I managed to do all below, and put up the Christmas Tree. Just remember that when you see only 3 shows, and 4 movies. I managed a tree in here as well. Why do blind people put up trees? I’m not the guy to answer that. I like this holiday, I like trees, I had amassed some pretty cool non-traditional ornaments that I like to continue to use. Not very many people come inside, but it is always a nice conversation starter when they as “Is that Batman on your Christmas Tree?” yes. yes it is.
TV Shows Watched: The Agency: S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Madness: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Interior Chinatown: S1E7 (Hulu) with audio description.
Podcasts/YouTube: None
Movies: Conclave (Apple Store) with audio description, The Substance (Apple Store) with audio description, A Real Pain (Screener) no audio description, and Night Bitch (screener) no audio description.
Yesterday, the focus was on Silo. it needed to be. Today, I’ll tackle the two new shows I didn’t talk about yesterday.
The madness actually has some pretty decent audio description. Post house is behind it. There was one thing in the pilot that I’m surprised no one caught, but there’s a moment when Coleman Domingo’s character is being chased and he tumbles down an “embarkment” (even the first time I typed that, spell check tried to correct it), and I am 99.9% certain you meant embankment. Just swapping that n for an r created a new word, and I’m surprised no one noticed. it feels like a typo. I know narrators don’t always get to see the product, or the totality of it, but they do get to read it in advance. Even contextually, I would assume it should be embankment. If it had been me, I probably would have just been too self conscious to say anything, but would have still recorded me saying “embankment”. At the end of the day, QC should have caught it. Otherwise, aside from what is literally a typo, I’m enjoying the audio description and the narrator. It is also an interesting show that has me guessing how it will end, which I love. I love shows I can’t immediately predict.
The Agency is almost a breath of fresh air, because while I love the guy who seems to narrate every show I watch on Paramount Plus, this was a different voice. It is close in tone to Lioness, but this is slow burning, and I don’t know where it is really headed. Major talent is here, and most of them haven’t really contributed a ton. Even lead Michael Fassbender feels like the best is still to come. But, Fassbender, Richard Gere, Jeffrey Wright, Katherine waterston, John Megarro, and Jodi Turner Smith together is a nice package, add to that Joe Wright as director, and George Clooney as producer, and I expect big things. The audio description faces the same challenges as Lioness, and delivers on the promise.