I had a massive list of shows I had at least checked out one episode from in 2025. By request, I assembled a list of shows, without forcing a specific number. On my YouTube, I listed the Non-Negotiables, a list of films I really liked last year, that I think will stay with me. Following in the same trend, here’s my list of 2025, and since I’m combining Comedy, Drama, Limited, and Reality, I went with them in order as I started them. So, here are my non-negotiable shows. Severance: Season 2 (Apple Plus) with audio description- It perhaps got … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: The Best Shows Of 2025

Disclaimer:I’m a blind film critic. Typically I watch film with audio description. I did not have one for this screening, nor am I aware if one exists. In GALECA, the Society for LGBTQ Film Critics, we do still love to nominate films every year with negligible to non-existent LGBTQ representation, almost always pushing some of the more cringey titles to the side. Despite the presence of Olivia Coleman and John Lithgow, my prediction is that this film will be forgotten come awards season. It’s a shame. Jimpa, being released by Kino Lober, stars Olivia Coleman as a photographer and mother … Continue reading Going In Blind: Jimpa

TV Shows Watched: The Traitors: S4E8 (Peacock) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, DMV: S1E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Masked Singer: S14E5 (Disney Plus) no audio description, and The Rookie: S8E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Traitors- It is so lovely to have actual competent audio description when their challenge is extremely visual. Basically, they had to recreate photographs as still life and three of the players in the tower had to guess which picture they were mimicking. No spoilers, but the one who gott murdered was a smart play by one … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/06/26

I don’t know why we have another Dracula film, but I could have said the same thing about last years Frankenstein and Wolfman films.Luc Besson just doesn’t feel like the guy to do a Dracula film. Guillermo Del toro does, but not Besson. Still, his Dracula is competent. It isn’t great, but it is competent. The story centers around a young prince in the 14th century (Caleb Landry Jones) who forsakes God and is cursed forever to live as Dracula.Jones’s performance especially if you didn’t see Bill Skarsgard lose himself in Nosferatu. Jones was better in the very eccentric DogMan, … Continue reading Luc Besson’s Dracula

TV Shows Watched: Starfleet Academy: S1E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Beast In Me: S1E5? (Netflix) with audio description, Hijack: S2E2 (Apple) with audio description, Going Dutch: S2E1 (Disney Plus) no audio description Starfleet Academy- For all the fans, this one is for you. You’ve been writing to the creators, your letters covered in tears, begging, “Sir. Dear Sirs. Can we please have a debate episode? We’re so over with space exploration, we’d love to see people in Star Trek doing mundane things our kids do in their schools.” I loved … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/05/26

TV Shows Watched: Fallout: S2E8 (Amazon) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description,The Diplomat: S3E? (Netflix) with audio description, All her Fault: S1E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and memories Of a Killer: S1E1 (Disney Plus) no audio description Fallout- Overall, a strong track from Pointe360. The finale in terms of content, no spoilers, really felt like it was trying more to set up a third season instead of a satisfying conclusion to the second. Even more unanswered questions. i think that works well for the show From, which relishes in never answering anything unless vital to … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/04/26

TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E2 (Disney Plus)Offensively Still Without Audio Description, Runaway: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Shrinking: S3E1 (Apple) with audio description, Shifting Gears: S2E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (PAramount Plus) no audio description American Idol- Disney managed to still pretend like they don’t know how to make this show accessible, while also electing a new CEO. Considering Iger keeps getting older, perhaps this one will stick. I wonder if the changing of the guard will… of course not. I’m sure the new CEO is as unbothered by the presence of content that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/03/26

TV Shows Watched: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: S1E3 (HBO mAX) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, and Steal: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms- I still refuse to stand down on my stance that this show has problems in tonal shifts. It relishes in potty humor, and then also nearly rapes a woman, and curb stomps a man. Like, pick a lane. And normally, I wouldn’t think too much about the episode … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/02/26

TV Shows Watched: Boots: Series Finale (Netflix) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Elzabeth: S3E Dianne Wiest (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Matlock: S2E Bye Bitch (Paramount Plus) with audio description Boots- Finished. great series. I hope to do a review, but my quick thoughts are that I think they wrap season 1 enough that the cancellation isn’t quite as painful, and this would have been a great recruitment tool for the Military in any other administration. In terms of entertainment, most military dramas feature … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/01/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This film has audio description available. Remember when we were at peak Marie Condo? She helped hoarders get rid of unnecessary crap. “Does it spark joy?” Well, based on that metric, no, this does not. It did not spark joy. Ozgood Perkins, whose career truly took off with the bizarre and creepy Long Legs, managed to push out two films in 2025, with the first being an over the top adaptation of a Stephen King story in The Monkey, and the latter being this. Tatiana Maslany, who Ivan only assume fired her agent after … Continue reading Keeper

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I typically watch films with audio description. There is no known audio description for this title. The truth is out there. Are we alone in the universe? The existential question man has been thinking about ever since we realized what that big black thing with the dots was at night. When you look up at the stars, and think of the infinite space, it becomes pretty easy to accept that aliens, or simply life on other planets, exists. In the vastness of space, even if we may never make contact. Starman explores a much … Continue reading Going In Blind: Starman (2026)

TV Shows Watched: Bridgerton: S4E3 and S4E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Simon Cowell: the Next Act: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Steal: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description?, and Boston Blue: S1E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description Bridgerton- My clueless take. Last season, the audio description made a stir, with influencers encouraging people to turn it on because it made things steamier. i wonder if Netflix had notes on that, because the masturbation sequence felt a little below the extremely high bar Liz constantly sets in her descriptions, yet, later in the 4th … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 01/31/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. this film has audio description on Amazon. You can’t just throw Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista together in any film and sell it. They need actual material. This is a mistake we keep repeating, especially for Bautista, who spent last year floundering in forgettable dystopian garbage like Afterburner and In The Lost Lands. He did seem like he was really working hard to find the right directors and the right projects, and I don’t know why they’ve abandoned him. Momoa on the other hand is clearly down for anything that hints at representing his … Continue reading The Wrecking Crew

It’s one of my favorite films of all time, a classic I’ve seen too many times to count. I grew up on Home Alone, and as a kid, the idea of creating a giant booby trap to defeat the bad guys was appealing. But, as I grew older, there was something else that stuck with me. How hard Kevin’s mom fights to get back home to her son in time for Christmas. Wrapped up in this quirky Christmas comedy about the Wet Bandits meeting their greatest foe, and the lovely John Candy polka man, there’s a wonderful story about being … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 01/30/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I watch films with audio description. I have now seen this twice, once without, and once with. the audio description is deluxe, narrated by Laura Post. Speaking of high tech, if there was a way to download a patch that would let me enjoy Tron, I would. I have such a hard time with the original film, which is just not anywhere near my nostalgia bait. To be fair, it did open before I was born, so I was reliant on a home video viewing, or a cable watch. it took a long time … Continue reading Tron: Ares