Down To Watch

This week on Down to Watch, HBO is at it again! This time there's a sad murder in the little gray 'burg of Easttown and they got their own Academy Award-winning actress to wrap this new tragedy into her already complicated life. The spotlight is on Mare of Easttown, a new murder mystery small-town drama starring Kate Winslet, that already has Raul and Dan interested in seeing if Mare can find some...

Another monthly-upcoming extravanganza, factory fresh!  May has more media to consume, so Raul and Dan plate up what looks appetizing, including leftover Marvel/Hulu animated-collaboration M.O.D.O.K., Fey and Carlock 90's pop group send up Girls5Eva (Peacock), and Zack Snyder's toe-dip into the Romero-verse with Army of the Dead (Netflix). There's big name Disney projects, edgy up-a...

Back for another round of social-commentary-TV, disguised this time in slick and scary 70's suburban horror; the guys are talking about Amazon Prime's new series, Them. Dan and Raul discuss the show and it's approach to style and storytelling, as well as trying to place it in the modern television landscape. Chances are pretty good that this goal is not accomplished; the attempt crushed under the...

This week on Down to Watch we're short on kryptonite and fiber because we're getting Invincible and The Irregulars! Animation, capes and tights, Doctor Watson, teen drama, and "The Hound" can shoot birds from his coat!?! This is genre country, home of the fantastical and the terrible, but not to worry as both these new TV shows have something to offer.  Dan and Raul are gonna wade throug...

Hiatus over! This year started with a bang across our tv schedules, so apparently these content creators think they can take a break! April 2021 is looking kinda thin but there is promise of jewels in the rough streaming edges. Dan and Raul sift through the upcoming tv terrain and highlight the televised stories that might catch hold of your brains throughout the next month. Check if there's somet...

Dan fills everyone in on what he's been watching, he's got some recommends for Raul and the audience so listen in! The guys also watched the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Zack Snyder's Justice League, THE WHOLE THING! Listen to this episode!

Raul and Dan are joined by good friend of the pod, Jonnie! Everyone has seen the whole season of this new series over on Disney+ and there is much to be discussed, including how all the crazy fan theories permeated the pop culture zeitgeist over these past 9 weeks and also where the MCU stories involving Wanda potentially could progress towards in the future. This was a fun one, get into it!

Dan and Raul are back to cover all the shows and movies premiering this month that they find interesting, and March is a busy month for watchin' stuff! The guys cover the Coming 2 America sequel (Amazon), The Falcon and Winter Soldier (Disney+), Breeders (Season 2 on FX), and City on a Hill (Season 2 on Showtime) as well as many, many more offerings. As always some of these shows will get full epi...

Dan and Raul begin this episode discussing some true crime doc-series on Netflix, including The Night Stalker and also The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Then talks turn to the new feature film (now on HBO Max for 30 days), Judas and the Black Messiah, and the critical praise for the film is deserved. There is much to discuss in terms of the filmmaking here, including the very effective musical sco...

Dan saw a new indie horror flick called, Saint Maud, which he highly recommends and is discussed briefly as Raul hadn't seen the film.  Next, Raul and Dan dive into the first episode of the very new HBO Max series, The Head.  Playing on some of the similar tropes of a group of people living in an isolated and remote location, the show rightly calls attention to some of the obvious refere...

Dan and Raul are back to cover the new month in all things TV and Movies, and these include a new show from The Rock over on NBC, Clarice on CBS All Access, Behind Her Eyes on Netflix, and Beartown on HBO Max, as well as many other movies and shows that the guys thought would be fun/interesting watches for February!

Dan and Raul are joined by special guest, Hannah, to discuss this highly regarded newly released film on Amazon Prime Video.  The film has great performance and simple yet highly effective direction, and also features a striking portrait of race in America circa 1964 from the black male perspective.  Listen ahead as the DTW crew delves into what makes the film so effective in its balanci...

Dan and Raul are covering a very very new show that just came out last week, and with good reason! This is a strong entry into the MCU as Marvel has made a very interesting and unique series that (so far) is taking place in a 1950's-style sitcom world featuring characters we know from the Marvel movies, Wanda "Scarlet Witch" Maximoff and Vision. This is sure to change and move in some incredible d...

Dan and Raul begin the show with quick discussions on a new show that just premiered. Raul talks about "History of Swear Words" (Netflix) first episode, which features Nic Cage and an exploration of the work "fuck". Dan saw the first episode of "The Go-Big Show" (TBS); a talent/skill game show hosted by Bert Kreisher. Next, two new shows that premiered last week are discussed including, Coyote (CB...

Dan and Raul open 2021 with a throw-back episode where George Clooney's directorial debut from 2002 is discussed at length.  Raul has been a big fan of the film for many years and has seen it more then a few times, whereas Dan hasn't seen the movie again since it came out in theaters.  Both enjoyed this rewatch immensely as its a film rich in style (both structurally and visually) and ch...

Dan and Raul got you covered on all their picks for what to look out for this coming month as we ring in the new year.  Cobra Kai is back!!  The newly-acquired Netflix show is premiering Season 3 on January 1st (Originally scheduled for January 8th, but was very recently bumped up a week).  A new CBS All-Access show starring Michael Chiklis called, Coyote, comes out January 7th. &nb...

Dan and Raul are joined once again by guest, Jonnie, to discuss the just-finished 2nd season of this beloved Disney+ series. There were big moments to be discussed from many parts of the season including the future of the series, as well as other Disney+ shows from the Star Wars universe!

Dan and Raul take a pair of new Netflix shows and discuss their first episodes. Detention is a Taiwanese "supernatural horror drama" that the guys both couldn't get into and will probably not keep watching, although they had some fun discussing the origin of the show, which began as a video game that was created in 2015. Alice in Borderland is a new Japanese-language show on Netflix that is a real...

Dan opens the show discussing many new shows he is watching currently, including Moon Base 8 (Showtime), Fargo (FX on Hulu), The Flight Attendant (HBO Max), Marvel's 616 (Disney+), and How To With John Wilson (HBO). But, then the guys get into a fun discussion about the new body-swap horror-black comedy, Freaky, which is a great time! Also mentioned is some other body swap and horror movies that h...

Dan and Raul are back with an in-depth look at the upcoming month of TV and movies premiering very soon.  TV shows covered include, Your Honor (Showtime), Earth at Night in Color (AppleTV+), The Hardy Boys (Hulu), and The Stand (CBS All-Access).  Two new movies that look interesting and coming to Netflix are, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Chadwick Bozeman in his final performance), and the G...

Dan and Raul watched the 2016 Korean zombie film, Train To Busan, and for Raul this was a rewatch while Dan had wanted to see for some time but just hadn't. At this point everything with the zombie genre has been done, but this movie finds new and fun ways to use zombie's and their ever-shifting lore to bring the viewer something fresh and unique. The film has a low budget for what it sets out to...

Dan and Raul start by discussing a new HBO Max show by way of the UK, called "Two Weeks to Live", and starring Maisie Williams (Aria Stark from Game of Thrones) in this fish-out-of-water action/comedy with a heart.  Also, the essential 80's series continues with a discussion on the career of David Cronenberg and more specifically a focus on his culturally-impactful film, Scanners (1981).

Dan and Raul discuss 2 new shows that recently debuted. The Good Lord Bird is over on Showtime and runs week-to-week and concludes it's 7-episode run very soon, while The Queen's Gambit is a very successful and wildly popular limited one-season (7 total episodes) series that just came out recently on Netflix. Both shows have buzz and back this up with quality productions in terms of acting and vis...

Dan and Raul report on what they find interesting to watch this month, some of which includes Moonbase 8 (Showtime), B Positive (CBS), A Teacher (Hulu), The Liberator (Netflix), The Crown (Season 4, Netflix), and Small Axe (a collection of 5 films, Amazon) just to name a few!  Get into it and find out what else is arriving this month!

It's Halloween-time so Dan and Raul are doing some horror film discussion's this week, specifically covering a pair of George A. Romero movies that have a smaller following then his landmark classic first film, The Night of the Living Dead. Season of the Witch and The Crazies were the 2nd and 3rd films Romero made, and they aren't too scary in the usual horror genre way, but that's also because of...