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.

044 - What If...? With Martin Ruddock

November 20, 2021

This time it’s What If…?, first seen in 2021, and joining Tim for a chat about a mindbending glimpse of alternate realities where everyone is different except Hawkeye is writer Martin Ruddock. What will they find to say about the Rory Off Doctor Who As Iron Man Universe, the Martin Freeman Looking At His Watch Universe and the The Beatles Release Carnival Of Light Universe, and what does any of this have to do with the Karen Gillan Made Out Of Lines Universe? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. Martin also joined us on It's Good, Except It Sucks for a two-part chat about Avengers: Infinity War; you can find Part One here and Part Two here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not decaf, though. This isn't the Multiverse.

040 - WandaVision With Hanna Flint

April 19, 2021

This time it’s WandaVision, first seen in 2021, and joining Tim for a chat about Wanda Maximoff trying not to reference Hangin' With Mr. Cooper by mistake is film and television critic, Hanna Flint. What will they find to say about Monica Rambeau's hair as a barometer of social evolution, how to determine if something is but isn't but is a Multiverse and whether The Munsters Today should ever be mentioned in polite society under any circumstances, and what does any of this have to do with Reed Richards guesting on the new Taylor Swift album? 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 Hanna on It's Good, Except It Sucks talking about Agent Carter here.

If you enjoy It’s Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Not any of the coffees from Wanda's freaky commercials though.

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.