Down To Watch

October is looking spooky for the DTW crew, 1) because there is a bunch of interesting stuff and 2) booooooo its pumpkin season y'all!  We got a new Interview With a Vampire show as well as more fangs with Reginald the Vampire, a doc over on Netflix about the 2008 Olympic basketball squad, Let the Right One is a relaunch of a beloved horror property over on Showtime, Guillermo Del Toro is back with a produced anthology horror series on Netflix, and way more from AppleTV+ and many other streamers.  So, don't hide in the shadows although this is a scary-good pod!

This week on Down to Watch, it's two animated streaming series with very different ideas about the future! Dan and Raul are talkin' toons this week, but it's not one for the kids, most likely. First, they're both in on Pantheon, a heady AMC+ sci-fi family drama about AI versions of loved ones that might spin off into apocalypse territory. After that, the reviews are mixed on Cyberpunk: Edgerunnners, an anime adaptation of the popular cyborg dystopian future video game. With deep lore to pull the plot from and studio Trigger's kinetic animation, what keeps this bloody crime story from being a hit on the pod? Listen to this pod for that very information!

This week on DtW, it's an MCU roundup! Dan and Raul and marvel mandatory guest Jonnie team up for a marvelous Disney plus discussion on the currently airing She-Hulk, with some talk about Ms. Marvel and Thor: Love and Thunder to begin. As usual, the trio looks towards the future of the film franchise, but then tangents take over and it really gets fun. Maybe we even break the fourth wall!

If this summer heat has you thinking of napping the lazy days away, DtW is here to make you think twice! Dan and Raul watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers, specifically the 1978 version, when filmmaking was loose and cool and just kinda did whatever, man. Donald Sutherland precedes his son in government work as a health inspector caught up in aliens replacing us with soulless pod people who can all rise and grind but will never know love. Will anyone survive long enough to grow up to be Jeff Goldblum? Just listen to this pod, it's safe, we swear!

The Down to Watch crew is here with the traditional Fall slate of shows designed to keep you entertained as the nights grow longer. Modern streamers don't keep to the network TV schedule, but September is still filled with shows they really hope you stick with all season long. Dan and Raul have a handful of these to talk about, including a few minutes about the Star Wars and LotR universes, the returns of Kobra Kai, Atlanta and Handmaid's Tale, and all new shows about digital dads reaching out into the real world, Amazon turning privacy violation into entertainment, gigolos, puppycats and leapers of the quantum variety! Lots of stuff, so come listen!

Monthly hijinks ensue as the DtW crew get their grubby mitts on some brand new shows coming up in August! Dan and Raul have been snooping around and butting into the business of summer TV and it looks like business is booming: this coming month the streamers are hitting audiences with sports docs and dramas like Mike, Legacy: The True Story of the Lakers and Untold Season 2. The guys also cover small screen, big budget continuations to the franchises of Marvel, DC, Star Wars and Game of Thrones, as well as a ton of dramas including Steve Carrell dealing with The Patient and ladies dealing with baseball to comedies about two complete goofs just watching TV! Listen in to find out if the guys notice that they resemble that last remark!!!

Summertime is here and there's more ice cream trucks and danger out on those city streets! This week, DtW tries out a couple of cautionary tales about who you can trust out there with Netflix's Resident Evil and Black Bird from Apple TV+. Dan and Raul cover the obvious stranger danger in the form of the shambling undead and revivified doggos with yet another adaptation of the retro B-movie pioneer of survival horror gaming from the big red N. Afterwards, the guys touch on trickery and fraud with Black Bird, the tale of a prison inmate drug-dealer who needs to befriend a serial killer that had previously murdered and buried many female bodies in unknown locations...if he completes his task he won't need to serve his 10 year sentence and can get home to help care for his ailing father.  With so much peril in our summer tv picks, listen in to this ep and stay safe!

Summer shows are matching the temps outside and Down to Watch has the hottest new hit with both critics and audiences on the menu this week; Dan and Raul just watched all of FX's The Bear, streaming on Hulu, and stalwart guest Jonnie is here to talk about how much everybody loves it! It's not a proper Jonnie pod unless we drop into the MCU, and this ep is no different as the guys talk about Ms. Marvel, Thor 4 and the future of the films for the first few mins. The main course, however, is a delectable serving of comedy, drama and cooking that everybody on the show absolutely savored (Dan had seconds!) Listen up and find out if this is gonna be the most satisfying dish of the summer or just a tasty aperitif!