TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E3 (Disney Plus) Aggressively Without Audio Description, The Mighty Nine: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, High Potential: S2E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E4 (Peacock) with audio description, His And Hers: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description

American Idol- Some good voices. A couple of really terrific singers. I really liked the guy who sang When A Man Loves A Woman.The rockers were an interesting addition, like they are trying to make rock happen again. Are they trying to reinvent the WGWG phase? Is America ready to swoon over Idol rockers again? Ever since shifting to ABC, that hasn’t been a priority. Honestly, with the exception of Chris Daughtry, most of their careers stalled anyway. I know some still make music, but I’m not sure how well Daughtry does anymore in ticket sales. Carrie, sitting right there at the table, is the top selling Idol alumni of all time. I would say, replicate that (and yes, she’s outsold Kelly).

The Mighty Nine- Almost perfect timing to watch this with A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, two shows trying to tonally shift from their previous material, and having a bit of trouble doing it. It isn’t that the Mighty Nine is bad, it is that The Legend Of Vox Machina was better, and therefore this feels even paler in comparison. It also seems to want to take on a more serious tone overall, but like the GOT extension, it balances dramatic gravitas by slapping people with dildos. I feel like.. there’s a middle ground here. Nice AD though.

High Potential- When it looked like she might be fired, I was like “LOL No”. Mid second season? That will never stick. You gotta at least make it a season cliffhanger. Still, I’m high on this show, and Caitlin Olsen’s procedural made my Best Of list over Elzabeth and Matlock. I feel like High Potential is really hitting its stride, by expanding upon the personal mystery of what happened to her husband, the introduction of a new Captain, and the multi-part art theft storyline.

St Dennis Medical- Bruce was all over this episode, so of course i loved it. Another show from my Best Of list. I hope NBC sticks with this, or kicks it to Peacock. But, please don’t pull the plug. Also, Stumble is worth keeping around.

His And Hers- Well, this is slowly slipping beneath the talents of Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, turning into an ever increasing hot mess. Episode three was like watching someone start to drown, and having the belief you won’t be able to help them. There’s so much silly stuff now, which propagates into stilted or silly dialogue, plot points that exist to be salacious and push boundaries for no other reason than to push them, ad the idea, the initial concept has started to drift away. It could just be the one episode, but it also might indicate that this show is headed predictably into a brick wall.

The Daily Show- If this was Mortal Kombat, this would have been Jon Stewarts fatality. He took the idea that there’s an unnecessary uproar over the racist video, and pulled it into a conservative firestorm over an Olympic athlete who is just not enthused to be representing America in its current state, which is seen as somehow demeaning America, and then followed it with a supercut of every nasty thing the President has ever had about the country (which was a lot). then, asked them basically, who are the snowflakes now? Stewart Wins. Fatality.