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GeekChew No. 108: Massively Better Than a Normal Human

We covered a lot of ground this week, jumping from new shows like The Bad Batch and Girls5Eva, to new movies on Netflix The Mitchells vs the Machines and Army of the Dead, to the debut issues of Wonder Girl and Time Before Time.

GeekChew No. 88: What's Old School to You?

We announce our new book club book here! Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Then we talk about our annual October Halloween movie binge before we dive into the collected volume of House of X and Powers of X, by Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz.

GeekChew No. 86: Chef's Table Stole My Wallet

We blew through the season of Chef’s Table BBQ that just dropped on Netflix, and it was amazing. We also started Cobra Kai and talk about Netflix’s newly announced adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Then we get into a great new series by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. And finally, a trio of movies from the past couple weeks, skipping from Mulan to I’m Thinking of Ending Things to Tenet.

GeekChew No. 83: Not in a Good Way

What did we watch on Netflix? Project Power, Always Be My Maybe, and (un)well. HBO? We finished Perry Mason! Did we subscribe to Shudder? Absolutely we did that to watch Host. iTunes got our money too! Inferno, She Dies Tomorrow, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Oh, we also talked about the Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass book by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh. Full week!

GeekChew No. 79: Netflix+

We announce our next book club book! Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders. Then it’s all about movies, from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga to The Old Guard to Palm Springs. Also Greyhound. And a little bit about The King of Staten Island… we’re all over the place.

GeekChew No. 69: We Need Explainers

This week is Black Panther week! First we talked about the Swamp Thing: Winter Special (9:22), then hit on some Netflix sci-fi with The Cloverfield Paradox (19:17) and Altered Carbon (24:37), and finish it out with Black Panther (29:31).

GeekChew No. 68: Irony is too Highbrow

This week's episode covers the new Vertigo book Imaginary Fiends, from Tim Seeley and Stephen Molnar (4:28), the Netflix series Dark (11:10), and the latest movie from Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (18:11). 

GeekChew No. 62: Fight Seens

This week we start with some talk about the first five episodes of The Defenders on Netflix (6:40), then slide into Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (14:18) and Atomic Blonde (20:35), and cap it off with what might be our favorite book of the year, Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (26:02).