Coming up this week, Season 2 of Your Friends and Neighbors (Apple) on Friday, Season 3 of XO Kitty (Netflix) on Thursday, and a brand new Real Housewives spinoff, this time in Rhode Island (Bravo) on Thursday. several films drop this week as well, including The Testament Of Ann Lee (Hulu) on Tuesday, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Netflix) on Tuesday, Crime 101 (Amazon) on Wednesday, and the new Pizza Movie (Hulu) on Friday.

TV Shows Watched: Vladimir: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Pluribus: S1E7 (Apple) with audio description, High Potential: S2E12 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Heated Rivalry: S1E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, The Last Thing He Told Me: S2E3 (Apple) with audio description, RJ Decker: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Matlock: S2E11 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Abbott Elementary: S5E12 (Disney Plus) with audio description

Vladimir- This is a cute show. I’m anxious to see how the sexual whatever investigation against John Slattery’s character fits into a story about “The Professor” lusting after her new co-worker. The audio description here is nice, especially in her vivid fantasies.

Pluribus- Carol road trips across America juxtaposed with a man traversing South America, even eventually having to walk, to save the world. A somewhat interesting episode that ends in an intriguing way with Carol realizing she doesn’t want to be alone. Lovely audio description.

High Potential- Was the car dealer framed for murder? And who is the creepy guy stalking Morgan? High Potential was recently renewed for a third season, which I predicted.

Heated Rivalry- This show grows on me even more. Honestly, this was the best episode yet, seeing these two crazy kids finally admitting their feelings, their relationship, and desire for a future together. I wish the audio description for this wasn’t this weird droning text to speech voice. How this show became a pop culture phenomenon with shitty audio description is beyond me, but then again, peacock did three seasons of The traitors before paying humans to do audio description.

The Last Thing He Told Me- I did like this episode, which got into a bit more of Hannah’s past, introducing Carol (Rita Wilson) as her mother she hasn’t seen in a while, but turns out to be a big help to her and Owen. Speaking of, Owen finally reunites with his family, but for how long? Also, if they are so out in the middle of nowhere, spotting a car behind you at the end is an immediate red flag, but this show ignores it. Just saying. The audio description here was fine, and I loved seeing Rita Wilson.

RJ Decker- The man with seemingly no particular set of skills continues to investigate. This time, his friend Wish asks him to look into an innocent family friend who has been accused of feeding a dead body to plants. Feed Me Seymour. the audio description on this show sucks. It just does. Wish is standing in a room with a naked or half naked girl for too long before it is ever mentioned in the audio description. Decker is punched in the face, something the description never acknowledged, and just lets us figure it out for ourselves. Lots of lazy choices. Also, Decker is shot in North Carolina almost exclusively, despite taking place in Fort Lauderdale. Nothing really ever wants to shoot here.

Matlock- Maddie reckons with maybe starting to like Julian. Olivia has a case she needs to win, and has an uncomfortable conversation with Senior. Sarah is constantly conflicted. Maddie’s husband is the most adorable character sometimes. He ends up going to a class to learn Italian. Shay makes a bad call. The audio description was solid.

Abbott Elementary- Always lackluster audio description, we’re introduced to the power of the two lunch people, because either Abbott is poor, or they don’t have the capacity to have too many characters. While the kids don’t smile for pictures, the adults also deal with their own image issues and end up heavily touching up their pictures.