I finished Billions (Paramount Plus) officially. What a great finale, and a spinoff is totally set up for Taylor, so please make that happen. Kudos to Paula Hoffman and everyone who worked on the audio description for the two available seasons. My Life With The Walter Boys (Netflix) just suffers from having too many damn characters, and doing a poor job of describing them at the on set, so I don’t have a concrete idea of what these people look like. Anytime a new face shows up, there’s really nothing that describes them.
Ted (Peacock) is shit. This audio description is incompetent. There are so many clearly visual sight gags that no one ever addresses in the description. In this Halloween themed episode, Blair and Ted are both dressed up in what would presumably be instantly recognizable costumes, though the audio description isn’t recognizing them. Why? Fear of trademark? Are we really at that point? “Ted is dressed up like a character from Star Wars and Blair is dressed up like a character from Batman”. Done. Give us at least that. Fuck.
Also, I did catch a few older shows that have audio description, so shoutouts to Community (Netflix) and Family Matters (MAX). Both shows are no longer running, and have audio description like they should.
