Episode 93: A DC Day To End The Decade

On the last podcast of the year, and the decade, Brian and Mandy show some holiday love for DC as well as some new trailers. 01:34 – We start with excellent Netflix news. Kevin Smith is set to direct an animated MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE series for the platform even as he works on the movie! Mandy comments on how some characters’ looks have been changed since the original to make animation easier today. 03:15 – PICARD gets the nod for a second season even before the first starts airing! 04:12 – Marvel TV integrates with Marvel Studios, which finally gives Kevin Feige absolute control over the creative path of all future shows. 05:40 – CW’s CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS is getting rave reviews as many beloved actors from DC TV history come back to reprise their roles again. Also, we agree that Jon Cryer is the best Lex Luthor ever seen on screen. 11:16 – Mandy has been watching the WATCHMEN. Even as she braces for the finale, she can’t praise the series enough. Go and watch it, now! 14:00 – Brian tries to understand why in the trickster god’s name would Orlando Jones be fired from AMERICAN GODS. He tries, but fails. Nothing makes sense. 18:53 – Before the year-end, we get a bounty of trailers! 19:08 – GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE gives us a fresh, rural setting and a STRANGER THINGS vibe with its trailer, and we dig it. We discuss some of the responses from the fandom, also Mandy points out that Finn Wolfhard has found his niche in the supernatural genre. 23:42 – WONDER WOMAN 1984 gives us a trailer that gets the mind buzzing. Brian speculates whether this Diana would face the same moral choice with Maxwell Lord that she did in the comics and how that might impact the story. 26:00 – We also saw trailers for Ryan Reynold’s FREE GUY, the mysterious TENET, and the very interesting WOMAN IN THE WINDOW. All of which have caught our attention. Also, brace yourselves - A QUIET PLACE 2 is coming. 31:33 – Brian also talks about the reviews of RISE OF SKYWALKER, a movie that may just be more polarizing than THE LAST JEDI. 33:23 – And before bidding adieu, we ponder the unexpected disaster that was CATS and why it was at its best on the stage.