The Best Thing We Watched This Week

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss the new Disney series Star Wars: Shadow of Maul, season 2 of Netflix's dark drama BEEF, the new twisty film Exit 8, plus Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Crime 101, Margo's Got Money Troubles, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?Join our Discord for more discussions: https://bit.ly/thebeardedonesTake a peek at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedones

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Maggie Gyllenhaal's punk rock romance The Bride!, the semi-steamy Netflix fantasy Vladimir, Netflix's alien action War Machine, plus the gruesome and grotesque horror DOLLY, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?Join our Discord for more discussions: https://bit.ly/thebeardedonesTake a peek at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedones

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss the Bridgerton season 4 part 2, the second season of Apple's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Hulu's Paradise season 2, plus The Bluff, Dolly, Scream 7, BAKI-DOU, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss the Prime Video mystery 56 Days, Netflix's The Night Agent season 3, plus The Burning Girls, Psycho Killer, This Is Not a Test, and A Knight's Tale. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss the Netflix Irish comedy How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, AMC+'s Dark Winds season 4, Shudder's Honey Bunch, Crazy Old Lady, and Night Patrol, plus The Mortuary Assistant, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss the new Peacock series The 'Burbs, the South Korean action film Holy Night: Demon Hunters, the anime Scarlet, plus Whistle, Dracula, Send Help, The Housemaid, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Apple TVs season 3 of Shrinking, the new Marvel series Wonder Man, Sam Rockwell's new sci-fi adventure comedy Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, plus Prime Video's The Wrecking Crew, Netflix's Bridgerton S4 Part 1, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss HBO's Original A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and The Pitt episodes 1-3, along with the new Shudder folk horror Mother of Flies, and FX's The Beauty. We also chat about Return to Silent Hill, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Armageddon, Netflix's Finding Her Edge, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Netflix's The Rip and Love Through a Prism. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, We Bury the Dead, the Peacock espionage series PONIES, and more!. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Netflix's People We Meet on Vacation, Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, and HIS & HERS. We also talk about Russell Crowe and Rami Malek in Nuremberg, the animal-themed slasher PRIMATE, and a mediocre psychological thriller on Screambox called Self-Help. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss We Bury the Dead, The Copenhagen Test, Fackham Hall, Stranger Things S5 finale, Sentimental Value, Anaconda (2025), and Hitch! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Housemaid, The Great Flood, Relay, Stolen Children, IT: Welcome to Derry finale, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Playdate, Ella McKay, Bugonia, Krampus, IT: Welcome to Derry, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, plus Await Further Instructions, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the new Shakespearean drama HAMNET, plus Chainsaws Were Singing, I Swear, Jay Kelly, Caught Stealing, Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris discuss Stranger Things season 5, volume 1, the new UAP/UFO documentary The Age of Disclosure, Zootopia 2, Bone Lake, The Passenger, She Rides Shotgun, and Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Brendan Fraser in Rental Family, Joel Edgerton in Netflix's Train Dreams, plus season 2 of A Man on the Inside. We also discuss Wicked: For Good, Zootopia, Pacific Days on PS5, and a Stranger Things rewatch, plus the abysmal Disney Twisted-Wonderland the Animation. And of course we'll chat with you too! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris and I discuss why each of us is correct about our views on Edgar Wright's The Running Man, plus we talk about Osgood Perkins' new horror KEEPER. We'll dive into Scissor Seven Season 5, Last Samurai Standing, As You Stood By, Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, SISU, and more! And of course we'll chat with you too! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Guillermo del Toro's Netflix gothic horror Frankenstein, the newest entry in the Predator franchise Predator: Badlands, plus the Netflix historical drama Death by Lightning. We also discuss the Peacock mystery All Her Fault, the gory horror Scared Sh!tless, and the anniversary of John Carpenter's They Live! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Netflix's fourth season of The Witcher, HBO Max's Original series IT: Welcome to Derry, plus the Apple TV+ Original Down Cemetery Road. We also discuss Pete Davidson in The Home, The Conjuring: Last Rites, and the abysmal Hell House LLC: Lineage! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Netflix's second season of Nobody Wants This, the star-studded thriller A House of Dynamite, plus the Italian true-crime dramatization The Monster of Florence. Plus we discuss the new animated film Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, Chris Stuckmann's Shelby Oaks, and Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor, The Twits, The Diplomat season 3, Good News, Death Watch Splinter Cell, the new documentary Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, HBO's TASK, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst in Roofman, the HBO documentaries Quiet in Class and The Alabama Solution. We also discuss Good Boy, HIM, and Netflix's whodunnit The Woman in Cabin 10, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Apple TV's The Lost Bus, Shudder's new horror anthology V/H/S/Halloween, two indie horrors, Coyotes and Scurry, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's film with Leonardo Di Caprio, One Battle After Another, the Chinese animated hit Ne Zha 2, Apple TV's delayed series The Savant, plus Netflix's Wayward and House of Guinness, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about HIM, Netflix's Black Rabbit and Haunted Hotel, Kung Fu Hustle, Billionaires' Bunker, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Infinity Castle, The Wrong Paris, The Girlfriend, aka Charlie Sheen, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Long Walk, the new HBO Max crime drama TASK, plus the Netflix reality-docuseries Love Con Revenge. We also dive into the 1950 thriller The Man in Black and take a look at the comedy-horror ICK. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the shocking Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, the indie horror Your Host, The Toxic Avenger, Netflix's The Thursday Murder Club, plus more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about HBO Max's Peacemaker season 2, Prime Video's final season of Upload, Netflix's Hostage and Fall for Me, Last Breath, Elio, Liam Neeson in Darkman, and Blood Orange (or Three Stops to Murder)! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Alien: Earth, Weapons, Together, Nobody 2, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about The Naked Gun, Netflix's Mandala Murders, Chief of War on Apple TV+, Twisted Metal Season 2, Sinners Blu-ray release, Rian Johnson's Brick from 2005, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about The Fantastic Four: First Steps (spoiler-free, of course), Happy Gilmore 2, Trigger, Shiny Happy People, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Amy Bradley is Missing, The Institute, Dan Da Dan, Strange New Worlds, Superstar, and more! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Superman, Ziam, Hotspring Sharkattack, & The Goonies! What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Prime Video's Heads of State and Deep Cover, the Channel 4 documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, plus Dan Da Dan season 2, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about 28 Years Later, Netflix's K-Pop Demon Hunters, Stay, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:08:38 28 Years Later00:29:01 K-Pop Demon Hunters00:33:10 Stay (2005)00:41:47 Munchies00:45:10 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Mercy for None, Ginny & Georgia Season 3, Tornado, Channel Zero, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:03:35 Movie plot explained poorly00:06:07 Ruben asks a question00:09:25 The Town and Ginny & Georgia S300:19:08 Mercy for None00:26:45 Munchies00:31:36 What we're looking forward to00:35:01 Channel Zero00:38:49 Tornado00:45:34 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Bring Her Back, Lost in Starlight, Dept. Q, and more. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:07:08 Movie plot explained poorly00:10:24 Ruben asks a question00:14:09 Bring Her Back00:26:36 Lost in Starlight00:30:56 Dept. Q00:40:08 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword00:53:29 What we're looking forward to00:59:12 Munchies01:05:54 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Lilo & Stitch, Capybaras!, Tornado, The Surrender, Fountain of Youth, Sister Midnight, Race Across the World, Fear Street: Prom Queen, Swing Bout, and Pulse. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:03:33 Capybaras!00:18:50 Movie plot explained poorly00:20:33 Ruben asks a question00:31:12 Tornado00:37:46 The Surrender00:42:43 Lilo & Stitch (2002)00:49:58 Sister Midnight00:55:34 Race Across the World01:04:06 Fear Street: Prom Queen01:13:30 Fountain of Youth01:26:27 Swing Bout01:33:34 Pulse (2001)01:41:43 Munchies01:49:34 What we're looking forward to01:52:38 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Pitt, Blood of Zeus, Fight or Flight, Clown in a Cornfield, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, Frogman, Last Bullet, and Havoc. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:02:14 Ruben talks about Motorheads on Prime00:03:35 Movie plot explained poorly00:07:38 Chris' capybara story00:10:30 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning00:26:15 Love Death + Robots Vol. 400:32:18 Murderbot00:39:04 Final Destination: Bloodlines00:46:08 What we're looking forward to00:49:32 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Pitt, Blood of Zeus, Fight or Flight, Clown in a Cornfield, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, Frogman, Last Bullet, and Havoc. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:04:47 Re-Animator 40th Anniversary 4K UHD00:07:59 Movie plot explained poorly00:11:05 Final Destination: Bloodlines00:22:55 The Pitt00:32:37 Blood of Zeus S300:39:51 Fight or Flight & Last Bullet00:47:23 Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld00:50:54 HAVOC & Clown in a Cornfield01:03:55 Frogman01:16:07 What we're looking forward to01:21:47 Munchies01:25:18 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about Thunderbolts*, the Argentinian Netflix series El Eternauta, or The Eternaut, plus The Four Seasons, and the Irish horror-comedy Grabbers. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:07:31 Grabbers00:17:22 Thunderbolts*00:31:58 Tombstone 4K00:36:35 El Eternauta (The Eternaut)00:45:29 Chris tells a horrifying story00:57:16 Movie plot explained poorly01:00:33 Ruben asks a question01:04:33 Munchies01:09:41 What we're looking forward to01:15:02 The Four Seasons01:18:18 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the kickoff of Andor season 2, Netflix's Weak Hero: Class 2, as well as the new Irish folk horror Frewaka. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:04:58 Movie plot explained poorly00:08:48 Ruben asks a question00:13:32 Apostle00:18:38 Weak Hero Class 200:25:36 Triangle (2009)00:30:39 Andor S200:33:37 Frewaka00:38:20 ASH00:41:00 The Accountant 200:51:37 Munchies00:56:57 What we're looking forward to01:01:06 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the new Ryan Coogler spectacular film Sinners, plus the extreme body horror The Ugly Stepsister, and Ruben talks about A24's Warfare. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:05:54 Ruben's haul00:15:01 Ruben asks a question00:18:39 Movie plot explained poorly00:20:07 Sinners00:34:24 Warfare00:40:31 The Ugly Stepsister00:46:32 Dope Thief00:48:39 Munchies00:55:05 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the new Netflix anime Moonrise, the upcoming horror anthology movie Freaky Tales, plus the Netflix feel-good series North of North. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:05:11 Movie plot explained poorly00:07:22 Ruben asks a question00:15:39 Freaky Tales00:22:31 North of North00:28:54 Moonrise00:34:05 How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)00:38:49 What we're looking forward to00:45:20 Wrapping up... munchies and chatting01:13:58 Bye

Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:04:43 Movie plot explained poorly00:08:22 Ruben asks a question00:11:27 Devil May Cry00:20:07 Parvulos: Children of the Apocalypse00:28:18 Screamboat00:34:52 Hell of a Summer00:41:13 Karma00:44:30 Lazarus00:47:59 What we're looking forward to00:52:10 Wrapping up

On this episode of The Best Thing We Watched This Week, Ruben and Chris talk about the new emotional horror The Woman in the Yard, the action series Weak Hero Class 1, and the first fully Irish language horror film An Taibhse or The Ghost. Plus, we discuss how much we enjoyed Baby Assassins: New Day and then briefly hit on Black Myth: Wukong, and Wheel of Time S3 E6. What's the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:06:21 Movie plot explained poorly00:09:10 Ruben asks a question00:19:18 An Taibhse (The Ghost)00:27:36 Weak Hero Class 100:33:36 The Woman in the Yard00:36:03 Munchies00:38:42 Baby Assassins: Nice Days00:47:27 What we're looking forward to00:55:56 Black Myth: Wukong update and Assassin's Creed: Shadows01:02:00 Wheel of Time S3 E6 and wrapping up

Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:05:57 Movie plot explained poorly00:07:40 Ruben asks a question00:15:51 Ruben's Black Myth: Wukong update00:19:26 Better Man00:25:16 Revelations00:32:17 What we're looking forward to00:38:59 Kimchi00:56:54 The Residence01:00:48 O'Dessa01:04:10 Wrapping up

This week on the Best Thing We Watched, Ruben talks about the ten most expensive Netflix movies ever made to date, including The Electric State. Chris talks about Long Bright River, and Ruben and Chris talk about what an experience the new Netflix Limited series Adolescence and more...What was the best thing you watched this week?Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:06:00 The Electric State & Top 10 Most Expensive Netflix Movies00:14:58 Movie plot explained poorly00:16:57 Ruben asks a question00:19:55 Adolescence00:38:47 Invincible S3 E800:43:12 Long Bright River00:48:39 Baby Assassins: 2 Babies00:55:42 Wheel of Time S301:02:09 Update on Black Myth: Wukong01:04:32 Wrapping up

This week on The Best Thing We Watched Podcast, Ruben and Chris talk about anime on Netflix, Sakamoto Days and animation on Prime Video - Invincible Season 3, Chris talks about Dark Winds Season 3 on AMC and When No One Sees US on HBO MAX and Mickey 17 plus Ruben and Chris talk about a surprise of a movie, Baby Assassins plus much more.Chapters:00:00:00 Intro00:03:13 Movie plot explained poorly00:07:53 Ruben asks a question00:12:55 Paradise00:22:18 When No One Sees Us00:31:25 Sakamoto Days & Invincible S300:37:14 Mickey 1700:47:12 Dark Winds S300:55:33 Black Myth: Wukong01:02:39 Deli Boys & Cannibal Comedian 01:09:01 Baby Assassins01:22:00 What we're looking forward to01:25:42 Wrapping up