TV Shows Watched: before: S1E3 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Ghosts: S4E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Krapapolis: S2E3 (Hulu) no audio description, Bad Monkey: S1E10 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Lincoln Lawyer: S3E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and Matlock: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description.
Podcasts: none
YouTube: The Oscar Expert (Director and other category predictions), breakfast All Day (Review: Juror No. 2)
Movies: Hundreds Of Beavers (FreeVee/Roku/Pluto) no audio description, Harold and the Purple Crayon (Netflix) with audio description
there’s a nice little twist at the end of this week’s Before, which is a show I’m very much loving right now. I still think that show must be a chore to script narration for, because you have to carefully craft it without revealing what comes next, since it seems intentionally always leaving things out. Probably of all the shows, this would be the one I’d single out today. I didn’t have any major problems with anything that was described, nor was there necessarily one singular moment that stood out to me as being worth popping out.
Like, as a by product of being a sitcom, Ghosts doesn’t allow for really evocative audio description to begin with. It just has enough time for little references, which is makes the most of. So this weeks episode centers around this statue, and we don’t get an in depth description of the statue in a way that we would react the same way the characters in the show would, but when you see where the episode ends, you realize that over describing it might have led to confirming what it was actually not. That’s the best way I can say that without too much spoiler language. But, it does kind of mean that often we have to have the totality of the product and not just an instant reaction in the moment. Something like Before feels like a show that is giving its sighted audience about as much as we get in the audio description, as it is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
