Coming up this week are a ton of film premieres including Mercy (Amazon) on Sunday, Anaconda (Netflix) and Primate (Paramount) on Wednesday, and Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice (Hulu) on Friday. The jury is still out as to whether or not Bambi: The Reckoning (Peacock) will have audio description on Friday, but unless a miracle happened, Sentimental Value (Hulu) on Monday will not.

In terms of series, Sunday brings the long awaited return of The Comeback (HBO) while PBS takes a swing at The Count Of MOnte Cristo. Tuesday evening willl bring us the first new episode of Daredevil: Born Again’s second season on Disney Plus, and Friday has the return of For All Mankind (Apple). There’s also new shows on the block, like a new faith based limited The Faithful (FOX) which starts tonight, the importing of SNL: UK to Peacock, Riz Ahmed in Bait, and Something Bad Is Going To Happen (Netflix), which is produced by The Duffer Brothers (the guys who did Stranger Things). Lots to watch.

TV Shows Watched: The Abandons: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, Rooster: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Cross: S2E3 (Amazon) with audio description, The Last Thing He Told Me: S2E2 (Apple) with audio description, Marshals: S1E1 (Paramount) with audio description, and Elzabeth: S3E10 (Paramount) with audio description

The Abandons- In case anyone cares, this got the axe. Apparently, Kurt Sutter cared, since he vented about Netflix’s cancellation of the series. Maybe if Sutter had stayed on and finished the first season, it would be a bit more intelligible and have earned a renewal. As it stands, it is this thankless work by Dakota Green and Jabari Grey, who actually make a nice audio description track for this failed western. It has a great cast, but no direction.

Rooster- Something is up with Steve Carell’s voice in this. But, this is a fairly harmless, occasionally charming comedy that sees Carell’s author head to a college for a possible temporary job and also to fix his daughter’s life. He writes trashy romance novels, and Gen Z is there to rip his work to shreds. The audio description was OK. I wish I could think of a standout moment other than the fire. The fire kinda took all the space in my head, for a good reason.

Cross- Still not my favorite thing, I’m really trying to get into this Alex Cross adaptation. I feel like my entire interpretation of this character is defined by Morgan Freeman, and Kiss The Girls, which Ashely Judd now hates. Take Kiss The Girls out of her resume, and do we ever really know who Ashely Judd was?

The Last Thing He Told Me- We seem to be getting more Owen this season, meanwhile our step mother/step daughter duo remains on the run, after learning in the season premiere they aren’t as safe as was promised last season. the AD here is fine, and the second season is about what I remember the vibe being from the first season I’ve nearly totally forgotten.

Marshals- This Yellowstone spinoff takes a few OG characters, led by Casey Dutton (Luke Grimes), but also retaining his son Tate, and there were some others like Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater in the premiere. However, one notable big swing was to kill off Casey’s wife at the literal beginning of the series. Somewhere in the 15 months between the series finale of Yellowstone and the premiere of Marshals, she got cancer due to toxic chemicals polluting the environment coming from a mine, and died. Other than that, the show feels like Yellowstone merging with a CBS procedural, taking Casey and shoving him into an FBI/NCIS format. It isn’t Yellowstone, but it’ll do for fans of Casey. The audio description is also really good, which helps.

Elzabeth- The Nutcracker episode. A solid episode where a dad goes too far for his daughter, and Alec may not be exactly who he says he is. I’m not a huge fan of the rotating set of officers she’s been paired with this season, as some fans also have expressed online. She really does need a constant, like she had in the first season.