TV News: Shockingly, the ratings are down this season for Abbott Elementary. Who would have thought placing it after The Golden Bachelorettee, and leading it into… is anyone even watching the lead out show? Skemanda? What is that? Who would have thought that dropping this show into the middle of nonsensical bullshit would lead to lower live ratings. I’m sure its streaming numbers will be fine on Hulu, but does ABC really think that’s a great time slot?
TV Shows I Watched: Disclaimer: S1E4 (Apple Plus), Hysteria: S1E1 (Peacock) with audio description, Teacup: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, The Legend Of Vox Machina: S3E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Ghosts: S4E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Queens Court: S1E5 (Peacock) with audio description, trivial Pursuit: S1E3 (the CW) no audio description, Happy’s Place: S1E1 (Peacock) with audio description, Matlock: S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Shrinking: S2E1 (Apple plus) with audio description.
Podcasts: The Christian Harloff Show (Spider-man 4 news)
YouTube: Perry Nimaroff (FYC: Best Supporting Actress predictions), Awards contender (Why Fight Club Didn’t Sweep the Oscars)
Movies watched: Maxxxine ((MAX) with audio description, Cuckoo (Apple Store) with audio description, The Last Breath (Apple Store) with audio description
Again, with 10 shows, I just have random thoughts on some.
Disclaimer- I would have made a different choice in narrator for this, but the written audio description does well with all that it has to work around. This was a hard episode, and really important to the whole series. A fantastic series thus far, and I’d be shocked if this didn’t sweep with nominations come next Emmy season. The narrator isn’t bad, she just almost matches Cate Blanchett’s voice to the point that sometimes when her character is giving in show narration, and then we get audio description, the transition is oddly seamless, like the show is being audio described by Cate. The only truly noticeable difference is that the audio description is often softer. I might have picked someone else who matches the genre/theme of the show, but also signified more substantial differences in vocal transition.
teacup- the narrator choice here, Jabari Gray, is oddly far more calming than he probably should be. then again, this show could end up, as I said before as being primarily about a mother protecting her son, but it is so hard to tell because every episode doubles down on the horror of it all.
First impressions of Hysteria and happy’s place. Hysteria is way too long each episode. It felt like a show that would be hovering around 30 minutes, as it isn’t that serious of a show. It has some darkness to it, sure, but it leans more comedy than drama. And the length of the episode is felt. It is weird how Teacup, which could be longer, is the short one, and hysteria, which should be short, is the long one. Peacock is on crack. Also, Happy’s Place has an awful pilot, but is one of those rare shows where I wouldn’t tell you to not watch it. They just have this premise, and they introduce it in the clunkiest way possible. I’m looking forward to seeing this show and its ensemble now that they have established what the show is. Awful pilot though, when you think of how a pilot is supposed to function.
And, a rare movie shoutout. It will take me a hot minute to get to a review of it, because I watch too much shit, but Rainn Brooks wrote a terrific audio description track for Cuckoo. I’m pretty consistently happy with his work, and I think he’s very much a writer on the rise. Especially when it comes to horror. I wish he would be given the opportunity to go back and redo to the audio description for In A Violent Nature. Hire this dude.cuckoo is a batshit, near impossible movie to follow and describe, and he wrote a banger of a script for it. That movie is not for everyone.