It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The Marvels With Anna Cale

The Marvels (2023) - Anna Cale joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan joining forces to sychronise their paper fold out fortune teller thing-making abilities 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 The Marvels from 2023, and joining Tim for a chat about Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers and Kamala Khan joining forces to synchronise their paper fold out fortune teller thing-making abilities is writer Anna Cale. What will they find to say about the Inhuman Kim Kardashian, whether cats are funnier on the big screen or on television and the importance of Secret Dancing to defeating rogue Kree, and what does any of this have to do with Graham Norton’s position in the Multiverse? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Anna on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Captain Marvel here and Spider-Man: Homecoming here as well as Una McCormack on The Marvels here, Captain Marvel here and Ms. Marvel here, Martin Ruddock on Secret Invasion here and Hanna Flint on WandaVision here, as well as Miriam Kent on Yusuf Khan’s return in Daredevil: Born Again here.

Anna has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about the Neighbours sticker album, Wendy Cracked A Walnut, Rogue, Sosmix, Secrets Of The Sea and the Shackleton’s High Seat Chairs advert here, Sport Billy, Silly Games by Lindy Layton, Joni Jones, The Girl In The Picture, Return To Eden, The Incredible Hulk Smash-Up Action Game, Trev And Simon’s Stupid Video and Dors’ Dozen here, and Dooby Duck’s Disco Bus, Grange Hill‘s Ronnie Birtles’ shoplifting storyline, Ken Loach’s McDonald’s advert, Nelson’s Column, The Doberman Gang, ‘Hair Jewels’ and 31 Days In May here. You can also find Anna on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Press Gang here.