Welcome back. I hope your favorite team won last night. If not, think of all the other fans whose team didn’t even get to the Super Bowl. And, the ones whose favorite team hasn’t been to one in a long time. There are actually teams that have never been to a Super Bowl. Ever. I didn’t watch, but I almost never watch.
After spending the week feeling rather defeated for a multitude of reasons, by poor audio description, by having to justify my existence when I requested a screener from a rep who sent ME the email offering a screener, to wondering what’s next, and also watching something in my personal life approach that I’m supposed to be really happy for someone, but also trying not to be just utterly devastated at the same time. it has been a week. So i thought I’d kick off yesterday by watching Apple’s Vietnam docuseries.
TV Shows Watched: Vietnam: The War That Changed America: S1E2 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, From: S1E6 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Papa’s House: S1E10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Wags To Riches: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Landman: Season Finale (Paramount Plus) with audio description
Best Episode: From- Continuing to be one of the best choices I’ve made in a long time. This series is so excellent. the only reason, I’m convinced, that it has no Emmy nominations, is because MGM Plus. If this was on Netflix, or even Amazon Prime, I think at least the first season would have been impossible to ignore. We continue to trickle the lore out, slowly actually being offered more questions than answers. the pacing of this series is excellent.
Runner Up: Vietnam: The War That Changed America- this docuseries is terrific. By finding the people, on both sides, who were actually in the war footage captured, they get to tell us first hand what was happening. the story behind those images.
best Performance: The Ensemble Of From- Really, I’ve singled out three performers individually thus far, and on a weak day, I’d like to just tip my hat to all of them. There isn’t a weak actor in the bunch.
runner Up: Ethan Hawke (Vietnam: The War That Changed America)- yes. This is how my day went. Hawke is being mentioned for narrating this docuseries.
Best Audio Description: From- Sensing a pattern? From has such excellent audio description. It is a show that allows for it, and gives the team some stuff to work with, but no question. this is superb.
runner Up: Vietnam: The War That Changed America- For a docuseries, where the footage is centric to our enjoyment, yet there are a lot of interviews thrown in, I really feel like this show is making the most out of the spots it can.
Best Moment Of Audio Description: What’s Up With This Tree? (From)- Our two new men set off to build a radio, and one of them learns really quick that maybe the powers around them aren’t happy with this choice. Lots of gory description.
Runner Up: Spidey And his Amazing Costumes (Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man)- Peter tries on several new outfits, and each sequence, while kind of dumb, was actually well described. In the context of the show, I thought the scene didn’t work, but I was impressed that the costumes were actually pretty well described every time.
Worst Of- Again, just… read anything I’ve written in the last few days. The open Letter, yesterday’s Small Screen Diary, or my QC for Tank. But, if I have to choose something from today, it is that in the season finale of Landman, an already poorly written show, doubles down by having Billy Bob, who has just been doused in gasoline, light up a cigarette. Just gotta get that cigarette in there. My mom wondered if the show was sponsored by oil companies, and I’m pretty sure RJ Reynolds is backing this.