Avengers: Endgame With Joanne Sheppard

April 23, 2024

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, 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.

058 - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.3 With Paul Abbott

July 1, 2023

This time it’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 from 2023, and joining Tim for a chat about the crew of The Bowie having their post-Christmas slump interrupted by a Golden Idiot is musician Paul Abbott. What will they find to say about whether it's possible to have a 'bad' version of The Punisher, why all good villains come from Failsworth and the enduring artistic legacy of BBC Three's I Am Not An Animal, and what does any of this have to do with David Tennant singing Free As A Bird? 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 Paul on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Thor: The Dark World here and Iron Fist here.

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 let that High Evolutonary jerk anywhere near any Arabica plants

056 - The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special With Tim Worthington

December 22, 2022

This time it’s The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special from 2022, and David Smith is standing in as host for a chat with Tim about Mantis confusing The Twelve Days Of Christmas with Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon. What will they find to say about how many billions of Avatar sequels are in production at any one time, how to measure 'canon' using some C3P0 soap on a rope and how many of Peter Quill's exes can be lost in the corridors of one spaceship, and what does any of this have to do with Drax replacing Joey in Friends? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. David has also joined us on It’s Good, Except It Sucks for a three-part look at Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. here, here and here, as well as Black Widow here, Moon Knight here, X-Men: First Class here, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse here and Nick Fury – Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. here. You can also find Tim as the guest talking about Guardians Of The Galaxy here, Ant-Man And The Wasp here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Drax probably has a personal vendetta against Caffè Ritazza so it might be advisable to keep it out of his sight.

052 - Thor: Love And Thunder With Catrin Lowe

September 4, 2022

This time it’s Thor: Love And Thunder from 2022, and joining Tim for a chat about Jane Foster putting a new spin on asking your ex for your stuff back is writer Catrin Lowe. What will they find to say about Natalie Portman's secret Salon Selectives sponsorship deal, how and why MC Hammer should be brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how to orchestrate better PR for uncles, and what does any of this have to do with Catrin The Walnut Brownie Butcher? 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. Without a Walnut Brownie, obviously.

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.

013 - Guardians Of The Galaxy With Tim Worthington

June 6, 2020

This time it’s Guardians Of The Galaxy from 2014, and this time Tim's joining Phil Catterall to talk about the most blows traded over a not exactly top of the range Walkman in the cosmos. What will they find to say about Scott Pilgrim's Weather Forecasting skills, how to fit a Kree into a drawer and Groot and Jimmy Woo's smackdown with Sleet-o (The Living Sleet), and what does any of this have to do with how often the Defenders Of The Earth fell over? 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 us put more of this liquid into our bodies' indeed.