The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/26
Unfortunately, we have to start off the Small Screen Diary for today with a sad bit of news. Not really, because I gave up on the show after the first episode, but I’m sure someone out there cares. Netflix has canceled Sweet Magnolias, which really indicates to me, following the cancellation of Ransom Canyon, that there’s a very specific audience that has either abandoned Netflix or that Netflix is looking at abandoning. And if I was a fan of Virgin River, I would be afraid. I would be very afraid. I mean, I am casually a fan of Virgin River, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/26
Supergirl (2026)
I hate to say it, but I think Greta Gerwig would have killed this movie. It could have been great. Instead, for reasons unbeknownst to everybody, we got Craig Gillespie, who sort of lacks a singular voice as a director and is utilized a bit more to plug into various different genres. He just seems to be able to make a broad film for audiences, whether it’s comedy, action, horror, or something else. He’s touched all of the genres, and now he’s coming for Supergirl. The problem is that he’s coming for James Gunn’s Supergirl. Because make no mistake, this … Continue reading Supergirl (2026)
A Good Girls Guide To Murder: Season 2
The biggest revelation coming out of streaming might be that there’s enough data now to show that shows filmed within a tighter window and released in a reasonable amount of time perform better and retain more of their audience from season to season than shows with longer breaks. I would say, especially for shows with large ensembles, difficult plot structures, and fantastical worlds we’re somehow supposed to remember years later, that has to be true. I definitely look at certain shows coming up where I know I saw the first season, and there’s a new season coming out, and I … Continue reading A Good Girls Guide To Murder: Season 2
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/17/26
And we’re back, looking a little bit more normal than usual, I guess, with a few more shows on the list and starting to work my way back to normalcy. As far as life updates go, Best Buy is actively trying to rectify the issue. YouTube is not. And Amazon, from which I have a package I’ve been waiting for and watching them continuously push back for seven days, multiple times, has now just listed it as delayed. After making me wait all the way until their drivers stopped delivering at 10 p.m. to let me know it wasn’t coming … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/17/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/16/26
I guess after a few weird days, you’re finally getting some semblance of normalcy with today’s post, although I’m still kind of knocked out from these things and not watching quite what I used to. I haven’t seen a movie in a few days, which is unusual for me. I actually haven’t even posted a review to my YouTube channel since YouTube told me that my opinion did not matter. So, did I watch any shows to fill out a Small Screen Diary today? I think so. I did start off with Ted Lasso, Season 4, Episode 7 on Apple … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/16/26
The Best Buy Diaries- 09/15/26
Man, when it rains, it pours. When you get in the shit, the shit just falls more on top of you until eventually you find yourself swimming in it. So, I will start today on a positive note instead of going straight to the negative. The positive note is that I did watch at least a tiny fraction of television yesterday, so we can talk about that. I finished the second season of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix, which was somewhat unsatisfying because I felt like we didn’t really solve the Max storyline. I guess that’ll be … Continue reading The Best Buy Diaries- 09/15/26
The Small Scream Diary: 09/14/26
So it happened again. I just didn’t write a specific article about it, but we’ll get to that in a second. First, I do want to congratulate some Emmy winners. Not that I agree with all of them, or that I would’ve voted for all of them, but good shows won Emmys, and that’s enough for me. Except in the Limited Series category, because I really hated DTF St. Louis. I was Rotten on that show, and it doesn’t have a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score anyway, so I don’t feel too bad about my review. I just don’t get the … Continue reading The Small Scream Diary: 09/14/26
The Small Screen diaries: 09/13/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Dead city: S3E8 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E6 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, My brilliant Career: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, The Shards: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Have I Got News For you: S5E1 (HBO MAX) no audio description, jeopardy Masters: S4E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The paper: S2E1 (Peacock) with audio description Dead City- Already reviewed, but 1 of 8 episodes with audio description is not accessibility. If eight kids were dropped off at day care, and one survived, that daycare doesn’t remain open. Tomb Raider King- … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 09/13/26
Going In Blind: The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3
Seth Hoffman clearly had some thoughts. Luckily, AMC was willing to listen, because as The Walking Dead: Dead City was sort of headed nowhere, Hoffman stepped in, asked someone to hold his beer, and figured out how to alter the course of a series quickly headed for cancellation. If you look at the live ratings for Dead City compared to The Walking Dead at basically any point during its run, they’re critically lower. I know we’re not really into linear television anymore, but let’s also be honest: not that many people have AMC+. The benefit of AMC+ used to be … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3
My Brilliant Career: Season 1
I choose me. What a bold decision. Never before done by anyone in any film or television series, limited or otherwise. But those big, beautiful words, that power, and so many strong female leads, along with a few strong male leads, are becoming awfully redundant and more than a little derivative. Of course, it’s hard to call Netflix’s My Brilliant Career derivative when it’s adapted from a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. A lot of the characters who have followed Sybylla Melvyn and had their own self-awakenings may, in fact, have knocked off this novel to begin with. It’s not … Continue reading My Brilliant Career: Season 1
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/12/26
A lot coming up this week for fans of returning shows. Not only do we kick off the week on Monday with The Emmys, but Dancing With The Stars (ABC), RJ Decker (ABC), The Voice (NBC), Masterchef (FOX), Kitchen Nightmares (FOX), Slow horses (Apple), South Park (Comedy), Mobland (Paramount plus), and Outlander Blood Of My Blood (Starz) all return, the latter of them may not have audio description. Netflix is also smashing the Lizzie Borden story with Eileen Wurnos for reasons unbeknownst to anyone but Ryan Murphy in Monster. Perhaps because there’s already a well known film titled Monster that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/12/26
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Sometimes being able to Monday morning quarterback a film is a little bit more interesting, because you get to see the car accident of film critics clashing over the initial release, fighting to get their opinions out there and determining whether or not they have the most valid opinion in the marketplace. Well, hold my beer, because the blind film critic has entered the chat. I did not see The Mandalorian and Grogu on the big screen. Of course, I really don’t see anything on the big screen, thus the blind film critic part. Instead, I watched this with audio … Continue reading The Mandalorian and Grogu
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/26
TV Shows Watched: Stuart Fails: S1E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Trying: S5E1 (Apple) with audio description, Black Clover: S1E4 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Rise Of The teenage Mutant Ninja turtles: S2E12 (Paramount) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description, and Jeopardy Masters: S4E2 (Disney plus) with audio description Stuart Fails- Loved the opening credits about the dog. Another brilliant episode with terrific audio description. The show also has massive recaps at the beginning, so if you somehow missed an episode on streaming, and are too lazy to click back to it, you catch up really … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/26
Lucky: Series Review
I definitely saw quite a bit of buildup for Apple TV’s new limited series Lucky, which hit the streamer in July and ratcheted up the tension over seven episodes. Perhaps the premise was pulling people in, feeling like a crime thriller with a little bit of a survival vibe thrown in for good measure, or it could be the fact that Anya Taylor-Joy just feels very much of the moment right now. I wish she was a little bit more of the moment, because it’s possible more people would have seen Furiosa if that were true. But she is popular … Continue reading Lucky: Series Review
Tyler Perry’s Why did I Get Married Again
The benefit of having aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes is that you can find critics who come from all various walks of life, with different perspectives, approaching each film from a different angle, with a different background and a different subset of films that we’ve seen throughout our lifetimes. Different upbringings, different life struggles, so on and so forth. And in this regard, you have stumbled onto a review of a Tyler Perry movie. But not just any Tyler Perry movie. The third film in the Why Did I Get Married? franchise. And you get to read this from the perspective … Continue reading Tyler Perry’s Why did I Get Married Again
Going In Blind: The Weight
Jumping back into the review fray with Vertical’s acquisition out of Sundance, The Weight. This Ethan Hawke historical drama premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it was eventually acquired by Vertical for distribution, landing on a September release date. This didn’t used to be a strong month for releases, but every once in a while somebody throws a strong blockbuster into September, confusing people and making them think it’s suddenly a valid month for consumers. Really, what usually happens is they have a title so big it doesn’t matter where it opens because it’s going to draw people … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Weight
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/10/26
Never Forget. Yesterday, Netflix surprisingly axed Ransom canyon, which dipped over 40% from Season 1 to season 2. It is a recurring problem with streaming TV. The longer the wait, the bigger the drop. Despite feeling like it fit perfectly along Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias, with a dash of the Taylor Sheridan vibe, Ransom canyon couldn’t buy its audience back. Also, in blind news, sighted gamers are complaining about the existence of accessibility within the new Wolverine game, and Neon’s Hope topped Spider-Man: Brand New Day in its first day of release, despite not having an English Audio Description … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/10/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/09/26
For the Small Screen Diaries today, I definitely made more of an effort to dig myself out of the hole I’m in while I wait patiently for my YouTube appeal to go through. Fingers crossed on that. I started my day with Ted Lasso because we all need that level of optimism in our lives. I watched season four, episode six, “Don’t Jump Around Much Anymore,” which airs on Apple TV with audio description from Pixel Logic. I thought the episode was fine. It’s set on New Year’s Eve, with Ted reconsidering his own love life while talking to his … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/09/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/08/26
I’m still trapped in my own personal hell, so welcome back to Reinventing the Small Screen Diaries for the time being. I tried to watch some things today, and while my attention span wasn’t always willing to cooperate, I did manage to bounce among four very different shows. First up was the new Netflix series My Brilliant Career, which follows Sybylla Melvyn, a young Australian woman who wants to become a writer and has absolutely no interest in getting married. She doesn’t necessarily want to leave her family behind either, but they’re poor, have too many children to support, and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/08/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/07/26
For my Small Screen Diaries today, I figured I would actually try to mention something about the shows I watched, even though I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do this. But I should at least honor the few titles I managed to check out before Doomsday happened. Let’s start by giving a shout-out to Lanterns, Season 1, Episode 4, which is available on HBO Max with audio description produced by International Digital Center, written by Dakota Green, and narrated by Ren Leach. I was, of course, excited to see this episode when I woke up, like anyone who didn’t … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/07/26
Well…
I have so many amazing memories of film, and not just of watching movies. I’ve spent my life working in and around them, seeing them on big screens and little ones, working in movie theaters, studying film in college and writing about movies online. I always hoped I would eventually gain some kind of clout as a film critic, and, to be fair, I have. I’m Rotten Tomatoes certified, and I’ve been welcomed into several critics’ organizations. I can’t say that my entire existence as a blind film critic has been a complete and total wash. Still, there is something … Continue reading Well…
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/06/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking Dead: Dead City: S3E7 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Black Torch: S1E2 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Elle: S1E8 (Amazon) with audio description,Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S4E7 (Netflix) with audio description, The Doomies: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description Dead City- No audio description again. Only one episode this season dropped with it. Baffling. Also, this episode revealed the writers are still unable to write eight episode seasons. You did not earn this episode. Black Torch- Fairly easy to understand fantasy series about an aspiring ninja with the ability to talk to animals merging with an … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/06/26
The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Series Review
This is not the first adaptation of the Lockerbie bombing, but it might be the best. That’s a hard thing to say when I haven’t seen every other version of the story, but I don’t know how another dramatization could necessarily surpass this one. We have a tendency to sensationalize true stories, oftentimes almost embarrassingly so, completely rewriting history to fit a decidedly more audience-friendly narrative. The Bombing of Pan Am 103 does simplify things and admittedly features composite characters who are amalgamations of multiple people who worked across more than a decade to bring justice to the victims, but … Continue reading The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Series Review
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/26
Coming up this week for you to add to watch lists: Season 2 of The Paper (Peacock) returns Wednesday, the final season of Colin From Accounts (Paramount Plus) returns Thursday, and The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives (Hulu) has a truncated fifth season. new shows A Tale of Two cities (MGM Plus), Dang! (Netflix), Crew Girl (Netflix) and Last Seen (Apple) hope to draw in new viewers, while Peacock airs a retrospective for The office fans on Monday, and HBO celebrates Band Of Brothers on Wednesday. Several 9/11 specials are planned for Friday, and in film Supergirl lands on HBo … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/26
Silo: Season 3
Silo Season 1 became a new obsession of mine the minute it dropped. I knew this was something I would want to consume as much of as humanly possible. After the second season aired, Apple announced that Silo had received a two-season renewal but would finish with its fourth season. It was a happy-sad moment because I knew I had two more seasons coming, but it also meant the series already had an end goal in sight. Once that seed has been planted, people become expendable. Instead of simply building the world around these characters, the show is now working … Continue reading Silo: Season 3
The Whisper Man
Do you know the Whisper Man? He’s nothing like the Muffin Man, so if you do know the Whisper Man, you might want to stay away. Maybe not from this film, though. The Whisper Man has sort of its own identity in that it’s not as terrible as a slew of other Netflix original titles, but it’s also not going to launch into the upper echelon of the few, the proud, the Netflix originals that make the subscription worthwhile. It’s basically a one-time-watch type of film, especially given how much it hinges upon a twist ending. Directed by James Ashcroft, … Continue reading The Whisper Man
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/04/26
TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E10 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E7 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E18 (Disney Plus) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E17 (Peacock) with audio description, Berlin: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description Silo- Plan to review the whole thing, but this episode does a lot, in both timelines, and answers the question about the air outside, Silo 1, and how we buried the lead on cryo. Pixel Logic did another solid track. Stuart Fails- But this show is excellent as well, and with all the timeline hopping in this one, and the variations … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/04/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
TV Shows Watched: The Shrouds: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E4 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Lucky: S1E6 (Apple) with audio description, Rick And Morty: S9E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Oasis: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description The Shrouds- I actually started the day thinking I’d knock this series out either in full, or in part, but it is a miserable watch, so i couldn’t do it.The Troller is just such a disgusting distraction from an 80’s piece that could actuall have something to say about sexual fluidity from the eyes of Bret Easton Ellis. Instead, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
TV Shows Watched: Ted Lasso: S4E5 (Apple) with audio description, Elle: S1E7 (Amazon) with audio description, Black Clover: S1E3 (CrnuchyRoll) with audio description, and The Comeback: S2E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description Ted Lasso- i feel like they are trying really hard to justify Roy’s presence in the show. Other than that, it is nice to have Ted and his mostly cheery and friendly disposition back. This is still a very well written show, even if it isn’t flying as high as the first three seasons. I also like the AD here, which I can’t say about every show on … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 09/01/26
TV shows Watched: Lucky:S1 E1-5 (Apple) with audio description, and The Doomies: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description Lucky- My newest attempt to knock out a show while busy brought me pretty damn close, since there are only 7 episodes of Lucky. But this series is a blast from start to finish if you haven’t started. A huge cast, led by Anya Taylor Joy, but also featuring Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey, William Fichtner, Aunjuane Ellis-Taylor, and Clifton Collins Jr. Not bad at all. Pixel Logic has done some nice work on the audio description for a somewhat frenetic … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/01/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/26
TV Shows Watched: Lanterns: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Black Torch: S1E1 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, elle: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, American Classic: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description I almost finished a fifth show, but alas, I did not. Lanterns- A fantastic flashback origin story for John Stewart, and how his family worked hard to ensure he’d be the next Green Lantern. IDC, Dakota Green, and ren Leach continue to produce good work. I liked how the guardian was described, and little details about the passage of time during John’s sniper mission. Black Torch- A fairly easy … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/30/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Dead City: S3E6 (AMC Plus) with audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E10 (Apple) with audio description, Sheriff Country: Season finale (Paramount) with audio description, The Legend of Vox Machina: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Five Star Weekend: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S4E9 (Netflix) with audio description, Hacks: S5E9 (HBO MAX) with audio description Dead City- AMC Plus failed to get the AD up for this alternate reality version of The Walking Alive, where the zombie apocalypse never happened, and Negan and Maggie still have a fateful meeting. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed- … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/30/26
The Small Screen diaries: 08/29/26
Hulu has picked up Furious for another season, and The Gentleman (Netflix) is set to return for a second season in a week full of 9/11 docs, football docuseries, Dolly tributes, and box office misses The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney Plus) and Scary Movie (Paramount), along with straight to streamer titles The Runner (Amazon) and Mayday (Apple). Plus, there’s a spinoff from Martin (I’m not kidding) featuring Tommy Davidson hitting Paramount Plus this week. TV Shows Watched: Adventure Time: side Quests: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E3 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Elle: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 08/29/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/28/26
TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E9 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Elle: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E14 (Peacock) with audio description Silo- I’m not a scientist, and it has been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, but with the modicum of research I’ve done, the final sequence is nonsense. Thrilling, sure, but nonsense. The blast radius would never hit them where they are. A certain person made a big show of reinforcing how out in the middle of nowhere they basically were, due to the buying … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/28/26
Buddy (2026)
In every generation, there is a kids TV show that absolutely confounds parents, annoys the heck out of them, but also makes them incredibly glad their children have found something that will keep them quiet long enough that they can use the bathroom in peace. Let’s be honest, screen time can be useful. I have no idea what the little kids of today are watching. Probably Gabby’s Dollhouse. Paw Patrol seems like a strong possibility. Buddy, however, feels very much targeted at the Barney generation, even including a song with different lyrics that sounds suspiciously close to something Barney would … Continue reading Buddy (2026)
Going In Blind: The Sun Never Sets
I definitely have not fully participated in the entirety of Joe Swanberg’s filmography, but the indie darling who helped push forward the mumblecore movement is back with a feature-length film that feels like one of his more accessible works. Perhaps this is a new form he has taken following opportunities like the Netflix series Easy, which ran for three seasons. Maybe dabbling in higher-profile projects with larger budgets got Swanberg moderately interested in tackling something starring Dakota Fanning, Jake Johnson, and Cory Michael Smith. Although, much like other mumblecore movies, The Sun Never Sets is a very down-to-earth slice of … Continue reading Going In Blind: The Sun Never Sets
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/27/26
Another one. Peter Cullen, known for voicing Optimus Prime for decades in the Transformers franchise, as well as Eeyore in Disney’s Winnie The Pooh animations, and my favorite, Monterey Jack in Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers. A truly gifted voice actor. yes, I grew up more on Rescue Rangers than Transformers. He was 85. TV Show Watched: Elle: S1E1,2,3 (Amazon) with audio description I had a busy day, and I stupidly tried to knock off a new series. not even close. I started Amazon’s elle, which is described by Media Access Group. Is it perfect? No. But it feels like … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/27/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/26/26
Another tragic loss. Tim Curry, whose talent blew through The Rocky Horror Picture Show and into a variety of films, from The Hunt For Red October, Clue, and Congo, to family fare like Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, Muppet Treasure Island, and his voice work in films like Ferngully, and on TV for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. he is a Tony nominated actor, he is also nominated for a Grammy, an Emmy, but sadly never an Oscar. He was chosen in 2026 by GALECA as their Timeless Star honoree (a group for which I am a member). … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/26/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/25/26
Wow. We lost a true legend yesterday. Dolly Parton.What an immensely kind, warm, gifted, generous, and humble human being. Our world isn’t just a little less bright, we lost the North Star. TV Shows watched: Survival Of The Thickest: Season 3 (Netflix) with audio description, Last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet yes, a really short diary. My work, with classes resuming, is always far more consuming at the beginning and end. I basically focused on Survival Of The Thickest, which truth be told, I had already powered through half of it before walking out the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/25/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/24/26
Yesterday… was nuts. I’m amazed I watched anything. TV Shows Watched: Lanterns: S1E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Black Clover: S1E2 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Solar Opposites: S6E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Strip Law: S1E10 (Netflix) with audio description Lanterns- Did we just learn in this episode that Zoey is black? Probably could have gotten that piece of info earlier. I don’t think her intro at the bar in Episode 1 described her, so it forced me into defaulting her into redneck white lady, which she apparently is not. If studios don’t want ethnic description in the AD track, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/24/26
The Small Screen Diaries:08/23/26
TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Deaad City: S3E5 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E9 (Apple) with audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E2 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description,The Westies: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description,Life Larry and the Pursuit Of Unhappyness: S1E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E17 (Netflix) with audio description, and Marshals: S1e13 (Paramount) with audio description Dead City- Back to not having audio description again. Good job guys. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed- I love how invested I am in this woman getting to keep her daughter, more than the strange shit happening around … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries:08/23/26
Stranger Things: Tales From 85: Season 1
How quickly a good thing can become a bad thing is not one of the specific tales from ’85, but it is more or less the overall theme of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85. That applies both to the story connecting these ten episodes and to the general feeling I had when it was all over. Our young cast is in between mysteries in 1985, now fully aware of Eleven’s powers, the Upside Down, and everything that happened to Will. With nothing particularly strange happening at the moment, the kids are bored enough to consider expanding their detective talents. Luckily … Continue reading Stranger Things: Tales From 85: Season 1
Sugar: Season 2
Well, we’re back. Against all odds, Sugar has returned. Well, not really against all odds. It does star Colin Farrell, and it feels like a missed opportunity to not at least try to evolve the character and see where John Sugar goes in this second season. One of the major things I remember about the first season was that it was very stylish. It seemed to understand what had come before it in terms of all of those intrepid gumshoes of film noir mysteries past, like somebody spent a great deal of time watching or reading The Maltese Falcon, The … Continue reading Sugar: Season 2
Freefall: A Reckoning For Boeing
This just surprised me in my Netflix feed, and I decided to watch it. I will say that while the lack of having a publication to back me as a film critic certainly limits my exposure, one of the things it does for me is allow me to choose what I want to review and when I want to review it because I’m not working on assignment. I’m working on a wing and a prayer. So, much like pilots when they’re flying a Boeing airplane, they’re doing so on a wing and a prayer. It also tends to mean that … Continue reading Freefall: A Reckoning For Boeing
Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: Nothing To Lose (2026)
Netflix does this thing where they randomly select international titles on their streaming service and tap them for audio description. I’m not really sure what the wheel of algorithms that drives them to do this tells them in terms of supportive data. Pick this film because the English-speaking blind audience will like this one more. Don’t pick that one because the English-speaking blind audience won’t like it. It’s such a tremendous fallacy given the fact that a film like Nothing to Lose just kind of randomly and quietly dropped on Netflix with little fanfare, yet Netflix has had films in … Continue reading Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: Nothing To Lose (2026)
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/22/26
A weird day yesterday. Best laid plans. Didn’t get to review things as I had hoped. Coming up this week on streaming, the biggest movie seems to be Netflix’s The Whisper Man with Adam Scott, Robert DeNiro, and Michelle Monaghan. Returning Series include Dark MAtter (Apple), Adults (Hulu), The Undeclared War (Peacock), Leann (Netflix), and Beauty In Black (Netflix), as well as more Jeopardy Masters (ABC). On the new horizon, not much. Netflix has something called The Airport Chaplin with Hugo Weaving, but it is pretty bare. TV Shows Watched: The Vampire Lestat (Interview With A vampire Season 3): All … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/22/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/21/26
TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E8 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Mating Season: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E6 (MGM Plus) with audio description, The Miniature Wife: S1E10 (Peacock) with audio description Silo- The episode is titled Grey Goo, and when you get to the end, that’s all you really need. It’s like Silo’s version of Olaf’s Frozen quote “some people are worth melting for”. Jedediah Barton and Pixel Logic do more wonderful AD as they cram a lot into this episode. Not only do we check on the past, but we … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/21/26
Going In Blind: Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
There are several directors who have started coming up through the ranks recently, mostly out of the horror genre, who have clearly unique voices within the field, and I think Jane Schoenbrun is definitely one of those burgeoning auteurs. They last directed I Saw the TV Glow for A24, which, while not necessarily my favorite film of that year, was definitely a stunner and my first interaction with Schoenbrun as a director, as Let’s All Go to the World’s Fair doesn’t have audio description and has kept me at arm’s length from being able to appreciate it. So their third … Continue reading Going In Blind: Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/20/26
TV Shows Watched: among Us: Season 1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Daemons Of The Shadow Realm: S1E12 (CruncyRoll) no audio description, and Berlin: S2E? (Netflix) with audio description Among Us- Not a big day, but I did knock off the entire first season of Among Us (likely the only season) which was a lot of fun. Totally bingeable by the way. Each episode is approx. 15 minutes, So it’s under 2 1/2 hours. The audio description was interesting, and I didn’t catch credits in the span of time before it pushed me into the next episode. The characters here … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/20/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/19/26
TV Shows Watched: Ted Lasso: S4E3 (Apple) with audio description, Nemesis: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E19 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Comeback: S2E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E13 (Peacock) with audio description, and Breaking Bad: S4E9 (Netflix) with audio description Ted Lasso- I enjoyed this episode with open tryouts. Plus, Ted got to hang with Henry for a smidge, the whole reason he left to begin with. Ted Lasso is slowly finding its feet. Will it ever be as good as it once was? Probably not, though I like this reboot of … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/19/26