Across the Omniverse

Don't try to change the past! You only end up making the future you're trying to change come true! Nobody told this to Magneto and Professor X, though, and they their darndest to stop Apocalypse from becoming Apocalypse. Guess how well that goes. This episode has a doozy of an ending - and a mid-credits scene! Before that: Do we have a Gorilla Grodd cast, and is he the one who spray pain...

It's time to dive back into the 1990s as the second season of X-Men '97 kicks off with a three parter picking up after last season's time-traveling cliffhanger. Some of the X-Men are in a distant future where Apocalypse has taken over the world, some are in the distant past where Apocalypse is having his origin, and some of them are in the present and getting grim n' gritty wit...

This week we wrap up the two-parter that seemed so promising when we chose it. After all, Telly Savalas built a robot of Isaac the bartender in order to pull off a robbery. This should be a good story! What the heck happened with this episode? We have our own answers.  Before that: The Dynamic Duo plot is revealed! A first look at Tombstone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day ! I answer whether or not Je...

Late in The Love Boat 's run the show fell out of step with the culture, but it tried to stay relevant and exciting by taking on-location foreign cruises that were sort of like travelogues. Remember, this was an era when the cast of a sitcom shooting an episode in Hawaii was a major event. This week's episode - which is the first half of a 2-hour TV movie mercilessly chopped with no cons...

It gets better! The back half of the first (only?) season of Amazon's Spider-Noir is a marked improvement over the first half, which is a great relief to us. We are left with some questions, chief of which is: is Ben Reilly a really shitty human being? All signs point to yes, unfortunately.  Before that: leaked Spider-Man trailer! 24 Jump Street ! Two guys who don't much enjoy Oz Perkins...

Spinning out of the blockbuster classic animated movie Into the Spider-Verse comes Spider-Noir , a live action series featuring Nicolas Cage in his first TV role. He's Ben Reilly, a Depression era PI who used to be The Spider, a web-slinging superhero. But when mob boss Silvermane starts stirring up trouble Ben is forced to go back to the swinging lifestyle and deal with a new wave of super p...

Welcome to the calm before the Spider-Noir storm, a calm we're filling with another episode of The Love Boat ! This one has multiple stories of people using very immoral deception to find love, Don Knotts being pursued by Julie Newmar, and Isaac the bartender acting like he had a traumatic brain injury before boarding the boat.  Before that: tons of trailers! Some thoughts on the upcoming Pri...

Not subscribed to the Patreon at the $7 and above levels? That means you're missing out on Watch Men, our monthly deep dive podcast that usually focuses on superhero movies - although we're widening the remit, and that's why this month we're covering T he Mandalorian and Grogu . This episode is running in lieu of our weekly Bad Batch, where we usually do our Star Wars chatter,...

One of the most prophetic shows to ever air on television has come to an end. The Boys , which seemed to be somehow parodying the Trump administration in real time, finished up with an episode bookended by funerals and featuring some significant deaths... and the upsetting reappearance of Frenchie, TV's most irritating character. Did the satirical superhero show stick the landing? Did they sp...

Frank's back, and he's brought The Raid and John Wick with him. This special event episode takes place... well, we can't tell when it takes place. Or what exactly is the point. Or why the audio was so screwy. Or what it has to do with Daredevil: Born Again or Spider-Man: Brand New Day . Lotta guys get killed though.  Before that: Sex Criminals ! Doomsday trailer speculation! 28 Year...

The season comes to a conclusion with a confrontation in a court of law, and maybe it's the writers who should be on trial! This finale is a strange mix of absolutely incomprehensible dumbness and totally kickass dumbness. But it's got a lot of dumbness, any way you look at it.  Before that: a new Planet of the Apes ! Why does The Odyssey trailer stink? And is the MCU Spidey unburdened b...

Karen's in jail but Daredevil can't break her out - can Matt Murdock be of use? Daniel and BB come to a fateful moment (and she becomes way too annoying), Kingpin deals with jewelry, and Jessica Jones sees Mr. Charles' peepee. Before that: Is Ms. Marvel in Doomsday ? Masters of the Universe drops its dumbest and best trailer yet. What I would tell Francis Ford Coppola if I could go...

Vanessa Fisk gets buried about thirty minutes after she dies, while Daredevil and Jessica Jones have a convo on one of the ugliest and more boring sets this show has ever given us. As the city begins to boil over because of Kingpin's AVTF, the man without fear and his ultimate nemesis come to blows yet again... but to what end? This episode is getting an A for effort, but how does it score ot...

Foggy is back, which is good news or bad news depending on how you feel about the character. Either way, he's only back in flashbacks and holy cow do we get some wigs in those scenes. In the present day Michael Gandolfini is living his own Sopranos episode while Daredevil and Bullseye pal around in tunnels. Is it "while" or are they happening at very different times? The continuity...

Kingpin gets into the ring and he's not holding back, and neither is Bullseye, who kills a bunch of ATVF jerks in a couple of very, very fun scenes. This episode seems to bring Born Again closer to comic book goodness, but why is Daredevil running down the street like that?  Before that: Man of Tomorrow casting rumors, the Defenders on the set of Born Again season 3, the joys of cake and wher...

How do you get to Red Hook? Somebody tell Daredevil that you take the F to Smith/9th Street and either walk a bit or you can hop on the B61, because he and Karen spend a lot of time in these two episodes trying to figure it out. While they figure it out they meet a cute AVTF agent and tell him they liked his vibe and that's why they tied him to a chair, Kingpin is in a boxing match I guess, M...

The vigilante of Hell's Kitchen is back and this time he's got big Double Ds on his chest. Wilson Fisk is running New York City, the ICE comparisons are probably accidental, and Matt Murdock is living in hiding as the second season of the Marvel show gets off to a bit of a slow start.  Before that: the trailer for the Harry Potter TV show sucks, the trailer for Dune 3 is good, Wonder Man...

Before we begin covering Daredevil: Born Again season 2, we figured we would go back to where it all started - 1964's Daredevil #1. It's the first appearance of the Man Without Fear, and it's got his origin, his first outing in costume, and a couple of mentions of his supple body. What's up with that, Stan Lee? Before that: a couple of obituaries, whether or not Ryan Gosling is...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled life to bring this breaking news report: a trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has dropped and it's... great? We love it! Hear us talk about it, and whether Rogue is in the darn thing, right now. 

It all ends here, and it all ends kinda quickly. After ten hours of storytelling the V franchise throws in telepathy and starchildren in the last ten minutes, a truly bizarre choice. This episode touches on so many interesting ideas and has time for none of them, and it's a blood bath but few of the deaths are satisfying. But you do get to visit a hot air balloon festival.  Before that: we di...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Michael Ironside to the show. Yes, one of the great tough guy character actors joins the resistance against the Visitors, playing a guy named Ham. This episode has unexplained surgery, Mike Donovan ratting out a friend and the alien babies are born! It's got everything.  Before that: thoughts on the Lanterns trailer and the history of Green Lantern Hal Jor...

At the end of V: The Original Miniseries our heroes won a battle but the war rages on! The ragtag group of LA resistance fighters come up with a plan to turn public sentiment against the Visitors, but is it too risky? Is there too much Mike Donovan? Why are we shoehorning an unearned romance plot into this one? And will Willie and Harmony manage to get it on in a supply closet? Before that: The ne...

The resistance takes the battle to the Visitors in the final part of the original miniseries. We discover the Visitors' true plans for Earth and the human race, Robin is infuriating, Mike Donovan's got quips for days and there's the longest, lowest energy dogfight we've ever seen.  Before that: Why the hell is there a Toy Story 5 ? What makes Dune 3 eerie? Can we trust James Gu...

An authoritarian regime takes over, scapegoating a minority group, putting people on lists, disappearing folks from their homes and shooting people in the street. Enough current events: this week we're talking about V: The Original Miniseries , which aired on NBC way back in 1983. Reptile aliens from Sirius have come to Earth and they're bad news, even as they pretend to be the sweetest,...

It's the back half of the MCU show that eschews action and superheroics for a Hollywood story about two unlikely friends. How successful that is might be debatable, though... or at least we debate it on this episode. Want to hear two middle aged brothers argue about Wonder Man ? Do I have the podcast for you.  Before that: Send Help ! A terrible Dunkin' Donuts ad! The Super Bowl movie tr...