It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Luke Cage With Jim Sangster

Luke Cage (Netflix, 2016-18) - Jim Sangster joins Tim Worthington for a chat about the only superhero with his own official app 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 Luke Cage, first seen in 2016, and joining Tim to talk about the only superhero with his own official app is writer Jim Sangster. What will they find to say about how to tell whether a shirt is ‘fly’ or ‘superfly’, the relative merits of The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest and the long-term cultural influence of Redhead Kingpin And The F.B.I., and what does any of this have to do with Bobby Farrell out of Boney M? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can find It’s Good, Except It Sucks tackling The Defenders Saga with Gary Bainbridge on Daredevil here, Miriam Kent on Jessica Jones here, Paul Abbott on Iron Fist here, Tim Worthington on The Defenders here and Mic Wright on The Punisher here. You can also find Jim talking about the Marvel One-Shots on It’s Good, Except It Sucks here.

Jim has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about A Small Problem, The Ballad Of Lady Di by The Hon. Nick Jones and Ian Macrae, They Came From Somewhere Else, Worlds Beyond, Spice World for the PlayStation and Rubovia, which you can find here.