📺 The Media Guide S5E19

Welcome one, welcome all, to another edition of The Media Guide!

We have some incredible new shows, some solid new albums, some exciting new comics, and, well, we don't have to talk about the movies this week, do we...?

But we are happily accepting blatant bribes in the form of luxury jets if anyone wants to make a donation or gift us one of those so we can take this foofaraw show on the road, go say hi to our fellow Chicagoan over in the Vatican—and maybe pick up some Gene and Judes on the way over—even if he is a Sox fan...

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📺 New Shows

🤖 Murderbot S1 (Apple) — 15 May

This is one of the shows I've been looking forward to the most this year. I've read a couple of the Murderbot novellas by Martha Wells and they are superb—which reminds me, I need to find some time to read the rest since I already own them all... But I digress, Alexander Skarsgard stars as the titular Murderbot who has gained free will, doesn't care much about doing their job, and only wants to watch their soaps... it makes for super compelling—and funny—stories.

🧹 Duster S1 (HBO) — 15 May

I'm going into this one with no prior knowledge other than it's the first thing JJ Abrams is doing with HBO since signing a big exclusive deal. I don't even recognize any of the people in it besides Keith David, who I love. Josh Holloway is the main character and he was apparently in Lost as James Sawyer, but I never got into that...

🤔 Bad Thoughts S1 (Netflix) — 13 May

This is basically Tom Segura's version of I Think You Should Leave where he leads this skit comedy show that aligns much more with his dark and twisted humor versus Tim Robinson's cringey and absurd humor.

⚽ Welcome to Wrexham S4 (Hulu) — 15 May

A record setting third straight promotion for the boys in Wrexham and they are back for their fourth season to show us how it was done. While I still find Reynolds to be pretty grating, they've done a great job at introducing the players and characters in town to make it an enjoyable enough watch.

📝 What Else?

• Love, Death, & Robots S4 (Netflix)
• The Chi S7 (Paramount)
• Overcompensating S1 (Amazon)
• Tucci in Italy S1 (Hulu)
• Bet S1 (Netflix)

Tuesday

• The Studio (Apple) 1:9
• Government Cheese (Apple) 1:8
• Andor (Disney) 2:10-12
• Bad Thoughts (Netflix) S1

Thursday

• Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple) 1:7
• Hacks (HBO) 4:7-8
• Poker Face (Peacock) 2:4
• Murderbot (Apple) 1:1-2
• Duster (HBO) 1:1
• Welcome to Wrexham (Hulu) 4:1-2

Sunday

• Last Week Tonight (HBO) 12:12
• MobLand (Paramount) 1:8
• Lazarus (Adult Swim) 1:7
• The Last of Us (HBO) 2:6

💽 Release of the Week

🪵 GOLLIWOG by billy woods

I don't love that the best lyrical rap tends to be pretty dark and moody these days, but that's just where we are and billy woods is the master these days. I'm not sure it's quite as good as his work with E L U C I D as Armand Hammer, but it's still really damn good.

🏃 Runner-ups

👻 In Progress by Future Ghosts

You ever listen to a band and feel like they listened to and were influenced by the the exact same music as you when growing up? That's exactly the vibe I get from this album from friends of a friend of the foof, who shared this on Mastodon back on Friday. I probably would have never heard of them without Keenan's mention and I'd be poorer for it.

🏔️ Goodbye Long Winter Shadow by Maia Friedman

Then theirs this one that feels like you are hearing some real mystical shit being whispered to you through the wind while having your tarot read to you in some tall grass on a warm autumn evening. It's ethereal; it's magical; and it's just pretty damn pleasant.

📝 What Else?

• the world is still here and so are we by Mclusky
• Golden Wolf by DOPE LEMON
• Tall Tales by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
• You Wanna Fade? by Alien Boy

🦸 No. 1's

⚰️ Exquisite Corpses (Image)

One of the most anticipated books of the year comes from writer James Tynion IV and writer/artist Michael Walsh as they introduce a new world that will have a full writers room contributing along with a tabletop card game. The gist is, every five years, the rich bring together 12 of the deadliest people in the world to battle until the last person is standing. They've created a lot of cool looking killers for this and I'm excited to see how the various writers contribute and where they might take things next.

👹 Battle Beast [Invincible] (Image)

From the pages of Invincible comes an all new series about Battle Beast by the original team of Kirkman and Ottley. The bagged first issue has quite a few surprises for people to, which is pretty cool.

🧗‍♂️ Huck: Big Bad World (Dark Horse)

Huck, from Mark Millar, is back. I enjoyed the first series of Huck even though I'm pretty much out on all Millar books at this point. He's once again joined by Rafael Albuquerque so we at least know it's going to be beautiful.

🦸‍♀️ Supergirl (DC)

And finally, a new Supergirl book from Sophie Campbell, who has been absolutely killing it lately.

📝 What Else?

• W0rldtr33 #14 (Image)
• Phantom Road #12 (Image)
• Ice Cream Man #44 (Image)
• Geiger #14 (Image)
• Mine is a Long, Lonesome Grave #4 (Oni)
• Absolute Batman #8 (DC)
• Ultimate X-Men #15 (Marvel)
• Transformers #20 (Image)

🎥 New Movies

🌅 Hurry Up Tomorrow

I don't really want to talk about this one. I'm tired of The Weeknd doing things in Hollywood... His show was a bust and I feel like this will be too... But the cast is pretty killer (besides The Weeknd) with Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and Riley Keough, and he somehow roped(/coerced) Trey Edward Shults (Waves, It Comes at Night) to help write and direct—and yet given The Weeknd's involvement as writer and star, I still think it's going to be shite.

🌃 Sister Midnight

Last, but not least—especially in this pairing of movies—a dramedy about an arrangement marriage in Mumbai that's been getting pretty positive early reviews.

📝 What Else?

• The Damned

🛍️ To Rent/Buy

• A Minecraft Movie
• Snow White
• Dead President Now!