It’s Good, Except It Sucks: X-Men: X2 With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

X-Men: X2 (2003) - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch joins Tim Worthington for a chat about a huge big academy of superpowered teenagers running away from the military instead of actually bothering to use their powers 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 we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at X-Men: X2, released in 2003, and joining Tim for a chat about a huge big academy of superpowered teenagers running away from the military instead of actually bothering to use their powers is writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about Chekhov’s Dam, Alan Cumming’s acclaimed turn in I Am In A Thing On BBC Four and Mozart’s latest TikTok banger, and what does any of this have to do with The Freeserve X-Men? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Gabby on It’s Good, Except It Sucks chatting about Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here and Loki here and here. There’s more X-Men related chat with David Smith on X-Men: First Class here, Mic Wright on Logan here, Emma Burnell on Deadpool here, Phil Catterall on Deadpool 2 here and Mic on the Christmas Special of the X-Men animated series here.

Gabby has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about Parallel 9, The Llŷn Peninsula Earthquake, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Discworld Noir, Feed The Tree by Belly and Craic here, Mr. Men Songs, Monkey Dust, the unmade final episode of Dungeons And Dragons, TimeSplitters 2, They Might Be Giants’ Friday Night Family Podcast and Hard Candy Nail Polish here and Cricklewood by The Goodies, Harry Hill’s Fruit Fancies, The American Adventure, L.A. Noire, Wella Shaders And Toners and her School Ghost ‘Catherine’ here.