Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Season One [2025] on Disney Plus

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is clearly made for pre-teens. Yet, I still enjoyed it as a light watcher during my lunchbreak.

Let’s be honest. This show is way better than the final season of What If. But that’s a low threshold to clear. Starring Hudson Thames (Peter Parker), Eugene Byrd (Lonnie Lincoln), Colman Domingo (Norman Osborn) and others, the show takes a new approach at the story we already know imagining Peter Parker always being in an alternate MCU… while slightly tweaking everything we know. It’s the multiverse after all.

In fact, this show was a pleasant surprise to watch. However, when you attach Spider-Man to something, we instantly have expectations. Unsurprisingly, the season is a bit of a mixed bag overall, which pretty much sums up Marvel Animation’s results through its first three-plus years.

Thankfully, it’s not all bad news. This animated show is fertile ground for a new mainstream take on the Spider-Man mythos with some big creative swings that get on base, even if they don’t make their way out of the park. More accurate comic books characters that aren’t silly and slight tweaks to the famous story that make enough surprise to keep us interested, but not enough splash to care.

The show has plenty of room to grow, and we hope next season is not so focused on retelling the MCU story through an alternate universe.

Should You Watch It?

Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes the story everyone knows, and tweaks it just enough to give it a fresh coat of paint. While it feels as if it lives in its own universe, the show clearly has a lot of multiverse connections. Especially in its last episode.

Where Can I Watch It?

You can stream Marvel’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man exclusively on Disney+ everywhere.