RIP James Van Der Beek. I most certainly will have Dawson’s Creek on my diary tomorrow.

TV Shows Watched: What I Like About You: S1E1 (Netflix) no audio description, The Pitt: S2E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Steal: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Runaway: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description

What I Like About You- Before I knew I’d be jumping back in on Dawson’s Creek, the Amanda Bynes show was front and center Wednesday morning. the pilot episode has one of the guys talking at length about how he can swallow anything, and is really good at swallowing. After watching Quiet On Set, that whole set of lines landed totally different. However, although it doesn’t have audio description, this is Amanda’s best work on TV. She’s super likable and energetic. I miss that girl.

The Pitt- Easily the best thing I watched, as the doctors are likely very unprepared to handle another hospital going Code Black.Nice audio description.

Steal- I’m bored. The thing about shows is watching enough to review it, but also reaching a point where you’d rather watch other things. It’s not bad, I’m just not impressed by a show that thinks it has a magic trick, when it really doesn’t.

Runaway- Like I’ve felt with every other Harlan Cobin series, I feel unsatisfied here as well. His shows never go to a second season, for good reason. I’m behind on reviews anyway, so I spare this. Neither this nor Steal really captured my excitement, but neither are terrible. There are better shows.

The Beauty- the WTF show of the moment as Ryan Murphy tries to rebuild street cred after Alls Fair, with a campy gory monstrosity that feels like The Substance, if it had been made by the guy who also made Alls Fair. HOWEVER. I’m a fair motherfucker. this AD track is the best thing VerbIt has done, and the best show this narrator (or AI) has voiced. It’s got so much really specific, truly odd gore, that the team finally is leaning in. This is what I was missing from peacock’s Revival. This is… a great track. The way the body was captured at the beginning, and the bathtub sequence at the end, are so over the top, but so much specificity was brought in instead of broad strokes or generalizations. Thank you.