The Upon Further Review

Wonder Man on Disney Plus, a “Marvel Spotlight,” is a character driven show that centers around one struggling actor Simon Williams, and our favorite character actor (the Mandarin himself) Trevor Slattery. Simon has a secret and so does Trevor. They both are vying for roles in the same movies and places in each others hearts. This is a tremendously acted, solidly written show that was seemingly dumped all at once. Is Disney afraid to be different and is this stance hindering the creativity of everything under their umbrella? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley have no business playing these characters with this amount of heart and earnest for an MCU tv show, but they do and they deliver.

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0:00 - Cold open

0:40 - Rashad’s rant about Disney

16:20 - Wonder Man is good!

21:30 - Everybody ain’t invited to the cookout

28:30 - They was acting, acting/Simon was doing the MOST!

41:00 - Kathy Friedman

45:30 - The Mandarin Returns

47:30 - Doorman was the best episode?

56:40 - Should this have been on a weekly release schedule?

1:02:30 - What’s next at TUFR!

Would you believe me if I told you there would be a Game of Thrones spinoff that was equal parts comedy, fish out of water, and a lone wolf and cub story combined? Of course you would think I was a liar, but I’m not. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight is a surprisingly funny, positive, and non-cynical look into the world that we’ve grown accustomed to being lewd, lascivious, and full of lies. Ser Duncan the Tall and his bald-headed buddy Egg are essentially trying to find a place in the world and the pilot episode craftily sets expectations for the rest of the season.

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Stranger Things has finished (for now) and the gang has thoughts about Vecna and the Mindflayer, 11 pulling a Pa Kent from Man of Steel, noticeable absences of certain characters, the time jump, the reveal of the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, and much more! In the comments, let us know if you enjoyed the finale!

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2025 was an amazing year in movies and especially streaming/TV! We over here at TUFR celebrate this year by giving our list of everything we watched this past year and we give our best and most disappointing shows of the year. There are some clear winners and not so clear disappointments that we really wanted to love. Tell us in the comments what your favorite and worst watches for 2025!

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Rian Johnson is back on Netflix with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and this starts off as a bit of a mystery in comparison to the prior iterations of this franchise. This star-studded cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, and of course Daniel Craig, to name a few. This mystery centers around a Catholic Church in a small town, where a young, but troubled, upstart priest gets sent there to pay recompense and mature as a man of the cloth. Mystery ensues and our favorite guy Benoit shows up to figure out the killer in this surprisingly introspective whodunnit.

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0:00 - cold open

0:22 - We love a good mystery

2:45 - Initial impressions

11:20 - Catholicism in media

14:30 - The Characters

23:20 - Absolute Power

26:10 - The death(s)

28:20 - Grace’s perspective

30:00 - The patriarchy

33:50 - Jud’s Guilting/Wicks’ Guiltiness

49:30 - Final thoughts/what’s next

In the season one finale, Manousos and Carol do the most expected thing in their first in-person meeting: hate each other. The hive is dong an effective job keeping Carol busy, as they find new ways to propagate the RNA into the remaining 12. Manousos proves to be an agent of chaos, with a purpose and is not understanding why Carol is choosing the girl over the world. If you started watching The Upon Further Review via Pluribus, let us know in the comments, because we are happy to have you kick it with us!

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0:00 - Cold open

0:29 - I don’t know, but it’s provocative.

2:20 - Manousos: chaos mission

10:00 - Embryooooooo

11:46- Peru and you

16:30- Laxmi calls in

20:10- Manousos and the frequency

25:20 - Carol choosing

33:30 - The privilege of being content

34:50 - Season 2 speculation/giving flowers

The Hive is trying to butter up Carol with some booty, while Carol is trying to individuate Zosia to the point of having her believe in her own personhood. Meanwhile, Manousos still doesn’t want any help, as his trek to meet Carol in person draws closer. This was the penultimate episode of this highly intriguing and entertaining Apple TV+ series. Keeping the end of the episode in mind, who currently has the upper hand: the Hive or Carol?

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0:00 - Rashad called it

1:55 - Manousos STILL not cooperating

5:50 - Who’s playing offense 🤔?

15:30 - Hive talk

21:30 - Biblical stuff

24:20 - The ethos of the Hive

25:55 - Carol facts & more Bible stuff

32:45 - Show appreciation/what’s next

The gap between Carol and Manousos closes in distance, but widens in ideology as these two want the same thing and are going about it in drastically different ways. Carol is starting to feel the effects of prolonged isolation, while Manousos is rejecting the notion that the hive provides and still managing to utilize his time wisely.

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0:00 - Cold Open

0:20 - Hard headed humans

12:05 -Carol is LOSING IT!

21:10 - Did the hive win?

31:00 - The Gap Explained

34:00 - Knives Out 3/Year End Review/Anime Recs

What happens in Vegas, well, the hive knows. Carol is reeling after we see what she discovers in cold storage, while Diabaté is living the life he always wanted. The main takeaway from this episode is clearly you get so much more out of life (people, too) when you kind. Carol still is struggling with this, as cynicism and skepticism are melded with the privilege she once had. Manousos down in Paraguay gets Carol’s message and finally gets activated.

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0:00 - Shenan once, you’ll shenan agsin

0:23 - Intro/HDP

9:00 - Bond. Diabaté Bond.

11:50 - It’s better to be kind

20:40 - Carol’s true fight

25:40 - From Paraguay, With Love

30:15 - Tasteful nudes/what’s next

The Netflix franchise that has been successful beyond shareholders wildest dreams is back in its finale season. Of course, they can’t drop this all at once, so we get four episodes, aka, chapter one. The crew is split up doing covert missions, visiting the upside down, and some other random place that seems to be to mindful. My question to you is who is currently on deathwatch after watching the first of the last of Stranger Things?

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0:00 - cold open

0:30 - Intro/initial impressions

12:00 - Sexy Vecna

18:50 - Predator vibes

25:00 - Girls get it done

28:50 - The Wheeler Bunch

33:30 - Will FINALLY gets a win

37:45 - Deathwatch

40:00 - A chaotic fun time