It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Spider-Man: Brand New Day With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

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 Yelena Belova demonstrating why she should never be counted on to keep an eye on a grocery store is writer Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about Peter Numeration issues, Pietro Maximoff’s foolproof escape plan and who would make the best sidekick out of Spider-Cat and MASSIVE PEGGY, and what does any of this have to do with Alison Bechdel singing Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Gabby on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Loki here and here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here, Deadpool And Wolverine here, The Fantastic Four: First Steps here and X-Men: X2 here.

There’s another look at Spider-Man: Brand New Day with Garreth Hirons here. There’s also more on Peter Parker and company with Anna Cale on Spider-Man: Homecoming 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.

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. You can also find Gabby on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Press Gang here.