Never Forget.

Yesterday, Netflix surprisingly axed Ransom canyon, which dipped over 40% from Season 1 to season 2. It is a recurring problem with streaming TV. The longer the wait, the bigger the drop. Despite feeling like it fit perfectly along Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias, with a dash of the Taylor Sheridan vibe, Ransom canyon couldn’t buy its audience back.

Also, in blind news, sighted gamers are complaining about the existence of accessibility within the new Wolverine game, and Neon’s Hope topped Spider-Man: Brand New Day in its first day of release, despite not having an English Audio Description track.

TV Shows Watched: Lucky: S1E7 (Apple) with audio description, My Brilliant Career: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Shards: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, A Tale Of Two cities: S1E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description, and Tracker: Season 3 finale (Paramount) with audio description.

Lucky/Tracker- Both wrapped for me, and I hope to review both. lucky has a great cast, with good audio description from Pixel Logic. Tracker gets better when Jensen Ackles is around, and Media Access Group does some solid work here reliably everytime.

My brilliant career- This is predictably becoming the show where the untameable woman is tamed by a man she initially didn’t like, who was unattainable, but now they are oh so caught up in each other. Ben there done that. VSI does do some nice audio description.

The Shards- Not a big fan of introducing a disabled girl that has Tourette’s and then making her presumably a victim. I know they are hoping to be picked up for a second season, but I’m not convinced I’ll finish the first. The audio description is fine though, and did some cool stuff with the lizard at the end.

A Tale of two Cities- Boring, but the audio description was great. Deluxe is doing this, and I guess when it is technically an import from the UK, Deluxe gives their writers over there credit. So, a writer and narrator were credited. It’s so good, that even though the one narrator is doing heavy lifting by describing and reading French subtitles, she does such a lovely job with it, and the writing is strong. But, I’m so glad I never read the classic Charles Dickens novel because this was a slog.

Best AD: A Tale Of Two Cities. Nothing deserves to be called the worst based on audio description alone, so it is only praise today.