Down To Watch

This week on DtW, the zombies are fast again! Dan and Raul watched 28 Weeks Later in anticipation for the soon to be released third entry. 28 Days introduced the world to an eerily empty London, a talented young Peaky Blinder and the concept of the running dead, so the sequel had big shoes to fill. Fielding a new director, 28 Weeks Later starts with an incredibly tense and gut wrenching opener that is able to build upon the stylistic triumphs of the original, only to then unfurl an entirely original take on post zombie society. Do you need to listen to this episode to get ready for the fantastic looking 28 Years Later? Probably, yes!

Room service, Down to Watchers! This week, Dan and Raul watched 90s neo crime noir King of New York! Abel Ferrara brings art house sensibilities and evocative imagery to the realm of gang hits at drug parties in dilapidated dens and high society hotels. The film is full of familiar faces, with Christopher Walken and "Larry" Fishburne in particular bringing a wild energy to a moody tone poem of a film. The vibes here are enough to make for a fun chat, whether you think this is an artsy outlier or a canon crime thriller, so don't not listen to this podcast. It's a stupid thing to do...

This week, Down to Watch is a podcast on the run! Dan and Raul have two months to preview this week since the pickings are slim and the time is short. Both June and July are mapped out after a trip down last month lane, and the upcoming tv season includes family drama along The Waterfront, a true crime tale about a macabre Mortician, a couple comic books and a bunch of returning favorites (plus, the big blockbuster summer movie season gets a preview). Get your summer bod on the couch with these shows, and hurry! 

This week, GDT takes DtW to Mexico for some fantastical bloody business! Dan and Raul picked the earliest Guillermo Del Toro feature film for a trip to the mystical and macabre with Cronos, the 1992 quasi-vampire movie that highlights a lot of what would become Del Toro's signature style. An old man and his granddaughter run an antiques shop where a mobster's goons fail to find a magical brass scarab. When the man discovers and applies it's unique abilities, his life turns around but the mobster is mad and the granddaughter is afraid of what her beloved grandpa is becoming. A spooky look into the origins of one of our most imaginative directors working today, but was it fascinating enough for the guys to recommend? Is eternal life worth living with a crazy complexion? Answers within!

This week on DtW, fast drivin', hard crimin' meets robot angst and action! Dan and Raul watched the first eps of Duster and Murderbot, a couple of shows with not a lot in common outside a toy-centric opening intro. Duster is an old school 70s crime series about a seasoned getaway driver played by Sawyer from Lost, teaming up with the first Black female FBI agent as they attempt to prove or disprove that boss Keth David had the Duster driver's brother killed. The pretty straightforward, pulpy yet breezy crime drama stands quite in contrast with Murderbot, the new AppleTV+ book series adaptation where a newly sentient security robot with a perfectly human face attempts to pass off as a perfectly normal functioning security bot, poorly. After the first two eps, it seems as though the self-named Murderbot (played by Alexander Skarsgard with the helmet off) might be finding a place among his hippie space community, though word of his autonomy spreading might endanger this. All in all, a good couple of shows worth finding out about, so have a listen and check em out!

This week on Down to Watch, sometimes the heroes you need are the bad guys you made along the way! Dan and Raul team up with MCU stalwart Jonnie to talk about the latest phase coming to a close with Daredevil: Born Again and Thunderbolts*. These two entries might prove a return to form for the massive franchise or an anomaly on the road to irrelevance as the story of the MCU behind the scenes is as interesting as the one they're telling in the films. Has the House of Mouse wrung all the successful films it can from the House of Ideas, or is this a resurgence the upcoming F4 movie will carry on? Answers within! 

This Week, Down to Watch go from vacation home to vacation home to a galaxy far far away! Dan and Raul start the week's show talking rebellion and spycraft, all while bringing a gravitas to the land of lightsabers, with the return of Andor. Cassian Protagonist is mixing it up with the Empire again and while our hosts don't have a complete grasp of the Star Wars timeline, they definitely know the names of the actors involved! Next up, podcast favorites Steve Carrell and Tina Fey return in The Four Seasons, a miniseries remake of the Alan Alda original film about adult couples figuring it out in their middle age and beyond. While being more grounded than most Fey-produced sitcoms full of cartoonish buffoonery buoyed by sharp comedy, Seasons is more about the feelings you get as the passions dull but the days go on. These two shows are on opposite ends of the universe, genre-wise, but you can count on your intrepid hosts to brave the distance between them!

This week, Down to Watch ventures into the May-est month of the year and returns with a bunch of cool stuff! Dan and Raul each return from their adventures in the television wilds with arms full of real stories about surfers looking for 100 ft waves over several seasons, NBA shooting guards shooting, a couple of Brits who got super murdery, and life as Pee-Wee. On the scripted side, Tina Fey and Steve Carrell follow older couples across various vacations, a security robot who starts thinking about how bored they are, Sawyer from Lost as a 70s getaway driver for the first black lady FBI agent, and more! Tons of returning favorites round out a very fun month, so come take a listen and learn about the (immediate) future of television!!!

Down to Watch lurks in the shadows and stalks the smokey alleyways this week because it's a Mystery Bag show! Dan and Raul got it into their sneaky little heads to surprise the audience and each other with a few films and TV shows they've put away in the last week or so. Dan saw a dramatization about the guy who got too good at Press Your Luck and a series about a guy pretending to be his own twin brother, as well as a guy who has previously been an idiot but now seems to be talking to himself, and possibly the greatest 80's detective/crime noir film is discussed. Raul on the other hand decided to watch a bunch of cartoons but starts off with the story of a dead Kevin Bacon brought back to bounty-hunt demons, before launching into animated mushrooms, pac-men, and, actually would you believe, another demon bounty hunter but this time from video games? All that and more, but no titles in this description, because myssssssssstery!

It's 'upcomings' time again on Down to Watch, so let's see what April's got in store! Firstly, get super excited for some super sad shows that are coming back, from the prophetic Handmaid's Tale to the prescient Black Mirror, though maybe the real harbinger of end times is that Dan's got a cartoon on his list. Raul's got a toon as well, plus trips to hell, fungal apocalypse, questionably moral revolution and Poland! This month sounds like it's all over the place so grab your compass, our guide, and some government cheese!