising, because it is that female voice that is never credited by constantly is used by Diffuse and other lazy AD companies. One of these companies apparently accidentally hired a talented writer, or someone is tired of me dragging them. the first couple minutes of this are non-stop description, and it is sublime. Fucking sublime. I will give credit where it is due. There’s also a scene later in the episode with Jeremy Pope’s character, and that was also, superb. the show does have some audio ducking, but it isn’t of consequence, I just don’t want people to think I didn’t hear it. I didn’t say the mix was brilliant, but the writing… finally.. might just be. This series, however, is batshit crazy. If you watched The substance and you wondered to yourself… what if instead of this being a Best picture nominee, it was instead repurposed via an adaptation of a similar graphic novel, and funneled through the guy who thought All’s Fair was something he needed to share with the world, and decided the story of Ed Gein wasn’t interesting enough to stand on its own so he made shit up. That guy. The same guy who got people wondering if maybe we shouldn’t reintroduce the Menendez Brothers to society, and inevitably a Bravo show. The guy who admitted they might be lying, but dedicated an entire episode to a character discussing traumatic sexual abuse of which none of it might he ever have experienced. That guy. if you wanted that due to make the Substance, then you’re in luck. I weep for Rebecca Hall, as I mourn the loss of dignity of Glenn Close and Naomi Watts while I watch All’s Fair.

Splinter Cell- My reaction is the same. I wish I had binged this. I forget what was happening. I don’t even know why I keep moving forward. I feel like I should wait for Season 2, and just binge Season 1 then.

Steal- So, yes, it has AD, all the way through. This episode I did on an Apple device, and experienced no issues. I didn’t have to turn AD on, and when I paused it, the AD came back. There must be a glitch in the Roku app. Solid audio description, but nowhere near the other four shows.