I’m probably the only one who got excited, but I was under the assumption Apple had moved on from Trying. Then I saw their announcement for Season 5 coming later this year. I’m so happy. It is such a wonderful little seen show.
TV Shows Watched: A good Girls Guide To Murder: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Witch Hat Atelier: S1E10 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Star City: S1E2 (Apple) with audio description, Young SHerlock: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: S2E5 (Paramount) with audio description, Mating Season: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and Love Story: S1E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description
A Good Girls Guide TO Murder- I have totally forgotten Season 1, but Emma Myers is back as Pip, and last seasons mystery is lingering hard, while a new one starts up, and one of her friends goes missing. She also turns the title of the show into the title of her new podcast,so the show is a little like Only Murders In The Building, just not funny.
Witch Hat Atelier- Global 3 employs strong writers, and this Morena Babu that has been writing the entire season really fills the space, brings the whole flavor of the world to life, and manages to make up a lot for Global 3 using AI audio description. It isn’t human narrated, and I’ve said, narration like this should make flat narrators concerned. It is very well written, mixed, and the clarity is much stronger than some of the voices Amazon uses. I do like the series.
Star City- I’m starting to be disappointed and bored, as the show that should be about the Russian side of the space race, often stalls in Russian espionage, and focused highly on making sure we know its no fun to be Russian, and everyone has to watch what they say and do. For All Mankind has some of that, but Star City is seemingly all that all the time, and it has a big problem in that two episodes in, I’m rooting for no one. Inexcusably bleak. Same AD team as For All Mankind, from what I can tell.
Young Sherlock- Sherlock and James have just restored Sherlock’s mother when Silas Holmes (Joseph Fiennes) returns home, and Sherlock has a hard time accepting that his father might not be the most honest man in the world.With suspicions of murder, Sherlock now investigates his greatest adversary to date. His own father! Love this show, and it already got picked up for a second season. The AD was really good in all those flashback moments, the ones where Sherlock was seeing things that weren’t there, and the couple of juxtapositions of them doing something at the same time as Silas. Plus, that poor butterfly.
Rise Of THe TMNT- International Digital Center is rocking this AD, and I’m still trying to finish. Leonardo gets a taste of being a hero, and wants more. He eventually goes full vigilante, which inspires his brothers to join, and soon they are trying to save a bunch of dogs from an evil lady who is working for a large cat like individual. Paramount doesn’t believe the Ninja Turtles are a strong franchise, so they axed this show when they took over.
Mating Season- An episode about dating, and it was pretty amusing. I’m still enjoying the premise, but this is a bitch of a show to narrate. It has a team that is trying to fit in as much as they can, but you can’t help but feel like things are being left out. There were even a few times, where you didn’t get a reference the first time, but they tried to squish it in later. Like, if an animal is introduced, but you don’t know what kind it is, later, it might just tell you, IF it has time.
Love Story- Ugh. Other than some critics who are apparently swept up in this, the world that was around that time doesn’t seem too amused by this. Enchanting? Really? I’ve read some of the thoughts, and I feel like we’re watching very different shows. Murphy has made so much better, but he’s at a point in his career where if we do not put our feet down, we’ll never again get the kind of quality work he was known for in the past.
