Down To Watch

This week on DtW we're tackling sinister 70s crime and superhero shenanigans with the first two ep's of Dark Winds, and the first three ep's of The Boys season 3! Dan and Raul are talking about the third go round with Butcher, Homelander and the rest as the current season of the Amazon Prime hit series sees the gore levels rising and plenty of allegories to the current state of the world. All...

Dan and Raul go back in time, to a distant planet far, far away that is many years in the future to hunt down a Hollywood classic where apes are like man in every way!  Oh wait, its earth, which are hosts did know (how could you not if you are in any way a lover of American pop culture), but hadn't seen the film in its entirety.  Amazingly advanced ape costuming and shooting a ton on loc...

The old guard of streaming, Netflix and (FX on) Hulu, have each presented a big summer show to entice subscribers, so Down to Watch has something to say about these nerds and punks! Dan and Raul have seen a few episodes of Pistol, the Danny Boyle helmed biopic series about the Sex Pistols, as well a ton of the first volume of the fourth season of Stranger Things.  Boyle clearly has...

Summer is starting and Down to Watch is ready to tell you about all the shows that will fill the longer days and warmer weather! Dan and Raul go over last month's TV progress reports with their usual respective grades and some thoughts about how those shows are faring, but then it's right into the new stuff.  June is no longer the barren television wasteland it once was, and the major st...

Dan and Raul welcome back Jonnie to discuss all things Marvel, but first a few new pieces of business were to be handled including a quick discussion on season one of Winning Time (HBO).  Dan and Jonnie for the most part really dig the show and look forward to season two.   The new trailer for She-Hulk was mentioned as well, but the guys are suspect on what genre exactly this show will b...

Russian Doll is back on Netflix for all the sweet birthday babies! This week, Down to Watch revisits the story of Natasha Lyonne and friend breaking reality and doing stuff that was already done. Both Dan and Raul enjoyed the first season plenty, with strong performances and a twisty, neat take on a Groundhog's Day-like voyage of personal discovery. Now after a lengthy production delay,...

The future looks so bright with all these shiny new shows! Down to Watch is back again with another look at the upcoming month of May in what is primarily a streaming landscape nowadays. Dan and Raul scoured the trades and tv schedules to deliver info on premieres about L.A. icons of celebrity, laser swords and sex pistols, true crimes and metaphoric monsters, meltdowns, Mike Myers and m...

Eating photographs...Investigating your own murder as a ghost...A massive infinite hole in the ground...and Drowning Pool, the band...what the what??  Dan and Raul dig into two new TV offerings that were very recently released.  Roar, over on AppleTV+ offers an anthology series based centrally on feminist stories (The guys cover primarily the Nicole Kidman and Alison Brie episodes), and...

Down to Watch is back with a couple of April shows worth talking about! After a week off processing the overstuffed April-Upcomings episode, Dan and Raul are back to grab a couple off of the top of the heap and discuss Halo and the first two episodes of Atlanta season 2. The sci-fi first-person shooter turned live action big budget tentpole for Paramaount+ has a built in audience, but can Hal...

This podcast is bursting with new April shows! Down to Watch does the usual end of month mambo with all the upcoming offers straight from the streaming TV fountains. Dan and Raul get to as much as they can in one episode, including Walken across the pond, pedigreed tv creators revisiting Baltimore crime, a baby driver reporting on vice in Tokyo, first ladies, a fantastical Laker, even a perfe...

Down to Watch has another pair of recently released series to talk about with Apple TV+'s, WeCrashed and  Amazon Prime's, The Boys Present: Diabolical! Dan and Raul are keeping current with the streaming releases mentioned in their monthly upcoming pods, and this week they watched the first episode of the WeWork docu-drama starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway where there is plenty to discuss...

This week, Down to Watch is checking in with a galaxy far away and a dynasty close to home! Dan and Raul are joined by Jonnie this week, so of course the conversation starts off with one of the biggest pop culture properties as they move their big screen stars onto their streaming service. Disney unveiled a trailer for Obi Wan Kenobi, a new limited series from the Star Wars film world, so the...

March already!?! The month in TV is heating up early, and Down to Watch is back to report on three new streams that are worth talking about. Dan and Raul both caught the beginning of Joe Vs Carole, the Peacock-based docu-dramedy sprung from the Tiger King phenomenon based on the cartoonish blood feud between the titular characters. Dan's also got a new show to discuss, Hulu's The Dropout; a dramat...

This is the podcast your TV wants you to listen to!  Down to Watch is back with another episode covering the upcoming shows and streams, and March 2022 has plenty to talk about. There's plenty of retellings based on true stories with big IRL characters, from a Tiger King dramatization, shows about the falls of WeWork and Theranos, and the incredible rise of the Showtime Lakers. Dan and Raul a...

Dan and Raul go corporate this week on DTW discussing the new AppleTV+ show, Severance.  The work/life balance has always been rough for people, but this dystopian near-future view of workers takes it to a whole new creative level and tells us there is a creepy solution to solve this conundrum...think Maniac (a great Netflix sci-fi series) mixed with a bit of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless...

This week, four friends joke around about Jackass Forever! The last episode before the podcast becomes an L.A./S.F. collaboration, Dan and Raul are lucky to have both Natalia AND Jonnie back to talk about a fourth (and final?) round of the Jackass crew committing grievous bodily harm to themselves for the enjoyment of others, with various levels of regret. With the jackasses having provided two de...

February upcomings are here, everyone! The shortest month is anything but when it comes to new tv shows, so the Down to Watch monthly preview returns to rile up small screen aficionados in anticipation. Dan and Raul quickly recap what they thought of last months offerings and run through what's in cinemas for this month before launching into the mostly streaming programs worth mentioning. There's...

Considered one of the best shows of the year, the DTW gang knew they would need to assemble to discuss one of the most creative and uniquely fresh new takes on what a TV show can be while set in a post-pandemic world.   Returning guest, Hannah, joins Dan and Raul to breakdown this complex, time-shifting new HBO Max limited series; a great heartfelt and humanistic take on what the world d...

Your friendly neighborhood podcast is back for multiverse-mayhem across the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home! Down to Watch doesn't stray too far into the Marvel forest without stalwart guide Jonnie, and he's back to help Dan and Raul wrap up the Hawkeye series and comment on Peter Parker's latest mind-bending adventure and it's impact on the gargantuan film series. Before that, the trio c...

Starting the year off strong, Down to Watch checks in on the final season of podcast favorite, Pen15! Natalia is back to join Dan and Raul in wrapping up this coming of age story penned and performed by the women who lived it. A show that has gained a fervent following, Pen15 is ending on it's creators' terms and this DtW trio has some thoughts on the end of the road and plenty to say about how it...

New Year, new shows! The last Down to Watch of 2021 is here with a bunch of shows to jump into this January. Dan and Raul take a quick look at last month's upcomings and what they each think of the "best TV show of the 2021", before launching into what 2022 is gonna start off with. This monthly preview includes Suicide Squad spinoff Peacemaker, ensemble mystery murder comedy The Afterparty, heartf...

DTW begins a new discussion series based on 90's genre movies that deserve a rewatch, as they could be potentially under-appreciated gems or simply films of the time that are essential to the era.  Today, Dan and Raul dive into the chilly frozen waters of an action/adventure movie not widely on many lists as a Christmas classic, but the guys seek to uncover if this really deserves to be consi...

A DTW December kicks off on Disney+ with an unconventional Christmas story in Marvel's Hawkeye! Dan and Raul are joined by their Marvel/MCU guide, Jonnie, as the first 3 episodes (of a total 6 to be released; DTW will be back to cover 4-6 once the series wraps) establish the Hawkeye-in-waiting, Kate Bishop, who seems to be a very young yet extremely physically talented and quick-witted hero. &nbsp...

As the year comes to a close, DtW has one more round of monthly premieres for December to keep your Movie and TV landscape wide while the new year prepares to launch. Dan and Raul go over your television/streaming options for this holiday season, including discussions about returns from the Always Sunny crew and the ladies from Pen15, brand new offerings from Gordon Ramsay and David Finc...

Hey there, space cowboys! This week Netflix has released their live-action adaptation of one of the most critically acclaimed, enduring and beloved Japanese animated series, Cowboy Bebop! Dan steps into the world of Shinichiro Watanabe's self proclaimed space-jazz stories for the first time, but listeners of Down to Watch might know Raul is an old fan of the original action sci-fi n...