TV News: the Emmy Awards! tonight! With Live Audio Description! You have been alerted. Who will win? Shogun. The Bear.
TV Shows Watched: Pachenko: S2E4 (Apple Plus) with audio description, How To Die Alone: S1E3 and S1E4 (Hulu) with audio description, 911: S6E17 (Hulu), and Young Sheldon: S3E7 (MAX) with audio description
Podcasts: the Interview (with Demi Moore)
YouTube: The Awards contender (Reviews for Queer and Night Bitch), Fish Jelly Reviews: (Review: Riff Raff), Adam Does Movies (Review: Rebel Ridge), and Speak No Evil), Breakfast All Day (Review: Speak No Evil), The critical Drinker (The Rings Of Power Recap)
Movies Watched: The Fabulous Four (Apple Store) with audio description, paranormal Activity 3 (MAX) with audio description, and The Haunting (Paramount Plus) with audio description
I’m gonna jump back into Pachenko, because even though I’ve talked about it before, I think it is so interesting how it is done. I’ve never heard of the company doing the narration (W Brothers?) and it also is using a dubbed voice cast, and I’m not sure how much of this is the dub cast, and how much is always just translation. plus, the characters just sometimes speak language. They speak three languages in this show, Japanese, Korean, and English. But, there was a scene in the 4th episode, where Hanzo is beating the crap out of a guy who is dubbed by someone who has blearily never been punched before. It took all the air out of that sequence. Not only did he not seem in distress, he didn’t even seem scared. it was pretty close to being deadpan. And of all the stuff I wanted to mention, it was that. That moment stayed with me the whole day. It was the first thing I watched, before even any podcasts or YouTube stuff, or the movies, and at the end of the day, my takeaway was “Man, the beating in Pachenko this week was done really poorly for a show that is pretty perfect the rest of the time.” It is funny how one moment can stay with you, all the way to the next morning. Sometimes, a little thing, a fleeting moment may not seem so big, but it can be big when done so very poorly.
