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A movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

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A movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

    Avengers: Endgame With Joanne Sheppard

    Avengers: Endgame With Joanne Sheppard

    It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.
    This time it’s Avengers: Endgame from 2019, and joining Tim for a chat about Ant-Man's determination to restore Universal balance and bring back correctly-sized sandwiches is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about Chekhov's Blow-Wave, the practicality of banishing right-wing 'opinion-makers' to Corby and what exactly Valkyrie is doing on the set of Hamish Macbeth, and what does any of this have to do with Rocket Racoon's career prospects as a football mascot? Get listening and find out!
    You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Joanne on Avengers Assemble here, Avengers: Infinity War here, Blade II here and Blade: Trinity here.
    If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Get The Hulk to deliver it so that somehow when it gets handed to you it physics-defyingly mysteriously becomes much bigger.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    062 - What If...? With Al Kennedy

    062 - What If...? With Al Kennedy

    It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.
    This time it’s What If...?, first seen in 2023, and joining Tim for a chat about a mindbending glimpse of alternate realities with their own very slightly different versions of The Pink Panther Show is podcaster Al Kennedy. What will they find to say about the Taika Waititi Dressing Gown Universe, the Wacaday With Different Rules Universe and the Noel's House Party: Quantumania Universe, and what does any of this have to do with the Stuart Heritage Who Likes Multiverses Universe? Get listening and find out!
    You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Al on the nineties Silver Surfer cartoon here.
    Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Not decaf, though. This isn't the Multiverse.

    • 33 min
    Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends With Garreth Hirons

    Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends With Garreth Hirons

    It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.
    This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, first seen between 1981 and 1983, and joining Tim for a chat about Peter Parker, Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake very occasionally remembering to mention that they are also supposed to be at college is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about the practicality of 'Ice Pants', the canonical status of Kingpin's Special Neck Band and the appropriate etiquette when your ex comes back as a half-machine monster of some sort, and what does any of this have to do with a moral panic about 'Bytes'? Get listening and find out!
    You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth talking about Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here, and standing in as host to chat with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.
    If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably not from a vending machine that Video Man has used to implement a dastardly plot that they will still somehow need the supercomputer to alert them to.

    • 29 min
    Spider-Woman With Tim Worthington

    Spider-Woman With Tim Worthington

    Ahead of the next proper instalment of It's Good, Except It Sucks, here's a special extra surprise for subscribers with a chat from the Looks Unfamiliar archives with me and Garreth Hirons talking about the 1979 animated series based on the then newly-introduced Spider-Woman. So why are you getting this now? You'll find out when you listen to it!

    • 13 min
    060 - Loki Season 2 With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

    060 - Loki Season 2 With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

    It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.
    This time it’s Season Two of Loki, first seen in 2023, and joining Tim for a chat about Sylvie discovering a universe where hipsters rave over Doug Yule's Velvet Underground is writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about how to get away with copying Victor Timely's homework, whether Agents Of S.H.I.E.L,D. should talk about their feelings and Owen Wilson's mop choices, and what does any of this have to do with The York Fruits Cinematic Universe? Get listening and find out!
    You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Gabby on Season One of Loki here, Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here and X-Men: X2 here.
    If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. I really don't recommend you use that vending machine at the Time Variance Authority.

    • 33 min
    059 - Secret Invasion With Martin Ruddock

    059 - Secret Invasion With Martin Ruddock

    It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.
    This time it’s Secret Invasion, first seen in 2023, and joining Tim for a chat about Nick Fury using his Skrull-spotting skills to fail to spot any Skrulls whatsoever even when they are literally staring him in the face and telling him they are Skrulls is writer Martin Ruddock. What will they find to say about the long-awaited appearance of obscure Marvel character Exposition Man, the 'Johnny Cash Hurt' incarnation of Nick Fury and how John Walker and Bucky Barnes might have fared in Billion Dollar Brain, and what does any of this have to do with recording the exact correct dimensions of Martin Freeman's nose? Get listening and find out!
    You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Martin on What If...? here and taking a two-part look at Avengers: Infinity War here and here.
    If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Unlike Nick Fury, I'll be able to spot if it's secretly decaf.

    • 30 min

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