TV News: Netflix has picked up Emily In Paris for Season 5. Most of us are hate watching the show, so perhaps if we weren’t doing that, better shows would get renewed instead?
TV Shows Watched: the Great North: S4E19 (Hulu) No audio Description, Solar Opposites: S5E6 (Hulu) with audio description, Have I Got News For you (MAX) no audio description
Podcasts: On With Cara Swisher (Interview: Hillary Clinton)
YouTube: None
Movies: Seed of Chucky (Netflix) with audio description, Reality Bites (Netflix) with audio description
Talk about the calm before the storm. it was a work day for me, so my watching was still somewhat limited, but my options today are basically Solar opposites… again. For the third time. Because, I just covered that show last week. Fight Night *still* does not have audio description, and it is getting to the point where when it does, I’ll have my dance card filled up. Fall premieres are popping off,. Tonight, we have premieres of American Sports Story (FX) and High Potential (ABC), both of which I plan to watch the next day on Hulu and cover. If Dancing With The Stars ever picked up audio description on Disney plus, I’d consider it, but they seem to not functionally understand why American Idol and Dancing With The Stars, two of the longest running TV shows, need audio description.
Then, tomorrow, Agatha All Along premieres, followed by The Penguin and Monsters on Friday, along with whatever Twilight Of The Gods is, and a new show on Apple Plus on Friday to take a look at. Frazier also returns on Thursday. So, pretty soon, I’ll have a lot to write about. But, today? I’m not doing Solar Opposites.
Have I Got News For You should have audio description.Not that I didn’t laugh, because the panel was so funny, even when not given full context, some of it was just inherently funny. But most of the time, they are commenting on a photo.
Psst. CNN. Lean in here for a second. Let me whisper in your ear.
WE CAN’T SEE THE DAMN PHOTOS.
Put some fucking audio description on this show. Damn. Talk about feeling like there’s a joke you aren’t in on. Watching this is what I imagine it is like for the husband to attend a baby shower, where all the friends who show up are all the female friends of his wife. And he has to sit there, pretending he’s a part of the experience, but he has no idea what is going on. Last week Tonight sometimes uses graphics, and often you can get past them. Also, if you wait long enough, they do eventually add audio description. So, it depends on how long you are willing to wait to watch a current events program. But, this show actually has a picture of something on screen, and the panelists have to answer questions on the photo. This is a very photo-centric show. They do various little games, but at least half of them required people to be able to see a photo to either guess the news story, or understand the fake caption the comedians came up with. It’s a great concept, but this should be a no-brainer for audio description if someone even had a passing inkling that blind people existed. The only way you could pass through this show without audio description is by either being an idiot, or a mustache twirling evil bastard whose sole purpose in life is to destroy the livelihood of blind and visually impaired individuals.
So, yeah, I suppose even with only three shows, I do have news for you. This show is unwatchable. You theoretically could, and just skip around the photo-centric sections, but as a complete full episode, it’s deeply frustrating.
