Down To Watch

New shows November! After a week away, Raul is back on the mic with Dan just in time to cover what's coming next month to the streamers at home. The hype for new shows includes talk about returning kings and killers, Michigan mayors, Italian survivors, and Disney gets their own day! From Beatles and Bebops to Yellowstones and Yellowjackets, Down to Watch will help you scatter new entertainment all around the Thanksgiving season. There's gonna be leftovers!

With Raul attending to other matters, Dan is joined on this special DTW episode by longtime guest, Natalia, as well as new guest, Dave!  It's no secret Squid Game is a world wide hit for Netflix as it has remained in the cultural/viral zeitgeist for weeks, so it is out of respect and curiosity that DTW must break down this program into pieces and dissect it violently with machine guns and knives as to why it has become such a success.  A TV series that can make you cry AND keep you in suspense AND keep you enthralled by battles of not only brawn but brains....and also speak to bigger cultural matters related to personal debt and class helps to answer part of what makes this piece of Korean entertainment so enthralling!  Be the best Gganbu and listen ahead, Ppopgi cookies promised to all!

This week, Dan and Raul recommend a few spooky October flick picks before dipping out early to go hunt for fresh new entertainment, BUT DON'T DESPAIR! After talking up director Denis Villeneuve and his upcoming space epic DUNE, it's the perfect time to flash back to his previous big-budget epic, Blade Runner 2049. Listen in to a time years and years ago, when the hosts included engineer-Mike and the conversation felt at least four years younger. Listen in and you can too!

Slide back into the Essential-80's Series with Dan and Raul to talk about Melanie Griffith tackling the corporate ladder in the rom-com classic, Working Girl! This week on DTW, household names are playing against type and underdogs are getting their shots no matter what, in a film that presents many gimmicks romantic comedies as a genre would go onto mimic time and again. Listen in and find out if it holds up or belongs back in the days of the montage!

Summer scoots away as the spooky season comes around again and DTW has October's offerings ready for review! On this pod, Dan and Raul take a quick peek back at last month before jumping into an October full of Soprano saints, reimagined killer dolls and pushy aliens, a Bond, an Undertaker and a big budget movie about... sand hills? Down to watch can explain it to you!

This week on DTW, there's no more dudes! Dan and Raul watched the new FX on Hulu comic book adaptation, Y: The Last Man, and it's all about suddenly being the last male on earth! Yorick and his monkey, Ampersand, are the only "Y" chromosome male mammals left on the planet and the rest of the world is gonna have to deal with him along with everything else this half-apocalypse has left in it's wake. Is this show an instant classic, slow burn or a pass? This might be the only pod with the answers left!

This week on DtW Pod: AMERICA!!! There's two shows on right now that put the USA's last name first, at least in the title, so Dan and Raul are playing a round of True American and digging into 'em. First off, American Rust, finds police chief Jeff Daniels with his hands full of the hometown problems of a rundown community. Then, American Crime Story: Impeachment, kicks off the Lewinski-scandal from very different perspectives than usual. Is it the people that are rusty? What crime, exactly, are we talking about? The patriotic thing to do is to listen to this pod!

This week Down to Watch has TV-mayhem on the schedule! First up, Only Murders in the Building, listen as Dan and Raul discuss a couple of comedy legends and their new millennial-friend scamper about a fancy old NYC apartment building turning their true crime podcast love into real life detective skills. Also up for discussion, the Netflix-original grind-house series, Brand New Cherry Flavor, and if it hits the sleazy 90s Hollywood grime mixed with demonic witchery and...cats. Why cats? Listen and find out!

There's another month kicking our doors in with fresh TV shows and movies to help wile away the waning summer weeks, and Down to Watch is ready to report on the new arrivals! On this pod, Dan and Raul discuss Jeff Daniels and his rust belt regrets, space operas and their timing, switching out one American crime for another, why the last man isn't so lucky and, of course, what we watched from last month's upcoming premiere's list. This podcast episode is crucial for your September preparedness!

The adventurous Down to Watch crew celebrates their 100th episode by diving back into the wilds of 80s cinema, and comes back with a crowd-pleasing rom-com classic, Mystic Pizza! Luckily, recurring special-guest, Hannah, joins up to help sort out all the awkward misunderstandings and heartfelt moments of a beloved film starring a very young Julia Roberts in a star-making role. Did the DTW team vibe with the town of Mystic, CT almost 33 years later? The secret ingredient is, "listen to this pod"!