It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Captain America: Brave New World With Gary Bainbridge

Captain America: Brave New World (2025) - Gary Bainbridge joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Sam Wilson finding that some politicians are literally hiding their true colours 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: Brave New World from 2025, and joining Tim for a chat about Sam Wilson finding that some politicians are literally hiding their true colours is writer Gary Bainbridge. What will they find to say about ‘Wibbly Wobbly Multiversey Wimey’, a gamma-infused Carol Leader and whether a film can be improved by the addition of a character called ‘Man In Clothes’, and what does any of this have to do with Kang The Conqueror being replaced by Norman Price? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

Gary has also appeared on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about The Incredible Hulk here and Daredevil here as well as the seventies television iterations of The Incredible Hulk here, Captain America here, The Amazing Spider-Man here and Dr. Strange here. You can find Stephen O’Brien on The Falcon And The Winter Soldier here and there’s more Hulked-out action with Miriam Kent on She-Hulk: Attorney At Law here, more on the origin of that big massive hand with Miriam on Eternals here and more on the original man behind the shield with Melanie Williams on Captain America: The First Avenger here, Stephen O’Brien on Captain America: The Winter Soldier here and Mitch Benn on Captain America: Civil War here.

Gary has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about Coast To Coast, Deadly Boring, Supersonic Man, Audisee’s The War Of The Worlds, Limp-Along Leslie, That Look In Your Eye by Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks, Ace Reports Annual 1981 and Unbranded Soluble Cola Tablets here and Googi The Liverpool Duck, Big Bubbles, No Troubles by Ellis Beggs And Howard, Derry Daring, Bugs Bunny In Space, The London Connection, Cliff Richard’s dance record as ‘Black Knight’, DJ Spuddles Original Gourmet Fries, The Shinsei Miracle and Shut Yer Gob by Lee Brennan here.