But Why Tho?

This week, Alex, Matt, and Katherine tackle the Mario box-office, the MAX news, and dive into video games prices for their main topic. Game prices have been slowly moving to a $70 USD as a the standard after what felt like decades of a $60 rule — how does it impact critics, fans, and everyone in between? Give us your feedback! Fill out our form and help make But Why Tho? better! https://forms.gle/...

This week Alex, Adrian, and Charles are talking all about filler episodes. Are they good? Are they necessary? Has the word lost all meaning?   

The long-awaited sequel to Respawn Entertainment and EA's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order expands the world of the first game through expanded combat, customization, and traversal mechanics. We got the chance to sit down with Respawn's Jeff Magers and Blair Brown who serve as  Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Design Director and Senior Producer respectively. In this Jedi Survivor interview, we get into the...

This week we talk about the new Little Mermaid trailer, the upcoming Creed-verse, and have a conversation about Villains. Why do people want villains to be sympathetic? Can it be done well? Why were you mad that Kang is a bad guy? Kate, Alex, and Neysha get into it in this episode. 

This week we are talking about the some news that caught our eyes, including Pokemon day announcements and the new stop-motion animated film by GDT to come from Netflix. And, of course, or topic of the week is a doozy: fans versus critics - the good, the bad, and the twitter of it all  

This week, we're diving into: The new Little Mermaid Trailer, Twitch Con location announcements, and password sharing — should we do it? Does it hurt creators? Does Netflix's new restrictions hurt consumers?  

This week we are talking about THE news that caught our eyes this week which was: DC’s film/series announcement from James Gunn. Plus, our topic this week is Reboots vs Remakes vs Revivals.  

This week we are talking about the some news that caught our eyes including: The Mandalorian trailer and director line-up, The Legend of Vox Machina Musical Recap, and our main topic this week is trailers - the lying, the trailers for the trailers, and trailer culture. 

This week, Aaron, Kate, and Neysha talk about Renfield, the news that Michael Giacchino directing a reboot of the monster movie ‘Them!,’ and The Last of Us Press Tour. More specifically, they unwrap the comments made by the creators of The Last of Us video game suggesting that live-action storytelling is the pinnacle medium for audience engagement.

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including: the Barbie Trailer, Into the Spider-Verse: Across the Spider-Verse, and Tom Cruise, Tom Cruisin’ off a cliff. Our main topics this week is all about our tops of the year, Kate, Matt, and Neysha talk about the games, movies, series, and more that were their absolute favorite of 2022.

Director Janeen Damian and her husband and co-producer Michael Damian of  The Young and the Restless  and Broadway's  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat talked with But Why Tho? about their most recent Netflix Original Christmas romcom,  Falling for Christmas. This sweat affair stars Lindsay Lohan in her grand return to film. Janeen and Michael share what it felt like to sign onto a mo...

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including: The Last of Us, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Honorable Mentions, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and The Dark Tower series coming to Prime Video with Mike Flanagan. Our main topic this week is all about the rise of D&D in movies and film and more.

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including World Cup and The Game Awards. After that, our weekly topic covers the release Pokemon: Scarlet and Violet and whether or not fun should outweigh a broken game.  

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including House of the Dragon Season 1 ending, Ant-man and the Wasp Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and James Gunn and Peter Safran being tapped to lead DC Studios Our weekly topic covers the need for an industry change to incentivize, and praise the work of animators and VFX artists, and at the forefront of this ch...

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including: Netflix is officially launching an ad-supported tierBlade loses its director and is on delay Our weekly topic covers the Alan Moore interview in the Guardian where he discusses in great length about the danger of superhero stories. And lastly, Kate, Matt, and myself will give some thoughts on some of the great things we’ve bee...

This week we are talking about the latest trailers, and news including Mythic Quest Season 3 announced, Ted Lasso and Richmond FC are now playable in FIFA, and The Last of Us Trailer Our weekly topic focuses on the Resurgence of Cyberpunk 2077 from the help of Cyberpunk Edgerunners And lastly Kate, Matt, and Aaron myself will give some thoughts on some of the great things we’ve been watching latel...

This week we are talking about the latest trailers including: The top trailers from D23, Nintendo Direct and the Playstation’s State of Play. Our weekly topic focuses on the current state of visual effects throughout the industry and the stark differences from She-Hulk to The Rings of Power . And lastly, Kate, Neysha, and Aaron will give some thoughts on some of the great things we’ve been watchin...

This week is hosted by Aaron with Adrian and Neysha. This week we are talking about the latest trailers including: Weird - The Al Yankovic Story Wendell and Wild Facebook Gaming has come to an end (we didn’t even know it had begun!) Our weekly topic focuses on the BOOMING success of HBO originals such as The House of the Dragon even amidst criticism about the prior series and all of the controvers...

This week we are talking about the latest trailers including: Wednesday Trailer Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Trailer Rick and Morty Season 6 Our weekly topic focuses on HBO Max removing a TON of content from the streaming platform seemingly overnight. Which will dive more into later. And lastly Kate, Matt, and myself will give some thoughts on some of the great things we’ve been wat...

Phenomena: The Golden City of Eyes  is the first book in a new YA graphic novel series by Brian Michael Bendis and André Lima Araújo from Abrams Books. It's an art-forward story of three desperate characters in our world after something strange and universe-changing took place. We sat down with its creators to discuss how their collaboration came to be, what makes this book special for them as cre...

This week, Kate, Adrian, and CJ talk about Andor, Cyrberpunk Edgerunner, Wakanda Forever, and Samaritan Our weekly topic is talking about what exactly makes a GOOD prequel with Prey now available to watch on Hulu

Dragon Ball Super: SUPERHERO , is the second film in the Dragon Ball Super franchise, will premiere on August 19 in the United States. There has been a lot of buzz around the film since its initial anouncement and trailer dropped. Ahead of the upcoming release of  Dragon Ball Ball Super: Super Hero , we got the chance to sit down with the English dub cast, Kyle Hebert, the voice of Gohan, Aleks Le...

Jujutsu Kaisen  has been a smash hit and a lot of that is due to its dynamic cast including Yuji Itadori, Nobara Kugisaki, and Satorou Gojou. At this year's Crunchyroll Expo , which marks the convention's return since the beginning of the pandemic and its first outing since Crunchyroll was bought by Sony, we got the chance to speak with the incredible English dub voice actors who bring those chara...

We got the chance to cover Fantasia Fest 2022 as a team and oh boy did we find some amazing films. Kate, Ricardo, and CJ share their top 5 films with some quick reviews as to why you should look out for them! You can find all of our coverage at the link below: https://butwhytho.net/tag/fantasia-fest-2022/

This week we are talking about the latest trailers including: The Rings of Power Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves The Boys spin off GEN V American Gigolo Our weekly topic focuses on comments made by Eric Kripke talking about traditional TV show runners' approach to streaming shows vs modern streaming show runners. It’s a good one, don't miss it. And lastly Kate, Matt, and myself will give...