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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/28/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Daryl Dixon: S3E4 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Black Rabbit: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Next Gen Chef: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, the Golden Bachelor: S2E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Billy the kid: S1E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description,Have I got News for you: S3E4 (HBO MAX) no audio description, Tulsa King: S3E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Morning Show: S4E2 (Apple plus) with audio description Daryl Dixon- A really tough episode to get through without audio description thanks to the amount of non-English spoken, and the combat sequences.Who died? Don’t know. Were those throwing … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/28/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/23/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: High Potential: S2E1 (Hulu) with audio description,Platonic: S2E8 (Apple Plus) with audio description,The Runarounds: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Red Fish Blue Fish: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Black Mirror: S4E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Next Gen Chef: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description,Last Week tonight: most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description High Potential- With Jimmy Kimmel back, so is Hulu/Disney content. So, I caught up with the Season Premiere of High Potential, which I was disappointed to find out was using the same AD team as last year. Although, I’ve heard worse, from this narrator and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/23/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/2025

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: gen V: S2E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Black Rabbit: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Next Gen Chef: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The girlfriend: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, red Fish Blue Fish: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, The paper: S1E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and The morning Show: S4E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description Gen V- The very special guest this episode is Deep, who makes a brief appearance at a frat hazing ceremony. Otherwise, our trio of heroes decide after all that school is the safest place, so they return to take classes on anti-woke … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/2025

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/15/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Task: S1E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Platonic: S2E7 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Runarounds: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Twisted Metal: S2E8 (Peacock) with audio description, and Ginny and Georgia: S3E3 (Netflix) with audio description Task- What to do with Sam? That’s the big question driving the second episode of Task. This remains an ensemble piece, despite the presence of Mark Ruffalo in the lead role, and is slowly building out this crime drama. we learn more about the thieves from the last episode, as well as the “community” they stole from. Solid audio description … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/15/25

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The Buccaneers: season 2

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Cast: KristineFroseth as Nan, Alisha Boe as Conchita, Matthew Broome as guy, Guy Remmers as Theo, Josie Tota as Mabel, Imogen Waterhouse as Ginny, Josh Dylan as Richard, Aubri Ibrag as Lizzie, Mia Threapleton as Honoria, Barney Fishwick as james, Amelia Bullmore as the Dowager, Jacob Ifen as Hector, Grace Ambrose as paloma, Christina Hendricks as Patricia, Adam James as the Colonel, Leighton Meester as Nelle Length: 8 episodes Streaming Service: Apple TV + Audio Description Created By: pixel Logic Written By: Narrated By: Roy Samuelson What is It?: In the continuation of the first season, the American girls and … Continue reading The Buccaneers: season 2

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Daryl Dixon: S3E1 (AMC Plus) no audio description, The Buccaneers: S2E8 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Sausage Party: Foodtopia: S2E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S3E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Task: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Hostage: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description Daryl Dixon- I went through literal unnecessary skullduggery to watch this. I should have had access to this on Sunday, as part of my AMC Plus subscription through my Prime channel add on, like every other Walking Dead spinoff. Instead, it wasn’t there. Going back and forth with AMC and Amazon, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/11/25

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The Small Screen diaries: 09/06/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E6 (Starz) no audio description, Wednesday: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Foundation: S3E9 (Apple plus) with audio description, All Of Us Are Dead: S1E11 (Netflix) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: The Show That Never Ends (Amazon) with audio description, Hostage: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and South Park: S27E4 (Paramount Plus) no audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- An episode focusing mostly on childbirth, but including a little bit of that touchstone of the Outlander franchise… rape. Just a dash of rape. Wouldn’t … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 09/06/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: The Buccaneers: S2E7 (Apple plus) with audio description, Wednesday: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, NCIS: Tony And Ziva: S1E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Long Story Short: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Sausage Party: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description The Buccaneers- I definitely felt with the last episode that The Buccaneers had finally reached its true potential, and with this episode, all of the strong subject matter they have opened up until now is paying off. the season’s penultimate episode has Nan’s mother filing for divorce from her husband, and she has to have proof. Mind you, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: From: S3E3 ((MGM Plus) with audio description, Black Mirror: S4E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Foundation: S3E8 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S2E10 (Netflix) with audio description, Upload: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Ballard: S1E10 (Amazon) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S2E12 (Netflix) with audio description From- This show is brilliant. I loved the stuff happening with Tabitha, and how she begins to believe she never left the nightmare (though I’m pretty sure she did). Meanwhile, Chrissy gets in trouble and needs rescue, and Victor really wants to build a fort. The lore keeps coming. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/29/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Chief Of War: S1E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description,The Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E6 (Amazon) with audio description, hitmakers: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Match Game: S5E6 (Hulu) with audio description, Who Wants to Be A millionaire: S4E6 (Hulu) with audio description Peacemaker- Peacemaker is still reeling from his fight at the end of the last episode, and we do touch base with everyone in an episode that doesn’t quite advance the overall arc, but does bring the crew closer together. My favorite moments were Eagley, who I thought might … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/29/25

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Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

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Directed By: Erik Wiese Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Apple Runtime: 40 minutes Audio Description Provided By: (Need Credit) Written By: (Need Credit) Narrated By: (Need Credit) What Is It?: Charlie Brown and his friends are off to their last summer of camp, which is also Sally’s first. Sally doesn’t understand the draw of going to camp, so Charlie takes it upon himself to make sure she has a fun experience like he always had, until they realize the camp is going to close due to decreasing attendance. Can Charlie Brown and the gang save the camp from closing, and can … Continue reading Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/27/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Alien Earth: S1E4 (Hulu) with audio description, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description, The buccaneers: S2E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Great north: S5E19 (Hulu) no audio description, All Of us Are Dead: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Irish Blood: S1E5 (Acorn) no audio description Alien Earth- I love developing description. What I mean by that is description that continues to build the world, realizing there’s some element it could still mention, and perhaps didn’t earlier. Often this can come in letting us know a physical attribute we didn’t get in initial … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/27/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/25/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Black mirror: S4E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Platonic: S2E4 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Butterfly: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S2E9 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E5 (Hulu) with audio description, and Hostage: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description Black Mirror- A really solid episode about how decisions from our past come back to haunt us, because we all have a chip in our brain. So, one woman’s quest to protect her current family from the sins of her past leads her to some truly disturbing life choices, which all … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/25/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/23/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E4 (Starz) with audio description, The Hunting Wives: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Foundationn: S3E7 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Hitmakers: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Ballard: S1E9 (Amazon) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: IDK (Amazon) with audio description, The Rainmaker: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description, and Hostage: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- Yesterday, I got an email back from a rep, after saying I would love to screen and review their film, but if they had an English Audio Description track for the film, it … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/23/25

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Smoke: Season 1

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Cast: Taron Egerton, Jurnee Smollett, Greg Kinnear, John Leguizamo, Rafe Spall, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Anna Chlumsky Series Created By: Dennis Lehane Streaming Service: Apple TV + Length: 9 episodes Audio Description Provided By: Written By: Narrated By: Roy Samuelson What Is it?: An arson investigator (Egerton) is stuck in a town that seems to have two arsonists he can’t catch. he gets help from a detective (Smollett), who has been sent downstream for personal reasons, relegated to arson. She has a past with arson herself, having survived one as a child. Together, they must figure out … Continue reading Smoke: Season 1