Geeks OUT Podcast: Choose Your Own Bird Box

In the first episode of 2019 of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin (@Gilligan_McJew) greets the new year with a new guest, Chris Chianesi (@seriouslychris), as they discuss the female led Bird Box taking in 45 million viewers on Netflix, wonder if the Avengers are going to rally to save the Oscars, and celebrate Batwoman getting a pilot order from the CW in This Week in Queer.  

This Week's Topics Include:

BIG OPENING:

• KEVIN: Avengers may “host” the Oscars
• CHRIS: Sequel to Mary Poppins Returns in development

 

DOWN & NERDY:

 

• KEVIN: Escape Room, The Orville, Star Trek: Short Treks, Iceman, Young Justice
• CHRIS: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, David Sedaris’ Calypso

 

 

STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER: Netflix’s Bird Box reportedly gets 45 million viewers in first week

 

THIS WEEK IN QUEER: Batwoman gets pilot order

 

CLIP OF THE WEEK: New trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw

 

THE WEEK IN GEEK:

MOVIES

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won a Golden Globe
• New trailer for Captain Marvel
• Aquaman has crossed 1 billion in sales
• New trailer for Netflix’s IO
• New trailer for Netflix’s Polar based on the graphic novel
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch sued by Choose Your Own Adventure publishers
• New trailer for The Prodigy

 

TV

• Supergirl gets a visit from a Mean Girl
• New trailer for season 2 of The Punisher
• Sarah Michelle Gellar returning to tv in Sometimes I Lie
• New trailer for Jordan Peele YouTube series Wicked City
• Netflix orders David Fincher animated anthology series Love, Death, & Robots
• New trailer for Netflix’s animated Carmen Sandiego
• New trailer for Netflix series Sex Education starring Gillian Anderson
• New trailer for Netflix series Russian Doll
• New teaser and poster for Stranger Things season 3
• Luke Wilson joins DC Universe’s Stargirl
• First look at Watchmen and last season of Game of Thrones

 

COMIC BOOKS

• DC working on an animated adaptation of Batman: The Long Halloween
• Robert Kirkman doesn’t think The Walking Dead is repetitive

 

SHILF

• KEVIN: Captain Marvel                                  
• CHRIS: Ant-Man (Paul Rudd)