It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Brand New Day With Garreth Hirons

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 taking a look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day from 2026, and joining Tim for a chat about Frank Castle challenging Peter and MJ to the world’s worst reboot of Now Get Out Of That! is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about Mike Mills’ crime spree, Marisa Tomei’s mastery of Someone Who’s Not The Back Of Natalie Portman’s Head acting and whether Dave Rowntree would make a good Blade, and what does any of this have to do with Bob Holness playing the saxophone on the soundtrack of X-Men: Dark Phoenix? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here, Thor: Ragnarok here and The Fantastic Four: First Steps here, and standing in as host for a chat with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

There’s more on Peter Parker and company with Anna Cale on Spider-Man: Homecoming here, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on Spider-Man: Far From Home here and Spider-Man: No Way Home here, and Joanne Sheppard on Spider-Man: No Way Home here. Mic Wright joined us for a chat about Frank Castle’s previous punishing in The Punisher here and The Punisher: One Last Kill here, and Yelena Belova took centre stage in Black Widow with David Smith here and Miriam Kent here, Hawkeye with Vikki Gregorich here and Thunderbolts* with David Smith here.

Garreth has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch, and Fun At The Funeral Parlour here, The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Nirvana spinoff band Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and early eighties soft drink Quatro here, Copper Blue by Sugar, the Crusader Nuts advert, The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum, Too Sussed? by These Animal Men, Spring 1994 EP by S*M*A*S*H and Ghoulies Horror Bar here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here. You can also find Garreth on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Trap Door here.