Down To Watch

October is back again, like every year, and Down to Watch has small screen tricks and treats for your plastic pumpkin bucket! Dan and Raul filled their candy bags with what's coming up in the next few weeks and Dan has a bunch of returning favorites like The Lowdown, The Diplomat, The Tulsa King and the more! Raul brought nerdy stuff like Anthony Bourdain's Get Jiro animated food and violence fest and VisionQuest from the MCU fill the fandom slot this month. Of course, a little spooky goes a long way this month as Mike Flanagan remakes Carrie into one of his signature series and Jason's mom plans on some blood splattered revenge in the prequel series Crystal Lake starring Linda Caredellini. October was packed and there's a lot more in this episode, so ring the doorbell and hold out your bag!

RIP Dolly

Down to Watch is green and glowing this week while we check out Lanterns! Dan and Raul watch a newcomer and old hand playing similar roles with Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre in the new Green Lantern based TV series that cohabits the universe also containing the recent Superman and Supergirl films. From showrunner Chris Mundy (True Detective producer) with help from television heavyweight producer David Lindelof, this show holds a lot of similar style to the dusty detective thriller (though less horror tinged content for sure). The show about superheroes with the power to create anything with their power rings has spent a lot of time in a small town dealing with cowboy billionaires running secret anti-alien manuevers around a local sherriff who doubles as his daughter-in-law and coverage for him (to an extent) when the Lanterns show up as space police investigating an incident. Great acting, excellent filmmaking and a tight, intruiging story have set the first three episodes apart as a new kind of comic book show, lets see if this sounds like it's one for you to dive into!

Down to Watch is back after a minute but just in time to get you ready for September... a few days late! Dan and Raul have your back to school, pre-Halloween TV selections to choose from, including RayGun and Mr. T on Untold, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as secret Brothers and John Hamm negotiating for an American Hostage. There's a couple of crusaders in a true crime doc trying to get to the bottom of A Killer Story, a family of animated Asian-American New Yorkers who go by DANG! and the returns of Chad Powers and The Gentlemen (that's two separate tv shows, not a band name). Spinoffs and returns galore including another season of Taskmaster means there's gotta be something for you in September. Check it out!

The DtW super team has a full roster for the big MCU movie of the summer with Spider-Man: Brand New Day! Dan, Raul and Jonnie all saw Spidey swing into theaters for Tom Holland's fourth solo film in the MCU, though solo may be a misnomer as many corners of the series are represented in cameos and easter eggs. Despite the fan friendly nods throughout the new adventure, audiences are finding it to be great for laxed Marvel fans and newcomers alike as well as a much needed hit for the studio. Are reports of the death of comic book movies greatly exaggerated or is the tide turning on capes and tights? Might be up to a bunch of mutants!

Down to Watch might be starting a new trend with a summer triple showcase to highlight how to hide from the heat and kick it on the couch as temps outside soar. Dan and Raul talk about Furious first, and you should be! There's a lot of ladies out here fightin' for their lives and Emmy Rossum, FBI edition, wants to save a few but finds herself tailing a serial murderer of abusers. Classic tropes of detective and women in peril genres abound but this show might be turning enough of those cliches on their heads that the end result is a new kind of story altogether. All the way in reality fixer-upper tv, Leslie Jones is putting her attitude and energy into Roast My Rental, a home improvement reality show that fixes people's Airbnb style vacation homes while Jones and friends inject a little playful mockery regarding the rental. Finally we see about the latest Bang Theory spinoff, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and he does! The new sci-fi adventure comedy follows some Big Bang Theory side characters as they dimension hop from Earth to Earth, finding some strange problem they can solve or run away from by the end of the episode every week. It's a strange kind of experiment which the first episode somehow pulls off, but can these second bananas hold up such a high concept? Maybe this universe's DtW hosts can tell you!

This week, it's so dang summer outside and we got TV to keep us inside in Aug! Dan and Raul agree you can set up your television outside if you want when checking out some new stuff and a bunch of returning faves. New guys include Lanterns (Green ones, from the DCU), The Shards from a couple of cut-ups and a special Robot Chicken to commemorate 25 years of Adult Swim nights on Cartoon Network. The real action is in returning friends like a big guy named Reacher, a nice guy named Lasso and a tactical lady called Lioness. The Always Sunny, Fururama, and Conan O'Brien Must Go crews are back too, but the winner of the month might just be a doc series about lizard people called Monsters of God? No, I mean like exotic animal collectors! Check it out? YES!

Down to Watch is back with a couple of TV-tryouts to keep you out of the sun and on the couch! Dan and Raul gave Lucky a chance, but it looks like Anya Taylor Joy's jailbird dad Timothy Olyphant taught her so many super spy moves that she doesn't even need fortune to favor her. After her partner in life and crime leaves her hunted by both cops and criminals, will her wits and charms help her avoid this becoming a forgettable series? Will Ferrell definitely doesn't expect you to forget Lonnie Hawkins any time soon in Netflix's The Hawk, co-starring Fortune Fiemster and a bunch of featured funny people. This is Ricky Bobby by way of Happy Gilmore, and while some of the scenes come off as the cast winging it, these are old pros and they know the course. Which of these shows is worth a little bit of those summer nights? Get an ice cold podcast and figure it out! 

**SORRY, the ep is a little late due to some technical difficulties, enjoy!**

This week, DtW gets into their summer spotlight with sizzling stuff on the small and silver screens! Dan and Raul don't sweat it when the hotter months are light on new tv, that's always been the domain of the blockbuster, but they managed to find big screen talent all over the place: Anya Taylor Joy is being called Lucky next to Timothy Olyphant, Octavia Spencer will Ride or Die with Hannah Waddingham and The Hawk sees Will Ferrell hit the links on Netflix. The stars have blockbusters in theaters as well, so scoop up the kids on break and shuttle em over to Nolan's Odyssey or Spider-Man's new adventure (but leave em home for Evil Dead Burn.) Plenty of returning shows, a little reality check and an unconventional spin-off of a major sitcom are gonna make the long days and warm nights fly by, so get your July schedule here!

Good journey, Down to Watch listeners, and pew pew to you, we watched 1987's The Masters of the Universe. Dan and Raul have not the just the power but also the opinions regarding the first time He-Man arrived on the silver screens. As the 21st century deploys it's version into theaters, the DtW crew wants to know what happened when Teela and Man-at-Arms were chased by Skeletor from expensive looking Eternia to much more easily filmed Whittier, California. Did Dolph Lundgren and a first time Courtney Cox make history with a StarWarsian, Conan-esque laser barbarian tale or does this movie belong in the cult bin, or worse!?! Listen up, find out if heroism is as lonely as villainy!