Explosion Network
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Screen culture with the polish left off.
What Do You Wanna Watch? treats film, TV, trailers, awards, and media controversy as one messy weekly conversation. It moves quickly from watch-history check-ins to blunt reviews, news tangents, and dry jokes about whatever screen culture is currently making strange.
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What Do You Wanna Watch? is a brisk screen-culture podcast about movies, television, trailers, awards, and the online arguments orbiting all of them. It has the shape of a weekly media catch-up, but the texture is looser and more conversational than a straight review show. Episodes tend to open with a topical question, then slide into watch history, news, rankings, trailer reactions, and longer reactions to whatever has recently landed. The show likes context. A film is rarely just a film here; it is also marketing timing, fan expectation, distribution choice, franchise fatigue, casting discourse, and whatever people are yelling about online. Recent conversations move through CinemaCon, the Academy Awards, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Euphoria, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Malcolm in the Middle, Stranger Things on Blu-ray, and Val Kilmer-related AI performance questions. That range gives the show a useful scattershot energy. It can spend time on a specific plot setup, then suddenly turn toward streaming rights, physical media, social platforms, or why a release feels engineered for outrage. Reviews are personal and direct. The tone is rarely polished, and that is part of the point. It feels like informed pub-table criticism: fast, digressive, occasionally irritated, and more interested in whether something works than in sounding pristine. The show also pays attention to the uglier machinery around entertainment, including crew safety, labor issues, toxic fandom, political pressure, documentary ethics, and the commercial recycling of old properties. It is not afraid of side roads. Those side roads often become the best part, because they show how much viewing culture now happens before and after the actual viewing. For listeners who follow film and TV news closely, the references come fast. For more casual listeners, the show still works as a sharp weekly scan of what is being released, revived, argued over, or quietly dumped onto a platform. Its personality sits between recap, reaction, and industry-side grumbling. The result is lively media talk with enough mess left in to feel human.
Made for: For film and TV followers who like reviews mixed with news, trailer talk, awards chatter, and online-media context. It suits listeners who prefer blunt, casual conversation over tidy critic monologues.
What sets it apart: The show treats the discourse around movies and TV as part of the viewing experience itself. Marketing choices, fan reactions, streaming habits, labor stories, and franchise politics sit right beside the reviews.
The Explosion Network’s premier media podcast. Join Ashley Hobley and Dylan Blight every week to discuss all the current news in TV, film and online media.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ashley Hobley and Dylan Blight turn watch histories, release reactions and industry news into a lively guide through film and television's weekly churn.
Ashley Hobley and Dylan Blight build each conversation around what they have watched, then widen the frame to casting news, studio decisions, trailers and awards predictions.
Ashley Hobley pitches movie news to Dylan Blight for an investment verdict; your watchlist gets audited.
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A rambling but sharp take on CinemaCon chatter and a revival that still knows its own shape.
The episode opens on CinemaCon chatter and then settles into the Malcolm in the Middle revival setup. It works best when it leans on memory and instinct instead of trailer talk, and it gets the family chaos, the fourth wall gag, Leah's central role, and the joke about Malcolm's…
A brisk, conversational hangout that turns a throwaway remark into a wider conversation about culture and internet overreaction.
The episode starts with Timothee Chalamet's offhand remark about opera and ballet, then watches the internet do what it does best and turn it into a whole thing.
Loose screen talk that moves from Scream 7 to box-office oddities and awards-week censorship debate.
The episode starts with Scream 7 and then keeps bouncing through box-office oddities, watch-history chatter, an advanced screening of Sony Pictures Animation's Goat, and the usual run of film news, top three picks, and trailer thumbs. What makes it work is the loose pace.
A loose, blunt episode that works best when it follows the hosts' own viewing habits.
What Do You Want to Watch? starts with a sharp question about whether a posthumous interview is fair game or too personal, then turns toward the hosts' year-end viewing totals and the shows and films they spent the most time on.
A scrappy, conversational tour through a divisive Wuthering Heights reaction and the week's most watchable industry chatter.
The episode keeps its loose, slightly messy rhythm, opening on a run of Australian stars and a debate about whether the film stakes are doing anything more than looking familiar.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Ash opens with loose CinemaCon chatter.
This episode discusses whether critics are too harsh on The Super Mario Galaxy movie and covers a news story about crew safety issues and a strike on a Jonathan Majors film produced by the Daily Wire.
This episode discusses upcoming media releases like Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings project, Harry Potter series controversies, and the Dune vs.
This episode discusses Netflix's release of Stranger Things on Blu-ray and speculates about Val Kilmer's upcoming AI-enabled performance.
This episode discusses reactions to the 98th Academy Awards, upcoming film news including trailers for Dune 3, and a review of the movie Project Hail Mary.
The episode kicks off with Timothee Chalamet's stray remark about opera and ballet, plus the online backlash it stirred.
It opens loose.
They open on a strange question.
Ash and Dylan open with a loose run through the week's movie and TV chatter.
Owen Llewelyn describes The R.I.P.
This episode discusses movies and TV content, including a debate about Rambo films and a review of a new film starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell.
This episode discusses whether the live-action adaptation of How To Train Your Dragon compares to the animated film, while also touching on the cancellation of the TV show The Project.
The hosts discuss recent movie purchases, including blu-rays and 4k releases like Drive and The Substance, sharing thoughts on deals and content.
This podcast is a spoiler-filled review and critique of The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 7 'Convergence', discussing its themes, comparisons to the video games, and the hosts' negative opinions on the season finale.