Down To Watch

**SORRY, the ep is a little late due to some technical difficulties, enjoy!**This week, DtW gets into their summer spotlight with sizzling stuff on the small and silver screens! Dan and Raul don't sweat it when the hotter months are light on new tv, that's always been the domain of the blockbuster, but they managed to find big screen talent all over the place: Anya Taylor Joy is being call...

Good journey, Down to Watch listeners, and pew pew to you, we watched 1987's The Masters of the Universe. Dan and Raul have not the just the power but also the opinions regarding the first time He-Man arrived on the silver screens. As the 21st century deploys it's version into theaters, the DtW crew wants to know what happened when Teela and Man-at-Arms were chased by Skeletor from expensi...

Down to Watch is dancing, smoking, singing and pill popping all the way to the stage this week with the classic film All That Jazz! Dan and Raul watched what the industry calls "a musical" in Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical tale about a man wrestling with his inner demons; the same demons that threaten his relationships as well as his health are the same that make him the best. The...

This week, DtW answers: What if your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man wasn't so friendly, so modern or so colorful? Spider-Noir is on Prime Video so Dan and Raul can decide what they think about Nic Cage's take on Pet... er, Ben Riley actually! Probably due to contracts, there are no Parkers in this black and white private detective tale that puts the current Spider-Man a 1930s New York Ci...

The DtW crew found a June-full of tv shows to share with a select few, and guess what? You made the list! Dan and Raul return to forecasting the next month of noteworthy new and returning television series that will feel like a summer holiday. New vacation destinations include a true story about models doing culty stuff, Larry David's funny history of America stuff and a doc on the King of Pop...

Down to Watch is leaving it's mark and serving up consequences with Legends and Punisher: One Last Kill! Dan and Raul skipped across the pond to take a look at what they call undercover cop drama and they like what they see. It's the usually comedic Steve Coogan delivering a grizzled veteran customs officer tasked with putting a team together to battle the influx of heroin into 90s England...

You're the Down that I Watch! (ooh ooh ooh, honey!) Dan and Raul watched the 1978 classic musical Grease, so this pod is all about T-Birds and rose colored ladies and the beauty school dropouts in the midst of summer loving, of the night variety. One host enjoyed it more than the other but neither denies the massive historical impact that Danny and Sandy had on musicals, movies and culture in gene...

Hey hey, it's DtW on the way, and we're setting up shop in Widow's Bay! Dan and Raul are checking out the homey storefronts, the peaceful coast and the one nice diner in a spooky island town on AppleTV. This is a town that has been compared to Pawnee from Parks & Rec by way of Stephen King, and the description is as apt as the town is very cursed but the people are quite kooky. May...

The year is finally getting into the swing of new TV and Down to Watch has your May schedule all filled out! Dan and Raul went to the TV show store to browse the new products on the shelf and came away with a cart full of promise: The big guns are back in the form of the MCU's Punisher 'special presentation' and Nick Cage helmed 1930s Spider-Man, Taylor Sheridan's expanding univers...

This week, Down to Watch is donating it's time to Margo's Got Money Problems! Dan and Raul are back to the TV mines after the big 300th podcast episode, and it looks like they found a real gem. Elle Fanning stars in a book adaptation about young college student Margo getting knocked up by a professor and finding the funding situation to be distressing. Parenting in general is a tough go, e...

This week, this month, this year! DtW hits 300 episodes and Kevin Smith is here (in spirit!) to celebrate with Dan and Raul. A trip down memory lane is in order as our two hosts have been downing View Askewniverse movies since they first fell in love with the medium. We go one by one through his films and how they do and don't resonate in today's society as well as their impact upon the wo...

This week, Down to Watch buddies up with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs! Dan and Raul walked into a prison to the dulcet tones of Roxanne and into the genre defining buddy cop film that launched a thousand action flicks. Nick and Eddie were treading new ground in genre pulp as well as societal norms with the tough cop, smooth criminal act across a foggy San Francisco. Walter Hill directs an...

It's April and the DtW crew is ready for new TV! Dan and Raul are watching bunnies hiding colorful eggs as well as trailers for new TV coming up in the next month, and have a carefully curated basket of shows that might make Spring a little sunnier. There's some real world business here including Made for March, following teams through March Madness, This is a Gardening Show, where Zach Ga...

This week, DtW looks back at the beginnings of a villain so beloved he became the hero! Dan and Raul watched Manhunter, the Michael Mann directed film that introduced the film world to one Hannibal Lecter (Lektor?) and his creepy charisma. While the performance Brian Cox brings to the Cannibal stands in stark contrast to the more famous performance, the whole film is cool and stylish glimpse into...

If March is supposed to go out like a lamb, the TV studios didn't get the memo because DtW has a bunch of new TV to check out and a lot of it is deep into the month! Dan and Raul have a few selections to start, including a Guy Ritchie style Young Sherlock, a love triange that is DTF St. Louis style and a movie about a Bride! married to a real monster. Midway through the month it's D'ar...

This week, DtW is into the superhero-adjacent MCU TV show, Wonder Man! Dan and Raul have Jonnie back to talk more about Marvel as they field another series introducing a lesser-known hero with ionic abilities and killer shades. Yaya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley star in this two-hander about hiding your true self, braving the ins and outs of the film industry and most of all, friendship. Wh...

This week on DtW, we're throwing back to the OG meta-horror flick, 1996's Scream! Dan joins Raul's rewatch of the series leading up to a new 2026, Neve-centered sequel to discuss the first film of the franchise. Veteran horror director Wes Craven helms one of the first films to dissect it's genre within the plot and dialogue with seemingly endless nods to, cameos from and easter eg...

This week on Down to Watch, we're getting the most out of the short month! Dan and Raul checked out the February TV upcoming offerings and put together a choice selection of shows for the second month of 2026. It's cold outside, so stay in and check out stuff like The Burbs, a re-imagining of the Tom Hanks movie as a creepy and funny series. Chances are you can sit on the couch and figure...

This week, Down to Watch has got so many sneaky secrets... Dan and Raul caught a couple of pilots about people being really sneaky for very different reasons. On Steal, Sophie Turner has to contend with a gang of smartly dressed and armed thieves who take over the 27th floor financial organization she works for. After pushing through the harrowing ordeal and taking a break from her debrief with th...

Its been 10 years since season 1 of Stranger Things and the last time DTW covered a season of the show...until now! Raul and Dan discuss the epic 5th and final season (focus on the finale ep) of this beloved Netflix TV show, and naturally many of the seasonal ebbs and flows are discussed as certain parts of the season hit more forcefully and meaningfully than others (Will both becomes a sorcerer a...

This week,  Down to Watch prepares for a whole new year! Dan and Raul have January covered, and arrive with post-holiday fun for everyone. There's sneaky stuff going on in His & Hers and Seven Dials, and Ponies has the same with some funny mixed in. There's returning favorites in The Pitt, Shrinking and Industry with brand new seasons. Big franchises have offbeat entries lined up in A...

This week on Down to Watch... NAUGHTY! Dan and Raul watched Silent Night, Deadly Night, the holiday slasher from 1984 that translates Santa-related trauma into bodies upon bodies. After Billy Chapman goes through a handful of awful Xmas related experiences both at 5 and 8 years old, the final flash forward sees an 18 year old Billy working at a store and through his demons. However, after having t...

This week on Down to Watch, our hearts grow two sizes in one episode! Dan and Raul watched the 2000 live action remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey to get into the holiday spirit, Who-style. Ron Howard made an extended version that includes backstories for some of the classic Seuss characters and leans deeply into the aesthetic of the Chuck Jones Looney Tunes-esque cartoon...

This week on DtW, it's all spirit fingers and stolen routines with Bring It On! Dan and Raul caught another anniversary film with the 2000 cheerleading competition flick that is turning 25 this year. Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union all star in this slightly spoofy sports story centered around a suburban championship cheer squad and their new leader finding out their trophy-winn...

This week on DtW, it's holiday travel at it's best/worst in Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Dan and Raul braved the winter wilds of 80s airports and depots to follow fast frenemies Del and Neal played by John Candy and Steve Martin respectively in this classic story about a trip home for Thanksgiving. The two travelers are seemingly as mismatched as their trip is fraught with implausible c...