‘Thunderbolts*’ Is Marvel’s Return to Form. Is It Too Late?

The Big Picture

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4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Sean and Amanda are joined by their superhero correspondent, Mallory Rubin, to cover the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Jake Schreier’s, ‘Thunderbolts*’ (2:04). They praise the strong performances from Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, and dive deep into some spoilers to project which key characters could play a critical part going forward (18:15). Lastly, they have a big-picture conversation about the MCU and debate whether this return to form is too late to course-correct the state of Marvel (1:17:09). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Mallory Rubin Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	And this is the big picture of conversation show about Thunderbolts.
1:22.3	Mallory Rubin is here.
1:23.9	Long-awaited return.
1:25.0	What was the last time you were here?
1:27.3	Complete unknown? Dillon, yeah, I think so. But last time the last time you were here complete unknown dillon yeah i think so but the
1:30.1	last time the three of us were together was harrison ford and indiana jones and the battle of destiny
1:35.9	wow is that the last time we've potted together i believe so whoa that's the summer of 2023 that's a
1:42.3	long time ago too long i would say i think so well you know Mallory and I took you to task for some of your opinions.
1:48.0	So it seems like you didn't want to revisit that.
1:50.5	We did the same for his takes on quantum mania, which the three of us also shared together.
1:55.0	Because Sean was very pro.
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