
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 taking a look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day from 2026, and joining Tim for a chat about Yelena Belova demonstrating why she should never be counted on to keep an eye on a grocery store is writer Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about Peter Numeration issues, Pietro Maximoff's foolproof escape plan and who would make the best sidekick out of Spider-Cat and MASSIVE PEGGY, and what does any of this have to do with Alison Bechdel singing Let's Call The Whole Thing Off? 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 It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Loki here and here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here, Deadpool And Wolverine here, The Fantastic Four: First Steps 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. Bear in mind it won't be about the goofiest thing The Punisher has ever seen.
Aug 25
32 min

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: The Dragon’s Challenge from 1981, and joining Tim for a chat about Peter Parker discreetly declining to be one of the everybody who was Kung Fu fighting is political commentator Mark Thompson. What will they find to say about Peter Parker enrolling at Greendale Community College, why every advert on ITV was for throat lozenges and the forgotten martial art of 'being interested in helicopters', and what does any of this have to do with The Simon And Simon Annual 1983? 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 Mark on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Iron Man 2 here.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. No, they did not fork out for the rights to use that café where Peter used to take Mary Jane and/or Gwen. Or Mary Jane. Or Gwen.
Aug 19
33 min

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 taking a look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day from 2026, and joining Tim for a chat about Frank Castle challenging Peter and MJ to the world's worst reboot of Now Get Out Of That! is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about Mike Mills' crime spree, Marisa Tomei's mastery of Someone Who's Not The Back Of Natalie Portman's Head acting and whether Dave Rowntree would make a good Blade, and what does any of this have to do with Bob Holness playing the saxophone on the soundtrack of X-Men: Dark Phoenix? 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, Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here and The Fantastic Four: First Steps here, and standing in as host for a 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. You can always use the coffee cup to help you remember to, erm, buy the coffee in the first place.
Aug 6
28 min

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 The Punisher: One Last Kill from 2017, and joining Tim for a chat about The Punisher resolutely failing to turn up whenever anyone could actually have done with his help is writer Andy Miller. What will they find to say about Frank Castle putting his address down as 'some rooftops', how useful Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young would be against The Hand and the optimal defensive pose to assume when confronted by both militant Iron Fist deniers and hardliners, and what does any of this have to do with Sacha Dhawan auditioning for The Monkees? Get listening and find out!You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Careful how you phrase that in your letter to Claire Temple though.
Aug 2
52 min

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 The Punisher: One Last Kill from 2026, and joining Tim for a chat about Frank Castle going for a stroll around the block only with more hooting is writer Mic Wright. What will they find to say about Chekhov's Dead Dog, Marvel Special Presentation: Bloke In Striped Jerkin and Stoppit And Tidyup: War Journal, and what does any of this have to do with the importance of Hoot Noise Graphing? 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 Mic on The Punisher here, Thor: Ragnarok here, Ironheart here, Logan here, The New Mutants here, X-Men '97 here, the X-Men animated series Christmas Special Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas here, Fant4stic here and Kraven The Hunter here.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not so many that you hallucinate and then entirely forget about some bloke who may or may not be Luke Cage in an adjoining cell, please.
Jun 9
20 min

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 Eyes Of Wakanda from 2025, and joining Tim for a chat about the Hatut Zeraze very gradually recovering a very small quantity of Vibranium is podcaster Al Kennedy. What will they find to say about Sharon Carter: The Non-Animated Animated Adventures, how useful Prince Edward would prove in Wakanda and how many Iron Fists would be officially permitted to appear in Eyes Of K'un-Lun, and what does any of this have to do with the narrative feasibility of a 13th Century BC Baseball Star? 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 season two of What If...? here, season three of What If...? here and the Silver Surfer animated series here.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. You may have to retrieve it from Jorani, of course, so I cannot accept any legal responsibility for any ensuing Iron Fist/face interface.
May 16
23 min

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 Wonder Man from 2026, and David Smith is standing in as host for a chat with Tim about Simon Williams possibly taking the idea of 'playing' Wonder Man on the playground a little too far. What will they find to say about whether the MCU needs more condiment-based powers, how to play the world's worst game of Snap using Josh Gad and whether The Avengers will ever have any need to call on Alanis Morissette for help, and what does any of this have to do with Bart Simpson's desperation to find a darkforce-derived catchphrase? 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 David on It’s Good, Except It Sucks with a three-part look at Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. here, here and here, as well as Black Widow here, Moon Knight here, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever here, Thunderbolts* here, X-Men: First Class here, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse here, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse here, Venom: The Last Dance here and Nick Fury – Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. here.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Do not send Trevor Slattery to Roy's Rolls.
Feb 25
54 min

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 Spider-Man: No Way Home from 2021, and joining Tim for a chat about Doctor Strange inadvertently presenting compelling evidence why he is no longer Sorcerer Supreme is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about a Blue VHS Duane Dibley, the acceptability of 'Len' as a supervillain's real name and how to harness the power of slightly getting between people's toes for evil, and what does any of this have to do with which is more likely to get you cancelled out of fantasising about a Spider-Cavill and a Dunstverine? 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 Deadpool here, Deadpool 2 here, Deadpool And Wolverine here, Avengers Assemble here, Avengers: Infinity War here, Avengers: Endgame 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. Just don't mention our comments about the doughnut shop to any passing libel lawyers.
Dec 23, 2025
54 min

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 Ironheart from 2025, and joining Tim for a chat about Riri Williams finding herself having to choose between The Hood and The Hood is writer Mic Wright. What will they find to say about the feasibility of a Thousand Dollar Bills Down Back Of Sofa Detecting Machine, the 'Dark Universe' Dean Pelton and Mephisto's professional opinion on The Art Of The Deal, and what does any of this have to do with accidentally cancelling that long-awaited Tigra series? 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 Mic on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about The Punisher here, Thor: Ragnarok here, The Punisher: One Last Kill here, Logan here, The New Mutants here, X-Men '97 here, the X-Men animated series Christmas Special Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas here, Fant4stic here and Kraven The Hunter here. There's also more on Riri Williams with David Smith on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever here.If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Do not sit in the same booth as Sacha Baron Cohen.
Nov 4, 2025
25 min

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 Deadpool And Wolverine from 2024, and joining Tim for a chat about Wade Wilson managing to avoid teaming up with the Nick Knowlesrine by mistake is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about using the Multiverse to hide from Richard Curtis films, Elektra's Bumble profile and whether or not you can be 'cancelled' for closely studying Henry Cavill's shoulders, and what does any of this have to do with a Two Ronnies sketch gone feral? 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 Deadpool here, Deadpool 2 here, Avengers Assemble here, Avengers: Infinity War here, Avengers: Endgame here, Spider-Man: No Way Home 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. There probably is a Baristapool amongst all of that lot, but even so it might well be advisable to avoid him.
Oct 10, 2025
44 min
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