TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E5 (Disney Plus) no audio description, Tomb Raider: S2E? (Netflix) with audio description, I Love LA: S1E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Crutch: S1E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Cross: S2E1 (Amazon) with audio description, and Last Week tonight: S13E2 (HBO) no audio description yet American Idol- Some of the judges comments never make any sense. I think they are edited from things they say throughout the day, and someone sits in an editing bay splicing things together. I’ve heard this before, when it was on FOX. There was a contestant who only made it … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/24/26

Hot Take: And this works for both sides, so they can do it no matter who is delivering it. But, why doesn’t a network offer counterprogramming like the Puppy Bowl to the State Of The Union. “Did you watch the orange guy give the StateOf The Union?” No, but I did watch an orange tabby cat lick himself on the State Of The Mew-union.” I’m just pitching pure Gold here. TV Shows Watched: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: S1E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, High Potential: S2E11 (Disney Plus) with … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/23/26

What if I told you there was a film at Slamdance right now that followed a traditional structure of showing kids congregating at a competition, as if they were in a Spelling Bee, or the teens featured in the Apple documentaries Boys State and Girls State. even though that film may hold a common thread, making you feel like you’ve seen it before in something like Spellbound, the aforementioned Spelling Bee documentary. This new one has a different kind of competition, and different competitors. In play here are blind kids, and they are here to prove their proficiency at Braille, … Continue reading Brailled It

TV Shows Watched: Wondla: S3E1 (Apple) with audio description, his and Hers: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, All Her Fault: S1E6 (Peacock) with audio description, Star Search: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, Have I Got News For You: Most Recent (HBo MAX) no audio description, Landman: S2E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, A Man On The Inside: S2E10 (Netflix) with audio description Wondla- A few shows I didn’t jump into right away as they were entering their final seasons, so I’m just starting Wondla, and will soon add Chaos Theory and Bel Air. i didn’t forget them, there just was … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/22/26

I often jump into a film or series after the passing of an actor, actress, or director whose work I enjoyed. With the passing of James Van Der Beek, my list was obvious. if I’m revisiting a television series, it has to be Dawson’s creek. if it’s a film, Varsity Blues. As a child of the 90’s, meaning that for the entire decade, I was in school, this film hit right during my high school years. It also landed in 1999, which is often regarded as one of the best years ever for film. It certainly was for teen movies, … Continue reading Varsity Blues

If you want to feel insane, just totally insane, because no one thinks about anything anymore, I invite you to celebrate Alan Cumming day. it’s a very special day where Alan Cumming will be on your TV, hosting two different awards ceremonies, at the same time. I won’t tell you how, because the answer is far more boring, but lets just say he’s the host of the Movies For Grown Ups awards which airs at 7PM EST tonight on pBS, and also the BAFTA Awards, which air on E! At 8PM. Don’t question it. the man played Nightcrawler, let that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/21/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This indie animation does not have audio description. Stop me if you’ve heard the story of a Princess whose marriage is expected to save a kingdom, but instead of being married to a pompous prince, we follow a lowly common man whose destiny is to save the princess, and save the world. I did walk into Proud Princess with eternal optimism. Often I just need something to fight for, something to make me go to bat for and say watch it, give it a chance, or if it comes your way you could do … Continue reading Going In Blind: Proud Princess

For those who read me, make sure to check out the latest episode of The Dark Room podcast. Alex and lee are doing their third annual Oscars roundtable, with AD talent from five of the 10 Best Picture nominees, including One Battle after Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme, Frankenstein, and Train Dreams. Two nominees this year have no audio description, so they were represented by silence. The other three, F1, Bugonia, and Hamnet need to get their shit together. TV Shows Watched: The Traitors: S4E10 (Peacock) with audio description, Strip Law: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, DMV: S1E5 (Paramount Plus) with … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/20/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and I typically watch films with audio description. While it is possible Tender mercies has an audio description track, at the time of robert Duvall’s passsing, it was not readily accessible. the passing of Robert Duvall, who passed away on February 15th, 2026 at the age of 95, made me need to revisit something of his. In that futile and stupid gesture, I realized that I somehow had never experienced his Oscar winning turn in Tender Mercies. While I could have revisited a range of films including the Godfather, Apocalypse Now, A civil Action, … Continue reading Going In Blind: Tender Mercies

This documentary won two prizes at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, including the audience award for documentary feature. Considering last year, Sundance had some of my favorite documentaries of 2025 in The Perfect Neighbor, Deaf President Now, and Come See Me In The Good Light, I would say the bar has been raised. I think the reason we’re seeing this a bit later is to try and give it some space from the Oscar nominated Come See Me in The Good Light, as the two have some striking similarities. Andre is an interesting man, an advertising executive who certainly thinks … Continue reading Going In Blind: Andre Is An Idiot

RIP Eric Dane. I was just having a discussion about disability and accessibility with a student, and I used a few famous and current figures as examples of disability or illness being unplanned, so its best to work to create a more inclusive world, and Eric Dane was the first name I brought up, as his battle with ALS has been so prominent. Seeing those push notifications come through broke my heart. I think the first time I noticed Dane was when he played Multiple Man in X-Man The Last Stand, but I was a hardcore Grey’s fan for the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/19/26

Disney Plus, for me, still doesn’t show S24E4 of American Idol. Apple’s watchlist says if I just used the Hulu only app, I would get to see it, but unlike the previous three episodes, it doesn’t acknowledge that ability on Disney Plus with Hulu. Like, I can find these auditions online. I could try and piecemeal things together. This is just so weird. It’s a problem I would have assumed fixed itself by now, but I guess not. It doesn’t have AD anyway, so maybe the universe is intervening on my behalf. TV Shows Watched: The Diplomat: S3E? (Netflix) with … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/18/26

I always keep it real. No bullshit. My bias is always right out there. I never try to hide anything. So, today’s post is gonna get a little weird. First, I didn’t watch American idol today, not due to lack of trying, but because I did what I was supposed to and switched to a Disney/Hulu bundle so I access through the Disney Plus app, and at least until late in the day yesterday, it never showed the new episode. My Apple TV list of shows I’m watching had it, but said I could only view it through Hulu, not … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/17/26

So, I run this through WordPress, and they have a daily prompt all the time, which I ignore. I did have to laugh at today’s prompt, thinking how loaded of a question it is. Are you patriotic? Somehow, explaining that feels like the most profound prompt of our time. Oddly, the day after President’s Day. Weird. TV Shows Watched: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: S1E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Free Bert: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description,Percy Jackson: S2E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Last Week Tonight: S13E1 (HBO MAX) no audio description yet, and The Lincoln Lawyer: S4E1 … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/16/26

TV Shows Watched: School Spirits: S3E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description,I Love LA: S1E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Squid Game: the Challenge: S1E9 (Netflix) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S3E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Have I Got News For You: S4E? (HBO MAX) no audio description, and Elzabeth: S3E8 (Paramount Plus) with audio description School Spirits- everything has changed, and the mystery has deepened. What’s so interesting is the love triangle that Maddie finds herself in with a ghost, and also her best friend, who now finds himself in a very different situation. I feel like the narrator is … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/15/26