Down To Watch

A new Marvel TV show emerged, so Dan and Raul knew who to call...Jonnie! This very special guest came prepared and shared his thoughts on the brand new film, Bob Marley: One Love, that just came out to lackluster critical response, yet moviegoers seem to be thoroughly enjoying it. As always, when these dudes get together, a nice chunk of time is devoted to the world of the MCU, leading to a discus...

This week, Down to Watch gets in the Valentine's Day spirit in a violent and quirky way with the reboot series Mr. & Mrs. Smith! Dan and Raul accepted the assigned task of watching the first two episodes of the new Prime series starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, and have returned with a mostly positive mission report. Despite the strange greeting and nebulous instructions from the co...

Down to Watch is already a bit into the short month of Feb with some new shows that might have tried to sneak past you, as if you didn't have Dan and Raul to catch 'em for you! This month, it's all about the Big Game, a couple of fancy shows, and some real-world stories worth diving into. The documentary world has tales of killers in the woods and on the soccer pitch and some stories o...

Winter can be a cold wasteland of television, but Down to Watch has a couple of new winter streamers to get cozy with. Dan and Raul spent part of their winter TV trip in sunny SoCal with a couple of sons of a triad boss in The Brothers Sun. The new Netflix action-comedy maybe does one genre better than the other, but with a breezy runtime and bouncy dialogue, the show managed to hook at least one...

The year in television usually starts slow, so the DtW is taking advantage and covering classics and cult favorites from the 80s that defined how stories would be told forever. This week, Dan and Raul caught a couple of episodes of the landmark show Moonlighting, a moment of network lighting in a bottle that made Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard household names, put new spins on many classic film ge...

This week, DTW bravely returns yet again to the 80s for a highly essential work starring Cher and Nic Cage.  But Dan and Raul were pleasantly surprised to find the movie is about much more than the stars and not just a run-of-the-mill rom-com…we follow the trials and tribulations of an entire NYC Italian family filled with many interesting characters.  Yeah, there had to be a discussion about the...

The new year brings new stories to the big and small screens alike, and Down to Watch has your January all lined up! Dan and Raul welcome 2024 as they carefully work through the minefield known in some circles as "dumpuary", an early-year dumping ground for content that is expected to disappoint studios. There might be a show or two worth mentioning, as the guys cover the Mean Girls musi...

This week, DTW returns to the time-traveling travails of Loki, the Marvel god who has seen his character in this self-titled Disney+ series given extraordinary depth and importance in the MCU.  Dan and Raul are joined per usual by Marvel-stalwart Jonnie to ruminate on what has proven to be not as satisfying a season of TV as the first was, with less dimension and creativity yet wonderful actors pl...

It's Mutos in the snow with two new shows on Down to Watch this week! Dan and Raul tried out a couple of first episodes from the new television season, starting with the MonsterVerse canon entry, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Apparently, throughout the last few Godzilla movies, a secret organization called Monarch has been involving itself in the business of monsters. The new series travels bac...

This week, DtW is down to watch a movie or two! Dan's been to the theater a bunch recently, and Raul wants to know what's going on in the fresh popcorn stores. They get into several new movies, both streaming and in picture houses, from big-name draws like Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (in theaters; AppleTV in December) to Argentinian indie horror When Evil Lurks (Shutter). Pod...

DTW continues the 200th episode celebration by, once again returning to the 80s for more shuckin' and jivin', but this time adding a bit more adult edge and sexiness. Special Guest, Hannah joins Dan and Raul, who have not seen this essential 80s classic, to explore exactly what makes this such a fan-favorite movie. The pod pals dive into the successes, discussing the intricate and creative...

This week, Dan and Raul kick off the first of two 200th episode specials with pod bestie Natalia and iconic 80s dance epic, Footloose! Episode timing aside, the double feature of 80s dance planned for the podcast milestone starts with a classic movie and a classic guest as the podfriends gab about Kevin Bacon's seemingly unchanging aura, kids behaving badly across generations and losing yourse...

This week, Down to Watch gets back to looking ahead! With both strikes over as of recording, Dan and Raul are happy to see the writers and actors get back to doing what they're supposed to: filling this pod's monthly upcoming TV premiere' episodes! While one host looks forward to the return of favorites such as For All Mankind (AppleTV+), The Crown (Netflix), and Fargo (FX on HULU), th...

This week, the gang's all about that animated padawan turned live-action lightsaber swinger they call Ahsoka! Dan, Raul, and Jonnie are all caught up on the latest Disney+ series to take place in a galaxy "far, far away," and the reviews are definitely mixed. Taking place over a decade after Return of the Jedi, the new series looks to fill in some gaps left by the films and continues...

This week on DtW, houses fall and generations... v? Dan and Raul are back on the streaming scene with two new shows making waves on the socials. First up, the world of The Boys dips into higher education with the university-based superhero academy show Gen V on Prime. As usual for this world of metaphysical debauchery and depression, the powers that the kids at Godolkin University, God U for short...

Forgiveness is hard this week on Down to Watch, but fighting aliens is harder! Dan and Raul watched the new Hulu sci-fi thriller No One Will Save You, and they have some words to say about the artistic flourish the film takes. Small-town girl Brynn is dodging her fellow townies due to a plot that will be revealed, but she has to put her hesitations aside when she kills an invading alien in her fam...

This episode of Down to Watch is declared to be required listening for fans of good TV 'By Order Of THE PEAKY BLINDERS!!!' During this slow period of new TV, the guys are catching up on some instant classics from the golden age of streaming, and while Dan is getting to experience the successes and follies of the Shelby clan for the first time, Raul is an old (red, right) hand at the coming...

Spooky season starts early on Down to Watch with witches, zombies, and creepy vibes across two new shows! Dan and Raul checked back with a couple of TV offerings they highlighted in the September TV Premieres ep, to solidly scary results. First up, AppleTV+ has Lakeith Stanfield fighting memories, mystical wishes, and witches by the lake when his wife makes the unfortunate decision to make 3 wishe...

This week (dundundun) Down to watch (dunDUNDUN) is fightin' cyborgs for the fate of 80s Earth! Dan and Raul slipped back to the days of big hair, synth tunes and a young Arnold Schwarzenegger in the original James Cameron series starter, The Terminator. More famous as the launching point for its worldwide smash of a sequel, the original film sees a less lethal Sarah Connor being singled out by...

This week on Down to Watch, the climate conversation EXPLODES! Dan and Raul watched the indie film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the Swedish nonfiction book that some might say is a call to excessive action. The story follows a group of young adults with various reasons for banding together to commit admitted acts of terrorism in response to a generation of despair after being handed over a...

This week DtW is going Deep Cover on the incognito tip! Dan and Raul travel back in time but stay in the state of CA for a 90s crime drama with a famous theme song. Lawrence Fishburne, going by Larry back when Deep Cover came out in 1992, plays a cop who saw his stickup thief father shot down while criming and has devoted himself to the law. However, in this exaggerated 90s Los Angeles crack game,...

The Down to Watch pod for September! Dan and Raul are back with some new Fall shows that are about to drop, and despite the strikes and the TV seasons changing, there's enough to keep any TV fan chasin' the clouds away. Right off the bat, The Changeling is a creepy and mysterious drama that will keep our friend Darius from Atlanta pretty terrified. Later in the month, the Morning Show and...

Down to Watch is drivin' through August with the tank full, the guns loaded, and a little bit of horror in tow! Dan and Raul open the show with a little "elevated horror" talk in honor of the film Talk to Me, a movie that rides between fun, scary flick, and indie arthouse horror film and has both audiences and critics praising it. Then the motors get runnin', and the drivers get...

Down to Watch is back to the heavenly hosts and their sinister counterparts in Good Omens Season 2! Dan and Raul watched the first two eps to catch up on David Tennant's demon Crowley, his existence-long angel friend Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), and apparently a butt-naked John Hamm back as the amnesiac Archangel Gabriel. When the memory-wiped angel lands at Mr. Fell's door, the best bud pr...

This week, Down to Watch is full of shifty imposters with the Disney+ series Secret Invasion! Dan and Raul are dipping back into the MCU, so they meet who they believe to be the real Jonnie (Dan and Jonnie open the show with a brief discussion of BarbenHeimer) as they discuss the ups and downs of a Marvel series that is seeing mixed reactions. Sam Jackson's Nick Fury feels responsible for a ne...