TV Shows Watched: And Just Like that: S3E2 (MAX) with audio description, Stick: S1E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Better Sister: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, top Chef: S22E12 (Peacock) with audio description, Lazarus: S1E9 (MAX) with audio description, Bad thoughts: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Ginny And Georgia: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Grimmsburg: S1E10 (Netflix) with audio description, Your Friends And Neighbors: S1E8 (MAX) with audio description, and The Four Seasons: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description New Show Alert! Stick is a new Apple Plus comedy with a runtime for the pilot that is a little unnecessary … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/07/25

Another week, another set of shows entering, and some exiting either because I finished all currently available episodes, or by force. WINNER: hacks (MAX) with audio description- As I continue to slowly progress and enjoy every episode, I can’t shake the reality that with some of the serious dramas out of the way, hacks is the best thing I’m watching. But, will it be enough to get Hannah Einbinder finally an Emmy? That remains to be seen. Runner Up: Etoile (Amazon) with audio description- Amazon sold their souls to the devil, and revoked their second season renewal for Etoile. The … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- The Weekly Rankings

We are where we are right now, because someone fought to advance our world a little further than where it was before. This is true broadly, and without really reservation. Everything from indoor plumbing to electricity, totally non-partisan issues, advanced because someone kept pushing it further. However, this is true for so many who don’t have a broad set of rights. People have had to create safe spaces, environments, and lives around the margins allotted. Carl Bean certainly was one of these people for the LGBTQ community, and i was sadly unaware of who he was, and his contributions until … Continue reading Tribeca 2025: I Was Born This Way

TV News: I hate when networks and streamers do this. Amazon, in their bid to take over the world as dastardly as possible, has revoked the initial order for a second season of Etoile. This not only is disrespectful to the creatives, but also the audience, who could have watched the show at their own pace, knowing a second season was guaranteed. But as Hollywood is willing to break that trust more and more, by shelving films that are completed and using them as write offs (Universal just wrote off a completed Pharrell Williams musical, so it isn’t just WBD … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/06/25

TV Shows Watched: the Buccaneers: S1E2 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Overcompensating: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Nine Perfect Strangers: S2E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Tires: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Love, Death, and Robots: S4E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Destination X: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description, The Narrow Road To The Deep North: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Ransom Canyon: S1E10 (Netflix) with audio description, Jeopardy Masters: S3E8 (Hulu) no audio description Best Episode: Overcompensating- I think the show starts to hit its stride once the cast is established a bit, and all on their own paths. Benny kind … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/05/25

TV Shows Watched: Black Mirror: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Sirens: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Adults: S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Earnhardt: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, 911: S8E17 (Hulu) NO Audio Description, America’s Got Talent: S?E2 (Peacock) with audio description, Government Q: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S1E19 (Amazon) with audio description, Poker Face: S1E4 (Peacock) with audio description NEW SHOW ALERT!- Adults is this generation trying to follow the same formula done and beaten to death. A group of burgeoning young adults face… adulting. This is Friends, happy Endings, The New Girl, How I … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/04/25

TV Shows Watched: Etoile: S1E8 (Amazon) with audio description, Bet: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Pitt: S1E6 (MAX) with audio description,The Secrets We Keep: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Government Cheese: S1E9 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Berlin ER: S1E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, America Ninja Warrior: S16E1 (Peacock) with audio description, the Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) with audio description New Shows (Kind of) Alert!: first time for Ginny and Georgia and American Ninja Warrior, right? Well, actually I did watch Ginny and Georgia Season 1, but not 2. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/03/25

TV Shows Watched: Wondla: S2E6 (Apple plus) with audio description, Motorheads: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Forever: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, You: S5E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Midcentury modern: S1E10 (Hulu) with audio description, last Week tonight: Most Recent (MAX) no audio description Best Episode: forever- I really enjoyed this one, as Keisha is forced to tell her mom about the sex tape. Justin’s mom now knows, and she can’t fathom a world where a parent doesn’t know that information, so she threatens to call Keisha’s mom herself. There’s also an excellent scene with Justin maybe about to be … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/02/25

The Netflix Tutem had some interesting announcements, including that the final season of Stranger Things is dropping in three parts, starting in November, and all dropping this year.One Piece has been pushed to 2026. Nobody Wants This Season 2 was given an October date. Some of the films, like Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein and Wake up Dead Man had trailers. Did you watch? TV Shows Watched: The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC Plus) no audio description, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S3E8 (Netflix) with audio description, And just Like That: S3E1 (MAX) with audio description, Drag race All Stars: S10E4 (Paramount … Continue reading the Small Screen Diaries- 06/01/25

Once again, a silly comprehensive list of every show I consider myself actively watching. Shows move up, down, leave, get cancelled, and join. New additions this week include And Just Like That (MAX), the Better Sister (Amazon), Dept Q (Netflix), America’s Got Talent (Peacock), The Buccaneers (Apple Plus), Earnhardt (Amazon), and a few others. this is also the last week shows like The Handmaids Tale and the Last Of us will appear, either forever, or for a while. WINNER: the Handmaids Tale (Hulu) with audio description- Just an excellent run, a brilliant cast, and The Testaments has a lot to … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- The Weekly Rankings

TV Shows Watched: Murderbot: S1E4 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Dept Q: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Buccaneers: S1E1 (Apple plus) with audio description, Battle Camp: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Top Chef: S22E11 (Peacock) with audio description, Earnhardt: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Rehearsal: S2E1 (MAX) with audio description, Jeopardy Masters: S3E7 (Hulu) with audio description, and the Four Seasons: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description. Best Episode: the Rehearsal- He’s using his powers for good, now diving into the hilarious topic of plane crashes, while pointing out that he has the resources to do something meaningful, but … Continue reading The Small screen Diaries- 05/31/25

I started doing this on the first of May, matching other critics who maintain lists of what they are watching. When I published my list in May, I had 92 releases from 2025, I now count 140 (counting streaming titles, and advance screeners for films releasing in June). Still, some critically acclaimed films haven’t crossed my path, including Sinners, so if it isn’t here, I might just have not seen it yet. the Top ten Films Of 2025 So Far: Deaf President Now Tornado the Parenting Lavender Men The Ruse The Assessment Thunderbolts Bonus Track The Luckiest Man In America … Continue reading Going In Blind: the Year In Film So Far: June Edition

Disney just loves pissing me off. I can already predict they didn’t describe the new Phineas and Ferb revival starting next week because they didn’t describe the Wizards OF Waverly Place revival last summer. I’m not even sure they got audio description for the documentary Sally, which premieres in June, because they are inconsistent with NatGeo co-productions. So, should I really be surprised The Golden Girls still hasn’t had its audio description restored? it is bad enough that we have to scrape, claw, and scream to get incremental movement in the field, and it makes it worse when something that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 05/30/25