TV Shows Watched: Wolf King: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Deli Boys: S1E4 (Hulu) with audio description, Midcentury Modern- S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, The Connor’s: S6E2 (Hulu) with audio description, Yellowjackets: S3E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Million Dollar Secret: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description,Suits LA: S1E6 (Peacock) with audio description, Celebrity Jeopardy: S3E10 (Hulu) with audio description, Matlock: S1E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description
Best Episode: Yellowjackets- As the series descends into total madness, apparently, we also learn a little secret. one more surviving Yellowjacket is out there. i would think that this is the kind of information someone should have brought up by now… in season 3? We’re close to the season finale, and I have no idea what is going to happen.
Runner Up: midcentury Modern- The most wonderfully gay thing I’ve seen in a while. Sure, we have lots of things that feature LGBTQ ensembles, or gay romances between leading men, but none have structured themselves in a multi-cam format, and been so unafraid of what would seem like envelope pushing jokes, but really aren’t. If you flipped these jokes around and had the cast of the Golden Girls (which this show is heavily modeled on) saying the straight female equivalent of what any of these guys say, it would feel incredibly on brand. I’m just excited to see Nathan Lane in something that feels like a role he can really stand out in. Matt Bomer is also hilariously cast against type as the Rose of the group.
Best Audio Description: Yellowjackets- I mean, just the context alone of what happens in the episode, means the only viable answer here is the madness of Yellowjackets.
Runner Up: Wolf King- I haven’t quite had the chance to compliment this Netflix animated offering, but the audio description here is actually quite good. Wolf King has a deceptively childish TV-Y7 rating, but it plays much more like a TV-PG. I think Netflix may be losing potential audience by marketing this show only to kids. It is a fantasy series, and Emily Eden does a lovely job narrating.
Best Performance: Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets)- when you get deep into Yellowjackets, and you see present Shauna with past Shauna, it becomes really hard to consider her the good girl of the show. In fact, it is a little hard to stomach anyone as a good girl, or the protagonist, or the moral high ground. I feel like the character most likely to be that is gone, and we’re left with several ladies who did some very bad things to survive, and keep doing them. For Shauna, she’s been keeping a pretty big secret.
runner Up: Matt Bomer (Midcentury Modern)- I feel like everyone else will eventually get a recognition, but I just want to talk about Bomer, who isn’t known for comedy, being cast in the “hot dumb guy” role. He’s pretty great. there’s a scene where he’s being asked about when he feels upset, and the thing that makes him angriest of all is when they run out of short ribs on the plane, and he has to push the frittata, which angers him because they don’t use real eggs. Like, that’s the thing that upsets him. He’s shockingly good in this role.
Best Moment Of Audio Description: Chaos In the Camp (Yellowjackets)- Trying to spoil this as little as humanly possible. Considering all that has happened in the flashback moments, we are now at a point where the squad is very divided by what the promise of the new additions may mean, and this conflict does not go well as some believe that this is not what “it” wants, and also they have done things that the world will not forgive them for. Chaos ensues.
Runner Up: That’s His Name (Matlock)- it is so silly, but in this episode, the gang ends up having to go interview a DJ that was hired for the underage party that Slam sponsored, and it made me giggle that the narrator had to use the DJ’s silly name, because he had no real name. it really is the small things in life sometimes. It doesn’t always need to be a work of staggering genius. sometimes, it can just be a funny word choice.
worst of- I love Stephen Amell, but he has like one level on suits LA. I need his character to show more levels. every time he gets even a little angry, he flies off the handle and attacks everything with the same level of anger.
