I’ll start off with the good news! The Connor’s is coming back for a short final season on ABC. So they will get to finish on their own terms. Now the less good news. I did try to watch Jeopardy Masters (Hulu) and no audio description was available. This is disappointing, not that it stopped me, as I’m there to try and answer those trivia questions too, but I did want to point that out.
I made it through the third episode of Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix), which I’m really enjoying, and even though they have a ‘case of the week”, it is amazing how linear this story is. With all the crazy stuff that happened in the third episode, and Crystal slipping in and out of reality, I’d say the audio description team here is doing a great job of keeping us together with the show.There are a lot of visual only clues that we’d miss otherwise, and this show wouldn’t be nearly as fun.
Knuckles (Paramount Plus) basically spent the whole third episode at Wade’s house with his mom (Stockard Channing) and FBI sister. It was a cute episode, but if this was a movie we wouldn’t have spent nearly this much time in one place. I don’t have a problem with the written AD, or the narrator, but the quality of how they are presenting it is I swear in Mono. It sounds like a reduced quality. Something got lost in translation along the way.
Will Trent (Hulu) saw Will headed off to a wedding, where things very much did not go as planned. It’s up to him and Faith to stop the bad guys from not just ruining the day, but killing the guests.Will Trent’s audio description, like every ViTech show at ABC this season, started off lacking. This time, I can say there were several non-verbal moments important to the script that were included, and the episode made more sense. Lots of gadgets being used. Without audio description this would have made way less sense.
The Tattooist Of Auschwitz (Peacock) gets off to a slow start. It is another holocaust drama, entering the space the same time as We Were The Lucky Ones, which I also thought didn’t have the best start. Since the Hulu show took off in later episodes, I have no reason to believe this limited series won’t do that as well. The audio description, unlike Peacock’s last limited, Apples Never Fall, seems much more appropriate in tone. Possibly even more so than We Were The Lucky Ones, whose narrator I’ve grown to be accustomed to, but didn’t think they matched initially. I’m now watching two holocaust dramas, so practice that self-care mental health.
The Sympathizer (MAX)- The tone of the show needs to calm down. Like, the first episode was all one tone, and then shit hit the fan. In the second episode, it once again is trying to play both sides, with this heavy subject matter mixed in with what seems to be a dark comedy or something. I hate to say this, because I love Robert Downey Jr, but I kind of hate this series. And I know the director is a solid director. but the shifts in tone just don’t work for me.
The veil (Hulu) is a show I just don’t know what to say about. Even two episodes in, I can’t tell you what it is about. even the IMDB description is unhelpful, as it suggests the show is about secrets, and how one woman must uncover them. OK. So that explains why we know so little? This is only a six episode run, so that’s good at least.
