Dadnology Week 22: Too Many Great Games and Shows, One Tired Dad
Week 22 was stacked both sides: 007 First Light headlined the games, Spider-Noir and The Boys' finale led the screens. The full Dadnology week in review.
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🤹 The Week That Was — Too Much Good Stuff
Some weeks you hunt for something worth your time. Week 22 of 2026 was the opposite, on both sides of the house: the real problem was choosing where a tired dad’s limited evenings actually went. The single biggest launch was 007 First Light, IO Interactive’s young-Bond origin story — a 9/10 and the best Bond game since GoldenEye, the first in decades that earns the licence instead of borrowing it. But it landed on top of an already-stacked games slate, and the screen side was every bit as loaded.
Because that is the honest theme of the week — not one headline, but an embarrassment of riches and a finite number of nights. The fantasy these things sell is competence under pressure, the tired person who still walks into chaos and walks out the other side. Week 22 served it in every format at once: a spy game for after bedtime, a long-awaited Spider-Man for the Marvel fan, a brutal series finale, and a couple of family-night layups. The trick was never finding something good. It was deciding what to skip. It was a quiet week for camera and photo news, so there is no Camera Week this time — but between the games and the screens, there was more than enough to fill the calendar.
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“Week 22 of 2026 belonged to one game: 007 First Light. IO Interactive's young-Bond origin story is the best 007 game since GoldenEye on the N64 — a 9/10 stealth-action thriller that finally does the licence justice. Here is the full Dadnology breakdown: the review, which platform to play it on, and the gadget guide for getting the most out of Q-Branch.”
“Week 22 of 2026 is a stacked week on screen, and the headliner is the one we have been counting down to: Spider-Noir, the latest corner of the Spider-Verse to come to life. Add the final-season finale of The Boys, the cinema run of The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Goat — the animated film that recently played cinemas — landing on Netflix, and there is more here than any tired dad can watch in a week. Here is what is worth your limited evening time, with links to the Spider-Verse films that set the table.”
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🎮 Gaming This Week
The headline is 007 First Light — a 9/10, tense stealth, the smartest gadget system the series has ever had, and a young-Bond story with real stakes. It is the dad’s game of the week: save it for after bedtime, in the dark, with headphones. But it is not alone on the shelf. Last week’s slate is still hot — Forza Horizon 6 (10/10) is the in-between blast on Game Pass, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (10/10) is the co-op pick with younger kids, and LEGO Batman: Legacy (8/10) is Friday-night family co-op. The real skill this week is matching the game to the moment, not picking a single winner.
Our Gaming Week roundup goes deep on 007 — the review, the platform call, the gadget guide — and then steps back to how you budget your time across a slate this stacked. Read the full Gaming Week 22 roundup →
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The launch that defined the games side of the week — a 9/10 and the best Bond game since GoldenEye.
🕸️ Movies & TV This Week
The screen side was loaded, and the headliner — for us, as Marvel and Spider-Verse fans — is Spider-Noir, the noir-soaked new corner of the world that gave us Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse. We have not watched it yet, so it tops our own list rather than carrying a verdict. Around it: The Boys lands its final-season finale (appointment viewing if you have followed it, strictly after the kids are down), The Mandalorian and Grogu is the big-screen family outing, in cinemas and IMAX now, and Goat — the animated film that just played cinemas — arrives on Netflix for the younger crowd at home.
For anyone in a Bond mood after 007 First Light, the Daniel Craig films are the natural tie-in rewatch, too. Read the full Movies Week 22 roundup →
🗓️ Looking Ahead
Week 23 has a lot to live up to. A Switch 2 first-party title and another streaming tentpole are both circling the calendar, and our own first job is catching up on this week’s pile — Spider-Noir chief among it. If the camera side wakes up, expect a Camera Week to join the lineup. For now, week 22 goes down as one of those rare weeks where the only complaint is that there were not enough evenings to go around.
Dadnology Take
The best kind of week, and a slightly exhausting one. 007 First Light is the launch that justifies a console generation’s wait for a decent spy game, and it still had to share the shelf with Forza, Yoshi, and LEGO Batman. On screen, Spider-Noir is the one we have been counting down to, with The Boys’ finale, The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Goat all crowding the same few nights. There is no single verdict to hand down here — just a happy logistics problem. Play 007 after dark, give the kids Yoshi and Goat by day, and accept that some of this brilliant week is going to spill into the next one.
The Dadnology Week archive: read on with Dadnology Week 23.