Spider-Noir - Series Review - The K.B. Radio Network

Hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB Radio Network.

I am your host Kevin Reed and ladies and gentlemen I welcome you to the review of Prime Video's new superhero noir series,

Spider-Man Noir.

All eight episodes are now available whether you want to watch it in black and white or in the color version.

that unfortunately i had to watch it in i don't know i couldn't get my setting i couldn't find a the way to switch it on on my tv but it was just the color version which was cool it looked gorgeous but i wanted to see the black and white version which i do plan to

watch it again in black and white where it was initially intended to be and so if you watched it in black and white i envy you

I really do.

I wish I would have experienced it for the first time in that format.

But nonetheless,

I did get to experience it.

Spider Noir is kind of an offshoot in an alternate universe within the Sony

Spider-Man universe.

And we all know that

Spider-Man, well,

it's Spider-Man

Noir. The character shows up in Into the Spider-Verse,

Across the Spider-Verse.

And Nick Cage voiced.

that character in the animated films well now we get the live action version and nick cage reprises the role of spider noir playing ben riley aging down on his luck private investigator grappling with his past life as

the only superhero in

1930s new york city the spider when an exceptional case comes his way,

Ben must become the spider once again.

this is the first of two spider-mans that we're getting this year spider noir and spider-man brand new day with tom holland and zendaya and uh sadie sink and that comes out next month or the money i know in july and so we we've getting we're going to get our spider field this year and

it all kicked off with this i'm

i'm not gonna say i was highly anticipating spider noir but i my curiosity more than anything got the better of me one huge spider-man fan huge spider-man noir fan and so i i

did want to see it but i was kind of scared i was a little skeptical uh with this live action adaptation of the character because let's be honest people

outside of marvel outside of these tom holland spider-man movies there has not been a good spider-man movie in a while they've been fumbling all over the place when it comes to spider-man properties now not so much spider-man proper but i'm talking like the sonyverse you know with the venoms

and the morbiuses and the madam webs of it all craving the hunters god help us

all that all of these spider-man properties have crashed and burned and so i was scared looking at it from that prism now i wasn't scared to see nicholas cage in live action but to a degree i

know acting wise i mean we talk about nick cage people he he's gonna kill it he's gonna kill it in his role but i was worried about his age i was worried about it man

nick cage is like what

60 something early 60s yeah he's not a spring chicken no more you know and we're talking about spider-man now granted wasn't expecting him to be swinging from buildings even if he was 20 so i know that much but only tom holland is that crazy but

as far as the fighting and all of the other

action sequences that was going to take place throughout this show i was a little skeptical of that but i will say this they did a good job of not only kind of writing that into the show because he's an aging guy he's up there in age you know they do they do a really good job of uh

beating that down our head because you can't help but look at it that way because they make him look older than what he actually is you know he

Nicolas Cage,

he looks...

beat up and broken and that's the way that character is supposed to be but they did a good job of leaning into that to explain that away

Before I get more into Nick Cage,

let's get to the rest of the cast.

You have

Lamone Morris,

Lee Joon Lee,

you have Jack Houston and Brendan Gleeson in this show as well,

with many others.

But those are our main characters throughout this show.

Man,

look,

this was a stellar,

stellar cast.

Once I got to around episode three of...

I was like,

man,

this is top-notch filmmaking here.

They really didn't skim on anything.

They didn't skim on the cast.

They didn't skim on the production.

They didn't skim on the visual effects.

This was a top-notch production.

This cast was amazing.

Lamar Moore is fresh off of winning an Emmy.

for we're not fresh it's been a couple of years but winning an emmy on uh fargo a couple of years ago everybody knows him from the new girl and other uh shows and films that he has popped up in but he plays robbie robertson in this show and

he has a big part in this show bigger than i expected he was like the co-lead in this show and i was surprised by that you know especially we're

dealing with we're talking about the

1930s let's not kid ourselves people black people weren't on on i would say they weren't nowhere near the top of the food chain i don't even think they were on the food chain in the

1930s we're barely on it now but back then it was clear clear discrimination going on in the show how dare they actually addressed all of that they actually went

there on these these things now it wasn't you know social commentary heavy and all that other stuff you know we didn't get a whole episode dedicated to the black struggle in the 1930s but that whenever we get those moments and it was it was kind of spread out throughout the season and

i was like man this is this is very very cool the way they kind of incorporated into this story the overall story

of the show much respect and now i lamar morris really leaned it him and nicholas cage well actually the whole cast i'm sorry i i can't single anybody out i'll be listening for days the whole cast this

felt like a noir film if you never sat down and watched an old black and white detective story from that era you are you are sadly

sadly lacking man you need to really look up these movies and watching an old humpy brogard film or things of that nature you you would be amazed by the performances in those movies in

this movie not this movie it felt like a long movie but it just because the way it just it just flowed uh but this show really captured that flavor

and not in a parody way not in a satirical way this felt like it was an old

1930s serial that you used to watch on tmc or not tmc uh tcm uh platforms like that this fits right in with that the vibe the the speech pattern of the actors

here you know as their characters were spot on perfect the pod-

Production design was unbelievable in this show.

Everything,

everything reeked of the

1930s or what you would think the

1930s was around that era.

Oh,

man,

such a good job.

But I wanted to hurry up and sneak that in while talking about these actors and the performances they gave,

especially

Lamar Morris and and my God,

Nicolas Cage.

And.

all of the actors here did a phenomenal job uh nailing that era i want to bring up lee joon lee who portrays kat on this series and bruh i don't know i don't know if i ever seen her in anything before but boy

that is a sexy woman huh she is she is sexy bruh and she is phenomenal in this show actually i did see her in something before

It just dawned on me.

she was in sinners that's that's the one who let him in and said she's she's grace on sinners that's what i knew i anyways yes uh uh she's in this show and she is phenomenal as

cat um uh karen rodriguez who who plays the assistant to ben was also amazing almost stole the show every scene that she was in she stole that point blank period up.

loved her character loved her performance brendan gleason as silvermane not not not a villain performance that you would say oh man this is top 10 top 20 uh no i wouldn't go that far it's pretty basic but

he adds a little something to it he gives it a little more oomph that makes this villain bigger than what i

think what was on the paper and it's brendan gleason the dude's phenomenal awesome and everything that he is in every performance was great but i got to mention nicholas cage nicholas cage as ben raleigh here uh man i

mean he put all my worries to to shame immediately episode one i was done.

I didn't have any more concerns.

regarding his age or his his his physical ability and stuff like that i was done i was into this character from beginning to end nicholas cage it's almost as if he's born to play this role you know it's almost to the point where this

is something that he you can clearly see he enjoyed playing this role and nicholas cage he looks like that in every movie tv show whatever he is in

he just doesn't care nicholas cage is gonna give it his all no matter what the movie is or what the show is and he did not disappoint here nicholas cage looks like he was just spit out of the

1930s here i mean he captured every single vibe that i remember from watching uh the monkey maltese falcon and stuff like that you know i i was i was so

into his character and he was he was just awesome man it was kind of a different nicholas cage now do we get our cage isms you know the nicholas cage little freak out moments and just

the weird awkward stuff that he does yes yes we do get it but it fits in the context of the show i remember seeing these little moments that they showed in the trailer where he was kind it.

quirky and saying just off the wall stuff or making these weird faces and you know the nicholas cage isms and it just kind of like like oh my god he's gonna be doing that the whole show but it actually when you watched all eight episodes and when those moments come up it

fits in those moments it's actually working and bro i was i was impressed i don't know how I can be impressed by Nicolas Cage.

But I was impressed by Nicolas Cage in this role.

I love the way they explained the Ben Reilly of it all.

But just to give you a little backstory,

the reason this show is called Spider Noir and not Spider-Man Noir,

it's a rights issue.

This is still owned by Sony and

Marvel has a piece of the pie as well.

So you can't be.

peter parker you can't be spider-man on this show and so the whole spider aspect of it okay i was cool with that but the ben parker of it kind of threw me but they actually explained it on the show and

it makes sense now you had to wait a few episodes to get that explanation but once you get it it was like a breath of fresh air i was like okay that makes

sense it makes all the sense in the world now there is a ben raleigh in the comics but he's not spider the war uh ben raleigh is actually the scarlet spider in the comic books uh going going some geekdom

on y'all just to educate y'all a little bit but yeah that's and he was a clone that's why he had a different name but anywho uh yeah that's why i was kind of like why is he ben raleigh but

They explained it on the show.

The action in this show was really good.

Like I said,

they did not.

They did not waste a dime on production here.

This had to have the budget of an Avengers-type movie.

You know,

this did not come on the cheap.

There's no way.

You know,

just with all of the sets and getting the old

1930s cars,

I mean,

authentic-looking stuff and the way it looked and all this here,

they did not skim on the price.

of the production but the the visual effects was great the action was awesome um i will say some knocks i have against it is it felt like it

felt like we went like two episodes maybe two and a half episodes where we didn't get any spider action you know and i know it was very

heavy on story driven and i respect it for that i love that's one of my uh uh pluses about the show uh but i i came to see spider noir you know just sprinkle that in there a little bit more you know during these moments uh i would appreciate it more but yeah it was moments uh throughout this uh season where he

disappeared the spider not nicholas cage because nicholas cage was in every single episode.

uh heavily featured as he should be uh but uh not so much as the spider but like i said this was more story driven it wasn't action driven and i love the story the story was really good uh the

villain was very convincing as the villain i saw plots all lined up with our main plot and i really appreciated that because you ever watch shows

where we have our main through line and then you have your little storyline b and storyline c that's running concurrent with it and they don't line up with the main story and so you don't know which one to focus on more whereas

in this case all of the all of the roads lead to our main story and it was so good so much of a joy

to watch that you know easier to pay attention to but i really did enjoy this show this was a really good show surprisingly good and i shouldn't be surprised by it but i was and

i don't know if that's for me being naive or what i don't know or protective of my feelings i don't know i don't know what it was but

I was surprised on how

how much I enjoyed

Spider Noir.

Spider Noir,

which is currently on Prime Video,

starring Nicolas Cage,

gets a letter grade of a B+.

Yeah,

I did like this.

I like this a lot.

This is one of those shows I can go back and watch over and over and over again.

The rewatchability on this is through the roof for me over here.

I highly.

recommend it if you haven't watched spider noir but i would like to know if you have watched it how did you feel about the show did you like it did you love it did you hate it let me know kbradiopodcast at gmail.com you can also search for the show on all social media platforms just search for the kb radio network also don't forget about youtube subscribe to the kb radio network channel and like this video if you don't mind don't forget about the five stars the reviews and sharing this show.

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spider noir i i don't know if this is a one-off if we're going to get a second season or not i don't know but i would say it deserves a second season but it looks like it is

expensive to make this show so i doubt it but if this is a one-off i'm glad that we got it if we are getting a season two i can't wait for it i want you all to know that i love you continue to love everyone and until we speak again you

all be blessed

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