I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Today is gonna get weird, but I actually left some stuff off of the previous Small Screen Diary.
TV Shows I Forgot I Watched On Wednesday: Ted: S1E1 (MAX) with audio description (The Ted Turner series, not the bear), Elzabeth: S2E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description (a jewel heist thwarted)
TV Shows Watched Yesterday: Cobra Kai: S6E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Before: S1E7 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Lioness: S2E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, You Would Do It Too: S1E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description, and Tulsa King: S2E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description.
Special Shoutout To Hulu for signing me out yesterday. That was a nice Thanksgiving treat. At some point, I’ll feel like going through signing back in on my Roku, with that tedious process. But, I just couldn’t be bothered. What a great day to push that. I mean, wake everyone up on Thanksgiving to a logout.
Podcasts: None.
YouTube: I literally do not remember. I saw things. I believe The Awards Contedner (best Director predictions) was one, but I watched a bunch of stuff.
Movies: Nickel Boys (Screener) No Audio Description, The Fire inside (Screener) No Audio description, Hard Truths (Screener) No Audio Description, and Blitz (Apple Plus) with audio description.
Interestingly, Amazon’s portal supports subtitles in several languages, but no alternate audio track. It would be nice.
But, in terms of actual audio description, I loved Cobra Kai. I always love Jurassic World: chaos Theory as a show, and the episode with Yaz having to basically survive on her own was great. Lioness had the balls to straight up say they were water boarding in this episode, which is one of those things that made me take a hard look at what exactly Taylor Sheridan is trying to say here. I had a lot of things to be thankful for.
The clear standout is Before, which is a show with so much visual context, so mysterious in how this has any bearing in real life, and what exactly people who aren’t Billy crystal are experiencing, that I truly appreciate this audio description. Before has become one of my favorite things to watch and look forward to every week, and it has a lot to do with the audio description really trying to contextualize as much as possible.