A couple of notable titles headed your way this week. In terms of film, Scream 7 hits Paramount Plus on Thursday, The Moment comes to HBO MAX on Friday, and Love You, Miss You premieres on HBO on Friday starring Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells. Some shows finishing this week include The Testaments (Hulu) on Wednesday, Hacks (HBO MAX) on Thursday, and Half Man (HBO MAX) on Thursday. Among the returning shows this week, A Good Girls Guide To Murder (NEtflix) launches its second season on Wednesday, while The Four Seasons returns to Netflix on Thursday. Deli Boys are back for Season 2 on Thursday, Rick and Morty start Season 9 on Sunday on Adult Swim (later to be on HBO MAX), and the cancelled Brilliant Minds returns to the NBC schedule. In terms of new shows, all eyes are on Spider-noir (MGM Plus) which is airing all of its episodes linear on Memorial Day, set for a Prime Video launch of Wednesday. There’s also the For All Mankind spinoff Star City (Apple) which launches on Friday, the same day For All Mankind drops its season finale.

TV Shows Watched: The Bouroughs- S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Imperfect WOmen: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E10 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Dutton Ranch: S1E2 (Paramount) with audio description, Celebrity Jeopardy: Final SemiFinal (Disney Plus) with audio description, and Running Point: S2E3 (Netflix) with audio description

The Bouroughs- I’m trying to spell it the way it is supposed to be. You think you know a show, take it out a few times, then the name has betrayed you, and they did something creative and different. Sheesh. Even now, I had to fight the spell correct to get it to stay like that. The third episode gets freakier, and if you aren’t watching, you should be. The mystery deepens, the cast starts working together, and Geena Davis is acknowledged as still having sex appeal at 70. Good for her. The audio description is great, and there are these little clues along the way, like the logo on the box. I have thoughts in my head about where this is headed, but I’m staying incredibly vague since the show is so new.

Imperfect Women- While I’d love to believe the series just showed us the killer, and also a wonderful performance from the always reliable Elizabeth Moss, I wonder if, with two episodes left, it is that simple.I’ve watched too many shows to believe the last two episodes will just slow walk to the inevitable ending.

Will Trent- The gang looks into a murder at a frat, and things get twisty. Interestingly enough, I didn’t feel Ike Will was the lead of this episode, with the series putting a lot more on Angie and Faith. Maybe that was just my vibe, but the big moments just didn’t belong to Will, which was fine. Roy is narrating this, but ironically, I sat to the end, and there are no credits, at least for this episode. So weird. No company or narrator. It’s a mystery. I can solve part of it, because Roy has done a ton of tracks, but after just having to justify that the narrator of Abbott Elementary is human (Vito de Phillipo) and Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord (Dave Wallace), credits are becoming more important as those who casually listen to audio description are starting to assume it’s all AI, and anytime there’s something they don’t like, it must have been a robot. Sadly, no. that isn’t always the case. Credits matter, y’all.

Dutton Ranch- Like, here, for example, I know this is Media Access Group. I don’t know how to feel about the show yet, as our mega-producers like Taylor Sheridan, Ryan Murphy, and Tyler Perry are stretching themselves too thin. I loved Kelly Reilly as Beth when she was impossible to predict, and now she’s settled into a blase rhythm. Even her feud with Beulah (Annette Bening) feels like she lacks the energy to burn the place to the ground. Beth used to fuck shit up on Yellowstone. Getting married doesn’t mean she loses her fire, it should mean she has a sometimes partner in crime, and also sometimes a person to talk to in order to balance her out. If Beth doesn’t blow some shit up soon, I’m gonna give up. It’s sad seeing Taylor Sheridan’s best character (Yes, I said it) get tamed into submission. That is not Beth. Never was, never has been. Sure, she can be pretty, sexy, flirty, and caring, but if you cross her, she never thought twice.

Celebrity Jeopardy- now THIS is AI slop. And, weirdly, like right at the end during Final Jeopardy came this burst of description while the contestants wrote down their clues, which explained what that looks like, with the little privacy screens so they can’t see what the others are writing.I was gobsmacked. This AD has been universally useless, and it sounds awful, and then some guy stumbled in and wrote some actual description? He didn’t phone it in entirely? Why the sudden burst? I’m so confused.This is not human. I’ve heard it read things before that were clearly typos, but it didn’t know or couldn’t figure it out, so it just read what was inputted.

Running Point- And to cap off my day, I ended it with Nefertiti. I felt like I was recognizing the voice, and then I heard the credits. Of course. I won’t say this is the most robust audio description I heard, as Running Point has the problem most comedies have in the episode being dialogue driven, which compresses the available time to do audio description, but if I remember correctly, this was a show that kicked off its second season by well-describing new characters, and giving some race/ethcnic description we so rarely get. In this episode, a friendship is put to the test. And based on how it ended, the friend that got pulled away may be second guessing why she was chosen in the first place.