The Girls On The Bus (MAX) still seems to be wandering a bit as a show tonally. Maybe it just can’t find the right lane, but it feels so much like the team that was behind the The Sex Lives Of College Girls is making this show. It’s just in the way it is being presented, as something meant to be so broad it could reach anyone, while it also really ends up reaching no one. The audio description is really light, which while it is good audio description, doesn’t help the show when it tries to have a moment of weight to it.
I’m down to one more episode now for Sexy beast (Paramount Plus), which predictably had another shocking death. I swear the movie was nothing like this. I’ve been toying with revisiting the film, but it seems to only be on Hulu right now… without audio description. While I have seen Sexy Beast, it was only once.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) took us into nightmare fuel. I’ve been a little lukewarm on this audio description so far, but this was the episode to show its stuff, and it did embrace the fantastical creatures of the spirit realm. I think this is the best described episode thus far.
Mondays are a little slow for me on this, because I do watch a couple shows with no audio description. I do need to mention that while I know that American Idol loves to do their emotional backstories, the girl with the three visually impaired brothers was played more like they had some mental/learning disability, instead of just not being able to see. It would have been nice for the big sister to present her siblings as functional people with thoughts of their own, instead of these three fragile things that love to just hear her voice. I’ve never felt so infantilized than I was by how this segment was edited. I blame the girl a little less, because having done Idol myself, I know the production crew is looking for something like this. You can dodge it in their questioning phase. It’s all in how you choose to present yourself, and if you want to get famous off having 3 visually impaired brothers that were given no other context, then you do you girl. But, Idol, which has featured blind contestants in the past needed to edit that segment better.
