Just Another Friday Night

By now most have heard that latest Star Wars installment on Disney+ “The Acolyte” will not be back for a second season. The news is divisive at best with some naysayers now supporting the show and others simply glad it’s gone. We previously covered the first 4 episodes of the series and then due to scheduling had to push back our conclusion of the final 4 episodes. It seems an appropriate and fitt...

House of the Dragon season 2 has concluded! But The Dance of Dragons seems to only have begun. And in true Game of Thrones fashion we’re left with more questions and more unresolved plots. So if you thought you were getting an end or even all out war - it would seem we’re a ways off. Two more seasons have been announced and while these episodes were well acted and had excellent story building we j...

**SPOILERS for DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE** It’s been over 7 days since the premiere of Marvels' latest film installment DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE! If you’re not up for SPOILERS this is not the place to be tonight! We’re going to talk about the movie in-depth with plenty of SPOILERS so this is your last and final warning!!! We assume by now most of The Friday Nighters of The Friday Night Faithful...

The Boys season 4 has come to its conclusion and what a fucking end it was. Tek Knights party in ep 6 Dirty Business? The Avenue V Christmas Special in ep 7, The Insider. And then there’s the finale originally titled Assassination Run but due to real life events it was renamed simply Season Four Finale. So like a shot of fresh milk in the mouth we’re here to talk the last 3 episodes of the quite p...

House of the Dragon has returned! The latest installment from the Game of Thrones franchise and HBO Max! We are 4 episodes in and The Dance of Dragons has officially begun! Which side have you chosen?? Are you with the Greens as they call Alicent and the Hightowers in Kings Landing where Aegon sits the Iron Throne? Or are you bending the knee to the black banners of Queen Rhaenyra on Dragonstone??...

HAPPY 4th of July Friday Nighters!!! And welcome to our INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECTACULAR!!! We couldn’t think of a better to celebrate Americas Independence than by discussing the literal symbol of America himself, Time Magazines Superhero of the Year. HOMELANDER!!! After being unceremoniously brought to trial for simply defending his son, in what was dubbed the Trial of the Century, we here at Just A...

What is an “acolyte”? Websters says “one who assists a member of the clergy in a liturgical service by performing minor duties: one who attends or assists a leader”. An interesting first thought on the new Disney+ Star Wars series THE ACOLYTE. Starring Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae as Master Sol, Amandla Stenberg as Mae/Osha, Dafne Keen as Padawan Jecki Lon, and Charlie Barnett as Yorn Fandar. Whil...

Recently made available for streaming on Max 2023 gave us THE IRON CLAW. A tale of Texas wrestlings’ most celebrated family The Von Erich’s. With the patriarch Fritz leading the charge his sons followed his footsteps into the squared circle. Not since 2008’s The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke has a wrestling film been so captivating. The Iron Claw stars Zac Efron as Kevin Von Erich and traces the...

Comic Books! You know we love them, but what is the state of the industry today? AA had some thoughts on the matter and suggested we bring back a guest for the topic! All the way back from season 7 episode 151 - the founder of Comic Arts - San Antonio Mr. Nas Rodriguez! He’s got a comic-centric show coming up and some serious thoughts on the state of the biz himself! What do YOU - The Friday Night...

Previously on Just Another Friday Night…episode 200 to be exact Double A & CM Chuck reviewed the first 6 episodes of the new X-Men ‘97 series on Disney+. Normally we wait for a series to conclude before covering it, however this one was just too damn good to wait! And now the season has concluded and there’s a great big hole right in the middle of us. These final 4 gave us everything we could...

Fire up those Pip-Boys and crack open a nice cold Nuka Cola! We’ve got the big THUMBS UP from Vault Boy himself to dive into the series debut of FALLOUT! Based on the wildly popular video game series now Prime Video has delivered us an 8-episode series streaming with them. Fans of the video game were no doubt eagerly anticipating the series since the recent uptick in video game franchises well - f...

Listen Bud, he’s got radioactive blood. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead. Hey there! There goes the Spider-Man! Back in the year of Our Lord 2002, Evil Dead director Sam Raimi and Sony gave us the feature length on-screen Spider-Man we’d waited since 1962 to see. Tobey Maguire donned the blue and red webbed suit and Marvel was never the same again. They’d had Blade, and they’d had...

200 EPISODES!! TWO HUNDRED!!! We’ve come this far and want to THANK YOU the Friday Nighters of The Friday Night Faithful! And we couldn’t think of a better way to cap off our 8th season than with MARVEL’s Merry Mutants the X-MEN and quite possibly the hottest series on streaming right now X-Men ‘97! So hot in fact that we couldn’t wait to cover the whole series at the end and instead are taking on...

INVINCIBLE! Season 2, Part 2, Episode 199!!! The long awaited final 4 episodes of Invincible S2 wrapped up last week and well worth the wait it was! We’ve brought back our guest host from our Invincible S2 P1 episode CM Kal to help us finish the story! When we last saw Mark he was on a distant planet with his father Nolan aka Omni-Man and he was in the wake of some startling news! Meanwhile the th...

At long last the return of RICK GRIMES and MICHONNE!! This is the story every Walking Dead fan has been waiting to see come to its conclusion. Last we saw Rick he was blowing up a bridge and being airlifted by the lady with the worst haircuts on TV - Jadis. Then we had to wait. And wait and then wait some more. We saw The Walking Dead proper end. Fear the Walking Dead end. Tales of the Walking and...

“Marty! You’ve got to come back with me!” Where?? BACK TO THE FUTURE! That’s right Friday Nighters we’re taking you back in time to discuss one the most iconic film trilogies ever made. Doc Brown, Marty McFly and of course Biff Tannen. From Academy Award winner Stephen Spielberg and Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis these beloved films have brought joy to audiences since the 80’s. They’re highl...

At long last - DOOM! The Ruler of Latveria would be most displeased with the disrespect he has received in not yet being addressed properly on this show. We aim to correct that tonight by bringing not one but TWO mighty tales that showcase the "good" Doctor named DOOM. First up is the iconic tale EMPEROR DOOM which shows us exactly what a world ruled by DOCTOR DOOM would be like and it m...

“Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.” On Wednesday March 20th, 2024 evolution most certainly leaps forward as one the most heralded series in comicdom returns wi...

WE ARE BACK! LIVE and in person with you after our longest hiatus since our inception! We will discuss that and more as we go into the NIGHT COUNTRY with TRUE DETECTIVE’s Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Foster plays Liz Danvers and Reis stars as Evangeline Navarro, as these two tackle a crime in literally the darkest times of Alaska. We want to thank all the Friday Nighters for remaining Faithful duri...

You say you want a REVOLUTION? Well By the Power of Grayskull YOU have the POWER!!! He-Man is back from Mattel and Kevin Smith. With him comes Skeletor of course but also Hordak and the Horde!!! Also there’s Sorceress Teela, Evil Lyn, Andra, Duncan, Orko and a whole host of others!!! We’re spoiling this one so if you haven’t seen it - step out and watch it and come and see us!!! You won’t want to...

For the Man Who Has Everything by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is easily one of the greatest Superman stories ever told. Debuting in 1985 this tale is so beloved that it even received a Justice League Unlimited episode in season 1, episode 2. The story see Wonder Woman, Batman & Robin visiting Superman at the Fortress of Solitude for his birthday. What they don’t expect to find is Supes in an a...

“20 years ago the world fell to shit. A big ole’ apocalyptic dump. Some bug, took out all the world’s computers. Power grids down, the internet gone! And not having easily accessible porn freaked people the fuck out! So cities put up walls to protect themselves and threw the criminals out into the chaos. So they could fight over what was left, which was not much, mostly cars and guns. Now insiders...

“Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am #TheWatcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question... #What if?” Disney+ provided us a final gift on December 22nd with new episodes of the...

In February of 1996 the two biggest titans in all of comics collided for the crossover people had been asking for - well as long as they’ve both been in existence. There were to be 11 bouts with the heavyweight fights to be decided by fan voting. It was quite the time to be alive! We were going to see Superman vs. The Hulk, Captain America vs. Batman, Spider-Man vs. Superboy just to name a few! We...

“I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!” 20 years ago a King spoke. King Aragorn of Gondor and rallied us all to fa...