Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Peter is on his way to his first day at a high school for top students. He misses the subway, as usual, but May picks him up and drives him in. He meets Nico Minoru (Grace Song) as he makes his way in, but he’s interrupted by a portal opening, and a gigantic spider monster falling out. A “wizard man” also comes out of the portal — it’s Doctor Strange (Robin Atkin Downes), though Peter has no idea who he is — and wraps up the monster with an assist from Peter. Of course, that’s not before the school building is heavily damaged via a flying garbage truck (!). Also, a radioactive spider hanging from the portal lands on Peter’s neck and bites him.
“A few months later…” May wakes up Peter again, but now he’s sleeping upside down. It’s apparent that he’s discovered that he’s got the agility of a spider, and he’s started to take advantage of it, creating a contraption to help him sling webs and making a costume, consisting mostly of a mask and a hockey sweater with a spider on it. He also likes to catch bad guys, which sometimes — actually often — makes him late for school.
He and Nico both go to a neighborhood high school while the original one is being rebuilt. There, Peter also has to confront his childhood crush, Pearl Pangan (Cathy Ang), who babysat him when he was a kid — even though she’s only a couple of years older. Of course, Nico busts his chops about it, but also says he should ask her out. When he finally gets the courage, though, he sees that football captain Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Byrd) has gotten there first. But Lonnie surprises him when he asks Peter to be his lab partner, and shows Peter that he’s a good guy who’s also pretty smart.
Peter has someone else’s attention: Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo), the CEO of Oscorp, who comes by Peter and May’s apartment to offer Peter an internship.
To put a finer point on the animation aspect of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the style of the show, created by Jeff Trammell, looks very much like the style of the early years of The Amazing Spider-Man comic book, which was created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The drawing style of Ditko and Jack Kirby is prevalent here, with some scenes even briefly taking place inside what looks like a comics panel.
However, the story is throrougly modern, and many of the action sequences are helped along by CGI that makes Peter Parker’s version of Queens almost epic in scale. Everyone has smart phones, May is more like the youthful Marisa Tomei version from the recent live-action movies than the white-haired grandmotherly version from the early comics. Queens is seen as the diverse borough it is in reality; heck, Nico swoons over Pearl just as much as Peter does.
As usual with a Marvel TV project, the overarching plot is doled out slowly, but in this case, we love seeing the details inbetween the big plot swings. At Oscorp, Peter finds himself working under a ranting research scientist named Bentley Whitman, voiced with hilarious nastiness by Paul F. Tompkins. And seeing Peter stumble through those awkward high school years, navigating a crush that will never be requited, and trying to figure out who he is is always fun to watch, as are his fumbling first forays into crimefighting. At a certain point, Osborn will take interest in Parker as Spider-Man. Whether we see him as Green Goblin at some point this season is still up in the air.
