TV Shows Watched: Bel Air: S3E8 (Peacock) with audio description, Wyatt Earp and the cowboy War: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, the Great North: S4E16 (Hulu) no audio description, Daryl Fixon: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Khaos: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description.
Podcasts: The NPR politics Podcast (politics), The Interview (with Jenna Ortega), and The Excerpt (Beatlemania)
YouTube: FishJelly Review (Review: Slingshot) and I definintely watched another one… but it escapes me now.
Movies: Daughters (Netflix) with audio description, Open Water (MAX) with audio description, Sleepy Hollow (Amazon/MGM Plus) with audio description.
Khaos gets another break. Yesterday, I actually was planning on watching Sinister on MAX for my upcoming onslaught of Spooky Season reviews (subscribe to my YouTube because I likely won’t put all of them here, like Open Water for example), but Sinister takes the prize for worst balanced track ever. I had my TV turned up to “scream” level, as loud as I was willing to accept the audio descritpion to yell at me, and I could just barely hear the film at a whisper. At the normal volume I watch a film, it was inaudible. Completely. I took to social media, to warn people, but apparently… this is just a thing we’ve come to accept about this film? Like, no one has punched Lionsgate in the face? Sinister came out in 2012. Y’all are telling me that for 12 years, this piece of shit has been getting passed around and shared as meeting some audio description quota, and we all are just like… well… yeah.
Have you ever been a kid before, and when your parents would ask you to do something you didn’t want to do, you figured if you did a really bad job at it that they wouldn’t ask you to do it again? Lionsgate is that child. they’re kinda hoping we just don’t ask them again. But 12 years of this? Honestly? I wouldn’t even bother passing through this track anymore. I think the more responsible thing to do would be for MAX to not list this as audio described. Since their service has the aggregator that separates it, I would remove it from that list. I can’t imagine anyone wants to listen to just the audio description.
Maybe someone out there has some crazy home theater setup where they have like 20 speakers, and they can individually control all of them, and somehow they can turn up the film volume coming out of the specific speakers? It is just so useless otherwise. I put up with this similar thing on The Hunger Games, but this is actually worse.
