Coming Up This Week: from: Season 4 (MGM Plus), Running Pointe: Season 2 (Netflix), Criminal Record: Season 2 (Apple), as well as new shows Half Man (HBO MAX), Kevin (Amazon), Unchosen (Netflix), and a few movies including the Disney Nature release Orangutan (Disney Plus) and the Charlize Theron/Tarn Edgerton thriller Apex (Netflix). Oh, and the NFL Draft if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s also this Stranger Things off shoot, Tales From 85. It’s an animated series taking place between Season 2 and 3, and No, I don’t know why Netflix thinks this is the thing people want from … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/18/26

TV Shows Watched: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Shrinking: S3E8 (Apple) with audio description, Ponies: S1E7 (Peacock) with audio description, School Spirits: S2E7 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Love Story: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen- Rachel’s character is gone. Her actual arc and structure has been tossed out the window because it needs her to be dumb enough to stick around.She actually tells Nicky that she’s a bad person, and she’s the one who needs to change. Poorly written, but a very well directed episode … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/17/26

NBC officially inked a new deal for SVU to return next season, but also axed Organized Crime after five seasons. The Law and Order flagship show has not been renewed yet, but is looking good, while The Hunting Party and Brilliant Minds are expected to be cancelled. The question marks are the new comedies The Fall And Rise of Reggie Deakins and Stumble, both heavily on the bubble. It may actually turn out that the pedigree behind Fall and Rise may lead to NBC keeping that over Stumble, whose ratings with Happy’s Place on a Friday night really aren’t bad.The … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/16/26

Still looking at feedback moving forward on The Small Screen Diaries. I know some may be reading it in their mailbox, but if the audience has nearly evaporated, I’d like to figure out how to get that back or do something more productive, like review an entire season all at once instead of spreading out the love. I have no intention of changing before May though. CBS also recently announced their fall lineup, with predictable cancellations for Watson and DMV. Everything else is coming back,but Matlock is being pushed to midseason. Ghosts is also being shifted to midseason, but will … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/15/2026

Ryan Atwood has moved on from The O.C., but have we? Ben McKenzie, whose career has gone on far beyond the phoenix-esque show that burned bright and fast, running only 4 seasons, yet being the career defining moment for McKenzie. he’d go on to do the critically acclaimed Southland, which ran for 5 seasons, and of course Gotham, which also ran for five seasons. In film Ben recently starred in Bloat, a horror film in the vein of Searching, and was also in Junebug with Amy Adams (who earned her first Oscar nomination for the film). he’s not DiCaprio, but … Continue reading Going In Blind: Everyone Is Lying To you For Money

Never check your stats. I know some people subscribe, so if you’re getting this in an email, and it isn’t showing up as a metric, speak soon or forever hold your peace. These Diaries have declined so much that they now average between 4 and 6 views. In a Top 50 ranking of my posts and how they’ve performed in the last week, all of them performed worse than my review for XXX: Return Of Xander Cage, which is neither linked to Rotten tomatoes, and is from my pre-blindness review era. when reviews like that start trending above new content, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/14/26

TV Shows Watched: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The COunt Of Monte Cristo: S1E4 (PBS) with audio description, One Piece: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description, DTF: ST Louis: S1E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Malice: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description Maul: Shadow Lord- Excellent audio description still, though I have no idea what sport Riley was playing. It didn’t seem to matter to the plot, but I had nothing to ground or compare it to.If you’re an adult, thinking about not watching an animated show, as a conflicted Star Wars fan, this one aims older, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 04/13/26

Cory Wexler Grant’s under the radar coming-of-age teen comedy has all the moxie and attitude to attract the attention of either the youth of today, or a nostalgic audience looking for a glimpse back into their high school days. At its core, it is about best friends trying to accomplish something before the inevitable graduation, and likely separation, fractures their friendship. Their school has their own radio station, and students are chosen and given the opportunity to have their own blocks of programming. These two gay best friends end up becoming the talk of the school, as their edgy radio … Continue reading Going In Blind: Screams from The Tower

TV Shows Watched: The audacity: S1E1 (AMC Plus) WITH audio description, Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Predator Of Seville: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Bel Air: S4E3 (Peacock) with audio description, The real Housewives Of Rhode Island: S1E1 (Peacock) with audio description, All’s Fair: S1E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Matlock: S2E12 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Audacity- yes. AMC Plus had the audacity to add audio description on a smidge of titles, including this new series, so I used it as the guinea pig. It worked. I got my audio description for the whole … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/12/26

Didn’t we just have an action Ballerina film last year? Still, the concept of ballerinas using their particular set of skills to get themselves out of a tight situation feels like something fun to sit through. Even though Ana de Armas just did an overpowered version of this last year, I’m still excited to see *checks notes* Maddie Ziegler kick some ass? Yes. And that is the draw of pretty Lethal, the new Amazon Prime exclusive. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival before landing on Prime Video with audio description (we will get to that), … Continue reading Pretty Lethal

Frida McFadden’s series of novels is finally breaking onto the big screen courtesy of Paul Feig, who helped to get a similar twisty mystery onto the screen with A Simple Favor. That became a sleeper hit in 2018, and The Housemaid became solid counterprogramming in December 2025. Both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried had Oscar hopefuls on the table, which ultimately neither happened, and the combined worldwide grosses of both those films is less than the domestic opening weekend box office for The Housemaid. Sweeny’s Christie made 2.1 million off a 15 million budget, while The Testament Of Ann Lee … Continue reading The Housemaid

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and I typically watch films with audio description. This movie does have audio description, and I believe it was the exact same narrator as Chapter 1. When I watched One Mile: Chapter One, I was pleasantly surprised. Was it groundbreaking cinema? It hails from Republic Pictures, so of course not. It was a decent survival thriller built around a father trying to rescue his daughter from a community of breeders using that particular set of skills one gathers over a lifetime. Sometimes that’s all you need. Punch, kick, kill, repeat. A movie that understood … Continue reading One Mile: Chapter Two

This is one of those cases where, much like the recent faces Of Death supposedly having something to say about our desensitization to violence, Outcome has something to say on cancel culture. Jonah Hill writes and directs an odd duck of a film that never quite finds a consistent tone, and cant’ quite decide on its own messaging. On one hand, Hill might be interested in exploring the external forces behind cancel culture, as he flirted with it when his ex-girlfriend released a barrage of personal text messages and accused him of emotional abuse. If Hill was hitting close to … Continue reading Outcome

Coming This week: Euphoria (HBO), Beef (Netflix), and Million Dollar Secret (Netflix) all return for a second season while Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple), American Gladiators (Amazon), and The Audacity (AMC Plus) drop as new titles with audio description. In case that last bit confuses you, the stand alone AMC Plus is flirting with audio description now, having set up their most recent content. currently, from what I can see, there are two films (The plague and 100 Nights Of Hero) and four series (The Audacity, Dark Winds, Gangs of London, and The Walking Dead: Dead city). The last three … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/11/26

What a bizarre show. it is this trainwreck of a combination that forces a Simon Cowell vanity project about himself, with a reality show to find the next One Direction. Simon seems alone in this endeavor, using the camera crew to make him look like a tame pussycat, and a deeply empathetic individual who has a knack for finding excellent talent and being able to predict trends, and create the next One direction. The problem is that no one saw this, so the band created within the show faces an extreme uphill battle in validating Cowell’s prowess as a producer. … Continue reading Simon Cowell’s Next Act: Season 1