The Devil You Know: A Constantine Podcast Golden Spiral Media

Hi Hellblazers! SURPRISE! This episode is SO late! Our favorite mystical con-man appeared on Arrow weeks ago (in an episode titled Haunted), and Joe and Tony recorded the podcast right away, but then real-life got crazy with work schedules and family illness and travel and Thanksgiving Holidays... and this surprise episode got delayed - OUR APOLOGIES!



BUT - here we are. Constantine on Arrow! We've gotten one more chance, thanks to the great folks at Arrow and the CW, to watch our hero John Constantine in action!



Here are some thoughts from Joe about the episode:

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Thoughts from Joe on the Season Finale of Constantine, Season 1:



Once More Into the Fray



So we've reached an end. End of Season 1? Definitely. End of Constantine as a series? We have no idea at this point. The fans have spoken. "Season 2!" they shout from the mountaintops. Ratings crawled up a bit, I'd like to think in response to several rock-solid episodes. I admit, I wasn't as blown away by this last episode as I would've liked. Except for the last 2 minutes. Which blew my mind. Read More…

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OK, OK, OK. So I was wrong. I was big-time wrong. About what, you may ask? About our buddy Manny.



Early on, I predicted that Manny was in fact NOT on the side of the angels. I imagined him as a fallen angel, or even an entirely unrelated entity trying to manipulate Constantine. Soooooo it turns out that not only is he indeed an angel, but he's on the side of the angels too. Read More...

Some thoughts from Joe Z, one of the co-hosts of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: A CONSTANTINE PODCAST



The Final Countdown



And so we've entered the final three episodes of Constantine. How can it be?! IT'S TOO SOON! Well, the final three episodes of Season 1 anyway. Will there be a 2nd season? Who knows at this point? Well, probably CBS.



The ride that is Constantine has indeed been a rocky one. Look, I'm an optimist. I admit it. I have a tendency to look for the good first, the bad...well, only if I have to. I feel like I need to face the facts about this show. The truth is, it took a while to find itself. It REALLY struggled in the beginning. Coal mine ghosts? Meh. Scary children in masks? Seen it. And don't get me started on Liv! Constantine has suffered through what many other shows have suffered through: first season identity crisis. I can't help but feel like the early episodes softballed it a little. Perhaps they didn't trust the audience. Perhaps they didn't want to scare the Network. But the fact is, for Constantine to work, scare is what is needed. A few episodes in, the show started to veer closer to the comics. We saw fantastic familiar faces like Papa Midnight, Gaz, Anne-Marie and of course Jim Corrigan/The Specter. AND they decided to up the horror. Rather than veer towards Buffy-esque monsters of the week, we saw cursed items, demons in the form of beetle swarms, and hideous beasts made from tortured babies. And that's when Constantine became Constantine. Read More...

this week, the devil we got to the know is Chas! At long last, we finally learned the great mystery of everyone's favorite 6'6" teddy bear w/ a mean right hook.

Co-Host Joe Zettelmaier shares his thoughts about the newest episode of Constantine!



In Defense of Scooby Gangs



Hello, all! Gravelly-voiced Joe Zettelmaier here, thrilled to be back in the land of flesh-fruit, satanic vinyls and cops-soon-to-be-Spectres. While my recent illness may have turned my voice into a rumbling demon, it hasn't hindered my ability to write at all, so here we are...back to the Devil You Know Blogs!



So one of the things we really got from The Saint of Last Resorts, Pt. 2 is a chance to see the whole gang (plus Anne-Marie) functioning as a team or, to use a phrase often utilized for supernatural "heroes" in a bunch, a Scooby Gang! Outside the popular animated show featuring a sleuthy canine and his human pals, the term "Scooby Gang" was also a popular term to use for Buffy Summers and her gang of monster-hunting companions. I feel like it certainly applies to Constantine, Zed, Chas and occasionally Manny and Anne-Marie. Read More...