ABC goes for a clean sweep, renewing every scripted series they aired in the 2026-2027 season. RJ Decker officially got picked up. This has never happened before. Are you excited for more RJ Decker?

TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord- S1E10 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Lord Of The Flies: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Audacity: S1E2 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Bel Air: S4E5 (Peacock) with audio description, American Gladiators: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, and The Lincoln Lawyer: S4E5 (Netflix) with audio description

Maul: Shadow Lord- I already did a full review. Again, I’m sad that I’m just now helping you find this. I’m kidding. Kind of.

Lord Of THe Flies- I don’t love this adaptation, though I read this book like 30 years ago. So, I don’t vividly remember it. The kids, for the most part, feel too happy most of the time. It isn’t until near the end of the second episode where it really starts to finally hit them. Their plane crashed. The audio description is OK, but I’m pretty sure Netflix acquired the series, and whatever AD came along with it.

The Audacity- Really, AMC? You are expanding into audio description, and this show already loses AD into the second episode of the season? I’m not even watching this that close to air date. You’ve had time. This series is very mid for me. It has some ideas, but Billy Magnussen’s character is the lead, and intentionally written to be disliked, which makes him a problematic anchor for the show.

Bel Air- Will and Carlton figure out where they want to go to school, while Ashley’s friend Eli is thrown into detention because the school has no policy for non-binary dress codes. I think the dress code of my school was pretty lax. I don’t remember much except we couldn’t wear hats. Obviously, I couldn’t wear a shirt with Fuck written on it, but I lived in the kind of school that would have assumed boys and girls would dress in gender conforming attire, so non-binary kids would have been fine, until some Karen forced rules to change.

American Gladiators- I’m deeply appreciative of the existence of audio description here, but the format of the show defeats the AD. I felt this while watching American Ninja Warrior once to see what that AD was like. Because the format is so extremely physical, and there’s built in color commentary, the AD rarely has a chance to really do its thing. I used to watch the original show as a kid back when it was on USA. I’m struggling with this.

The Lincoln Lawyer- Pretty solid audio description. Mickey continues to face backlash from a system that is corrupt, and trying to get him behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. I loved the end of the episode, when Maggie has clearly just had enough. I can’t wait to see how the next episode plays out.