Genre TV, roasted at franchise speed.
Boars, Gore, and Swords treats fantasy, superhero, sci-fi, detective, and streaming-series television as material for sharp comic autopsy. Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez move fast, mixing recap with actor riffs, franchise fatigue, canon jokes, platform complaints, and sudden detours into politics, games, travel, or extremely specific production grievances.
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Boars, Gore, and Swords is a genre-TV recap show built around speed, skepticism, and oddly precise affection. Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez cover the kind of television that arrives with lore, budget, brand management, and at least one character who should not survive the franchise machine. The show’s recent range is broader than a simple Marvel lane. It moves from Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord to Daredevil: Born Again, Fallout, Scarpetta, Young Sherlock, Detective Hole, Wonder Man, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. That spread matters. The show is less interested in one universe than in how modern genre television keeps recycling prestige tone, franchise logic, short-season structure, and familiar IP with different costumes on. A recap beat might start with a lightsaber entrance and land on the comedy of credits as currency. A Daredevil scene becomes a mock-serious argument about Catholic superheroes, megachurch staging, New York as a character, and Kingpin’s refusal to leave the narrative. Fallout opens the door to old game references, management bunkers, mind-control chips, and the fact that genre seasons seem to stop at episode eight. A Norwegian detective series becomes an excuse to talk about cold countries, streaming trash, class dynamics, and why the murder count in TV Norway feels statistically rude. Young Sherlock gets processed as another young-version prequel and as a test case in awkward action staging. Scarpetta is measured against medical-examiner melodrama, Nicole Kidman’s television era, and the haunted feeling of entering a long-running book franchise sideways. Wonder Man brings in Alexandria Love for a more comics-forward conversation about the state of the MCU and strange casting decisions. The rhythm is quick but not empty. Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez keep turning small details into major comic events: a bad helmet, a tiny robot, a pair of broken glasses, a production workaround, a character’s limp, or a streaming platform’s aura of defeat. The show works because the jokes come from actually watching closely. It is affectionate without being reverent. It is cranky without being bored. It is best for listeners who want genre television taken seriously enough to be mocked properly.
Made for: For genre-TV viewers who already know the franchises, notice production shortcuts, and prefer sharp banter to reverent recap. It especially fits listeners who like comics, fantasy, sci-fi, prestige-adjacent streaming shows, and jokes that assume the room can keep up.
What sets it apart: The show turns recap into high-speed comic criticism, using tiny plot and production details as leverage against much bigger franchise habits. It can praise a Darth Maul entrance or a Game of Thrones epilogue while still treating the surrounding machinery as fair game.
Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott break down every episode of Watchmen, Game of Thrones, Westworld, Counterpart, Lovecraft Country, WandaVision, and now Loki. For questions, rants, and praise, follow us on twitter at @boarsgoreswords.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Incisive scene-level criticism and unruly comic digressions turn franchise television recaps into candid arguments about craft, adaptation, and storytelling.
Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez turn television recaps into loose, funny arguments about why a scene works, why a franchise keeps repeating itself, and when expensive production cannot rescue weak material.
An astronaut-watch tangent interrupts Darth Maul before you've even reached the lightsaber.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Maul episode that turns robot legs and unmarked credits into comic Star Wars evidence.
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord gives Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez plenty of odd machinery to poke at: a spinning lightsaber, credits with no obvious denominations, and a tiny spy robot that loses some charm once it starts speaking English.
A Norwegian crime review that keeps slipping into a sharper story about Sweden, drinks, and bad naming.
Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez turn Detective Hole into something larger than a genre takedown, keeping Norwegian crime tied to climate, tone, and the odd dignity of a joke that lands a little sideways.
A Sherlock riff that turns bad action, pricey glasses, and Guy Ritchie's career arc into running jokes.
Young Sherlock is framed as an easy, stupid watch, and Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez lean into that posture from the start. They keep swatting at Guy Ritchie's career arc, poking fun at the young-version branding, and circling the absurdity of Case of the Missing Scrolls.
A wind-down episode becomes a brisk, ridiculous debate about plot, character, and fantasy family politics.
A Night of the Nine Kingdoms 1x06 turns its wind-down into the joke. The hosts frame the installment as a perfectly serviceable epilogue, then keep poking at the oddity of a six-episode season spending so much room on release valves and loose ends.
A melee recap that turns knightly romance into a filthy road fight.
This episode has a clear, sharp point of view. It keeps circling back to a knight's entrance, then strips away the romance of medieval fantasy and pushes the conversation toward the bruising logic of organized combat, where the advice is to get up, get out, and brace for a mace.
A loose, profane vampire-TV rave that finds comic life in the show's strangest turns.
Interview with the Vampire gives Boars, Gore, and Swords a rich, pliable target: a series where the actors are asked to cry, soft-shoe, and have sex with a vampire, all without losing the emotional thread.
An Andor recap that turns alien politics, loose plotting, and one bad name into sharp franchise criticism.
Boars Goin' Swords frames Andor's return as both a feat of Star Wars world-building and an open invitation for Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez to puncture anything that starts looking too solemn.
Fan memory meets superhero screen critique.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
The hosts discuss the Stephen King universe, focusing on IT and Pennywise, while humorously debating whether the clown could survive in Northern Ireland.
This podcast episode discusses the TV show Severance, focusing on episode 2x07, including character name pronunciations and director details.
The hosts discuss corporate advertising tie-ins with the show Severance and share thoughts on the movie Wicked and Ariana Grande's performance.
This episode discusses the brand biopic 'House of Guinness' and its connections to Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, with humorous banter about Irish accents and personal anecdotes.
Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez review the AMC series adaptation of Interview with the Vampire.
Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez review the first two episodes of 'Andor' Season 2 on their podcast 'Boars, Gore, and Swords'.
Boars, Gore, and Swords spends this episode on Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, with Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez framing the series as a new Darth Maul story.
It starts with Hagar the Horrible.
The hosts discuss the new season of Daredevil: Born Again, focusing on Kingpin's return, the show's New York setting, and the religious themes surrounding Daredevil's character.
This podcast episode reviews and discusses the eighth episode of Fallout season 2, covering key plot points and themes from the show.
This episode humorously critiques the Prime Video series 'Scarpetta' and related streaming content, focusing on Nicole Kidman's career shift and comparisons to shows like Mindhunter.
They open on Young Sherlock, series one, episode one, Case of the Missing Scrolls.
The hosts discuss the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Wonder Man and creative decisions like casting Robert Downey Jr.
["Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez recap AKOTSK 1x06: One Nice Foot as a falling-action episode built around injuries, funerals, and a final ride on Sweetfoot.
Red Scott and Ivan Hernandez open by saying a knight's entrance ranks among the greatest in the franchise.