TV Shows Watched: Man On Fire: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Margo’s Got Money Troubles: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, The Bear: S5E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Scarpetta: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Ted: S2E4 (Peacock) with audio description, SNL: Matt Damon (Peacock) with audio description, Running Point: S2E8 (Netflix) with audio description
Man On Fire- The show is doing a really bad job at Scoot McNairy’s character, but watching Creasy check into a bunch of hotels to see who is tracking him was smart. I’m shocked this still hasn’t been picked up for a second season, as Netflix reminds me it is on their Most Liked list. The audio description from IDC, written by Steven Christopher, narrated by Sri Gordon is consistent. I liked The whole scene with Nico trying to get what he needed from Beto’s place and the little jump from the window.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles- This series is going to break my heart with Nick Offerman, I can feel it. He’s so good in this. Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfieffer are too. The audio description, now that Margo’s videos are getting more involved are well described, as is the opening title sequence. There’s some nice audio description here. I think it’s PixelLogic narrated by Darren Polish.
The Bear- Roy is still doing some nice work here too. There’s a sleight inflection when the chef’s are putting ingredients together that was the perfect amount of interpretation. This season is boring me to death though. If I had only been provided the first three episodes for review, I would not be writing a fresh review. This feels like one episode lazily split into three.
Scarpetta- Jamie Lee Curtis is getting more screentime as she finds a joint, and we continue to poorly hop timelines. The timeline thing is this shows biggest struggle because it takes away from our major stars in Kidman, Curtis, and Cannavale, and lets the younger lesser known actors take up far too much screentime. The AD here is pretty great when she stumbles on a room full of organs.
Ted- This one struggles to get decent audio description because there are so many sight gags. This episode centered on Blair wanting an abortion, and Seth Macfarlane tried to thread that needle very carefully. The AD here is Vito de Phillipo but I don’t know which company. Diffuse?
SNL- The spittake thing alone was enough to earn my praise on audio description, having to track that nonsense. But, the opener was good, and some other sketches. I like it when the live narrator laughs a little, it reminds me this was live at some point.
Running Point- Kate Hudson’s character gets predictably stabbed in the back, but considering Cam is snorting cocaine openly on a basketball court, I think she’ll be fine. More great audio description, this one from DVW. The basketball scenes in this are well done.
i don’t really have a best/worst today. Ted was the weakest, but it has had worse episodes before, and this one wasn’t too bad. Everything else was great.
