TV Shows Watched: The Boys: S5E7 (Amazon) with audio description, American Classic: S1E4 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Stranger Things: Tales From 85: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description,We’ll Be Fine: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description,and The Madison: S1E3 (Paramount) with audio description

The Boys- one big death, a few minor deaths. One more episode to go. A big name actor swung in for a surprising cameo, if it hasn’t been spoiled for you yet. You’ll recognize the voice. Some surprising turns for most of the characters headed into the finale as Homelander has achieved God Mode.The audio description is great as usual, having to explain a Starlight branded dildo, or how She-Line maintains certain cat like behaviors. A face we haven’t seen since last season returned, and two of the Gen V cast make a brief appearance.Absent from the episode, still, was Ryan, who likely has totally gone off the grid with his girlfriend. I feel like The Boys is missing an opportunity to have the three generations, Soldier Boy, Homelander, and Ryan all in the same scene. Only one episode left to do it.

American Classic- The most expensive version of Our Town gets some funding when Kevin Kline’s character compromises on casting. Laura Linney sings Big Spender. This is a sleeper hit of a show I’m sure most haven’t seen, but I like it a lot. The audio description seems fine, but it isn’t a flashy episode (or show).

Stranger Things: Tales From 85- I didn’t like episode 3 as much, and the new characters they introduced for the animated series aren’t roping me in as much as they should. The voice talent behind Lucas is pretty weak, but the ones trying to match Max and Dustin are on point. The audio description from IDC is predictably great.

We’ll Be Fine- This was like watching an alien approximazation of humans. I know it’s dubbed, and the dubbing sounds pretty natural, but there’s something about the structure, the sentence structure, the plot, and the beats from this Turkish import that feels as if AI or an alien wrote it. This can’t be conceived by humans, right? When things start reminding me of The Room, that’s cause for alarm. I won’t review it as a gift of kindness to Turkish people, and the show does have what I believe is human audio description, but I wanted to drown myself during the pilot. I couldn’t even cohesively tell you what its about, because the beginning is so weird, then there’s a party, and I guess the wife hooked up with this other guy, and now they are checking out his apartment… and my mind was actively trying to explode from my head to get away from this.

The Madison- Michelle Pfieffer is bound and determined to teach her daughter’s life lessons her husband wouldn’t let her, so she stops coddling her adult kids, and one of them ends up finding a hot widowed local police officer.The AD here is great, as are most Taylor Sheridan shows.