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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: 09/27/25

John Stark

TV Shows watched: outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E9 (Starz) no audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, English teacher: S2E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Rick and Morty: S8E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Dexter: S6E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Pop culture Jeopardy: Last Quarterfinal (Amazon) with audio description, The Rainmaker: S1E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and South Park: Season 27E4 (Paramount Plus) no audio description yet Outlander: Blood Of My Blood- The main four characters are once again in the same location, and there are a bunch of other Scottish people around doing things I’m … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/27/25

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Dexter: resurrection: Season 1

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Cast: Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, David Zayas as Angel Batista, Ntare Guma Mbaho as Blessing, James Remar as harry Morgan, Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater, Uma Thurman as Charlie, Jack Alcott as Harrison Morgan, Kadia Saraf Detective Wallace, Dominic Fumusa as Det Olivia, Emilia Suarez as Elsa, Eric Stonestreet as Al, Krysten Ritter as Mia, David Dastmalchian as Gareth, Marc Menchaca as red, Neil Patrick Harris as Lowell Length: 10 episodes Streaming Service: Paramount Plus with Showtime Release Year: 2025 Audio Description Produced By: descriptive Video Works Written By: (Need credit) Narrated By: Paula Hoffman What Is it?: … Continue reading Dexter: resurrection: Season 1

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Marvel Zombies: S1E3 (Disney plus) with audio description,Wayward: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, the Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E10 (Amazon) with audio description, My Life With the Walter boys: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, celebrity Weakest Link: S1E1 (Hulu) no audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, and Who wants to Be A Millionaire: S4E8 (Hulu) with audio description Peacemaker- I’ve heard this is game changing. Considering I’ve recently seen Superman, I’m not sure something can be that game changing when the thing that came before … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Gen V: S2E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Marvel’s Zombies: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox: S1E6 (Hulu) with audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Girlfriend: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Black rabbit: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, and Name That Tune: S?E2 (Hulu) no audio description Gen V- Hamish Linklater has been a great cast addition as Cypher, this new head of the school who is really hard to decipher. What are his powers? Does he even have any? You’ll know by the end of this … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/22/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Gen V: S2E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Task: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S3E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Twisted Metal: S2E9 (Peacock) with audio description Gen V- Since I know narrators don’t always get to see what they are describing, I find it funny thinking about a narrator just sitting in their recording studio, preparing to read a line, and they see that they have to describe a head coming out of a butt. Thanks to shows like Gen V and The Boys, we’re breaking new grounds constantly on “how do we … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/22/25

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The Small Screen Diaries- 09/20/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood- S1E8 (Starz) no audio description, Black Rabbit: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, next Gen chef: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and Pop Culture Jeopardy: The Neverending Story (Amazon) with audio description Outlander: blood Of My Blood- I think I’ve finally settled on Rotten. As we near the finale, I’m missing too much. I can follow the cliff notes version of the cliff notes for the show, but most of the time there are characters I don’t remember, have no idea what their name is, where … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 09/20/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/19/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: the Peacemaker: S2E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description, My Life With the Walter boys: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Haunted Hotel: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Summer I turned Pretty: S3E9 (Amazon) with audio description, The Daily Show: Thursday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, Breaking Bad: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description Peacemaker- Instead of spoiling through recap, let me say how nice it was to wake up to Alex reminding me that it was a great day to be a nerd, since I could see Superman and peacemaker on the same day. And, yes, I am … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/19/25

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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 Small Screen Diaries: 09/13/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E7 (Starz) no audio description, My Life With The Walter Boys: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Upload: S4E4 (AmazoN) with audio description, All of Us Are Dead: S1E12 (Netflix) with audio description, Pop culture Jeopardy: OMG (Amazon) with audio description, Only Murders In the Building: S5E2 (Hulu) with audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- All four parents are featured, with a special appearance by rob Roy! And Ellen’s virginity gets called into question. Uh oh. I’d have a better idea of who these people … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/13/25

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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: 09/10/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Alien Earth: S1E6 (Hulu) with audio description, The Girlfriend: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Dexter: resurrection: S1E9 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Red Fish Blue Fish: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E9 (Hulu) with audio description, Irish Blood: Season Final (Acorn) with audio description, and The paper: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description Alien Earth- No spoilers. I’d say, all things considered, a well described episode. The little bit of description I liked the most was just the inclusion of the soldier that Joe/Kermit is with, and her braided hair. She felt … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/10/25

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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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Night Always Comes

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Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagn, Stephan James, Randall Park Written By: Willy Vlutain, based on the book. Directed By: Benjamin Caron release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Netflix Audio Description produced By: Descriptive Video Works Written By: Jeff Heck Narrated By: Mocha Owen What is it?: A family deep in poverty has one shot at finding a stable place to live, but when the matriarch (Leigh) blows their money, her daughter (Kirby) is left with the prospect of being kicked out on the street if she can’t come up with 25K by morning. What Works: Some have reacted like … Continue reading Night Always Comes