Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!
Across the Spider-Verse is probably our most anticipated movie this summer!
Summer is almost here, and there's no shortage of amazing books, movies and TV shows to read by the pool. (Or wherever you consume your entertainment. We don't judge.) How can you make sense of all these options? We have you covered. Here's our totally correct guide to all the best science fiction and fantasy to check out!
Notes, citations & etc.
By our count, there are fourteen movies this summer that are sequels, remakes or otherwise making use of existing IP. Here’s a list. And another. And another.
We’re excited for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!
Plus the Barbie movie directed by Greta Gerwig, featuring Margot Robbie
The Haunted Mansion is directed by Justin Simien, creator of Dear White People
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City looks kind of amazingly goofy
Also, Blue Beetle! Featuring a Latino superhero who gets a scarab from space…
Meanwhile, we can’t wait for season two of the genre-blurring The Afterparty
And season two of Heartstopper, our favorite gay romance
We’re already digging Muppets Mayhem, featuring the coolest band in the muppet-verse
Also, the wonderful Boots Riley has a TV show: I’m a Virgo
Also, Strange New Worlds! The Witcher! Secret Invasion! Ahsoka! The animated Frog and Toad show!
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose is one of our favorite new books
We also love Counterweight by Djuna
Also! He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
We are over the moon about The Blue Beautiful World by Karen Lord
We can’t wait for Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Other books we’re pumped for: Translation State by Ann Leckie, Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs, The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon, The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang and The Endless Vessel by Charles Soule
Slate warned us that Peak TV is over and we’re at the start of Trough TV
A recent article in the Hollywood Reporter talks about a return to “white man with a gun” television shows