Marvel’s newMCUSpider-Man series,Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, opens to remarkably high critic reviews, but the general audience’s reactions are significantly less positive.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Mandebuts with a double-episode premiereon Disney+ on July 15, 2025, introducing a brand-new MCU timeline populated by new variants of characters like Peter Parker, Norman Osborn, and Doctor Strange.Tom Holland doesn’t return forYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but Marvel Studios Animation’s new Spider-Man show introduces a new Peter Parker variant with a bright future ahead.
A few hours after episodes 1 and 2 became available on Disney+,Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manholds a 100% Tomatometer score and a 78% PopcornmeteronRotten Tomatoes, meaning that its audience score is 22 percentage points below its perfect critics' score and only 18 percentage points aboveRotten Tomatoes' “stale” rating.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s critic and audience scores continue to fluctuate as more reviews arrive, of course.
What Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s RT Scores Mean
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s Strengths Are Clear
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s high critics score onRotten Tomatoesis reflected in critics' reviews, which praiseYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s appropriate balance between its family-friendly tone and earnest execution. A vintage art style, inspired soundtrack, vibrant action scenes, and a fresh take on Spider-Man’s lore are all positive aspects underlined by critics. Meanwhile,Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s animation style and voice acting have been criticized by some viewers.
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Critics and audiences' reviews are still too sparse to draw conclusions. However, it seems likeYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s plot and action are its main strengths, while its art direction has been rather divisive. It’s also important to note thatYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manstar Hudson Thames shared some controversial commentsabout his expectations for the show the day before its release, which might have led to some pushback by viewers.
Our Take On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s RT Scores
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s Premiere Proves The Series Has Plenty Of Potential
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s final score when episode 8 releases will provide a clearer image of critics and audiences' reactions. However,Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s100% debut score is already an impressive feat.X-Men ‘97holds a 99% Tomatometer score a little shy of a year after its release.X-Men ‘97is followed byMs. Marvel’s 98%,WandaVision’s 92%,Hawkeye’s 92%,Loki’s 87%, andWhat If…?’s 85% Tomatometer scores.
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All of the MCU’s aforementioned top-rated shows have a smaller gap between their Tomatometer and Popcornmeter scores thanYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, except for one.Lokihas the shortest gap, with an 87% Tomatometer and an 86% Popcornmeter.What If…?currently has the exact same gap asYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man— 22 percentage points, with an 85% Tomatometer and an 63% Popcornmeter score.
