About this episode
Forty-two years after Paul Schrader's American Gigolo pioneered the sex-worker neo-noir micro-genre, Showtime's limited series of the same name is trying it again -- and returning guest Sarah Baker joins us to talk about tone problems; weird directing choices; pervasive misogyny that's even more tiresome than usual; MVP Rosie O'Donnell; and whether Jon Bernthal should have gotten better writing to work with. We went Around The Dial with Monarch , The Dick Van Dyke Show , The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Animal Kingdom , Cobra Kai , Severance , Big Brother , and Rings Of Power before Baker screwed up her courage and asked the Canon to PEN15 's first-season episode, "Dance." Lee Jung-jae won, Dick Wolf lost (while John Oliver won), and a non-regulation Game Time about TV sex work was NOT considered especially heinous. Slow that disco standard way down for extra poignancy; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕺 American Gigolo Around The Dial: 👑 Monarch Around The Dial: 💼 The Dick Van Dyke Show Around The Dial: 👒 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Around The Dial: 🐷 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🐍 Cobra Kai I Am Not A Crackpot: 🍕 Cobra Kai Locations Around The Dial: 💍 The Rings Of Power The Canon: 🍆 PEN15 S01.E10: Dance Winner & Loser: 👍 Lee Jung-jae Winner & Loser: 👎 Dick Wolf Game Time: ☎️ Call Them NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 424 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎙 Tara's Rosie O'Donnell interview at Vanity Fair 👀 Watch Sarah Baker in The Kominsky Method on Netflix 🎞 Kominsky 's third-season trailer 🧭 The Great North on Hulu 🌳 Central Park on AppleTV+ 🪫 Tara's Mark Proksch interview at VF ❌ Tara's Decider piece about current primetime soaps, ALL of which ended up getting cancelled 🤰 Tara's The Handmaid's Tale S05 review at VF 🎶 The #LilithFair40 season finale on MASTAS 💄 Listen To Sassy 📷 Photo: Warrick Page / Showtime