The #NOTwatching Podcast

Westworld is back and so we're really #NOT talking about that very much this week, what with all the spoilers and things that are ripe to be exposed. We have been watching a lot of other things though: High Maintenance is back for a second anthology detailing the highs and highs of the more bohemian side of NYC, while Netflix's Happy! streaks a bloodstained cartoony trail across the very same plac...

It's all been leading to this. Over the course of many comedic enterprises some of the most familiar TV actors have assembled to create the wonder that can only be, Game Night. Sorry, that's not right. How about how many seasons of The Office it took for the guy who played Jim to make what could be the best horror movie of the year and what will most certainly become an annualized franchise? No......

It's been a sketchy few weeks for TV after the deluge of excellent Sci-Fi Netflix threw at us at the beginning of the year. The Walking Dead has managed to shuffle it's way from bad to worse. There is an alternative way to get your undead fix however, in the form of Santa Clarita Diet. The final season of Love ended on a high note and there have been plenty of decent comedy specials to check out t...

On this week's #NOTplaying... I mean, #NOTwatching Podcast, you'll have to forgive our wires being crossed for a second there, because this week we're discussing Steven Spielberg's latest movie Ready Player One. Sure, there's a linear narrative in this piece of passive entertainment, but it concerns a world of endless possibilities and is as obsessed with pop culture as we are. As of the current t...

On this week's show, we're talking about both Movies & TV, since Netflix seems to want to utterly dominate the conversation on screens both large and small. So we kick things off with Alex Garland's Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman and Duncan Jones' troubling Mute before reuniting with Jessica Jones after what feel like perhaps too long and Amazon's Sneaky Pete, which is just fine, if that's...

This week we're talking over some of the best TV to grace our screens in these first few weeks of 2018, including Netflix's Epic Sci-fi, Altered Carbon, Sheersmith & Pemberton's increasingly more diverse anthology show, Inside No.9, the absolutely batshit lunacy of Blood Drive and lots more besides... Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You ca...

We're back in Movie Land this week with the 19th MCU movie, the third 'surprise' Cloverfield and a live action remake of a classic Manga. All this & more in our most cinematic episode of the year! And it's only March. Whoop! ;) Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.uk If you're lis...

Yeah, we know it's nearly March and heavy hitters like Black Panther and Altered Carbon (which might be mentioned herein) are already out there, but we just wanted to cement our most anticipated movies and TV shows of the year and this was the earliest we could get around to doing it... Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show...

On this week's show we're counting through our favourite TV shows of 2017! Where did Game of Thrones come this year? Was the new Star Trek really that good? And how did you not hear about Halt & Catch Fire, the best show no one ever watched? Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.uk...

On this week's show we're counting through our Top 5 movies of 2017. A bit late we know, but if Disney insist on putting out a Star Wars movie every Xmas it's always gonna take us a little while to figure this stuff out... Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.uk If you're listenin...

On this week's show we're talking about sequels we would like to see for movies that haven't had one yet. That's right: not content with getting Star Wars, Bladerunner & Alien movies in 2017, not to mention a triple dose of Marvel movies and some good to awful DC efforts, we feel entitled enough to bang on about another load of follow-ups that the world most definitely doesn't need. From Leon to S...

It's finally here: the second part in the new Star Wars Trilogy that we've been waiting for since Abrams' left us hanging on a cliff 2 years ago. To say this installment has been met with controversy would be an understatement, but we're not just Star Wars fans on the #NOTwatching Podcast, we're film fans too. So what did we think... Star Wars: The Last Jedi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527336/ Co...

On this week's show we lament the passing of so many great TV shows that were gone before their time and perhaps a few that may have arguably run their course. We also suggest a few alternatives that might scratch a similar itch and keep those withdrawal symptoms at bay... Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show notes for thi...

On this week's show Marcus & Rob discuss arguably one of the biggest TV events of the year. Was it more of the same? And if so, did that even matter? We've waited a few weeks to make sure most people have caught up - so we hope you don't mind us going full spoiler-crazy here! Stranger Things 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/ Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Tw...

On this week's show Rob & Marcus discuss arguably Marvel's most hilarious film to date and their 17th in the epic MCU saga! Did the comedy undercut the drama? Or was it a well judged diversion? Listen on to find out what we thought! Thor: Ragnarok http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501632/ Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can find the show no...

This week we're boldly going into a new era of Star Trek on the small screen with Star Trek Discovery, throwing out more network trash with Fox's new X-Men show, The Gifted & sifting through the diamonds in the rough of Channel 4's Phillip K Dick anthology, Electric Dreams. Star Trek Discovery http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5171438/ Mr Robot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/ The Gifted http://www....

On this week's show we're delving into two quite highly anticipated sequels which have graced the big screen over the past couple of weeks. First up we have Denis Villeneuve's follow-up to Ridley Scott's revered sci-fi classic, followed by the latest installment of Matthew Vaughn's controversial bond pastiche. There's also been a few feature length gems hitting Netflix, Marcus takes yet another on...

On this week's show we're casting an eye on the back half of this year's slate of summer movies, as well as few new small screen releases that almost slipped through the net. There's the 70mm IMAX craziness of Nolan's Dunkirk, the incredibly competent yet not entirely necessary War for the Planet of the Apes, Chan Park Wook's latest masterpiece, The Handmaiden & a whole lot more! Dunkirk http://ww...

In the wake of Game of Thrones' penultimate season, it's not really fair to compare what else is currently airing. Netflix's Ozark does a pretty good job though, weaving a tale that attempts to eclipse the stakes raised by Breaking Bad, while on a lesser note, we have the much anticipated Marvel/Netflix team-up, The Defenders, which somehow fails to measure up to the sum of it's parts. All this an...

On this week's show we're discussing what has transpired on the latest season of Game of Thrones up to and including Episode 4, The Spoils of War. And what a season it has been, with fewer episodes the show has developed a movie-like pace, delivering fan service and spectacle by the bucketload. Listen on dear listener, to this absolute gush-fest of a #NOTwatching Podcast. We promise not to drag-on...

It's pretty difficult to avoid Elizabeth Moss right now with all 7 episodes of the new season of Top of the Lake showing up on BBC iPlayer recently, but it's her leading turn in the multi-emmy nominated The Handmaid's Tale that is likely to get her the most recognition. It just finished it's 10 episode run on Channel 4, so if you weren't lucky enough to DVR it, definitely keep an eye out for it on...

On this week's show we're discussing the long-awaited collaboration between Marvel & Sony Studios and the first official headline appearance of Spider-man in the MCU. There's also Edgar Wright's latest, Baby Driver - which Rob was lucky enough to get into a screening of - and one of the best Netflix movies to date, OKJA. All this & more on another big-screen focussed #NOTwatching Podcast! Spider-M...

Rob took one for the team recently by marathoning his way through the entirety of the original Twin Peaks in preparation for the cultural behemoth that is 'The Return’, currently airing on Sky/Showtime. No one else was silly enough to do the same, so the monologuing eventually gives way to our thoughts on how the first season of American Gods turned out, what the point of Prison Break was (again)...

It's not often we get a female-fronted superhero movie. It's even less often they turn out to be any good. And after Zack Snyder's problematic treatment of both Batman AND Superman, the odds were stacked against Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman. Nevertheless, we're all pretty much unanimous in our praise of this movie. Listen on for our in-depth and quite spoilerific thoughts on WB's latest and arguabl...

And so we find ourselves recounting the tail end of the spring TV schedule once again - this time with the much hyped American Gods adaptation on Amazon Video & Season 3 of Better Call Saul. We also have word of a Judge Dredd TV show in the works(!), more X-Files and a trailer for the fast-approaching Netflix superhero team-up show, Defenders. American Gods http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1898069/ Bet...