Amazon shocked me yesterday by axing Gen V, the Boys spinoff, which I had apparently allowed myself to be Mandela effected into believing had already been renewed. The weird thing is I didn’t actually think it was in danger. With the Boys wrapping in May, that leaves the future of the franchise in the hands of VOT Rising, the Jensen Ackles led prequel, set to debut in 2027. TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E6 (Disney plus) with audio description, Wondla: S3E6 (Apple) with audio description, Free Bert: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Fall And Rise Of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/24/26

TV Shows Watched: The Boys: S5E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Detective Hole: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description,Will Trent: S4E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description, DTF: St Louis: S1E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description,Scrubs: S10 E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Boys- Relatively contained, in that half the cast is looking for V1, and ends up at the same facility at the same time, leaving only a few others outside doing other things. Notably, Starlight visits her estranged father, and Firecracker has the task of selling Homelander as The Messiah.The Boys, Soldier Boy, and Homelander all go after V1 in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/23/26

TV Shows Watched:The Testaments: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, the Night Agent: S3E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Talamaska: The Secret Order: S1E5 (AMC Plus) WITH audio description, Twisted Yoga: S1E3 (Apple) with audio description, and Dreaming Whilst Black: S2E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Testaments- I knew I wasn’t missing much by skipping prom when I was in High School. Sadly, Agnes, Daisy, Becca, and the others aren’t given the option to opt out, and have to be presented to the Commanders. Each girl is hoping to be married into a nice Commander, and also a high ranking … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/22/26

ABC did recently renew most of their shows for a second season. Grey’s Anatomy will return for its 23rd season, 911 will return for its 10th season, The Rookie will return for its 9th season, Abbott Elementary will return for its 6th season, Will Trent will return for its 5th season, High Potential will return for its 3rd season, and 911 Nashville will return for its 2nd season. They have also ordered a few new shows to series, including The Rookie: North, the second spinoff which will follow a rookie (Jay Ellis) in the Pacific Northwest area. TV Shows Watched: … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/21/26

TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Count Of Monte Cristo: S1E5 (PBS) with audio description, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E11 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and XO Kitty: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description Maul: Shadow Lord- The first episode that would cause any decline in my grade. The show has had a bit of an Andor vibe up until this point, and the title is Inquisition, yet the two interrogation sequences happen off screen. It would have been far more interesting to … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/20/26

TV Shows Watched: Beef: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, For All Mankind: S5E2 (Apple) with audio description, From: S4E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Top Chef: S23E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and Celebrity Jeopardy: S3E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description Beef- It is clear that the Beef is between the two couples, but also within the two couples, as we already saw Josh and Lindsay fight in episode one, and clearly Austin is unhappy with his lot in life for most of this episode, while Ashley gets a small bump up in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/219/26

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