Doesn’t the first month on the 24th day of the 24th year feel like some unofficial A24 holiday? Did you accidentally celebrate by watching an A24 title? Also, Jon Stewart is kinda sorta coming home to The Daily Show. The catch is, once a week, and only through the election season. I’m still upset Apple cancelled his show. The Vegas episode tackled that whole casino and lotus flower plot line. It’s funny that the guy casually referred to as a mailman before ended up being Hermes, since they intentionally underdescribed him to not draw attention the first time around. So, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/24/24

When I have more time to fully dive into the Oscar nominations, i will in another post. This is just for TV shows, dammit. And, Monarch (Apple Plus), is such an odd duck. Obviously, it is connecting the stories of the films already made with characters that were not in the films, but… why? And will this pay off somehow in Godzilla vs Kong 2? The ground opened up, so we are now all caught up, but are we? And what are we caught up to? Echo (Disney Plus) dove more into the Indigenous heritage of the character, while also … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/23/24

Is Hulu broken, or did The Great North and Grimmsburg just air one episode each and then take a massive break? Not that either show has audio description, but how weird. Especially for the former, which is a returning series, so how would a “preview” even work? In TV news, they are working on a Book Of Eli prequel series with John Boyega. I know, all of you who have been asking for this for the last 14 years have really been pounding the pavement on this, and you are finally getting it. \sarcasm I did devour another episode of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/22/23

Sundays I usually start new shows, but I did polish off an episode of Julia (MAX) where she was being courted to go to CBS. You know, what should happen, is that since CBS didn’t win all those years ago, they should rescue the show now, and it would be like they had her anyway! #SaveJulia Anyone? I did start a new reality competition series called The Trust, which had an interesting premise, until people can’t fucking understand what show they are on. Quite predictably, the ladies chose to backstab the men, which is a hilarious portrayal of women. As … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/21/24

Apparently Netflix turned The Gentleman into a TV show. Alright. Moving on…. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney Plus) continues to introduce new characters with as little description of what they look like as possible. Ever wondered what Ares might look like? Keep wondering. Not the most recent episode of The Traitors (Peacock) but I did get the second episode out, and that first elimination really needed to set up the inevitable second quickly. I would have made more of a case to say “remember when I turn out to be faithful, the only reason my name even came up … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/18/24

The BAFTA nominations come out today. Excellence in British film. It could be a huge launching pad for All Of Us Strangers for the Oscars, if it was strongly embraced by the BAFTAs like All Quiet On The Western Front was last year. But, in TV world, no really solid news stories. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix) featured a jaw dropping return at the end, and more suspicions about that darn robot that keeps popping up that we didn’t really know was popping up because the audio description wasn’t tracking the robot, and pointing it out would have been a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/17/24

I did noticed that Apple has picked up For All Mankind for another season, thankfully, since they left too many doors open in the season finale. Now onto The Brother’s Son (Netflix), which is barely a Michelle Yeoh show at this point. The second episode continued to shape the world, boosting TK as a character a little bit, and having the brothers run around with a head for the episode. I don’t hate the audio description here, and if anything, after hearing all that stuff about the dismembering of the body from the first episode, I felt that this show … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 01/16/24