It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Captain America: The Winter Soldier With Stephen O’Brien

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - Stephen O'Brien joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Black Widow adopting the cunning disguise of 'a hoodie' to fight an old computer in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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 Captain America: The Winter Soldier from 2014, and joining Tim for a chat about Black Widow adopting the cunning disguise of ‘a hoodie’ to fight an old computer is writer Stephen O’Brien. What will they find to say about The Robert Redford Seal Of Approval, the warning signs of a potential kick-off in a lift and whether the late seventies Captain America films were preferable to a blank screen, and what does any of this have to do with realising Alan Dale’s in a film before Alan Dale does? Get listening and find out!

You can follow Stephen on Twitter at @stephenobrien.

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Further Listening

Stephen also joined us for a chat about The Falcon And The Winter Soldier here. You can find Melanie Williams on Captain America: The First Avenger here and Mitch Benn on Captain America: Civil War here.

Stephen has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Office (the Steven Moffat one), LM magazine, You Can Do The Cube, Brilliant (the band), The Beachcombers and other last-minute ITV emergency schedule replacement standbys and The Morecambe And Wise Board Game here and about what it was like to watch The Box Of Delights on its original broadcast here.