It's Good, Except It Sucks

Avengers: Endgame With Joanne Sheppard

It's Good, Except It Sucks

Show Notes

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 Avengers: Endgame from 2019, and joining Tim for a chat about Ant-Man's determination to restore Universal balance and bring back correctly-sized sandwiches is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about Chekhov's Blow-Wave, the practicality of banishing right-wing 'opinion-makers' to Corby and what exactly Valkyrie is doing on the set of Hamish Macbeth, and what does any of this have to do with Rocket Racoon's career prospects as a football mascot? Get listening and find out! You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Joanne on Avengers Assemble here, Avengers: Infinity War here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here, Deadpool here, Deadpool 2 here, Deadpool And Wolverine here, Blade II here and Blade: Trinity here. If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Get The Hulk to deliver it so that somehow when it gets handed to you it physics-defyingly mysteriously becomes much bigger.

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