Down To Watch

This week, DtW is enjoying the one from many in Pluribus! Dan and Raul are excited to get into the new AppleTV series from Vince Gilligan, mastermind behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. This show that sees Rhea Seehorn as Carol, one of the last independent people in the world after a signal from space acts as a virus that turns all of humanity into one being with an interconnected mind. This...

The It that It is all about is back and DtW is feeling quite Welcome to Derry! Dan and Raul went into It with some expectations and so far It has delivered both scares and gross-outs, often together. The town of Derry is tortured by an active Pennywise the Dancing Clown every 27 years with this series investigating each occasion going backwards in time per season, and this season lands perfectly i...

We're looking forward to the rest of the year on this week's Down to Watch! Dan and Raul are looking at the winter weather watchlist and picking out great gifts for listeners good and bad alike. Nov has plenty to pick from including a surreal sci-fi story from Apple called Pluribus, an American history lesson with great actors in Death by Lightning and Danes doing dangerous secret stuff ag...

Down to Watch lines up an evening of scares with 2011's Fright Night! Dan and Raul are squaring a spooky circle they started last year with the 1985 original by checking out the second go-round with Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin in the main roles (we still get an Ed but lose a Billy). This retry at a horror version of Rear Window has the advantage of 20+ years of...

This week, DtW is going to Alaska to see about some chairs! Dan and Raul caught a couple of pilot episodes for The Last Frontier and The Chair Company. In Frontier, we revisit the idea of a bunch of Cons in the Air when a prison transport crashes near remote Faibanks, and Frank the local marshalls have to contend with dangerous fugitives in the area while an arriving CIA agent has to lock down one...

This week on Down to Watch, it's a dangerous business being a truthstorian! Dan and Raul caught a couple eps of The Lowdown, Hulu's new drama from the creator of Mare of Easttown. The cool new series follows Ethan Hawke as an indie reporter getting the dirt on the powerful people in town. He's great at lots of things, like being a dad, getting the scoop, and receiving a whooping. But h...

Spooky season is upon us and Down to Watch is rattling up some new TV! Dan and Raul have sifted through the tricks and treats of October and have filled your round plastic pumpkin pale with a bit of everything. There's Tim Robinson getting weird at The Chair Company, Pennywise making people feel Welcome to Derry and something like Con Air redux in The Last Frontier. Scary stuff includes animat...

This week, DtW has just one Task! Dan and Raul previewed the new HBO crime/family drama in the monthly upcoming TV shows ep and after hearing good things about the premiere, it's time to tackle the first two eps. The story follows dual protags with mirrored lives, as a priest turned FBI agent searches for a crew robbing trap houses in the area led by a secretly vengeful family man down on his...

This week, Down to Watch isn't afraid to go back in the water after 50 years of Jaws! Dan and Raul reminisce about the first blockbuster that set the stage for a summer of big budget blowouts, a series of sequels and copycats and a lifetime of Spielberg flicks. Bruce, the big mechanical shark that didn't work right during production, is the star here as the world learned to be afraid of ev...

This week the DtW crew is out of the office but into The Paper! Dan and Raul are subscribed to the new spinoff from The Office, borrowing the creator and a single character from the original show. Greg Daniels continues to draw attention thanks to the legendary status of the original program, despite his previous attempt in Space Force falling well short of his original hit with Steve Carrell. Thi...

It's back to school time again, and despite societal collapse it still means new TV shows for DtW to talk about! Dan and Raul are happy to see returning friends from Tulsa royalty to multi-unit based murderers but the real fun is in all the new friends to be made. There's a serious Task from the Mare of Easttown creator, a Billionaire's Bunker from them that made Money Heist and The Pa...

It's all synth and sunglasses on Down to Watch this week as the summer heat is the perfect temp for a trip to 90s Florida! Dan and Raul watched the pilot and season 4 finale of the original Miami Vice TV series, a show that gave us slick detectives, fast cars and boats, and hit tunes to fill out a crime drama with a new feel. The cultural impact of this show was so great that Crockett and Tubbs be...

Finally, the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated Alien TV show has arrived! Dan and Raul fancy themselves pretty well-versed in the 'Xenomorpho-verse' so they were stoked to see what accomplished TV-creator extraodinaire, Noah Hawley, had in mind for the expansion of this very popular universe. Listen to the guys iterate on the details that link stylistically the many interesting ways the...

The burning hot Down to Watch summer is stretching into August with a rock solid addition to the MCU that's anything but invisible, girl! Dan and Raul can't talk about the Fantastic Four: First Steps without the stalwart Jonnie to round out the comic adaptation team, and the three launch into a space spanning story about parenthood that brings Marvel's first family to the big screen ag...

Down to Watch is back to the monthly map of new series and favorite franchises just in time for an awesome August! Dan and Raul have the details on the worlds we're returning to, including a surprising "sequel" to The Naked Gun trilogy, the Alien franchise landing on Earth as a TV show, Wakanda goes animated and John Cena is Peacemaker again but now with a new Superman. That's no...

Down to Watch is up in the sky with the birds, planes and the 1978  Superman! Dan and Raul ride the current Kryptonian hype and watched the film that inspired the new incarnation as well as so many other films. Christopher Reeve gives us a man of steel that has yet to be topped,  the music is an iconic ode to the character and the special effects are charming enough to make you believe a man can f...

Down to Watch is back in theaters and back to the UK to see how they're doing 28 Years Later! Dan and Raul are glad to see the team of Boyle and Garland getting back together to revisit the world they created when they rewrote many zombie tropes with 28 Days Later back in 2002. After a middle movie that has basically been written out of the series canon, do the originators of the series return...

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 tha...

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 p...

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, t...

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 b...

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...

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 a...

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 kn...

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 S...