It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Black Widow With Miriam Kent

Black Widow (2021) - Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her 'eating stale biscuits' conditioning 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 Black Widow from 2021, and joining Tim for a chat about Yelena Belova not quite managing to break her ‘eating stale biscuits’ conditioning is academic Miriam Kent. What will they find to say about whether men are more upset by female-fronted action movies if they have Nirvana songs in them, Scarlett Johansson’s butt being the butt of butt jokes about Scarlett Johansson’s butt and the unmade epic Shang-Chi Kicks The Multiverse, and what does any of this have to do with The Apocalyptic Two Ronnies? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Miriam on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Jessica Jones here, Runaways here, Eternals here, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law here, Daredevil: Born Again here and the 1989 big screen version of The Punisher here. David Smith joined us for a another chat about Black Widow here and there’s more on Yelena Belova’s further adventures with Vikki Gregorich on Hawkeye here and David on Thunderbolts* here. You can also find more on what ostensibly happened on either side of Black Widow timeline-wise with Mitch Benn on Captain America: Civil War here, Martin Ruddock on Avengers: Infinity War here and here and Joanne Sheppard on Avengers: Infinity War here.