Down To Watch

The year starts out weird as the DtW crew gets into some experimental TV in January! Dan and Raul are scratching their heads, trying to make heads or tails out of two tricky shows with different twists. First off, the duo dissects a couple of episodes of the new Netflix show Kaleidoscope. It's a couple of eps because the crime caper starring Gian Carlos Esposito purports to be watchable in an...

Down to Watch starts 2023 with some sneaky spy stuff from both sides of the pond with the two new Netflix streaming series, The Recruit, and Treason! Dan and Raul can't help but compare how the levels of haplessness the protags of each secretive show bring to their similar situations, measuring The Recruit's cast shoehorning comedy into a bouncy action-filled fish-out-of-water thriller w...

January is upon us and Down to Watch is all about new TV in 2023! Dan and Raul went out into the winter wilds of the television landscape to forage for worthwhile entries to keep you indoors and toasty in front of a roaring smart tv. This month, the warming glow of the screen will be bringing us docs on killers caught and killer serves with How I Caught My Killer and Break Point, some colorful car...

The snowy winter wonderland can hide deadly secrets behind its shine, and Down to Watch has enlisted Doc Ock to reveal them! This week, Dan and Raul are checking out what's happening in Three Pines, a new small-town murder mystery show with Alfred Molina as an investigator applying a kind but sharp mind to the tight-knit community of suspects. The real mystery here is whether this show is shi...

Down to Watch has a couple of gifts left in this holiday season, and a peek under the tree reveals a couple of Disney-wrapped packages for good TV nerds! Dan and Raul need another set of hands to handle ripping the wrapping paper off these Star Wars, and MCU-shaped presents, so they're lucky to find Jonnie halfway down the chimney. He's here to talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Specia...

Down to Watch has one more monthly look-forward as December brings 2022 to a close. Dan and Raul have a collection of new and returning shows that should give everyone good reason to stay cozy indoors for the rest of the year. It might be opening presents next to any of the gifts Taylor Sheridan has given us, like Harrison Ford in the new 1923. Perhaps a big blanket and mugs of hot cocoa go great...

DtW had a little horror left over from trick 'r treating, but maybe saved the best treat for the end in the surprising and terrifying, Barbarian! Dan and Raul need a female perspective to appreciate this thriller and Natalia's back to drop some wisdom on the fellas. In this sleeper hit that recently arrived on HBO Max, traveler Tess finds herself at a double-booked rental house containin...

Down to Watch is so thankful for a November full of new shows to help us get to the turkey Thursday and black Friday that kick off the holiday season! Dan and Raul lined up a feast for pod listeners, including possible main dishes like The English, a Prime series about two unlikely frontier partners getting some grit in their bellies, which pairs great with the returning wester...

This deep into spooky season, DtW has been mesmerized by two vampire shows that just got started! Dan and Raul round out October offerings with a couple of charming blood suckers and their misadventures among people who fear and love them, sometimes at the same time even. First up, a reimagining of Anne Rice's bestselling and 90s movie classic, Interview with the Vampire, now streaming on AMC+. Th...

The DtW crew includes Jonnie this week, which can only mean one thing: basketball talk! Before any of that though, everyone saw She Hulk and Werewolf by Night, a season of fourth wall breaking super hero legal comedy and a throwback, short creature feature in the vein of Universal Horror, respectively. These new entries to the MCU canon via Disney+ are hinting at the future of the franchise,...

Dan and Raul are joined by super-guest Hannah in Los Angeles as they celebrate Beyond Fest 2022 just before a movie screening.  The gang had a full weekend of filmgoing and saw Gravity in Imax @ the Imax headquarters in Culver City, Trick 'r Treat @ the Hollywood Legion theater for a 15th anniversary celebratory screening and Q&A with the director, and lastly put a bow on the weekend with...

The Star Wars universe is full of space wizards and adorable baby green aliens, but ultimately returns to the stories of revolution against an oppressive Empire again and again. This week, Down to Watch checks in on another entry into Disney's continued expansion of the galaxy far, far away with the guerilla crew that sets off the whole Rebellion in Disney+'s, Andor. Cassian Andor,...

October is looking spooky for the DTW crew, 1) because there is a bunch of interesting stuff and 2) booooooo its pumpkin season y'all!  We got a new Interview With a Vampire show as well as more fangs with Reginald the Vampire, a doc over on Netflix about the 2008 Olympic basketball squad, Let the Right One is a relaunch of a beloved horror property over on Showtime, Guillermo Del Toro is bac...

This week on Down to Watch, it's two animated streaming series with very different ideas about the future! Dan and Raul are talkin' toons this week, but it's not one for the kids, most likely. First, they're both in on Pantheon, a heady AMC+ sci-fi family drama about AI versions of loved ones that might spin off into apocalypse territory. After that, the reviews are mixed on Cyberpunk: Edgerunnner...

This week on DtW, it's an MCU roundup! Dan and Raul and marvel mandatory guest Jonnie team up for a marvelous Disney plus discussion on the currently airing She-Hulk, with some talk about Ms. Marvel and Thor: Love and Thunder to begin. As usual, the trio looks towards the future of the film franchise, but then tangents take over and it really gets fun. Maybe we even break the fourth wall!

If this summer heat has you thinking of napping the lazy days away, DtW is here to make you think twice! Dan and Raul watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers, specifically the 1978 version, when filmmaking was loose and cool and just kinda did whatever, man. Donald Sutherland precedes his son in government work as a health inspector caught up in aliens replacing us with soulless pod people who can...

The Down to Watch crew is here with the traditional Fall slate of shows designed to keep you entertained as the nights grow longer. Modern streamers don't keep to the network TV schedule, but September is still filled with shows they really hope you stick with all season long. Dan and Raul have a handful of these to talk about, including a few minutes about the Star Wars and LotR universes, the re...

DTW is back again with some new shows that hit the big streamers;  This Fool over on Hulu, and Amazon finally released its tentpole show, A League of Their Own.   The guys really enjoyed the Hulu offering as it incorporates many Los Angeles-isms that the locals (like Raul) will get off on, but also brings the heart and the feels for its characters trying to live and thrive in an urban environment,...

Down to Watch is launching August with THREE new shows to check out as the summer roars on! Dan and Raul get straight into it with the new Amazon comic-adaptation, Paper Girls, which is giving the DtW boys some serious sci-fi vibes by way of coming of age camaraderie. Next the pod discussion slips into the dreamscape of Netflix's, The Sandman, another adaptation with loftier artistic intentions, b...

Monthly hijinks ensue as the DtW crew get their grubby mitts on some brand new shows coming up in August! Dan and Raul have been snooping around and butting into the business of summer TV and it looks like business is booming: this coming month the streamers are hitting audiences with sports docs and dramas like Mike, Legacy: The True Story of the Lakers and Untold Season 2. The guys also cover sm...

Summertime is here and there's more ice cream trucks and danger out on those city streets! This week, DtW tries out a couple of cautionary tales about who you can trust out there with Netflix's Resident Evil and Black Bird from Apple TV+. Dan and Raul cover the obvious stranger danger in the form of the shambling undead and revivified doggos with yet another adaptation of the retro B-movie pioneer...

Summer shows are matching the temps outside and Down to Watch has the hottest new hit with both critics and audiences on the menu this week; Dan and Raul just watched all of FX's The Bear, streaming on Hulu, and stalwart guest Jonnie is here to talk about how much everybody loves it! It's not a proper Jonnie pod unless we drop into the MCU, and this ep is no different as the guys talk about Ms. Ma...

Raul and Dan set off on a quest a while back to knock out a slew of Essential-80's cinema and now are back at it with this 1984 classic!  With space and sci-fi, aliens and flying crafts of all shapes and sizes, The Last Starfighter is right in line in most ways with what the 70's and 80's depictions of the genre would become and continue to be...creating films for kids about other kids slight...

This week on Down to Watch, the Disney machine has taken over! Dan and Raul are happy to welcome Jonnie back to the show, and it's a good thing too because Disney+ is full up on his favorite franchises. The House of Mouse continues to solidify the strength of it's streaming platform with the two tentpole live action brands passing the baton in mid-summer. We slide out of the Star Wars universe wit...

Suns out, shows on! Down to Watch coins a new summer catch phrase to welcome the new July TV refreshments. Dan and Raul are keeping safe from the sun by checking out what the major streamers have cooking up on the grill: Prime is bringing a troupe of Paper girl's and Chris Pratt (no surprise there), Apple might save the day with some tasty looking Black Bird, and Netflix is serving up the end...