Help Me Watch

Host Chris and co-hosts Franco and Jonathan run one-minute reviews, with Chris discussing Netflix’s Below (set in a failing Canadian fishing village harvesting glacial ice for vodka as an iceberg and sea-creature attacks trigger illness and compulsive water drinking), the Henry Cavill-less season of The Witcher, Solar Opposites season five, Apple TV+’s Dark Matter, and finishing the Lanterns final...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan share one-minute reviews, discussing Ted Lasso’s season finale and lack of cohesive direction, Solar Opposites’ Season 4 voice change for Corvo and removal of Justin Roiland’s credit, Dark Matter’s alternate-reality premise, and Chris’s theater experience with Digger, a unique Tom Cruise film about an oil tycoon facing an environmental crisis with John Goodman as the Pr...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan (all recovering from illness) share one-minute reviews: Chris critiques Ted Lasso’s unfocused season, likes Lanterns more as it continues, enjoys The Paper season 2 but dislikes its non-finale ending and recycled Office plots, notes Solar Opposites’ Netflix pickup, praises Dark Matter, and finds Demon Slayer’s season structure convoluted; he enjoyed the new video-game-b...

Host Chris, with Franco and Jonathan, opens the Help Me Watch podcast with quick takes on recent viewing: Silo season 3 improving late and teasing a final season 4, Dark Matter’s alternate-universe premise, Ted Lasso’s current season, HBO’s DC Lanterns, and Netflix’s Solar Opposites, plus Netflix documentaries Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly and Turning Point: Generation 9/11. They discuss Amazon us...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan discuss Pixar-style marketing teasers before sharing one-minute reviews: Chris criticizes Netflix’s The Last House for unclear world building and logic, comments on the pacing and compression of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, describes Solar Opposites as Rick and Morty–like but more violent with a recurring “shrunk humans” terrarium plot, and calls Outer Ba...

Chris, Jonathan, and Franco open the Help Me Watch podcast with Chris recounting Fan Expo Boston, including higher parking costs, long waits for Christopher Judge’s autograph, a positive interaction with Judge and François Chau, and leaving with purchases and back pain. In one-minute reviews, Chris discusses Netflix’s A Toxic Love Story, catching up on Silo and Ted Lasso, Rick and Morty Season 9’s...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan discuss Chris’s overhaul of his Plex media library (over 30,000 files), using tools like Filebot and Tiny Media Manager and stressing the importance of consistent naming. In one-minute reviews they cover Silo season three, Incorporated, Ghost Stories, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season two, Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey,...

Chris, Jonathan, and Franco share quick reviews of recent watches: Chris recommends Apple TV’s horror-light paranormal thriller Widow’s Bay, discusses confusion over Silo Season 3’s pacing and amnesia setup while liking its pre-calamity flashbacks, tries the corporate cyberpunk series Incorporated, watches Netflix’s Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea about a capsized cruise ship and its captain’s failu...

Chris, Jonathan, and Franco mark the Help Me Watch podcast’s third-year anniversary, announce a new intro and plans for video highlights on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, and discuss Chris’s Prime Day pickups (classic Mario and Sonic cartoons, Zelda animated series, and Rad on Blu-ray). Chris gives quick reviews of Resident Alien’s final season, Netflix’s True Haunting, the latest s...

Chris hosts Help Me Watch with Franco and Jonathan, announces they’ll cover only one week of new releases to realign scheduling, then shares quick thoughts on recent viewing: the live-action One Piece season two as a feel-good, anime-faithful show; Resident Alien returning with a likely final season four (two episodes in); The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch season four as a gripping paranormal-realit...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan record early and share one-minute reviews: Chris discusses watching From (prefers waiting to binge), the intense season finale of The Testaments (recommends Netflix’s Wayward), and finishing season five of For All Mankind, which he feels has shifted from technical space challenges to political drama with a sidelined Titan-life subplot. Jonathan reviews Amazon Prime’s li...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan share one-minute reviews, including mixed feelings on From Season 5, relief that The Boys ended despite a coming spinoff, enthusiasm for The Testaments, a positive take on Netflix’s The Burrows (produced by the Duffer Brothers), and thoughts on the Daredevil: Born Again finale and possible Defenders return; Chris also quits La Brea after one episode, then reviews The Ma...

Chris hosts Help Me Watch with Franco and Jonathan, catching up on recent viewing (Chris binges From on MGM+ and watches The Testaments; Jonathan finishes Daredevil: Born Again and rewatches The Mandalorian) before discussing upcoming summer releases, including Mortal Kombat 2, The Sheep Detectives, The Mandalorian and Grogu, and more. They also note physical releases like Avatar collections, Fall...

Hosts Chris, Franco, and Jonathan chat about recent viewing, including Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord (stylized, paint-like animation), The Boys’ final season (less political commentary and toned-down gore), Invincible season 4 (frustrating cliffhanger), The Testaments, live-action One Piece season 2, From season 1 (a town trapped with night monsters), and Daredevil season 2 (Jessica Jones appears)....

Host Chris and cohosts Franco and Jonathan open with Chris’s impulse purchase of an AMC Yoshi popcorn bucket while seeing the Super Mario Galaxy movie, then share quick takes on Invincible season four, Daredevil: Born Again season two, Netflix’s four-part FLDS follow-up documentary Trust Me: The False Profit, Hulu’s The Testaments, an Amazon Prime Bob Lazar/Area 51 “S4” documentary, and Disney+/Hu...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan open with Lord of the Rings banter and a story about Massachusetts replacing EZPass transponders with windshield stickers, plus a thrift-store reseller arguing with an AI. Chris gives quick reviews of Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir; favorite of the year), Paradise season two, Invincible season four (through episode four), and Netflix’s Radioactive Emergency about the 1987...

Chris hosts a Help Me Watch episode with Franco and Jonathan, discussing recent watches including Fallout (season two) , Paradise (season two’s topside post-apocalyptic focus) , One Piece live-action season two , and Invincible season four , plus excitement for Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary . They cover trailers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day (July 31) featuring power issues, Bruce Banner, and P...

Chris, Franco, and Jonathan return after a scheduled break, joking about Jonathan’s Disney vacation and discussing annual passes, passholder magnets, and the pin-trading scene, including early-morning pin drops, limited Muppet pins, fake pins, and Hidden Mickey pins. In one-minute reviews, they cover Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Sam Rockwell time-travel sci-fi comedy) and an early AMC screening...