SPOILERS ALERT!!!

Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley.

It’s been a while since I did a review on an original Disney+ series, isn’t it? For the past ten weeks, I’ve enjoyed watching the latest ‘Spider-Man’ animated series on Disney+ called ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’. This 10-episode series has been compelling! 🙂

I began seeing this series in the middle of February this year, and it’s fitting I finished it on Easter Monday yesterday. Already, a second season has been announced for 2026. I’m looking forward to checking it out after enjoying the storylines and characters featured. 🙂

As well as compelling, ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ has been fascinating to watch. The series has elements of Spidey’s story taking place in ‘Marvel Cinematic Universe’, but not really, since it’s mainly set within an alternative timeline to the movies.

This was a refreshing and welcome approach to the series. It could have easily been a direct prequel series to the Tom Holland era of ‘Spider-Man’, but there are elements in ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood’ that I really enjoyed more than the ‘MCU Spider-Man’ films.

For one thing, Uncle Ben gets mentioned in a conversation between Peter Parker and Aunt May from the very beginning. Plus, the Avengers aren’t a strong focus in the series like in the ‘MCU’ films as Norman Osborn more or less takes on the Tony Stark role in the series.

There are plenty of characters and Easter Eggs (pardon the words) to enjoy in the series, as you’ll recognise them from the ‘Spider-Man’ universe and the Marvel Comics universe in general. The set up of Peter Parker as Spider-Man in terms of an origins story is very good.

This is especially in how Peter eventually gets his trademark Spider-Man outfit in the series, as throughout, he gets different outfits from a semi-makeshift Spidey outfit to a white Spidey outfit. I enjoyed the balance of action and character drama throughout this.

Usually, I wouldn’t go for animated Spider-Man shows, as I’ve grown out of them from seeing the 1990s ‘Spider-Man’ animated series and the 2003 short-live animated series. But I found this an animated Spider-Man series worthwhile of my attention here.

Peter Parker/Spider-Man is voiced by Hudson Thames. Aunt May is voiced by Kari Wahlgren. Both Peter and Aunt May sound like their MCU counterparts, played by Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei. There’s the new character Nico Minoru, voiced by Grace Song.

Nico becomes Peter’s classmate and best friend in the series and she happens to secretly practice witchcraft. There’s Lonnie Lincoln who becomes Tombstone, voiced by Eugene Byrd. There’s Harry Osborn, voiced by Zeno Robinson, who befriends Peter in the series.

There’s Norman Osborn, voiced by Colman Domingo. Thankfully, he doesn’t become the Green Goblin in this. There’s Otto Octavius, voiced by Hugh Dancy. Thankfully he doesn’t become Doc Ock, though there are the telltale signs that he might be on his way there. 😐

Daredevil makes an appearance in this series, and he’s voiced by Charlie Cox (who plays Daredevil in the ‘MCU’ and he played Matt Murdock in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’). There’s Pearl Pangan, voiced by Cathy Ang, who’s Peter childhood crush that’s dating Lonnie.

The Spider-Man villain Chameleon makes a guest appearance, voiced by Roger Craig Smith. There’s Carla Connors, voiced by Zehra Fazal, who I believe is an alternative female version of Curt Connors. Thankfully, she doesn’t become the Lizard in the series.

There’s the Scorpion/Mac Gargan, voiced by Jonathan Medina. Dr. Stephen Strange appears in the series, voiced by Robin Atkin Downes. There’s Thaddeus Ross, voiced by Travis Willingham. And there’s Tony Stark/Iron Man, voiced by Mick Wingert in the series.

There’s a guest cameo of Richard Parker, Peter’s father, voiced by Josh Keaton, who’s incarcerated. I was quite surprised by this revelation, especially when Aunt May goes to visit him in the series finale. I’m wondering if this will be followed up in the second season.

‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ has been a very enjoyable ‘Spider-Man’ series on Disney+. I’m glad I’ve seen it, as I could have easily skipped this series. The animation is very well-done, especially as it’s done in a comic book style, which I enjoyed.

Because of me being a big Spider-Man fan and knowing the character inside out, I was able to get into the stories and characters very easily. I found this more compelling than the ‘MCU Spider-Man’ live-action films and the animated ‘Spider-Verse’ films at the cinema.

I’m looking forward to seeing Season 2 of ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ when it becomes available.

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂