Down To Watch

Dan and Raul are joined once again by longtime friend of the pod, Hannah!  This new FX on Hulu show (you gotta have Hulu to get this show, not just FX on cable...) proved to be really great right out of the gate, as we were presented with the first 2 episodes in recent days.   Taika Waititi has come up numerous times on DTW, and here he is again with a brand new show (already has the wonderful and amazing show, "What We Do In the Shadows", also on FX) along with first-time TV show creator, Sterlin Harjo.  The DTW crew all loved this show and are in it for the duration, and will be back to discuss the entire series in a few months!

Harley and some of her friends from Suicide Squad are back for this years, uh... THE Suicide Squad! Dan, Raul and DTW regular guest, Jonnie, get into spoilers pretty quickly to talk up a movie with at least one BIG star in it! Before that, our series hosts discuss the new JGL dramedy, Mr. Corman (AppleTV+), and dig into actors as storytellers. This podcast episode is pretty good so listen to it and enjoy!

Over at the Down to Watch offices there is a constant backlog of TV shows, movies and even non-moving word-entertainment (I.E. Books) because there's just too much stuff to get to it all! This week Dan and Raul are taking advantage of all that overflowing content to pick a few selections worth discussing, including cartoon comedians, tune-filled towns, ill-fated festivals and other alliterative topics and trends! Listen to this show and know whats up!

New month, new pod! August brings a bunch of sunny, summer shows and movies and with them a host of questions for Dan and Raul to answer. What does Taika have to do with Reservation Dogs? Is JGL lucky in Mr. Corman? Are Steve Martin and Martin Short just nosey neighbors or true-crime solvers? Is Chapelwaite just Salem's Lot again!?! Should we Breathe...2!?! What If!?!?! Whew, good thing the answers are inside of this handy podcast!

Marvelous new developments in the MCU for DTW to dive into! This week Dan and Raul finished up Loki, plus they managed to catch Black Widow in time for a two-fer, so naturally Jonnie shows up to round out the comic conversation. Listen in for the reviews and reactions, and stick around for predictions for the future of the films and TV from the House of Ideas!

DTW gets into the summer season with a fresh new concert documentary (both now in select theaters and streaming on Hulu) that boasts a great lineup and a bit to say about society. Jonnie joins Dan and Raul to talk about Questlove's directorial debut, Summer of Soul; a music & culture film exploring racial relations circa the summer of 1969 via the artists and songs of this very unique time period. Some of the musicians spotlighted during this series of weekend concerts in Harlem include Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, and these performances help draw a picture of a time in our recent history worth discussion and this pod is one of them!

Summertime cinemas and televisions are starting to cook up tasty new shows and films to fill our warmer, longer days, and DTW is gonna tell you about 'em! Dan and Raul talk about a whole bunch of stuff coming out in July; we've got a lady shoot-em-up Wick-style, docs on beloved musicians and a globetrotting chef, even what Nic Cage is up to with his "Pig"... You want to know, so you should definitely listen!

Fresh new shows to choose from this week as DTW bounces between freak-outs!  Panic, a new series on Amazon Prime, is also a feeling you might get as a teen stuck in a dead-end town when your only option for escape is to play a deadly game of YA Fear Factor. Kevin Can F*** Himself deals with another kind of panic, as a woman's home life looks like a sitcom in all the worst ways and clashes with her IRL dreams and expectations. Listen in to see if these shows about shaking up your world shook Dan and Raul enough to keep watching!

Time trickery and chronological capers are on the docket this week as Down to Watch gets plucked out of one Disney/Marvel timeline and right into another one! The new 6-episode series, Loki, has landed and it's about time Dan and Raul had Jonnie back on to help put the MCU back into the right perspective. Tom Hiddleston has been a favorite of audiences as a conniving deity bent on power, but can this singular character who is usually a part an ensemble carry an entire TV show? Luckily, the answer is on this pod!

This week special guest, Hannah, returns to delve back into the Del-Co (that's Delaware County where Philadelphia is located for you noobs) murder mystery show Mare of Easttown! Dan and Raul covered the first few eps a couple of pods ago, but now that Kate Winslet has detected (you know, because she is a Detective) her way to the end of this prestige-TV HBO limited series, was it a crime classic, a rocky-rehash of small town desperation or something in-between? Your typical, usual cop show it ain't.  It's way more than that, so do yourselves a favor since you obviously have seen the show already, grab a hoagie and a Rolling Rock and dive into a spoiler-laden discussion on this great TV series!