Down To Watch

Down to Watch has possibly the last full upcoming shows pod for the foreseeable future, and we support unions trying to get a fair shake out of the obscenely wealthy studios, fun stuff! In the meantime, Dan and Raul are looking forward to a ton of returning favorites, like more action on Physical, an increasingly dangerous domicile in Only Murders in the Building, more purple and gold history in W...

Gunfighters beware, cuz Down to Watch rolled back into town with Raylan Givens in tow! Dan and Raul dive into the world of Elmore Leonard adaptations with another outlaw-hunting adventure in Justified: City Primeval. The new miniseries, broadcasting on FX and streaming on Hulu, returns to the holster of the fastest draw in Harlan County as he trades fast banter and much faster bullets with a colle...

Down to Watch is on a plane this week and it's been taken! Dan and Raul watched a few episodes of the new AppleTV+ series led by Luther himself, Hijack! Idris Elba is some sort of a highly talented business negotiator who's gotta maneuver a bunch of randos who apparently have a plan to take a plane traveling from Dubai to Heathrow. If that wasn't enough, his wife is carrying around wit...

Down to Watch is ready for a big dang summer! Dan and Raul are scanning the sunny horizon for the most interesting and unique shows during the lean months of the television year, and the new Prime series I'm a Virgo is an oasis of originality. A giant black teenager grows up watching a world of exaggerated culture and politics from the safety of his hidden backyard. His parents fear a world th...

Half the year has already scampered past, and the summer months are famously bereft of quality content on the small screens. Thankfully, Down to Watch has Dan and Raul to dive deep and find the worthwhile stories that will fill the sunny season. This month there's plenty of returning shows to be excited about; specifically, the conversation bops around Futurama's brainy eps, another round...

This week the Down to Watch crew is checking out alt-versions of animated worlds in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse! Marvel guide Jonnie joins Dan and Raul to dive into one of the year's most loved films. The continuing story of Miles Morales meeting other spider-people hits several bumps in the road in a story about finding your place in the world, connecting with your family, and forging...

Down to Watch is a 90s throwback podcast this week with the cult classic Dark City! Dan and Raul meet a collection of young Kiefers' and Connellys' darting around dark alleys in what looks at first to be an amnesia-based whodunit noir but quickly reveals the sci-fi mind trip it was hiding under its hat like a translucent alien bug. The themes of individualism and free will aren't the o...

Sneaky stuff is afoot this week at Down to Watch! Dan and Raul dipped into the clandestine world of cloak and dagger, and have returned from the shadows with Citadel from Prime and The Night Agent streaming on Netflix. Citadel is a star-forward vehicle with a huge price tag and middling reviews that has two spinoffs in the works. The banter and action might be subpar, but do pretty faces from maga...

The barren summertime TV landscape has reared its dusty face again as we roll into June, but Down to Watch is an oasis of content, ready to quench the thirsty viewer. Dan and Raul put their safari hats on and properly searched for television programming to fill the hot days on the way and are pleased to see plenty of returning friends like Jack Ryan, that Witcher over there, our friend The Bear, a...

This week on Down to Watch, there's double trouble to be found deep down! Dan and Raul are a few eps into a couple of new shows and have plenty to say about 'em. First up, the Cronenberg film Dead Ringers has a miniseries remake on Prime that has Rachel Weisz in the dual twin OB-GYNs, and the discussion covers the excellent acting and directing, the deeper themes and intense visuals, and s...

This week, Down to Watch is down with the Algorithm! Dan and Raul are lucky to have guest Hannah add her analysis to the DtW brain trust as they try and unravel the mysteries of the new Peacock original series Mrs. Davis. Betty Gilpin is a "cowboy nun" who serves as a possibly literal bride of Jesus at the convent by day and runs down scammer magicians outside of Reno by night when we ar...

Another month is upon us and DtW has it mapped out for you to safely travel across May with no new show unturned! Dan and Raul travel across content-continents to bring you the latest tales of series from the corners of the globe. They dive into an underground Silo to see the remnants of humanity, a reunion of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne (formerly in the comedy film, Neighbors) as longtime friends,...

Spring break is over, and Down to Watch is back with a history course from the great classical author Mel Brooks! Dan and Raul checked out History of the World Part 2, the new Hulu sequel series full of modern comedy stars, as well as the original hit film full of vintage comedy greats. Part 1, the '81 anthology film, is an avalanche of old gags both classic and dated, and great fodder for con...

This week on Down to Watch, slap some steaks on the grill cuz we got Beef! Dan and Raul and guest-extraordinaire Natalia are all pretty into the new Netflix road rage series starring Ali Wong and Steven Yuen, and they're real heated about it, in a good way. The show centers around a couple of rotten people who cross paths and decide to ruin each other, while letting their humanity slip through...

This week, Down to Watch is all about fate and fandom! Dan and Raul grabbed a couple shows off the April upcomings heap that might be instant classics and are back with their thoughts. First off, The Big Door Prize has a small town flipped upside down when a futuristic machine that appeared out of nowhere starts handing out cards with everyone's potential written on it. This slightly sci-fi be...

Things are starting to heat up in April after a brutal winter, and luckily DTW has you covered with some hot new TV shows that include a Florida Man (Netflix) resolving some criminal matters, a Beef (Netflix) involving a traffic accident gone too far, and a pair of 80’s movies being remade as TV shows: Cronenberg fresh retread of Dead Ringers (Amazon) with Rachel Weisz playing twin sisters & t...

This week on DtW, the Down of Us are finishing season one of the huge HBO game adaptation, The Last of Us! Dan, Raul, and gaming guru Jonnie are together again at the end of a beautiful and gut-wrenching journey, following Joel and Ellie as they make their way across a zombie America: fungus edition. The guys kick around the difficulty of adapting an interactive medium, like gaming, into a passive...

This week, the DtW crew watched the rest of Poker Face and is back to discuss whether it's flush with quality writing and acting or just full of jokers! Dan and Raul finished up the series they checked in on a few months back and are both happy to report the show is a hit with not a lie detected. Natasha Lyonne has appeared in a few other Down to Watch shows and is quickly becoming a pod...

The month of March has descended upon us and with it plenty of new shows for the DtW crew to sift through in search of your next favorite show! Dan and Raul have an extensive summary of anything worth checking out this month, and the wide range of shows arriving on the streaming apps mean there's something for everyone. The guys get into the returns of some Mandalorians, l...

Look out for the little pod! Down to Watch is growing it's cast by one guest as the MCU shrinks down it's current big bad to do battle in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quanumania! Dan, Raul and Jonnie all went to the theater to see what tiny adventure Paul Rudd and company had lined up to launch the next Phase of the continuing Marvel universe, and they agree with the critical consensus that this one is m...

The DtW crew is doing a flashback double-take, trying to understand how Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenneger could be twin brothers in the classic comedy Twins! Dan and Raul are again traveling to the 80s to fill in pop culture blind spots by catching up on classics, and this dual-lead caper is a great glimpse at what a couple of legends were like in their heydays. Arnold stomps and smiles as a...

This week, Down to Watch has been dealt a dream hand with Peacock's new original series, Poker Face! Dan and Raul make three of a kind with guest Hannah back to talk about another Natasha Lyonne show that everyone on the pod thinks hit the jackpot. They discuss Rian Johnson's career of cool colors and quick talkers, the structure of classic network mysteries, and the place of a breezy, brainy...

Down to Watch has your freshly baked February TV releases hot out of the oven and ready to shake off the winter cold. Dan and Raul have to look outside of the big red N for their picks this month, as Apple TV+ steps up and delivers Hello Tomorrow, a retro-futurist sci-fi salesman story, and Dear Edward, a drama centered around a miracle, grief, and trauma.  As well as, The Reluctant Traveler,...

The Home Box Office has launched a big show for 2023, and the guys at Down to Watch are just the fun guys to tell you about it! Dan, Raul, and the game-veteran guide Jonnie help you wade into mushroom mayhem and madness as the Red Viper and the Lady of Bear Island team up to try to cross a fungus-filled zombie America. These actors from Game of Thrones play a found family fighting h...

Down to Watch is back this week with something a bit experimental from the big red N. Dan and Raul saw some or most of the new Netflix show Copenhagen Cowboy, full of slick synth and burning neon edges as well as bits of misery, magic, and mayhem to flesh out an artistically told tale. The nearly mute Miu has arrived in a particular corner of European hell, as the current denizens refer to it...