The Cord Cutter Podcast #4: San Diego Comic-Con 2017/Netflix In August

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Cord Cutter Podcast! This week, Mick and Adrienne welcome CinemaBlend TV Editor Nick Venable to talk about all the exciting happenings at this year's San Diego Comic-Con and what some of the revelations will mean for your TV viewing during the upcoming fall television season. What's really going on with Will Byers in Season 2 of Stranger Things? Could Will Smith's Netflix movie Bright tank like so many of his recent big screen efforts? Will The Punisher and The Defenders be as cool as we hope they'll be?

After our SDCC 2017 talk, be sure to stick around as our hosts discuss some of the highlights of what will be coming to and leaving Netflix in August. Among the revelations will be what we might binge in August, the most underrated films coming on board, and the best (and worst) of what's hitting the service in August. Read on to get the lowdown on this week's podcast and then listen for yourself above!

0:36 - Welcome Nick Venable!

2:34 - SDCC 2017 discussion

3:20 - Stranger Things SDCC trailer

7:51 - Netflix original movie Bright SDCC trailer

12:06 - The Punisher SDCC reveal thoughts (spoiler free)

15:25 - The Defenders SDCC reveal thoughts (spoiler free)

21:10 - The joys of Netflix

24:39 - August Netflix comings and goings: the highlights

Now, get in on the fun and have a listen to The Cord Cutter Podcast #4! And, be sure to join us next time when we discuss the Netflix original series Ozark! Don't forget to subscribe to The Cord Cutter podcast on iTunes, right here!

Adrienne Jones
Senior Content Creator

Covering The Witcher, Outlander, Virgin River, Sweet Magnolias and a slew of other streaming shows, Adrienne Jones is a Senior Content Producer at CinemaBlend, and started in the fall of 2015. In addition to writing and editing stories on a variety of different topics, she also spends her work days trying to find new ways to write about the many romantic entanglements that fictional characters find themselves in on TV shows. She graduated from Mizzou with a degree in Photojournalism.