TV News: I survived the Hurricane. I also never lost power, so i have stuff to talk about today. In the TV News world, James Wan has jumped on board the Robocop series being developed at Amazon.
TV Shows Watched: Agatha All Along: S1E3 (Disney plus) with audio description, Penelope: S1E2 and S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Grotesquery: S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Mr. McMahon: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Nobody Wants This: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Colin From Accounts: S2E1 (Paramount Plus) no audio description, 911: S7E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Desperate Housewives: S2E14 *(Hulu) no audio description, and The Masked Singer: S12E1 (Hulu) no audio description.
Early Masked Singer Predictions Before I forget Them: The first group are The Wayans conglomerate. They supposedly were in two of the biggest TV shows ever, which might be stretching it, but I’ll guess that puts Damon Wayans (My Wife and Kids) there for sure. As far as what else the other show could be, they might just consider In Living Color to be one. Jennifer Lewis introduced Marcy Martin. Martin co-starred with Jennifer Lewis on Blackish. She would be young enough to be trying to be the youngest billionaire. And I’m pretty sure Joel McHale introduced Yvette Nicole Brown, and Ken just did his thing by over guessing. Yvette was just a voice in the number one film at the box office this year, Inside Out 2. She also appeared in Avengers Endgame. So, she’s been in some billion dollar films. I’m not sure who the last person is, but Enya was a solid guess. Sarah McLachlan may not be huge anymore, but she is writing now for music theatre/Broadway productions.
Podcasts: The John Campia Show (Movie News), The Christian Harloff Show (Movie News) Friends From Work (Agatha recap), The NPR Politics Podcast (Politics), The Breakfast Club (Brett Favre’s Testimony)
YouTube: Deep Focus lens (review: The Substance), Fish jelly Film Reviews (Review: Saturday Night), Adam Does Movies (review: The Substance)
Movies: We Will Dance Again (Paramount Plus) with audio description, killer Heat (Amazon) with audio description
First off, Grotesquery is… gory as fuck. Just want to confirm that, in case you thought the title was tongue-in-cheek. I’m actually not sure I’ve seen a show this gory right up front like this. It barely establishes a plot, characters, or concept. It basically came in hard with our lead agent (played by Niecy Nash) walking into what could only be described as hell. To warn audiences, before they show you anything, there’s another agent vomiting.And that opening gore isn’t even the only gore in the series. it is pretty fucking gory, but at the same time, does this have a plot? Like, OK, you shocked me, but what is this actually about? But, lots of props to the audio description team here. This is a perfect example of “Shit I now only watch because I’m blind.” I never would have sat through this with my sight. Hearing it was bad enough. Seeing it… props to the makeup and FX team, but no thank you. Nope. no way.
And, the “WTF” award goes to Paramount Plus, which hyped the return of the breakout hit Colin From Accounts, only to stop audio describing it, because CBS didn’t also need it this fall on their lineup. Thanks?
but, for real, as October is approaching, Grotesquery seems to be taking that TV crown for “watch if you dare”. Plot be damned.