Avengers: Endgame With Joanne Sheppard

April 23, 2024

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, 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

Avengers: Infinity War With Joanne Sheppard

September 9, 2023

This time it’s Avengers: Infinity War from 2018, and joining Tim for a chat about Thanos' slightly over-cautious plan for avoiding paying half of the restaurant bill is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about Superhero Erectile Dysfunction, whether Ronnie O'Sullivan got snapped and the Eighties Action Movie Niles And Frasier, and what does any of this have to do with The Infinity Meltis Newberry Fruits? 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, 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. Wong might even have enough change for one by now. Possibly even in the correct currency too.

Avengers Assemble With Joanne Sheppard

September 12, 2022

This time we're taking another look at Avengers Assemble from 2012, and joining Tim for a chat about Loki's complete failure to understand what Doc Brown was actually up to at the Clock Tower is book reviewer Joanne Sheppard. What will they find to say about The Hipsters' Avenger, how to fight off an alien army with a red petticoat and why cinema needs more pirates with mechanical hands, and what does any of this have to do with an organised tour of the S.H.I.E.L.D. canteen? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except it Sucks at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Let's see if Tony Stark unconvincingly pretends he's never tried coffee too.

036 - Avengers: Endgame With Ben Baker

January 13, 2021

This time it’s Avengers: Endgame from 2019, and joining Tim to talk about the aftermath of Thanos’ plan to leave everyone arguing over whether Die Hard is a time travel movie is writer and quizmaster Ben Baker. What will they find to say about the importance of Ftone Clearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what Ken Loach’s problem is with a CGI racoon holding hands with a blue-faced Scottish woman and why so many superheroes have children who are older than them, and what does any of this have to do with Not Natalie Portman’s Head? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It’s Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Just don't drink one in the 'Loading Bay' or Nebula and Rhodey will get annoyed.

034 - Avengers: Infinity War (Part Two)

November 22, 2020

This time it’s the second part of our look at Avengers: Infinity War from 2018, and joining Tim for a chat about Thanos giving The Avengers the ultimate half price concession is writer Martin Ruddock. What will they find to say about whether it’s appropriate to describe Eitri The Dwarf as a ‘broken man’, Doctor Strange re-enacting the Ebeneezer Goode video and the answer to that all-important question ‘Whither Dominic Fortune?’, and what does any of this have to do with the Argos Catalogue? 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 Part One of Martin's look at Avengers: Infinity War here and his thoughts on What If...? here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably one that you'd need a mug forged at Nidavellir for.

031 - Avengers: Infinity War (Part One) With Martin Ruddock

October 2, 2020

This time it’s Avengers: Infinity War from 2018, and joining Tim for a chat about Iron Man, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange re-enacting Three Men In A Boat in space is writer Martin Ruddock. What will they find to say about how many decimal points Loki is evil to, how much longer Iron Fist can make a film and whether Vision is afraid of telephone directories, and what does any of this have to do with Space Norman Tebbit? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can find the second part of Martin's look at Avengers: Infinity War here and he also joined It's Good, Except It Sucks for a chat about What If...? here

Alternately, if you’re just feeling generous, you can buy me a coffee here. Make sure it's sufficiently strong that Vision urges Wanda to 'save' herself.

019 - Captain America: Civil War With Mitch Benn

July 12, 2020

This time it’s Captain America: Civil War from 2016, and joining Tim for a chat about Earth's Mightiest Heroes having a bit of a shoving match in an airport car park is comedian and musician Mitch Benn. What will they find to say about Scarlet Witch throwing a building at Donald Trump, the parts of the original Civil War comic that they couldn't do in a blockbuster movie and Spider-Man finally gaining the spider-inability to shut up, and what does any of this have to do with 'Spider-Dad'? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks you can buy me a coffee here. If it's one that's been expanded with one of Ant-Man's giant-size disc things then all the better frankly.

016 - Avengers: Age Of Ultron With Garreth Hirons

June 19, 2020

This time it’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron from 2015, and joining Tim to talk about the race to stop two stroppy teenagers and a mardy robot who's swallowed a dictionary from getting their hands on some metal is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about how fast a 'slacker' can realistically run, whether movies can ever be enlivened by a screeching match and Little Richard's little-known stint as a comic book writer, and what does any of this have to do with a philosophical cultured robot going 'RAAAAAAA'? 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 Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: Ragnarok here, Venom here and Venom: Let There Be Carnage here,

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably one that lasts for as long as that bit with Hawkeye's family does.

012 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier With Stephen O'Brien

April 14, 2020

This time it’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier from 2014, and joining Tim for a chat about Black Widow adopting the cunning disguise of 'a hoodie' to fight an old computer is writer Stephen O'Brien. What will they find to say about The Robert Redford Seal Of Approval, the warning signs of a potential kick-off in a lift and whether the late seventies Captain America films were preferable to a blank screen, and what does any of this have to do with realising Alan Dale's in a film before Alan Dale does? 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 Stephen on The Falcon And The Winter Soldier here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. You could even do Black Widow's 'vending machine' escape manoeuvre while you're at it.

006 - Avengers Assemble With Mark Griffiths

March 7, 2020

This time it’s Avengers Assemble from 2012, and joining Tim to chat about Iron Man, The Hulk, Black Widow, Thor, Hawkeye and Captain America teaming up to order some shawarma is writer Mark Griffiths. What will they find to say about The Hulk's repertoire of 'zingers', the Studio 54 Avengers, and a big spreadsheet linking Ant-Man and some chips, and what does any of this have to do with Raymond Burr acting as a translator for Godzilla? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It’s Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org.

If you enjoy It’s Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. They probably do coffee at Shawarma Palace. Possibly. Depending on what shawarma actually is.

005 - Captain America: The First Avenger With Melanie Williams

March 3, 2020

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 Captain America: The First Avenger from 2011, and joining Tim for a chat about Steve Rogers winning the Second World War by himself on his own of his own accord is film historian Melanie Williams. What will they find to say about the Things Buried In Ice Cinematic Universe, a half-dressed Robert Downey Jr. confiscating phones and which of them gets to go on a date with Hayley Atwell, and what does any of this have to do with an 'Embuffening Machine'? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, why not support the show buy buying us a coffee here? I wouldn't advise using The Tesseract to heat it though.