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For this special episode, we ponder three Canon pitches from listeners like you. Did we give The West Wing 's "Evidence Of Things Not Seen" a standing ovation like a trip of eggs on the vernal equinox? Were we forced to tell Would I Lie To You? 's S06.E06 some hard truths? Will we all soon be putting out our shoes to receive blueberry muffins thanks to A.P. Bio 's "Katie Holmes Day"? Listen to find out. TOPICS The Canon: 🥚 The West Wing S04.E20: Evidence Of Things Not Seen The Canon: 🍎 Would I Lie To You S06.E06 The Canon: 🫐 A.P. Bio S04.E08: Katie Holmes Day SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 😎 Again With Again With This 179: Let's Watch The A.P. Bio Episode "Katie Holmes Day"! [membership required] 🪜 "'A.P. Bio's Glenn Howerton And Mike O'Brien Discuss The Brilliant Absurdity Of Season 3's 'Katie Holmes Day'" at Decider

Dec 10

In what has become one of our most diabolical annual traditions, we're playing Mullendash again. This year, our guest contestants are: Stephen Falk, with whom the game was initially developed back in the 2000s, and Mullendash newcomers David J. Roth and Jeff Drake. Who can most craft the most convincing Mullenian punchlines? Who can divine the true Mullen from the counterfeits? All is revealed in our latest episode. GUESTS 👤 Stephen Falk 👤 Jeff Drake 👤 David J. Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Mullendash SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 😬 The first Mullendash episode from 2023 🫥 The second Mullendash episode from 2024 🏀 Defector 🤬 The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast 📸 Stephen Falk on Instagram 🫵 You're The Worst on Hulu

Dec 3

Once again again, we made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special yearly EHG tradition! GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker 👤 Omar Gallaga 👤 Daniel D’Addario 👤 Kari Race 👤 Krystal Farmer 👤 Stephanie Green 👤 Adam Grosswirth 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Taylor Cole 👤 Robert Krut 👤 Jessica Morgan 👤 Adam Sternbergh 👤 Mark Blankenship 👤 Eve Batey 👤 David Bunting 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🤨 2024 Guest Thought Experiments 🧐 2023 Guest Thought Experiments 🤔 2022 Guest Thought Experiments

Nov 26

We are off this week for EHG Prime but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 360: Did Our Latest Meal At The Bear Give Us Gas? The Bear is back for its fourth season on (sigh) FX on Hulu. Was it a fully satisfying banquet, or did it repeat? We'll tell you everything. Ask EHG requires us to consider such matters as the post-Quibi shows that should have been Quibis, and the best food to eat in your car. Tara pitches Pace Picante's early 90s "New York City?!" spot for the Commercial division of the Tiny Canon. Then we crown the Not Quite Winners and Losers of the week before closing out on an Extra Credit power-ranking the hosts of Family Feud . Grab a napkin and tuck in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐻 The Bear Ask EHG: 👃 Smell You Later Tiny Canon: 💃 Winner & Loser: ⚽️ Twenty-Twelve Winner & Loser: 😤 Untitled McConaughey / Harrelson Comedy Winner & Loser: 🌬️ Dark Winds Winner & Loser: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Sherlock Winner & Loser: 💌 You're Cordially Invited Winner & Loser: 🤷‍♀️ Jameela Jamil KRTMATIWOTVLM: 🎡 Little House On The Prairie S04.E11: Meet Me At The Fair Extra Credit: 💁🏻‍♂️ Power Ranking The Hosts Of Family Feud Mini: 🇸🇪 Lost In Ikea (Apr 2018) SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🚀 "How Much Must O'Brien Suffer?" at Reddit 🥫 Pace Picante "New York City!" 📷 Photo: FX

Nov 19

A Manhattan real estate scion is believed to have killed his first wife in The Beast In Me , the new entirely fictional Netflix thriller series that is NOT about Robert Durst. Durst you watch it? Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) , the latest from Steve Coogan; S19 of Married At First Sight ; and JFK: What The Doctors Saw . Stephanie pitches the "Dinner Party" episode of The Office for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close on a Beastly Game Time. Quit plotting out the jogging path you want to build and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏃🏻‍♂️ The Beast In Me Around The Dial: 🧠 How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🩻 JFK: What The Doctors Saw The Canon: 🍷 The Office (US) S04.E13: Dinner Party Winner & Loser: 🙋‍♂️ The Boys From Brazil Winner & Loser: 🤫 The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives Game Time: 🦊 The Beasts In Me, Me Being TV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🟢 Stephanie's website ✍🏻 Daniel Fienberg's review of The Beast In Me at The Hollywood Reporter 🤝 Street Forum ATX on Open Collective 🎥 The Zapruder film episode of Good Night America on Wikipedia 📚 Kennedy materials (and all other #majorcase) 20% off at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Netflix

Nov 12

Vince Gilligan returns to the prestige airwaves with Pluribus , an apocalyptic Rhea Seehorn vehicle that's getting uniformly great reviews -- and Jeff Drake returns to the podcast to talk about why WE aren't all on the same page with its world-building, self-consciously beautiful shot compositions, and more (though we all DO agree that Seehorn is the President of Acting). We went Around The Dial with Stumble , The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling , and Who Hired The Hitman? before Jeff went nuts with a Canon pitch from The Dick Van Dyke Show . All's Fair won, Kim Kardashian's bar-exam support team lost, and we reeled in the years with a historical-TV Game Time. Polish off that rosé and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 📡 Pluribus Around The Dial: 🩼 Stumble Around The Dial: 📔 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling Around The Dial: 🔫 Who Hired The Hitman? The Canon: 🥜 The Dick Van Dyke Show S02.E20: It May Look Like a Walnut Winner & Loser: ⚖️ All's Fair Winner & Loser: 😩 Kim Kardashian Game Time: 📅 Which Came First? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Jeff Drake on Bluesky 🚧 Jeff's podcast about "9 Chickweed Lane" 💌 Paul F. Tompkins on the Taskmaster podcast 🤔 Get those Would You Rather? prompts to Tara 💵 Sarah's Who Hired The Hitman? review 😿 Get (or give) some assistance with pet expenses at Pet Help Finder 📷 Photo: Apple

Nov 5

Bottoms star and co-writer Rachel Sennott has created a new sitcom star vehicle, I Love L.A. , for HBO, all about the world of Zoomer influencers. How much could we take? L.A.'s own Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Nobody Wants This S02, Wayward , Aileen: Queen Of The Serial Killers , and Down Cemetery Road. Dave pitched "Those Old Scientists" from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a new season of Game Time, kicking off with a Cassino special. Grab your limited-edition Chipotle bowl and listen! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤳 I Love LA Around The Dial: 🕍 Nobody Wants This Around The Dial: 🗺️ Wayward Around The Dial: 😵 Aileen: Queen Of The Serial Killers The Canon: ⏳ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02.E07: Those Old Scientists Winner & Loser: 🛟 Dave Foley Winner & Loser: 💸 Ridiculousness Game Time: 👵🏻 Odd Age Out SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Bluesky 🙅🏽‍♀️ The bad Nobody Wants This thinkpiece 🌮 Donate to Street Forum ATX 🥨 The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank 👑 Sarah's review of Aileen: Queen Of The Serial Killers at Best Evidence 📍 Find a Little Free Pantry near you 😬 Yo, Is This Racist? on Apple Podcasts 📷 Photo: Kenny Laubbacher / HBO

Oct 29

TV returns to the King-verse with HBO's It: Welcome To Derry , a prequel (or side...show?) of sorts for various characters from Stephen King's It -- and Josh Gondelman also returns to accept our apologies before talking about doing gory bits, using your best actors wisely, and the different kinds of tension. We're going Around The Dial with the nineteenth seasons of Married At First Sight and Taskmaster , plus Nightmares & Dreamscapes and The Lowdown , and Tara hopes we have Great News about her Canon pitch. The Pitt wins, various Nobody Wants This actors lose, and we're filling our pillowcases with points in a candy-based Non-Regulation Game Time. Grab a jar of pickles and join us! GUESTS 👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤡 It: Welcome To Derry Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🤠 The Lowdown Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Around The Dial: 😴 Nightmares & Dreamscapes The Canon: 📰 Great News S02.E05: Night Of The Living Screen Winner & Loser: 🕳️ The Pitt Winner & Loser: 😑 Nobody Wants This Game Time: 🍫 Trick Or Treat Williams SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 👍 Josh Gondelman's comedy special, Positive Reinforcement 🙌 Josh's newsletter, That's Marvelous! 🥱 Nightmares & Dreamscapes E05 🧭 The text of "The Road Virus Heads North" 🔥 The Extra Hot Great Club page 🌀 Hurricane Melissa resource and donation links 📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / HBO

Oct 22

Blue Bloods is dead, but its spirit lives on (along with however many actors don't have anything better to do) in Boston Blue , CBS's new Beantown-set spinoff. How authentic is it to the Boston a Bostonian would know? Boston's own Margaret H. Willison returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Downey Wrote That , The Good Wife , The Good Fight , Love Is Blind , and Task . Never Not Mike pitches the Mad Men episode "The Suitcase" for induction into The Canon -- because no, it wasn't in there already, and we were surprised about that too. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that only has a little bit to say. Park yourself at the Green Monster and join us! GUESTS 👤 Margaret H. Willison TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦞 Boston Blue Around The Dial: ✍🏻 Downey Wrote That Around The Dial: 😇 The Good Wife Around The Dial: 👨‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🛩️ Task The Canon: 🧳 Mad Men S04.E07: The Suitcase Winner & Loser: 🏛️ Michael Fassbender Winner & Loser: 😷 Rockmond Dunbar Game Time: 😶 Get Margaret There SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram 🦋 Margaret on Bluesky 🌴 Again With Again With This ✈️ EEHG 372 [in which we talked about Task] 🕵🏻‍♀️ Best Evidence 👀 Game Time answers: Streaming, Westeros, Neilsen, Pivot, Showrunner, Dharma, Crossover, Wednesday, Chyron, Maggie 📷 Photo: John Medland / CBS

Oct 15

Tim Robinson is back with The Chair Company , a cringe-com with a mystery (or is it??) at its center, and Variety's Alison Herman is also back to talk about it: the little self-flagellating moments the show gets right, whether it's the Tim Robinson property for people who usually don't enjoy Tim Robinson, and why Robinson is like David Lynch. We went Around The Dial with 9-1-1 s old and new, Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy , and The Alabama Solution , and Tara busted out her see! cret! skill! at Canon pitching for a first-season episode of Platonic . Julio Torres won, Yellowjackets lost, and the panel tried to hit IMDb episode-count bulls-eyes in the second half of the 30 Under 30 Game Time. Leave that deviled-egg remnant right where it is and come join us! GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪑 The Chair Company Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Nashville Around The Dial: 🚒 9-1-1 Around The Dial: 🤡 Devil In Disguise Around The Dial: 😮‍💨 The Alabama Solution The Canon: 🏟️ Platonic S01.E05: My Wife's Boyfriend Winner & Loser: 🔷 Julio Torres Winner & Loser: 🐝 Yellowjackets Game Time: ⬇️ 30 Under 30 Part 2 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site ✍️ Alison Herman at Variety 💺 Alison's review of The Chair Company for Variety 📜 Sarah's review of The Alabama Solution at Best Evidence 📚 Exhibit B. Books 🍆 Tara's interview with Platonic 's Luke Macfarlane 🤝 Alison's review of Platonic S01 📷 Photo: Sarah Shatz / HBO

Oct 8

The fourth season of Monster , Netflix's true crime anthology, concerns itself with Wisconsin serial killer (or was he? (he probably was)) Ed Gein, played by former Queer As Folk cutie Charlie Hunnam. Did it get under our skin? Richard Lawson returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent , Only Connect , and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Richard presents the Season 2 finale of The Traitors Australia for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about the shows select actors did for up to but NOT more than 30 episodes. Take a break from wood chopping and join us! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Monster: The Ed Gein Story Around The Dial: ⛄️ Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Around The Dial: 🔌 Only Connect Around The Dial: 🖖 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Canon: 🪃 The Traitors (AU) S02.E09 Winner & Loser: 🅱️ Ballard Winner & Loser: 🌴 Beverly Hills, 90210 Game Time: ⬇️ 30 Under 30: Part 1 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Richard Lawson on Bluesky ✍🏻 Sarah's review of Monster: The Ed Gein Story at Best Evidence 💂🏻 Richard's profile page (including his Monster: The Ed Gein Story review) at The Guardian 💄 The Listen To Sassy Club 🎹 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranking of the tracks on Billy Joel's The Stranger, with Dan Rogge 📷 Photo: Netflix

Oct 1

Pretend we made a witty "third and taking-too-long" pun, because that's what we -- and guest Kim "Best Thing" Reed -- thought about Glen Powell vehicle Chad Powers . It isn't bad, but between the first-drafty jokes and getting stuck between two tones, we're not sure you should watch all the way to the end zone. Okay, let's ditch the football puns to go Around The Dial with On Brand With Jimmy Fallon , Kim's recent-reality overview, and Sarah's High Maintenance rewatch; and let's see if the panel respected "Authority," Sarah's L&O: SVU Canon pitch. Nicole Beharie won, Mid-Century Modern lost, and we juggled a hot potato of HBO series "lifers" in Game Time. Pair your podcast app with your Cybertruck's sound system and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Drive Update Lead Topic: 🏈 Chad Powers Around The Dial: 📦 On Brand With Jimmy Fallon Around The Dial: 🏃🏻‍♂️ Competitive Reality Roundup Around The Dial: 🚬 High Maintenance The Canon: 🐑 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E17: Authority Winner & Loser: 🩸 All The Sinners Bleed Winner & Loser: 🛋️ Mid-Century Modern Game Time: ↔️ Cap'n Connors's Oops! All HBO Survivors SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🍏 Kim Reed's "Most Awesome Thing" segment in EEHG 374 🏟️ Tara's Chad Powers review at Cracked 💀 Tara's interview with Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson 🌴 Again With This 🪦 Sarah's essay on the passing of Robin Williams 🏀 EHG 212 with the monkey/basketball 🛋️ EHG 556 on Mid-Century Modern 📷 Photo: Disney / Daniel Delgado Jr.

Sep 24

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has reunited with his S03 guest star Ethan Hawke for The Lowdown , a shaggy Tulsa neo-noir. Should you put it high on your list of priorities? We discuss. (Spoiler: yes.) Around The Dial takes us to Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian , The Great Pottery Throw Down , and Lynley . Tara pitches the Regular Show episode "Sleep Cycle" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we finish up with a Game Time on various TV actors' personal and professional histories. Give yourself some rudimentary first aid and join us! GUESTS 👤 Patrick Monahan TOPICS Lead Topic: 📚 The Lowdown Around The Dial: 🤣 Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♀️ Lynley The Canon: 🦝 Regular Show S07.E11: Sleep Cycle Winner & Loser: 🫆 Pete Earley and Gerald Shur Winner & Loser: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is Blind Game Time: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Patrick Monahan on Bluesky 🥃 Tara's review of The Lowdown at Cracked 📰 “Why ‘Rez Dogs’ creator Sterlin Harjo made a love letter to Tulsa and its contradictions” at the Los Angeles Times 🤣 Tara's review of Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian at Cracked 👀 Alan Sepinwall's newsletter, What's Alan Watching? ⏳ The What A Time To Be Alive podcast 🏦 The Extra Hot Great Mutual Aid Vault 🛂 PBS Passport 📷 Photo: Shane Brown / FX

Sep 17

The Morning Show is back to bring us its version of 2024. Can any of us possibly be ready to go back there? Maybe not, but we don't have the strength to resist gorging on The Morning Show 's baloney, either. Morning Show -ologist Christina Tucker returns to talk about it. Around The Dial clicks through Futurama S13, Rivals , and Celebrity Weakest Link , then takes a trip to the cinema for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale . Margaret pitches The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air episode "The Big Four-Oh" -- yes, the one where Aunt Viv slays a dance audition in a clip you've probably watched at least once if not 20 times -- for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close on a Game Time everyone should swipe right on. Get yourself the strongest coffee commercially available and join us! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: ☀️ The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🚀 Futurama Around The Dial: 💷 Rivals Around The Dial: 🔗 The Weakest Link Around The Dial: 🏰 Downton Abbey The Canon: 💃 The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air S02.E07: The Big Four-Oh Winner & Loser: 👨🏻‍⚖️ Presumed Innocent Winner & Loser: 👊 The guy who sucker-punched James McAvoy in Toronto Game Time: 👩🏻‍🦳 Silver Vixens SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Christina Tucker on Bluesky 🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S13 🤦🏻‍♂️ Tara's essay on aka Charlie Sheen 📰 Christina's newsletter, Chaos! It's The New Cocaine! 💿 The hip-hop episode of Celebrity Weakest Link on YouTube 👑 1999: The Podcast on The Thomas Crown Affair , guest-starring Sarah 📷 Photo: Apple

Sep 10

Will Leitch, sportswriter and newspaper journalist, is back to talk about The Office -verse sitcom The Paper -- and whether you should bother with the season that just dropped in its entirety on Peacock. Has the world moved on from the TV mockumentary? Does this show understand what it is to love reporting? And does any of that matter if the show's not quite funny enough? Later, we went Around The Dial with Only Murders In The Building 's fifth season, 30 Rock 's YouTube channel, and Love Con Revenge before Will tried to find room in the Canon budget for Dept. Q 's premiere episode. Going Dutch won, Selena Gomez lost, and we found out who skips the closing credits in Game Time. Take a break from lining that birdcage and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Announcement: 🥴 Drunk Dave Cometh Lead Topic: 📰 The Paper Around The Dial: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building Around The Dial: 🪨 30 Rock Around The Dial: 🖤 Love Con Revenge The Canon: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dept. Q S01.E01: Episode 1 Winner & Loser: 🪖 Going Dutch Winner & Loser: 🍪 Selena Gomez Game Time: 🎶 Outré Outros SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📚 Keep up with all things Will Leitch 🧻 Tara's review of The Paper at Cracked 🏢 Tara's Only Murders S05 review 🪨 30 Rock 's YouTube channel 👠 Step On Me Giganta 🖤 Sarah's review of Love Con Revenge at Best Evidence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our discussion of Dept. Q in EHG 565 🏝 The Lonely Island And Seth Meyers Podcast "Listener Q&A Episode 5" 📷 Photo: Aaron Epstein / Peacock

Sep 3

We are off this week but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 324: This Week In Historical TV: September 4-10, 1991 . Earlier this year, our Patreon supporters unlocked a new milestone, and with it a new annual BONUS bonus episode: This Week In Historical TV! Since we've gone with September 4-10, 1991 and chosen as our lead topic Cast A Deadly Spell , an HBO TV movie that combines classic hard-boiled detective fiction with the works of H.P. Lovecraft, we had to invite Dan Cassino, a fan of both, to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through some highlights of our week in programming: the series premiere of Herman's Head ; an all-timer Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on Gamera vs. Guiron ; Parker Lewis Can't Lose ; and the Merlin Olsen-hosted Fantastic Facts . Tara pitches the S09 Cheers episode "Days Of Wine And Neuroses" for induction into The Canon. Then, after plucking a winner and loser out of the September 6, 1991 issue of Entertainment Weekly , it's on to a Game Time that has us asking many MORE than 19 Questions about the characters, places, and things of the 1991-92 TV season. Send your zombie henchman outside and join us! GUESTS Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic → Cast A Deadly Spell Will Dave Hate This? → The Gambler Returns: The Luck Of The Draw Around The Dial → Herman's Head Around The Dial → Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Around The Dial → Parker Lewis Can't Lose Around The Dial → Fantastic Facts The Canon → Cheers S09.E16: Days Of Wine And Neuroses Winner & Loser → Jack Wagner Winner & Loser → Ramy Zada Game Time → 19 Questions: 1991-92 TV Season Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW Join the EHG Club Shop our store EPISODE NOTES Full episode notes Dan Cassino on Bluesky The Herman's Head pilot on YouTube Mystery Science Theater 3000 's episode on Gamera vs. Guiron on YouTube Parker Lewis Can't Lose S02.E04 on YouTube Dark Justice on Wikipedia Dark Justice on the Internet Archive Photo: HBO

Aug 27

We haven't heard much from creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg since BoJack Horseman ended in early 2020, but he's back with a new animated family dramedy, Long Story Short , which has already been picked up for a second season. Are we excited to lengthen our time with it? New guest Eli Yudin joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial clicks through Peacemaker S02, Zach Galifianakis: Live At The Purple Onion , and Smoke . Mlle. Caroline pitches the Andor episode "Who Are You?" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a particularly fraternal Game Time. Grab some kugel and join us! GUESTS 👤 Eli Yudin TOPICS Announcement: 🤏 Patreon Update Lead Topic: 🕍 Long Story Short Around The Dial: 🕊️ Peacemaker Around The Dial: 🧅 Zach Galifianakis: Live At The Purple Onion Around The Dial: 🚒 Smoke The Canon: ⁉️ Andor S02.E08: Who Are You? Winner & Loser: 🌃 Saturday Night Live Winner & Loser: 📜 Lifetime's non-scripted team Game Time: 👯‍♂️ All In The Family SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 👨🏻‍💻 Eli Yudin's website 🗣️ Tara's Paul Reiser interview at Cracked ✌️ Tara's Peacemaker S02 review at Cracked 🎤 Eli's standup special Humble Offering on YouTube 📚 "The Dog-Eared Days Of Summer" sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Netflix

Aug 20

Amanda Knox's arrest for murder in Italy became a sensational true crime story...so of course it is now the subject of a scripted true crime series. Did we find it sensational? Eve Batey joins us to discuss it. Around The Dial lands on North Of North , The Yogurt Shop Murders , Back To The Frontier , and The Fixer . Tara pitches the Friends episode "The One With Russ" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that knows: triples is best. Put down your old cell phone and your platter of pasta and join us! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍝 The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox Around The Dial: 🧭 North Of North Around The Dial: 🍦 The Yogurt Shop Murders Around The Dial: 🪵 Back To The Frontier Around The Dial: 🛠️ The Fixer The Nonac: 🍷 Friends S02.E10: The One With Russ Winner & Loser: 📞 Wendell Pierce Winner & Loser: 🚨 MS Now Game Time: 3️⃣ Three For All SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Eve Batey on Bluesky ❄️ North Of North Outfits at Victoria Jacket 💩 " And Just Like That Goes Out With A 'Bah'" at Cracked 🍦 " The Yogurt Shop Murders Unpacks 'The Craziest Crime In Texas'" at Vanity Fair 📰 The Pleat ⚒️ " The Fixer : Marcus Lemonis's New Show Is Very Similar To The Profit " at Reality Blurred 🔎 Best Evidence 👯‍♂️ " Friends : Why Russ Is Played By 'Snaro' (When It's Really David Schwimmer)" at ScreenRant 😉 "'Diner Wink' Full Sketch - I Think You Should Leave Season 2" [origin of "triples is best"] on YouTube 📷 Photo: Hulu

Aug 13

The Alien -verse has landed on TV with Noah Hawley's re-imagining (or pre-imagining) of the xenomorphic worlds of the film series -- and Andrew Cunningham has landed back in the guest chair to talk about telepathic blackmail, when hearing is scarier than seeing, and acting choices that don't make sense. Is this essential viewing, or should you jump in a shuttle and bail? Later, we went Around The Dial with War Of The Worlds 2025, The Gilded Age , It's Always Sunny , and American Prince: JFK Jr. before the panel stared into the abyss of Sarah's Sopranos Canon pitch. The Yellowstone -verse won, the Sussexes lost, and we kicked off a new Game Time season with a real facehugger. Skip that cryo-nap and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great instead! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham TOPICS Lead Topic: 👽 Alien: Earth Around The Dial: 🌎 War Of The Worlds Around The Dial: 🚂 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 😎 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Around The Dial: 🤴 American Prince: JFK Jr. The Canon: 👠 The Sopranos S02.E07: D-Girl Winner & Loser: 🐮 Y: Marshals Winner & Loser: 👑 Harry and Meghan Game Time: 🫦 They Mostly Come At Night SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky 📚 Andrew's book pod with Craig Getting, Overdue 👨🏻‍💻 Andrew at Ars Technica 🌍 Tara's War Of The Worlds review at Cracked 👵🏻 "Oldies but goodies" on sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Patrick Brown / FX

Aug 6

Fifteen years after its series finale on Fox, King Of The Hill is back with its fourteenth season, now at on Hulu. Is it worth yelling from the mountains about? We discuss. Around The Dial stops at The Yogurt Shop Murders and S21 of Project Runway . Tara pitches the Close Enough episode "Secret Horse" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close with a Non-Regulation Game Time that's on the level. Grab a can of Alamo and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤠 King Of The Hill Around The Dial: 🍦 The Yogurt Shop Murders Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway The Canon: 🐴 Close Enough S02.E16: Secret Horse Winner & Loser: 🕵 The Tennessee high school forensic club that solves cold cases Winner & Loser: 📝 Temuera Morrison Game Time: ⚖️ Oops! All Equalizer Challenge Zones SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🗣️ Brian VanHooker's interview with King Of The Hill writer Norm Hiscock at Cracked 🍺 Tara's review of King Of The Hill S14 at Cracked 📅 Tara's ranking of the King Of The Hill's season premiere's most self-consciously 2025 jokes, at Cracked 🦤 Nicholas Quah's review of King Of The Hill S14 at Vulture 🍦 "The Yogurt Shop Murders Unpacks 'The Craziest Crime In Texas'" by Eve Batey at Vanity Fair 🔍 "HBO's Smart New Docuseries Takes On The Yogurt Shop Murders -- And True Crime Itself" by Sam Adams at Slate 📽️ "9 Clips To Remind You Why Kristen Johnston Is One Of The Greatest Living Comedic Actors" at Cracked 🧑‍🏫 Classroom Essentials Lists at Donors Choose 🎠 Secret Horse

Jul 30

Critic and podcaster Mark Blankenship returns to The Blankenship Chair to discuss Hitmakers , a reality show about songwriters that needs less contrived drama and more process -- but did appeal to a couple of our panelists as eye candy. Should you give it a try, or wait until one of its pop creations comes on in an elevator? We went Around The Dial with Happy Gilmore 2 , Million Dollar Secret , The Challenge 41 , and The Gilded Age spoilers before tapping our toes to a Canon pitch for Buffy 's musical episode. A nepo Beatty won, Resident Alien lost, and Non-Regulation Game Time struck a chord with another round of Tube Tunes. We don't want to call it "fire," but it IS an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Announcement: ❤️‍🔥 EHG Club Update Lead Topic: 🤩 Hitmakers Around The Dial: 🏒 Happy Gilmore 2 Around The Dial: 🤑 Million Dollar Secret Around The Dial: 🏂 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🐎 The Gilded Age The Canon: 👩🏻‍🎤 Buffy The Vampire Slayer S06.E07: Once More With Feeling Winner & Loser: 🪓 Ella Beatty Winner & Loser: 👽 Resident Alien Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XVI SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 💿 Mark Blankenship's Lost Songs Project ⛳️ The one Happy Gilmore 2 joke that made Tara laugh 👍 Tara's appreciation of Christopher McDonald 😳 A ranking of all the HG2 non-sports cameos 🔪 The latest true-crime reviews at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Netflix

Jul 24

Well, we all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone -- even Billy Joel, who has decided to take his out for Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a two-part HBO docu-series about his life and work. Should he have kept it to himself (it's his life)? Daniel Blau Rogge returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through S02 of Digman!, The Comeback, and Billionaire Boys' Club. Dan presents the Hacks episode "The Roast Of Deborah Vance" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to Game Time, in which we're listening…to celebrity Frasier callers. Say Goodbye To Hollywood and hello to a new episode! GUESTS 👤 Dan Blau Rogge TOPICS Announcement: 🍎 EHG Apple Podcast Subscription Lead Topic: 🎹 Billy Joel: And So It Goes Around The Dial: 🪏 Digman! Around The Dial: 🥊 The Comeback Around The Dial: 💰 Billionaire Boys' Club The Canon: 🎤 Hacks S03.E03: The Roast Of Deborah Vance Winner & Loser: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 High-Concept Dating Shows Winner & Loser: 🙂 Happy Face Game Time: 📻 Notable Residents of Seattle SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Daniel Blau Rogge on Bluesky 🪏 Tara's Digman! S02 review at Cracked 🛍️ EHG 336, including our discussion of Shangri-La Plaza 🪨 Dan on the Glass Houses ranking episode of Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 💁🏻‍♂️ Listen To Sassy 141, featuring Dan 🤦🏻‍♂️ Listen To Sassy 142, also featuring Dan 👨🏻‍💻 Dan's website 🍪 Adopt A (PBS) Station 📷 Photo: Courtesy of Art Maillett / Sony Music Archives / HBO

Jul 16

Lena Dunham is back with Netflix romcom Too Much -- and so is Maris Kreizman, to discuss Dunham's return to the discourse, whether we can separate the creator from the show, and what the panelists who didn't care for it still think it did really well. We went Around The Dial with American Horror Stories 's third season, Veronica Mars 's FIRST season, and Ballard , and Tara hoped we'd come to praise AND bury "the Giamatti episode" of Black Mirror for the Canon. Richard Gadd won, Today 's Craig Melvin lost (while letting Rick Springfield also win), and getting "home free" proved a challenge in a tagline-based Game Time. Throw a nightie on your favorite pet and join us! GUESTS 👤 Maris Kreizman TOPICS Lead Topic: 💂🏻 Too Much Around The Dial: 😱 American Horror Stories Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 🅱️ Ballard The Canon: 🪞 Black Mirror S07.E05: Eulogy Winner & Loser: 🦌 Richard Gadd Winner & Loser: 🥱 Craig Melvin Game Time: 👉 Tag, You're It SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📇 Maris Kreizman's website 🧨 An excerpt from Maris's new book, I Want To Burn This Place Down , at Rolling Stone 🦋 Maris on Bluesky 🪞 Extra Hot Great 558 on Black Mirror S07 🇬🇧 Tara's review of Too Much 👐 Kerr County Flood Relief Fund ✍🏻 ProPublica's local reporting network 📷 Photo: Ana Blumenkron / Netflix

Jul 9

In the grand tradition of our drafts for Law & Order and the Star Trek franchise, we're using this special episode to draft teams of staff, patients, loved ones, and inanimate shows from ER -- and who better to join us than Laura Hampton, a PA known to us from our Discord as an ER superfan who recently completed a full rewatch of the entire series? No one, which is why she's here picking a team AND organized the draft with the correct number of each category of character for us to choose from. Now we're going to need YOU to vote for which team reigns supreme! Laura also presents Doug saving Ben from a flooding storm drain in "Hell And High Water" for induction into the Hero category of the Tiny Canon. Finally, we close with an on-theme game about body parts in the names of TV shows and actors. Get listening, STAT! GUESTS 👤 Laura Hampton TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏥 ER Draft Tiny Canon: 🌊 ER S02.E07: Hell and High Water Game Time: 🫁 The Body Keeps The Score SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🩻 Final ER draft picks from Laura, Tara and Sarah 📊 Poll: Best ER Lineup 📊 Poll: Hospital You'd Most Want To Be A Patient At 💵 Donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds 💉 Your Local Epidemiologist on Substack 📚 LibraryFinder

Jul 2

We are off this week but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 343: Should You Sign On To With Love, Meghan? It's clear the former Meghan Markle wants to do something significant with her British-royal influence; it's also clear her new Netflix homekeeping show, With Love, Meghan , isn't that. Stephanie Early Green is back to talk about why it's so dull, what might have helped, and how Martha Stewart succeeded where Meghan Sussex fails. Ask EHG wondered who would replace Noel Fielding on GBBO and which characters we'd want on our bar-trivia teams, and then Tara pitched a lyrical SNL sketch for the Tiny Canon. And after we listed our Not Quite Winners and Losers of the week, Sarah's Extra Credit polled the panel on important princesses of television. Throw on a $300 linen apron and join us! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS 15s Of Fame: 🤬 The Good Swear Lead Topic: 🕯️ With Love, Meghan Ask EHG: 🎂 Replacing Noel Fielding Tiny Canon: 🏀 Saturday Night Live S38.E18: Vince Vaughn Winner & Loser: 🃏 Poker Face Winner & Loser: 🏈 Tracy Morgan Winner & Loser: 🍄 The Last Of Us Winner & Loser: 🏢 Keegan-Michael Key Winner & Loser: 💜 Prince's estate Winner & Loser: ⛹️‍♂️ Running Point Winner & Loser: 📉 The Recruit Winner & Loser: 🎥 Arrested Development Winner & Loser: 🥀 Bachelor co-EPs Michael Margolis and Keely Booth Extra Credit: 🫅 Important TV Princesses Mini: 👑 The Royal Them SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 💚 More from Stephanie Early Green at her website 📖 Vanity Fair 's Harry 'n' Meghan cover story 🤨 “Meghan Markle Pioneers New Frontiers in Unrelatability” by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture 🗣️ “The Meghan Interview” at People 📷 Photo: Netflix

Jun 25

Like a lot of family-owned businesses, Havenport, North Carolina's Buckley Fishery is having a rough go of it lately. If they can't make their nut and pay all their employees on fish alone, maybe...smuggling cocaine will make up the shortfall? What could go wrong?! Jessica Morgan returns to talk about the ways Kevin Williamson's new show crosses over with the one we know him for best ( Dawson's Creek ), and the ways it doesn't but that we WISH it would. Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of The Gilded Age , The Valley , and Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy . Sarah pitches the Law & Order episode "Empire" -- aka "The Julia Roberts One" -- for induction into The Canon. Then, after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a game that's naming names -- lots of them. Grab a serving of fresh oysters and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Announcement: 🏦 EHG Mutual Aid Vault Lead Topic: 🌊 The Waterfront Around The Dial: 👒 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 😎 The Valley Around The Dial: 🏟️ Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order S09.E20: Empire Winner & Loser: ⭐️ Five-Star Weekend Winner & Loser: 😱 Ryan Murphy Game Time: 🪞 Same Name Game SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Jessica Morgan on Bluesky 🔥 Extra Hot Great Club 🏦 Contact Sarah about making a deposit to or withdrawal from the Extra Hot Great Mutual Aid Vault at bunting@tomatonation.com 🔫 "Kevin Williamson Reveals How His Dad's Sordid Past Inspired New Crime Drama 'The Waterfront': 'He Paid The Price'" at the New York Post 🤰🏻 "'Adults' Takes A Strong Stance On Abortion: Everyone Deserves Access, Including Jerks" at Cracked 🌴 Again With This's Membership Campaign 👗 Go Fug Yourself 🍹 The Drinks With Broads Newsletter 📚 Save On True-Crime Paperbacks at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Dana Hawley / Netflix

Jun 18

And that truth is: none of us thinks you should bother, including returning guest Will Leitch, who agrees that We Were Liars moves too slowly; shows AND tells too fart-sniffily; wastes the talents of an impressive cast, including Mamie Gummer and David Morse; and is based on a property whose author sounds fake. We went Around The Dial with the very real The Chicken Sisters , Untold , and The Mortician before Tara's Canon pitch reunited us with Party Down 's third-season premiere. General Hospital won, Doctor Odyssey (maybe??) lost, and Dan Cassino got us all a volume discount on long-running shows in Game Time. Cannonball verrrrrry sloooowwwly into our all-new episode now! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤥 We Were Liars Around The Dial: 🐔 The Chicken Sisters Around The Dial: 🏟️ Untold Around The Dial: 🪦 The Mortician Around The Dial: 👺 The Devil's Plan The Canon: 🎉 Party Down S03.E01: Kyle Bradway Is Nitromancer Winner & Loser: 🏥 General Hospital Winner & Loser: 🚢 Doctor Odyssey Game Time: 📺 Intermittent FASTing SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🎶 Will Leitch on the Rick Astley/popularity conundrum 🏙️ Will at NYMag 📰 Will at WaPo 📚 Buy Will's books 🎉 EHG 448 on the return of Party Down 😝 Tara runs down the best non- Daily Show comedic performances by TDS cast on Cracked 💀 Sarah reviews The Mortician 📖 Exhibit B.'s paperback sale 📷 Photo: Amazon Content Services LLC

Jun 11

Summer is upon us, but what are we going to watch? Robert Krut joins us to help make our traditional lists of what we're into; what we should be into but aren't; what NO ONE should be into; and what's fine for others but not for us. Dave pitches the South Side episode "Treat Yourself" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close out with a Game Time that's pure poetry. Find a spot directly in front of a fan and join us! GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Announcement: 🏦 EHG Mutual Aid Vault Lead Topic: 🏖️ 2025 Summer TV Preview The Canon: 🦝 South Side S02.E01: Treat Yourself Winner & Loser: 👨‍🍳 Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Winner & Loser: 🩰 Étoile Game Time: ☘️ There Once Was A Man From TV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🪶 Robert Krut's website 🌴 The Again With This Club campaign ✊ CHIRLA / Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights 🙊 Sarah's review of Ask Not at Best Evidence 🏦 How to reach Sarah for Mutual Aid Vault withdrawals 🥮 EEHG 323, including Dave's "Treat Yourself" pitch for the Anger Tiny Canon 🎙️ Tara's interview with Bashir Salahuddin at Cracked

Jun 4

David T.'s beautiful son Taylor S. Cole is back to discuss Dept. Q , a Scottish take on a Nordic-noir book series that has the good sense not to mess with star Matthew Goode's face. Chemistry in trope-y scenes, why Scandi crime stories often have a submarine, whether the mystery needed so many episodes to solve -- we're talking about all of that AND recommending actually Nordic Nordic-noir TV if you liked Dept. Q . Then we're going Around The Dial with Mountainhead , The Rehearsal , and The Last Of Us S01 before seeing whether Taylor can do his entire The Studio Canon pitch before we lose the light. True-crime actors won, late night lost some more, and three was the magic number for one of us in Game Time. Throw on a nubbly sweater and join us! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Announcement: 📈 Club Campaign Announcement: 🎧 Incoming Apple Podcast Changes Lead Topic: 🛗 Dept. Q Around The Dial: 🏔️ Mountainhead Around The Dial: 👨‍✈️ The Rehearsal Around The Dial: 🍄 The Last Of Us The Canon: 🎥 The Studio S01.E02: The Oner Winner & Loser: 🪙 Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner Winner & Loser: 🌙 Late-night prestige Game Time: 3️⃣ SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🎞️ Hear more Taylor S. Cole at the G&T Podcast 🐝 Taylor's also headed to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast 🪞 And the Demi Myself and I podcast 🐸 AND the Muppeturgy podcast ⛰️ Tara's Mountainhead review and ATX Festival coverage at Cracked 😻 Support Bookstore Cats 🔥 The Extra Hot Great Patreon 📷 Photo: Netflix

May 28

Matt Wolf ( The Stroll ) got unprecedented access to Paul Reubens, generally better known as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman; Will Hines joins us to talk about what resulted from their 40 hours of interviews. Around The Dial takes us through Big Mouth 's eighth and final season; The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox , and Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals . Sean makes his pitch for the "Long, Long Time" episode of The Last Of Us to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really knows the score. Put on your reddest bow tie and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚲 Pee-wee As Himself Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: ⚾️ The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox Around The Dial: 🏀 Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals The Canon: 🍄 The Last Of Us S01.E03: Long, Long Time Winner & Loser: 📣 Taran Killam Winner & Loser: 🤬 Charles Barkley Game Time: 🎶 Stay Tuned SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📸 Will Hines on Instagram 🫦 Tara's review of Big Mouth S08 at Cracked 🗣️ Tara's interview with Big Mouth co-creators Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, and Mark Levin, at Cracked 🪲 The Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About The Beatles podcast 👤 Will Hines's website 🔎 Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Dennis Keeley/HBO

May 21

Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk is back to talk about Apple TV+'s Murderbot , and whether the books do a better job of exploring questions of gender and essential humanity without Alexander Skarsgard's Ken-doll crotch confusing matters. Should YOU give it a watch? We went Around The Dial with Overcompensating , Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives , and Leverage: Redemption 's third season before Anne offered another variation on the Utahn theme with a Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City Canon Presentation. Kelli Giddish won, Tom Hardy lost, and we all tried to survive the process of Venn-diagramming premiere and finale casting in Game Time. Hack into your governor modules and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤖 Murderbot Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Overcompensating Around The Dial: ⏳ Kids Right Now Shows Around The Dial: 🎭 The Rehearsal Around The Dial: 🤫 The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives Around The Dial: 🥷 Leverage: Redemption The Canon: 🧂 The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City S04.E16: Mysteries, Revealed? Winner & Loser: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 🦴 Tom Hardy Game Time: 🛟 Survivor Round II SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦤 Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture 🦋 Kathryn on Bluesky 🌮 The ATX Festival 🤖 Kathryn's Murderbot review at Vulture 🏋️‍♀️ Tara's Overcompensating review at Cracked 🏦 Contact Buntsy about the EHG Mutual Aid Vault 📷 Photo: Apple CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

May 14

After more than two years, Rian Johnson's Poker Face -- aka "What if Columbo , but a lady named Charlie who's a human lie detector" -- is back for its second season on Peacock. Does it still deliver a pleasing throwback mystery vibe? David J. Roth returns to discuss. Around The Dial takes us through the second season of Conan O'Brien Must Go and Netflix's special Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize For American Humor ; Killing It ; and Untold: Shooting Guards . Mike presents the episode "A Mercy" from The Terror for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with a very long drive between fictional TV cities in America -- hey, kind of like Charlie! Gas up and join us! GUESTS 👤 David J. Roth TOPICS Announcement: 🍹 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: 🃏 Poker Face Around The Dial: ✈️ Conan O'Brien Must Go Around The Dial: 🤣 Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize For American Humor Around The Dial: 🐊 Killing It Around The Dial: 🏀 Untold: Shooting Guards The Canon: ⚓️ The Terror S01.E06: A Mercy Winner & Loser: 🥊 Mike "The Miz" Mizanin Winner & Loser: 🏈 Tom Brady Game Time: 🚘 The Great American Fictional TV Road Trip SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 David J. Roth on Bluesky ♠️ Tara's review of Poker Face S02 🤩 "John Mulaney Is One Of The Best TV Comedy Guest Stars Ever" by Tara at Cracked 📍 Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go S02 at Cracked 🤗 Tara's review of Friendship at Cracked 🏆 Dave Roth's write-up on Killing It in "The Best Things We Saw In 2024" at Defector 💥 The Distraction podcast 🎄 The It's Christmastown! podcast 🔫 Sarah's review of Whack Job at Best Evidence 🗺️ The Road Trip Game Time Map 📷 Photo: Peacock

May 7

Did Alan Alda vehicle The Four Seasons need an eight-part dramedy reboot? The panel -- joined by Alyson Lewis of Cracked -- doesn't think so, although one of us enjoyed returning to a version of a property that aired constantly on HBO in the mid-eighties. But did the story need this many episodes, or this downbeat a tone? Do we enjoy this iteration of a Tina Fey character? And why is a certain actor almost certain to get killed in prestige programs like this? Later, we went Around The Dial with Taskmaster 's 19th season, The Mary Tyler Moore Show , and The Clubhouse , and Tara hoped Mary (and "That Woman") would make it into the Canon. Kali Reis won, Disney lost, and we synchronized our schedules for a timely Non-Regulation Game Time. Boot up your favorite second-screen farm game and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Alyson Lewis TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍂 The Four Seasons Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Around The Dial: 😺 The Mary Tyler Moore Show S05.E04: Lou And That Woman Around The Dial: 🧦 The Clubhouse: A Year With The Boston Red Sox Around The Dial: 🚀 Andor Winner & Loser: 🏦 12 12 12 Winner & Loser: 🏹 Disney Game Time: 📆 Let Me Check My Calendar SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 😵‍💫 More from Alyson Lewis at Yes I Was High When I Wrote This 🌷 Tara's review of The Four Seasons at Cracked 🔪 Tara's Jason Mantzoukas interview at Cracked 🐈 Cookie the foster cat needs a forever home 📷 Photo: Jon Pack / Netflix

Apr 30

Heather wanted us to watch a 29-year-old Sam Elliott playing a cowboy in a Season 2 episode of The Streets Of San Francisco , and who were we to resist? We tell you whether the episode's worth ripping off your pearl snap shirt over. Our latest Ask EHG takes us through questions about, among others, our most out-of-character favorite shows and the strangest places we've ever run into someone we knew. Sarah pitches "Smizing" for the TV coinage Tiny Canon. Then, after sharing a new batch of Not Quite Top 11 lists, we close up by recasting famous original CSI . Find yourself a comfortable bunk and listen! TOPICS Forcening Pool: 🌉 The Streets Of San Francisco S02.E21: The Hard Breed Ask EHG: 😩 Coping With Everything Tiny Canon: 👁️ America's Next Top Model S13.E03: Fortress Of Fierceness Not Quite Top 11: 😵 Defunct TV Networks Not Quite Top 11: 🌨️ Significant TV Snow Not Quite Top 11: ⚠️ Cleopatra 2525 Character Names Extra Credit: 🔬 Recast This: C.S.I. Mini: 🎸 Mark's TV Forcening (Jan 2014) SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐮 The Streets Of San Francisco S02.E21: The Hard Breed on DailyMotion 🙏 Volunteer Match 👄 "'America's Next Top Model' recap: Private smeyes, watching you" at Entertainment Weekly 🤢 Our Nonac discussion of "Amends" in EHG 024

Apr 23

Most weeks, we confront our guests with a Thought Experiment to compile for an end-of-year special. But this time, we're the ones in the hot seat. We asked our friends -- past podcast guests all -- to challenge us with TV-themed Would You Rather? They came through in a big way with hypothetical choices that really set us to some soul-searching. Listen to hear what decisions we're being forced to make! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📚 Pre-order Will Leitch's latest novel Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride on Bookshop 🛋️ The original credits sequence for what was then called Friends Like Us 😳 "Seinfeld In Oz" on Dailymotion 📺 The Decoding TV podcast

Apr 16

Black Mirror is back with a seventh season packed with miso jam, thronglings, classic film, Christian counseling services, a whole artists' commune, and more; Brandi Brown joins us to discuss what goes down (sometimes...way down). Around The Dial takes us through Hacks , The Syd + TP Show , and Top Chef . Tara attempts to get yet another game night sitcom episode into The Canon with Will & Grace 's "Alley Cats." Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we're trying to get closest to the pin with Return Of The Return Of The Steep Incline Climber. Put that nubbin on your temple and listen! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪞 Black Mirror Around The Dial: 😂 Hacks Around The Dial: 🏀 The Syd + TP Show Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🪒 Peaky Blinders Announcement: 🏦 The EHG Mutual Aid Vault The Canon: 🎳 Will & Grace S01.E21: Alley Cats Winner & Loser: 👴🏻 The Bold And The Beautiful Winner & Loser: 💩 Mickey Rourke Game Time: 🧗‍♂️ Return Of The Return Of The Steep Incline Climber SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🔗 Brandi Brown on Linktree 🪞 Tara's review of Black Mirror S07 at Cracked 🥚 "Every Black Mirror Easter Egg In Season 7" at Vulture 🌃 Tara's review of Hacks S04 at Cracked ⛹🏽‍♀️ The Syd + TP Show on YouTube 🎟️ Tickets for Brandi's May 7 show at Turf Club in Saint Paul 🎙️ Tickets to see Brandi among the performers at Rifftrax & Friends at Minneapolis's Parkway Theater 👁️ The Crime Seen podcast 📷 Photo: Nick Wall / Netflix

Apr 9

The Ankler's awards editor, Katey Rich, thinks Hulu/FX's new dramedy Dying For Sex -- about dying, kink exploration, and friendship love stories -- might be in line for some awards love. Did the panel agree? Listen for our discussion, plus Holofcener vibes, useless men, and rooting for Dawson's alums. We went Around The Dial with The Amazing Race , St. Denis Medical , and Andy Kaufman doc Thank You Very Much , and Katey lured us onto the corporate jet of a third-season 30 Rock episode. Olivia Munn won, legendary TAR teams lost, and we found out which TV set elements are bigger than breadboxes in a special Katey Edition of Game Time. Invite Neighbor Guy over and listen now! GUESTS 👤 Katey Rich TOPICS Announcement: 🏦 EHG Mutual Aid Vault Lead Topic: ⚰️ Dying For Sex Around The Dial: 🏃🏻‍♂️ The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🚑 St. Denis Medical Around The Dial: 🎙️ Thank You Very Much The Canon: 🏫 30 Rock S03.E05 Reunion Winner & Loser: 👩‍🚀 Olivia Munn Winner & Loser: 🌍 Will Forte and Val Kilmer's agents Game Time: 🙋🏼‍♀️ 19 Questions: Katey Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Follow Katey Rich on Bluesky 🏆 The Prestige Junkie podcast 🎧 The Fighting In The War Room podcast 🥀 Tara's Dying For Sex review at Cracked ⛰️ Vanity Fair 's Twin Peaks feature 📚 20% off "plus-ones" at Exhibit B. Books CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Apr 2

Will & Grace co-creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are back with a throwback multi-cam sitcom that isn't Gay Golden Girls , but isn't NOT Gay Golden Girls . Would we travel down the road and back again for more? Joe Reid joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Last One Laughing UK , Shrinking , Adolescence , The Pitt , and Gone Girls . Joe pitches the Simpsons episode "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" for induction into the Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's more hard work than usual. Put down the cottage cheese and listen! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛋️ Mid-Century Modern Around The Dial: 💂🏻 Last One Laughing UK Around The Dial: 🧠 Shrinking Around The Dial: 👦🏻 Adolescence Around The Dial: 🏥 The Pitt Around The Dial: 🫥 Gone Girls Announcement: 🏦 The EHG Mutual Aid Vault The Nonac: ☂️ The Simpsons Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious Winner & Loser: 🔪 Scripted true crime Winner & Loser: 🏰 Citadel Game Time: 🥩 Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Joe Reid on Bluesky 🪞 Tara's Mid-Century Modern review at Cracked 🪦 "Linda Lavin's Husband Reveals Her Touching Final Words" at ExtraTV.com ⚔️ Tara's Side Quest review at Cracked 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz 🎬 Demi, Myself & I 🦤 Joe at Vulture 📷 Photo: Disney / Chris Haston

Mar 26

Muppeturgy's Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about Shondaland's latest show for Netflix, The Residence , which takes us behind the scenes at the White House via a murder mystery -- but could the stellar cast make up for a too-long runtime and not-funny-enough writing? Do we have an Only Murders In The West Wing copycat problem? And should you bother watching? We went Around The Dial with The Righteous Gemstones , Smash on Broadway, and B-B-B-B-Bosch: Legacy 's swan-song season, and Adam hoped he could train the panel to vote a first-season Murder, She Wrote into the Canon. Project Runway won, Netflix lost, and it came down to the wire in a very (equalizer) challenging Game Time. Grab that Audubon off the windowsill and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏛️ The Residence Around The Dial: 💎 The Righteous Gemstones Around The Dial: 🎼 Smash Around The Dial: 🅱️ Bosch: Legacy Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil: Born Again Around The Dial: 🍄‍🟫 Scavengers Reign The Canon: 🐶 Murder, She Wrote S01.E06: It's A Dog's Life Winner & Loser: 👠 Project Runway Winner & Loser: 🎙️ Netflix Game Time: ⚖️ Cap’n Grosswirth’s Oops! All Equalizers SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast 🔪 Tara's review of The Residence at Cracked 🔚 Not watching to the end? Here's Decider's recap of the finale ✝️ Tara's review of The Righteous Gemstones at Cracked 🙂 Sarah's review of Happy Face at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Jessica Brooks / Netflix CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Mar 19

Patreon supporters earn the right to "forcen" us to watch TV episodes of their choosing, and while we usually never know what we're going to get, this time we each made a selection from the list of submissions. Was Dave worshipful of The Chosen 's "The Rock On Which It Is Built"? Did Tara want to take The Young Ones episode "Bambi" out back and shoot its mom? Did Sarah thrill to the artistry of Hustle 's series premiere, "The Con Is On"? Listen, find out, and then (if you haven't already) join us on Patreon to tell us what we should watch next! TOPICS Forcening Pool: 🐟 The Chosen S01.E04: The Rock On Which It Is Built Forcening Pool: 🧷 The Young Ones S02.E01: Bambi Forcening Pool: 💷 Hustle S01.E01: The Con Is On SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

Mar 12

We all love the series regulars on our favorite shows. But the magic of episodic television is that someone can pop into your life for just an hour, or 22 minutes, or maybe even just one scene, and make an impression that lasts a lifetime. Your co-hosts invited Jeff Drake to join us for a special episode in which we winnowed down our Sweet 16 of one-off TV characters to the one that, in this particular bracket, towers above them all. Listen to find out who the ONE one-off champion turned out to be! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: ☝️ The One-Off Character Bracket SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🧀 Jerem from 30 Rock 🛶 Lord Flashheart from Blackadder II 🎹 New Joe from I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson 🔫 Agent Miller from Justified 🪖 Hans Schmidt from Band Of Brothers 😏 Dan Moody from I'm Alan Partridge 🗣️ More Dan 🍭 Sweet from Buffy The Vampire Slayer 😇 Reverend Chatfield from The Mary Tyler Moore Show 🛌 Emily Hartley from Newhart 🤟 Laura from Seinfeld 👩‍⚖️ Katrina Ludlow from Law & Order 📻 80s Guy from Futurama 📉 More 80s Guy 🍼 Mr. Peters from The Dick Van Dyke Show 🐎 Anne Berrisford from Beverly Hills, 90210 👟 Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons 👏 Roger from Friends

Mar 5

Obviously, we couldn't have anyone else come discuss Running Point but Krystal Farmer -- so thank God she agreed, and we went deep on everything from the charms of Kate Hudson to how much of a sport a sports-com should show, plus dumb pro-team fonts and believable sibling energy. Later, we went Around The Dial with Grosse Pointe Garden Society , Futurama on Hulu, and On Call , and Tara schooled us with her A.P. Bio Canon pitch. Éanna Hardwicke won, the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment lost, and we celebrated the leading ladies of TV in Game Time. It's that that that time again: time to listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Krystal Farmer TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏀 Running Point Around The Dial: 🌷 Grosse Pointe Garden Society Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♂️ On Call Announcement: 📢 The EHG Mutual Aid Vault The Canon: 🧫 A.P. Bio S03.E06: That That That Winner & Loser: 🙋‍♂️ Éanna Hardwicke Winner & Loser: 🪦 The Oscars In Memoriam segment Game Time: 🏋️‍♀️ Strong Female Lead SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Krystal Farmer on Bluesky 🪙 The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast 🏀 Tara's Running Point review for Cracked 🧺 Tara on TV basketball comedies, also for Cracked 🔥 The Extra Hot Great Club page 📷 Photo: Katrina Marcinowski / Netflix CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Feb 26

After Suits became a surprise streaming hit a couple of years back, of course NBCUniversal couldn't resist going back to the well, and that's how we got the spinoff Suits LA . Is it facing contempt charges? Kari Race returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through The Baldwins , Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years Of SNL Music , Dear Child , America Undercover and A Thousand Blows . Kari makes the case for inducting an episode of Kroll Show into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that could spell doom for some. Take your suit off -- or put another one on -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Kari Race TOPICS Lead Topic: 👔 Suits LA Around The Dial: 🇪🇸 The Baldwins Around The Dial: 🎸 Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years Of SNL Music Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Dear Child Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 America Undercover Around The Dial: 🥊 A Thousand Blows (AKB) The Canon: 🚽 Kroll Show S03.E05: The In Addition Tos Winner & Loser: 🏆 Martin Short Winner & Loser: 🌃 Saturday Night Live Game Time: 👤 Guess Who? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Kari Race on Bluesky 👋 "Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life" at New York magazine 😬 Richard Lawson's review of The Baldwins at Vanity Fair 😥 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of The Baldwins at Vulture 🎙️ Tara's interview with Anthony Michael Hall at Cracked 🏠 Charlie's 80s Attic 🤔 Hey, Remember The 80s? 🥶 "The Ice Man: Kuklinski, Soprano, and an unjustly forgotten doc series" at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: David Astorga / NBC

Feb 19

The White Lotus is finally back, and so is novelist and Variety columnist Dan D'Addario to talk about a new locale for familiar hateful-richies storylines. We also talked about who we think gets killed, the most and least successful guest storylines, David Lynch, and what happens when a pandemic lark breaks big for premium cable, before going Around The Dial with Cobra Kai , Yellowjackets , and Lorne Michaels. Dan couldn't help but wonder if his And Just Like That... Canon pitch would succeed; Queens won and Ray Romano lost (guess everybody DIDN'T love him back in the day); and a familiar Game Time had us flipping through the PICI-to-English dictionary. Before you pass out at the dinner table, have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel D’Addario TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪷 The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai Around The Dial: 🌃 Lorne (A BOOK!) Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets The Canon: 💅 And Just Like That S02.E03: Chapter Three Winner & Loser: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Jamaica Bay, NY Winner & Loser: 👨🏻 Ray Romano Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 📺 Netflix + Apple Game Time: 🗣️ Lost In Translation 2025 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📕 All things Dan D'addario 🏆 Read Dan D'Addario's forthcoming novel, The Talent , available at Bookshop! 📺 Variety's 100 Best TV Performances of the 21st century ✍🏻 The New Yorker 's recent Mike White profile 🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked 🦅 Tara's Jacob Bertrand interview 📚 True-crime reading recs at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: HBO

Feb 12

Family Feud is a game show that has delighted audiences for decades by challenging teams of related players to guess answers supplied by randomly selected survey subjects. Completely unrelatedly, our latest special episode, Kinfolk Kerfuffle , has contestants trying to match poll answers submitted by our Discord members. Dave presides as chosen family Tara, Sarah, Adam Grosswirth, and Kim Reed take on handpicked tribe Taylor Cole, Dan Cassino, Larra Morris, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones. It's time to play the Feud Kerfuffle ! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Taylor Cole 👤 Adam Grosswirth 👤 Larra Morris 👤 Kim Reed 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤬 Kinfolk Kerfuffle SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🗳️ The results of the survey in Google Sheets CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Feb 5

After NBC screwed up Charles Star's booking by dropping The Hunting Party series premiere weeks early, it's fitting (?) that he should, instead, join us for a Prime Video original movie about a scheduling snafu: the Nicholas Stoller-written and -directed You're Cordially Invited , starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon at war over a wedding venue. Did it leave us wanting to toss rice, or toss our cookies? Listen to find out. Around The Dial takes us to Clean Slate , The Hunting Party (Charles watched it so he might as well warn the community about it), Band Of Brothers , and just a whisper about the imminent third season of Reacher . Sarah pitches "Forks" from The Bear for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that tests our TV and movie knowledge SAT-style. Grab a slice of cake -- hope it's not too dry -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Charles Star TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update Lead Topic: 👰‍♀️ You're Cordially Invited Around The Dial: 🫧 Clean Slate Around The Dial: 🏹 The Hunting Party Around The Dial: 🪖 Band Of Brothers Around The Dial: 🧱 Reacher The Canon: 🍴 The Bear S02.E07: Forks Winner & Loser: 🐲 James Norton Winner & Loser: 🗯️ Dumb fans of Insecure Game Time: 🎬 Adaptation Aptitude Test SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Charles Star on Bluesky 💍 Tara's You're Cordially Invited review at Cracked 🫧 Tara's Clean Slate review at Cracked 🏳️‍⚧️ Donate to Trans Lifeline ⚖️ Donate to the Transgender Law Center ✊ Donate to Advocates For Trans Equality 👨‍💼 The ALAB Series podcast 🏈 The City Saint/Country Saint and Hostile Witness podcast ⚾️ Baseball Prospectus 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Grammy episode 💰 Sweet Relief Musicians' Fund 📷 Photo: Glen Wilson / Amazon

Jan 29

Sterling K. Brown takes the lead in Paradise, and in the investigation that drives Hulu's new paranoid thriller -- and Rolling Stone 's lead TV critic, Alan Sepinwall, is back to discuss both. Do the layered flashbacks work better for this material than for Brown's previous Dan Fogelman project, This Is Us ? Does the dumb world-building outweigh the watchable acting? After we talked about how this underground/domed world stacked up against others on TV, we went Around The Dial with Common Side Effects , Mythic Quest , and the latest documentary from the Ken Burns Industrial Complex before Alan carefully constructed a Canon pitch for a Better Call Saul episode. Jennifer Garner won, Don Lemon lost, and what hark through yonder earbud breaks but a Shakespearean Game Time. Pack a bag for Colorado and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Announcement: 📋 Form URL Changes Lead Topic: 🏝️ Paradise Around The Dial: 🍄‍🟫 Common Side Effects Around The Dial: ⚔️ Mythic Quest Around The Dial: 📜 Leonardo da Vinci The Canon: 🕳️ Better Call Saul S06.E07: Plan And Execution Winner & Loser: 💁‍♀️ Jennifer Garner Winner & Loser: 🍋 Don Lemon Game Time: 🪶 Shakespeare TV Dinner Theatre SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📚 Buy Alan Sepinwall's book, Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul 🐉 Tara's review of Mythic Quest S04 at Rolling Stone 🍄‍🟫 Tara's review of Common Side Effects at Cracked.com 💰 Save on newly-minted books at Exhibit B. 📷 Photo: Disney / Brian Roedel CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jan 22

With Saturday Night Live about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its series premiere, Peacock has assembled four documentary specials about how the show is made. Do any of them really advance our knowledge about this comedy institution? Omar Gallaga returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Severance , A.P. Bio , Playing For Peanuts , and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew . Omar pitches the Shōgun episode "Crimson Sky" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about who stayed standing from series premiere to finale. Finish that bowl of Colon Blow and join us! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌃 SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night Around The Dial: 🗂️ Severance Around The Dial: 🔬 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 🥜 Playing For Peanuts Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Skeleton Crew Around The Dial: 🤠 American Primeval The Canon: 🏯 Shōgun S01.E09: Crimson Sky Winner & Loser: 👨🏻‍🦰 Conan O'Brien Winner & Loser: 🦊 The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin Game Time: 🎭 Survivors SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Omar Gallaga on Bluesky 🤩 "Lorne Michaels Is The Real Star Of 'Saturday Night Live'" at The New Yorker 🗃️ "Adam Scott Goes Back To Work" at GQ 🗄️ Tara's Severance S02 review at Cracked 🏚️ "Don't Take Home-Buying Tips From 'No Good Deed'" at Book And Film Globe 📷 Photo: Peacock

Jan 15

Various legal proceedings aside, The Pitt is ABSOLUTELY not ER ...but if you liked ER , Fug Girl Heather Cocks agrees with the panel that you'll like Max's new and extremely gnarly medical drama. It has all the ingredients that make a doctor show (versus a soap with doctors in it) compelling: solid casting; elegant world-building via medical students; and just enough jargon. We're going Around The Dial with Switching Gears , The Breakthrough , and comfort TV scripted and non- in the form of The Traitors and The Summer I Turned Pretty . We're also interrogating The West Wing 's ill-advised 9/11 response episode, "Isaac And Ishmael," to see if it belongs in the EHG Nonac. Sanrio won, the Chrisleys lost, and Dan Cassino brings us below the line with a crazy-credits Game Time. Roll your gurney up to a speaker and listen! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks TOPICS Lead Topic: 👨🏻‍⚕️ The Pitt Around The Dial: ⚙️ Switching Gears Around The Dial: 🔪 The Traitors Around The Dial: 👙 The Summer I Turned Pretty Around The Dial: ⛓️‍💥 The Breakthrough The Nonac: 🏛️ The West Wing S03.E00: Isaac And Ishmael Winner & Loser: 😸 Sanrio character My Melody Winner & Loser: 😤 Chase Chrisley Game Time: 🎬 Where Credit Is Due SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 💃 Go Fug Yourself 🧯 The Anti-Recidivism Coalition's firefighter fund 🧑‍🚒 The L.A. Fire Department Foundation 📚 Exhibit B. Books's L.A. County Library fundraiser 🚗 Tara's Switching Gears review at Cracked ⚖️ In August, Michael Crichton’s estate sued The Pitt for revamping a proposed ER sequel into The Pitt 🤷‍♀️ In November, Warner Bros. claimed it was NOT derivative of ER 🍓 Ramy S01.E04, "Strawberries," on Hulu 📷 Photo: Warrick Page / Max

Jan 8

Amy is a hard-charging doctor who's alienated almost everyone in her life. Then amnesia following a car accident erases the last eight years of her life from her memory. Can she start over and fix what she broke during that lost time?! Sarah Baker is here to discuss whether Fox's new drama Doc imprinted on her memory at all. Around The Dial takes us through Going Dutch , The Circle , Somebody Somewhere , and Everwood . Mlle. Caroline pitches the Ghosts (UK) episode "The Thomas Thorne Affair" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about VERY useless keywords. Tighten up that head bandage and join us! GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 😶‍🌫️ Doc Around The Dial: 🫡 Going Dutch Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🍣 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: 🪵 Everwood The Canon: 👻 Ghosts (UK) S02.E05: The Thomas Thorne Affair Winner & Loser: 🏆 Joey King and Cooper Koch Winner & Loser: 📰 CNN Game Time: 🤷‍♀️ Decidedly Unhelpful SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📸 Sarah Baker on Instagram 🪖 Tara's Going Dutch review at Cracked 🧭 The Great North on Hulu 🔦 Sarah D. Bunting at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Fox CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jan 1

We are off this week for EHG Prime but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 313: Taking A Journey In The World Of David The Gnome . It's time again for us to submit to the wishes of listeners like you, which is how we've ended up watching the series finale of The World Of David The Gnome . What was clearly conceived as a sweet story about gnomes and animals living harmoniously together in nature takes a WILD turn for its very last episode, so: thanks for exposing us all to that, Matt! Then it's on to your answers to our last Ask Ask EHG question, and our answers to your latest Ask EHG questions about Bryan Fuller's career, whether we are brat, and more. Some Not Quite Winners and Losers get their time in the sun and shade. Then we welcome in the grandpas for cartoon crossovers. Hop onto the fox that transports you around the forest and join us! TOPICS 15s Of Fame: 🍔 Rax Forcening Pool: 🌳 The World Of David The Gnome S01.E26: The Mountains of Beyond Ask EHG: 🦴 TV Theme Boning Pitfalls Winner & Loser: 🤣 Jimmy Fallon Winner & Loser: 🐴 My Lady Jane Winner & Loser: 💤 The Acolyte Winner & Loser: 🔫 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: ⚖️ Andy Cohen Winner & Loser: ⛳️ Owen Wilson's untitled AppleTV+ golf comedy Winner & Loser: 😑 An NBC executive who was wrong about Friends Extra Credit: 🖖 Those Old Something Elses 15s Of Fame: 🍔 Rax Mini: 🪓 Cartoon Version (Jun 2016) SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦊 The World Of David The Gnome S01.E26: The Mountains Of Beyond on YouTube 🧠 Mojo Jojo after getting absolutely wrecked by the Powerpuff Girls CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dec 25, 2024

We are off this week for EHG Prime but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 296: Showing Proper Deference To Star Maidens . We're in the doldrums of mid-May. None of the week's TV premieres lit us with a fire of passion. What better time for Dave to make us all watch Star Maidens , a mid-70s British sci-fi show about a CRAZY planet where women are in charge and men are their bitter servants. What could go wrong? For Ask EHG, we solicited your DUMBEST questions, and you came through with queries about, among others, how our pets would get in trouble if they went to school and which of the three of us would win in an EHG Thunderdome. We bring you some all-new Not Quite Top 11 Lists in lieu of the week's Winner and Loser. Then we close up with Anthobuzz's Extra Credit submission on updating a Rodman's World Tour poker segment for the decade of our choice. Get in the Hypnomat and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👸 Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Series Premiere Of Star Maidens Ask EHG: 🤪 Your dumbest questions Not Quite Top 11: 🚐 Saturday Morning Programs Whose Titles Could Double As Basic Cable Shows In A Different Genre Not Quite Top 11: 🎀 TV Portrayals Of Jackie O Not Quite Top 11: 🍁 Canadian Snacks To Enjoy While Watching TV Extra Credit: 🃏 Rodman Flush SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 👸 Star Maidens S01.E01: Escape To Paradise on YouTube 🤴 Sexy King Vitaman 🃏 "Dennis Rodman plays poker with Kelsey Grammar & Pat Smear (1997)" on YouTube CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dec 18, 2024

One week out from Christmas, we're bringing you a special all about the holidays. Will festive episodes of The Twilight Zone and Frasier take their place in our TV Hall of Fame? Will a famous failure of a Veronica Mars episode land in our Hall of Shame? Fa la la la la la la la listen and find out! TOPICS The Canon: 👞 The Twilight Zone S01.E12: What You Need The Nonac: 📼 Veronica Mars S02.E10: One Angry Veronica The Canon: 🤶🏻 Frasier S06.E10: Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📷 Paramount / CBS / Warner Bros. CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dec 11, 2024

It had been far too long since we played Mullendash, one of our favorite games, so we reached out to our network and gathered three people who write jokes for a living: standup comic Brandi Brown; comic and former Desus & Mero head writer Josh Gondelman; and former Last Week Tonight writer Jill Twiss. How good were they at writing bad punchlines that could pass for Jim Mullen's, thus fooling their fellow players? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Josh Gondelman 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Jill Twiss TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Mullendash SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🫠 The first Mullendash episode from 2023 📸 Brandi Brown on Instagram 🦋 Josh Gondelman on Bluesky 🦋 Jill Twiss on Bluesky 🦙 "What I Saw At The Minnesota State Fair's Llama-Alpaca Experience" by Brandi at Defector 🎡 "We Must Never Forget That Amy Klobuchar Is A Cowardly State Fair Centrist" by Brandi at Defector 🗳️ Jill's book Everyone Gets A Say 😌 Josh's newsletter That's Marvelous 🏟️ Tour dates and more at Josh's website CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dec 4, 2024

Once again, we made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special yearly EHG tradition! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Caroline Lefloch 👤 Sarah Baker 👤 Alison Herman 👤 Adam Grosswirth 👤 Taylor Cole 👤 Omar Gallaga 👤 Krystal Farmer 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 David Wiebe 👤 Eve Batey 👤 Monty Ashley 👤 Andy Dehnart 👤 Alex Collins 👤 Daniel MacEachern 👤 Kari Race 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones 👤 Jessica Morgan 👤 Devindra Hardawar 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🤔 2023 Guest Thought Experiments 🧐 2022 Guest Thought Experiments 👕 Dave made Dave the shirt

Nov 27, 2024

One of the oldest and most venerated game show formats is Password , dating back to well before all your co-hosts were alive. On an entirely unrelated note, for this special episode, we're playing a game called Personal Authorization Code! We've invited our friends Sarah Baker, Robert Krut, Jeff Drake, and Wendy Molyneux to play; since all of them live on the west coast and had to record in the middle of the night, our beloved Joe Reid sat in for Sarah as Tara's partner. Who can do the most with the least...number of words? Listen and learn! GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker 👤 Jeff Drake 👤 Robert Krut 👤 Wendy Molyneux 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Game Time: 🤐 Personal Authorization Code SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📸 Sarah Baker on Instagram 🦋 Jeff Drake on Bluesky 📸 Robert Krut on Instagram 📸 Wendy Molyneux on Instagram 🦋 Joe Reid on Bluesky CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Nov 20, 2024

Prestige series Dune: Prophecy travels more than ten thousand years into the past to see what put in motion the Dune -iverse events we already knew about. Guest Phil Maciak took the time-machine trip with us to discuss whether the series is only for fans of the existing IP; what the series might have focused on instead of administrative wrangling; and why the club always looks annoying regardless of timeline. We went Around The Dial with A Man On The Inside , Junior Taskmaster , Say Nothing , and a Day Of The Jackel update before Phil appealed to our hearts -- and guts -- with a Somebody Somewhere pitch. Friday Night Lights won, Jenny Mollen lost, and the melody lingered on with another round of Tube Tunes. Cue up your thinking machines and listen now! GUESTS 👤 Philip Maciak TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪱 Dune: Prophecy Around The Dial: 🚪 A Man On The Inside Around The Dial: 💌 Junior Taskmaster Around The Dial: 🇮🇪 Say Nothing Around The Dial: 🔫 The Day Of The Jackal The Canon: 🧻 Somebody Somewhere S02.E02: #2 Winner & Loser: 🏈 Friday Night Lights Winner & Loser: ✈️ Jenny Mollen Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Phillip Maciak on Bluesky 🔥 EHG Humans Bluesky Starter List 🤐 Phil's Say Nothing review 🤫 ...which Sarah's review links to in her review 😻 Find cat TNR and rescue groups near you (in the U.S.) 🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai S06 review at Cracked 🧤 Donate to Street Forum's winter-gear fundraiser 💵 The National Network Of Abortion Funds 📷 Photo: HBO CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Nov 13, 2024

Superstore creator Justin Spitzer has teamed up with Eric Ledgin for a new sitcom set at an Oregon hospital. Is it goofier than the subject matter demands? Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight , Anatomy Of Lies , Sister Wives , Cruel Doubt , and The Penguin . Stephanie pitches the 10th episode of Australia's Instant Hotel 's first season for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a Game Time about TV shows that burned brightly, but too briefly (and...not always brightly). Put your feet up -- in or out of traction; that's up to you -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏥 St. Denis Medical Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🩻 Anatomy Of Lies Around The Dial: 💍 Sister Wives Around The Dial: 🤔 Cruel Doubt Around The Dial: 🐧 The Penguin The Canon: 🏨 Instant Hotel S01.E10 Winner & Loser: 😱 Macaulay Culkin Winner & Loser: 🐮 Taylor Sheridan Game Time: 📉 One Season And No Movie SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🩺 Tara's comedies about doctors and hospitals, at Cracked 🍽️ Stephanie's essay "My Great Hunger" at The Cincinnati Review 🤔 Cruel Doubt on YouTube 📚 The major-case sale at Exhibit B. Books 🎁 Extra Hot Great gift subscriptions at Patreon 📷 Photo: Ron Batzdorff / NBC

Nov 6, 2024

We thought a far-out distraction from current events was the way to go this week -- so we went to a fictional White House with accidental president Mike Brady, via 2002 TV movie The Brady Bunch In The White House . Should you take the tour -- or is this second-generation photocopy of an already-mediocre nostalgia brand not a candidate for your attention? We went Around The Dial with the new season of Abbott Elementary , the Criterion Closet series, and Mad Men before Ari wove together a Canon case for a sixth-season Star Trek: The Next Generation , "Tapestry." Prestige casting won, Amazon lost, and we voted early often for film-adaptation shows in Game Time. It's your patriotic duty to listen now! GUESTS 👤 Tim Grierson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏛️ The Brady Bunch In The White House Around The Dial: 🏫 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 📀 The Criterion Closet Around The Dial: 🥃 Mad Men I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤖 AI On Taskmaster The Canon: 🔪 Star Trek: The Next Generation S06.E15: Tapestry Winner & Loser: 🍯 Arlios Winners Winner & Loser: 🦾 Prime Video Game Time: 📺 Honey, I Shrunk The Screen SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📀 The Criterion Channel on YouTube 🙅‍♂️ Tim Grierson on X 🎬 Tim's profile of director Sean Baker for the LA Times 🌴 The Again With This Patreon 🔥 Get Extra Extra Hot Great in the EHG Club 📷 Photo: Paramount Television

Oct 30, 2024

Prime Video's new unscripted show invites product creators to pitch supposed experts from the business world for the chance to get their wares featured in the Buy It Now store; reality TV expert Andy Dehnart returns to discuss what is essentially " Shark Tank, But Crappier ." Around The Dial takes us through Somebody Somewhere 's final season, The Summit , Four In A Bed , and Raiders Of The Lost Art . Andy pitches the Dating Around episode "Guru" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with a lot of love to give. Put down that goop that lets you wash your face without water, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Andy Dehnart TOPICS Announcement: 🎙️ Club Campaign New Perks Lead Topic: 💸 Buy It Now Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: ⛰️ The Summit Around The Dial: 🛏️ Four In A Bed Around The Dial: 🖼️ Raiders Of The Lost Art The Canon: 🥂 Dating Around S01.E02: Gurki Winner & Loser: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building Winner & Loser: 🍔 Adam Richman Game Time: 😘 The Dating Game SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Andy Dehnart on Bluesky 🏷️ Tara's post on Buy It Now at Cracked 📍 Tara's Somebody Somewhere review at Cracked 🌫️ Reality Blurred ⛰️ Andy's review of The Summit at Reality Blurred 🛏️ Andy's Four In A Bed review at Reality Blurred 😴 Four In A Bed on Tubi 🎨 "Want To Learn Art History? Here Are 9 Absolutely Classic TV Series That Will Give You A Solid Education -- And Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat" at Artnet 🗂️ Best Evidence at Reality Blurred 🥂 Andy's review of Dating Around at Reality Blurred

Oct 23, 2024

Author, filmmaker, and Listen To Sassy co-host Pam Ribon is back to help us figure out what Hysteria! is trying to do: satirize the satanic panic and witch hunts of a bygone era? invoke Stranger Things and the Church Lady? We're not even sure what genre we should call it, never mind whether you should watch it, but maybe our discussion will help you decide. We went Around The Dial with What We Do In The Shadows , The Change , and Woman Of The Hour before trying to sneak an undercover 21 Jump Street episode into the Ca-- er, the Pamon . Slow Horses won, car chases lost, and we got bogged down in minutiae with rightwood's IMDb-forward Game Time. Take a break from that pentagram copy-edit and check it out! GUESTS 👤 Pamela Ribon TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤘 Hysteria Around The Dial: 🧛🏻‍♂️ What We Do In The Shadows Around The Dial: 👛 The Change Around The Dial: 🕕 Woman Of The Hour The Pamon: 🔫 21 Jump Street S04.E23: How I Saved the Senator Winner & Loser: 🐴 Slow Horses Winner & Loser: 🚓 Live PD Game Time: 😑 The IMDumB Game SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 💄 Hear more Pam on Listen To Sassy 🧛🏻‍♀️ Tara's WWDITS sixth-season review for Cracked 🕛 Sarah's Woman Of The Hour review for Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Peacock

Oct 16, 2024

Rolling Stone 's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Apple TV's latest prestige limited series -- starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, directed and written by Alfonso Cuarón, and maaaaybe a little too fond of its own shot compositions. Is the hinted-at conclusion worth sticking around for -- or are we mostly seeing it through for Kline's cardigan acting? Next, we went Around The Dial with Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage , Happy's Place , Shrinking , and the Platonic (not) ideal of "this should have been a feature" docuserieses, before Tara nominated a third-season Harley Quinn episode for the Canon. An Office reboot won, Succession lost, and a new scoring wrinkle scared the hell out of us in Game Time. Throw your drawers out the train window and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 📜 Disclaimer Around The Dial: 💍 Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage Around The Dial: 🙂 Happy's Place Around The Dial: 🛋️ Shrinking Around The Dial: 🦎 The Hunt For The Chameleon Killer The Canon: 🃏 Harley Quinn S03.E03: The 83rd Annual Villy Awards Winner & Loser: 👍 The new Office series Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Strong Game Time: 🎃 Halloween Spooktacular SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site ✍🏻 Alan Sepinwall's review of Disclaimer* for Rolling Stone ⚖️ Alan's Better Call Saul book, Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul 💊 Tara's Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel 👱🏻‍♂️ The Billy Crystal wig under scrutiny 🌃 Tara's piece on Saturday Night Not Ready For Primetime Players verisimilitude for Cracked 🦎 Sarah's The Hunt For The Chameleon Killer review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Apple CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Oct 9, 2024

Three British talents from the worlds of TV comedy (Jon Brown, Armando Iannucci) and film (Sam Mendes) have come together for The Franchise , a look behind the scenes at the making of a fictional superhero movie. Does it shoot up, up, and away into the stratosphere? Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss. Around The Dial takes us to 9-1-1: Lone Star , 9-1-1 (talk about running the gamut), and the second season of Interview With The Vampire . The otherwise absent Sarah makes her pitch for inducting the Frasier episode "The Ski Lodge" into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close with a Non-Regulation Game Time that might not be entirely super, but is at least somewhat duper. Hide out in your trailer and listen! GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏽‍♀️ The Franchise Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1 Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Interview With The Vampire The Canon: 🎿 Frasier S05.E14: The Ski Lodge Winner & Loser: 👍 Rugrats Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacemaker Game Time: 🦹🏼‍♀️ SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Devindra Hardawar on Bluesky 💪 Tara's review of The Franchise at Cracked 😦 Tara's Scare Tactics review at Cracked ⚰️ EEHG 297, about Interview With The Vampire S02 🎞️ The Filmcast 's episode on Megalopolis 📷 Photo: Colin Hutton / HBO

Oct 2, 2024

ABC's new cruise-ship medical procedural features Dawson's Creek's former Pacey Witter as a hotshot surgeon who sets sail in search of work-life balance; Jessica Morgan returns to discuss whether everything's shipshape. Around The Dial takes us through the Real Housewives of New York, Salt Lake City, AND Orange County before ending on the 30 for 30 episode "My American Son." Anne pitches the 30 Rock episode "Queen Of Jordan" for induction into the Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's really taking its (game) time. Put on your life vest and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚢 Doctor Odyssey Around The Dial: 🌃 The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🧂 The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City Around The Dial: 🍊 The Real Housewives Of Orange County Around The Dial: 🎾 30 For 30 The Nonac: 👸🏾 30 Rock S05.E17: Queen Of Jordan Winner & Loser: 👍 Stranger Things Winner & Loser: 👎 Lorraine Bracco Game Time: 🐢 Slowly At First III: Tubey's Revenge SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐦 Jessica Morgan / Go Fug Yourself on X 🙂‍↔️ Tara's review of Nobody Wants This at Cracked ✋ "Nobody Wants This Mean-Spirited Depiction Of Jewish Women In Nobody Wants This" by Esther Zuckerman at Time 👗 Go Fug Yourself 🍸 The Drinks With Broads newsletter on Substack 📚 Jessica's books on Bookshop ⚾️ Sarah's review of Charlie Hustle And The Matter Of Pete Rose at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Disney / Tina Thorpe

Sep 25, 2024

None of us necessarily expected to recommend a comics-IP property featuring Colin Farrell under pounds of prosthetic make-up -- but we all liked it, including returning guest Richard Lawson. We talked about how it surprised us, the small feature-film stories it seemed to contain, whether it should have let the real Farrell shine through, and who's the season MVP (spoiler: Cristin Milioti). Then we went Around The Dial with the new Matlock , Alex vs. America , and Ryan Murphy's take on the brothers Menendez before Richard battled at least five Cynthia Nixon performances to get a Law & Order: SVU episode into the Canon. Friends won, Cold Case lost ("....AAeeeEnNNNGhhHHHHH!"), and Erica introduced us to a hard-fought Game Time. Waddle on over to your podcast app and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐧 The Penguin Around The Dial: ⚖️ Matlock (2024) Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Alex Vs America Around The Dial: 👯‍♂️ Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story The Canon: 🔪 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E01: Alternate Winner & Loser: 👍 Friends Winner & Loser: 👎 Cold Case Game Time: 4️⃣ Four At A Time SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site ✍🏻 Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair 🐧 Richard's review of The Penguin 📍 Tara's Bashir Salahuddin interview at Cracked 🎙️ Tara's Natasha Rothwell interview 🔪 Sarah's review of Monsters at Best Evidence 👯‍♂️ And Richard's at VF 👩🏼‍💻 Sarah's Canon pitch for "Avatar" 📷 Photo: Macall Polay / HBO

Sep 18, 2024

An ex- Lost writer brings a French crime show to America with Kaitlin Olson as the extraordinarily intelligent cleaner who becomes the LAPD's newest consultant; we tell you whether it's the rare network show that deserves an hour of your life each week. Around The Dial takes us through the second-season premiere of Tulsa King , HBO's new doc David Chase & The Sopranos , and The Sniffer . Mlle. Caroline takes another run at getting a Psych into The Canon with "Last Night Gus" (and we also salute JMak, a Patreon supporter who added it to our Forcening pool). Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we drive Metallicar right into a Non-Regulation Game Time. Unlike a church, you can face whatever direction you want as you listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 High Potential Around The Dial: 🤴 Tulsa King Around The Dial: 🔫 Wise Guy: David Chase & The Sopranos Around The Dial: 👃 The Sniffer The Canon: 🍩 Psych S06.E02: Last Night Gus Winner & Loser: 👍 Tim Robinson Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix's doc series Martha Game Time: 👻 Is This Supernatural? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🧠 Daniel Fienberg's High Potential review at The Hollywood Reporter 🍳 Tara's review of Frasier (2023) S02 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Disney / Pamela Littky

Sep 11, 2024

Writer and critic Sonia Saraiya is back to bid summer adieu with a discussion of Netflix's The Perfect Couple , a six-part murder mystery among the rich and unbearable that's aiming for Revenge and Succession vibes -- but does it work? The panel has mixed feelings...except about the beautiful locations, and the star wattage of Meghann Fahy. After we rinsed off the sand, we went Around The Dial with Adam Sandler's latest special, the first season of BoJack Horseman , and The Challenge , and Julie hoped a great first date would lead to something Canon-ical with her pitch for Looking . Lee Daniels won, Bosch: Legacy (and Sarah's years-long runner) lost, and we tried to figure out who the IMDb considered most likely to succeed in Game Time. Take a break from chipping balls into the bay and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Sonia Saraiya TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 The Perfect Couple Around The Dial: 😜 Adam Sandler: Love You Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: 🏃🏻‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 👀 Looking S01.E05: Looking for the Future Winner & Loser: 👍 Lee Daniels Winner & Loser: 👎 Bosch: Legacy Game Time: 🤩 TV Popularity Contest II SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐦 Cross the Sonia Saraiya drawbridge on X 💃 The Perfect Couple cast vs. the dance sequence 😆 IndieWire on the Sandler special's fake comedy club 🙋‍♂️ Tara's review of Universal Basic Guys at Cracked 😽 Bookstore Cats on Instagram 🐈 Find a foster or rescue org near you 📷 Photo: Netflix CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Sep 4, 2024

We are off this week due to holiday travel but present you with this EHG Club unlock. EEHG 294: Discussing A Scorching Burn Notice Susanna invited us to check out the Burn Notice episode "Bad Breaks," and we were thrilled! Find out why that was the episode Susanna picked and exactly what two BN veterans and one new arrival thought about it. Ask EHG has us pondering our hypothetical Family Feud garb, the avatars we use on our various streaming platforms, and more. Then we each name our Not Quite Winners And Losers Of The Week, and close things up with another round of Now You Know Your ABCTVs. Put down your yogurt and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏦 Burn Notice S02.E13: Bad Breaks Ask EHG: 🙋🏼‍♀️ 1.5x Shows Winner & Loser: 👍 American Idol Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix's safety coordinators Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 Quiet On Set Winner & Loser: 👍 Family Guy Winner & Loser: 👎 Family Guy KRTMATIWOTVLM: 🦷 The Brady Bunch S04.E13: Love and the Older Man Extra Credit: 🔤 Now You Know Your ABCTVs SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🏦 Burn Notice S02.E13: Bad Breaks on Hulu 📷 Photo: USA Network

Aug 28, 2024

As August continues letting us down in the TV premiere department, we take a look back -- waaaaaaaaay back, to 1974, when Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis slapped his name on a TV movie version of Dracula written by Richard " I Am Legend " Matheson and starring Jack "One-Armed Pushups" Palance. Since we've previously subjected Nick Rheinwald-Jones to other Dracula adaptations, it falls to him to return and discuss it with us. Around The Dial spins around to Emily In Paris , Mastermind , the comedy specials of James Acaster, We Are Lady Parts , and Everwood . Nick makes his pitch for the S03 finale of The Bear to be inducted into The Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we end on a Game Time that comes to us in triplicate. Wash your neck and join us! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Dan Curtis's Dracula Around The Dial: 🥖 Emily In Paris Around The Dial: 🧠 Mastermind Around The Dial: 🤣 James Acaster's comedy specials Around The Dial: 👛 We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: 🪵 Everwood The Canon: 🧸 The Bear S03.E10: Forever Winner & Loser: 👍 ₖₑₗₗᵧ ᵣₑᵢₗₗᵧ Winner & Loser: 👎 Good Omens Game Time: ☘️ Three Of Those SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Bluesky ⚰️ Dan Curtis's Dracula on JustWatch 🎧 The Demi, Myself & I podcast 🦢 Sarah's review of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans at Best Evidence 🥨 Shappy Pretzel

Aug 21, 2024

The USA Network is apparently making original shows...that should be streaming shows, like The Anonymous , which throws The Traitors , Big Brother , and a number of other alliance-based reality shows into a blender. Kari Race is back to discuss whether it's a concoction worth drinking, given all the AI dad jokes, dead air, and inappropriate cliffhangers in the first three episodes. Then we went Around The Dial with Taskmaster NZ , Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee , and Homicide: LOTS . Mr. Throwback won (a timeslot), Teresa Giudice lost (again), and Tube Tunes got stuck in our heads again during Non-Regulation Game Time. Take a break from screaming at a pizza slice and have a listen! GUESTS 👤 Kari Race TOPICS Lead Topic: 🫥 The Anonymous Lead Topic: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand Lead Topic: 🔤 Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee Lead Topic: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street Lead Topic: 🤥 Would I Lie To You S17.E09 Lead Topic: 👍 Mr. Throwback Lead Topic: 👎 Teresa Giudice Lead Topic: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📻 Listen to more Kari Race at Charlie's '80s Attic 💄 Listen To Sassy 🔫 Alan Sepinwall's Homicide episode recs at Rolling Stone 🏆 EHG 207's Homicide Canon 📈 EEHG 163's post- Homicide power rankings 🏀 EEHG 310 on Mr. Throwback 🌴 Again With Again With This 📷 Photo: Rico Torres / USA Network

Aug 14, 2024

Florida transplant Al Lowe Huff is back to talk about Bad Monkey , the Apple TV adaptation of Carl Hiassen's Sunshine State-noir book, and the ways it lets Vince Vaughn's...Vince Vaughn-ing find the apex of its expression. We also discussed the show's great casting, realtor shade, meta voice-overs, and unwelcome references to True Detective before we went Around The Dial with Couples Therapy , My Life Is Murder , and the fifth season of Justified . Hallie had one more thing for us to consider in a Nonac pitch for a 1990s zombie Columbo , before The Gilded Age won and a Red Sock lost. Finally, we wedged in a sequel to a Trivial Pursuit-based Game Time, so load up your battered vintage cooler with an armload of popsicles and join us! GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐒 Bad Monkey Around The Dial: 🛋️ Couples Therapy Around The Dial: 💀 My Life Is Murder Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified The Nonac: 🧥 Columbo S10.E05: No Time To Die Winner & Loser: 👍 The Gilded Age Winner & Loser: 👎 Jarren Duran Game Time: 🥧 The Return Of Televisual Pursuit SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🙉 Tara's Bad Monkey review at Cracked 🩻 We're talking about Scrubs on AWAWT later this week! 📚 Save on "headliner" true crime at Exhibit B. Books

Aug 7, 2024

Autumn is nearly upon us again, but all we care about is TV. That's why we've invited back Alexandra Collins and Daniel MacEachern to look at the calendar of forthcoming premieres and make our picks in the categories of Shows We're Into; Shows We Should Be Into But Aren't; the all-new "Happy For You" category for shows we don't care about but don't begrudge others enjoying; and Shows No One Should Be Into. Tara pitches the 9-1-1-: Lone Star episode "Everyone And Their Brother" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's gonna get itself, gonna get itself, gonna get itself connected. Wrap a scarf or five around your neck and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alex Collins 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall TV Preview The Canon: 🤠 9-1-1: Lone Star S02.E06: Everyone And Their Brother Winner & Loser: 👍 Jackson Pace Winner & Loser: 👎 Laurence Fox Game Time: 🔢 Extra Connect SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🕶️ "Johnny Lawrence Is Right: Let's Live Like It's the '80s" at Cracked 📍 Planned Parenthood 💰 National Network Of Abortion Funds ✈️ Fund Texas Choice 🔦 "From the archives: The Best Evidence Watergate reader" at Best Evidence 🦠 "The N.L. government has been downplaying COVID-19 deaths for months" at the CBC's website 🧑‍🚒 "Fox Needs To Spend Its Summer Vacation Making Us More 9-1-1 s" at Primetimer

Jul 31, 2024

The Decameron has come to Netflix in the form of a limited series from Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan. How has the centuries-old material change in the adaptation? Kathryn VanArendonk returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to Futurama 's latest season, My Lady Jane , and Shōgun . Kathryn makes the case for inducting the Bluey episode "Camping" into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's "sticks of TNT"! Put down the onion you're using to dissipate pestilence miasma and listen! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐀 The Decameron Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama Around The Dial: 🏰 My Lady Jane Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E43: Camping Winner & Loser: 👍 General Hospital Winner & Loser: 👎 Billy Ray Cyrus Game Time: 🧠 CatchphraseGPT SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦤 Kathryn at Vulture 🐁 Kathryn's review of The Decameron at Vulture 🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S12 at Cracked ⏳ Tara's review of AppleTV+'s Time Bandits at Cracked 🤬 "SHOGUN - Swearing Compilation" on YouTube 🚔 The Docket 🏥 "Emma Samms Returns to 'General Hospital' as Holly" on Variety 📷 Photo: Giulia Parmigiani / Netflix

Jul 24, 2024

Monty Ashley returned not just to EHG but to the distant past, as the panel contemplated Peacock's ancient- Succession drama, Those About To Die . The CGI is pretty ancient too, but did any of the storylines make us want to keep watching? Did Sarah D. "Horse Girl" Bunting care about the stables subplot? And how much chariot-racing is too much? Then we neck-acted our way Around The Dial with Cobra Kai , The Boys , and the soothing Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories before clambering into a Dumpster for Monty's The Chris Gethard Show Canon submission. And finally, it was time to swear at-- er, IN a TV-president Game Time from Dan Cassino. Oscar-winners, grenades, and avant-garde casting choices around RFK Sr. in this all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏛️ Those About To Die Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai Around The Dial: 🍱 Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Around The Dial: 🦹 The Boys The Canon: 🗑️ The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash Winner & Loser: 👍 The And Just Like That... prankster Winner & Loser: 👎 The CW Game Time: 🤷‍♂️ Executive Decision SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐉 Hear Monty Ashley on Total Party Kill at The Incomparable Podcast Network 🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked 💿 The '90s Soundtrack Flashback mini-season at MASTAS 🗑️ Watch The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash on YouTube ⚾️ "A drive into deep left field"'s Wikipedia entry 📷 Photo: Reiner Bajo / Peacock CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jul 17, 2024

Terror At London Bridge is a 1985 TV movie in which David Hasselhoff plays Don, a detective arrived in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, just in time for Jack The Ripper to come back to life and start killing people there, and since July 17 is his birthday, there's no better time to talk about it! Sadly, a last-minute scheduling change forced Sarah to excuse herself, but our guest Eve Batey is here to speak on behalf of everyone who can, like Don, truthfully say that true crime is one of their passions. Around The Dial takes us to a detailed discussion of Prime Video's Sausage Party: Foodtopia and the final season of Evil . Our friend Dan Cassino makes the case for X-Men '97 's "Remember It" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't have much to say for itself. Grab your cape and scalpel-- Actually, don't do that; just listen! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌉 Terror At London Bridge aka Bridge Across Time aka Arizona Ripper Around The Dial: 🍆 Sausage Party: Foodtopia Around The Dial: 😈 Evil The Canon: 🧬 X-Men '97 S01.E05: Remember It Winner & Loser: 👍 Joe Pantoliano; Dracula Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Doyle Game Time: 🔐 Personal Authorization Code SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📸 Eve on Instagram 🌉 Terror At London Bridge (aka Bridge Across Time , aka Arizona Ripper ) 👀 The Lookwell pilot on YouTube 💥 Comedy Bang Bang 838: "Peter Pogdanovich" 💂🏻 The English Village at Lake Havasu 🔍 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube 🍆 Tara's Sausage Party: Foodtopia on Cracked 🪦 Tara's obituary essay on Shannen Doherty's performance as Beverly Hills, 90210 's Brenda Walsh at Decider 📰 Best Evidence at Reality Blurred ☠️ "'Last Man Standing' Showrunner Tim Doyle Censured by WGA West For Facebook Posting Of 'Racist And Offensive' Image" at Deadline 📷 Photo: Charles Fries Productions CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jul 10, 2024

We are off this week but bring you a recent episode from our Club spinoff podcast Extra Extra Hot Great . From EEHG 292: Should You Shield Yourself From Fallout? Even big Walt Goggins fans might not enjoy a series that takes his nose and overuses midcentury needle drops -- but most of the panel thinks you should stick with Fallout , the new post-nuclear-bomb dystopia from Prime based on a videogame. It's different from Silo in good ways, and wit plus world-building plus thoughtful casting goes a long way. Your Ask EHG questions led us to contemplate a live-action Muppet Show , a Sports Night reboot, Warriors gangs, and crossover pairs of TV friends; we named our Not Quite Winners and Losers; and the calendar's cruelest month saw US cruelly pitting characters named April against each other in a micro-Thunderdome. Radiation poisoning and Garthe Knight...just another day in the vault at Extra Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: ☢️ Fallout Ask EHG: 🙋🏼‍♀️ Domer Winner & Loser: 👍 Nicola Coughlan Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Gatiss Winner & Loser: 👍 Melrose Place Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Kring Winner & Loser: 👍 Curb Your Enthusiasm Winner & Loser: 👎 Tulsa King Extra Credit: ⚡️ April-Dome Mini: 👹 Sympathy For The Devil SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🎭 A Tulsa King actor responds to insults (allegedly) from Sly Stallone 👩‍🔧 The hilarious fan wiki on April Curtis

Jul 3, 2024

Another Canada Day is on the books, but before you pack away your miniature Canadian flags, there's one more celebration we all need to get through: Canadian Thunderdome! We've each chosen 9 Canadian people or characters from TV, and we're tossing them into the Thunderdome to see which of these traditionally mild-mannered, polite figures has what it takes to win multiple fights to the death! Grab a few butter tarts and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦫 Canada Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🥅 "Albert" Canadian Tire commercial on YouTube 😤 "Why Everybody Hates Caillou" on YouTube 🦛 "The North American House Hippo" PSA on YouTube 👺 "Caramilk Devil 'Anything...?'" on YouTube 🦾 "I Am Astar, A Robot" PSA on YouTube 🦟 "The Mosquito From The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" on YouTube 🏒 "Peter Puck - Episode 1" on YouTube 🤏 "Kids In The Hall - Head Crusher: Rival" on YouTube 💄 Jimbo CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jun 26, 2024

The Orphan Black franchise returns to TV with Orphan Black: Echoes , and our own Joe Reid returns to talk about the sequel starring Krysten Ritter, Reed Diamond, and a whole assload of strawberry Jell-O. Is the new iteration a pale (pink) imitation of the original? Might it benefit from streaming the whole thing at once? And do its connections to the parent show only point up its weaknesses? Later, we went Around The Dial with (often justly) forgotten sitcoms of the '90s plus The Morning Show and a minor-league 30 For 30 , before Hannah schemed to win the lion's share of a place in the Canon for a first-season The Traitors (US). Trebek won, arranged marriage lost, and we pulled some strings to play a nepo-forward Game Time. Get comfy on a living-room soundstage and listen! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Support EHG on Patreon Lead Topic: 🧬 Orphan Black: Echoes Around The Dial: 🫥 Forgotten '90s Sitcoms Around The Dial: 🌅 The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🥅 30 For 30 The Canon: 🔪 The Traitors S01.E06: Suspicion And Sabotage Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek Winner & Loser: 👎 Perfect Match Game Time: 🤝 It's Who You Know SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐝 Joe Reid at This Had Oscar Buzz 🎞️ The Cinematrix / Vulture Games mailing list 🏆 Vulture's Gold Rush awards newsletter 🫥 Tara's "10 Forgotten '90s Sitcoms That Still Work Today" piece at Cracked 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 📩 See the Trebek stamp for yourself 📷 Photo: Sophie Giraud / AMC

Jun 19, 2024

The Boys has returned for its fourth (and, as we just learned last week, penultimate) season; Andrew Cunningham joins us to discuss whether it's hammering too hard with its takes on current events and political personages. Around The Dial takes us through RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars , the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery , The Simpsons , Brats , and Hotel Cocaine . Sarah pitches the ER episode "Love's Labor Lost" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us around the world in a day. Find us on Voughtify and listen! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦹 The Boys Around The Dial: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Discovery Around The Dial: 🌝 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🎬 Brats Around The Dial: 🍚 Hotel Cocaine The Canon: 🏥 ER S01.E19: Love's Labor Lost Winner & Loser: 👍 Homicide: Life On The Street Winner & Loser: 👎 Joey Graziadei Game Time: 🌍 Country Of Origin SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky 🦹 Tara's review of The Boys S04 at Cracked.com 🚥 Tara's review of Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go at Cracked.com 🌝 " The Simpsons Is Good Again" at Vulture ✂️ The Sharp Objects episode of the Overdue podcast 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon 🏥 Our past ER coverage 📷 Photo: Jasper Savage / Prime Video CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jun 12, 2024

We're thrilled comedian Josh Gondelman could come back to talk about Fantasmas , the latest show from Los Espookys 's Julio Torres, which is as hard to describe as it was for us to resist. We talked about everything from fully realized re-imaginings of Alf , to comedy that doesn't have to prove it's smarter than you, to begging the universe to let Torres make American Vandal Seasons 3 through 85. Maybe the show's not for everyone, but it's okay with that, which is part of its charm. Later, we went Around The Dial with 9-1-1 , Rachel Feinstein's stand-up special Big Guy , and Sarah and Dan's Justified marathon, and Josh hoped his Killing It Canon presentation would pay off (before 9 PM, of course. Timothy Olyphant won a second time, The Morning Show found a way to lose twice, and Dave was a poet who DID know it in a rhyming edition of Game Time. Put that clear-crayon project aside and have a listen. GUESTS 👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 Fantasmas Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1 Around The Dial: 🎙️ Rachel Feinstein: Big Guy Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified The Canon: 🐊 Killing It S02.E03: It Follows Winner & Loser: 👍 Timothy Olyphant Winner & Loser: 👎 The Morning Show Game Time: 🕰️ Game Rhyme 2020s Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 👻 Tara's review of Fantasmas for Cracked 😁 Josh Gondelman's "That's Marvelous" newsletter 📍 Josh's tour dates and more 🐶 Bizzy the pug on Instagram 💄 Tara, Dave, and Pam Ribon think you should Listen To Sassy 🔪 Sarah's The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Monica Lek / HBO CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jun 5, 2024

FX/Hulu has taken the scandal surrounding L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling after his assistant, V. Stiviano, recorded him being racist out loud (a recording that then leaked to TMZ) and turned it into a scripted true-life drama; former L.A. resident and current basketball (not Clippers) fan David Wiebe returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through some early critique of Taskmaster Australia S02, and some soul-searching about what makes Below Deck Mediterranean so addictive. Tara makes the case for the Seinfeld episode "The Strongbox" to be inducted into the Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time we all hoped we'd never have to endure. Sarah has had to sit this one out, but there's still plenty of hot action to get you to join us courtside! GUESTS 👤 David Wiebe TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏀 Clipped Around The Dial: 🪃 Taskmaster Australia Around The Dial: 🛥️ Below Deck Mediterranean The Nonac: 🔐 Seinfeld S09.E14: The Strongbox Winner & Loser: 👍 Jack Reynor Winner & Loser: 👎 Mean People SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🐦 David Wiebe on Twitter 🇺🇸 Cleopatra Coleman Sees 'Clipped' on Hulu as a 'Celebration' of L.A. Clippers Owner's 'Assistant' V. Stiviano: 'She Represents the American Dream'" at Decider 🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon 🦄 Unicorn Academy on Netflix 📷 Photo: Kelsey McNeal / FX

May 29, 2024

Grab a fruity cocktail; we're back to let you know which new and returning summer shows you should stay inside for (plus a few you can skip), plus a very special "We're Happy For You" list from Dave. Later, we take a dip at Rutherford Falls with a listener Canon submission; declare a Winner (casting) and Loser (cancellation) for the week, and time-machine it back to 2001 for a 19 Questions Game Time. Take the plunge and listen now! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏖️ Summer 2024 TV Preview The Canon: 💧 Rutherford Falls S02.E03: Aunt Sue Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix's Garfield-Die Without A T Series Winner & Loser: 👎 Primo Game Time: 🙋‍♂️ 19 Questions: 2001 Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🛋️ Make your own to-do (or to-don't) list with the Futon Critic premieres listing 🛞 Tara's Tires fever-review at Cracked 🔪 Sarah's Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne review at Best Evidence CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

May 15, 2024

We reached out once again to our Patreon supporters, asking whomst among them had the nerve and pop culture knowledge to participate in a Listener Game Time special. Brian, Lea, and Philip were chosen from our respondents, and face each other in Meredith's game My God, It's Full Of Guest Stars, and Mike's submission, TV CVs. Who vanquishes their foes? Listen and find out! TOPICS Game Time: 🤩 My God, It's Full Of Guest Stars Game Time: 💼 TV CVs SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 📷 Photo: David T. Cole and his AI buddy

May 8, 2024

For this special episode, we're contemplating three TV episodes our listeners believe are among TV's very best. Mlle. Caroline has us watching the Poirot episode "Five Little Pigs," featuring way more future Game Of Thrones stars (and offspring of future Game Of Thrones stars) than any of us might expect. Then, Larra sends us to Dropout.tv for the second-ever episode of Game Changer -- which is also the first-ever "Make Some Noise." Finally, Elenore gets dialectical in her pitch on "START," the series finale of The Americans . Pull over for some McNuggets and join us! TOPICS The Canon: 🔪 Agatha Christie's Poirot S09.E01: Five Little Pigs The Canon: 🧩 Game Changer S01.E02: Make Some Noise The Canon: 🇺🇸 The Americans S06.E10: START SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 510 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🗽 Tara's "START" recap, formerly at Previously.TV

May 1, 2024

Dr. Dan Cassino is back to discuss Netflix's Sandman spinoff (of sorts), Dead Boy Detectives , a ghosty witchy horny procedural. We talked about its Gaiman (and Buffy ) DNA, if it's better at being scary or horny, and which tools from the historical "magic on TV" kit it uses best. Later, we went Around The Dial with Hacks , This Old House , and Baby Reindeer before turning our attention to the UN-dead for a The Walking Dead Canon submission. Jason Ritter won, Peacock lost, and Game Time took us on a Roman holiday of sorts. No need to open a portal, just hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic: 💀 Dead Boy Detectives Around The Dial: 😆 Hacks Around The Dial: 🏚️ This Old House Around The Dial: 🦌 Baby Reindeer The Canon: 🧟‍♂️ The Walking Dead S10.E19: One More Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Ritter Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacock Game Time: ⛪️ Traditional Latin Mash NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🤵🏻‍♂️ Dan Cassino on New Jersey Now 🦤 "Let's Disagree About Hacks" on Vulture 😆 Tara's Hacks S03 review for Cracked ✍🏻 Tara's round-up with Baby Reindeer and The Contestant 🦌 Sarah's Baby Reindeer review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Ed Araquel / Netflix

Apr 24, 2024

As a TV host, Conan O'Brien has moved on from a nightly interview and variety show on TBS to a comedy travel show on Max; as the whole season drops, Will Hines joins us to discuss how well it fits into the genre, and what it was like doing sketches during Conan's run of Late Night . Around The Dial takes us through Dinner With The Parents , X-Men '97 , and The Jinx II . Kari pitches the "Heat Stroke" episode of Taskmaster NZ for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to an extraordinarily resourceful Game Time. No passport needed to listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗺️ Conan O'Brien Must Go Around The Dial: 🍽️ Dinner With The Parents Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ X-Men '97 Around The Dial: 🪦 The Jinx The Canon: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand S02.E02: Heat Stroke Winner & Loser: 👍 Oz Winner & Loser: 👎 Tom Sandoval Game Time: 🧰 MacGyver With Quotes SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 508 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🕰️ Will Hines on TikTok 📸 Will on Instagram 🌎 Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked.com 🍽️ Tara's review of Dinner With The Parents at Cracked.com 👙 Tara's review of Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen at Cracked.com 🎼 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon 🫚 Ginger Crunch recipe at CarolinesCooking.com 📷 Photo: Conaco / Max

Apr 17, 2024

It's yet another expensive-looking and ambitious limited series from Apple TV+ -- this time, Franklin , starring Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas as the flatulence-forward inventor of electricity. Is this limited series focused on the wrong thing? Is Franklin as a colonial weirdo better in smaller doses? And why isn't there more farting? Later, we went Around The Dial with Loot 's second season, Top Chef 's Wisconsin season, and Carol & The End of the World , and then we took cover for an incoming Canon pitch about the Justified S01 finale. Cold Case won, Billy Joel fans lost, and Tara ran the numbers with us in a non-regulation Game Time. Pin a scale-model tall ship to your head and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Krystal Farmer TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪁 Franklin Around The Dial: 👑 Loot Around The Dial: 🤯 Carol & The End of the World Around The Dial: 🔪 Top Chef The Canon: 🤠 S01.E13: Bulletville Winner & Loser: 🥶 Cold Case Winner & Loser: 🎹 Billy Joel Game Time: 💯 Keeping Everything 100 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 507 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪙 Krystal Farmer's podcast, Two Cents Plus Tax 🤫 Anne Hathaway quieting a crowd in Italy 👑 Tara's Loot S02 review at Cracked 📚 The "as seen on TV" sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Apple CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Apr 11, 2024

Tom Ripley, a Talented character we already saw on screen in his namesake movie in 1999, is back, now in a limited series on Netflix; Dan Rogge joins us to discuss how this version compares to Anthony Minghella's film, what we thought of its use of black and white, and how it works to age up the character so he can be played by Andrew Scott. Around The Dial takes us through Monsters At Work S02, Only Murders In The Building S03, and Space Show (aka For All Mankind ). Britt pitches the Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV therapists: how does that make you feel? Row out into the middle of the open sea and listen! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update Lead Topic: ⛵️ Ripley Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work Around The Dial: 🏙️ Only Murders In The Building Around The Dial: 🚀 For All Mankind The Canon: 🌛 Moonlighting S02.E04: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice Winner & Loser: 👍 The NCIS franchise Winner & Loser: 👎 Homophobic 9-1-1 viewers Game Time: 🧠 TV Head Shrinkers (Brought To You By BetterHelp) SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 506 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⛱️ All Summer In A Day (1982) on YouTube 📹 Michael Penn's “Try” video on YouTube 🧌 Tara's essay on Monsters At Work S02 at Cracked 🔗 Dan Rogge on LinkedIn 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon 📷 Photo: Philippe Antonello / Netflix CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Apr 3, 2024

AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish , features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anything with 2010s crime-show cliches? Who has notes on car-chase credibility? And on a scale of one to ten plastic babies, how "Nawlins" is the show? Later, we're going Around The Dial with Taskmaster 's seventeenth season, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show , and how to rewatch Boardwalk Empire ; and finding out whether Tara's Canon pitch for This Fool is worth one MEEELLION dollars. RHONY won, Tori Spelling lost, and we obeyed a VERY strict speed limit for Game Time -- so buckle your seatbelt for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚗 Parish Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Around The Dial: 😬 Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show Around The Dial: 🍾 Boardwalk Empire The Canon: 🕺 This Fool S01.E05: Sandy Says Winner & Loser: 👍 The Real Housewives Of New York City Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: 🐢 Slowly At First II SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 505 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💻 Omar Gallaga at CNET 🎞️ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe 💌 Tara's interview with Alex and Greg of Taskmaster at Cracked.com 🪄 Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show ⚾️ Ottawa University's Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference 🔎 Best Evidence 📷 Photo: AMC CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Mar 27, 2024

Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memories of the original. Around The Dial takes us through Girls5eva , Lost , Homicide: New York , and Chicken Nugget . Taylor makes the case for inducting Andor 's "One Way Out" into the Canon; then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a game about who's at whose throat. No throats are ripped out in the course of this episode, so feel free to listen! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: 👊 Road House Around The Dial: 🎙️ Girls5Eva Around The Dial: 🗺️ Lost Around The Dial: 🗽 Homicide: New York Around The Dial: 🟠 Chicken Nugget The Canon: ➡️ Andor S01.E10: One Way Out Winner & Loser: 👍 Cypress Hill Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 😡 Nemeses SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 504 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Taylor S. Cole on Twitter 💾 "Original 'Road House' Writer Sues Amazon, Alleges Streamer Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices" at Variety.com 🎬 "The New 'Road House' Shows the Perils of Adapting Ridiculous 80s Movies" at DecodingEverything.com ✍🏻 Tara's interview with Girls5eva creator Meredith Scardino at Cracked 🍹 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked 🏙️ The Docket on Homicide: New York 📷 Photo: Laura Radford / Prime Video

Mar 20, 2024

Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very special episode, we're addressing not one, not two, but NINE Extra Credit submissions with answers as considered as they are ridiculous. Cha-ching! TOPICS Extra Credit: 🎣 Hook Line And Sinker Extra Credit: 😮‍💨 Creative Compromise Extra Credit: 🏺 Historical Absurdity Extra Credit: 🫥 Insert Yourselves Extra Credit: 🗺️ Keoghan's Heroes Extra Credit: 🔪 New Benedict Arnolds Extra Credit: ✍🏻 Initial Similarities Extra Credit: 👵🏻 Everything Old Is Old Again Extra Credit: 🟤 Great TV Bezoars SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 503 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🚬 NewsRadio : "Smoking" clip on YouTube

Mar 13, 2024

Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control , The Curse , and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial . Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order episode "Trophy" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we play BALL (sometimes; sometimes not) with a sportsy Non-Regulation Game Time. Get to your club, pour some 18-year-old scotch, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 The Gentlemen Around The Dial: 🦝 Animal Control Around The Dial: 😈 The Curse Around The Dial: 🎤 As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order S06.E12: Trophy Winner & Loser: 👍 James Wolk Winner & Loser: 👎 Gary Goldsmith Game Time: 🙋🏼‍♀️ The World Series Of 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 502 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🦋 Will Leitch on Bluesky 🥇 Will and Tim Grierson's Guy Ritchie movie ranking, at Vulture 🤣 Tara at Cracked.com 📚 Will's books at HarperCollins 🕺 The Will Leitch Experience 🎤 Sarah's review of As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial at Best Evidence 🔫 Best Evidence, where Sarah's interview with Manhunt author James L. Swanson will run later this week 📷 Photo: Kevin Baker / Netflix

Mar 6, 2024

The Good [X] -verse returns to network television with Elsbeth , a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind 's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance 's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight , and then we threw Tubi's tortured new brand identity into the ring of Will Dave Hate This?. Wendy told us about Tasha Yar in her Canon pitch for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode before Netflix won, Paramount+ lost, and we confronted time rifts of our own during Game Time. Diaphragms, double spaces, and thee: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 Elsbeth Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Will Dave Hate This?: 🧪 Tubi branding The Canon: 🪐 Star Trek: The Next Generation S03.E15: Yesterday's Enterprise Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 Paramount+ Game Time: ⏰ Where In Time Are These Nielsen Ratings? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 501 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐸 More on Adam's Muppets podcast, Muppeturgy 👩‍🦯 Our discussion of Love Is Blind S05 in EHG 478 🕳️ The Tubi rebrand announcement 🐴 Tara's Dick Turpin review at Cracked 📻 Sarah's As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Elizabeth Fisher / CBS

Feb 28, 2024

James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shōgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV critic Alison Herman returns to join us in describing everything ELSE that's also going on. Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Abbott Elementary , S02 of Tokyo Vice , and the grand (or is it) finale of True Detective: Night Country . Returning submitter Francoise makes a case for the Better Things episode "Rising" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to The One Where We Wonder What Time It Is (it's Game Time). Put on your most sumptuous silks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏯 Shōgun Around The Dial: 🎒 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🚨 Tokyo Vice Around The Dial: 👮 True Detective The Canon: 🏖️ Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 Glaring SNL band member Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix Game Time: 🏆 The One With The Canon Episodes SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 500 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter 🏯 Alison's Shōgun review 👀 Tara's interview with Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Sal Gentile about A Closer Look at Cracked 🏥 Tara's review of The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy at Cracked 📰 Alison at Variety 📚 True Detective magazine for sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Katie Yu / FX

Feb 21, 2024

When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear Taylor, Lucy, and (Bezoar) Laura try to decipher TV theme songs slowed WAY down; then, Dave hops in for a surprise round of 19 Questions. Don't just slow down everything else in your life: put it on pause and join us for this very special episode! TOPICS Game Time: 🐌 Slowly At First Game Time: 😖 Revenge Of 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 499 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Feb 14, 2024

This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker ; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher . Around The Dial takes us through The Amazing Race , This Fool , Kings From Queens , and Griselda . Tara pitches the Primo episode "The Game Champ" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time located next to either a wormhole or a dolphin tank. Hop in your RV and join us! GUESTS 👤 David J. Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👣 Tracker Around The Dial: 🗺️ The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🧁 This Fool Around The Dial: 👑 Kings From Queens Around The Dial: 🍚 Griselda The Canon: 🎲 Primo S01.E04: The Game Champ Winner & Loser: 👍 Eric Deggans Winner & Loser: 👎 Holly Marie Combs and Wil Wheaton Game Time: 🐬 Before & After: Deep Six Twelve Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 498 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ David J. Roth on Bluesky 👣 "It's Tracker" at Defector.com 🏈 Tara's ranking of every Super Bowl lead-out at Cracked 🚫 Tara's Dos & Don'ts of action comedies at Cracked ♨️ "It Is Now Time To Discuss Jack Reacher Throwing A Grill At A Guy" at Defector 👑 Sarah's King From Queens review at Best Evidence 🎲 Tara's Primo review at Cracked 🗣️ Tara's Shea Serrano interview at Cracked 📚 Eric Deggans's book Race Baiter at Bookshop.org 📷 Photo: Lindsay Siu / CBS

Feb 7, 2024

Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks Sarah D. Bunting zoomed in on for confirmation, and what the Phoebe Waller-Bridge iteration of the show might have looked like. Then we went Around The Dial with Clone High , The Floor , Fargo , and Law & Order: SVU ; and Buntsy stayed in the Order -verse to declare that she's NOT a crackpot for thinking Tony Goldwyn should play his Criminal Intent character on Mothership even though that character is dead. Alan Partridge won, Alyssa Milano lost, and we all tried to guess the horndog hearts of IMDb searchers in Game Time. This time it's cake AND death in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Mr. And Mrs. Smith Around The Dial: 🧬 Clone High Around The Dial: 🧠 The Floor Around The Dial: ❄️ Fargo Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Tony Goldwyn on L&O The Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H S03.E11: Adam's Ribs Winner & Loser: 👍 Alan Partridge Winner & Loser: 👎 Alyssa Milano Game Time: 📈 TV Popularity Contest SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 497 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😢 Watch Sarah Baker in Go On on Peacock ⚖️ Deadline on Tony Goldwyn joining Law & Order 💀 Fandom Wikia on Frank Goren's canonical deadness 🧬 Tara's Clone High review at Cracked.com 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs : The Weird Al vs. Everybody season 🥊 The latest round of Milano vs. Everybody... 💇🏻‍♀️ ...and Milano's stylist vs. Milano 🌴 Upcoming Again With Again With This es will dig into the Charmed contretemps 📷 Photo: David Lee / Prime Video

Jan 31, 2024

With Masters Of The Air , Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us through a midseason Married At First Sight check-in; Season 1 of The Traitors ; Bluey ; and an Edgar Allan Poe episode of Homicide: Life On The Street . Jeff presents the Colin From Accounts episode "Toyota Cressida" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's fun much more than a third of the time. Fasten your seatbelt and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: ✈️ Masters Of The Air Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🔪 The Traitors Around The Dial: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street The Canon: 🦮 Colin From Accounts S01.E03: Toyota Cressida Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate Hudson Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo Game Time: 3️⃣ Third Word Problems SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 496 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Jeff Drake on Bluesky 😬 "All Of The Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga" at TheCut.com 😆 Tara at Cracked.com 🛬 Jet Lag: The Game on YouTube.com 😡 The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street S04.E07: "Heartbeat" on Dailymotion 🦢 Feud: Capote vs. The Swans prep list at Best Evidence at Reality Blurred 📷 Photo: Apple

Jan 24, 2024

We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive. EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild One Remember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was that bikers would just grab a waitress from a diner and make her join their gang? EEHG 216: Dave Forces Tara To Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes We close out our “Dry January” Forcening miniseries with Dave’s imposition on Tara: an episode of Ancient Aliens all about how desert geoglyphs were probably definitely designed by aliens as a way for humans to communicate with them. “Why?” Shut up, that’s why! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 495 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍽️ Watch Alice S06.E01: The Wild One on YouTube 👽 Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes on Hulu CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jan 17, 2024

Mon dieu : Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not long enough? How well does star Clive Owen contend with the character's, and Humphrey Bogart's, legend? And should we strike until we get the full-frontal outtakes from the swimming scenes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office , So Help Me Todd , and For All Mankind , and Tara tried to paint a pretty picture of a King Of Queens episode for the Canon. Clone High won, Julia lost, and WE may have gotten lost in translation in a French-themed Non-Regulation Game Time. It's an all-new Extra Hot Great, and c'est magnifique . GUESTS 👤 Caroline Lefloch TOPICS Lead Topic: ♠️ Monsieur Spade Around The Dial: 📬 Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♂️ So Help Me Todd Around The Dial: 🛰️ For All Mankind The Canon: 🤴🏻 The King Of Queens S08.E17: Present Tense Winner & Loser: 👍 Clone High Winner & Loser: 👎 Julia Game Time: 🥖 Ah Ah Ah, En Français SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 494 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📜 "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice" in The New Yorker 🧑‍🚀 The For All Mankind Canon presentation in EHG 486 👑 The first King Of Queens Canon attempt in EHG 240 🦤 King Of Queens 's top 50 episodes ranked at Vulture 🧸 Tara on Ted at Cracked.com ⚔️ Tara demands justice for Son Of Zorn 🎾 Joe on Break Point 🔪 How true-crimey is Leonardo DiCaprio's c.v.? 📷 Photo: Jean-Claude Lother / AMC CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Jan 10, 2024

AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record , is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial takes us through Grimsburg , Julia , The Gilded Age (including a Tiny Triumph from Brandi), Break Point , and The Bob Newhart Show . Past guest Ilan pitches Shoresy 's "Players Wanted" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about screens big and small. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and join us! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: 💂🏻 Criminal Record Around The Dial: 🤷‍♂️ Grimsburg Around The Dial: 🥖 Julia Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🎾 Break Point Around The Dial: 🛋️ The Bob Newhart Show The Canon: 🏒 Shoresy S02.E04: Players Only Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White Winner & Loser: 👎 Pat McAfee Game Time: 🎬 Small Silver Screen SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Brandi Brown on Bluesky 📸 Brandi on Instagram 🤷‍♂️ Tara's review of Grimsburg at Cracked.com 🥇 Tara's interview with Shea Serrano at Cracked.com 🎟️ Buy tickets to see Brandi Brown with headliner River Butcher at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis February 7-10 🎙️ Comedy Night at The Mudd Room in Mendota, MN, where you can see Brandi on February 14 🕵🏻‍♂️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Jan 3, 2024

Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica dares us to watch a Monty Python's Flying Circus that breaks from both standard episode structure and good taste. And Françoise tries to exorcise the nadir of her House rewatch. You may need to suspend Dry January to get through this one, but we hope that won't stop you from joining us! TOPICS The Nonac: 🏝️ Survivor S39.E08: We Made It To The Merge! The Nonac: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus S03.E08: The Cycling Tour The Nonac: 👨🏻‍⚕️ House S02.E13: Skin Deep SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 492 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪔 "Julius Caesar On An Aldis Lamp" on YouTube CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dec 27, 2023

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ New Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 491 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 20, 2023

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault. EEHG 212: Christmastalgia Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how. EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992 What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go ? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them. EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef . In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎄 Reimagining Classic Christmas TV Lead Topic: 🤑 December 6, 1992 Commercials Lead Topic: 👩🏻‍🍳 The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 490 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👼 "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org 🍇 A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com 🪨 "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co 💰 "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube 👩🏻‍🍳 Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!) 🍴 Watch the show Julia on HBO Max 🎥 Watch the documentary Julia , also on HBO Max

Dec 13, 2023

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 489 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 6, 2023

Do you know what time it is? It's Non-Regulation Game Time, courtesy of our friend Nick Rheinwald-Jones! Get out your No. 2 pencils, because Nick found a vacant high school gym, sat your co-hosts down, and administered The TV SATs. Whose scores will qualify them for consideration at prestigious Hillman College, and who's going to have to settle for Bovine University? Listen to find out! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Game Time: 🎓 The TV SATs SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 488 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 29, 2023

For years, you've heard us sing the D.B. Cooper song; now you're going to hear us talk about him. Just because no one knows what actually happened to Dan Cooper after he jumped out of that plane with a bag full of cash doesn't mean TV writers can't speculate about it in their entirely fictional shows. Three shows -- Leverage , Prison Break , and NewsRadio -- had three very different versions of how he could have ended up; we're leaping in to all three with today's very special episode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job Lead Topic: 🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7 Lead Topic: 🎥 Buntsy's D.B. Cooper Doc Recs Lead Topic: 📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail; S05.E07: The Lam; S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 487 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job on Freevee 🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7 on Hulu 📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail on The Roku Channel 📻 NewsRadio S05.E07: The Lam on The Roku Channel 📻 NewsRadio S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans on The Roku Channel 🫵 I Am DB Cooper on Prime Video 👀 Sarah's review of I Am DB Cooper at Best Evidence 🛩️ The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper on Prime Video ✍🏻 Sarah's review of The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper at Primetimer 💸 https://www.primetimer.com/quickhits/the-mystery-of-db-cooper-gives-an-old-case-new-life 🤔 Sarah's review of DB Cooper, Where Are You?! at Best Evidence 🕵🏻‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries S01.E05 on Freevee CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Nov 22, 2023

The Crown is back with the first half (or so) of its final season; as it sends off Princess Diana, Heather Cocks joins us to discuss whether the season had to happen at all. Around The Dial takes us through The Real Housewives Of New York , Killing It , the second season of Julia , and the latest episode of Opera Wars, aka The Gilded Age . Heather makes the case for For All Mankind 's "Hi Bob" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time you and all your nieces can enjoy. Shoo out any palace mice and listen! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🏙️ The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🏝️ Love Island: The Game Around The Dial: 🐊 Killin' It Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age The Canon: 🪐 For All Mankind S01.E07: Hi Bob Winner & Loser: 👍 Big Little Lies Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: ✍🏻 Murder, She Wrote? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 486 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ The Fug Girls on Bluesky 🦃 Tara's list of the 15 best Thanksgiving sitcom episodes 🚣🏻 The Again With This podcast, soon to start covering Dawson's Creek 🍸 Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan on Substack: Drinks With Broads 📚 Heather Cocks on Bookshop.org 🗺️ Trip-tested true crime at BestEvidence.fyi 📷 Photo: Des Willie / Netflix

Nov 15, 2023

Our esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall is back, mate(y)! An Australian spin-off of an already banal cop-show franchise is maybe not the best use of his time, but we talked about NCIS -franchise stock characters, unmemorable TV for aging parents, and what happens when English actors try to play ugly Americans. Later, we went Around The Dial with The Curse , The O.C. , and Murder One before wondering whether God is dead during Mike's The Leftovers Canon presentation. Alex P. Keaton won, Nickelodeon execs lost, and Game Time had us Quantum Leap -ing into TV characters -- all that and more on an all-new Extra Hot Great, oh boy! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐨 NCIS: Sydney Tiny Triumph: 🌟 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 😱 The Curse Around The Dial: 🍊 The O.C. Around The Dial: 🔪 Murder One The Canon: 🦁 The Leftovers S03.E05: It's A Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World Winner & Loser: 👍 Still Winner & Loser: 👎 Unnamed Nickelodeon pilot Game Time: ⚛️ Quantum Leaping 2 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 485 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📚 Pre-order Alan Sepinwall's latest book, Welcome to The O.C. ! 😱 Alan's review of The Curse for Rolling Stone 🙀 And Tara's for Cracked 🔪 An entirely different Murder One at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Daniel Asher Smith / Paramount+

Nov 8, 2023

AppleTV+'s new dramedy is a series adaptation of the famously unfinished Edith Wharton novel The Buccaneers ; Margaret H. Willison joins us to discuss how it compares to the many other current and recently past entires into the thriving genre of corset TV. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight , Beckham , and Get Gotti , with just a little bit more on The Gilded Age than we already discussed in relation to our lead topic. Erin makes the case for the Spaced episode "Gone" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winners and Losers, we ROLE into a returning Game Time! Find a little time to yourself -- a nine-day Atlantic crossing should be plenty -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 Margaret Willison TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Quick Club Plug Lead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ The Buccaneers Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ⚽️ Beckham Around The Dial: 🔫 Get Gotti Around The Dial: 💛 The Gilded Age The Canon: 👽 Spaced S02.E05: Gone Winner & Loser: 🏟️ American Sports Story Winner & Loser: 🌙 After Midnight Game Time: 🎲 Re-Re-Role Playing Game SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 484 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram 🍆 Tara on FBoy Island host Nikki Glaser, at Cracked 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 👭 The Two Bossy Dames newsletter 📰 Sarah's Get Gotti review at Best Evidence 📚 John Gotti at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Nov 1, 2023

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers , takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less than the sum of a few very good parts; what Roy Cohn content might do a better job with midcentury context than this show; and how much sex creates character development. Then we went Around The Dial with Everyone Else Burns , The Fall of the House of Usher , and Paramount+'s Milli Vanilli documentary, and Tara plotted to get a tenth (!) Simpsons episode into the Canon. Seth Rogen's ceramics hobby won, an ex- SNL writer lost, and we piled into the virtual minivan for a road-trippy Game Time. Moisturize your necks: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧳 Fellow Travelers Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Everyone Else Burns Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 🎙️ Milli Vanilli The Canon: 👨‍🦲 The Simpsons S08.E16: Brother From Another Series Winner & Loser: 👍 Seth Rogen Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Brennan Game Time: 📍 The Great American TV Road Trip SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 483 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧳 Joe's review of Fellow Travelers at Primetimer 🌤️ Joe Reid on Bluesky 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz on Patreon 🎞️ Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League 😆 Tara on the best imported comedies to stream right now at Cracked 🎙️ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Ben Mark Holzberg / SHOWTIME

Oct 25, 2023

Bodies is the latest comic book to get a limited series adaptation at Netflix; Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss its many storylines, and timelines! Around The Dial takes us through Savior Complex ; RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop ; and (speaking of multiple timelines) various different iterations of Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Erin presents the series premiere of Starstruck for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we compete in a Game Time that's all 1s and 0s. Grab your badge and join us! GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Bodies Around The Dial: 😇 Savior Complex Around The Dial: 🦾 RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop Around The Dial: 🔪 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Canon: 🤩 Starstruck S01.E01: NYE Winner & Loser: 👍 Coach K Winner & Loser: 👎 SAG-AFTRA Game Time: 🤖 I, Robot SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 482 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter ⚖️ "A Missionary On Trial" at The New Yorker 👄 Tara's Big Mouth S07 review 🦾 "'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' - Four-Part Docuseries Premieres August 29 on SCREAMBOX" at BloodyDisgusting.com 🎞️ The Film Cast podcast 👨🏾‍💻 Devindra at Engadget 🔪 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents playlist on YouTube 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📚 The EHG listener discount at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Matt Towers / Netflix

Oct 18, 2023

Appointment Television and Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham returns to talk about the return of Frasier , and whether it was necessary. Should the creators have taken a hint from the universe (and David Hyde Pierce)? Could the re-imagining of the beloved original have worked with a few conceptual tweaks? Would we advise you to watch it, or take Eddie for a walk instead? Later, we went Around The Dial with Shining Vale 's second season, Home Movies , AHS: Roanoke , and updates on Devil's Plan and House Of Usher , then pinned on our corsages for a Canon entry on a super-size episode of The Venture Bros. . JFK won, walkers lost, and points for trying was more than a metaphor in a b-b-b-b-brilliant Game Time. We'll meet you at the copyright-compliant local tavern for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥗 Frasier Around The Dial: 🔪 Shining Vale Around The Dial: 📹 Home Movies Around The Dial: 🚢 American Horror Story: Roanoke Around The Dial: 😈 The Devil's Plan Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher The Canon: ✌️ The Venture Bros. S04.E16: Operation P.R.O.M. Winner & Loser: 👍 JFK Winner & Loser: 👎 Results-oriented on-TV guide grids Game Time: 📯 B-B-B-B-Broadcast! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍳 Tara's review of the Frasier reboot at Cracked 🥌 Alan Sepinwall's at Rolling Stone 🥾 More on the reboot's Twitter origins at Vulture ☕️ 130 animators remake "My Coffee With Niles" one frame at a time 🌤️ Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky 👨🏻‍💻 Andrew at Ars Technica ⏳ Andrew on The Wheel Of Time 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 🔪 Tara reviews Shining Vale S02 at Cracked 🚢 EHG 135 with Tara and Eve Batey talking about AHS: Roanoke ⚓️ Tara's Roanoke coverage from Previously.TV 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Pamela Littky / Paramount+

Oct 11, 2023

The latest screen adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial was directed by the late William Friedkin and premiered on Paramount+ With Showtime, which means we can claim it as TV and we have; certified film critic Tim Grierson returns to discuss it! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death S02, comedy specials from John Mulaney and (separately) Taylor Tomlinson, The Restaurant , and The Devil's Plan . Bezoar Laura presents the Scrubs episode "My Screw Up" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time by regarding some TV stars who crossed over into the movies. Put on your dress blues and join us! GUESTS 👤 Tim Grierson TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update! Lead Topic: 🚢 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 🎙️ Stand Up For Parents Around The Dial: 🍖 The Restaurant The Canon: 🩻 Scrubs S03.E14: My Screw Up Winner & Loser: 👍 Turn-On Winner & Loser: 👎 Teresa Giudice Game Time: 🏆 The Nominees Were... SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 480 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter 🏴‍☠️ Tara's review of Our Flag Means Death S02 🎥 Tim's book, How To Make A Movie , at Bookshop.org 🍿 GriersonLeitch.com 🎶 Wilco The Podcast on Apple Podcasts 🍝 "Spaghetti Western" at NYMag.com 📰 Eve Batey, Marcia Chatelain, and Sarah on food crime at The Docket 👾 Turn-On E01 💾 Turn-On E02 📷 Photo: Paramount Pictures

Oct 4, 2023

Amazon Prime takes us back to the Vought cinematic universe with Gen V , a The Boys spinoff of sorts about up-and-coming college "supes" -- and we're glad Nick Rheinwald-Jones could join us to talk about whether it's a TV campus worth visiting, plus the pleasures of thorough world-building, CGI peens, and putting the grodiest deaths out of frame. We went Around The Dial with Starstruck , Only Connect , and the first season of Feud , then headed out to Neptune, CA for Sarah's Canon presentation on the Veronica Mars pilot. Kevin James won, Linda Fairstein lost, and we all gathered around the non-regulation piano for another round of Tube Tunes in Game Time. Add this all-new Extra Hot Great to your core listening curriculum today! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Announcement: 🏆 Canon Levels Low! Lead Topic: 🧪 Gen V Around The Dial: 🤩 Starstruck Around The Dial: 🔢 Only Connect Around The Dial: 🤺 Feud The Canon: 🏴‍☠️ Veronica Mars S01.E01: Pilot Winner & Loser: 👍 Kevin James Winner & Loser: 👎 Linda Fairstein Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIII SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 479 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧪 Tara's Gen V review at Cracked 🤷‍♀️ Chance Perdomo's "explanation" of his social-media challenges 🕵🏻‍♂️ Nick Rheinwald-Jones at SpyBrunch.com 🌤️ Nick on Bluesky 💗 Tara on romcom creators at Cracked 📚 Save some money at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / Prime Video

Sep 27, 2023

Love Is Blind is back with a whole new crop of singles willing to try their luck at finding love sight unseen; Tara's fellow Coelenologist Brittany Luse returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Story , Still Up , and the AppleTV+ documentary feature Still . Theresa pitches the third episode of Normal People for the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that feels really connected to you already. Grab your gold goblet and join us! GUESTS 👤 Brittany Luse TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Drive Update Lead Topic: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🔪 American Horror Story: Delicate Around The Dial: 🌜 Still Up Around The Dial: 🫨 Still The Canon: ☘️ Normal People S01.E03 Winner & Loser: 👍 The WGA Winner & Loser: 👎 Oprah Winfrey Game Time: 🔌 Also Also Connect SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 478 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Brittany Luse on Twitter 🌛 Tara's Still Up review at Cracked ⏱️ The It's Been A Minute podcast 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Netflix

Sep 20, 2023

Al Lowe Huff drags in a portable smelter -- and Dave gets high off the fumes -- for The Gold , a six-part scripted story about the 1983 Brink's Mat robbery in the UK. We're talking about proportions of process-iness, the class struggle in South London, and how much BAFTA-bait monologuing is too much, before we go Around The Dial with The Other Black Girl , Harry Wild , Whitstable Pearl , and Cagney & Lacey . (And Sean Connery. Don't ask.) Then Laura unfurled HER list of reasons we should consider a My Name Is Earl episode for the Canon. Disney won, Jeremy Strong lost, and we tried to connect the TV dots in Game Time. Put your corrupt lawyer on speed-dial for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥇 The Gold Around The Dial: 👧🏾 The Other Black Girl Around The Dial: 🐻 Harry Wild Around The Dial: 🦪 Whitstable Pearl Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♀️ Cagney And Lacey The Canon: 📜 My Name Is Earl S02.E05: Van Hickey Winner & Loser: 👍 Disney Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Strong Game Time: 🔌 Also Connect SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 477 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👑 Dave summons The Gold into existence in EEHG 017 🏛️ Tara's review of Krapopolis 🏚️ Sarah's review of Amityville: An Origin Story 📷 Photo: Sally Mais / Tannadice Pictures / Paramount+

Sep 13, 2023

AppleTV+'s latest sci-fi series is the "modern fairy tale" The Changeling ; Dan Cassino returns to discuss what, if anything, we'd have liked to see change. Around The Dial takes us through BS High , Season 2 of Wheel Of Time , the original Japanese Iron Chef , and Murder, She Wrote . Eleanor pitches the Project Runway episode "A Suitable Twist" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's time for us to stagger into a Non-Regulation Game Time, hoping our brains don't fail us. Put your baby (or is it) down for a nap and join us! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤰🏾 The Changeling Around The Dial: 🏈 BS High Around The Dial: 🛞 Wheel Of Time Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Iron Chef Around The Dial: ✍️ Murder, She Wrote The Nonac: 💃 Project Runway S13.E05: A Suitable Twist Winner & Loser: 👍 Fans of The Brady Bunch Winner & Loser: 👎 Drew Barrymore Game Time: 🧟‍♂️ He's In The Walking Dead?! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 476 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ☁️ Dan Cassino on Bluesky 🫥 " The Changeling 's Problem With a Disappearing Woman" at NewRepublic.com 🚽 Tara's piece on the end of How To With John Wilson at Cracked 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 😤 Gender Threat , the book Dan co-authored with Yasemin Besen-Cassino, on Bookshop.org 📚 Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Sep 6, 2023

To mark another Labor Day, we're turning our attention to TV bosses -- specifically, putting them all in a geodesic dome in a radiation-ravaged Australian Outback, and determining which of them would survive mortal combat with one another. We can say for certain that the ultimate victor will surprise you...but they surprised us! Listen for all the bloody speculation. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👔 TV Boss Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 475 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Aug 30, 2023

Stephanie Green is back to talk about a too-long, badly structured true-crime series from AppleTV+, and the many opportunities Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn wastes to tell a good story. Sarah thought it had nonfiction The Morning Show vibes, a characterization Tara resented; listen to our correct-length, non-backloaded conversation and see if you agree! We went Around The Dial with The Ultimatum , Sister Wives , 90 Day UK , and Project Greenlight , and Tara was NOT a crackpot about DIY haircuts on Ahsoka . Listener Jeff begged us to Please Like Me -- well, a third-season episode, anyway -- in this week's Canon segment, and then Adriana La Cerva won and Doogie Kamealoha lost before we all walked down the aisle for Game Time. About to flee the country? Download this all-new episode to your lawyer's hard-drive and hit the road! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚙 Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn Around The Dial: 🙅 The Ultimatum Around The Dial: 💍 Sister Wives Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 90 Day UK Around The Dial: 🟢 Project Greenlight I Am Not A Crackpot: 💇🏻‍♀️ Ahsoka Haircuts The Canon: 💊 Please Like Me S03.E04: Natural Spring Water Winner & Loser: 👍 Drea de Matteo Winner & Loser: 👎 Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Game Time: 👰‍♀️ I Do, Or Maybe I Don't SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 474 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ✍️ Stephanie Early Green's website 💕 Stephanie talks about Please Like Me in episode 306 🧑‍✈️ Tara on the 50 greatest sitcom pilots at Cracked 🔎 BestEvidence.fyi 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Aug 23, 2023

To celebrate the 10th (!!!) anniversary of EHG Mark II, we're flashing back to the week of August 17-23 in historical TV listings. Our time travel takes us back to 2003 for the fourth-season finale of The Amazing Race ; to 2012, for a trip to the Hamptons with Royal Pains ; and to the very day of our first episode to watch Lance Reddick's visit to NTSF: SD: SUV:: . Join us as we revisit Augusts past! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌎 The Amazing Race S04.E13: It's Like Adam Building His First House! Lead Topic: 🩺 Royal Pains S04.E10: Who's Your Daddy Lead Topic: 🔫 NTSF:SD:SUV:: S03.E05: TGI Murder Game Time: ⌛️ In The Year 2013 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 473 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ❤️‍🔥 Lance Reddick as Todd Broger

Aug 16, 2023

HBO's newest true crime docu-series, Telemarketers , a look at a New Jersey phone scam; Robert Krut returns to discuss it, and brings personal stories to share! Around The Dial takes us through Winning Time , Poker Face , and Painkiller . Bobby pitches the Atlanta episode "Woods" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us, and our bidding acumen, back to the Garden State. Hang up on that Likely Scam and listen! GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: ☎️ Telemarketers Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time Around The Dial: ♠️ Poker Face Around The Dial: 💊 Painkiller The Canon: 🌲 Atlanta S02.E08: Woods Winner & Loser: 👍 Sam Levinson Winner & Loser: 👎 Sam Levinson Game Time: 🐄 Garden State TV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 472 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Bobby Krut on Instagram 💉 Patton Oswalt's "Toronto Open Mic" on YouTube 👹 Holy Hell on Peacock 🏀 30 For 30 's "Celtics/Lakers: Best Of Enemies" on ESPN 🤘 Tara on The Osbournes and At Home With The Furys for Cracked 🐦 Bobby on X 🪶 Bobby's website 🧠 The Masterminds Crazy Eddie episode, on YouTube 💊 Sarah's full Painkiller review at Best Evidence 🚗 "An Open Letter To David Simon, Who Tweeted NYC Is 'On The Make' Because He Got A $50 Speeding Ticket" at HellGate 📷 Photo: HBO

Aug 9, 2023

Only Murders In The Building is back for a third season of death, mayhem, and...theatre? New guest David Wiebe joins us to discuss all the players new and old. Around The Dial takes us through Physical , Letterman Originals on YouTube, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown , and Star Trek 's Paramount+ branding. Julie pitches The Bear 's Season 1 episode "Dogs" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a highly questionable Game Time. Grab your Beats and listen! GUESTS 👤 David Wiebe TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Snafu & Crisistunity Lead Topic: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ Physical Around The Dial: 🌃 Letterman Originals Around The Dial: 🗺️ Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Around The Dial: 🖖 Star Trek The Canon: 🐻 The Bear S01.E04: Dogs Winner & Loser: 👍 Suits Winner & Loser: 👎 The Church Of Scientology Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions: Wiebe Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 471 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 David Wiebe on Twitter 🏢 Tara's post on Only Murders In The Building at Cracked 🐶 "Can Comedy Shows Please Stop Killing Dogs For Laughs?" at Cracked [warning: spoilers] 🌃 Letterman Originals on YouTube 🏡 Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse on Netflix 🐦 Big House Stories on Twitter 🗺️ Sarah on Anthony Bourdain at the Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Patrick Harbron / Hulu

Aug 2, 2023

Reservation Dogs is back on FX/Hulu this week, and Variety's Alison Herman is back on EHG to talk about the show's final season: realistic teenage-character arcs, spiritual cousins to Atlanta , and the meanings of "home." We went Around The Dial with This Fool , Minx 's second season, and Hunted , aka "the darkest Amazing Race " (which we completely forgot we covered the American version of in a long-ago episode) before Tara took the solo on a Girls5Eva Canon pitch. The Glovers' future won, the former Arrow lost, and we set our minds to siblings of the small screen in Game Time. The bus is leaving, so charge up your phone for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪶 Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: ☕️ This Fool Around The Dial: 🍆 Minx Around The Dial: 🏹 Hunted The Canon: 🐈 Girls5Eva S02.E06: B.P.E. Winner & Loser: 👍 The Glover Brothers Winner & Loser: 👎 Stephen Amell Game Time: 👯 Sibling Rivalry SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 470 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alison on Twitter 📰 Alison Herman at Variety 🪶 Alison's review of Reservation Dogs 🤬 Tara talks Citadel on the Appointment Television podcast 🔦 Sarah reviews Hunted on Best Evidence 🤷‍♀️ We reviewed Hunted U.S. in episode 142 with Monty Ashley; oops 📷 Photo: Shane Brown / FX

Jul 26, 2023

Ex- SNL head writer Anna Drezen teamed up with King Of The Hill co-creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge on Praise Petey , the story of a New York girl boss taking over her late father's doomsday cult; we tell you whether it's...well, doomed. Around The Dial takes us through the re-re-revived Futurama , the spinoff XO, Kitty , and the true crime miniseries Myth Of The Zodiac Killer . Mlle. Caroline presents the Abbott Elementary episode "Candy Zombies" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time we can really sink our teeth into. Take a break from preparing a beloved character actor for human sacrifice and join us! GUESTS 👤 Nadia Chaudhury TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧎‍♂️ Praise Petey Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama Around The Dial: 💋 XO, Kitty Around The Dial: ♋️ Myth of the Zodiac Killer The Canon: 🏫 Abbott Elementary S02.E06: Candy Zombies Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeopardy Winners Winner & Loser: 👎 Al "Bubba" Baker Game Time: 🍕 The Leftovers SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 469 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ❌ Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter 🙏 Tara's Praise Petey review at Cracked 🤖 Tara's Futurama S11 review at Cracked 🌮 Eater Austin 🕵🏻‍♀️ BestEvidence.fyi 📷 Photo: Freeform

Jul 19, 2023

Justified is back, and so is Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about it: vibes versus process, when you can't replace Walton Goggins, what great villains know about themselves, and whether (...sigh) Kentucky was a character in the original. Then we went Around The Dial with The Real Housewives Of Jenna Ly-- er, New York , Project Greenlight , Dennis Quaid's Full Circle coif, and Hack My Home before Tara made the case for a second-season Detroiters episode as a Canon gem. Streaming shows won, Zaslav lost, and "band name, called it!" took on new meaning in a tube-tunes-adjacent Game Time from Rebecca. Curl up with a German Shepherd on steroids, take off that clip-on nose ring, and get comfy for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update Lead Topic: 🤠 Justified: City Primeval Around The Dial: 🏙️ The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🟢 Project Greenlight Around The Dial: 🏚️ Hack My Home The Canon: 👺 Detroiters S02.E04: Trevor Winner & Loser: 👍 Streaming shows on broadcast Winner & Loser: 👎 David Zaslav's public Venmo Game Time: 👨🏻‍🎤 Tube Tune Crooners SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 468 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter 🦤 Kathryn's author page at Vulture 👮🏻‍♂️ "The copaganda piece" by Kathryn, also at Vulture 🟢 Kathryn on Project Greenlight 👗 Tara's Stylish With Jenna Lyons review at Primetimer 🥗 From Late Night With Seth Meyers , Conner O’Malley’s interpretive dance set to the theme of Frasier 🥓 Conner O’Malley on YouTube 🎙️ Tara's Luke Macfarlane interview at Cracked ⛲️ The David Copperfield Niagara Falls watch-along for Listen To Sassy Club members 📚 Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Chuck Hodes / FX

Jul 12, 2023

The Horror Of Dolores Roach has evolved from a one-person Broadway play to a podcast to a Prime Video series; Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence.com joins us to discuss the story's final (?) form. Around The Dial takes us through Couples Therapy , My Adventures With Superman , and Last Call . Erica pitches the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Terminal Provocations" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a cryptic, puzzling Game Time. Grab an empanada or two -- filling is up to you -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 Liz Shannon Miller TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥟 The Horror Of Dolores Roach Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Couples Therapy Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ My Adventures With Superman Around The Dial: 🥃 Last Call The Canon: 🖖 Star Trek: Lower Decks S01.E06: Terminal Provocations Winner & Loser: 👍 Ariana Madix Winner & Loser: 👎 Blake Bjornson Game Time: 🪢 Double Straights SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 467 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Liz Shannon Miller on Twitter 🏆 "The Best TV Of 2023, So Far" at VanityFair.com 🎞️ Liz on Letterboxd 📰 Sign up for Consequence's Stream On newsletter 🎏 Stream On, on the web 📚 Exhibit B. Books 💰 "Ariana Madix Is Making A Fortune From All This" at The Cut 🚨 Alabama TV Reporter Valerie Bell Creates Breaking News At Alleged Crime Scene 📷 Photo: Prime Video

Jul 5, 2023

For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall ; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy ; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot . We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-pound portable TV, but you should do it anyway! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛗 Pitfall Lead Topic: 😜 Acting Crazy Lead Topic: 💰 Jackpot Game Time: 🍁 Canadian Or Something Else? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 466 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🛗 Sarah's forcened episode of Pitfall on YouTube 😜 Tara's forcened episode of Acting Crazy on YouTube ❤️‍🔥 Tara's interview with Maureen Ryan on Cracked.com 📚 Signed copies of Last Call at Exhibit B. 💵 The 1975 episode of American Jackpot Dave was initially forcened to watch 💰 Dave's forcened episode of (Canadian) Jackpot

Jun 28, 2023

Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley is back with a delightful Marxist fairy-tale dramedy (...right? Let's just go with it) on Amazon Prime, and Dan D'Addario is back in the guest chair for the first time since EHG Mark 1 to talk about it: how much overt Marxism it gets away with given where we're watching it, the care of the world-building, Jharrel Jerome's storytelling superpowers, and more. We went Around The Dial with Judge Steve Harvey , And Just Like That... , and McEnroe , and Mlle. Caroline was NOT a crackpot for thinking we don't need pilot episodes anymore. After Tara crammed us all into a phone booth for her Saved By The Bell (2020) Canon presentation, Ryan Seacrest won, Will & Grace lost, and we all made sure to park wheels-in for a Bay-Area-based non-regulation Game Time. Don't let silence happen -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Daniel D’Addario TOPICS Lead Topic: ♍️ I'm A Virgo Around The Dial: 👨🏾‍⚖️ Judge Steve Harvey Around The Dial: 👠 And Just Like That Around The Dial: 🎾 McEnroe Around The Dial: 👽 Secret Invasion I Am Not A Crackpot: 👩🏼‍✈️ Pilots in 2023 The Canon: 🛎️ Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E06: Teen-Line Winner & Loser: 👍 Ryan Seacrest Winner & Loser: 👎 Will & Grace Game Time: 🌁 It's Almost Like The San Francisco Bay Area Is Another Character SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 465 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan D'Addario on Twitter 🎬 Dan at Variety ♍️ Dan’s review of I'm A Virgo 🦄 Dan’s review of The Unicorn 💥 Kelsey Grammer falls off stage 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎶 MASTAS chooses our #FirstNameBasis Top 20 📷 Photo: Pete Lee / Prime Video

Jun 21, 2023

Black Mirror has returned for Season 6 with five new episodes of (as usual) varying quality; Brandi Brown has also returned to discuss and rank them! Around The Dial takes us through The Righteous Gemstones ; Ovation as a background cable channel; Season 2 of The Cleaner on BritBox; and an important line reading from a Camp LeJeune-related class-action legal solicitation commercial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Avatar" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's really into labels. Pause the latest hit Streamberry drama and listen! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Sticker Reminder Lead Topic: 🪞 Black Mirror Around The Dial: 💎 The Righteous Gemstones Around The Dial: 👏 Ovation Around The Dial: 🧹 The Cleaner Around The Dial: 🎭 Ridley Around The Dial: 🚫 The "No" Challenge The Canon: 👨🏻‍💻 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E02: Avatar Winner & Loser: 👍 Shannen Doherty Winner & Loser: 👎 Dean McDermott Game Time: 👯 The Game Of The Name SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 464 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Brandi Brown on Twitter 📜 Terms & Conditions May Apply on Amazon 💇🏻‍♂️ Ranking the new wigs of the Righteous Gemstones Season 3 premiere, at Cracked 💎 Gideon Gemstone Appreciation Post, at Cracked 👕 The Exhibit B. Books "(allegedly)" t-shirt 📷 Photo: Nick Wall / Netflix

Jun 14, 2023

More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever , I, Tina , The Real Housewives of New Jersey , and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before Tara hoped a second-season episode of Reservation Dogs would get adopted into the Canon. Bill Hader won, The Crowded Room lost, and Game Time had us scouring the index of Mo's book. Grab a bag of chips and run: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍆 The Full Monty Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🎶 Tina Around The Dial: ⛽️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Canon: 🧀 Reservation Dogs S02.E07: Stay Gold Cheesy Boy Winner & Loser: 🔫 Bill Hader Winner & Loser: 🚪 The Crowded Room Game Time: 🔥 19 Questions: Burn It Down Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 463 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mo Ryan on Twitter ❤️‍🔥 Buy Burn It Down 🪫 The NY Daily News cites Burn It Down on Jeff Garlin's The Goldbergs power trip 🤨 Garlin denies getting fired to Vanity Fair 📜 Tara's Based On A True Story review at Cracked.com 💔 “America loved Tina Turner. But it wasn’t good to her.” at Andscape.com 🐦 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Twitter 📷 Photo: Ben Blackall / FX

Jun 7, 2023

Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch , an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love , Fear The Walking Dead , and 30 For 30 . Julie presents the thirtysomething episode "Mr. Right" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that has us hearing double. Check your peripherals for Kevin The Seal and listen! GUESTS 👤 Anthony Farrell TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Lead Topic: 🐨 Deadloch Around The Dial: 💗 The Ultimatum Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Fear The Walking Dead Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30 The Canon: 👞 thirtysomething S03.E03: Mr. Right Winner & Loser: 👍 Somebody Somewhere Winner & Loser: 👎 Top Chef Game Time: 🗣️ Syllable Bull SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 462 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Anthony on Twitter 🦘 Tara's Deadloch review at Cracked 😵 Kroll Show 's "Dead Girl Town" on YouTube 🤠 Tara's ATX Festival coverage at Cracked 📚 Exhibit B. Books ❤️‍🔥 Buy Maureen Ryan's book Burn It Down at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Amazon Studios

May 31, 2023

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back on Netflix for Season 3, and actor/comedian/media mogul Will Hines is also back to talk about the season's best sketches, unique sketch-show rhythms, and whether Robinson is still TV's best screamer. We went Around The Dial with Platonic , The Night Agent , and Primo , and then relaxed by the pool with Chris's Lodge 49 Canon submission. Kenan Thompson won, Andy Cohen lost, and we rolled the dice in TV real estate during Game Time. Hop off the zipline and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚪 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: 🤝 Platonic Around The Dial: 🌚 The Night Agent Around The Dial: ☝️ Primo The Canon: 😼 Lodge 49 S02.E09: The Reve Impossible Winner & Loser: 👍 Kenan Thompson Winner & Loser: 👎 Andy Cohen Game Time: 🏨 Go Directly To Jail SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 461 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🤣 Mr. Boop 🥚 Alec Robbins's egg-game tweet 🐦 Will Hines on Twitter 🌎 CBB World 📜 More from Will Hines 🤝 Alison Herman's review of Platonic at Variety ✝️ Sarah's coverage of The Secrets of Hillsong at Vanity Fair 🔥 Future guest Mo Ryan's book, Burn It Down , as excerpted in VF 📺 ATX Festival 📷 Photo: Terence Patrick / Netflix

May 24, 2023

Way way back in the early aughties, we all adored Clone High , an animated satire of Dawson's Creek and its ilk that featured wall-to-wall gags and catchphrases your regular panelists -- and esteemed guest John -- still use to this day. Naturally, we welcomed news of a decades-later second season...but does the show still have the same deranged energy, or is it too careful? We talked about how long it dwells on cancel culture (...sigh), who's the best new clone (and who's our most beloved returning character), and whether this version is getting renewed (spoiler: doubt it). Then we went Around The Dial with Primo , a last-minute Tiny Triumph, Mrs. Davis , and Happy Valley before Tara tried to pile-drive another episode of Glow into the Canon. Jason Momoa won, SVU 's casting department lost, and DJ Farnsworth mixed everyone up with a theme-song mash-up Game Time. Try not to burn yourself on an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update Lead Topic: 🧬 Clone High Around The Dial: 👩‍👦 Primo Around The Dial: 🍗 Mrs. Davis Around The Dial: 👮 Happy Valley The Canon: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW S03.E05: Freaky Tuesday Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Momoa Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🎶 DJ Farnsworth's Fresh Dope Drops SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 460 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧬 The original very good Clone High website on the Wayback Machine 👯‍♂️ Tara’s review of Clone High 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 👩‍👦 Tara's Primo review for Cracked.com 🦻 EEHG 237 on Mrs. Davis 🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter 📬 GLOW cast members of color's letter to producers about the show's portrayal of race Screen: Max

May 17, 2023

The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly upon us, and there's only one thing on all our minds: what shows are we going to be watching? The New Republic 's TV critic Phillip Maciak joins us for the first time as we all share our picks for the shows we're into; the shows we SHOULD be into, but aren't; and the shows we feel NO ONE should be into. Philip makes the case for the pilot of The Americans to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that may require parental guidance. Make yourself a nice Arnold Palmer (or a Negroni; you're an adult) and join us! GUESTS 👤 Philip Maciak TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛱️ Summer TV Preview The Canon: 🪆 The Americans S01.E01: Pilot Winner & Loser: 👍 Justin Kirk Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: 🍼 Nepo Babies Of 21st Century TV SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 459 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Phillip Maciak on Twitter 📺 Avidly Reads Screen Time at NYUPress.org 🏛️ Phil at The New Republic ☎️ The Best Evidence newsletter -- and hotline, 919.75.CRIME 🔎 Hey Yahoo! preview clip 🙋🏼‍♀️ Send a question for Ask EHG

May 10, 2023

Not content to have bummed us all out with Extrapolations earlier this spring, AppleTV+ is back with yet another grim vision of our environmentally devastated future: Silo ! Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through the new third season of The Other Two , Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network oeuvre, Secrets Of The Dead , and Star Wars: Visions . Richard makes the case for inducting Australian Survivor S10.E07 into The Canon. Then after naming a bunch of Winners and Losers of the WGA strike (which: solidarity with the workers!), it's on to a high-flying Game Time. Find a source of natural light and join us! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Patreon Updates Lead Topic: 👨‍🌾 Silo Around The Dial: 👯 The Other Two Around The Dial: 🍛 Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network Shows Around The Dial: 🪦 Secrets Of The Dead Around The Dial: 😱 Star Wars: Visions The Canon: 🏝️ Australian Survivor S10.E07: Episode 7 Winner & Loser: 👍 Drew Barrymore Winner & Loser: 👎 Scab Productions Game Time: 👩🏼‍✈️ Pilot Test II: Return Flight SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 458 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter 🗼 Richard's Silo review at VanityFair.com 🙈 "Massive Spoilers!" for the Silo book series at HughHowey.com 👯‍♀️ Richard's review of The Other Two at VanityFair.com 😢 Tara's essay on The Conners at Cracked.com 👀 The Still Watching podcast 🐨 Australian Survivor S10.E07 on YouTube 📷 Photo: Apple 🙋🏼‍♀️ Send a question for Ask EHG

May 3, 2023

When we invited listeners to program this Forcening episode on the theme "Spring Fling," people went wild. Did these selections have us feeling as bright and cheerful as a field of wildflowers, or leave us screaming "MAYDAY"? Listen and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦴 Bones S02.E13: The Girl In The Gator Lead Topic: 🍷 Vanderpump Rules S02.E11: The Ultimatum Lead Topic: 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 457 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😨 Panik Kalm meme 🍷 "'Vanderpump Rules' Fires Stassi Schroeder And Kristen Doute For Racist Actions" at Variety.com 🤷‍♀️ "Disgraced Reality Star Stassi Schroeder Is Profiting Off Her Racism -- And Blaming 'Cancel Culture,' Of Course" at TheDailyBeast.com 🤳 May 30, 2020: Stassi posts a #justiceforgeorgefloyd video on her Instagram ⬛️ June 2, 2020: Stassi posts a black square on her Instagram 🗒️ June 7, 2020: Stassi posts a Notes app apology about being racist on her Instagram 🪔 Gun lamp gift from Stassi's dad on her Instagram 🔫 Stassi, age 5, posing with a machine gun, posted on her Instagram 🩳 MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube 🎶 MTV Spring Break 1989 setlists at Setlist.fm

Apr 26, 2023

Prime Video has reimagined David Cronenberg's classic body horror film Dead Ringers as a series, starring two Rachels Weisz where two Jeremies Irons once were; Vulture's Roxana Hadadi returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind , Seinfeld , and Top Chef World All Stars . We consider a Canon pitch on the Monk episode "Mr. Monk And The Garbage Strike." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that will have you seeing double. Put your hair down, or up -- whichever is the opposite of how you started -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Roxana Hadadi TOPICS Announcement: 🥙 Patreon Campaign Updates Lead Topic: 🥙 Dead Ringers Around The Dial: 🥙 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🥙 Seinfeld Around The Dial: 🥙 Top Chef World All Stars The Canon: 🥙 Monk S05.E02: Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike Winner & Loser: 🥙 Gayle King and Charles Barkley Winner & Loser: 🥙 America's Next Top Model Game Time: 🥙 Little Twin Stars SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 456 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter ⚰️ “The Strange Death Of The Twin Gynecologists” cover story from the September 8, 1975 issue of New York magazine 🎙️ Tara's Jeff Hiller interview at Cracked 🦤 Roxana at Vulture 📚 Exhibit B. Books's #asseenonTV section 📷 Photo: Amazon Studios

Apr 19, 2023

Esther Zuckerman returns to talk about the early going of the final season of Barry , including how we felt about Sally's parents, self-indulgent directing, entertainment-reporter scavenger hunts, and our panel's predictions for how the show ends. Later, we went Around The Dial with Single Drunk Female , Perry Mason , and Somebody Somewhere before putting our (bare) feet up to listen to Esther's The Other Two Canon submission. Brooke Shields won, Netflix's tech problems lost, and musician TV cameos made in encore in Game Time. Take a break from changing your iPhone photo settings: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Esther Zuckerman TOPICS Announcement: 👯‍♂️ Patreon Double Downloads Announcement: 🥳 Ask EHG Goal Hit! Lead Topic: 🫐 Barry Around The Dial: 🍺 Single Drunk Female Around The Dial: 🚜 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: ⚖️ Perry Mason (2020) The Canon: 🕳️ The Other Two S02.E09: Chase & Pat Are Killing It Winner & Loser: 👍 Pretty Baby Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix Game Time: 🎸 Tube Tuners Part II SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 455 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Esther Zuckerman on Twitter 🎙️ Esther's interview with Henry Winkler on Thrillist 🎬 Esther's piece on Kelly Reichardt movies for the New York Times 👗 Beyond The Best Dressed at Running Press 🥃 Tara's Single Drunk Female review at Cracked 📚 Exhibit B. Books 😈 The Listen To Sassy Watch-Along this Friday, April 21: She-Devil ! 🤔 Kari's Hey Remember The 80s podcast 📻 Kari's radio station Charlie's 80s Attic 📷 Photo: Merrick Morton / HBO

Apr 12, 2023

Netflix's latest sensational new series is Beef , in which a blood feud breaks out between Angelenos after a road rage incident; Will Leitch is back to dig in on it! Around The Dial takes us through Jury Duty , a new season of baseball, and the doc Reggie . P.A. believes they are not a crackpot for believing all cameos should be four minutes nineteen seconds or less. Will makes the case for the Chernobyl finale "Vichnaya Pamyat" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's right on key. Safely pull over to the shoulder and listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥩 Beef Around The Dial: ⚖️ Jury Duty Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball Around The Dial: 🏟️ Reggie Announcement: 📢 Exciting Patreon Update! I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Cameos The Canon: ☢️ Chernobyl S01.E05: Vichnaya Pamyat Winner & Loser: 👍 MetalocalypseSlow Horses Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden Game Time: 🎸 Tube Tuners SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 454 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter 🥩 "Why 'Beef' Doesn't Focus On Race: 'These Characters Happen To Be Asian American, But There's So Much More To Them" at Variety 👩‍⚖️ Tara's post on Jury Duty at Cracked 📚 Will's new novel, The Time Has Come , at HarperCollins 📰 Will's newsletter 🎞️ Grierson & Leitch 🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast 🛹 Kari's Hey Remember The 80s podcast 📻 Kari's radio station Charlie's 80s Attic 📷 Photo: Andrew Cooper / Netflix

Apr 5, 2023

Monty returns to talk about Apple+'s rights-clearance/Cold-War espionage tale, Tetris , and how it stacks up against the actual game. Spoiler: most of the panel would have preferred playing to watching, but we did like some of the performances, and Sarah didn't mind a certain true-crime trifecta. Next, we went Around The Dial with Unstable , The Exhibit , Yellowjackets tasting notes from our esteemed colleague Eve Batey, and a Perry Mason credits game before Monty asked "will they or won't they" about a late-season episode of Moonlighting . Gehrig won, Fleiss lost, and we interrogated the origins of various TV objects in another Game Time round of 19 Questions. Grab a lawyer and your passport, it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕹️ Tetris Announcement: 🥹 Patreon Update Around The Dial: 🏚️ Unstable Around The Dial: 🎨 The Exhibit Around The Dial: 🥩 Yellowjackets Human Meat Tips Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♂️ The Perry Mason Game The Nonac: 👶 S05.E01: A Womb With A View Winner & Loser: 👍 Lou Gehrig Winner & Loser: 👎 Bachelor Nation Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 453 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 🎞️ Monty and Rhias vs. Movies 🕹️ The Digital Antiquarian on Tetris 🧱 A deep dive on Tetris-block names 🌺 Tara on Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. at The Daily Beast Obsessed 🎧 Succession on Decoding TV 🎨 Doug Dale's Canon pitch for Work Of Art in episode 394 🔦 Sarah and Eve at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Apple TV+

Mar 29, 2023

It's time to reconnect with the Wiskayok Yellowjackets in a whole new season of Showtime's runaway hit drama, and Pamela Ribon is back -- with a sober Dave, for a change -- to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us on a real journey through Succession , Be Melodramatic , and Waco: American Apocalypse . Pam takes a big swing by pitching the Girls episode "Japan" for The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time sequel that really sings. (Or, in some cases, forebodingly thrums.) Load yourself up a nice platter of bear meat and join us! GUESTS 👤 Pamela Ribon TOPICS Announcement: 📢 A Second Weekly Episode?! Lead Topic: 🐝 Yellowjackets Around The Dial: 🤑 Succession Around The Dial: 😱 Be Melodramatic Around The Dial: 🧨 Waco: American Apocalypse The Canon: 🍜 Girls S05.E03: Japan Winner & Loser: 👍 Chris Chalk Winner & Loser: 👎 Aaron Sorkin Game Time: 🔌 Extension Chords II: The Enchordening SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 452 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Pamela Ribon on Twitter 🌡️ More details on our new Patreon campaign 🍫 The Sweetbitter trailer on YouTube 💰 Tara (and her Succession recaps) at Decider 🥚 Tara's Mae Whitman interview at VanityFair.com 🍆 MyYearOfDicks.com ✍️ Nick Allen's review of Waco: American Apocalypse at RogerEbert.com 📚 Exhibit B. Books, where major-case materials are 15% off through March 31 🐶 "What It Was Like To Pose Topless (With My Dog) As An Extra On 'Girls' at EliteDaily.com 👟 Ashley Park Skechers ad on YouTube 📷 Photo: Showtime

Mar 22, 2023

The Thunderdome is welcoming combatants again, and this time, they're all TV nerds! Will their big, juicy chess club brains serve them, or is it all down to pure brute strength? We tell you EXACTLY how such fights would DEFINITELY go down, as 27 TV nerds enter, leaving just one victorious (and alive) at the end. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤓 TV Nerd Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 451 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Mar 15, 2023

Dave had collected several different Game Times about the intersection of stage and TV stardom, so what could he do but save them for our most theatre-knowledgeable friends to play in this special episode? Mark Blankenship, Sean Pflueger, and Adam Grosswirth (that was his joke in the episode title) join us to test their memories for stage trivia and their ears for famous stage singers. Those blinking lights mean it's time for you to find your seat and listen! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship 👤 Adam Grosswirth 👤 Sean Pflueger TOPICS Game Time: 🏆 The TVony Awards Game Time: 📺 From Broadway To The Small Screen Game Time: 🙌 Jazz Hands 3 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 450 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🐦 Sean Pflueger on Twitter

Mar 8, 2023

We're thrilled to welcome first-time guest Kari Race to talk about Amazon's limited-series adaptation of Daisy Jones And The Six ; we're less thrilled by the show, which is handsome to look at, but...knows that, and doesn't move fast enough. We also talk about bad wigs, resting dickface, "the Studio 60 rule," and the character whose story we really wanted to see instead. Later, we went Around The Dial with a MAFS micro-update, Cunk On Earth , the new Quantum Leap , and the rogue ampersand of Dick Wolf's Blood & Money . Then Kari served up a third-season episode of Bob's Burgers for the Canon. Toy cars won, Vanderpump stars lost, and we all thanked the Academy (meaning Seth) for an award-winning Game Time. Don't talk to Wig Cop without an attorney present; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kari Race TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥁 Daisy Jones And The Six Around The Dial: 🌍 Cunk On Earth Around The Dial: 🦘 Quantum Leap (2022) Around The Dial: 🩸 Blood & Money Around The Dial: 💨 Air Quotes The Canon: 🍔 Bob's Burgers S03.E12: Broadcast Wagstaff School News Winner & Loser: 👍 Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge Winner & Loser: 👎 Tom Sandova Game Time: 🏆 Gold Rush NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 449 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Kari Race on Instagram 🧢 The Hey, Remember The 80's? podcast 📻 Charlie's 80s Attic online radio station 🎶 Pitchfork on the full Aurora release 📖 The biggest changes the DJAT6 show made from the book 👨🏻‍🦳 Tara on Timothy Olyphant's '70s wig at Decider 🥊 Alison Herman's review at The Ringer 🙊 Tara interviews Andrew Byrne about Austin Butler's Elvis voice at GQ.com 🎞️ Live-chatting the Oscars Sunday March 12 on the Through Methods Discord 😩 Blood & Money 's Ampersand Of Enragement 🔎 Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Amazon Prime

Mar 1, 2023

If you've been waiting since Party Down 's S02 finale in 2010 for your pink-bowtied friends to come back into your life: good news! S03 premiered on Starz last week, and Mark Lisanti has come back to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through The Consultant , Harrison Ford's new TV career, a selection of highlights from Peacock, Yellowjackets , and a horrifying ad for the home repair app Thumbtack. We answer Suley's challenge to create a Downton Abbey spinoff concept in which Lord Grantham loses the family estate on a poor investment. Tara pitches the Wellington Paranormal episode "The Coolening" for submission into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to the male half of last week's Re-Role Playing Game. Grab a snack from a passing tray and join us: we ARE having fun yet! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍾 Party Down Around The Dial: 🤝 The Consultant Around The Dial: 😠 Harrison Fording Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets Around The Dial: 📌 Thumbtack Ad Extra Credit: 👵🏻 Dowager Dynasty The Canon: 🥝 Wellington Paranormal S04.E03: The Cooling Winner & Loser: 👍 It Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🎭 Re-Role Playing Game: Actor Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 448 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🤝 Tara's review of The Consultant at VanityFair.com 📚 The Exhibit B. Books Older Stock Sale 📌 Thumbtack's "Broken Shades" spot ☘️ " Derry Girls fans swamp post announcing prequel series to the It horror movies" on IrishPost.com 📷 Photo: Starz

Feb 22, 2023

The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast's Krystal Farmer is back, and we picked her a good one this time -- to everyone's surprise! ABC's new Soderberghian con-fam rom-com isn't perfect, but it's cast really well, has good romantic and familial chemistry, and seems to think it's on premium cable, and for whatever reason, it works for us. (And so, for a change, does Sarah Callies!) After a list of mostly favorable comparisons to other heist shows, we went Around The Dial with Canadian hotel TV, Hunters , The 12th Victim , and Picard before Mlle. Caroline checked the Canon's motion sensors with the pilot episode of Leverage . Poker Face won, FX and On Hulu lost, and Pottsy is fine -- at writing games around actresses' IMDb entries. Finish RSVPing for the Aldis Hodge Appreciation Society banquet later; it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Krystal Farmer TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵️ The Company You Keep Around The Dial: 🦫 Canadian Hotel TV Around The Dial: 👀 Hunters Around The Dial: 🔪 The 12th Victim Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Picard The Canon: 😩 Leverage S01.E01: The Nigerian Job Winner & Loser: 👍 Poker Face Winner & Loser: 👎 B.J. Novak Game Time: 🎭 Re-Role Playing Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 447 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Krystal Farmer on Twitter 🪙 The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast 🤬 A list of confidence schemes to second-screen during The Company You Keep 💄 The Listen To Sassy Club 🔦 The Best Evidence newsletter 🏆 Submit those Canons 'n' Nonacs! 📷 Photo: ABC / Eric McCandless

Feb 15, 2023

Just because some stars of Love Is Blind , Too Hot To Handle , and Sexy Beasts (among others) failed to find love on their shows, does that mean they should give up entirely? Netflix said NO, and put a bunch of them together in Perfect Match ; Christina Tucker bravely returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through Season 4 of You ; The Real Housewives Of Potomac ; The Good Fight S05; and a viscerally memorable moment from The Inbetweeners . Tara shares a Tiny Triumph that, if we're being honest, really belongs more to George Saunders. Laura pitches It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 's Season 15 premiere for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's winner and loser, it's on to a Game Time that's written in the stars. Grab a large drink in an opaque metal glass and join us! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: 💘 Perfect Match Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🍷 The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🤮 The Inbetweeners Vomit Warning Tiny Triumph: 🏆 The Semplica Girl Diaries The Canon: 🔔 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S15.E01: 2020: A Year In Review Winner & Loser: 👍 Ripley Winner & Loser: 👎 Adrianne Curry Game Time: 🦀 Heavens Above NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 446 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter 💘 Tara's Perfect Match review at VanityFair.com 🏡 Tara on Arrested Development 's removal from Netflix, also at VanityFair.com 😳 Christina's podcast, Wait, Is This A Date? 📚 Exhibit B. Books ✍️ Deadline.com report on Richard Ayoade's adaptation of The Semplica Girl Diaries

Feb 8, 2023

Primetimer's Mark Blankenship returns to his eponymous chair to talk about Dear Edward , an adaptation of a 2020 book that most of the panel found manipulative and stilted -- but others thought was moving and sweet. Does the show's success depend on what mood you're in when you sit down to watch? Why can't writers' rooms get middle-grade children's dialogue right? And how's Connie Britton's hair? After addressing these critical questions, we went Around The Dial with Not Dead Yet , Ghosts , and Buntsy's Cheers and Frasier rewatches. We took a quick break from the extended Crane-verse to hear Tomke out on why Bake Off hosts have lost their authority; then Sarah hoped to send the eighth season of Cheers out on a high note with her Canon presentation of the finale. Triplets won, TV news lost, and a Non-Regulation Game Time. Return your eye tables to the up-rolled position: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: ✈️ Dear Edward Around The Dial: 🪦 Not Dead Yet Around The Dial: 👻 Ghosts (2021) Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 🛋️ Frasier I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥮 GBBO Judges The Canon: 🍻 Cheers S08.E26 + E27: Cry Hard + Cry Harder Winner & Loser: 👍 Three Identical Strangers Winner & Loser: 👎 Network News Creeps Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XII NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 445 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🎵 Mark at The Lost Songs Project 🛩️ Linda Holmes's review of Dear Edward at NPR 🍆 Tara's Pamela Ribon interview at GQ.com 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Apple TV+

Feb 1, 2023

Peacock's latest original series is a Rian Johnson-created Columbo -esque "case of the week" procedural starring a fugitive cocktail waitress/human lie detector played by Natasha Lyonne; Rolling Stone Chief TV Critic Alan Sepinwall returns to discuss it (and bring with him all his coverage from the magazine)! Around The Dial takes us through the start of a new season of Married At First Sight (yes, already), plus Shrinking , Russian Doll , Lockwood & Co. , and a new season of 9-1-1: Lone Star . Jeff argues that he is NOT a crackpot for thinking so-called "bottle episodes" are wildly overpraised. Laura presents the Better Call Saul episode "Something Stupid" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we've got a lot of questions in Game Time. Sync the Bluetooth in your classic Barracuda and listen! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🃏 Poker Face Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🧠 Shrinking Around The Dial: 🪆 Russian Doll Around The Dial: 👻 Lockwood & Co. Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star I Am Not A Crackpot: 🍾 Bottle episodes The Canon: ⚖️ Better Call Saul S04.E07: Something Stupid Winner & Loser: 👍 Carol Burnett Winner & Loser: 👎 Judy Greer Game Time: 🤷‍♀️ 19 Questions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 444 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🪨 Alan's Poker Face feature at RollingStone.com 🔪 Alan's Rian Johnson Q&A 🕶️ Alan's Natasha Lyonne Q&A ⭐️ Alan's Poker Face review 🛋️ Tara on pop culture therapists at VanityFair.com 🐘 Alan on Mastodon ✍️ Alan's author page at RollingStone.com 📰 Alan's free newsletter 🛣️ Elizabeth Ashley's Actress: Postcards From The Road on GoodReads.com 🎶 The Record Of The Year showdown at Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🍾 "It's Time For A Departure From 'Bottle Episode'" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture 📷 Photo: Peacock

Jan 25, 2023

Nine Extra Hot Great listeners who do know how to tell time, unlike some people , compete in a special all-Game Time episode! We test their knowledge of TV MacGuffins, TV vampires, and TV weddings; then the winner of each game progresses on to the finals, in which they show off how much they know about shows that changed their theme songs. Find out which Valued Guest is the most Valued in this very special episode! TOPICS Game Time: 🏺 MacGuffins Game Time: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Blah! Game Time: 💍 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Don't Game Time: 🎶 Change That Tune NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 443 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jan 18, 2023

Chernobyl 's Craig Mazin has teamed with Neil Druckman, creator of the video game The Last Of Us , to adapt said game as a post-apocalyptic drama series; Omar Gallaga is here to discuss the series premiere! Around The Dial takes us through MILF Manor (a real show, not a 30 Rock gag); Alice In Borderland , a whole pile of Nordic crime dramas, and the British true crime period piece Stonehouse . Omar pitches South Side 's S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building, for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that stays too long at the party. Put your car battery somewhere safe and join us! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♂️ The Last Of Us Around The Dial: 👩 MILF Manor Around The Dial: 🎩 Alice In Borderland Around The Dial: ❄️ Nordic Noirs Around The Dial: 💷 Stonehouse The Canon: 💨 South Side S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building Winner & Loser: 👍 Morgan Freeman Winner & Loser: 👎 Chelsea Handler Game Time: 👋 The Last Of Them NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 442 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🧟‍♂️ Omar's The Last Of Us premiere review at BookAndFilmGlobe.com 🌹 Tara's spring 2023 TV preview at GQ.com 📷 Photo: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Jan 11, 2023

Anne Rice source material is back on TV, and Best Evidence's Eve Batey is back to talk about Mayfair Witches , the latest Rice IP to hit the small screen. Listen and find out whether anyone on the panel is going to keep watching, how realistic an Alexandra D'Addario neurosurgeon is, why Interview With The Vampire works better than this one, and when to stop reading Rice. We also went Around The Dial with Harry & Meghan , Slow Horses , The Circle , and "randomized" show Kaleidoscope , before Mlle. Caroline urged us to bet on Supernatural for the Nonac. Abbott Elementary won, various Housewives lost, and Rob Hartmann scrambled our brains with Game Time. Grab your thickest blue gel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧹 Mayfair Witches Around The Dial: 👑 Harry & Meghan Around The Dial: 🐴 Slow Horses Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🌈 Kaleidoscope The Nonac: 🎱 Supernatural S15.E11: The Gamblers Winner & Loser: 👍 Abbott Elementary Winner & Loser: 👎 Buncha Housewives Game Time: 🐣 Chicken Or Egg? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 441 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👕 The EHG store is at ThroughMethods.com 🏢 Stay with Eve Batey in Indianapolis 🛍️ Visit Eve's store, Avenues Dry Goods 📚 Salon digs into Anne Rice's journals 📉 Prince Harry's crap ratings on 60 Minutes 🤣 Tara's list of 2022's funniest shows at Cracked 👴🏻 Gary Oldman's "dark past" 🔀 “What’s The Best Way To Watch Randomized Heist Series Kaleidoscope ?” at Vulture 🌈 Eve on Kaleidoscope 's "true story" clickbait strat 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 👩‍🏫 The Abbott Elementary / Donors Choose crossover event 📷 Photo: AMC

Jan 4, 2023

It's a mini Television Without Pity reunion as the gang and former recappers Dan Rogge (DJB), John Ramos (Couch Baron), Kim Reed (Kim), and Joe Reid (Joe R) play Mullendash -- a game invented and played at the TWoP annual summits of yore. Take the game Balderdash and replace the cards with items from Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet from the pages of Entertainment Weekly . The set up to a Hot Sheet "joke" is read and players must create their own punchline in that particularly confounding Mullen style in an attempt to fool the others that they are The Mullen. It's a game full of WTF, shame and pretzeltine mental gymnastics!

Dec 28, 2022

To ring in 2023, Tara has crafted a very special non-regulation game time. Refill your champagne and find someone to kiss! Or just listen in the normal way.

Dec 21, 2022

EEHG 156: The 12 Shows Of Christmas We’ll all getting our asses ready for some serious not-moving-off-the-couch action over the holidays. So here are 12 shows from each of us that we think are worth your time. EEHG 158: What Made Your Christmas Crappy? If you’re a TV character approaching a holiday, one thing is certain: something is going to happen that will make it SUCK. But how well do Dave and Sarah remember what things sucked on which shows? Tara tests their knowledge in this festive Non-Regulation Game Time episode!

Dec 14, 2022

Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concocted by some of our smartest, most devious and possibly French game makers. TOPICS Game Time: 🥖 En Français Game Time: 🌟 Special Guest Star Heather Locklear Game Time: 🛋️ The One With The One With Titles Game Time: 🛌 Strange Bedfellows NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 437 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 7, 2022

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham 👤 Robert Krut 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Dan Rogge 👤 Daniel MacEachern 👤 Dave Chen 👤 Devindra Hardawar 👤 Ilan Muskat 👤 Jeff Drake 👤 Joe Reid 👤 John Ramos 👤 Karina Longworth 👤 Kim Reed 👤 Nadia Chaudhury 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones 👤 Roxana Hadadi 👤 Santiago Melli-Huber 👤 Sarah Baker 👤 Simone Chavoor 👤 Stephanie Green 👤 Will Hines 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 436 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 30, 2022

Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Mythic Quest , Selena + Chef , and an update on Sarah's Cheers rewatch. Adam pitches the Will & Grace two-parter "Lows In The Mid-Eighties" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's on the bleeding edge of culture. Grab some Oreos and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥨 Snack Vs. Chef Around The Dial: 🗡️ Mythic Quest Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 💃 Smash Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍🍳 Selena + Chef Around The Dial: 🍺 Cheers Around The Dial: 🦘 The Canon: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Will & Grace S03.E08 & 09: Lows In The Mid-Eighties Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Williams Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Schwahn Game Time: 👁️ Peaky Minders NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 435 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 📸 Adam on Instagram 🍖 The Bon Appétit Gourmet Makes series 📺 "The One Streaming Service You Should Subscribe To For December" at GQ.com 🌴 Again With This on Patreon 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast 🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter 📸 Muppeturgy on Instagram 📚 #asseenonTV at Exhibit B. Books 👵🏻 "Michelle Williams Shouted Out Her Grams From Dawson's Creek" at Vulture 🌳 "Sophia Bush And Hilarie Burton Claim One Tree Hill Creator Threatened Their Jobs Over Maxim Shoot, Told Bethany Joy Lenz She Was 'Too Fat'" at Variety.com 📷 Photo: Netflix

Nov 23, 2022

Book critic and The Maris Review host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of Fleishman Is In Trouble , whether it works as TV given its structure as a book, and how. Is it better for people who didn't read the book? Is the pleasure in watching what Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and the former Seth Cohen do with the roles? And is Hannah the most sympathetically slappable TV tween of all time? Later, we went Around The Dial with a Married At First Sight recap, Gypsy , and Spector , and Dave was not a crackpot about titling conventions. Lynsey, Katherine, and their dog hoped they wouldn't saw the panel in half when they submitted a third-season ep of The Magicians to the Canon. NBC won, the Chrisleys lost, and we returned to those thrilling days of yester-century for a period-piece Game Time. Get yourself a phone already -- so you can listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Maris Kreizman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥼 Fleishman Is In Trouble Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🚕 Gypsy Around The Dial: 💈 Spector The Canon: 🪄 The Magicians S03.E05: A Life In The Day Winner & Loser: 👍 NBC Winner & Loser: 👎 Todd and Julie Chrisley Game Time: 👀 A TV Watcher’s Guide to the 20th Century NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 434 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎙️ Maris interview with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on The Maris Review 📚 More Maris Review 📸 Maris on Instagram 📄 Maris on Substack 🦤 Maris at Vulture 💄 Listen To Sassy Club 🔎 Best Evidence

Nov 16, 2022

Did Paramount+'s Tulsa King SLY-ly (sorry) work its way into our hearts? The Filmcast 's Devindra Hardawar is back to talk about the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, good pacing, bad wigs, and making room for weirdly charming B-minus viewing in your viewing diet. Later, we had Tyson drive us Around The Dial, with stops for The Big Brunch , the ends of The Crown and Atlanta AND The Good Fight , and true-crime royal-watching. Mike hoped we would NOT eliminate The Middleman with his Canon presentation of the show's eighth episode. Judy Blume won, Candace Cameron Buré lost, and we all went on a Mapquest with a road-trip Game Time. Might want to pull over at a dispensary before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤴🏻 Tulsa King Around The Dial: 🥐 The Big Brunch Around The Dial: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🥵 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🫵 Prince Andrew: Banished Around The Dial: 🧬 Secret To Long Life The Canon: 🕵️‍♂️ The Middleman S01.E08: The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation Winner & Loser: 👍 Judy Blume Winner & Loser: 👎 Candace Cameron Bure Game Time: 🗺️ The Great American TV Road Trip NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 433 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter 🎞️ The Filmcast on Apple Podcasts 🗜️ Devindra at Engadget ✒️ DID Taylor Sheridan obviously write the Tulsa King pilot script in 24 hours? 🎙️ Tara's Christine Baranski interview at VanityFair.com 🧛🏻‍♂️ Tara's Sam Reid interview, also at VF.com

Nov 9, 2022

The Crown is back for a new season, with a whole carriage load of new actors; Go Fug Yourself's Jessica Morgan returns to talk about whether its late 20th century setting has made it less compelling. Around The Dial takes us through Weird , Jersey Shore , Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty , and a current TV ad that's really boiling Dave's potatoes. Sarah presents The Sopranos episode "Christopher" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after we name the week's Winner and Loser, we wrap up with a Game Time that has us questioning everything. Have your valet serve you high tea, then join us! GUESTS 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🪗 Weird Around The Dial: 🩳 Jersey Shore Around The Dial: 🔪 Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty Around The Dial: 🧈 An Ad Dave Hates The Nonac: 🔫 The Sopranos S04.E03: Christopher Winner & Loser: 👍 Ryan Murphy Winner & Loser: 👎 Rockmond Dunbar Game Time: 🙋‍♀️ 19 Questions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 432 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jessica Morgan (with Heather Cocks) on Twitter 📼 Tara's Blockbuster review at VanityFair.com 📸 Go Fug Yourself on Instagram 👗 GoFugYourself.com 📚 Buy Jessica and Heather's books on Bookshop.org 🔎 The Best Evidence newsletter 🍊 " The Godfather And The Limitations Of Representation" at NPR.org 📷 Photo: Netflix

Nov 2, 2022

The White Lotus is back on HBO for a second season of subjecting rich jerks to various indignities (now in Italy); Joe Reid returns to discuss, among other things, which guests may deserve better than they're getting, and who that season premiere corpse might be. Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind , The Vow , and the series premiere of You . Sophie makes the case for our inducting The X-Files episode "Pusher" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that may have you seeing double. Make yourself an Aperol spritz and join us! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪷 The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🙏 The Vow Around The Dial: 🪞 You The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S03.E17: Pusher Winner & Loser: 👍 Severance Winner & Loser: 👎 Matthew Perry Game Time: 👯 There's Something Different About You… NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 431 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 👧🏻 Support The Girls on Prime Video 🔀 "Inside The White Lotus Premiere's Survivor Crossover" at Vulture 🎙 Tara's Nick Kroll interview at VanityFair.com 📺 Tara's essay on how to tell your TV show should be a movie, also at VanityFair.com 🙏 Joe's article on The Vow 's Nancy Salzman and a weird cut-out in her living room, at Primetimer 🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz on Apple Podcasts 🤮 Emetophobia Warnings on Tumblr 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Fabio Loving / HBO

Oct 26, 2022

Big thanks to Nick for stepping in last-minute for our winter-television preview: all the new or returning shows we're psyched for (like The White Lotus ), all the shows we should be psyched for but aren't (like Welcome To Chippendales ), and a bunch of shows nobody should be psyched for or even in the same room as (didn't we cancel Criss Angel in the aughts?). After Nick tried to get an episode from The Dropout into the Canon's lab, The Watcher won; James Corden lost; and we all called on the power of three for a Game Time sequel. Grab an afghan and your remote: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: ❄️ Winter TV Preview The Canon: 🩸 The Dropout S01.E04: Old White Men Winner & Loser: 👍 Home security companies Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden Game Time: 📺 Three At Once, Once More NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 430 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🕵🏻 Spy Brunch on Twitter 📚 #asseenonTV books at Exhibit B. Books 🎶 MASTAS's Beats Around The Bush E01, "Hippie Hop Hooray" 🦇 Tara endorses Pennyworth at GQ.com 🎙 Tara interviews Cooper Van Grootel at GQ.com

Oct 19, 2022

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take an unsolved stalking case as the inspiration for their latest Netflix limited series; Dan Rogge returns to discuss whether anyone should be watching it OTHER than The Watcher. Around The Dial takes us through Freevee's High School , baseball on TV, and the latest episodes of The Vow . Sarah and Tara try to determine whether Dave will Hate a TV series adaptation of The Wicker Man . Tara presents "The Two Mrs. Cranes" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with more questions than usual. Put down your binoculars and join us! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 👁 The Watcher Around The Dial: 🏫 High School Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball On TV Around The Dial: 📿 The Vow Around The Dial: 🛍 Shopping Comas The Canon: 👨‍🚀 Frasier S04.E01: The Two Mrs. Cranes Winner & Loser: 👍 Vivica A. Fox Winner & Loser: 👎 Jenna Lyons Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 429 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👀 The original reporting The Watcher is based on, at The Cut 🥽 A 2022 update on the case, also at The Cut 💄 The September 1989 Fashion Etc. episode of Listen To Sassy 👻 Tara's post on Los Espookys and What We Do In The Shadows , at Slate 🎞 Tara's review of Documentary Now! S04 at VanityFair.com 🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter 🗼 The Seattle Film Commission 💍 The Decoder Ring podcast 🏠 Quaid In Full on Cold Creek Manor 🔎 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Netflix

Oct 12, 2022

Canadian journalist Danny MacEachern is back to take a look at the frustrating, but also maaaaybe promising, Alaska Daily , which spends a good half of its first episode giving us unnecessary backstory and throwing around phrases like "woke wussies" before finally getting into the real story. We discussed star Hilary Swank's wigs, why a network version of this show is never going to center the Indigenous people at the center of the mystery, whether we can expect the show to settle down and get better, and which other properties listeners should opt for instead. Sarah was Not A Crackpot about dangerous TV driving, and we went Around The Dial with The Real Love Boat , Reboot , a Werewolf By Night update from Dave, and a report on The Winchesters from foreign Supernatural correspondent Mlle. Caroline. Kitt (not the car) tried to get the egg of a Taskmaster episode through the hoop that is the Canon, and after we declared a Winner and Loser, we read TV books for filth in a non-regulation Game Time from Sarah. Borrow a sleep mask from a co-worker, because it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦀 Alaska Daily I Am Not A Crackpot: ⚠️ TV Characters Need To Watch The GD Road Around The Dial: 🛳 The Real Love Boat Around The Dial: 🥾 Reboot Around The Dial: 👹 The Winchesters Around The Dial: 🐺 Werewolf By Night The Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S05.E08: Their Water's So Delicious Winner & Loser: 👍 The 1996 movie Fear Winner & Loser: 👎 TV True Crime Game Time: 📖 Novel Ideas NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 428 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Danny MacEachern on Twitter 🔦 CBC's Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo podcast 📣 Pre-ordering for Kase Wickman's Bring It On book 🌅 Tara's Paul Reiser interview at GQ.com 💌 Taskmaster S05.E08 on YouTube 🕵🏻‍♀️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: ABC

Oct 5, 2022

The Vampire Lestat is back in a new series adaptation of Interview With The Vampire at AMC, and You Must Remember This creator Karina Longworth is here to talk about all its pleasures -- which definitely extend past its bare butts, but very much include its bare butts. Around The Dial takes us through new seasons of The Amazing Race and Abbott Elementary ; a new evolution of Celebrity Jeopardy! ; and a not-so-new relic recently returned to YouTube: Bands On The Run . Dave explains why he is NOT a crackpot for thinking pilot episodes should include any title treatments that get added to later episodes. Sarah presented the Sopranos episode "Christopher" for induction into The Nonac. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, before closing up with a tasty Game Time. You'll want to sink your teeth into this one! GUESTS 👤 Karina Longworth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Interview With The Vampire Around The Dial: 🌎 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🧑🏽‍🏫 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🙋‍♀️ Celebrity Jeopardy Around The Dial: 🥁 Bands On The Run I Am Not A Crackpot: 🧑‍✈️ Pilot Love Winner & Loser: 👍 Vanessa Williams Winner & Loser: 👎 House Of The Dragon Game Time: 👨‍🍳 It's A Cookbook! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 427 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Karina Longworth on Twitter 🦋 "Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson Explain How 'Interview with the Vampire' Created Lestat and Louis's 'Beautiful' Floating Sex Scene" at Decider ⚰️ Tara's Interview With The Vampire review at VanityFair.com ✍️ Tara's Ramy S03 review at VanityFair.com 🎞 The You Must Remember This podcast 🐦 You Must Remember This on Twitter 🥁 Bands On The Run on YouTube 🧨 A 2001 interview with Soulcracker 🎶 Mark Blankenship's newsletter, The Lost Songs Project 📷 Photo: Alfonso Bresciani / AMC

Sep 28, 2022

The Star Wars universe has expanded yet again, and Never Not Funny 's Matt Belknap joins us for the first time to talk about Andor , a Rogue One prequel of sorts that's much more meditative and "adult" than you'd expect from the franchise. Dave quizzes us on our favorite character from the new show, plus we talk about world-building, the first real swear word in Lucasfilm IP, whether we'd buy Andor toys, and backstory gaps that don't need filling. We went Around The Dial with 9-1-1 , Never Have I Ever , the Law & Order crossover event, and JJ Walker's 3 AM job, then wondered Will Dave Hate This? about a David Zucker Nordic-noir spoof. Tara hoped she wouldn't drop the ball on a fifth-season Friends Nonac pitch, we crowned our Winner and Loser of the Week, and Game Time took us to a galaxy far, far away (that still shows current TV). It's not a cat: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great ! GUESTS 👤 Matt Belknap TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 Andor Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1 Around The Dial: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order Triple Crossover Around The Dial: 💵 Wee Hours Benefit Helpline Ad Will Dave Hate This?: 👮🏻 NoPoFo The Nonac: ⚽️ Friends S05.E21: The One With The Ball Winner & Loser: 👍 True Detective Winner & Loser: 👎 Cobra Kai Game Time: 🤩 Captain Needa's Oops! All Star Wars NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 426 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🫑 Matt Belknap on Never Not Funny 🐦 Never Not Funny on Twitter 🎙 Tara interviews Johnny Knoxville at VanityFair.com 🌴 Again With Them at the Again With This Patreon 💄 Listen To Sassy Club 📚 Save 10% on new books at Exhibit B. Books 🐍 Cobra Kai , boiled down to its tropes by @NetflixIsAJoke 📷 Photo: Disney+

Sep 21, 2022

Everything old continues to be new again as NBC brings its late '80s/early '90s time travel series Quantum Leap back for a new generation; Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk joins us to discuss whether we wish we could travel back to stop it from happening. Around The Dial takes us through Los Espookys , Reservation Dogs , Halt And Catch Fire , and Journeyman . For the long-awaited return of Will Dave Hate This?, Sarah and Tara try to predict the titular Dave's reaction to the Marvel special Werewolf By Night . Laura F. uses an Extra Credit getting us to split up TV marriages, and couple up the new singletons with other TV characters. Kathryn presents the Station Eleven episode "Dr. Chaudhary" for admission into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that jumps around, jumps up, and gets down. Leap into a comfy chair and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦘 Quantum Leap (2022) Around The Dial: 👻 Los Espookys Around The Dial: 🐶 Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire Around The Dial: ⏰ Journeyman Will Dave Hate This?: 🐺 Werewolf By Night Extra Credit: ❤️‍🩹 Another Sad Divorce Statistic The Canon: 🧑‍🚀 Station Eleven S01.E09: Dr. Chaudhary Winner & Loser: 👍 Grimm Winner & Loser: 👎 NY1 Meteorologist Erick Adame Game Time: 🤯 Quantum Leaping NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 425 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter 🎙 Kathryn's 2019 interview with Scott Bakula about the original Quantum Leap 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast on Patreon 👤 Kathryn's Kate Beaton profile at Vulture 🦤 The Vulture Festival 👋 Kathryn and Jesse David Fox's conversation about Welcome To Wrexham at Vulture ✍️ Kathryn at Vulture 📚 Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Ron Batzdorff / NBC

Sep 14, 2022

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

Sep 7, 2022

It's the first week of September -- traditionally the time when students go back to school (and if your district is one of those cess pools that call kids back in early August: get yourself on the school board and FIX IT). So in recognition of the moment, we've chosen 27 TV educators to face each other in the Thunderdome and, per usual, fight to the death. Do magic users and telepaths have an advantage over literal murderers? Listen and find out which one ends up triumphantly covered in the blood of all their foes, and is probably coming up with a very important lesson all about it. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧑‍🏫 TV Teacher Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 423 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Aug 31, 2022

After co-creating The Americans , where have Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg gone next? Back to FX...on Hulu, with the psychological thriller The Patient , and first-time guest Patrick Monahan is joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Star Trek: Lower Decks , For All Mankind , Industry and Mike . Tara pitches the Regular Show episode "That's My Television!" for induction into the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and the eleventh (can you even believe it) round of Tube Tunes. Get on the couch or chair -- whatever makes you feel most comfortable -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Patrick Monahan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔗 The Patient Around The Dial: 🚂 Star Trek: Lower Decks Around The Dial: 🌙 For All Mankind Around The Dial: 🏦 Industry Around The Dial: 🥊 Mike The Canon: 🦝 Regular Show S04.E18: That’s My Television Winner & Loser: 👍 Dads getting hit in the nuts Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC Game Time: 📻 Tube Tunes XI NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 422 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Patrick Monahan on Twitter 🤒 Alan Sepinwall's review of The Patient at RollingStone.com (subscription required) ⚾️ Tara's essay on A League Of Their Own at Defector 🐝 Tara on the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, discussing A Walk On The Moon 🤹‍♀️ Tara moderating the "Dangerous Women" panel at the 2022 ATX TV Festival 🥧 The What A Time To Be Alive! podcast 🧛🏻‍♂️ The Not You, Guillermo podcast 📸 Patty on Instagram 🥊 Sarah's review of Mike at the Best Evidence newsletter ☠️ Sarah discussing I Just Killed My Dad on the Crime Seen podcast 📸 Photo: Frank Ockenfells / FX

Aug 24, 2022

Our resident (reluctant) GoT expert Jeff Drake is back to talk about HBO's ponderous, poorly wigged prequel to Game Of Thrones , House Of The Dragon -- who it's for, why it's so murkily lit, when it's going to get out of the administrative world-building weeds and get interesting, and which actors are making us long for the upcoming time jump. After that, we jumped into Around The Dial with She-Hulk: Attorney At Law , Bluey 's third season, and Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist , and Erica challenged us to drop Jeff "the Dude" Bridges into existing shows. The gang slipped and slid towards the Canon in a twelfth-season It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia pitch; Paul Rudd won, and arranged TV marriages lost; and Game Time had us contemplating the shows that just keep draggin' on. The old gods have spoken: listen to the latest Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐲 House Of The Dragon Around The Dial: ⚖️ She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Around The Dial: 🐶 Bluey Around The Dial: 🦈 Zig & Sharko Around The Dial: 🫥 Untold Extra Credit: 🌉 An Infinite Number Of Bridges The Canon: 🔔 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S12.E02: The Gang Goes To A Water Park Winner & Loser: 👍 Only Murders In The Building Winner & Loser: 👎 Love Is Blind Game Time: 👴🏼 House Of The Draggin' NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 421 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🦆 Jeff Drake's show Central Park 🤬 Jeff's podcast 9 Chickweed Rage is now up! 🚓 The Hot Fuzz gif 🤢 "Inside Hollywood's Visual Effects Crisis" at Defector 🎙 Tara's interview with Stefani Robinson at Vanity Fair 👑 The top 50 King Of Queens episodes at Vulture 📚 15% off selected items at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Ollie Upton / HBO

Aug 17, 2022

Beloved baseball movie in which there is no crying A League Of Their Own is the latest film to get a series reboot -- with a bunch of twists -- on Amazon Prime. We talked to Yahoo! Sports's Liz Roscher about the casting, the bifurcated stories, whether the baseball holds up, what happened to the Rockford Peaches' manager (and to Candy Bar Guy #1), and all that 2022 dialogue rattling around 1943. Is it a homer, or a whiff? We also went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever , Drag Race 's international entries, the Better Call Saul series finale, and a This Fool follow-up before Liz tasked herself with getting a Series 7 ep of Taskmaster into the Canon. The state of New Jersey was a winner, the surveillance state was a loser, and we rolled ourselves a nice fat Game Time about S04.E20s. Should you put that mustard on a hot dog, or your face? Only one way to find out -- with an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Liz Roscher TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚾️ A League Of Their Own Around The Dial: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🏁 International Drag Race Around The Dial: 🤳 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 😜 This Fool The Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S07.E04 Ollie Winner & Loser: 👍 Weird NJ Winner & Loser: 👎 Wanda Sykes Game Time: 🗓 Watch TV Every Day NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 420 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏒 Liz Roscher at Yahoo! Sports 🐦 Liz on Twitter 🔔 The Good Phight podcast 🙅🏽‍♀️ Tara's Poorna Jagannathan interview at Vanity Fair 🗣 Tara's Seth Meyers interview at VF 🌴 Again With This podcast 🐧 The raven t-shirt on Threadless 📷 Photo: Nicola Goode / Amazon

Aug 10, 2022

Netflix is the latest platform to turn a Neil Gaiman property into a series with The Sandman . How does this one go? First-time guest Ilan Muskat is here to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of Harley Quinn ; Season 2 of Girls5Eva ; the TV movie Helter Skelter ; and the ILM doc Light & Magic . Keira cashes in her Extra Credit to make us turn unexpected TV properties into videogames. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that hits some real lows and highs. Stay wide awake and listen! GUESTS 👤 Ilan Muskat TOPICS Lead Topic: ✨ The Sandman Around The Dial: 🦇 Harley Quinn Around The Dial: 🎶 Girls5Eva Around The Dial: 😳 Helter Skelter Around The Dial: 🚀 Light & Magic Extra Credit: 🕹 TV games Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max subscribers Game Time: 🔫 Nonac Hunting NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 419 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Ilan Muskat on Twitter 🪶 Tara's Reservation Dogs S02 review at VanityFair.com 🤕 The Captive by Fiona King Foster at Bookshop.org 😇 Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman at Exhibit B. Books 👂 "The Weird, Analog Delights Of Foley Sound Effects" at NewYorker.com 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 🏰 The Team Fortress 2 character intro videos on YouTube 📷 Photo: Netflix

Aug 3, 2022

Sex & The City creator Darren Star has teamed up with Modern Family alumnus Jeffrey Richman to create Uncoupled , a NEW show about dating in New York, but from the perspective of a fortysomething gay man who's just been dumped HARD after 17 years. Should you make room for it on your schedule? Malcolm Venable returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Surface , Hulu's forthcoming This Fool , Young & Pregnant , and The Ipcress File . Sean makes the case for inducting the Underground episode "Minty" into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a smash-and-grab of a Game Time. Take a break from swiping through the apps and join us! GUESTS 👤 Malcolm Venable TOPICS Lead Topic: 💔 Uncoupled Around The Dial: 🏊‍♀️ Surface Around The Dial: 😜 This Fool Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ The Ipcress File The Canon: 🔦 Underground S02.E06: Minty Winner & Loser: 👍 Breaking Bad Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacock Game Time: 🧠 Breaking In NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 418 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Malcolm Venable on Twitter ⭐️ Tara's interview with Darren Star at GQ.com 😬 "Netflix Show Uncoupled Cuts A Latina Housekeeper Character That Was Criticized As Offensive" at CNN.com 🗣 Tara's interview with Surface star Oliver Jackson-Cohen at GQ.com 🎶 Mark & Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Netflix

Jul 27, 2022

Wretched real estate, Retta, and rocks indoors -- The Ugliest House In America is back, and so is Alison Herman, as we debate which of the houses "in paradise" is the most hideous, talk Sarah through money-pit PTSD, and wonder if we haven't finally found a show that actually belonged on Quibi. Then we went Around The Dial with a Hider In My House follow-up, Rap Sh!t , and Black Bird before Tara tried to stock the Canon aisles with a fourth-season Superstore . Teachers won, cops lost, and Number 5 was alive for a Nielsens Game Time. Take a break from gluing flannel to your bedroom wall and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏚 The Ugliest House In America Around The Dial: 👀 Hider In My House Around The Dial: 💩 Rap Shit Around The Dial: 🐧 Black Bird The Canon: 🏆 Superstore S04.E06: Maternity Leave Winner & Loser: 👍 Abbott Elementary Winner & Loser: 👎 On Patrol: Live Game Time: 🧠 Keeping Up With The Nielsens NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 417 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter 🥊 Alison at The Ringer 💩 Alison's Rap Sh!t review ☠️ Alison on Criticism Is Dead 🧎‍♀️ Justice for Retta's new knees 🏚 Richard Lawson on the HGTVCU and real-estate inequality 🎞 Join the movie-trivia-for-abortions event 🛋 Tara on overdue Friends apologies at VF 📚 Get 15 percent off hardcovers at Exhibit B. Books through 7/31

Jul 20, 2022

Did you know that the crime of secretly living in someone else's house happens so much it has A NAME? It's called "phrogging," and it's the subject of Lifetime's new true crime show, Phrogging: Hider In My House , which we're discussing with returning guest (and house-hider survivor) Robert Krut! Around The Dial takes us through 101 Places To Party Before You Die ; a new season of Married At First Sight ; the Emmy-snubbed Somebody Somewhere and Reservation Dogs ; D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! ; This Is Going To Hurt ; Downton Abbey: A New Era ; Obi-Wan Kenobi ; Ms. Marvel ; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . For her Extra Credit topic, Erica challenges us to fix bad TV series endings by switching them out with OTHER bad TV series endings. Bobby presents What We Do In The Shadows 's "The Casino" for Canon induction. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really sings. Don't listen to that mysterious footstep-ish sound in the attic, which is probably nothing (or is it) -- listen to us! GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Lead Topic: 👀 Phrogging: Hider In My House Around The Dial: 🥳 101 Places To Party Before You Die Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: 🎒 D.B. Cooper Where Are You Around The Dial: 💉 This Is Going To Hurt Around The Dial: 🏰 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🏜 Obi-Wan Kenobi Around The Dial: 🦸🏽‍♀️ Ms. Marvel Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Extra Credit: 🤑 Two Wrongs Do Make A Right The Canon: 🏆 What We Do In The Shadows S03.E04: The Casino Winner & Loser: 👍 The Powerpuff Girls Winner & Loser: 👎 Desus & Mero Game Time: 🧠 Gratuitous Karaoke Moments NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 416 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Robert Krut on Twitter 🏠 EHG 342: "The Stinky Teenagers Who Live In Secret Places In Your House" 🏝 Tara's review of FBoy Island S02 at VanityFair.com 💄 The Listen To Sassy Club on Patreon 👻 Bobby's new book of poetry, Watch Me Trick Ghosts 🕵️ Bobby's guest appearance in History's Greatest Mysteries 💻 Bobby's website ✈️ Sarah's review of D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! at Best Evidence 👩‍🎤 The Lilith Fair 40 on Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🧛🏻‍♂️ Tara's review of What We Do In The Shadows S04 at VanityFair.com

Jul 13, 2022

We asked our Patreon supporters to suggest TV episodes we should be forced to watch, and boy, did they come through. From their many picks, we've gone with Breakout Kings 's Season 2 premiere "An Unjust Death"; "Basic Lupine Urology," Community 's take on Law & Order ; and a Buck Rogers episode that features both frenetic youth dancing and Jerry Orbach. Join us, won't you? TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 Breakout Kings S02.E01: An Unjust Death Lead Topic: ✳️ Community S03.E17: Basic Lupine Urology Lead Topic: 🚀 Buck Rogers In The 25th Century S01.E21: Space Rockers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 415 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👑 Breakout Kings S02.E01: An Unjust Death on Hulu ✳️ Community S03.E17: Basic Lupine Urology on Hulu 🚀 Buck Rogers In The 25th Century S01.E21: Space Rockers on NBC.com

Jul 6, 2022

EEHG 104: Spreading Around The Holiday Cheer Eric A writes: lots of shows have done Christmas episodes. Friends did some great Thanksgiving episodes, and Roseanne was known for its Halloween episodes. Pitch an episode for a lesser-known or covered holiday. What show should do the episode, and how does it teach (or subvert) the message of the day? EEHG 112: Making Your Theme Park Mark Jim challenged us to turn a TV show into a theme park. The result is a real...roller coaster. EEHG 132: You Can't Spell "Travel" Without "TV" As The White Lotus transports us all to a luxury resort, we're thinking about vacations! We each share the TV location we'd most like to visit on holiday, and picking one or several TV characters to bring along for the trip. EEHG 170: Hallmarketing Irritation at a Hallmark Channel event called Loveuary led directly to this challenge, in which each of us creates one full year's worth of programming events for the venerated Hallmark Channel. What are they called? What do they entail? How many are about chocolatiers dating lumberjacks? Find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎎 Lesser Known Holiday Programming Lead Topic: 🎢 TV Theme Parks Lead Topic: 🏖 TV Vacation Locations Lead Topic: 🗓 Hallmark Full Year Holiday Programming NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 414 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎄 The Hallmark podcast It's Christmastown

Jun 29, 2022

Nadia Chaudhury is back to beef up our panel's discussion of The Bear , Hulu's tense, swear-packed story of a young chef's return to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop -- and how his fine-dining past collides with a blue-collar present. Is Jeremy Allen White giving us William Fichtner vibes as Carmy? Can Sarah get enough of Richie's profanity? Is the show really about Carmy's journey, or Sydney's? And did watching make us hungry, or worn out? Then we went Around The Dial with Loot , Ms. Marvel , and The Janes before Helen tried to trap us in the web of her New Girl Canon presentation. Werner Herzog won, Nathan Fillion lost, and we whipped off our sunglasses and dad-joked into the opening credits with a CSI -based Game Time. An all-new Extra Hot Great is up, so get it to go! GUESTS 👤 Nadia Chaudhury TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐻 The Bear Around The Dial: ⚱️ Loot Around The Dial: 🦸🏽‍♀️ Ms. Marvel Around The Dial: 🔪 The Janes The Canon: 🏆 New Girl S04.E17: Spiderhunt Winner & Loser: 👍 Documentary Now! Winner & Loser: 👎 Nathan Fillion Game Time: 🧠 Is This A Thing: C.S.I. Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 413 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter 📸 Nadia on Instagram 🍴 Nadia at Eater ⚱️ Alison Herman's Loot review at The Ringer 💵 National Network Of Abortion Funds 🧵 Best Evidence's repro-justice resource thread

Jun 22, 2022

Fill a dish with hard candies for Dave Chen, who's back after a long absence to talk about the somewhat mysterious appeal of FX's aging-spy-vs.-spy drama, The Old Man . Does Sarah think it needs more process-y bits? Does the excellent acting by Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and their younger versions make up for long nobody-talks-like-that passages of abstraction? And are Dave and Carol the real heroes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Rutherford Falls , RHONJ , and Players before Tara tried to convert us to her team with a sixth-season Seinfeld . DB Cooper won, Canada lost, and then we all wedged ourselves into a snowglobe for a Game Time from Dan Cassino. When you're done paying for your groceries with a check, hold your ear trumpet up to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Dave Chen TOPICS Lead Topic: 👴🏻 The Old Man Around The Dial: 🎰 Rutherford Falls Around The Dial: 🎮 Players Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey The Canon: 🏆 Seinfeld S06.E15: The Beard Winner & Loser: 👍 D.B. Cooper Winner & Loser: 👎 Canada Game Time: 🧠 Tommy Westphall's Home For Imaginary Friends NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 412 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Chen on Twitter 🕰 Dave Chen on Tiktok 🎧 The Culturally Relevant podcast 🎬 The Film Cast 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs goes to 11 📺 Tara on "The Best 15 TV Shows of 2022, So Far" at Vanity Fair

Jun 15, 2022

Ms. Marvel , the latest MCU TV series to arrive on Disney+, takes viewers home to Jersey City with the titular character, but what did certified Kamala Khan expert Kate Sánchez think of the liberties the show takes with the source material? We discuss! Around The Dial takes us through the New Orleans season of The Real World Homecoming ; First Kill ; and Physical . Tara pitches Vida 's "Episode 13" for induction into the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, before closing up with a very formal Non-Regulation Game Time. Click on your enchanted bangles and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kate Sánchez TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏽‍♀️ Ms. Marvel Around The Dial: 🎷 The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans Around The Dial: 💀 First Kill Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ Physical The Canon: 🏆 Vida S02.E07: Episode 13 Winner & Loser: 👍 American Rust Winner & Loser: 👎 Amy Schumer Game Time: 🧠 Your Honorifics NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 411 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kate Sánchez on Twitter 🧐 Kate's thesis, "Heroes Wear Dupattas," at the University Of Texas 💊 Tara on the special Dopesick episode of Little Gold Men 🌚 Tara's For All Mankind review at VanityFair.com 🏛 Tara's Borgen: Power & Glory essay at TheDailyBeast.com ✍️ Kate's author page at But Why Tho

Jun 8, 2022

The Boys are back in town for a third season of extremely bloody mayhem, and Will Hines has returned to talk to us about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Real World (NOT Homecoming ) New Orleans; The Expanse ; and the Houston season of Top Chef . Skylar pitches "Part 8" of Twin Peaks 's Showtime season for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time full of finales. Grab yourself a Lean Lady Frozen Dinner by Vought and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 👦🏻 The Boys Around The Dial: 🤮 The Real World: New Orleans Around The Dial: 🪐 The Expanse Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef The Canon: 🥧 Twin Peaks S03.E08: Part 8 Winner & Loser: 👍 Fargo Winner & Loser: 👎 American Gigolo Game Time: 🧠 All Good Things NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 410 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Will Hines on Instagram 👦🏻 Tara's review of The Boys Season 3 at VanityFair.com 💄 The Listen To Sassy Club at Patreon 🕵️‍♂️ Will's podcast You Can't Handle The Sleuths at CBB World 📚 Sarah's interview with Sarah Weinman at the Exhibit B. Books blog

Jun 1, 2022

The latest live-action Disney Plus series to tell us what happened between Star Wars movies is Obi-Wan Kenobi , and first-time guest Simone Chavoor is here to discuss whether it's worth your time! Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight , Julia , Under The Banner Of Heaven , Magnum P.I. (the original), The Lincoln Lawyer , and Prehistoric Planet . Simone pitches us "Apéritif," the series premiere of Hannibal , for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close out with a Game Time that's fun for at least two closely-related members of the family. Make yourself a humble little bowl of stew and join us! GUESTS 👤 Simone Chavoor TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌵 Obi-Wan Kenobi Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia Around The Dial: 🌈 Under The Banner Of Heaven Around The Dial: 🌺 Magnum P.I. (2018) Around The Dial: 💼 The Lincoln Lawyer Around The Dial: 🦖 Prehistoric Planet The Canon: 🏆 Hannibal S01.E01: Apéritif Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate Bush Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Spacey Game Time: 🧠 Relativity II: The Siblings NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 409 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Simone Chavoor on Twitter 🍅 "Empire State," Sarah's essay on the Star Wars prequels, at TomatoNation.com 🏛 Tara's Borgen: Power & Glory at VanityFair.com 📺 The ATX Festival 🖤 The Black Mass Appeal podcast 📚 Exhibit B. Books

May 25, 2022

Some maniac got the idea to throw a bunch of British adults (and one Irish adult) into a fake American high school set and make them date each other in the manner of teen movie characters; some other maniacs decided to discuss this brand-new offering from Amazon Prime Video on this podcast, and we've brought back Brandi Brown to join us! Around The Dial takes us through Hacks , New Scandinavian Cooking , and Naked City . Tara pitches the Shrill episode "WAHAM" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that will have you under its spell. The bell is ringing, so find a seat in homeroom and join us for our latest podcast! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Lead Topic: 💘 Lovestruck High Around The Dial: 🪚 Hacks Around The Dial: 🥘 New Scandinavian Cooking Around The Dial: 🌉 Naked City The Canon: 🏆 Shrill S02.E06: WAHAM Winner & Loser: 👍 Smash Winner & Loser: 👎 TV-adjacent criminals Game Time: 🧠 We Get Letters NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 408 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Brandi Brown on Twitter 😭 Tara's essay "When Did Emmy-Friendly Comedies Stop Being Funny?" at VanityFair.com 😵 The Listen To Sassy Club, which is hosting a Zoom watch-along of Weekend At Bernie's on May 25 at 8 PM ET 💥 The Smash Boom Best podcast

May 18, 2022

EEHG 143: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Nero Episode Of Ancient Rome Don't you DAAAAAAAAAARE miss this episode. EEHG 160: Titulus Deest Memento Quaeso Titulum Creare Antequam Conveniant 2071 years ago today, January 7th, the Senate of Rome decreed that Caesar would be declared a public enemy unless he disbanded his army. In 'celebration' we each bring two TV entities (show, characters, networks, etc) to the floor that have not quite crossed the Rubicon. Explain why they are on the precipice and the terms they would have to meet to avoid bring declared enemies of the TV state by the EHG senate. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏛 Ancient Rome S01.E01: Nero Lead Topic: 🔪 Crossing The Rubicon NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 407 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

May 11, 2022

We're joined on the bridge this week by ATV Podcast 's Andrew Cunningham, to talk about the latest addition to the Star Trek family, Paramount+'s Strange New Worlds : the benefits of procedural narrative, the Shatnerian properties of Anson Mount, and horny Spock. Then we transported ourselves Around The Dial with I Love That For You , Our Flag Means Death , and B-B-B-B-Bosch: Legacy , and listener Keira hoped to transport the lazily crappish series finale of The Good Wife into the EHG Nonac. Johnny Weir won, Tara's soap predictions lost, and someone got a major lift from Tube Tunes 10 in Game Time. Grab your universal translator and beam up the latest all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Around The Dial: 💞 I Love That For You Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Bosch: Legacy Around The Dial: 🤨 Totally Nude Nudes The Nonac: 🤮 The Good Wife S07.E22: End Winner & Loser: 👍 Johnny Weir Winner & Loser: 👎 Queens Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes X NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 406 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Andrew Cunningham on Twitter 🐦 ATV Podcast on Twitter 🎧 The Overdue podcast 💻 Andrew at Ars Technica 📹 "Todd Glass Sells The NNF Folio" on YouTube 😇 Tara interviews Pablo Schreiber at GQ.com 🎨 Sarah talks about The Painter & The Thief on the Crime Seen podcast

May 4, 2022

Mother's Day 2022 is nearly upon us, and if you haven't made a brunch reservation by this point, you're probably screwed. However, we have made something for you that you can pass on to Mom that's much better than an omelet and a macaroni collage: it's the TV Mom Thunderdome! We have selected 27 TV mothers to face off in a series of three-combatant elimination rounds. By the end of the episode, we will have determined which is the mother to end all mothers, which we will know for sure because she ended all the other mothers. Listen to find out if your favorite TV mom can go the distance: TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙆‍♀️ TV Mom Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 405 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Apr 27, 2022

The fact-based cop drama We Own This City brings co-creator David Simon back to Baltimore and to HBO; it also brings Santiago Melli-Huber back to the podcast to discuss this take on Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force scandal. Around The Dial takes us through even more true crime with WeCrashed , Captive Audience , and Gaslit , plus The Baby and RuPaul's Drag Race . Santiago pitches the WandaVision episode "Previously On" for induction into The Canon; then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might make players a bit crabby. Strap on your Kevlar vest and join us! GUESTS 👤 Santiago Melli-Huber TOPICS Lead Topic: 👮🏻‍♂️ We Own This City Around The Dial: 💥 Wecrashed Around The Dial: 🍼 The Baby Around The Dial: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 👁 Captive Audience Around The Dial: ⛽️ Gaslit The Canon: 🏆 Wandavision S01.E08: Previously On Winner & Loser: 👍 Katherine Heigl Winner & Loser: 👎 Killing Eve Game Time: 🧠 It's Almost Like The DC Tri-State Area Is Another Character NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 404 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Santiago Melli-Huber on Twitter 👮🏻‍♂️ James Poniewozik's We Own This City review at NYTimes.com 🗣 Tara's interview with Dagmara Domińczyk at VanityFair.com 🔴 "Thirty Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto Started A Cult -- Because Of Course He Did" at KQED.org 🍼 Tara's review of The Baby at VanityFair.com 🏳️‍🌈 Santiago's newsletter Hot Gay Nerd ☝️ "The One Weird Trick Making Jared Leto's And Dan Stevens's Latest Performances So Great" at VanityFair.com 👁 Sarah's review of Captive Audience at the Best Evidence newsletter 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 😗 "An Honest Conversation With Josh Charles" at Esquire.com

Apr 20, 2022

Our longtime Better Call Saul correspondent Will Leitch returns along with BCS to discuss the first episodes of the show's final season. Which moments made us think, "Ah yes, our show is back"? How have we revised our predictions on what happens to Kim Wexler? When and where will we see Walter White and Jesse Pinkman as the story comes to a close? And can we please get Lalo Babies to happen? After a quick gold-potty break, we went Around The Dial with Russian Doll , The First Lady , Just One Kiss , Severance , Winning Time , The Tournament (ACK!), and When Calls The Heart , before Mike S. asked us to assign aughts TV characters their own podcasts for Extra Credit. Will got real meta with his Canon presentation of the third-season Mr. Show finale, celebrity real estate won and Tyra lost, and we all had to reverse course for a Twin Peaks -ian Game Time. Before you throw that life-size cut-out of yourself in the pool, listen to this all-new episode of Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🪆 Russian Doll Around The Dial: 💁‍♀️ The First Lady Around The Dial: 💋 Just One Kiss Around The Dial: ✂️ Severance Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time Around The Dial: 🏟 The Tournament: A History Of ACC Men's Basketball Around The Dial: 🫀 When Calls The Heart Extra Credit: 🤑 This Podcast Is Brought To You By The Philip Morris Companies The Canon: 🏆 Mr. Show With Bob And David S03.E10: The Return Of The Creature’s Ghost Winner & Loser: 👍 Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Winner & Loser: 👎 Tyra Banks Game Time: 🧠 The Black Lodge NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 403 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter 🎬 The Grierson & Leitch podcast 🍀 Will's novel, How Lucky , out in paperback on May 10 📰 Will's newsletter 🪆 Tara's Russian Doll review at Vanity Fair ☔️ MASTAS : The "America's Damp 40" Season 👩‍🎤 Vinyl Nation on Amazon Prime 💦 Comedy Bang Bang 752: "Wet Day Special"

Apr 13, 2022

Sometimes American remakes of British comedies are big hits, like The Office ! And sometimes they're not, like Taskmaster . Where does The CW's take on Would I Lie To You? land? Panel show aficionado Dan Cassino returns to discuss it. Around The Dial takes us through Minx , The Ultimatum , Beforeigners , Julia , and Atlanta . Dave S. uses his Extra Credit to challenge us to reinvent the dating show à la The Courtship (except...good). Listener Françoise pitches the Top Chef All-Stars episode "Restaurant Wars: One Night Only" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, tag! It's on to a Game Time full of taglines. You won't want to miss this one, and that's the truth! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙊 Would I Lie To You Around The Dial: 🦦 Minx Around The Dial: 🖐 The Ultimatum Around The Dial: 🪓 Beforeigners Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia Around The Dial: 🥤 Atlanta Extra Credit: 👩‍❤️‍👨 Beyond The Courtship The Canon: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef S08.E07: Restaurant Wars: One Night Only Winner & Loser: 👍 Better Call Saul Winner & Loser: 👎 Dancing With The Stars Game Time: 🧠 TV Taglines of the 21st Century NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 402 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter 👃 The Classic WILTY channel on YouTube 🦦 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of Minx on Vulture 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast ♣️ The Listen To Sassy Club ⏳ Nina Metz's Beforeigners review at the Chicago Tribune 😖 Dan's new book, Gender Threat: American Masculinity In The Face Of Change at Stanford University Press 👎 "Why are Republicans so focused on restricting trans lives?" by Dan Cassino at the Washingon Post 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🕵️‍♀️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: The CW

Apr 6, 2022

Roxana Hadadi is back to talk about the latest minor Marvel superhero, Moon Knight , and whether an inconsistent premiere outweighs the charisma of Oscar Isaac in the lead role. Will TV's usual difficulty portraying gods apply to this series? Should Ethan Hawke's cult-leader subplot have gotten cut entirely? And is Dave a crackpot for thinking it's enough already with animated tattoos? After we went Around The Dial with Julia , How We Roll , Eye Candy , Tokyo Vice , 30 Rock , and The Andy Warhol Diaries , listener Laura prayed that we'd vote a second-season episode of The Righteous Gemstones into the Canon. Capote's "swans" won, sci-fi shows lost, and Game Time turned into a case of sibling rivalry. Strap yourself to your podcast player of choice: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Roxana Hadadi TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌜 Moon Knight Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia Around The Dial: 🍬 Eye Candy Around The Dial: 🎏 Tokyo Vice Around The Dial: 👨‍🎨 The Andy Warhol Diaries The Canon: 🏆 The Righteous Gemstones S02.E04: As To How They May Destroy Him Winner & Loser: 👍 Naomi Watts Winner & Loser: 👎 The AMPTP Game Time: 🧠 Relativity NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 401 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter 🦤 Roxana at Vulture 🌙 Roxana's Moon Knight review 🌴 Again With This on Patreon ☔️ MASTAS : The "America's Damp 40" Season

Mar 30, 2022

Hulu apparently felt that the Michelle Carter "texting suicide" case hadn't been sufficiently covered by a Lifetime movie and a multi-hour documentary, so now its latest scripted true crime series, The Girl From Plainville , is taking its turn; Stephanie Early Green returns to discuss it. Around The Dial takes us through Music Box: Listening To Kenny G ; Is It Cake? ; Love On The Spectrum ; and Mare Of Easttown . Amelia S. challenges us to forcen TV characters with TV episodes -- to delight ones we like and torture ones we don't. Stephanie presents the Detroiters episode "Hog Riders" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a real character of a Game Time. Take a break from yelling to everyone you know about Hulu's taste level and listen to us do that instead! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 👧🏻 The Girl From Plainville Around The Dial: 📯 Music Box Around The Dial: 🥮 Is It Cake Around The Dial: 🌈 Love On The Spectrum Around The Dial: 🐴 Mare Of Easttown Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 💖 When Calls The Heart Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Picard Extra Credit: 👀 Forcening For Good And For Evil The Canon: 🏆 Detroiters S01.E02: Hog Riders Winner & Loser: 👍 Cress Williams Winner & Loser: 👎 Ex- Bachelor Colton Underwood Game Time: 🧠 Hey! It's Those Three Guys! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 400 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter 👧🏻 "The Girl From Plainville" by Jesse Barron on Esquire.com ☠️ I Love You, Now Die on HBO Max 🚨 The Blotter Presents 103: " I Love You, Now Die and Patty Hearst (1988) 🍰 "Let's Make Is It Cake More Chaotic" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture 👩‍🚒 Tara's interview with 9-1-1 stars Arielle Kebbel and Oliver Stark at Decider 🏠 Stephanie's "Hacienda," at Juked 🕸 More of Stephanie's fiction at her website, StephanieEarlyGreen.com 🎧 Sarah on the Crime Seen podcast, from the Rob Has A Podcast network 📰 The Best Evidence newletter 🕶 D.O.C.'s TV ad for Sexy Specs

Mar 23, 2022

Do you know what time it is? It's Game Time -- except THIS time, all our Valued Guests were drawn from among our Patreon supporters, and they're playing in a mini-tournament with your co-hosts as their lifelines. Listen to find out who defeats all their opponents and emerges victorious! TOPICS Game Time: 🌭 Order Up Game Time: 📻 Tube Tunes IX Game Time: 💬 Describe It To Me Game Time: ⏩ Fast Jams NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 399 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 💰 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast 💰 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

Mar 16, 2022

Brittany Luse took a break from co-hosting FCN and HBO Docs Club to talk about FOX's newest silly-competition reality show, Domino Masters -- and we all found lots of reasons you should probably just watch "topples" on YouTube instead, including weak chemistry, weaker jokes, frustrating lack of camera coverage, and drama that doesn't come from the craft. Oh, and: it's about 38 minutes too long. We did better going Around The Dial with Winning Time , Survivor , select Euphoria episodes, Top Chef: Houston , and Fast Foodies , and then Tara drove us around New Jersey for awhile with her Ramy Canon presentation. Fighters won, Baby-Sitters lost, and we were poets and didn't know it during a rhymin', Dave-pointy Game Time. Remind yourself how "GOAL" is spelled and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Brittany Luse TOPICS Lead Topic: 💥 Domino Masters Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time Around The Dial: 🗿 Survivor Around The Dial: 💊 Euphoria Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🍟 Fast Foodies Lead Topic: 🕌 Ramy S01.E07: Ne Me Quitte Pas Winner & Loser: 👍 The Good Fight Winner & Loser: 👎 The Baby-Sitters Club Game Time: 🧠 Selective Effective Objective Detective NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 398 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍽 Please put koshari in Dave's stomach 🐦 Brittany Luse on Twitter 🎧 The FCN podcast 🐦 FCN on Twitter 📸 FCN on Instagram 📹 The HBO Docs Club podcast (with Ronald Young Jr.) 🧼 Tara's soaps post at Decider 💄 Listen To Sassy Club ☔️ MASTAS : The "America's Damp 40" Season 📷 Photo: Ray Mickshaw / FOX

Mar 9, 2022

With Sarah unexpectedly out for the week, it's a slimmed-down installment of the podcast (no Canon or Game Time) -- but fortunately Eve Batey is here to bring her expertise in both San Francisco and true crime to join our discussion on The Dropout ! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death , The Courtship , the Late Night With Seth Meyers Corrections series on YouTube, Vikings: Valhalla , and the latest on 9-1-1: Lone Star . Mlle. Caroline asks us to pick non-canonical middle names for TV characters. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser! Get your blood sugar up with a cookie (or two) and join us! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 💊 The Dropout Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 The Courtship Around The Dial: ✨ Late Night With Seth Meyers Around The Dial: ⚔️ Vikings: Valhalla Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 🤑 What's Your Middle Name? Winner & Loser: 👍 Nailed It Winner & Loser: 👎 The Big Leap NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 397 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter ☀️ "The Dropout's Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani As Lady Macbeth" at Vulture 🍖 Tara's Jon Hamm interview at GQ.com 🤢 "How Seth Meyers Turned Internet Toxicity Into Emmy-Nominated Gold" at VanityFair.com 🌭 East Bay Nosh 🔍 The Best Evidence newsletter 🛍 Avenues Dry Goods

Mar 2, 2022

After almost 12 years, the original Law & Order has been revived at NBC for its 21st season, and superfan Mark Blankenship has returned to The Blankenship Chair to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Super Pumped , Love Is Blind , Reacher , Bug Out , and Worst Roommate Ever . Ilan cashes in an Extra Credit to get us to propose our finales for series that ended badly, or didn't really end at all. Carlos makes the case for inducting the series premiere of Mare Of Easttown to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with two separate, not really equally important rounds. No need to get down to Centre Street: we've brought our latest podcast right to you! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 👮🏻‍♂️ Law & Order Around The Dial: 🧴 Super Pumped Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🫱 Reacher Around The Dial: 🪳 Bug Out Around The Dial: 😳 Worst Roommate Ever Extra Credit: 🛬 Re-Sticking The Landing The Canon: 🏆 Mare Of Easttown S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave Winner & Loser: 👎 Twitting Celebs Game Time: 🧠 Ignorance Of The Law & Order Is No Excuse NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 396 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 👩‍🦯 " Love Is Blind 's Creator Answers Our Burning Season-Two Finale Questions" at Vulture 🌴 Again With This on Patreon 📺 Primetimer.com 🪳 Sarah's Bug Out and Worst Roommate Ever reviews at Best Evidence ☁️ The Far From Heaven episode of Quaid In Full

Feb 23, 2022

Two Cents Plus Tax co-host Krystal Farmer came by to talk about The Endgame , an overstuffed and underwhelming procedural that tries to do too much and is assembled from the spare parts of too many early-aughts shows. Why do networks still make shows like this? Do we need The Endgame if we still (seriously!) have The Blacklist ? And how is Fedorova writing on the sticky side of Post-Its? We fared better going Around The Dial with Severance , a Married At First Sight update, Creamerie , Inventing Anna , Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist , 9-1-1: Lone Star , and Reacher , and gave TV characters (and hosts) some drugs for Extra Credit. Listener Michael hoped we'd visit Cougar Town with a Canon election before Dickens won, Erika Jayne lost (...again), and we answered the door to a hell of a season-clinching Game Time. No need to blackmail the Homeland Secretary -- an all-new Extra Hot Great is all yours. GUESTS 👤 Krystal Farmer TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤯 The Endgame Around The Dial: ✂️ Severance Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥛 Creamerie Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ Inventing Anna Around The Dial: 🤕 Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🫱 Reacher The Canon: 🏆 Cougar Town S03.E05: A One Story Town Winner & Loser: 👍 Great Expectations Lead Topic: 👎 Erika Jayne Game Time: 🧠 Knock-Knock NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 395 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Krystal Farmer on Twitter 🪙 The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast 💰 The Two Cents Plus Tax Patreon 🗣 Tara's Adam Scott interview at GQ 🎙 Tara's Arian Moayed interview, also at GQ 🔎 Best Evidence on Inventing Anna

Feb 16, 2022

We love it when our listeners submit Canon pitches so much that we're considering not one but THREE in this special episode. Will Karen's pitch on The Odd Couple rack up the requisite odd couple of votes? Will Doug Dale's advocacy for Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist move and challenge us? Will we make holiday dreams come true for Dave in Chicago and his case for Pee-wee's Playhouse 's 1988 Christmas special? Listen and learn! TOPICS The Canon: 🏢 The Odd Couple S02.E04: Sleepwalker The Canon: 🖼 Work Of Art S01.E02: The Shape Of Things To Come The Canon: 🎄 Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special 1988 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 394 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Feb 9, 2022

With so much TV either taken up by the Olympics or getting out of their way, we took our own stab at counter-programming: for our last episode before Valentine's Day, we're each forcening each other to watch a TV episode with "love" somewhere in its title. Dave assigns Sarah "The Secret War" from Love, Death + Robots ; Sarah challenges Tara to take on the ABC Afterschool Special "It's No Crush, I'm In Love"; and Dave endures the series premiere of Tori & Dean: Inn Love . Following all our reports, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that you might find for sale at a love...shop? Grab your Valentine, or just treat yourself, and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤖 Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War Lead Topic: 🚌 ABC Afterschool Special It's No Crush, I'm In Love Lead Topic: 🏨 Tori & Dean: Inn Love S01.E01: Dump Everything You Can Dump! Game Time: 🧠 Channel 69 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 393 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🤖 Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War on Netflix 🚌 ABC Afterschool Special : It's No Crush, I'm In Love on YouTube

Feb 2, 2022

Waiting for Impact and Truu Stowray host Dave Holmes stopped by for the first time to talk about Pam & Tommy , Hulu's prestige miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, their whirlwind romance, and the sex tape seen 'round the world. Is the story of Seth Rogen's stiffed (...heh) contractor the real heart of the tale, or is it the Pam/Tommy romance? Is the mid-nineties soundtrack intrusive? And should that penis have talked? We went Around The Dial with Somebody Somewhere , The Real Dirty Dancing , The Museum of Home Video, The Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour, We Need To Talk About Cosby , and 9-1-1: Lone Star before marinating in the Zwick-Herskoverse with a Once & Again Canon submission. _Law & Order_s won, Showtime lost, and we married bands and TV shows in a musical Game Time. Look it up on Alta Vista: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Dave Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Pam & Tommy Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: 💃 The Real Dirty Dancing Around The Dial: 📹 Museum of Home Video Around The Dial: ❌ Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour Around The Dial: 😥 We Need To Talk About Cosby Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star The Canon: 🏆 Once & Again S03.E16: Aaron's List Of Dreams Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order Winner & Loser: 👎 Black Monday Game Time: 🧠 Music Television NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 392 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Holmes on Twitter 📻 Waiting For Impact : A Dave Holmes Passion Project 📹 Museum Of Home Video on Twitch ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 😥 Eve Batey's review of We Need To Talk About Cosby 🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter

Jan 26, 2022

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age ; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto , Abbott Elementary , Ozark , Season 2 of Cheer , Peacemaker , 9-1-1: Lone Star , and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinseltown . Erica S. asks us to invite several TV characters over for dinner and very specific kinds of discussion. Mlle. Caroline pitches "Redemption," the first-season finale of The Mandalorian , for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that brings that Christmas in July feeling to January. Send your servants back downstairs and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 💡 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🚗 American Auto Around The Dial: 📓 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🐊 Ozark Around The Dial: 📣 Cheer Around The Dial: 🦅 Peacemaker Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🍞 Toast Of Tinseltown Extra Credit: 🥔 Mashed Debate-os The Canon: 🏆 The Mandalorian S01.E08: Redemption Winner & Loser: 👍 Amy Schneider Winner & Loser: 👎 Maggie Game Time: 🧠 Mark The Halls NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 391 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💡 "How The Gilded Age 's Denée Benton Made Sure Peggy Scott's Story Was Told Right" at Glamour.com 🥁 Tara's post on The CW's March at Decider 🗣 Tara's Christina Ricci interview at GQ.com 📣 Sarah on Season 2 of Cheer at BestEvidence.fyi

Jan 19, 2022

For this special episode, we have selected 27 very memorable TV mustaches to do battle in our Thunderdome. Listen to find out which of them vanquishes all its opponents! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥸 TV Moustache Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 390 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jan 12, 2022

Resident Amazing Race expert Jessica returns to the guest chair to talk about the legendary reality show's unique thirty-third season: how it handled an 18-month interruption, whether we expect more from its production than we do from other shows, the true-crime connection that's somehow charming, and whom we expect to win. We went Around The Dial with the new Joe Millionaire , Married At First Sight , Letterkenny , Yellowjackets , and 9-1-1: Lone Star before celebrating a Tiny Triumph for Tara going back to March of 2021. Greg L. asked us to Pop Culture Veto TV properties before we went Down Under for Jessica's Canon submission from The Letdown 's first season. History won, gas lost, and we boarded a rollercoaster of series highs and lows for Game Time. The world is waiting...for this all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jessica Liese TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌍 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 💰 Joe Millionaire: For Richer Or Poorer Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍺 Letterkenny Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets Around The Dial: 🤠 9-1-1: Lone Star Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Soapdish Extra Credit: 🤑 Pop Culture Veto The Canon: 🏆 The Letdown S01.E04: Trivial Pursuits Winner & Loser: 👍 Tobias Menzies Winner & Loser: 👎 Stephanie Matto Game Time: 🧠 Best Of Times, Worst Of Times NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 389 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jessica Liese on Twitter 🎧 Jessica's TAR podcasts at Rob Has A Website 🏔 EEHG 109: Adding To Paramount+ 🎙 Tara's interview with Tim Minear 🔍 Best Evidence ✂️ Jourdain Searles intro-ing In The Cut at the Nitehawk

Jan 5, 2022

So...the original plan was to watch the 1979 miniseries Backstairs At The White House -- even though, at nine hours, it's longer than some actual series are these days. Then Dave and Tara got less than half an hour into it and pulled the plug. Dan -- who did watch it -- tells us what we missed, but then we just roll on past that to a trio of Non-Regulation Game Times! Who knows the most about TV actors who share names with U.S. presidents, and about original songs from TV episodes, AND about reunion movies made years after the series that spawned them went off the air? This special episode's games leave no one in doubt! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Around The Dial: 🏛 Backstairs At The White House Game Time: 🧠 His Name Is My Name Too Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes VIII Game Time: 🧠 TV Reunions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 388 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter

Dec 29, 2021

EEHG 097: Extra Hic Great We challenged our listeners to get us to 1000 Patreon supporters by December 15, and they went above and beyond. Your reward? This drunk episode. Author, screenwriter, and sake enthusiast Pamela Ribon joins us as we discuss Bridgerton , the first Shonda Rhimes show to hit Netflix. Which of us found its 1813 society romances compelling? The answer won't surprise you! Around The Dial takes us through How To With John Wilson , the feature film We Are Little Zombies (available to buy or rent on all the platforms), NBC's revival of The Weakest Link , and Taskmaster NZ . A WILDLY compromised Dave pitches the Peep Show episode "Shrooming" for induction into the Canon; then after Dave crowns the episode's Winner and Loser based on who's most drunk, it's on to the most shambolic Game Time ever. Pour yourself a LARGE cup of Christmas cheer and listen! GUESTS 👤 Pamela Ribon TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Bridgerton Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ We Are Little Zombies Around The Dial: 🔗 The Weakest Link Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster New Zealand The Canon: 👀 Peep Show S03.E03: Shrooming Winner & Loser: 🍺 ??!? Game Time: 🧠 TV Theme Karaoke NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 387 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 22, 2021

Being The Ricardos , Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy ) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike ; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation MacGruber ; Insecure ; How To With John Wilson ; Dead Asleep ; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . John Potts asks us to choose a TV getaway for our next imaginary holiday. Ilan brings us back to the TV-to-movie pipeline with a Canon presentation on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie." Then we name the week's Winner and Loser before closing out with a Game Time that really decks the halls. No need to arrange a multi-cam setup: this podcast is for your ears only! GUESTS 👤 Tim Grierson TOPICS Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos Around The Dial: 🕺 Finding Magic Mike Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson Around The Dial: 🛌 Dead Asleep Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Winner & Loser: 👍 Texas Monthly Winner & Loser: 👎 Peloton Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter 🙃 "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter 🤥 "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos " 🗣 Tara's interview with Gloria Calderón Kellett at Decider 🎞 Tim at Screen International 🍈 Tim at Mel 📚 Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie , at The Last Bookshop 🛌 Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence

Dec 15, 2021

Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City ...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just Like That . And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to relate to here? Does the show, as it used to, still do a couple of things extremely well while being exhausting the rest of the time? And couldn't they just have given Samantha COVID? Later, Dan Cassino was NOT a crackpot for suggesting that many Netflix properties would benefit from a faster watch speed, and then we went Around The Dial with Love Life , Live In Front Of A Studio Audience , The Big Leap , The Monkees , and Call My Agent! . Listener Laura hoped there wouldn't be "Bad Blood" between her and the panel when she submitted yet another X-Files ep for the Canon. Yellowstone won, wasting the court's time lost, and we contemplated the legendary hookups of the Big Apple in a non-regulation Game Time. Grab a sad fascinator and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌆 And Just Like That Around The Dial: 💝 Love Life Around The Dial: 😂 Live In Front Of A Studio Audience Around The Dial: 🎭 The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🐒 The Monkees Around The Dial: ☎️ Call My Agent! I Am Not A Crackpot: ⏩ Speed Watching TV The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S05.E12: Bad Blood Winner & Loser: 👍 1883 Winner & Loser: 👎 Jussie Smollett Game Time: 🧠 The Sexinest City NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 385 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💃 Go Fug Yourself 🐦 GFY on Twitter 📸 GFY on Instagram 📚 Heather and Jessica on Bookshop 💝 The For Colored Nerds podcast on S02 of Love Life 🎭 Vulture on The Big Leap 🐒 The Monkees S02.E22 ("the Paris episode") 👩🏽‍⚕️ Tara's Doogie Kamealoha, MD post at Decider ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 📷 Photo: HBO Max

Dec 8, 2021

HBO's latest British miniseries import is Landscapers , telling the story about Christopher and Susan Edwards and their, er, unorthodox gardening habits; we tell you whether we thought it was, heh, fertile ground for drama. Around The Dial takes us through Annie Live! , Money Heist , Baptiste , and Hawkeye . Elenore pitches the Drunk History episode "Civil Rights" for the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close out with a Game Time that's live from New York, featuring surprise Valued Guest Taylor Cole. Join us for all the dirt on Landscapers and so much more! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛲️ Landscapers Around The Dial: 💸 Money Heist Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🦰 Annie Live Around The Dial: 🎨 Baptiste Around The Dial: 🎯 Hawkeye Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways The Canon: 🏆 Drunk History S05.E05: Civil Rights Winner & Loser: 👍 FX Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Cuomo Game Time: 🧠 Do You Know What Not Ready For Prime Time It Is? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 384 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📰 The Guardian's deep dive on the Edwards case 🤔 Streaming options for Quiz 🚨 The Blotter Presents podcast on Quiz 👩🏻‍🦰 Jackson McHenry and Kathryn VanArendonk on Annie Live! at Vulture 💸 Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon 📚 12(% off) Days Of Christmas at Exhibit B. Books

Dec 1, 2021

It's the return of the EHG Thunderdome! This time we're sending 27 HBO characters of our choosing into the Thunderdome to see who is the last character standing. Will it be the horse from Luck ? WILL IT?! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛈ Selective HBO Character Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 383 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 24, 2021

Sarah and Tara are busy eating turkey so Dave assembled a crew of Wheel Of Time experts to try to explain what the hell he just watched. Join Dan Cassino, Sean Pflueger and Jim Durr as they discuss Amazon's adaption of the epic series then stick around for a spicy game time! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Jim Durr 👤 Sean Pflueger TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Wheel Of Time Game Time: 🧠 Wheel Of Thyme NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 382 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 17, 2021

Returning guest Dave Roth got on the couch with us for The Shrink Next Door , the Apple TV adaptation of the Wondery podcast of the same name. We discussed the pacing, whether the show needed more jokes and less attention to production-design details, and the very obviously not New York light on the outdoor sets. Did true-crime "expert" Buntsy feel differently from the rest of the panel? Later, we went Around The Dial with Yellowjackets , SNL , Evil , and The Curse Of Von Dutch before popping on our fezzes for a Lodge 49 Canon submission from Lisa. Annie Live! won, Terry Crews lost, and we tried to keep it 100 with some creative arithmetic in Game Time. Bail on your second bar mitzvah early and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 David Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 😶‍🌫️ The Shrink Next Door Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets Around The Dial: 🌃 Saturday Night Live Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 🧢 The Curse Of Von Dutch The Canon: 🏆 Lodge 49 S01.E03: Corpus Winner & Loser: 👍 Alan Toy Winner & Loser: 👎 Terry Crews Game Time: 🧠 Keeping It 100 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 381 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏓 David J. Roth at Defector.com 🦜 The Distraction podcast 🤶 The It's Christmastown podcast with Jeb Lund 🐨 Tara on Frayed S02 for Decider 🌃 Tara's SNL recap at VF 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Patreon 🧢 Sarah's Von Dutch review on Best Evidence 🎧 Subscribe to Quaid In Full for even more Roth and Lund in our S05 finale

Nov 10, 2021

The latest high school-based '80s sitcom to get a revival is HBO Max's 2021 take on Head Of The Class , so Daniel MacEachern -- a fan of the original in its day -- has joined us to talk about whether it's a pass or fail! Around The Dial takes us through Season 2 of Frayed , an update on Married At First Sight , Deutschland 89 , Yellowstone , The Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show , depending on where you are), Project Runway , and the findings of the TV Holiday Corridor Committee. Tara explains why she is NOT a crackpot to think Rick was funnier before his lines got subtitled on Big Mouth . Danny presents the Ted Lasso episode "Trent Crimm: The Independent" for the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close out with a Game Time that has us contemplating celebrity mortality. Get out your notebook -- do kids still take those to class?! -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🏫 Head Of The Class Around The Dial: 🐨 Frayed Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 89 Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🥐 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 👠 Project Runway Around The Dial: 🎁 TV Holiday Corridor Committee Findings I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Rick Was Funnier Before Big Mouth Started Subtitling Him The Canon: 🏆 Ted Lasso S01.E03: Trent Crimm: The Independent Winner & Loser: 👍 Fantasy Island (2021) Winner & Loser: 👎 Ingo Rademacher Game Time: 🧠 Dead? Simpsons? Both? Neither? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 380 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 🚽 "TV Producer Steven Bochco says he fired lead actor from Murder One because one particular bathroom habit made him an hour late for work EVERY DAY" at DailyMail.com 💄 Listen To Sassy on Patreon 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon 📰 CBC Newfoundland and Labrador 🛑 "Please Stop The Great British Baking Show From Becoming The Great British Science Fair " at VanityFair.com 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎧 Quaid In Full on Patreon

Nov 3, 2021

Your co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law 's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hysterectomies and their possible side effects? Around The Dial takes us through Insecure , Queens , The Big Leap , The Good Wife , and The Good Fight . Adam makes the case for Max Headroom 's series premiere, "Blipverts," to be inducted into The Canon. Then after an extra-spooky Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't overstay its welcome. Look out: it's a new episode of Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍💼 L.A. Law S05.E16: Good To The Last Drop Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 👸🏽 Queens Around The Dial: 🤸‍♂️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🤦‍♀️ The Good Wife Around The Dial: 👊 The Good Fight The Canon: 🏆 Max Headroom S01.E01: Blipverts Winner & Loser: 👍 Steve Buscemi Winner & Loser: 👎 Ted Lasso Game Time: 🧠 One-Season Wonders NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 379 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter ☕️ "Good To The Last Drop" on Dailymotion 🚽 "TV producer Steven Bochco says he fired lead actor from Murder One because one particular bathroom habit made him an hour late for work EVERY DAY" on DailyMail.com 🌴 The latest Again With This podcast, featuring Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, aka The Fug Girls 🐷 The Muppeturgy podcast 🏎 Baffled! on YouTube 👾 "Live And Direct: The Definitive Oral History Of 1980s Digital Icon Max Headroom" at The Verge

Oct 27, 2021

Netflix's new animated series Inside Job posits a world in which basically every conspiracy theory you've ever seen on Facebook is real; John Ramos returns to discuss whether it's worth exposing the NSA to it via the recording device that's always running in your phone! Around The Dial takes us through the third seasons of Succession and You , and the second season of We're Here . Tara takes a hard stance on when holiday episodes should air. Erica makes a case for Brooklyn Nine-Nine 's "Casecation" to be inducted into the Nonac. Then we crown the week's Winners and Loser before getting into a Non-Regulation Game Time that's a little two-dimensional. Take a break from monitoring your Bigfoot traps and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 👽 Inside Job Around The Dial: 🧐 Succession Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🗺 We're Here I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Your Holiday Episode MUST Air Before The Holiday!!! The Nonac: 🤮 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S06.E12: Casecation Winner & Loser: 👍 Stir Wirz! Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 Tube Toons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 378 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 👃 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🤬 Q: Into The Storm on HBO Max

Oct 20, 2021

EEHG 004: That's Just Wrong Our patron Eric Akawie challenges us to name shows that got Wrong Spinoffs, and to correct history by proposing spinoffs that would have been Right! EEHG 081: The Lowest Of Decks Sarah asked: What about creating Star Trek: Lower Decks -style shows for other series? Which low-powered employees from an existing TV show would make for a good spinoff? EEHG 125: Second-Generation Spinoff Lots of spinoffs involve giving side characters the spotlight -- your Rhodas, your Lous Grant. What Lex Ann specifically wants us to imagine are spinoffs that center the CHILDREN of the ancestor series: and we've delivered! EEHG 126: Spin Cycle So maybe MAYBE, Dave didn’t read last week’s EEHG correctly and instead of the prompt being a spinoff featuring children of a show, he thought the challenge was to develop a spinoff OF a spinoff. So that’s what we’re doing this week because the idea has been rattling in his head. TOPICS Lead Topic: ❌ That's Just Wrong Lead Topic: 🪫 The Lowest Of Decks Lead Topic: 👥 Second-Generation Spinoff Lead Topic: 😵‍💫 Spin Cycle NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 377 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Oct 13, 2021

We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor C.S.I. , so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing old favorite (which...only went off the air like six years ago?). We talked about whether we'll keep watching for "The New Class" after l'affaire Hodges gets resolved, when exactly the show thinks it is culturally, and what's going on with the sloppy editing. Then we went Around The Dial with Call The Midwife , Legends Of The Hidden Temple , grief-therapy sitcom recs, and Buried (with another Lauer rant from Buntsy) before Cyd was NOT a crackpot about shows using consultants on "hacker" and other internetty storylines. Chris Billig tried to get all our exercise balls up the hill in support of his Taskmaster Canon submission before Mlle. Caroline won, Netflix lost, and we put a foot in two worlds with a Game Time about reboots. Make sure to leave a fingerprint on the "play" button; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Cyd TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎰 C.S.I.: Vegas Around The Dial: 👩‍⚕️ Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🗿 Legends Of The Hidden Temple Around The Dial: 🥨 Seinfeld Around The Dial: 👮🏽‍♀️ Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🪦 Buried I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Computer Consultants The Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S02.E01: Fear Of Failure Winner & Loser: 👍 Mlle. Caroline Winner & Loser: 👎 Dave Chappelle and Netflix Game Time: 🧠 Getting The Reboot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 376 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Cyd on Twitter 🐦 Or follow her here 📸 Cyd's drawing Instagram 🧬 Tara's William Petersen piece at Decider 🪦 Sarah's review of Buried at Best Evidence 💌 Taskmaster season playlists on YouTube

Oct 6, 2021

The SCU ( Sopranos Cinematic Universe) expands with the release, in theaters and on HBO Max, of the prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark , and Rolling Stone Senior TV Critic/certified Soprano logist Alan Sepinwall is here to discuss it with us! Around The Dial takes us through The Problem With Jon Stewart , Our Kind Of People , Maid , and the Working Girl TV series adaptation. Rebecca uses her Extra Credit topic to have us remove and recast disgraced stars from their TV vehicles to make them palatable again. Alan presents the Columbo episode "An Exercise In Fatality" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we're pulling off the turnpike for a New Jersey-themed Non-Regulation Game Time! Find your pew and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔫 The Many Saints Of Newark Around The Dial: 🫠 The Problem With Jon Stewart Around The Dial: ☺️ Our Kind Of People Around The Dial: 🧹 Maid Around The Dial: 👩‍💼 Working Girl Extra Credit: 🍎 Bad Apples The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Columbo S04.E01: An Exercise In Fatality Winner & Loser: 👍 IATSE Winner & Loser: 👎 Katie Couric Game Time: 🧠 Back To The Garden State NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 375 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🔫 "The Ultimate Sopranos Insider's Guide to The Many Saints of Newark " on RollingStone.com 📚 The Sopranos Sessions on AbramsBooks.com 🫠 Alan's review of The Problem With Jon Stewart at RollingStone.com 🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon 👁 Alan's podcast Too Long; Didn't Watch 👩‍💼 The Working Girl TV series adaptation on YouTube 🐉 The Quaid In Full podcast episode on Dragonheart 😬 "I Was Proud to Do This Work With Him: David Simon on James Franco Controversy" at Rolling Stone 🍭 Paul Rudd's candy store, Samuel's Sweet Shop ✊ "As IATSE Workers Go Public, Pressure Mounts on Studios Amid Looming Strike" in The Hollywood Reporter

Sep 29, 2021

We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea , NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost " mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears , The Big Leap , Being James Bond , Tea With The Dames , Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant , and Squid Game , and in related news, Dave was not a crackpot about flashbacks to events in the same episode. David Ellis Dickerson challenged us to pick a show bible a la the Star Trek: TOS episode "A Piece of the Action," and base an entire future society on it, and then Nick challenged our conceptions about second episodes of series when he pitched Episode 02 of Succession for the Canon. Bergeron won, Messing lost, and the Game Time season came down to a single letter. Take a nip off that flask and tell the government about your visions: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦕 La Brea Around The Dial: 🕹 Controlling Britney Spears Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🔫 Being James Bond Around The Dial: 🫖 Tea With The Dames Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🦑 Squid Game I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Extra Credit: 📖 Show Bible The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E02: Shit Show At The Fuck Factory Winner & Loser: 👍 Tic-Tac-Dough Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 374 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🕵🏼‍♂️ Nick's immersive-theater project, Spy Brunch ⛳️ Tara's Holey Moley piece at Defector 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC

Sep 22, 2021

Nearly two years after its first-season premiere, The Morning Show is back on AppleTV+, and its #1 fan Christina Tucker has returned to talk about all the delightful madness! Around The Dial takes us through The Premise , Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. , and the new seasons of Sex Education and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Amelia asks us to poach good characters from bad shows and put them together in a new project. Tara presents The Other Two 's very recent "Chase Gets Baptized" for Canon consideration. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we wrap up with a pilot-based Game Time that leaves us all in a tailspin. Pour yourself a coffee with Red Bull and listen! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌅 The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🔲 The Premise Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍⚕️ Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Around The Dial: 🍆 Sex Education Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 😉 Only The Good Ones The Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S02.E05: Chase Gets Baptized Winner & Loser: 👍 Baltimore Ravens Winner & Loser: 👎 Edie Falco Game Time: 🧠 Pilot Error NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 373 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter 🍙 Christina's The Morning Show recap newsletter Chaos! It's The New Cocaine 🟠 Tara on James Wolk and Ordinary Joe at Decider ⁉️ The Wait, Is This A Date? podcast 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Christina at Autostraddle 📚 15% off for EHG listeners at Exhibit B. Books 🏛 Backstairs At The White House on Wikipedia

Sep 15, 2021

FX on Hulu's take on comics series Y: The Last Man has finally made it to air -- and Taylor Cole has finally made it over from The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show to talk about it with us! How is the show different from the comics? Can Diane Lane's hair still be a national treasure if her roots are a plot point? And does a certain Hero need to get written out of the story? We went Around The Dial with Frogger , Scenes From A Marriage , Miracle Workers , and 30 For 30 's take on the '86 Mets before carefully selecting TV's smartest (and hottest) characters to get us Extra Credit at pub quiz. Taylor sent us a care package containing his Canon submission for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp before Momoa won and copaganda lost. And Tara's non-regulation Game Time taught us all a lot. Make 90 minutes disappear Yorick-style by listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐒 Y: The Last Man Around The Dial: 💍 Scenes From A Marriage Around The Dial: 🐸 Frogger Around The Dial: 🪬 Miracle Workers Around The Dial: ⚾️ 30 For 30 Extra Credit: 🤔 Pub Quiz The Canon: 🩳 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp S01.E06: Electro/City Winner & Loser: 👍 See Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Nation Game Time: 🧠 That'll Teach 'Em NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 372 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Taylor Cole on Twitter 🍸 The G&T With Greta And Taylor podcast 💄 Listen To Sassy on Patreon 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

Sep 8, 2021

Since the third season of American Crime Story revolves around Bill Clinton's late-'90s impeachment scandal, we could think of no better guest to join us in discussing it than Dan Rogge, noted co-writer of the mid-'00s theatrical production Monica! The Musical . And we got him! Around The Dial takes us through A.P. Bio , Money Heist , Black Monday , and Only Murders In The Building . Katherine asks us to suggest better monikers for mis-named TV characters. Then Dan makes his case for inducting NewsRadio 's Season 3 episode "Kids" into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a big-name Game Time. Got dry cleaning to drop off? Take us with you and listen! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 Impeachment: American Crime Story Around The Dial: 🧫 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 💸 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📉 Black Monday Around The Dial: 🔪 Only Murders In The Building Extra Credit: 🤑 Restoring Their Good Name The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E16: Kids Winner & Loser: 👍 Reservation Dogs Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 That's My Name, Too NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 371 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter 👗 Monica! The Podcast ✍️ Sarah's Impeachment review at Primetimer 💸 Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture 🌍 Andy Dehnart's oral history of The Amazing Race 's first season at Reality Blurred

Sep 1, 2021

EEHG 102: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye Join us for the third-season premiere of Sarah's go-to mid-century anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents , featuring Captain Kirk, Jessica Tandy, ventriloquism Deadheads, spinster-ist propaganda, and a hall-of-fame crappy TV kid. EEHG 122: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Failed 1990 Pilot Of Poochinski Woof! Woof! I'm Poochinski, the talking dog! EEHG 131: Hey You, Shut Up 150 things that need to shut up. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye Lead Topic: 🐶 Poochinski S01.E01: Pilot Lead Topic: 🙊 Hey You, Shut Up NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 370 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧿 "The Glass Eye" on Peacock

Aug 25, 2021

University of California (NOT California University...you'll see) faculty member Bobby Krut returns to talk about Sandra Oh's new English-department half-hour dramedy on Netflix, The Chair . We discussed the almost-perfect pacing and casting, underrating Amanda Peet at your peril, whether Holland Taylor should get a spinoff, and more. Then we went Around The Dial with Nine Perfect Strangers , Messyness , I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson , and Unforgotten before Doug tasked us with adding a Russian Roulette -style trapdoor to a TV moment. Sarah wouldn't let the bird rest in her Canon presentation for a fifth-season Cheers episode; true crime won and Mike Richards lost; and the truth was once again stranger than fiction in a Game Time animé sequel. Don't pine for a crumpled podcast; listen to this shiny new episode of Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪑 The Chair Around The Dial: 9️⃣ Nine Perfect Strangers Around The Dial: 🗑 Messyness Around The Dial: ↩️ I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: 🙇‍♀️ Unforgotten Extra Credit: 🔫 Russian Roulette The Canon: 🍻 Cheers S05.E09: Thanksgiving Orphans Winner & Loser: 👍 Josh Duhamel Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Richards Game Time: 🧠 More Animé Bullshit NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 369 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪶 Bobby Krut's website 🐦 Bobby on Twitter 📷 Bobby on Instagram 📺 The Kominsky Method on Netflix 💰 The National Network of Abortion Funds 🔎 The "Bet-Crap" on Best Evidence 🔫 A Russian Roulette reference video 🙋‍♀️ The The Thing About Pam podcast

Aug 18, 2021

With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW , Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of Michael Waldron's Heels ; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs , The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island , Big Brother , Animal Kingdom , and What If...? . David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the talents of both January Jones and David Duchovny to the fullest advantage. Joe presents the Girls5Eva episode "Cease And Desist" for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and head straight into a Game Time that gets a little romantic. Get into your spangliest leggings and listen! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ Heels Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: 🧘 The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🏝 Fantasy Island (2021) Around The Dial: 👨‍👦 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🦌 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🤔 What If Extra Credit: 🚁 Rigid Air Vehicles The Canon: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And Desist Winner & Loser: 👍 Corn Winner & Loser: 👎 Men behaving badly Game Time: 🧠 Double Date NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 368 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 👡 Joe's Heels review at Primetimer 🤼‍♂️ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider 👠 LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste 🌺 Mitchell Kuga at Vox on The White Lotus 's portrayal of Native Hawaiian characters 🧘‍♂️ Tara discussing The White Lotus with Dave Chen on his Patreon podcast ✍️ Joe's author page on Primetimer 🏆 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast on Twitter 🦊 Sarah's Primetimer post about Season 4 of Animal Kingdom 📚 Exhibit B. Books 📷 January Jones on Instagram ⚖️ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism

Aug 11, 2021

Kamille Washington of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast is back to discuss Mr. Corman , a (possibly too) slow-building show about a musician turned grade-school teacher/anxiety sufferer and his angst. Did star/producer/crafty coordinator Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on too many jobs -- and not enough fresh story? Why couldn't the show be about Arturo Castro's character? And can we look forward to a Debra Wingeraissance? We went Around The Dial with First Wives Club 's second season, FBoy Island , Real Housewives Of Potomac , CNBC crime shows, and UFO ; then Courtney and Craig asked us which TV characters are the most likely to vape obnoxiously (and none of us had any trouble answering). We conferred on whether a New Girl episode was adorkable enough for the Canon, then declared a Winner and a Loser of the week before finding out whether a superpowered Game Time was our kryptonite. Get your sneakers off the couch and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kamille Washington TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥱 Mr. Corman Around The Dial: ♣️ First Wives Club Around The Dial: 🍆 FBoy Island Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: 🥷 Super Heists Around The Dial: 💶 Money Court Around The Dial: 🛸 UFO Extra Credit: 💨 Who Here Vapes? The Canon: 👧🏼 New Girl S02.E15: Cooler Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Organized Crime Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Richards Game Time: 🧠 Alter Egos NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 367 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Kamille Washington on Twitter ✋🏽 Listen to the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast 🎥 Daniel Fienberg's Mr. Corman review for The Hollywood Reporter 🦤 Jen Chaney's at Vulture 🏝 Joe Reid reviews FBoy Island for Primetimer 🗣 Tara's Paul Scheer interview at Decider 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Apple TV+

Aug 4, 2021

The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap . Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle , Nailed It! , Pop-Up Video , and Battle Of The Network Stars , before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People . AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz résumés for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🫧 Soap Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🎂 Nailed It Around The Dial: 📼 Pop-Up Video Around The Dial: 🏃‍♀️ Battle Of The Network Stars The Canon: 🧍‍♂️ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10 Winner & Loser: 👍 Ted Lasso Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazing Stories Game Time: 🧠 Working Hard Or Hardly Working? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter 👰‍♀️ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montré Burton at Decider 🌳 Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park , on AppleTV+ 💿 Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp 📼 Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video 🌠 Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars 🏃🏻‍♂️ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay 🎶 Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon

Jul 28, 2021

When schedulers at the Food Network foiled our original plans for this episode, our returning guest Will Ellis rolled with the punches and joined us to talk about Netflix's bizarre new dating show, Sexy Beasts ! Around The Dial takes us through the new season of Married At First Sight , The Real Housewives Of Potomac , Married To Medicine , and Search Party . Last week's guest Sean Pflueger returns...via an Extra Credit question about actors whose range we underestimated. Will presents the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked episode "It Takes Two" for submission to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roar and scratch our way through a Non-Regulation Game Time. Get a beer (good luck drinking it around your bottle-nosed dolphin special effects makeup) and listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Ellis TOPICS Lead Topic: 👹 Sexy Beasts Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: 💊 Married To Medicine Around The Dial: 👀 Search Party Extra Credit: 🤦‍♂️ Underestimated The Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Untucked S01.E01: It Takes Two Winner & Loser: 👍 YouTuber Shamook Winner & Loser: 👎 The WGA Game Time: 🧠 Regular Beasts That Are Not Here To Be Objectified NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 365 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Ellis on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🏳️‍🌈 Harvard Kennedy School's LGBTQ Policy Journal, in the spring 2021 issue of which Will has an article 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

Jul 21, 2021

AppleTV+'s newest musical series, Schmigadoon! , strands a couple of contemporary big-city doctors in a strange town lost in time, requiring them to find their true loves before they can cross the bridge home. Did we true-love it, or did we feel trapped? New guest Sean Pflueger joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Stories , Never Have I Ever , High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , Love, Victor , and Dr. Death . Don (on behalf of the @EHGAssist crew) uses his Extra Credit segment to let us give a TV character a late-night cable access show. Tara explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking the Marvel shows on Disney+ are just very expensive advertainment. Sean pitches Schitt's Creek 's "Open Mic" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with perfect pitch. Ladle up a big bowl of corn puddin' and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Sean Pflueger TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎼 Schmigadoon Around The Dial: 🪦 American Horror Stories Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🏫 High School Musical: The Musical The Series Around The Dial: 💕 Love Victor Around The Dial: ☠️ Dr. Death Extra Credit: 🚠 Cable Access I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Marvel Shows On Disney+ Are Just 2020s Webisodes The Canon: 💩 Schitt's Creek S04.E06: Open Mic Winner & Loser: 👍 Crocs Winner & Loser: 👎 Erika Jayne Game Time: 🧠 Another Pair Of Jazz Hands NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 364 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Sean Pflueger on Twitter 🎼 Tara's Schmigadoon ! review at VanityFair.com ☠️ Roundup of Dr. Death reviews at Best Evidence 🧵 Best Evidence's Dr. Death open thread 🗣 Tara's Joshua Jackson interview at VanityFair.com 🐦 EHG Assist on Twitter 🐊 "The Loki Season Finale Exit Survey" at The Ringer

Jul 14, 2021

Nadia Chaudhury of Eater Austin joins us for the first time to talk about the second time around for Gossip Girl . Does the 2021 reboot know who it's for? Did the original benefit from the suspense surrounding Gossip Girl's identity? And will we keep watching even if Tavi Gevinson's acting doesn't improve? After Gordon Lightfoot Cole dropped in to make a request, we went Around The Dial with White Lotus , Monsters At Work , We Are Lady Parts , Heist , and This Is Pop before listener Lauren pitched an ICO (initial Canon offering) for a third-season Halt And Catch Fire episode. Kiefer won (the presidency), a Netflix show lost, and we cast about for answers in Game Time. Listen now! xoxo, EHG GUESTS 👤 Nadia Chaudhury TOPICS Lead Topic: 😮 Gossip Girl Around The Dial: 🧘‍♀️ The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work Around The Dial: 💅🏽 We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: 🦹 Heist Around The Dial: 🍾 This Is Pop The Canon: 🧯 Halt And Catch Fire S03.E07: The Threshold Winner & Loser: 👍 Kiefer Sutherland Winner & Loser: 👎 Cursed Game Time: 🧠 Last Minute Changes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 363 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter 🍱 Nadia at at Eater Austin 👨‍🍳 Nadia's "The 38 Essential Restaurants In Austin" 🪷 Willa Paskin's White Lotus review at Slate 💁‍♀️ Tara's Laura Leighton piece at Decider 🎄 Tara discusses You Had Me At Aloha on the It's Christmastown podcast 🦹 Sarah's Heist review on Primetimer 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 📷 Photo: HBO Max

Jul 7, 2021

It's a holiday week: time for a good old-fashioned Forcening, in which each of your EHG regulars makes another one watch a TV episode or movie. This time, we're acknowledging July 4th by obliging one another to watch shows with "America" in the title, and Tara's first up, forcing Sarah to watch 2000's short-lived, extremely derivative, stupidly enjoyable Young Americans , a Dawson's Creek spin-off featuring references to Stephen King, Dead Poets Society , The Skulls , and kindling. ...Wait, that last thing was actually Kate Bosworth. Next, Sarah forced Dave to watch a third-season episode of cocaine fever-dream The Greatest American Hero -- a great theme song in search of half-decent CGI, a team of writers who would stay for the whole episode, and better costume strat. Finally, Dave made Tara take The American Bible Challenge , and we all learned that there's more than one Herod, it's hard to flip a fork, and Jeff Foxworthy might be America's Host. Praise God -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧒 Young Americans S01.E01: Pilot Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero S03.E08: Space Ranger Lead Topic: 📖 The American Bible Challenge S03.E09: Grand Finale NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 362 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧒 Young Americans on Dailymotion 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero on Peacock 📖 And The American Bible Challenge on Netflix

Jun 30, 2021

Disney Plus's latest series for teens and tweens is the very puzzle-y The Mysterious Benedict Society , based on a beloved novel, and Leigh-Ann Jackson is here to talk about how well it works! Around The Dial takes us through In Treatment , The Good Fight , Jiva! , Flack , the (sort of) final season of B-B-B-B- Bosch , CSI , and Derry Girls ! Craig and Courtney argue for the Canon induction of the King Of The Hill episode "The Wedding Of Bobby Hill." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a contest that may be something, or may be nothing. No need to pass any test: our latest podcast is right here for you to enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Leigh-Ann Jackson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ The Mysterious Benedict Society Around The Dial: 😶‍🌫️ In Treatment Around The Dial: ✊ The Good Fight Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Jiva Around The Dial: 🧨 Flack Around The Dial: 🅱️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🍎 The Crime Apple Around The Dial: 🇮🇪 Derry Girls The Canon: 🏆 King Of The Hill S03.E14: The Wedding Of Bobby Hill Winner & Loser: 👍 True-crime casting Winner & Loser: 👎 Jared Padalecki Game Time: 🧠 Once Again, Is This Anything? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 361 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Leigh-Ann Jackson on Twitter 🛋 "New Pop Culture Tred Alert: the Black Lady Therapist" at Slate 👩‍🚒 Tara on the 9-1-1 franchise at Primetimer.com 🛍 Leanna Lin's Wonderland

Jun 23, 2021

The latest new series from AppleTV+ is Physical , starring Rose Byrne as an aerobics addict in 1981 San Diego; Jeb Lund joins us to discuss whether the first three episodes left us wanting more, or...wanting more of GLOW (R.I.P.). Around The Dial takes us through Cruel Summer , Holey Moley , Exterminate All The Brutes , American Barbecue Showdown , the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special, and Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell . Tara and Sarah share a Tiny Triumph (thanks, Slate!), and Shan takes to Extra Credit to have us gender-swap TV detectives. Jeb makes his case for the Rick & Morty episode "The Ricklantis Mixup" to be inducted into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time with a lot of pomp and circumstance. Pull on your leg warmers and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤸‍♀️ Physical Around The Dial: 😎 Cruel Summer Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Around The Dial: 🪦 Exterminate All The Brutes Around The Dial: 🍖 American Barbecue Showdown Around The Dial: 🎑 I'll Be Gone In The Dark Around The Dial: 😬 Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Again With Them in Slate Extra Credit: 🕵️‍♀️ Flipping The Detectives The Canon: 🏆 Rick And Morty S03.E07: The Ricklantis Mixup Winner & Loser: 👍 Legendary Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Costello Game Time: 🧠 Dads, Grads, And Brads NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 360 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter 🏌️‍♂️ Vulture's roundup of Season 3's new Holey Moley holes 🧊 Tara's review of The Cube at Primetimer 🎄 Jeb's Hallmark podcast It's Christmastown on Facebook 🎑 Sarah's review of the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special at Primetimer 🎧 Slate's article on B-list stars' podcasts recapping their own shows

Jun 16, 2021

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair is back to talk about the latest product off the Marvel industrial complex assembly line: Disney+'s Loki . We discussed everything from Religion 101 to DB Cooper to mid-century production design to canonical gender identity -- but should you make TIME (...sorry) for the show? Then we went Around The Dial with Younger , Starstruck , Bargain Block , Crime Scene Kitchen , The Housewife and the Hustler , and a weird movie on HBO Max, and then it got REALLY weird when we all sent in the clowns for David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Richard signed our yearbooks "I hope this overlooked-classic Simpsons episode stays sweet" in his Canon presentation; Farrow won and Toobin (and pooin') lost; and a role-playing Game Time had us all wondering if we'd (IMD)be crowning a season winner. Grab your timey-wimey remote: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐊 Loki Around The Dial: 🐣 Younger Around The Dial: 💫 Starstruck Around The Dial: 🏷 Bargain Block Around The Dial: ⏲ Crime Scene Kitchen Around The Dial: 💸 The Housewife And The Hustler Extra Credit: 🤡 Send In The Clowns The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S07.E25: Summer Of 4 Ft. 2 Winner & Loser: 👍 Catch And Kill Winner & Loser: 👎 Ultimate Slip 'N Slide Game Time: 🧠 Role-Playing Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 359 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Richard Lawson on Twitter 🏚 Richard at Vanity Fair on HGTV: “Home Truths: How HGTV, Magnolia, and Netflix Are Building a Massive Space in the Stream” 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Richard on Luca 👀 Richard's podcast Still Watching 🫅 Richard's other podcast Little Gold Men ⏳ And Richard's book, All We Can Do Is Wait 🐩 Rose Matafeo: Horndog on HBO Max 🖕 Tara's Kevin Can Go F*ck Himself review at Primetimer 🧐 VF 's Chris Murphy on whether we can/should keep enjoying Housewives what with all the felonies 📷 Photo: Disney+

Jun 9, 2021

Netflix joins Amazon in boldly dropping a soft sci-fi story about an extremely contagious disease outbreak mid-covid pandemic...but at least Sweet Tooth , unlike Utopia , also has as its lead character a very cute little deer boy? New guest Santiago Melli-Huber joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to the premiere of We Are Lady Parts on Peacock, the finale of Pose on FX; then to AMC's Kevin Can F**k Himself ; to Sarah's summer TV preview pick Mike Tyson: The Knockout (and related 30 For 30 episodes about Mike Tyson that might work better); and to The Boy In The Plastic Bubble , which we recently screened, watch-along style, with our high-pledge Patreon supporters (stay tuned for more details on future hangouts!). GuyIsDelightful challenges us to create TV news-based scripted series that actually feature and are about real news shows. Santiago makes his case for the Nonac induction of RuPaul's Drag Race 's Season 12 episode "World's Worst." Finally, we name the week's Winner and Loser, and wrap up with a toes-up Game Time. Grab a sweet confection of your own and join us! GUESTS 👤 Santiago Melli-Huber TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦌 Sweet Tooth Around The Dial: 🦵 We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: 🙆🏽‍♀️ Pose Around The Dial: 🖕 Kevin Can F**k Himself Around The Dial: 🥊 Mike Tyson: The Knockout Around The Dial: 🎾 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🫧 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble Extra Credit: 🎭 Like Studio 60...But Entertaining The Nonac: 🤮 RuPaul's Drag Race S12.E03: World's Worst Winner & Loser: 👍 Dennis Quaid Winner & Loser: 👎 Helen Mirren Game Time: 🧠 Death Becomes Them NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 358 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Santiago Melli-Huber on Twitter 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast 📚 Exhibit B. Books 🫧 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble On YouTube 🧋 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble On Amazon Prime Video

Jun 2, 2021

Writer and co-host of The Nod Brittany Luse joins us for a double shot of summer TV fare, starting with NBC's well-hosted but incorrectly constructed Small Fortune . We like the dioramas; we're not sure about the durability of the games (or future guests). Then we ducked under the yellow tape to look at FOX's Crime Scene Kitchen , which isn't as bad as Sarah expected, but also isn't as good as it could be. Will any of us keep watching either of these? Is Curtis Stone the Joel Kinnaman of celebrity chefs? And did we actually invoke Quibi...favorably? Next we went Around The Dial with the Friends reunion, Legendary , Married At First Sight , Love After Lockup (instead of Who Killed Little Grégory? , but watch 'em both!), and Bad Batch. Kimberly hoped her Derry Girls Canon submission would have the luck of the Irish before Firefly Lane won and Alec Baldwin lost (...twice), and then we transitioned between scenes with a few bars of Game Time. Pour yourself a cup of lemon chiffon pie -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Brittany Luse TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪙 Small Fortune Lead Topic: 🔪 Crime Scene Kitchen Around The Dial: 🛋 The Friends reunion Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Legendary Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 💔 Love After Lockup Around The Dial: ☠️ Who Killed Little Gregory Around The Dial: 🤢 The Bad Batch The Canon: 🏆 Derry Girls S01.E02 Winner & Loser: 👍 LaToya Ferguson Winner & Loser: 👎 Alec Baldwin Game Time: 🧠 Seven Days Since Our Last Incidental NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 357 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Brittany Luse on Twitter 👁 Why Brittany's watching MAFS instead of planning her wedding, at Harper's Bazaar ☕️ The Friends creators' interview at THR ☘️ The Joey Irish-uncle meme 🔫 Alec Baldwin offered to off Tony Soprano 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🔎 Best Evidence 📷 Photos: FOX, NBC

May 26, 2021

With summer nearly upon us, we're dusting off a format we haven't done in a while, looking at the premieres that are coming in the weeks and months ahead and each choosing one title we're into; one we SHOULD be into but aren't; and one NO ONE should be into. Joining us for this very important work is longtime listener, first-time guest Stacy Lambe! After we all offer our summer picks (and un-picks), we consider Dave In Chicago's Extra Credit question and answer which TV side character deserves their own Kevin Can F--- Himself -type star vehicle. We also play a notable scene from the Netflix original movie Stowaway and discuss whether it's Worse Than Jazz. Next, we debate whether Daria 's "Dye! Dye! My Darling" should be inducted into the Canon. Finally, we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a Game Time you might want to enjoy with a sachet of jordan almonds. Grab yourself a popsicle and join us! GUESTS 👤 Stacy Lambe TOPICS Lead Topic: 👙 Summer TV Preview Extra Credit: 🖕 Eff You Too! Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 A scene from Netflix's Stowaway The Canon: 🏆 Daria S04.E13: Dye! Dye! My Darling Winner & Loser: 👍 Scripted true-crime projects Winner & Loser: 👎 Glenn Gordon Caron Game Time: 🧠 Just Married NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 356 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stacy Lambe on Twitter 🎆 Entertainment Tonight Online 😎 "Summertime Lovin'" from Regular Show 🗣 Tara's interview with Allison Janney at VanityFair.com

May 19, 2021

EEHG 090: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch Thunder In Paradise S01.E13: Queen Of Hearts Once upon a time there were two ex-Navy SEALs living in Florida. Then a whip bull-cracking Terry Funk visited riding on the hood of a monster truck. Also, here's The Queen Of England! Don't forget about Hulk Hogan's Bumblezebra beach onesie! And here's comes Truckasaurus! We haven't even seen Thunder The Boat yet! (Nov 13, 2020) EEHG 106: Let's Watch David Copperfield Poof Lady Liberty! In a 1983 TV special that stayed with Buntsy for decades, pop magician David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear. He also harassed Morgan Fairchild and saddled "an old lady" with two kids, and we're going to talk about all of it -- including the ads we didn't get to see. (Feb 19, 2021) TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌩 Thunder In Paradise S01.E13: Queen Of Hearts Lead Topic: 🪄 The Magic of David Copperfield NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 355 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

May 12, 2021

Slate TV critic Willa Paskin is back to talk about Peacock's girl-group-comeback addition to the Tina Fey-verse, Girls5Eva . Did the panel's opinions on the show's quality harmonize? Is the bubblegum/ TRL world of 20 years ago a familiar song? Does the thin writing of Busy Philipps's character hit a bum note? Has Sarah already started blaming that Wonder Woman piano for various clumsy incidents around her own home? You know the answer to that last one; you'll have to listen to learn the rest. We went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale , The Big Shot With Bethenny Frankel , The Great Pottery Throw Down , and The Great British Sewing Bee before deciding whether Dave is NOT a crackpot for wanting to outlaw this-season-on montages. Later, we heard a dreamy Canon presentation for Bluey . Actors won, the Globes lost, and David T. Cole played us some variations on a ('90s TV) theme during a disconcerting Game Time. Park it on a memorial bench and enjoy an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Willa Paskin TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva Around The Dial: 👁 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🎯 The Big Shot With Bethenny Frankel Around The Dial: 🍯 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🪡 The Great British Sewing Bee I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Season-on Montages The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E08: Fruitbat Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris Winner & Loser: 👎 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Game Time: 🧠 '90s Slow-Coms NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 354 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Willa Paskin on Twitter 🎧 Listen to Willa's podcast, Decoder Ring 💿 Look forward to the Girls5Eva soundtrack album 🍩 The Guardian on the Bake Off formula and its discontents 👩‍👧 Tara's list of "12 Essential Mom Episodes" for Vulture 🐕 Sarah's review of The Sons Of Sam for Primetimer 📷 Photo: Peacock

May 5, 2021

A while back, we put out a call for six-word pitches to program a whole episode of this podcast, and our listener Heather was the victor with "Nice British People Doing Nice Things." As a result, she has slotted in (virtually) every show you will hear us talk about in this episode, for which we are joined by returning guest Alex Collins! First, we all tuck in on the pop history series Back In Time For Dinner . Then Around The Dial takes us to France for Escape To The Chateau , Newfoundland and Kenya for Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby , Wales for Escape To The Country , and a British mail route for Postman Pat . As required by Heather, Tara presents the Corner Gas episode "Happy Campers" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the Winner and Loser of the year 1992, we go knocking on Game Time's door. Make yourself a lovely cup of tea and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alex Collins TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥘 Back In Time For Dinner Around The Dial: 🏰 Escape To The Chateau Around The Dial: 🏨 Amazing Hotels Around The Dial: 🚵 Escape To The Country Around The Dial: 📮 Postman Pat The Canon: ⛽️ Corner Gas S04.E18: Happy Campers Winner & Loser: 👍 New York City Winner & Loser: 👎 Vatican City Game Time: 🧠 You've Got Mail NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 353 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alex Collins on Twitter 🫔 Back In Time For Dinner on DailyMotion 🦟 Tara's review of AppleTV+'s The Mosquito Coast at Primetimer 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🚵 Escape To The Country on DailyMotion 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Apr 28, 2021

Jessica Liese is here to talk about a brand-new, brand-content competition reality show from Hulu -- Exposure , in which professional photographers compete in irrelevant-to-their-strengths "influencer" challenges while rookie hosts Cole Walliser and Cat Jimenez make terrible photo puns. The problem isn't so much the Samsung-fluffing; it's that the show isn't process-y enough, isn't transparent about how the challenges work, and isn't made by the same people who make Bake Off and could figure out how to turn an hour-long commercial for phone cameras into something informative with clear stakes. We were relieved to FOCUS (...sorry) on other topics in Around The Dial, including MAFS: Unmatchables , a ranking of MAFS: Mothership couples, Offspring , Top Chef , and 9-1-1: Lone Star . Listener Michaela pitched an un-Harmon-ious episode of Community for the Nonac before boats won, SNL lost, and we got bookish for Game Time. Take a break from dyeing your brows and hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jessica Liese TOPICS Lead Topic: 📸 Exposure Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👶 Offspring Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star The Nonac: ✳️ Community S04.E03: Conventions of Space and Time Winner & Loser: 👍 "...Navally" Winner & Loser: 👎 Saturday Night Live Game Time: 🧠 Books We've Watched NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 352 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Jessica Liese on Twitter 🧟 Listen to Jessica's Fear The Walking Dead podcast 💅🏽 And to her Tough As Nails pod on the Rob Has A Podcast network 🍵 Tara's Unmatchables review at Primetimer 🥋 Tara talks Mortal Kombat on the Slashfilmcast 🔎 Sarah's true-crime rec newsletter, Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Christian / Unsplash

Apr 21, 2021

Dr. Orna Guralnik has returned to Showtime to work with a whole new crop of troubled partners in a new season of Couples Therapy , and Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk -- one of the show's biggest boosters -- has returned to our podcast to yell about it! (Positively!) Around The Dial takes us through Younger , a new Mythic Quest special, PBS's Philly D.A. , Why Did You Kill Me? , Sasquatch , and the midseason premiere of 9-1-1: Lone Star . Mlle. Caroline uses her Extra Credit topic to ask us about the 20-year-old (or older) shows we still like, and those we don't. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that challenges our knowledge of both anime and bullshit. Put on your artiest geometric necklace, put the dog in its bed, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Couples Therapy Around The Dial: 🐣 Younger Around The Dial: ⚔️ Mythic Quest Around The Dial: 🔔 Philly D.A. Around The Dial: 😵 Why Did You Kill Me Around The Dial: 👣 Sasquatch Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: ⏳ Passing The Test Of Time Winner & Loser: 👍 Warrior Winner & Loser: 👎 Morrissey Game Time: 🧠 Anime Bullshit NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 351 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter 🦤 Kathryn's Couples Therapy review at Vulture 🛋 Rich Juzwiak's interview with Orna Guralnik at Jezebel 📺 Tara's review of Couples Therapy Season 2 at Primetimer 📡 Tara talking about Season 1 of Couples Therapy on the Appointment Television podcast 💰 Dave Chen's Patreon 🔔 Kathryn's review of Philly D.A. at Vulture ✍️ Kathryn's author page on Vulture 🎧 The Appointment Television podcast 🤩 The Specials podcast 📚 Exhibit B Books Online

Apr 14, 2021

Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson joined the ranks of "rich people hanging out with each other" shows last week, and Here For It author R. Eric Thomas joined US to talk about the 2 Dope Queens co-host's foray into TV, including clunky animations, guest chemistry, and whether the animals in the pilot were too well-behaved. Dave was Not A Crackpot about leaving internet-based "fun" to the experts before we went Around The Dial with Kung Fu , Home Economics , Cybill , The Great Pottery Throw Down , United States Of Al , and Pennyworth . Then we studied some layouts for a first-season Ugly Betty submission before declaring a Winner and Loser and mashing up character names in Game Time. Don't be an ass; listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 R. Eric Thomas TOPICS Lead Topic: 💨 Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson Around The Dial: 🥋 Kung Fu Around The Dial: 🏡 Home Economics Around The Dial: 👱 Cybill Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 United States Of Al Around The Dial: 🤵🏻‍♂️ Pennyworth The Canon: 🏆 Ugly Betty S01.E18: Don't Ask Don't Tell Winner & Loser: 👍 Ancient Aliens Winner & Loser: 👎 Don't Game Time: 🧠 Connective Tissue NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 350 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Eric on Twitter 📰 Eric's weekly humor newsletter 🕸 Eric's website 📍 And check out Eric's book, Here For It 🏠 Tara's Home Economics review at Primetimer 🇺🇸 Past guest Roxana Hadadi's United States Of Al review at RogerEbert.com 🎧 Quaid In Full 's Something To Talk About episode featuring Tara 📷 Photo: Tyler Twins

Apr 7, 2021

Elliot Stabler has returned from his ignominious exile in...uh, a very nice-sounding job in Italy, and into an SVU spinoff that will find him Taking! His wife's murder! Personally! all over the Mob. Christina Tucker joins us to discuss this new vehicle and what a(n unpleasantly) surprising departure it actually is from the Law & Order model. Around The Dial takes us through Made For Love , Wipeout , Godzilla vs. Kong (on HBO Max! Watch it while you can! A lot!), and The Falcon And The Winter Soldier . Olivia makes the case for Doctor Who 's "Silence In The Library" to be inducted into our Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time that has us choosing some odd numbers. Get on the Wonder Wheel and crank us up! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: 👮‍♂️ Law & Order: Organized Crime Around The Dial: 😍 Made For Love Around The Dial: 🔴 Wipeout Around The Dial: 🦍 Godzilla vs. Kong Around The Dial: ⛄️ The Falcon And The Winter Soldier The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S04.E08: Silence In The Library Winner & Loser: 👍 C.S.I.: Vegas Winner & Loser: 👎 Paul Pierce Game Time: 🧠 I'm Not Like The Others NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 349 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter 🧱 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of the Organized Crime premiere 🔀 Variety's list of the best L&O intra-franchise crossovers 😖 Tara's review of FX's Hysterical 👩🏻‍🌾 Christina's review of Martha Stewart's Very Good Things at the Boston Globe ✋🏽 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast 🌈 Christina at Autostraddle

Mar 31, 2021

Reality-television expert Andy is back to talk about Pooch Perfect , and why you shouldn't sit, stay in front of the show, including awkward hosting by Rebel Wilson, consent issues with dyeing dogs, and a total lack of narrative tension. Matters improved with Around The Dial, as we discussed Genius: Aretha , Superstore , Race To The Center Of The Earth , Tough As Nails , The Bridge , and Housewives in the age of COVID before generating a suite of new Survivor themes for Josh's Extra Credit. After Andy tried to find Starz's The Chair a seat in The Canon, true crime won, CBS lost, and Dan Cassino forced us to answer casting calls during Game Time. Give yourself a treat: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Andy Dehnart TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐶 Pooch Perfect Around The Dial: 🤯 Genius Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌎 Race To The Center Of The Earth Around The Dial: 💪 Tough As Nails Around The Dial: 🌉 The Bridge Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Extra Credit: 🗿 New Survivor Themes The Canon: 🪑 The Chair S01.E09: The Test Winner & Loser: 👍 True Crime Winner & Loser: 👎 CBS Game Time: 🧠 Casting Calls NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 348 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Andy Dehnart on Twitter 📰 Subscribe to Andy's newsletter 👓 Read Andy's reviews of The Bridge , Tough As Nails , and Race To The Center Of The Earth on Reality Blurred 🗣 Tara's Ben Feldman interview for Vanity Fair 📷 Photo: ABC / Robert Trachtenberg

Mar 24, 2021

Over New Year's, we treated our Patreon supporters to a very important thought experiment: if 27 Smurfs entered Thunderdome to compete in battles to the death, who would be the last Smurf standing? Now, we are turning our minds to the same question...but with Muppets from The Muppet Show . Naturally, we had to bring in an expert to consider the question, which is why Adam Grosswirth of the Muppeturgy podcast is here. Will Fozzie Bear emerge alive from combat with Lew Zealand and Sam the Eagle? Does Camilla the Chicken peck her way out of battle with Sweetums and Scooter? Listen as we plumb the depths of these philosophical questions and so many more! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: ☠️ Muppet Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 347 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast 🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter ▶️ Adam's collection of relevant GIFs

Mar 17, 2021

We're thrilled the third time was the charm for our guest Alison Herman, as we all dug into the pro-cooking kids' show from the Obama-tainment industrial complex, Waffles + Mochi . We talked about "variety" shows for children, whether Mrs. Obama is as stiff as Mochi is adorable, and supplemental tomato facts before going Around The Dial with Step Up: High Water , kid 90 , Allen vs. Farrow , Greek , Last Chance U: Basketball , and famous original 9-1-1 . Dave hoped a first-season episode of Warrior had a fighting chance to get into the Canon. British divorces won, American engagements lost, and we all struggled to see the answers in Tara's non-regulation Game Time. Put a potato in some formalwear and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧇 Waffles + Mochi Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Step Up: High Water Around The Dial: 👧🏼 Kid 90 Around The Dial: 💥 Allen Vs. Farrow Around The Dial: 🏺 Greek Around The Dial: 🏀 Last Chance U: Basketball Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1 The Canon: 🏆 Warrior S01.E05: The Blood and the Shit Winner & Loser: 👍 Paul Bettany and Claire Foy Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Harrison Game Time: 🧠 Camera-Shy NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 346 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧇 Waffles + Mochi review by Alison's colleague Justin Charity at The Ringer 🍡 Sonia Saraiya's review for Vanity Fair 🏛 Alison's anniversary piece on Greek 🐦 Alison on Twitter 💄 Listen To Sassy 🌹 "I Am Your Bachelor, and I Am Also Running to Be Your Governor" by Stephanie Early Green 📷 Photo: Adam Rose / Netflix

Mar 10, 2021

As part of the relaunch of CBS All Access as Paramount Plus, the original Season 1 cast of The Real World has reunited in their old Soho loft for a limited series, so we got back together with our former Real World recapper Kim Reed to discuss the series premiere! Also on the Paramount Plus tip, Tara also has to stress that she is not a crackpot for being irate that Oprah's interview with Harry and Meghan is somehow not on it. Around The Dial takes us through Good Girls , an update on Married At First Sight , the WandaVision finale, a Cop Rock tie-in on Last Week Tonight , and the midseason finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star . Lauren uses her Extra Credit to make us assemble a group of TV friends we would want to hang out with -- and who we think would enjoy hanging out with each other; then Sean makes the case for the Nonac induction of ER 's Season 4 travelogue "Fathers And Sons." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a Game Time as sticky as it is speedy. After you're done taking Gouda for a quick walk around the block, join us for our latest episode! GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌎 The Real World Homecoming: New York I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Not having Oprah's Harry and Meghan interview on Paramount Plus is a gigantic failure Around The Dial: 😊 Good Girls Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🧙🏻‍♀️ Wandavision Around The Dial: 🚓 Cop Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👯‍♀️ Make New Friends The Nonac: 🩻 ER S04.E07: Fathers And Sons Winner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max Game Time: 🧠 The Wide Stick That Gives You The Edge NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 345 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim on Twitter 🌎 Andy Dehnart's The Real World Homecoming: New York premiere review 🦤 Jen Chaney's review at Vulture 🗞 James Poniewozik's review at The New York Times 🎥 Tara's review at Variety 🤴🏻 "Why Isn't Oprah's Bombshell Interview With Meghan and Harry on Paramount Plus?" at Variety 👰‍♀️ The Married At First Sight scene where two women shut Chris down HARD 🎞 Tara on Slashfilmcast 👀 Alan Sepinwall's podcast, Too Long Didn't Watch 🗓 Last Week Tonight's "Raids" segment on YouTube 🎶 March MASTAS 2021: Ultimate Teen Idols

Mar 3, 2021

Brandon is back to talk about last weekend's Brutal Bridesmaids and its strange lack of bloodshed, plus ugly bridal fashion, an emergency male-stripper substitution, and realistic wedding-party cliques. We went Around The Dial with Close Enough , Punky Brewster 's reboot, Search Party , Murder Among The Mormons , and Dave's 911 Lone Star report before re-imagining legendary episodes of TV as Lifetime movies in an Extra Credit from David Ellis Dickerson. We dug into a classic episode of The Mole for Canon Consideration, then declared the GLOW team winners and Joss Whedon a huge loser before heading to the DC-verse for Game Time. Chug that Booty Blaster; it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Brandon TOPICS Lead Topic: 👰‍♀️ Brutal Bridesmaids Around The Dial: 🏠 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🧑‍🎤 Punky Brewster Around The Dial: 🔦 Search Party Around The Dial: ☠️ Murder Among The Mormons Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👼 Mother, May I Sleep With Angel? The Canon: 🏆 The Mole S02.E11: The Eleventh Betrayal Winner & Loser: 👍 GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch Winner & Loser: 👎 Joss Whedon Game Time: 🧠 It Happened in DC NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 344 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧑‍🎤 Tara's review of the new Punky Brewster for Primetimer 🐦 Find Brandon on Twitter 🎧 Listen to Brandon's podcast, The Discourse 📷 Photo: LMN

Feb 24, 2021

After illness prevented her from making her earlier booking, LaToya Ferguson has returned to talk about another show she feels passionate about: The CW's Superman & Lois ! Is she all in on this latest iteration of the Man of Steel and his family? Listen and find out! Around The Dial takes us through It's A Sin , Cherries Wild , In & Of Itself , the full-throated endorsement of Firefly Lane that circumstances ROBBED LaToya of the chance to deliver earlier this month, and a report on a particularly bonkers episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star . Francoise uses her Extra Credit to ask us to share any TV-related resolutions we've made for 2021 (look, we're close to the Lunar New Year); then it's on to Tara's Canon presentation on Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: "House Party." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a game that requires us to determine, once again: is this anything? Put on your tights and cape -- or take them off; whichever feels right -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 LaToya Ferguson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Superman & Lois Around The Dial: 😈 It's A Sin Around The Dial: 🍒 Cherries Wild Around The Dial: 🗂 In & Of Itself Around The Dial: 🪰 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 📺 TV Resolutions The Canon: 🔔 Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: House Party Winner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max Game Time: 🧠 Again, Is This Anything? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 343 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 LaToya Ferguson on Twitter 🎰 Explaining the Cherries Wild slot machine disclaimer 🍒 Tara's Cherries Wild review at Primetimer 🌙 Tara's For All Mankind Season 2 review at VanityFair.com 🧛🏻‍♂️ LaToya's Vampire Diaries podcast The AMPire Diaries on Twitter 😇 LaToya's Angel podcast Angel On Top on Twitter 🗳 Linda Holmes's review of In & Of Itself at NPR.org 🐒 "Monkey Christ" 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

Feb 17, 2021

Austin HQ had a water pipe burst on record day so we celebrate with two EEHG about other bad things in your house. EEHG 094: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The 1974 Made For TV Movie Bad Ronald Bad Ronald lives in a hidden room in the house you just bought. What a weirdo! EEHG 096: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch Crawlspace When the search results for Bad Ronald included another TV movie called Crawlspace , Tara decided we had to stay in the "'70s paranoia about a dude living in your home's secret places" genre. But is Richard another (Bad) Ronald? Plus! Tara gives her report on Bad Ronald : the novel. Spoiler: there is toilet strat!!! TOPICS Lead Topic: 😈 Bad Ronald TV Movie Lead Topic: 🫣 Crawlspace TV Movie NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 342 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Feb 10, 2021

Fametracker's own Adam Sternbergh (oh, also the New York Times 's but whatever)(hee) is back to discuss The Equalizer , the perfectly acceptable re-imagining of the '80s classic. Whom on the panel did the new verzh win over with casting coups, origami tradecraft, and similarities to Leverage and Blindspot ? Who called it the three-camera sitcom of cop shows? And is anyone setting their DVR to watch more of it? We went Around The Dial with Framing Britney Spears , Married At First Sight , GBBO , Big Family Cooking Showdown , and Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel before finding ways to Defund The Police Shows in an Extra Credit from Francoise. Succession tried to ascend to the Canon throne; comedy both won AND lost; and we may have flunked out of electoral college during Game Time. Settle down in front of your only-on-TV massive monitor bank for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ The Equalizer Around The Dial: 🖼 The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown Around The Dial: 🫥 Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel Extra Credit: 🚔 Defund The Police Shows The Canon: 🦺 Succession S02.E04: Safe Room Winner & Loser: 🤣 Impractical Jokers Winner & Loser: 🦚 NBC Game Time: 🧠 Hail To The Chiefs NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 341 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚖️ Tara's review of The Equalizer for Primetimer 🔮 "The Oracle of Britney Spears" in Vanity Fair 👴🏼 "How The Elderly Lose Their Rights" in the New Yorker 🌅 Tara (and John Ramos!) on the Postcards From The Edge ep of Quaid In Full 💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 📷 Photo: CBS / Barbara Nitke

Feb 3, 2021

With our intended guest and Firefly Lane expert LaToya Ferguson forced to bow out (we'll re-book her again ASAP!), your co-hosts muddled through on Netflix's new middlebrow book adaptation to the best of our ability. Around The Dial takes us through the late Quibi sitcom Mapleworth Murders , Hulu's Canadian import Jann , HBO Max's Danish import The Investigation -- and Borgen , with which it shares approximately half its cast -- the just-announced Black Panther show coming to Disney+ from Ryan Coogler, and Syfy's Resident Alien . Tara presents the A.P. Bio episode "Teacher Jail" to The Canon. And because the Loser is VERY dark, we name the Loser THEN the Winner this week, rather than send you home on a downer. Freshen up your Aqua Net and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏘 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 🍁 Mapleworth Murders Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🌾 Jann Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ The Investigation Around The Dial: 🇩🇰 Borgen Around The Dial: 🐆 Black Panther Around The Dial: 👽 Resident Alien The Canon: 🏆 A.P. Bio S01.E02: Teacher Jail Winner & Loser: 👍 Whac-a-Mole Winner & Loser: 👎 Wipeout NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 340 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👩🏻‍🌾 Tara's Jann review at Primetimer 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast 🐆 Collider's report on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther TV series 🕵️‍♀️ Sarah's review of The Investigation at Primetimer

Jan 27, 2021

Our esteemed colleague, "Pot Ledom"-ologist, and Long Island native Dan Rogge returns to analyze Edward Burns's thoroughly mediocre Bridge & Tunnel , about the post-college lives and loves of six suspiciously hot high-school friends...none of whom can seem to master the accent. A huge music budget (and equally large commitment to the sex scenes) can't make up for stilted dialogue, anachronistic argot, and Burns's Lena Dunham-esque estrangement from the real-world problems of his characters. We went Around The Dial with Perfect Life , Walker , an America's Next Top Model book, Everwood , and 9-1-1 Lone Star before contemplating our ideal 2024 presidential tickets in an Extra Credit, and then Dan proposed burning down Riverdale 's fourth-season musical episode "Wicked Little Town" in his Nonac presentation. Jane Lynch won, Seventeen lost, and none of us had perfect 2020 vision in a mash-up Game Time from Dan Cassino. Chuck that EZ-Pass tag out the window: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌉 Bridge & Tunnel Around The Dial: 🌈 Perfect Life Around The Dial: 🤠 Walker Around The Dial: 👠 America's Next Top Model Around The Dial: 🪵 Everwood Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 🤑 Commander On Screen The Nonac: 🦦 Riverdale S04.E17: Wicked Little Town Winner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Winner & Loser: 👎 Seventeen Magazine Game Time: 🧠 2020 Double Vision NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 339 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🫥 Dan recommends Emily VanDerWerff on The Leftovers 📰 Tara's Sassy piece in the New York Times Magazine 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast 🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 📸 Photo: Epix

Jan 20, 2021

Marvel Studios has kicked off its slate of TV series with WandaVision , a sort-of spoof of classic sitcoms starring a couple of Avengers. What's actually going on? We don't know (though Dave has theories), but Caroline Framke is here to talk about the two-part premiere! Around The Dial takes us through The Good Lord Bird , Call Your Mother , Season 2's new Batwoman , the Premier League of football (or soccer, if you will), The Challenge , and Superstore -- specifically, the voice Mark McKinney is using to play Glenn, and whether it's worse than jazz. Suley presents the Steven Universe episode "So Many Birthdays" for The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes it to the bridge. Grab your nearest nosy neighbour and listen! GUESTS 👤 Caroline Framke TOPICS Lead Topic: 📺 Wandavision Around The Dial: 🕊 The Good Lord Bird Around The Dial: ☎️ Call Your Mother Around The Dial: 🦇 Batwoman Around The Dial: ⚽️ The English Premier League Around The Dial: 🤺 The Challenge Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Mark McKinney's Voice As Glenn On Superstore The Canon: 💎 Steven Universe S01.E13: So Many Birthdays Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 At Home With Amy Sedaris Game Time: 🧠 Extension Chords NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 338 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Caroline Framke on Twitter 🧙‍♀️ Caroline's WandaVision review at Variety 💰 David Chen's Patreon 🕊 Doreen St. Felix's review of The Good Lord Bird at The New Yorker 💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast 🐦 ListenToSassy on Twitter 📸 ListenToSassy on Instagram 🦇 Caroline's Batwoman review ✍️ Caroline's author page at Variety.com 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

Jan 13, 2021

The regular panelists had to forge ahead without esteemed colleague Kathryn VanArendonk in our discussion of Dickinson 's second season; that's the bad news. The good news is, we all like Apple TV's imagining of poet Emily Dickinson's life and loves with lots of swearing and twenty-first-century slang. How DOES the show balance the demands of historical fact with flights of fancy, and not take itself too seriously? And are Season 2's creepy [ character spoiler redacted ] the key to its success? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Masked Dancer , Everything Is Going Great , Cheers Season 5, Mr. Mayor 's debut, and Lupin and other "Pringle mysteries." A new detective franchise won, an old HBO franchise lost, and we continued the episode's verse theme with the Tara-crafted Tube Tunes VII. Pass Nobody an earbud for an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪶 Dickinson Around The Dial: 🎉 Everyone Is Doing Great Around The Dial: 🕺 The Masked Dancer Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 🏢 Mr. Mayor Around The Dial: 🥷 Lupin Winner & Loser: 👍 Keegan-Michael Key Winner & Loser: 👎 And Just Like That Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes VII NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 337 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪶 Kathryn VanArendonk, with us in spirit with her Dickinson deep dive for Vulture 🎉 Tara's Everyone Is Doing Great review for Primetimer 🕺 Tara's Masked Dancer review, ditto 🖐 Tara's Force Five podcast appearance 🐯 Sarah on Tiger 's identity crisis for Primetimer 📷 Photo: Apple TV

Jan 6, 2021

We're off this week but we've glued together three episode forcening, uh, episodes from our Patreon supporter bonus podcast Extra Extra Hot Great. EEHG 076: Listener Forcening: The Big Bang Theory Patreon supporter Sharon Johnson had us watch The Big Bang Theory S07.E03: "The Scavenger Vortex," writing, "While I'm aware that it's not well thought of among the EHG family, BBT is one of my all-time favorite television shows," and this episode a fave among faves. Did this selection make us come around? Listen and find out! From Aug 21, 2020. EEHG 083: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch Matlock We watch the second season episode "Network" in which all the late-80s stars of NBC shine as talking heads on "Entertainment Today." ALF is among them. We have questions. From September 29, 2020 EEHG 085: Co-Host Forcening: Shangri-La Plaza After Michael Darling eulogized the ill-fated pilot of Shangri-La Plaza in Los Angeles magazine this August, Tara made a mental note to expose her co-hosts -- and our Patreon supporters! -- to the insanity he described. Finally, it is time for all of us to take that journey! From October 9, 2020. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌌 The Big Bang Theory Lead Topic: 👴🏻 Matlock Lead Topic: 🌭 Shangri-La Plaza NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 336 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌭 Shangri-La Plaza , the Star-Studded, All-Musical Sitcom Time Forgot' in Los Angeles magazine

Dec 30, 2020

To help get you through our holiday break, Tara wrote a special festive version of her fan-favorite (...is it?) Non-Regulation Game Time: it's Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes! Some original holiday songs from TV shows; some covers; all comfort and joy. Please enjoy this gift from us to you, and don't try to return it. TOPICS Game Time: 🎁 Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 335 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 23, 2020

Stephen King's 1978 novel has already been turned into a miniseries once, but it's time for this generation to get its own, apparently? So CBS All Access has made one, and Roxana Hadadi is joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Flight Attendant , Celebrity IOU , TKTK, The Wilds , and Season 2 of The Mandalorian . Mlle. Caroline presents the Parks & Recreation episode "Recall Vote" for induction to The Canon; then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that defies categorization. Make yourself a nice cup of Thera-Flu and join us! GUESTS 👤 Roxana Hadadi TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦠 The Stand Around The Dial: ✈️ The Flight Attendant Around The Dial: 💸 Celebrity IOU Around The Dial: 👒 Bridgerton Around The Dial: 🍺 Letterkenny Around The Dial: 🐆 The Wilds Around The Dial: 🐸 The Mandalorian The Canon: 🌳 Parks And Recreation S06.E07: Recall Vote Winner & Loser: 👍 Dopesick Winner & Loser: 👎 The Rookie Game Time: 🧠 Netflix Rathole NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 334 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter 🦠 Roxana's review of The Stand at Variety 📚 1994 Harold Lauder 🥇 RogerEbert.com Best TV of 2020 coverage 🎗 The A.V. Club Best Films of 2020 coverage 🍺 A goofy piece about the hotness of the Letterkenny cast, sort of jumping off me mentioning the show during the recording, over at Pajiba 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book 🎙 Madonna A to Z 🐸 Film Crit Hulk on the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian 🥸 The Mandalorian animation vs. deepfake

Dec 16, 2020

First-time guest Kamille joins us for a conversation about Tiny Pretty Things , Netflix's new Center Stage -with-teens ballet thriller (?), and while she watched the whole thing, neither she nor the fulltime panel thinks it's good. But aside from the wretched VO, suspect acting, unwelcome parallels to 13 Reasons Why and decided un-Frenchness of cartoon villain Lauren Holly, is TPT a good time-waster? Not to worry: we found you some definite time-wasters when we went Around The Dial with The Wilds and 12 Dates Of Christmas , panned Deliciousness , and helped you cut down that HBO-documentary backlog with a watch-skip index of recent prestige true crime. We couldn't help but wonder if Sex & The City 's fourth-season premiere was the Canon's soulmate. Boots Riley and Jharrel Jerome won (for now), Ellen and Ellen lost (again), and Suley wassailed us with a TV/Christmas song Game Time. Don't let the dorm mother catch you listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Kamille Washington TOPICS Lead Topic: 🩰 Tiny Pretty Things Around The Dial: 🏝 The Wilds Around The Dial: 🍕 Deliciousness Around The Dial: 💕 12 Dates Of Christmas Around The Dial: 🔪 HBO true-crime documentaries The Canon: 🏙 Sex And The City Winner & Loser: 👍 Amazon orders a series from Boots Riley Winner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 333 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kamille Washington on Twitter 🇬🇧 Tara's post on Pennyworth at Decider 📚 Sarah and Tara on the People Still Read Books podcast 🎄 Sarah and Tara discussion Northpole on the Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean podcast 🎧 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast 💸 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

Dec 9, 2020

Hulu and Canada's kids' broadcaster YTV have brought the world a new adaptation of the nearly-100-year-old boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, and we've enlisted Adam Grosswirth to join us in discussing it! A super-sized Around The Dial takes us through Selena: The Series , Nurses , Jingle Jangle , Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square , the original '70s version of The Hardy Boys , and Gangs Of London . After Joe M. uses his Extra Credit topic to have us write a character-revealing power ballad into an otherwise un-musical show, Adam makes his pitch for the "Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair" episode of Slings & Arrows to be inducted into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a Game Time perfectly tailored (heh heh) to our interests. Get your flashlight and your VERY loud walkie-talkie and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔍 The Hardy Boys Around The Dial: 🎶 Selena: The Series Around The Dial: 🏥 Nurses Around The Dial: 🔔 Jingle Jangle Around The Dial: 🎄 Christmas On The Square Around The Dial: 🔎 The Hardy Boys (1977) Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Gangs Of London Extra Credit: 🤑 Once More With Feels The Canon: 🏹 Slings & Arrows S02.E04: Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair Winner & Loser: 👍 Vantage Point, getting a series adaptation at NBC Winner & Loser: 👎 CBS Sunday Morning David Sedaris Game Time: 🧠 Signature Look NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 332 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🥴 The drunk episode of Overwhelming Positivity, "Two Hundred Headless Snowman In Review" 🎶 "The Latine Delegation Has Decided Netflix's Selena: The Series Is Not Good" at Jezebel 👗 Tara's review of Stylish With Jenna Lyons at Primetimer 🛩 Tara on Kaley Cuoco in The Flight Attendant at Decider 👩‍🦰 Tara on the end of The Undoing at Dave Chen's Patreon 🎄 Wesley Morris;s review of Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square in The New York Times 🎧 Adam on Caroline And The Podcast 🔪 The 12 Days Of Best Evidence

Dec 2, 2020

The panel is contemplating three user submissions for the Canon this week, starting with the extremely highly rated, extreeeeemely looooong series finale of MASH . Lindy makes a fascinating parallel between [ waves hands vaguely ] All This and the world MASH portrayed, but is the episode's status as a historical reference enough to earn it a medal of honor? Next, we're sampling a first-season Strangers With Candy episode submitted by Tim (and the second in which a chicken figures heavily). Does Amy Sedaris's satirical take on The Best Little Girl In The World -- and a solid comedic turn from one Ellen Pompeo -- have what we'd call a debater's body? Finally, Mlle. Caroline files a support ticket for The IT Crowd , which pits Matt Berry and a great PSA parody against suboptimal pacing and an intrusive laugh track. Try turning it off and then back on again: it's an all-Canon Extra Hot Great! TOPICS The Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H The Canon: ✏️ Strangers With Candy The Canon: 💻 The IT Crowd NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 331 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 25, 2020

After 15 seasons on two networks, Supernatural has finally hunted its last monster, and our French friend Caroline Lefloch is joining us to bury the series finale in an unmarked, shallow grave. Around The Dial takes us through I Hate Suzie , Peacock's sequel to Saved By The Bell , Agatha Christie's Poirot , and new looks at the D.B. Cooper case in both History's Greatest Mysteries and HBO's The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper . Kimberly challenges us to Fleabag -enize a show by adding a hot clergy person to it; then it's on to Guy's submission of the Perfect Strangers episode "Just Desserts" for induction into The Canon. Finally, after crowning the week's Winner and Loser, we end on a Game Time with a little Gallic flair. Load up the vintage Impala and join us! GUESTS 👤 Caroline Lefloch TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 Supernatural Around The Dial: 😡 I Hate Suzie Around The Dial: ✏️ Saved By The Bell (2020) Around The Dial: 🥸 Agatha Christie's Poirot Around The Dial: 📜 History's Greatest Mysteries Around The Dial: 🪂 The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper Extra Credit: 🤑 Fleabag Redux The Canon: 👨‍🍳 Perfect Strangers S03.E16: Just Desserts Winner & Loser: 👍 Nick Offerman Winner & Loser: 👎 The Drew Barrymore Show Game Time: 🧠 How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree)? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 330 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😷 "Supernatural: COVID May Be To Blame for a Lackluster Finale" on VanityFair.com 🌴 Again With This on Patreon 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🛶 "Nick Offerman's Woodshop Is Crafting Sustainable Solutions To Homelessness In LA" on Uproxx

Nov 18, 2020

It might not be Olivia Colman's highest-profile streaming series this week, but Apple TV+'s Becoming You , which explores how the first 2000 days of our lives shape our futures, is perfectly on-brand: expensive, gorgeously shot, and not quiiiiite essential. Omar returns to the guest chair to talk about the series' limited concept of diversity; whether the show made him miss his kids' first years; and what a visual subtweet of Brooklyn parents looks like. After that, we moved on to Colman's other big gig in Around The Dial as Tara talked about The Crown (plus Candy Land , and alas, there's no crossover event there...yet) before the rest of us made stops at The Animal Rescue Show and SVU 's odious season premiere. Suley asked us to script a Jack McCoy rant for Extra Credit, and then Tara Talked To Us about a first-season Joe Pera Talks To You episode about The Who ("second base!"). Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer won; COVID production shutdowns lost; and we curled up with cozy murders (and gardening ghosts) in Game Time. Insert your own "baby bunting" joke here: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 👶 Becoming You Around The Dial: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🍭 Candy Land Around The Dial: 🐾 The Animal Rescue Show Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 🤑 Indignant Jack McCoy The Canon: 🌲 Joe Pera Talks With You Winner & Loser: 👍 Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammar teaming for a new sitcom Winner & Loser: 👎 More covid shutdowns Game Time: 🧠 Revenge Of The Cozy Mysteries NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 329 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🏆 Tara's We Are The Champions review at Primetimer 👓 Omar's Steve Treviño interview at Pulso 📚 Omar's Treviño piece at Book And Film Globe 💻 SteveTrevino.com 🎧 John Ramos joins the Quaid In Full podcast for Suspect

Nov 11, 2020

Perhaps you feel the 2020 holiday season should start a little earlier than may be strictly traditional? So does Netflix, as it brings us all Dash & Lily , in which a pair of adorable teens who've never met use a red notebook to challenge each other to dares all over New York City. Internet Boyfriend taxonomist Esther Zuckerman jumps over from Thrillist to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through A Teacher , B Positive , Ted Lasso , The Reagans , and the maddening episode numbering of Disney+. Andrea pitches the Barry episode "ronny/lily" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that you should thank for its service. Make yourself a nice cup of hot chocolate and join us! GUESTS 👤 Esther Zuckerman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎄 Dash & Lily Around The Dial: ✏️ A Teacher Around The Dial: 🩸 B Positive Around The Dial: ⚽️ Ted Lasso Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Reagans Lead Topic: ✨ Disney+'s episode numbering The Canon: 🎭 Barry S02.E05: ronny/lily Winner & Loser: 👍 Love Life William Jackson Harper Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🧠 Support The TV Troops NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 328 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Esther Zuckerman on Twitter 💻 Esther's Dash & Lily review at Thrillist 🥃 Tara on Mom at Primetimer 🇬🇧 Tara on Hugh Laurie at Primetimer 📚 Esther's book, A Field Guide To Internet Boyfriends 🌙 Kristen Stewart excerpt from Esther's book, at The Daily Beast 🌊 Keanu Reeves excerpt at Thrillist 🎸 Harry Styles excerpt at Billboard 💻 Esther at Thrillist 🔪 Best Evidence Book Club 🛒 "Fields Market: One Of LA's Hottest Filming Locations" in Southern California Life magazine

Nov 4, 2020

EHG's Dave and Game Time veteran Dan Cassino along with host Taylor Cole welcome Tara, Sarah and Mark Blankenship for a special crossover episode with The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show ! Tara, Sarah and Mark battle it out in TV trivia modelled after a typical Extra Hot Great episode! We'll open with a new release for the week, go Around the Dial with a game about shows that change networks, and play The Canon where our contestants must separate great works of literature from TV favorites. It all comes down to a contentious lightning round to determine the Winner and Losers of the week! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Taylor Cole 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show crossover NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 327 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter 🐦 Taylor Cole on Twitter 🎧 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

Oct 28, 2020

What if Big Little Lies , but in New York City and with no point? That's kind of how Emily and the regulars all felt about The Undoing , the latest Nicole Kidman-David E. Kelley collaboration for HBO; we admired the workmanship, while not really understanding what sets it apart from BLL (besides the quality of the wigs), or buying Kidman and Hugh Grant's chemistry. Will any of us be successfully cliff-hung into watching all six episodes? Later, we investigated Around The Dial with stops at Archer , the new Supermarket Sweep , Revolutionary Girl Utena , The Morning Show , City So Real , and The Queen's Gambit , before location-scouting "Domestic Survivor " for Don's Extra Credit. Emily hoped the signal-to-noise ratio of a fourth-season Halt And Catch Fire episode would be good enough to connect it to the Canon. Stath Lets Flats won, Quibi lost, and Game Time proved a severe insult to the brain (and other things). Quick, look hunted! It's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Emily Yoshida TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 The Undoing Around The Dial: 🏹 Archer Around The Dial: 🛒 Supermarket Sweep Around The Dial: 👧 Revolutionary Girl Utena Around The Dial: 🌞 The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🏙 City So Real Extra Credit: 🤑 Domestic Survivor The Canon: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire Winner & Loser: 👍 Stath Lets Flats Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi Game Time: 🧠 A Game For Hoopleheads NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 326 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Emily Yoshida on Twitter 👓 Emily's Hugh Grant profile from when he was shooting The Undoing 🧺 Tara on the premiere of The Conners vs. other quarantine-era shows, at Primetimer 🎧 The Film Cast (fka Slashfilmcast) 🌃 The Night Call podcast 🔪 Kartemquin best bets on Best Evidence

Oct 21, 2020

Netflix's new import is a miniseries set in Franco-era Spain and revolving around a just-returned college grad and his Mexican ballerino friend. How does Lázaro's arrival tear the community apart (with lust)? Will Ellis joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Social Distance , The Conners , Selling Sunset , Australia's Next Top Model , and HBO's A West Wing Special . Will presents Naomi Campbell's visit to The Tyra Banks Show for induction to The Canon; then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close things up with a Game Time that has spirit(s). Settle into your favorite wing chair at the Shooting Club and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Ellis TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇪🇸 Someone Has To Die Around The Dial: 😷 Social Distance Around The Dial: 🧺 The Conners Around The Dial: 🏡 Selling Sunset Around The Dial: 🇦🇺 Australia's Next Top Model Around The Dial: 🗳 The West Wing The Canon: 🎙 The Tyra Banks Show Winner & Loser: 👍 Paramount Plus Winner & Loser: 👎 Hubie Halloween Alaina Pinto Game Time: 🧠 Bar Some NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 325 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Ellis on Twitter 😷 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of Social Distance at Vulture 🇨🇦 Tara on Baroness von Sketch Show at Primetimer 🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on Unsolved Mysteries at Primetimer 🎙 The Tyra Banks Show S01.E50 on YouTube 👓 Sarah Hagi on Naomi Campbell's appearance on The Tyra Banks Show , at Zora

Oct 14, 2020

Disney+ and NatGeo decided to remake beloved '80s Mercury-astronauts epic (and earlier Tom Wolfe book) The Right Stuff as a series...and Adam Moussa decided to talk about it with us, a choice he may regret, because the four of us struggled to care. We struggled even to tell various astronauts apart, even, when we weren't wondering why this needed to be made, whether we should recommend For All Mankind instead, and where various actors would be in the Twink Taxonomy. Then we splashed down into Around The Dial with stops at Connecting , The Good Wife , Dark Side Of The Ring , and Rise Of Empires: Ottoman , we ordered some bangers and Smash with a Canon presentation on RuPaul's Drag Race UK . AppleTV+ won, Max Ehrich was a giant loser, and we were absolutely horrified by the wordplay in Game Time. Strap in to the vomit comet: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Moussa TOPICS Lead Topic: 👨‍🚀 The Right Stuff Around The Dial: 😷 Connecting Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Good Wife Around The Dial: 👨‍🎤 Dark Side Of The Ring Around The Dial: 📜 Rise Of Empires: Ottoman The Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race UK S01.E05: Girl Groups Winner & Loser: 👍 AppleTV+ Winner & Loser: 👎 Under The Dome Max Ehrich Game Time: 🧠 Terrorvision NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 324 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Moussa on Twitter 👨‍🚀 The Right Stuff movie on the Quaid In Full podcast 🚀 Tara's review of The Right Stuff at Primetimer 🍽 Adam at Eater 🌎 Eater's Guide To The World on Hulu

Oct 7, 2020

Showtime's latest docuseries is a deep (maybe too deep) dive on L.A. comedy club The Comedy Store, and first-time guest Brandi Brown -- herself a comic -- is joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Emily In Paris , Polar Bear's Café , and Paramount's doc I Am Richard Pryor . CoreyAH challenges us to cast the Hallmark Christmas movies of tomorrow, today! Then, after her successful pitch of "Senegal," Françoise goes back to the Parts Unknown well to pitch us the "Houston" episode. We crown the week's Winner and Loser; then it's on to a Game Time that takes place in front of an unadorned brick wall. Join us -- but just so you know, there's a two-drink minimum! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎙 The Comedy Store Around The Dial: 🥖 Emily In Paris Around The Dial: 🐻‍❄️ Polar Bear's Café Around The Dial: 🔥 I Am Richard Pryor Extra Credit: 🤑 Counting Down To The Countdown To Christmas 2035 The Canon: 🤠 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Winner & Loser: 👍 Ryan Murphy Winner & Loser: 👎 GLOW Game Time: 🧠 My Name Is [Blank] And You've Been Great NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 323 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Brandi Brown on Twitter 🎙 Brandi's mentor Tracey Ashley's episode of They Ready 👓 A profile on Ashley at Forbes.com 🎧 Ashley's album on Spotify 🎧 Minnesota comic Cy Amundson on Spotify 🔭 Astronomy Club on Netflix 🥖 Tara's review of Emily In Paris at Primetimer 🐦 Brandi's Twitter thread on Succession as Gritty Family Circus 🐦 Brandi's Twitter thread on every 2020 Democratic primary candidate and who they'd be on Law & Order 🎧 A Very Special 90210 Book , the audiobook 🌴 Deleted scenes from the book in the Again With This podcast feed 🛍 The Shangri-La Plaza pilot 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Conversation with Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting, presented by ATX Festival

Sep 30, 2020

We're thrilled Devindra could step over from Engadget and Slashfilm to talk to us about Utopia , Gillian Flynn's reimagining of a belovedly culty UK original. Sarah was less thrilled by the show itself, which she's probably bailing on after only two episodes, but the rest of the panel had good things to say about the story, the acting (especially John Cusack), and how fundamentally weird it is that Amazon chose to release Utopia anyway during All Of This. After a trip Around The Dial with Enola Holmes , Julie And The Phantoms , The Legend Of Korra , 30 For 30 's new Oscar Pistorius deep-dive, and Dave's long-awaited Cobra Kai review, we took the correct train to Coney Island for Whitney's Canon presentation on the Mr. Robot pilot. Christine Baranski won, tight pants lost, and Game Time put a song in our hearts. Put down those raisins and cue up an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: 😷 Utopia Around The Dial: 🔍 Enola Holmes Around The Dial: 🎸 Julie And The Phantoms Around The Dial: ⚔️ The Legend Of Korra Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai The Canon: 🤖 Mr. Robot Winner & Loser: 👍 Christmas On The Square Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 Family Feud Kathie Lee Gifford's son-in-law Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel, Vol. 3 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 322 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter 🤠 ATX Festival 🎧 The Korra cast on Fighting In The War Room 💻 Devindra at Engadget 🎧 Engadget podcasts 🎧 The Film Cast (fka Slashfilmcast) on Apple Podcasts 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 👖 The video of Kathie Lee Giffords's son-in-law and his too-tight pants

Sep 23, 2020

Fox's newest soap opera places Kim Cattrall at the head of a televangelist family that -- and you're never going to believe this -- are not as polished and pious as they appear on TV. First-time guest Meredith Haggerty joins us to discuss whether this is a good use of La Cattrall's many talents! Around The Dial takes us through Sing On! , Just Shoot Me! , and Netflix's videogame docs-series High Score . Lauren presents the "Co-op" episode of Documentary Now! for induction into the Canon; then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser(s), it's on to a Game Time that could buy and sell you. We hope you'll find it in your heart and in your spirit to join us! GUESTS 👤 Meredith Haggerty TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Filthy Rich Around The Dial: 🎶 Sing On Around The Dial: 📸 Just Shoot Me Around The Dial: 🏆 High Score The Canon: 📽 Documentary Now! Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 Quit Game Time: 🧠 More Filthy Riches NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 321 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Meredith Haggerty on Twitter 💻 Meredith at Vox 🎶 Tara's review of Sing On! at Primetimer 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book in hardcover 🎧 A Very Special 90210 Book , the audiobook 🌴 The Again With This podcast 💸 Again With This on Patreon 🎧 Charting TV theme songs of the '90s at Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🎶 MASTAS ranks songs called "Hold On" 📽 MASTAS on "Co-op"

Sep 16, 2020

Reality-TV vet Andy Dehnart has seen a LOT of unscripted crap in his decades in the field, so we're glad he brought his expertise to our discussion of this unprecedented time in the genre's history: the home-shot, socially-distanced versions/spin-offs of some of our old "favorites," plus some new DIY unscripted stuff tailored to pandemic "set" safety. We talked about the challenges facing reality competitions in the Zoom-show era, then drilled down on a few specific shows like Dr. Pimple Popper: Before The Pop , Ghosted: Love Gone Missing , Design At Your Door , and Amy Schumer Learns To Cook . What works for these shows and what doesn't? What innovations -- or filler-busters -- should they keep when quarantine's over? Later, we went Around The Dial with Challenger: The Final Flight , Get Organized With The Home Edit , 16 And Recovering , and The Great Pottery Throw Down , and Tara shared a Tiny Tessitoriumph. We petitioned a reality-competition court to overthrow legendary injustices in the day's Extra Credit, and Andy argued to OUR jury that the first-season Survivor finale acquitted itself well enough to join the Canon. Sam Elliott won, the English language lost, and every night is Saturday night at Game Time. Set up that ring light: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Andy Dehnart TOPICS Lead Topic: 🩺 Dr. Pimple Popper: Before The Pop Lead Topic: 👣 My Feet Are Killing Me: First Steps Lead Topic: 👻 Ghosted: Love Gone Missing Lead Topic: 🗝 Love After Lockup Lead Topic: 🪞 Design At Your Door Lead Topic: 🥘 Amy Schumer Learns To Cook Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Holey Moley Joe Tessitore tweet Around The Dial: 📚 Get Organized With The Home Edit Around The Dial: 💊 16 And Recovering Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🚀 Challenger: The Final Flight Extra Credit: 🤑 The People’s Appellate Court The Canon: 🏝 Survivor Winner & Loser: 👍 Family Guy Sam Elliott Winner & Loser: 👎 CBS All Access rebranding as Paramount Plus Game Time: 🧠 Ready For Primetime Players NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 320 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Andy Dehnart on Twitter 🐦 Joe Tessitore tweets at Tara 📸 The Home Edit on Instagram ⚾️ Defector 💻 Reality Blurred 📧 Andy's Newsletter 🔪 Best Evidence

Sep 9, 2020

Netflix's latest space drama takes a mother, played by Hilary Swank, to Mars, to try to balance work and family; Inkoo Kang of THR joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Boys , 90 Day Fiancé , and For All Mankind . We ponder whether The X-Files 's "Humbug" should burrow into The Canon; then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that reads us all for filth. Put on your space suit and join us! GUESTS 👤 Inkoo Kang TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🚀 Away Around The Dial: 🦸‍♂️ The Boys Around The Dial: 💍 90 Day Fiancé Around The Dial: 🚀 For All Mankind The Canon: 👽 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👍 Andre Dawson Winner & Loser: 👎 The Venture Bros. Game Time: 🧠 Like TV But Silent And Boring NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 319 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Inkoo Kang on Twitter 👩‍🚀 Inkoo's review of Away at THR ☄️ Michael Baumann at The Ringer on what makes a good space show 🦸‍♂️ Tara's review of The Boys at Primetimer ⛳️ Tara on Holey Moley at Mel 🎧 The Quaid In Full Podcast

Sep 2, 2020

We're off this week but we've glued together three listener-suggested topics from our Patreon supporter bonus podcast Extra Extra Hot Great. EEHG 055: Series Starter Kits Nicole tasked us: Each of you pick a show and then give your 5 most essential or favorite episodes from that show and discuss why they are in your top five. EEHG 059: The Can'tnon Seth White figured since this feed is a little looser than EHG Prime, that we should talk about our favourite episodes of a show that, for some reason, would never make it into The Canon and why they have that connection. EEHG 064: Three With Mustard With theaters temporarily shuttered, diction and pronunciation in television is more important than ever. Make a short list of the greatest word pronunciations in TV history, and which characters felt the need to add that extra "bit of mustard" to their speech. TOPICS Lead Topic: 📺 Series Starter Kits Lead Topic: 😪 The Can'tnon Lead Topic: 🌭 Three With Mustard NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 318 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Aug 26, 2020

Podcaster and Lifetime-movie-ologist Brandon is going deep on not just Ruthless Realtor (we would give you a plot summary, but it's...that, with a dash of Bad Ronald ) but the evolution of Lifetime movies and the cultural anxieties they reflect; whether we'd ghost a weirdo who brought us a brisket; and why nobody seems to get a second take, or any direction. Then we staged an Around The Dial with stops at Love In The Time Of Corona , vintage Amazing Race , and Below Deck Med before Doug made an animated Canon case for Avatar: The Last Airbender 's Empire Strikes Back episode. Dan Mallory won, Drunk History lost, and you won't believe who got re-cast at the pilot stage during Game Time. Don't change those locks: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Brandon TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏠 Ruthless Realtor Around The Dial: 😷 Love In The Time Of Corona Around The Dial: 🌎 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🌬 Avatar: The Last Airbender Winner & Loser: 👍 Dan Mallory, subject of a limited series from Janicza Bravo, in which he'll be portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal Winner & Loser: 👎 Drunk History Winner & Loser: 👎 Tosh.0 Winner & Loser: 👎 The Other Two Winner & Loser: 👎 South Side Winner & Loser: 👎 The Society Winner & Loser: 👎 I Am Not Okay With This Game Time: 🧠 Ch-ch-ch-changes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 317 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Brandon on Twitter 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Tara's Singletown review at Primetimer 🎧 The Discourse podcast 🤝 Sarah's review of The Vow at Primetimer

Aug 19, 2020

TV Guide senior editor Malcolm Venable is here to talk about Lovecraft Country , HBO's series imagining of Matt Ruff's novel -- and why everything from the show's look and feel to the acting to Jonathan Majors's believable charisma drew us in. Then we drove our woody wagon Around The Dial with stops at Ted Lasso , Little Voice , and The Great Heist before Rebecca's Extra Credit tasked us with casting reality-competition shows with our favorite TV characters. Sarah then filed a Canon motion on behalf of a latter-season Law & Order Mothership episode. The British Empire won, the DC Universe lost, and we mashed up actor names and fictional reboots in Game Time. Grab a wooden bat and an illustrated map: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Malcolm Venable TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛣 Lovecraft Country Around The Dial: ⚽️ Ted Lasso Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice Around The Dial: 💸 The Great Heist Extra Credit: 🤑 Be Our Host The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order S15.E13: Ain't No Love Winner & Loser: 👍 The Crown Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth Debicki Winner & Loser: 👎 DC Universe Game Time: 🧠 Name Above The Title NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 316 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Malcolm Venable on Twitter 👓 "How Lovecraft Country Reappropriates H.P. Lovecraft's Notoriously Racist Creations" at Slate 🦴 The Bones Zone podcast 📖 Malcolm at TVGuide.com 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast 🏆 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🎶 "2 Are Charged In Killing Of Jam Master Jay, Hip-Hop Pioneer" at NYTimes.com 📖 Rap On Trial at TheNewPress.com 🚨 "A History of Violence: Why I Loved Cop Shows, and Why They Must Change" by Alan Sepinwall at RollingStone.com 👮‍♂️ "Cops Are Always the Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

Aug 12, 2020

Before they were the original co-hosts of The Great British Bake Off , Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were comedy partners, and their new project Hitmen , imported from Sky to Peacock, returns them to their roots. Did it slay us? We'll talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through An American Pickle , Hard Knocks , and Star Trek: Lower Decks . For his Extra Credit, Taylor Cole -- inspired by The Great -- asks us to create our own heightened, quasi-comedic bio-series about a world leader of yesteryear. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's back to school for Game Time. Pop an extra-strong mint and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Hitmen Around The Dial: 🥒 An American Pickle Around The Dial: 🏈 Hard Knocks Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Lower Decks Extra Credit: 🤑 World Leader Pretend Winner & Loser: 👍 C.S.I.: Vegas Winner & Loser: 👎 Taskmaster Winner & Loser: 👎 Succession Game Time: 🧠 It's All Academic: Second Semester NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 315 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧢 Defector 🏈 Joe Reid on Hard Knocks at Primetimer 🏝 Sarah on Surviving Jeffrey Epstein at Primetimer ⛈ Sarah on Storm Over Brooklyn at Primetimer 🚀 Tara's Star Trek: Lower Decks review at Primetimer 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

Aug 5, 2020

The latest British Commonwealth addition to HBOMax's library is the BAFTA-nominated Frayed , and Christina Tucker joins us to discuss whether its riches-to-rags protagonist is as compelling as the world its star-creator, Sarah Kendall, has built around her. Around The Dial takes us through Immigration Nation , Coroner , Desert Hearts (now streaming on Showtime!), the Happy Endings Zoom reunion, and a brief re-plug for Taskmaster now that it's come over to The CW. Francoise uses her Extra Credit to ask us about TV series that revolve around the wrong protagonist, and who would have been the right one. Tara presents the Feud episode "And The Winner Is… (The Oscars Of 1963)" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a game that takes us deep into the history of various stars' TV careers. Pour yourself a glass of Moet (how you pronounce it is no concern of ours) and listen! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇦🇺 Frayed Around The Dial: 🛂 Immigration Nation Around The Dial: 💀 Coroner Around The Dial: 💞 Desert Hearts Around The Dial: 😄 Happy Endings The reunion Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Extra Credit: 🤑 Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are On TV The Canon: 🤬 Feud S01.E05: And The Winner Is... (The Oscars Of 1963) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelorette Tayshia Adams, Clare Crawley Winner & Loser: 👎 The Simpsons Harry Shearer Game Time: 🧠 Humble Beginnings NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 314 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter 🎧 Christina's podcast, Unfriendly Black Hotties 😍 The Google Images tab for Coroner co-star Éric Bruneau 🇦🇺 Tara's review of Frayed at Primetimer 😄 The Happy Endings reunion 🎶 Mark And Sarah QUIZ About Songs 🎙 The Deadline report on Harry Shearer with the VERY bad photo of him

Jul 29, 2020

Apparently TBS is not just for "very funny" shows anymore, as we learned from the premiere of Lost Resort , a new series with the bones of a reality show and the shredded guts of untreated trauma. The Verge's TV and film critic Joshua Rivera joins us to discuss what entertainment value its producers think the show has, and whether they are right. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight ; Hannibal ; Twin Peaks: The Return ; and Last Chance U . Joshua presents Watchmen 's "This Extraordinary Being" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time seething with personal animosity. Limber up all your ecstatic dance muscles and join us! GUESTS 👤 Joshua Rivera TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Lost Resort Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍽 Hannibal Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🦸‍♀️ Watchmen Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Game Time: 🧠 Enemies: A Hate Story NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 313 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joshua Rivera on Twitter 🎶 Tara's review of Maxxx at Primetimer 💻 Joshua at The Verge 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter 🎧 Citations Needed Episode 115: How The Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking

Jul 22, 2020

The But Why Tho? podcast's Kate Sánchez is here to help the panel figure out why Killer Camp -- the CW's horror-trope competitive-reality show -- and others like it don't quite work. Is it because horror-movie tropes and American-summer-camp tropes clash (especially as embodied by a bunch of British nationals)? Is it that an organic timeline for solving the mystery isn't possible on a network show? Is it the annoying host? We gathered around our own figurative campfire to go Around The Dial with P-Valley , The Dog House UK , Cursed , Junior Bake Off , Doom Patrol , and Harley Quinn before Kate schooled us on anime and TV's most melodramatic guitar string in her Given Canon submission. Crime documentaries won, hockey commentary lost, and we went through the ringer with character's who've done the same in a season-defining Game Time. Finish up those lanyards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kate Sánchez TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Killer Camp Around The Dial: 👙 P-Valley Around The Dial: 🐶 The Dog House UK Around The Dial: ⚔️ Cursed Around The Dial: 🧁 Junior Bake Off Around The Dial: 🤖 Doom Patrol Around The Dial: 🏏 Harley Quinn The Canon: 🎶 Given Winner & Loser: 👍 30 For 30 The '86 Mets Winner & Loser: 👍 Godfather Of Harlem Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Roenick Winner & Loser: 👎 Kermit's weird new voice Game Time: 🧠 Adverse Conditions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 312 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kate Sánchez on Twitter 💻 "'This Was Abuse': The Fall Of A CBS Showrunner" at VanityFair.com ⚔️ Kate's review of Cursed at ButWhyTho.com 🎧 The Blotter Presents podcast

Jul 15, 2020

When is a movie fair game as a topic on a TV topic? When it premieres on a streaming service, of course! First-time guest Alanna Bennett takes a break from writing Roswell, New Mexico to join us to talk about the latest Lonely Island Classic. Around The Dial takes us through Little Voice , the original 1985 CBC miniseries adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables , Cheers , Close Enough , and the HAHA Awards. Listener Jenni pitches The Good Wife 's "Hitting The Fan" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might earn us tenure. Reapply your sunscreen and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alanna Bennett TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌵 Palm Springs Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice Around The Dial: 👩‍🦰 Anne Of Green Gables Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🤣 The HAHA Awards The Canon: ⚖️ The Good Wife Winner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Jane Lynch Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi Game Time: 🧠 It's All Academic NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 311 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alanna Bennett on Twitter 🎙 Tara's Little Voice review at Collider 🏳️‍🌈 Pilot Viruet on queer joy at TVGuide.com 🏪 Vogue.com's report on The People's Bodega 📸 The People's Bodega NYC on Instagram 💰 The People's Bodega NYC on PayPal 🛸 The CW's Roswell, New Mexico 🎧 Quaid In Full 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough scene 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Jul 8, 2020

Esteemed recent guests Stephanie Green, Dan Cassino, and Richard Lawson each picked out an episode for your three panelists to watch for Episode 310's Forcening. First into the breach was David T. Cole, ordered by Stephanie to watch a fourth-season Real Housewives Of Potomac episode involving purse-smacking, (alleged) sausage-sucking, and how long after the stated start time one should arrive at a party -- and we also discussed the underwhelming interior-design narratives of so-called rich people. Next up was Buntsy's foray into Dan's "what if Shakespeare, but a laugh-tracked sitcom" mission for her, Upstart Crow 's episode on the writing of Hamlet and the (convenient?) murder of Christopher Marlowe. Was her admiration for the propmaster's novelty-Tudor-London-keychain work enough to win her over, or is the show for those Columbia professors who always got to the art-house movie late and spent the whole time laughing performatively at the jokes? Lastly, Richard told Tara to dive into Outer Banks and its punchable-face-of-voice-over protagonist. Is a shipwreck mystery the right plot for a teen show? And does that matter if all the "teens" look 28? Grab a butter knife and cut into an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤬 The Real Housewives Of Potomac S04.E06: Sex, Lies, and Butter Knives Lead Topic: 🪶 Upstart Crow S03.E02: Wild Laughter In The Throat Of Death Lead Topic: 🛥 Outer Banks S01.E01: Pilot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 310 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jul 1, 2020

Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell play enthusiastic but perhaps slightly self-deluded aspiring Icelandic pop stars in Netflix's new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga , so who better than Eurovision devotee Mark Blankenship to join us to talk about it? Around The Dial takes us to Search Party , Hot Mess House , Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels , Unsolved Mysteries , and Outcry . Dave Lost Wages uses his Extra Credit to have us add a family member to a stale TV family. Mark presents the Dinosaurs series finale, "Changing Nature," for induction to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a Game Time that really Sporcles. Climb into your aerial harness and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party Around The Dial: 🏚 Hot Mess House Around The Dial: 🌴 Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries Around The Dial: 🏈 Outcry Extra Credit: 🤑 Welcome Cousin Oliver The Canon: 🦎 Dinosaurs Winner & Loser: 👍 Last Chance U Colin Kaepernick Winner & Loser: 👎 Council Of Dads Game Time: 🧠 Nobody Knows You NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 309 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma" 🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix" 🪀 Netta, "Toy" 🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" 🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test 💍 Stephanie Green's story "Fourteen Meals" in The New Ohio Review ⚡️ The Flashpaper 🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on the Unsolved Mysteries revival at Primetimer

Jun 24, 2020

Vanity Fair 's Richard Lawson returns to the pod for the first time since Mark 1 to talk about an equally old-timey take on a beloved character: HBO's dark take on Perry Mason before he became the gold standard of TV defense attorneys. Is this imagining of his life before Raymond Burr canonical? Did we need to see that level of post-violence gore? And does EVERY cell of this show's being hate the LAPD? (Not that we're complaining about that.) Then we went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase , Legendary , Taste The Nation , and Lenox Hill , and Richard announced Tara's upcoming Forcening before humming a few bars of "La Vie En Ro" in his Sopranos Canon presentation. Jharrel Jerome won, Chris D'Elia lost, and the players got very animated during a Dan Cassino Game Time. Pass the time during a home marcel wave with this all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔍 Perry Mason (2020) Around The Dial: 🕺 Sherman's Showcase Around The Dial: 💄 Legendary Around The Dial: 🍽 Taste The Nation Around The Dial: 🩺 Lenox Hill The Canon: 🍝 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: 👍 Jharrel Jerome Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris D'Elia Game Time: 🧠 Simpsons Did It NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 308 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter 💻 Richard at VanityFair.com 🕺 The Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular ❤️‍🔥 Tara's Floor Is Lava review at Primetimer 📖 Richard's novel All We Can Do Is Wait at Penguin Random House 🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast

Jun 17, 2020

Production Note: Dave did a bad copy-paste in his notes and credited the wrong Dave in Game Time. Dave is a bad Dave. Dave LARSON is not a bad Dave, he is a good Dave and the author of Viva Lost Wages! Apparently unsatisfied by dominating the world of scripted film, Ryan Reynolds has branched out into alternative TV programming by creating a new ABC game show called Don't , hosted by Adam Scott. Will "Don't" also be our advice on whether you should watch it? Frequent Game Time writer Dan Cassino joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Netflix's latest dopey game show, Floor Is Lava ; Top Chef All-Stars L.A. ; and an I Am Not A Crackpot rant from Sarah regarding plotlines about bad and learning drivers. John Horner uses his Extra Credit to have us imagine TV characters from unusual careers trying to interview for jobs in the straight world. Dan presents the Father Brown episode "The Passing Bell" for induction into The Nonac. We name the week's Winner and Loser, and then we take a gamble on the latest Game Time. DON'T let your attention wander for a second! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚫 Don't Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Floor Is Lava Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef: All-Stars I Am Not A Crackpot: 🚘 Subplots about bad/learning drivers should be forbidden Extra Credit: 🤑 TV Character Job Interviews The Nonac: 🙏 Father Brown Winner & Loser: 👍 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi Game Time: 🧠 Viva Lost Wages NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 307 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter ⚔️ Tara's Crossing Swords review at Primetimer 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book at Abrams Books 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 191 with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors

Jun 10, 2020

Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about Trackers , the 2019 South African "thriller" that Cinemax has imported. Unfortunately, the only place it led the EHG panel was Dullsville, despite big game, gun battles, and the apparent love child of Christian Bale and Randall Batinkoff...but we did talk about the "COVID programming trough" that's rapidly approaching for all TV fans. Later, we went Around The Dial with Love Life , Married At First Sight Australia , Please Like Me , 13 Reasons Why 's final season, and Disney Gallery Colon The Mandalorian ; then we wondered what themed episode titles would look like for series that don't already have them in David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sing successfully for its Canon supper? Who's smashing the Iron Throne on HBOMax, and what police (shows) got defunded? And who was attuned to Sad Hulk's rewrites of legendary TV theme songs during Game Time? Stare into the middle distance as you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚨 Trackers Around The Dial: 💕 Love Life Around The Dial: 🇦🇺 Married At First Sight: Australia Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Please Like Me Around The Dial: 📓 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🐭 Disney Gallery Extra Credit: 🤑 The One Where The Titles Have A Theme The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Looney Tunes Cartoons Winner & Loser: 👎 Cops Winner & Loser: 👎 Live PD Winner & Loser: 👎 L.A.'s Finest Game Time: 🧠 Songs In The Key Of Hulk NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 306 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter 👩‍🍳 Tara's post on homemaking Amys at Primetimer 📖 The New Ohio Review 🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Jun 3, 2020

The announcement that Donald Trump was creating a new branch of the military called the Space Force was swiftly followed by the announcement that Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, the creator and star of The Office , would re-team on Space Force , a sitcom about said branch. Should that have occurred? Now that the first season has dropped on Netflix, John Ramos has returned to discuss the matter. Around The Dial takes us through AMC's ITV import Quiz , Season 2 of Ramy on Hulu, Netflix's docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich , and the new Starz drama Hightown . Tara wastes no time in pitching the three-week-old What We Do In The Shadows episode "On The Run" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's the sequel to a Game Time that sings. Put on your moon-print fatigues and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 Space Force Around The Dial: 💷 Quiz Around The Dial: 🏡 Ramy Around The Dial: 🏝 Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich Around The Dial: 🚨 Hightown The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👍 Dishmantled Winner & Loser: 👎 Glee Heather Morris, Lea Michelle Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel 2: The Garfunkeling NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 305 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 💷 Tara's Quiz review on Primetimer 🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast 🌴 Again With Again With This on Patreon 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Sinéad O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" 💻 "Cops Are Always The Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

May 27, 2020

We're welcoming Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Soraiya to the guest chair to talk about the shorter, neater, Julia-Roberts-less-but-still-better second season of Amazon's Homecoming -- from sensible episode lengths to overacting extras to how TV has conditioned us to react to mystery shows. We went Around The Dial with Mrs. America , Run , Nadiya's Time To Eat , and a rare successful Zoom episode from Mystic Quest , before listener John rolled a 20-sided die on getting Community 's D&D episode into the Canon. Vampires won, Skeet Ulrich lost, and one was the winningest number in a Pointless -inspired Game Time. Slap on a fake tattoo before you forget, and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Sonia Saraiya TOPICS Lead Topic: 🫐 Homecoming Around The Dial: 🙋‍♀️ Mrs. America Around The Dial: 🚆 Run Around The Dial: 🍽 Nadiya's Time To Eat Around The Dial: 🎮 Mythic Quest The Canon: 🎲 Community Winner & Loser: 👍 What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👎 Riverdale Skeet Ulrich Game Time: 🧠 Lowest Of The Low NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 304 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Sonia Saraiya on Twitter 🙋‍♀️ Sonia's Mrs. America review at VanityFair.com 🫐 Tara's Homecoming review at Primetimer 💻 Sonia at VanityFair.com 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

May 20, 2020

Fox is welcoming summer with a very silly American Gladiators take on tag -- yes, the playground game -- so who better than Daniel MacEachern, veteran of our Holey Moley episode last year, to join us to discuss it? Around The Dial clicks through Snowpiercer , Katy Keene , Call The Midwife (CW: there are clips and you will cry), The Last Dance , Killing Eve , and a preview of Holey Moley 's Season 2 premiere. Mary uses her Extra Credit to ask us which TV role permanently ruined an actor for us. We consider the induction of Big Mouth 's "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that lives to serve. Race up a wall if you have to, but listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 👉 Ultimate Tag Around The Dial: 🚆 Snowpiercer Around The Dial: 🏙 Katy Keene Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🏀 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Extra Credit: 🤑 Who Stank Up The Actor? The Canon: 😵 Big Mouth Winner & Loser: 👍 The Mandalorian Timothy Olyphant Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🧠 Butlerfield Earth NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 303 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 👉 Tara's Ultimate Tag review at Primetimer 💻 Kai Power Tools 🚆 Tara's Snowpiercer review at Primetimer 🎙 Tara's Rich Sommer interview at Primetimer 🪨 CBC.ca's coverage of Newfoundland and Labrador 🫧 Sarah and Joe on the history of soap operas, also at Primetimer

May 13, 2020

We hope Bobby Krut agrees to come BACK to Extra Hot Great after putting him through the unrelenting barrage of anguish that is HBO's latest limited series, I Know This Much Is True . Sure, the acting is good; yeah, it's impressive that Mark Ruffalo plays twins; not one of us is planning to keep watching, because there's never a break or a moment of levity, and even Dave's ice-cream-fixins-bar metaphor made us sad. Our trip Around The Dial made us MAD, mostly -- Tara was disgusted with Regular Heroes , Sarah was disappointed in American Experience 's Dubya-sode, and Dave was not a crackpot about The Good Fight 's failure to understand electricity -- but at least Bobby brought in the Antenna TV Comfort Blanket roster to cheer us up. Jeff's Extra Credit saw us rewriting well-regarded series finales with How I Met Your Mother -style bungling, before we headed to the polls for Bobby's Canon submission, NewsRadio 's "President" episode. Guy Fieri won (for once), Lori Loughlin lost (again), and the competition got feverish during Game Time. Give yourselves a hand for listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Lead Topic: 😭 I Know This Much Is True Around The Dial: 📦 Regular Heroes Around The Dial: 🏙 Diff'rent Strokes Around The Dial: ✏️ The Facts Of Life Around The Dial: 🏡 Gimme A Break Around The Dial: 👨‍🏫 Head Of The Class Around The Dial: ⏲ The Hogan Family Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Good Fight Extra Credit: 🤑 Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E01: President Winner & Loser: 👍 Guy Fieri Winner & Loser: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Merry Maladies NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 302 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Robert Krut on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 💻 Robert Krut's website 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter

May 6, 2020

Hollywood , the latest product of Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal, has hit the streaming service. What did we think about his ahistorical take on marginalized voices in the film industry? Kevin O'Keeffe joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Betty , Never Have I Ever , The Circle Brasil , and Masterpiece 's new procedural Baptiste . Erica uses her Extra Credit to get us to pitch new Big Mouth transfer students and the Hormone Monsters they'll bring with them. Kevin pitches The O.C. 's "The Rainy Day Women" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with a quiz that tests our knowledge of shows' 300th episodes. Jerk yourself a soda and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎥 Hollywood Around The Dial: 🛹 Betty Around The Dial: 😍 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🇧🇷 The Circle Brasil Around The Dial: 🇳🇱 Baptiste Extra Credit: 🤑 Hormone Monsters For Everyone! The Canon: 🍊 The O.C. Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 The Last Dance Game Time: 🧠 First And 300 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 301 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kevin O'Keeffe on Twitter 💰 Tara on Good Girls 🍹 Kiki With Kevin 🔪 The Blotter Presents

Apr 29, 2020

Captain America and Lady Mary did their best, but Allison and the rest of the panel still found legal procedural Defending Jacob guilty of crappy pacing in the second degree; aggravated TV tropes; and felony possession of moody blue gels with intent to distribute. Were the regulars able to get Al into a diversion program before she felt obliged to finish the season? We also went Around The Dial with Vida , Arde Madrid , and The Last Dance , before Dave trotted out a solution to the problems with Devs . Dan Cassino's Extra Credit tasked us with growing some goateed evil twins to spice up our favorite shows, and Elenore brought us back to a '90s kind of world with her Living Single Canon submission. Re-casting ("alleged") felons won, nudity lost (but also kind of won?), and we kicked up our heels with Tara's Tube Tunes 6 Game Time. Got a garage door to scrub? Pass the time with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍⚖️ Defending Jacob Around The Dial: 🍺 Vida Around The Dial: 🇪🇸 Arde Madrid Around The Dial: 💃 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 💾 Devs Extra Credit: 😈 The Upside Of Evil Twins The Canon: 🏆 Living Single S01.E06: Great Expectations Winner & Loser: 👍 Solid properties subtracting leads Winner & Loser: 👎 Sacramento reporter Melinda Meza Game Time: 📻 Tube Tunes VI NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 300 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚖️ "By the Content of Cousin Pam's Character" on Seven Scribes 🍻 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on Vida 💋 Tara's Vanity Fair kiss-off of the Will & Grace re-finale 🇪🇸 Al's Arde Madrid write-up on MHz Choice 💩 The Diarrhea Song by Michael Scott 🍆 KCRA goes full frontal 📷 Photo: Apple

Apr 22, 2020

In an absence of series premieres any of us could manage to get excited about, Dave came up with a new format: the ABCs of TV! With our beloved Joe Reid, we go around the horn, each naming an important TV person, show, feature, or just THING about TV that matches up with each letter of the alphabet. Then, it's on to a Game Time made for cuffing season. Did any of our letter picks line up with yours? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔤 The ABCs of TV Game Time: 🧠 The Story Of Us NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 299 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 🔫 The A-Team M-24 Assault Rifle toy 🤬 The Wire 's "Fuck" scene ⚖️ Tara on the Better Call Saul finale 🕸 Primetimer.com 🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz 🎶 MASTAS on Dubious Heroes

Apr 15, 2020

Dan Rogge bought a ticket for our latest episode on HBO's Run , a "comedy thriller" about college sweethearts trying to reunite. Does the pleasure of watching Merritt Wever and Archie Punjabi at work outweigh the credibility issues? Do phones in the Run -verse never need charging? And is Rich Sommer TV's worst husband? We super-sized Around The Dial with stops at The Baker And The Beauty , Bosch , The Good Fight , Sesame Street , Money Heist , The Valhalla Murders , Devs , and Picard . And we chased that with a Sean double: first, whether he's a crackpot for thinking streaming services should offer a single-storyline watching option; and then his Canon pitch for the virulently catchy America's Next Top Model episode, "Game." Amy Schumer won, Lori Loughlin lost, and the melody lingered on in a musical Game Time. Grab your show-branded airhorn; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏃 Run Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🍪 The Baker And The Beauty Around The Dial: 🚸 Sesame Street Around The Dial: 🌆 Bosch Around The Dial: 🔪 The Valhalla Murders Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🫖 Star Trek: Picard I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Canon: 🏆 America's Next Top Model S17.E08: Game Winner & Loser: 👍 Amy Schumer Lead Topic: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Royalties ROI NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 298 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥊 Angelica Jade Bastién on The Good Fight 's premiere 🍪 Tara's Primetimer piece on The Baker And The Beauty 🧛 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on What We Do In The Shadows Season 2 🩸 The Blotter Presents 👩‍🎨 Monica! The Podcast

Apr 8, 2020

Just a few short weeks after we tested our knowledge of Quibi titles in Game Time , Quibi is taking center stage: the platform has launched, and we have selected a total of eight of its 24 launch titles to discuss with returning guest Adam Sternbergh! For his Extra Credit topic, John C. challenges us to reimagine single-camera comedies as multi-cams. Adam makes the case for our inducting Cheer 's series premiere, "God Blessed Texas," into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's a little objectionable. Settle in for the long haul and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏚 Murder House Flip Lead Topic: 🍽 Dishmantled Lead Topic: 🤬 I Promise Lead Topic: ⚖️ Chrissy's Court Lead Topic: 🕳 Memory Hole Lead Topic: 🤸 Flipped Lead Topic: 🎰 Gayme Show Lead Topic: ⛔️ Most Dangerous Game Extra Credit: 🤑 Should Have Been Filmed In Front Of A Live Studio Audience The Canon: 🏆 Cheer S01.E01: God Blessed Texas Winner & Loser: 👍 Craig Conover converted his pillow company to make PPE Winner & Loser: 👎 Ellen DeGeneres Game Time: 🧠 Objectionable People NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 297 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📱 Tara on Quibi at Primetimer 🚓 Tara on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (new!), also at Primetimer 🍑 Sarah on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project , ALSO at Primetimer

Apr 1, 2020

One half of the GFY brain trust, Heather Cocks, came back to discuss Amazon's Project Runway with a big-budget twist: Making The Cut . As much as we love Naomi Campbell's sugar-free approach to, well, life, the panel agreed that Making The Cut has some structural problems (too long; dumb Tim 'n' Heidi "friend dates"), and too tight a focus on NOT being a sewing competition. Will any of us keep watching? You'll find out before we decide whether Emily Is Not A Crackpot for wanting period shows to air period commercials. We'll go Around The Dial with Call The Midwife content warning, the return of One Day At A Time , Barry , homemade Lego Masters spinoffs, Top Chef , and a Better Call Saul sound drop; later, we'll feel relieved that the Sherlock episode we all THOUGHT Erica presented as a Canon contender is actually for the Nonac. Kate McKinnon won, celebrity quarantine-busters lost, and Game Time stretched those family ties (sha la la laaaaa). Tick tock: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧵 Making The Cut I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Period shows should air period commercials Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 📆 One Day At A Time (2017) Around The Dial: 🥷 Barry Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef: All-Stars Around The Dial: ⚖️ Better Call Saul The Nonac: 🤮 Sherlock S04.E03: The Final Problem Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate McKinnon Winner & Loser: 👎 Celebrity quarantine-busters Game Time: 🧠 Family Ties NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 296 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📆 Tara's Primetimer piece on One Day At A Time 🍆 Tara's Primetimer piece on Black Monday 's male nudity 🫅 Pre-order Heather Cocks's and Jessica Morgan's The Heir Affair 🩸 The Blotter Presents 🐯 Buntsy on Tiger King for Primetimer

Mar 25, 2020

Some shows -- your 30 Rock s, your Simpsons es -- get pitched to the Canon all the time. So for this special all-Canon episode, we reached into our mailbag and chose user submissions for shows that had never been pitched before. Dan Cassino challenged us to battle with Foyle's War ; Caroline opened the door for The Haunting Of Hill House ; and Jeff put all his eggs in a Baskets . Then, befitting an episode that started in World War II, Dave shocked Sarah and Tara with a Teutonic non-regulation Game Time. Hit up the buffet for some desserts and join us! TOPICS The Canon: 🏆 Foyle's War S04.E04 Casualties Of War The Canon: 🏆 The Haunting Of Hill House S01.E06: Two Storms The Canon: 🏆 Baskets S01.E04: Easter In Bakersfield Game Time: 🧠 German To The Situation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 295 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Mar 18, 2020

Appointment Television's Margaret H. Willison put a marshmallow on a stick to talk about Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere , and whether THIS is the real "vanity-free performance" on Reese Witherspoon's recent résumé, plus Kerry Washington's interesting choices as Mia; the production's unwavering commitment to 1997-ness; and whether the male Dawson's Creek lead we'd have bought in the Bill role is actually Dawson himself. Tara refused to be labeled a crackpot for thinking Mike Schur's upcoming philosoph...omedy? book is going to join its "humorous"-essay brethren in sucking, and then we went Around The Dial with Black Monday , The Bachelor , Work In Progress , Please Like Me , an Evil Lunch Bunch concept, Project Runway , and an Amazing Stories update. Margaret couldn't help but wonder if a second-season Sex & The City would make it into the Canon, and after Laura Benanti was a winner and most TV productions were quarantined losers, the Game Time question was Quibi Or Not Quibi?. This all-new Extra Hot Great's got dial-up; listen now! GUESTS 👤 Margaret Willison TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔥 Little Fires Everywhere I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Mike Schur's book will suck Around The Dial: 📈 Black Monday Around The Dial: 🤵‍♂️ The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🗂 Work In Progress Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway Around The Dial: 😲 Amazing Stories The Canon: 🏆 Sex & The City S02.E07: The Chicken Dance Winner & Loser: 👍 Laura Benanti Lead Topic: 👎 Productions in quarantine Game Time: 🧠 Quibi Or Not Quibi? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 294 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Margaret H. Willison on Twitter 📕 Pre-order A Very Special 90210 Book ! Still not a bit! 🌴 Again With Again With This 📺 The Appointment Television! podcast 👩‍👧 Tara's Primetimer piece on Mom

Mar 11, 2020

Apple TV+ has brought Amazing Stories , the less-nihilistic take on The Twilight Zone , back for all the '80s kids, though confusingly premiered this anthology series with only one episode. Mark Lisanti joins us to talk about the fishiness of this rollout strategy, and whether "The Cellar" was a compelling enough episode to get anyone back to watch more. Around The Dial takes us through For Life ; a roundup of the series premieres on FX (and FX on Hulu): Devs , Breeders , and Dave ; Jersey Shore: Family Vacation ; and Season 3 of Babylon Berlin . Mark presents the "Hamm On Toast" episode of Toast Of London for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all sit a spell for this week's Game Time. Make yourself a bathtub gin and tonic and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 😲 Amazing Stories Around The Dial: 🛟 For Life Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🐩 Breeders Around The Dial: 🤬 Dave Around The Dial: 🏄 Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin The Canon: 🏆 Toast Of London S03.E03: Hamm On Toast Winner & Loser: 👍 Casting agents for The Brides Winner & Loser: 👎 RuPaul's Drag Race Sherry Pie Game Time: 🧠 Letter Flip NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 293 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Lisanti on Twitter 🩸 The Blotter Presents 🍞 The Clem Fandango supercut

Mar 4, 2020

AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind , The Outsider , Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant , A French Village , and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dave Chen TOPICS Lead Topic: 📬 Dispatches From Elsewhere Around The Dial: 🙈 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🍃 The Outsider Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🇫🇷 A French Village Around The Dial: 🌍 TV in East Africa I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Transparent Computer Screens The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E10: Nobody Is Ever Missing Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek Winner & Loser: 👎 Disgracios Game Time: 🧠 They Get Around NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 292 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Chen on Twitter 🧐 Culturally Relevant with David Chen 🤠 Decoding Westworld 🎈 Tara on Party Of Five at Primetimer ⚖️ Sarah on The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez at Primetimer 👃 The Sweet Smell of Succession

Feb 26, 2020

As Better Call Saul returns for its fifth and almost final season, superfan Will Leitch joins us to check in on Jimmy, Kim, Nacho, Mike, and of course, good old black-and-white Gene. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot to feel infuriated by the current Chili's TV ad campaign. We ponder David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit question about which TV shows should go to an all-nude format. Will presents (heh) Party Down 's "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday" for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to a Game Time that really sings. Fire up your complimentary burner phone and listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Chili's ads are maddening Extra Credit: 🤑 NCIS Oh Calcutta ! The Canon: 🏆 Party Down S02.E05: Steve Guttenberg's Birthday Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 291 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter 📩 Will's newsletter 👨‍💻 Will's blog

Feb 19, 2020

To keep you in content while Dave and Tara go on vacation, we're forcening each other to watch TV episodes! Dave forcens Tara to watch what happens when a zombie virus ravages the Smurf village. Tara forcens Sarah to journey to Satellite Beach, FL as its high school re-mounts Annie Get Your Gun on Encore!. And Sarah forcens Dave to tag along with Josh in the series premiere of Netflix's Daybreak . How did each of us take it? Listen and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💙 The Smurfs S01.E27: The Purple Smurf Lead Topic: 🎭 Encore! S01.E05: Annie Get Your Gun Lead Topic: 🌅 Daybreak S01.E01: Josh vs. the Apocalypse: Part 1 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 290 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👿 The Purple Smurfs 🎭 Encore! 's ' Annie Get Your Gun ' 🌅 The series premiere of Daybreak

Feb 11, 2020

Will Arnett has followed his ex-wife Amy Poehler into the field of highly meta reality show hosting with his gig on Fox's Lego Masters , and American dad (and therefore Lego Master) Jim Durr has returned to discuss the season kickoff! Around The Dial takes us through The CW's Katy Keene ; Free Solo on Disney+; a roundup of titles on CBS All Access: Picard, Star Trek: The Animated Series , and Interrogation ; and Dave's latest favorite local ad. Dave is also in the hot (ejector) seat in presenting The Prisoner 's "Many Happy Returns" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a pun safari in this week's Non-Regulation Game Time. Careful where you step as you join us for the latest episode! GUESTS 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Katy Keene Around The Dial: 🗻 Free Solo Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Picard Around The Dial: 🌎 Star Trek: The Animated Series Around The Dial: 🔦 Interrogation Around The Dial: 🏷 Dave's latest local ad obsession The Canon: 🏆 The Prisoner S01.E07: Many Happy Returns Winner & Loser: 👍 Jerry Harris Winner & Loser: 👎 Y: The Last Man Game Time: 🧠 Kenya Believe These Punny TV Titles? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 289 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter 🌴 Again With This on Patreon 🩸 The Blotter Presents

Feb 5, 2020

Even though Eve and Sarah D. spend most weekdays thinking about the true crime that's worth your time for their newsletter, they still didn't know much about the Mobbed-up McDonald's Monopoly-game fraud case that's at the center of HBO's McMillions . Will this docuseries join the scam-umentary pantheon alongside The Dropout and The Imposter ? Is Doug Mathews the write-in presidential candidate we need now? And why aren't off-camera docu directors ever mic'd properly? After we considered those questions, we went Around The Dial with BoJack Horseman , The Outsider and other HBO Sunday-night offerings, the end of The Good Place , and Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet . Eve screened an episode of Home Movies for the Canon; then Tim Robinson won and Terry Crews lost, before we filled in the blanks -- in pen! -- in a history-making Game Time. Grab a light meter and go undercover for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍔 Mcmillions Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: 😶 Curb Your Enthusiasm Around The Dial: 😦 The Outsider Around The Dial: 😇 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🧚🏻‍♀️ Mythic Quest The Canon: 🏆 Home Movies S04.E01: Everyone's Entitled To My Opinion Winner & Loser: 👍 Tim Robinson Winner & Loser: 👎 Terry Crews Game Time: 🧠 TV Crossword NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 288 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍟 The Daily Beast post on the case 🍟 Margaret Lyons's review for the NYT ☕️ The documentary about the McDonald's hot-coffee lawsuit 🍟 Dr. Marcia Chatelain's Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 📙 Tara on Citations Needed 🐴 Tara's BoJack review for VF 🔪 Sarah on Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer on Primetimer

Jan 29, 2020

CBS All Access has chased Star Trek: Discovery with Picard , picking up with everyone's favourite retired Starfleet admiral as he...well, to be honest, he's probably not going to be spending much time tending to his French vineyard. What is he getting up to? Maureen Ryan joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Goop Lab , Shrill , The Expanse , Veronica Mars , and Flack . We discuss whether Doctor Who 's "Heaven Sent" should be inducted into The Canon, and then it's on to a Game Time that will leave you starry-eyed. Cozy up with a beloved pit bull and listen! GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪐 Star Trek: Picard Around The Dial: 🧫 The Goop Lab Around The Dial: 😱 Shrill Around The Dial: 🌌 The Expanse Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 📨 Flack The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S09.E11: Heaven Sent Winner & Loser: 👍 Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens Winner & Loser: 👎 The BBC Game Time: 🧠 All Stars NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 287 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter 👩‍💻 MoRyan.com 📏 danilo's Twitter thread on " Measure Of A Man " ☕️ Tara's Horny Viewer's Guide to Stumptown at Primetimer 🩸 The Blotter Presents

Jan 22, 2020

Apple TV+'s Little America premiered last week, and Rolling Stone 's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returned to talk about the heartwarming, but not treacly, anthology series about "the lives of immigrants in the United States." We talked about the casting, our favorite episodes, and why it reminded Sarah of High Maintenance before going Around The Dial with Avenue 5 , 9-1-1: Lone Star , Sex Education , and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens . Alan tried to get a second-season episode of The Americans ' passport stamped at the border of the Canon; then Peacock won (CHUNG CHUNG) and a bunch of dead shows lost before we all got sick with a slash-fiction-based Game Time. Admire the sprinkler system on an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 Little America Around The Dial: 🛰 Avenue 5 Around The Dial: 🚑 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🍑 Sex Education Around The Dial: 👸 Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens The Canon: 🏆 The Americans S02.E09: Martial Eagle Winner & Loser: 👍 Peacock Winner & Loser: 👎 Dead shows Game Time: 🧠 Slash Fiction NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 286 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪨 Alan's review of Little America for Rolling Stone 🇺🇸 The Little America creative team talks about there being no politics in Season 2 📒 The Original Little America series at Epic Magazine 🚑 Tara on 9-1-1: Lone Star and Medical Police -esque spoof shows for Primetimer 🪨 Alan's review of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens

Jan 15, 2020

When we decided to cover Freeform's remake of Fox's iconic teen soap Party Of Five , there was one obvious choice of guest: Meredith Smith, recent submitter of a Canon presentation on the original series. After discussing Freeform's devastating take on five new lovable orphans, Around The Dial takes us through Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist , Grand Designs , and Cheer . Meredith goes back into the Canon fray with the Murder, She Wrote episode "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time to sink your teeth into. Gather all your siblings and listen! GUESTS 👤 Meredith Smith TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Party Of Five (2020) Around The Dial: 🎧 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Around The Dial: 🏡 Grand Designs Around The Dial: 📣 Cheer The Canon: 🔪 Murder, She Wrote Winner & Loser: 👍 Saved By The Bell (2020) Winner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Game Time: 🧠 TV Dinners NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 285 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Meredith Smith on Twitter 📺 Primetimer 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Jan 8, 2020

The BBC rolled out Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula on New Year's Day; we Yanks endured it over the weekend, and Nick and the panel agree that this grimly joyless take on a careworn narrative needs SOMETHING. A modern-day setting, maybe? Mini bottle eps on every famous personage the Count has eaten? But it just seems like the creators didn't really want to be there...and as a result, we didn't either. Going Around The Dial is more fun, with looks at Dare Me , You , Magic For Humans , Spinning Out , and Dave's tips for pepping up a Frasier rewatch. Then Nick returns us to the cemetery with his Nonac presentation on Buffy 's fifth-season premiere. Killing Eve won, Witcher what-about-ers lost, and Steal Meals were flyin' in a very meta Game Time. Stake your claim to 2020's first all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2013) Around The Dial: 😝 Dare Me Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🪄 Magic For Humans Around The Dial: 😵‍💫 Spinning Out Around The Dial: 📻 Frasier The Nonac: 🤮 Buffy The Vampire Slayer S05.E01: Buffy vs. Dracula Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve Winner & Loser: 👎 The Witcher Game Time: 🧠 Televisual Pursuit NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 284 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧛‍♂️ Did British viewers stick around after Night 1 of Dracula ? 📝 Tara's top 10 eps of the decade on Culturally Relevant 📄 Sarah on why to watch Surviving R Kelly Pt. 2: The Reckoning 🎭 Nick Rheinwald-Jones's Safehouse '82 📍 Nick's The Pod

Jan 1, 2020

Happy New Year! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great! See you next week for a new episode. EEHG 023: The Post-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Power Rankings In the years since BtVS seemed to dominate the cultural conversation -- and our TWoP forums -- some of the main cast have gone on to bigger and better things; others have gone on…Dr. Phil, with disastrous results. In today's Extra Extra Hot Great, we're ranking the top ten cast members listed on the IMDb, plus Joss Whedon, to see who's chosen and who's cancelled based on what they've done since the show ended in 2003. EEHG 028: Measure Twice, Cut Once In an era when there is, by any reasonable assessment, rather a lot of TV, we tend always to be grateful when a new show doesn't give us more than we would care to handle -- when episodes aren't too long; when a season doesn't feel like it's been overstuffed. The reason we appreciate that is because there are so many shows that we like, but that do impose themselves excessively on our time. TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚰️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer Power Rankings Lead Topic: 🫃🏻 Overstuffed TV Shows NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 283 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 25, 2019

Merry Christmas! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great! EEHG 014: Podcast Like It’s 1999 We're hopping in our time machines to imagine what an EHG main episode might look like…in 1999. It's all sequels and prequels in scripted content these days and hey, we're no different, so: What's the main topic on the podcast in a 1999 episode? What is everyone talking about for Around The Dial? What would we put up for the Canon, and who's Winning and Losing? And how the hell are we going to watch that new episode of Twin Peaks when our VCR crapped out and Netflix is decades away? EEHG 030: EHG 1969 Is Extra Hot Groovy Previously, we imagined what an EHG would have looked like in 1999. Today, we're going back even further — to 1969. It was a big year in the news, and we're probably all well sick of retrospectives on Manson and the moon landing…but what was going on in TV-land in these fractured United States? We'll each propose main topics for a 1969 podcast; our Around The Dial, Canon, and Winner/Loser candidates; and possible celebrity guests. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎮 EHG in 1999 Lead Topic: ✌️ EHG in 1969 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 282 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 18, 2019

It's the most wonderful time of the year...if your very favourite thing is oppressively jolly holiday programming! We asked you, our listeners, to help us choose which piece of brand-new 2019 holiday content we would cover this year, and you delivered unto us the Lifetime original movie Mistletoe & Menorahs . Joining us to discuss it in a wild departure from their usual gig discussing the films of the Hallmark network are David J. Roth and Jeb Lund! Around The Dial clicks through FX's new adaptation of A Christmas Carol , Back To Life , the new season of CNBC's The Profit , The Expanse , and the season (and possibly series) finale of HBO's Watchmen . Lauren uses her Extra Credit to make us all benevolent TV dictators and bestow upon us the power to take a show that's Not For Us and make it meet our specific needs. Tara presents for Nonac induction the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "It's A Totally Happening Life." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with a curious backstory. Take a break from all your a-wassailing and join us! GUESTS 👤 David Roth 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕎 Mistletoe & Menorahs Around The Dial: 🤶 A Christmas Carol Around The Dial: 🛟 Back To Life Around The Dial: 💸 The Profit Around The Dial: 🌌 The Expanse Around The Dial: ⌚️ Watchmen Extra Credit: 🤑 Benevolent TV Dictator The Nonac: 🤮 Beverly Hills, 90210 S03.E16: It's A Totally Happening Life Winner & Loser: 👍 The Brothers Scott Winner & Loser: 👎 Dan Spilo Game Time: 🧠 Bizarre Backstory NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 281 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 David J. Roth on Twitter 🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter 🎄 The Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean podcast 🎄 DAJAM on Patreon ⏰ The Culturally Relevant podcast 🎳 UnDeadspin on Twitter 📰 James Poniewozik on Dan Spilo at the New York Times 🏴‍☠️ Andy Dehnart on Spilo at Vulture 🩸 The Blotter Presents

Dec 11, 2019

How did Netflix think it would get away with a stinker like V Wars in the age of peak TV? We ponder that question with returning guest Monty, and we investigate the ingredients in a C-minus Syfy show (which this basically is) and wonder whether the show has, well, enough vampires (spoiler: nope). We go Around The Dial with Servant , Mad About You 2019, Making It , Ex On The Beach , and Toast Of London before rebooting dark characters in sunny-genred shows for an Extra Credit. Monty went over the top (as it were) for his Blackadder series finale Canon submission. Non-fiction cheerleaders won, Baby Yoda lost (sort of), and we seconded a motion for Part 2 of a previous Game Time. Keep hacking -- it's a bloody great new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛 V Wars Around The Dial: 🍽 Servant Around The Dial: 💕 Mad About You Around The Dial: 🔨 Making It Around The Dial: 🌊 Ex On The Beach Around The Dial: 🍞 Toast Of London Extra Credit: 🤑 Shiny De-boot The Canon: 🏆 Blackadder S04.E06: Goodbyeee Winner & Loser: 👍 Cheer Lead Topic: 👎 Disney's failure to figure out the Baby Yoda toy supply chain Game Time: 🧠 Second Second Most Episodes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 280 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😖 Ian Somerhalder is kind of a creeper? 🐍 On Blackadder 's final scene 🎄 OUR Dave on Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🌴 The series finale of Beverly Hills, 90210 on Again With This 🔪 The Blotter Presents 🎨 Yes, Work Of Art actually existed 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

Dec 4, 2019

In this episode, we dig in on some of the Canons submitted by you, our beloved listeners! First, we consider Doug Dale's case for Are You The One? 's eighth-season premiere, "Come One, Come All"; Meredith confronts us with the Party Of Five episode "The Intervention"; then Tara pitches Mom 's "Spaghetti Sauce And A Dumpster Fire." Which -- if any! -- make it into our TV Hall Of Fame? Join us and find out! TOPICS The Canon: 🏆 Are You The One S08.E01: Come One, Come All The Canon: 🏆 Party Of Five S03.E20: The Intervention The Canon: 🏆 Mom S05.E18: Spaghetti Sauce And A Dumpster Fire NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 279 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 27, 2019

At Extra Hot Great, holiday time means non-regulation episodes -- like a supersized round of Would You Rather? with Blankenship Chair creator Mark Blankenship. The four of us confront identity-crisis-causing brainteasers from each other and you listeners, including terrible live musicals, an eternity with Noah Benson, chyron font battles, Friends -giving episodes, Ken Burns's Raisins , secret Scientologists, Alec Baldwin, theme songs at the dentist, early Law & Order face-offs, and who's going to avenge Buntsy's death onscreen. How would YOU choose in these Would You Rathers -- or COULD you choose? Pepsi-Challenge yourself to find out in Extra Hot Great 278. GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: Panel Round Lead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: EHG Assist Round NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 278 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Nov 20, 2019

The Crown has returned for Season 3 with new actors in all the key roles, and who better to talk about it than semi-professional royal watchers Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of Go Fug Yourself? Around The Dial takes us through Dollface , All Rise , Evil , and Harlots . Sarah makes the case for American Crime Story S02.E04, titled "House By The Lake," to The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser. Get all your mates from the polo team over to the house and join us! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🪆 Dollface Around The Dial: ⚖️ All Rise Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 👠 Harlots The Canon: 🏆 American Crime Story S02.E04: House By The Lake Winner & Loser: 👍 Clive Owen Winner & Loser: 👎 David Hunt NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 277 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Heather & Jessica on Twitter 👗 Go Fug Yourself 👸 Heather & Jessica's latest novel, The Royal We

Nov 13, 2019

Disney+ finally launched earlier this week, so we thought we'd talk The Mandalorian with Adam Grosswirth. How does the show fit into the Star Wars universe -- and should it bother? Is it hiding Pedro Pascal's light under a mask bushel? And was a certain very cute puppet perhaps pandering to longtime franchise fans? Later, we went Around The Dial with High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , Encore , Back To Life , a POV on Bill Nye, and two Dark shows, and Adam hoped his and Eleanor's joint Grey's Anatomy presentation for the Canon wouldn't bomb. A League Of Their Own won, Don Cherry (finally) lost, and we trod the boards in a theatrical Game Time (yes, Sarah "actually got some points"). Don't take your masks off: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👾 The Mandalorian Around The Dial: 🎭 High School Musical: The Musical The Series Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🛟 Back To Life Around The Dial: 🧪 Bill Nye The Science Guy Around The Dial: 🔮 The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Around The Dial: 🧱 His Dark Materials The Canon: 🏆 Grey's Anatomy S02.E17: As We Know It Winner & Loser: 👍 A League Of Their Own Lead Topic: 👎 Don Cherry Game Time: 🧠 Jazz Hands NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 276 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎬 You Must Remember This 🌴 Again With This 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Nov 6, 2019

Apple TV+ is first to market in this month's battle of the brand-new streaming services, and Slate's TV critic Willa Paskin is joining us to talk about it -- starting with its fanciest new series, The Morning Show , but also touching on See , For All Mankind , and Dickinson . Sarah stars in an abbreviated Around The Dial to talk about the season finale of The Great British Bake Off . Then it's on to a discussion of whether American Vandal S01.E05, "Premature Theories," should be inducted into The Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to the return of a Game Time classic. Grab your coffee and Red Bull and listen! GUESTS 👤 Willa Paskin TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌅 The Morning Show Lead Topic: 👁 See Lead Topic: 🌕 For All Mankind Lead Topic: ✍️ Dickinson Around The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off The Canon: 🏆 American Vandal S01.E05: Premature Theories Winner & Loser: 👍 Julia Garner Winner & Loser: 👎 Gina Torres Game Time: 🧠 The Day After Before And After NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 275 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Willa Paskin on Twitter ✍️ Willa on Slate 💍 Willa's podcast, Decoder Ring 🚀 The Season 1 Finale of the Quaid In Full podcast

Oct 30, 2019

Mrs. Fletcher gives Kathryn Hahn a star turn as a divorced empty-nester trying to find herself (sexily!), and we're thrilled that star critic Maureen Ryan could return to discuss it with us -- whether we liked it, where it should have ended, and when we can expect this "limited series" to turn into another past-its-sell-by regular series. We went Around The Dial with BoJack Horseman , Lucifer , Netflix cancellation shenanigans, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant , and Silicon Valley , and then Tara filed a motion to admit a second-season episode of The Good Fight to the Canon. Lizzo won (some more), the Game Of Thrones showrunners lost (for once), and there were no points for second place in a very challenging Game Time. Pack up that minivan: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 👠 Mrs. Fletcher Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: 🥎 Netflix Moneyballing Around The Dial: 😈 Lucifer Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 💻 Silicon Valley The Canon: 🏆 The Good Fight S02.E12: Day 485 Winner & Loser: 👍 Lizzo Winner & Loser: 👎 David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Game Time: 🧠 Second-Most Episodes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 274 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌴 Again With This 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast 🪞 The Through The Looking Glass podcast and more at Mo Ryan's website 🏆 Submit your Canons!

Oct 23, 2019

HBO has imported Sky Atlantic's miniseries Catherine The Great -- starring seasoned queen portrayer Helen Mirren -- and first-time guest Karen Geier is Russian (sorry) to join us for a discussion all about it! Around The Dial takes us through Living With Yourself , Modern Love , The Politician , Buzz , Survivor , the latest in Ken Burns, and HBO's highly anticipated take on Watchmen ! Karen presents the "Interlude" episode of The Righteous Gemstones for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a non-regulation Game Time that's the mother you never had and the sister everybody would want...or that's just about guest stars playing characters' relatives on TV. Saddle up your sturdiest steed and join us! GUESTS 👤 Karen Geier TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐴 Catherine The Great Around The Dial: 🫵 Living With Yourself Around The Dial: ❤️ Modern Love Around The Dial: 🗳 The Politician Around The Dial: 🏜 Survivor Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: ⌚️ Watchmen The Canon: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones S01.E05: Interlude Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris Game Time: 🧠 It's All Relative NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 273 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Karen Geier on Twitter 👻 The On Belief podcast 👻 On Belief on Patreon 😢 The On Grief podcast 😢 On Grief on Patreon 🎙 KarenGeier.com ❤️ Maureen Ryan's Modern Love review at NYTimes.com 🏝 Again With This 🏝 Again With This on Patreon 🎶 MASTAS on Patreon ⌚️ James Poniewozik's Watchmen review

Oct 16, 2019

We're so glad our esteemed colleague and Breaking Bad 101 author Alan Sepinwall could join us to talk about El Camino , the Breaking Bad sequel on Netflix that starts just minutes after the finale ended. Did we think it was necessary and/or satisfying? Were the fan-service elements welcome, or distracting? And which other characters should get their own post- BB films? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dynasty , Riverdale 's Luke Perry tribute episode, Lodge 49 , Private Lives Of The Windsors , and an objection from Dave to breathy cover-song TV themes (and the ending of Press , kind of), before Alan warmed up a second-season Leftovers episode as his Canon submission. Holey Moley won, a FOX affiliate (and racist sports teams) lost, and we sprang into action (verbs) for Game Time with the season hanging in the balance. An all-new Extra Hot Great: that's church, yo. GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚘 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Riverdale Around The Dial: 🍺 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 👑 Private Lives Of The Windsors Around The Dial: 🎞 Get Shorty I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Breathy slowed-down cover songs as TV themes Around The Dial: 🗞 Press The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Holey Moley Winner & Loser: 👎 California Fox affiliate using chyron "Braves Scalped?" Game Time: 🧠 The Verb Is The Word NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 272 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🌆 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🎥 Quaid In Full

Oct 9, 2019

PBS's Masterpiece has premiered the British miniseries Press , a tale of warring London newspapers, and we've brought a former newspaper reporter, Daniel MacEachern, back to the podcast to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through Evil , Big Mouth , and Cash Cab , before we each pitch our own Fosse/Verdon -style limited series based on a real person's life (and possibly a specific biography). Danny presents The Grinder 's "Grinder v. Grinder" for induction into the Canon. Then we're on to naming the week's Winner and Loser, and finishing up with a Game Time that might sound a little familiar. Put down any newspaper you might be reading and listen to us instead! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 📰 Press Around The Dial: 👿 Evil Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🚕 Cash Cab Extra Credit: 🤑 Small Screen / Larger Than Life The Canon: 🏆 The Grinder S01.E13: Grinder v. Grinder Winner & Loser: 👍 Rachel Maddow Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 Familiar Situations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 271 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 🏸 David Roth, Laura Wagner, and Kelsey McKinney's Deadspin report on TheMaven's Sports Illustrated takeover 👄 Big Mouth co-creator Andrew Goldberg apologized for the show's description of pansexuality 🕳 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranks "Live Through This" 🚀 Quaid In Full 's episode on Dennis Quaid's Baretta episode 🏞 The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt

Oct 2, 2019

We couldn't decide which headline show to cover for EHG 270, so we set our shot clocks to eight minutes each for three: Survivor 's 39th (!) season, with an idolatrous twist; new sitcom Sunnyside , starring Kal Penn as a disgraced city councilman; and semi-charming, SUPER-piloty PI/PTSD drama Stumptown . Will any of us keep watching any of these? Can we, when a couple of them already pulled basement-ish ratings? Later, we went Around The Dial with Bissinger doc Buzz , Perfect Harmony , The Challenge , and Below Deck Med before Kim brought us back to Survivor and fans vs. favorites with her Canon presentation. Moriarty's a winner, Ray Lewis is a loser, and we explored not-that-secret identities in Game Time. Behold the giant wooden busts of your panel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏜 Survivor Lead Topic: ☕️ Stumptown Lead Topic: 🌞 Sunnyside Around The Dial: 🎼 Perfect Harmony Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Survivor S16.E13: If It Smells Like A Rat, Give It Cheese Winner & Loser: 👍 Andrew Scott Winner & Loser: 👎 Ray Lewis Game Time: 🧠 Also Known As NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 270 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 📉 Sunnyside 's low ratings 🤯 Dalton Ross's oral history of Erik's blindside 🛍 GQ on Bissinger's shopaholism 🎙 Sweet Smell Of Succession 📺 Sarah's Primetimer author page 📸 We're @extrahotgreat on Instagram

Sep 25, 2019

Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through a trio of CBS sitcom pilots, Unbelievable , 30 For 30 's "Rodman: For Better Or Worse," and Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance . Sarah and Tara take a look at Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail's just-announced Battlestar Galactica reboot and ask: Will Dave Hate This? We take on Mary's Muppetational Extra Credit question. Chris and Joe make the case for Project Runway S02.E09, "Flower Power," to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after talking Emmy Winners and Losers, it's on to a Game Time that tests our knowledge of our Boomer relatives' favourite shows. Grab your favourite footman and join us! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏰 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🥈 Carol's Second Act Around The Dial: 💕 Bob Hearts Abishola Around The Dial: 🦄 The Unicorn Around The Dial: 🧐 Unbelievable Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🔮 Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Battlestar Galactica Extra Credit: 🤑 Flesh-Covered Muppets The Canon: 🏆 Project Runway S02.E09: Flower Power Winner & Loser: 👍 Some people at the Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 Different people at the Emmys Game Time: 🧠 Uncle Billy & Aunt Joan NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 269 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter 📺 Primetimer 🎶 MASTAS Live! 🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast 📺 Chris at Primetimer 🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

Sep 18, 2019

Reviewers love Undone , Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight , Are You The One? , and The Challenge , then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe TOPICS Lead Topic: ⌚️ Undone Around The Dial: 👰 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥇 Are You The One Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Extra Credit: 🤑 A Very Blanky Renovation The Canon: 🏆 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills S01.E09: The Dinner Party From Hell Winner & Loser: 👍 Norman Lear Winner & Loser: 👎 Shane Gillis Game Time: 🧠 What's The Difference NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 268 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 Appointment TV podcast 💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project 🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

Sep 11, 2019

It's the show Lance Bass never wanted you to see: A Very Brady Renovation , in which a collection of HGTV stars join forces with the surviving cast of The Brady Bunch to make the real-life Studio City home that served as the Brady house in b-roll look exactly like the Brady Bunch set inside. Who better to join us in discussing all the Who-lebrities involved than Who Weekly? co-host Bobby Finger! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of The Deuce , Part 3 of Money Heist , Ken Burns's latest PBS documentary series Country Music , and Joe Pera Talks With You . Bobby presents the Enlightened episode "The Weekend" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV frogs getting smooched. Grab your sledgehammer and join us! GUESTS 👤 Bobby Finger TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏚 A Very Brady Renovation Around The Dial: 💩 The Deuce Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🗣 Joe Pera Talks With You Extra Credit: 🤑 Missing TV References And Quotes The Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E04: The Weekend Winner & Loser: 👍 Rick Jackson Lead Topic: 👎 Richard Gere Game Time: 🧠 In The Pond NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 267 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter 🙋 The Who Weekly podcast 🎙 The I'm Obsessed With This podcast 🫄 The video Eva Amurri Martino made announcing her third pregnancy 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast

Sep 4, 2019

We're not able to record this week so we're treating y'all to a sneak peak at Extra Extra Hot Great, our patrons-only bonus podcast. EEHG 008: Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape) The Jimmy Kimmel-spearheaded, ABC-aired restagings of one classic episode each of All In The Family and The Jeffersons , live in front of a studio audience, delivered one of the network’s highest-rated season wraps in years, and you know what that means: copycats are coming. And we want to get ahead of the trend! For today’s Extra Extra Hot Great , we’re each choosing a classic episode of TV to remake, and casting all the roles with actors working today. EEHG 017: British Crime Story, Series 1 FX announced not long after we recorded a recent EHG main podcast that American Crime Story has finally started moving forward on its third topic: Impeachment, "the story of the Clinton presidency scandal." One of the great things about that franchise is that it provides so much food for thought between seasons, not least (inevitably incorrect) speculation about what it will take on next and with whom in what roles -- so now that that's been taken off the table for the moment, let's talk about what a Union Jack version of the story would look like! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📺 Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape) Lead Topic: 🇬🇧 British Crime Story, Series 1 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 266 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💂 StoryCast podcast featuring Brink's-Mat Robbery on iTunes

Aug 28, 2019

On Becoming A God In Central Florida premiered on Showtime recently, and Floridian Jeb Lund returned to the podcast to discuss its geographic and period accuracy, whether it celebrates or mocks the poor, and all the process-y parts of a pyramid scheme (fine: "multi-level marketing"). We went Around The Dial with 13 Reasons Why , Why Women Kill and Pennyworth , and then we contemplated converting primetime shows into Saturday-morning cartoons, '70s-style, in an Extra Credit from Dave Snyder. After a hilarious (if fatal to felines) Canon submission on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace , we declared Netflix a winner, ABC a loser, and Dan Cassino an evil genius as we played a Hallmark Of Quality Game Time. Stock up on giant cans of nacho cheese before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌴 On Becoming A God In Central Florida Around The Dial: 🔪 Why Women Kill Around The Dial: 📼 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth Extra Credit: 🤑 Modern Primetime Cartooning The Canon: 🏆 Garth Merenghi's Darkplace S01.E01: Once Upon A Beginning Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 ABC Game Time: 🧠 Hallmark Of Quality NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 265 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😴 The Dream podcast 🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast 🦢 Sarah and John Ramos on MSCL 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

Aug 21, 2019

HBO's new Danny McBride/Jody Hill sitcom, The Righteous Gemstones , takes aim at megachurch evangelists, but will it make you throw up your hands in praise? Adam Sternbergh returns to discuss it. Around The Dial makes stops at Lodge 49 , The Boys , Years And Years , and QB1: Beyond The Lights , before we roll into a Canon presentation on the series premiere of Sherlock , "A Study In Pink." After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all say "¡si!" to a Game Time about TV's non-union Mexican equivalents. Our episode is an awesome episode, and you should listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones Around The Dial: 🛖 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys Around The Dial: 📅 Years And Years Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1: Beyond The Lights The Canon: 🏆 Sherlock S01.E01: A Study In Pink Winner & Loser: 👍 St. Elmo's Fire Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends Game Time: 🧠 Non-Union Mexican Equivalent NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 264 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📰 The 1619 Project at the New York Times 📺 Sarah at Primetimer 💍 Decoder Ring 's episode on the Johnlock Conspiracy

Aug 14, 2019

GLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family , Wu Assassins , So You Think You Can Dance , and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek , then declared a dead Confederate a winner, and LiLo's antics a loser, before sampling a rollercoaster of a musical Game Time. Hike up those leotards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 The Family Around The Dial: 🩰 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax Around The Dial: 🥷 Wu Assassins Extra Credit: 🤑 When The Emmys Meet The Tonys The Canon: 🏆 Schitt's Creek S01.E06: Wine And Roses Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 Would You Care To Try A Sample? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 263 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🚀 Sarah's Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter

Aug 7, 2019

Noted romcom fan Mindy Kaling has been tasked by Hulu to bring the world a series adaptation of the 1994 feature film Four Weddings And A Funeral , and noted romcom fan Linda Holmes is joining us to talk about whether this ever should have happened! Around The Dial has us discussing HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show , the series finale of Jane The Virgin , and the end (we hope) of Big Little Lies . Linda makes the case for the induction of The Good Place 's "Dance Dance Resolution" into the Canon; then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, we move on to a Game Time that soars. Get out of the rain (or hadn't you noticed?) and join us! GUESTS 👤 Linda Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚰️ Four Weddings And A Funeral Around The Dial: ✍️ A Black Lady Sketch Show Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🤥 Big Little Lies The Canon: 🏆 The Good Place S02.E02: Dance Dance Resolution Winner & Loser: 👍 Nico Tortorella (and Auli'i Cravalho) Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris Game Time: 🧠 Pilot Test NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 262 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter ⚰️ Linda's review of Four Weddings And A Funeral at NPR.org 🤼‍♀️ Vulture's coverage of GLOW 🎙 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🏝 The Again With This podcast 🦞 Linda's book, Evvie Drake Starts Over 🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour 🎙 Linda on The Maris Review podcast 🎯 Linda on Bullseye ⚾️ Linda on the Effectively Wild podcast 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter 👵🏻 The Gabrielle Carteris tag on Deadline.com

Jul 31, 2019

John couldn't make it last week for our Veronica Mars discussion, but he fired a baby's laser-beam eyes at Amazon's latest original, The Boys , which we all quite liked. Does Jack Quaid look more like his famous parents, or like a Bill Heder/Pacey Witter hybrid? How will the show diverge even further from its graphic-novel parent in Season 2? And does Butcher swear more than Buntsy? We went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase and South Side , John's belated take on Veronica Mars S4, Animal Kingdom , and Pennyworth before descending into a boring, disturbing sex fog with Dave's presentation of TNG 's "Sub Rosa" for the Nonac. Nickelodeon slime won the space race, Diddy became a Loser, and Dan Cassino merged shows old and new for a Before & After Game Time. Don't get sent to Sandusky for missing this all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys Around The Dial: 🎪 Sherman's Showcase Around The Dial: 📺 South Side Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth The Nonac: 🤮 Star Trek: The Next Generation S07.E14: Sub Rosa Winner & Loser: 👍 Nickelodeon slime Lead Topic: 👎 P. Diddy Game Time: 🧠 Before & After NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 261 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧡 Tara's Primetimer post on OITNB 🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast 🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer ♣️ Bridge champion John Ramos 🛸 This weird and wonderful Star Trek on a theremin video

Jul 24, 2019

Hulu dropped Veronica Mars a week sooner than anyone expected, but Kathryn VanArendonk was ready to leap into action and join us in a VERY SPOILER-FILLED discussion of Season 4! Around The Dial takes us to Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein on Netflix; a spoiler-free farewell to the imminently-ending Jane The Virgin ; Last Chance U ; and a potpourri of TV-adjacent remarks from Dave (including an update on the original book version of The Rook ). Leanna cashes in her Extra Credit to get us to pick TV characters who deserve theme songs. Then Tara makes the case for One Day At A Time 's "Strays" to be inducted into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and kick off a new season of Game Time with Sitcom Keyword Search. Post up on the couch with Pony and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 🧌 Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 😑 FMK Korrection Korner Around The Dial: 👶 The Rook Around The Dial: ☕️ Big Little Lies Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time S01.E05: Strays Winner & Loser: 👍 Sarah Winner & Loser: 👎 Crybaby Game Of Thrones alums Game Time: 🧠 Sitcom Keyword Search NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 260 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn on Twitter 📺 Kathryn at Vulture 🎙 David Chen's new podcast, Culturally Relevant 📕 Tara's Handmaid's Tale post on BN.com 🦴 The Bones Zone podcast 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🧀 Cheddar Cheese Song 🏥 Clínica De Migrantes on HBO

Jul 17, 2019

TV-based F*ck, Marry, Kill is back, and so is famous original panelist Joe Reid, as we decide whether to bone, betroth, or bash in the heads of Mad Men items, Handmaid's deaths, episode types, trains, fonts, and unkillable robber barons of yesteryear. From Aquarius to Zoo and every Sophie's choice in between -- but this time we've added our own brainteasers for our fellow panelists. Cool off with an extra-hot Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 💍 F*ck, Marry, Kill NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 259 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jul 9, 2019

Showtime has turned Gabriel Sherman's Roger Ailes book into a seven-part miniseries, and Will Leitch has returned to talk about what it is, whom it's for, and how it compares to recent-history HBO docudramas like Game Change . Around The Dial takes us through Divorce , the triumph of the USWNT, The Handmaid's Tale , and The Rook . Will Leitch presents "Pt. 5" of (the masterpiece) O.J.: Made In America to the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, an old favourite returns to Non-Regulation Game Time. Put on your shortest skirt, sit down behind a transparent desk, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 📢 The Loudest Voice Around The Dial: 💔 Divorce Around The Dial: ⚽️ The US Women's National Soccer Team Around The Dial: 🤦‍♀️ The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 👶 The Rook The Canon: 🏆 O.J.: Made In America Pt. 5 Winner & Loser: 👍 Stranger Things Winner & Loser: 👎 Amber Portwood Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes 5 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 258 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter ⚽️ Will on the USWNT, for New York 🏀 Will on Kevin Durant, also for New York ✉️ Will's (free!) TinyLetter 📺 The Will Leitch Show 🎙 The Grierson & Leitch Podcast 💔 Ben Travers on Divorce ⛳️ Tara on Holey Moley

Jun 26, 2019

Try as we might, we couldn't get that "putt down the remote" joke to work, so we'll just say we're happy Daniel MacEachern is back on the pod, and we're even happier to be talking about Holey Moley , the " Wipeout meets mini-golf" summer offering from ABC that finally found a way to use Kenny G's talents properly. From hosts to holes to gimmicky guest get-ups, it's fun for the whole family -- really! Later, we go Around The Dial with Years And Years , Animal Kingdom , Bosch , Lethal Weapon , Collateral , and Dave's non-crackpot theory on TV knockout drugs, before contemplating a universally despised Golden Girls episode that closed out that otherwise-great show's second season. Michael Sheen (not in character from The Good Fight ) was a winner, execs trying to step to Buntsy's girl Roma Torre were losers, and someone got a helping hand on this week's Game Time. This is our windmil-lieu: an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Around The Dial: 📆 Years And Years Around The Dial: 🔫 Lethal Weapon Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🌒 Bosch Around The Dial: 💰 Collateral I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Using Chloroform The Nonac: 🤮 The Golden Girls S02.E26: Empty Nests Winner & Loser: 👍 Michael Sheen Winner & Loser: 👎 NY1 execs trying to step to Roma Torre Game Time: 🧠 Chums And Helpers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 257 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⛳️ Carl Carmoni and Quebecois putt-putt 👗 Pose ⚖️ The Best Evidence newsletter 🥼 How chloroform actually works ✍️ Michael Sheen takes up for fan-fic 🤺 NY1 anchors sue Charter Communications for marginalizing them

Jun 19, 2019

Comedy writer/performers Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres have brought HBO a new sitcom about a "horror group" that creates practical horror effects for ridiculous reasons (Fred Armisen's hardly in it, we swear!), and Omar Gallaga has returned to discuss it with us! Around The Dial clicks through Younger , Comedy Central's new sketch show Alternatino With Arturo Castro , the upcoming Amazon series Undone , and the third seasons of Claws and Jessica Jones . For her Extra Credit topic, Corey asks us each to choose a title from the AFI's top 100 films and turn it into a TV series. Omar presents the Atlanta episode "Teddy Perkins" for the Canon. Once we've recovered (barely), it's on to the week's Winner and Loser and a Game Time with a lot of cipherin'. Put on your werewolf teeth and join us! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 Los Espookys Around The Dial: 👶 Younger Around The Dial: 🎤 Alternatino With Arturo Castro Around The Dial: 🤪 Undone Around The Dial: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Jessica Jones Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 Atlanta S02.E06: Teddy Perkins Winner & Loser: 👍 PoseQueer Eye Winner & Loser: 👎 Bill Cosby Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No Math NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 256 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 👻 Omar's post on Los Espookys on Primetimer 🛣 The Washington Post 's By The Way travel series 🩸 The Blotter Presents podcast 🍿 The AFI 100 Films list 🙅‍♀️ Bill Cosby's Father's Day tweet

Jun 12, 2019

We're thrilled to welcome Eve back to the guest chair...but were we as thrilled to welcome Big Little Lies back into our primetime lives? We talked about Meryl Streep's flawlessly passive-aggressive performance and loved Laura Dern because it's a day ending in Y. After Tara reported on a Kit-Kat-jingle-related Tiny Triumph, Sarah joined her to capsule-review the ATX Festival before we went around the dial with Pose , RuPaul's Drag Race , and Black Mirror . Dan Cassino tasked us with assembling our own personal A-Teams as an Extra Credit, and everyone from Villanelle to Pam Poovey got in on the act. Then we took a tour of Senegal with Françoise's lovely Canon presentation on behalf of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown . Kristen Bell is a winner, Linda Fairstein is a loser, and we all shared a bowl of alphabet soup in Game Time. Don't get stuck in a hallway marching band: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤥 Big Little Lies Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Tara’s Kit-Kat jingle gets a key RT Around The Dial: 📺 ATX Festival Report Around The Dial: 💃 Pose Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🪞 Black Mirror Extra Credit: 🤑 Your Own Personal A-Team The Canon: 🏆 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S07.E06: Senegal Winner & Loser: 👍 Kristen Bell Winner & Loser: 👎 Linda Fairstein Game Time: 🧠 ABC TV Trivia NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 255 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The Alternatino premiere on YouTube ⚖️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📺 ATX’s TV Campfire podcast

Jun 5, 2019

Shocking the world, the Deadwood movie no one dared believe would actually happen has actually happened, and our old friend Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic of Rolling Stone , returns to discuss it. Around The Dial clicks through American Princess , The Handmaid's Tale , Netflix's sequel to Tales Of The City , Scott & Bailey , Good Omens , and Epix's Perpetual Grace, LTD. Alan takes a leap by submitting the Quantum Leap episode "The Leap Home, Part 1" to the Canon. Then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a very animated Game Time. Meet us in the thoroughfare and listen! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤠 Deadwood Around The Dial: 👸 American Princess Around The Dial: 👺 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🌁 Tales Of The City Around The Dial: 👮‍♀️ Scott & Bailey Around The Dial: 📿 Good Omens Around The Dial: ⏰ Perpetual Grace Ltd The Canon: ⚛️ Quantum Leap S03.E01: The Leap Home, Part 1 Winner & Loser: 👍 Vida Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo and Viola Davis Game Time: 🧠 Cels From Celluloid NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 254 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📊 The Extra Hot Great submission form 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🎸 Alan at Rolling Stone , including all his coverage on Deadwood: The Movie 📺 The ATX Festival 📚 All Alan's books on Amazon 🏊‍♀️ Sarah and Tara on Melrose Place at Primetimer 🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer ⚛️ Kathryn VanArendonk's interview with Scott Bakula about the 30th anniversary of Quantum Leap

May 29, 2019

Our (lack of?) enthusiasm for National Geographic's account of a late-'80s Ebola outbreak, The Hot Zone , is infectious -- and Kat Angus returns to the podcast to discuss the plague of wigs and clunky dialogue in the docuseries, plus exposition that made us itch and shows we'd rather watch instead. We went around the dial with Dynasty , What/If , Killing Eve , and Lonely Island's Bash Brothers special, and Tara hoped insurance would cover her Canon submission of a second-season GLOW episode. Chrissy Teigen won (as usual), Adam Levine lost, and a Game Time stuck in the middle of things. Gown up for an all-new Extra Hot (Zone) Great! GUESTS 👤 Kat Angus TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤢 The Hot Zone Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: 🤔 What If Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Killing Eve Around The Dial: ⚾️ The Lonely Island Presents The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience The Canon: 👩‍🎤 GLOW Winner & Loser: 👍 Chrissy's Court Chrissy Teigen Winner & Loser: 👎 The Voice Adam Levine Game Time: 🧠 TV Infixes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 253 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kat Angus on Twitter 📺 ATX Festival 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter 🙃 The I Hate It But I Love It podcast 🎵 Adam Levine is a big old baby

May 22, 2019

Fleabag is back on Amazon for its second -- and last -- season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about the big swings the show takes, Olivia Colman's perfect performance, and the show's unique realness about everything from faith to sisterhood to bad haircuts. We go Around The Dial with a My Dad Wrote A Porno update, plus Vida , She-Ra , and a Ron Artest/Metta World Peace documentary on Showtime, and contemplate a short but very sweet Canon submission concerning a Hilda episode about a giant. President Carteris won (we hope), BH90210 lost, and we juggled Steal Meals in a ballsy Game Time. Break the fourth wall with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪰 Fleabag Around The Dial: 🍆 My Dad Wrote A Porno Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Vida Around The Dial: 👸 She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power Around The Dial: 🏀 Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story The Canon: 👧🏻 Hilda Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris Winner & Loser: 👎 BH90210 Game Time: 🧠 Name That Sport NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 252 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🫴 Who's who on Catch-22 🎶 MASTAS on Instagram 😔 I'm Sorry

May 15, 2019

Netflix tries to court the teens with The Society , in which a bunch of high schoolers return to their town to find it emptied of everyone who wasn't in their class; Emily Yoshida joins us to discuss whether Christopher " Party Of Five Keyser" still knows how to write for the youth. Around The Dial clicks through the comedy special My Dad Wrote A Porno , Klepper , Terrace House , Sneaky Pete , and The Good Fight (now we're up to Season 3!). Tara presents Season 1, Episode 4 of Rosehaven to The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roll up our sleeves for a game about jobs. Take a break from inventorying all the food in town and join us! GUESTS 👤 Emily Yoshida TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏘 The Society Around The Dial: 🍆 My Dad Wrote A Porno Around The Dial: 📺 Klepper Around The Dial: 🏡 Terrace House Around The Dial: 😏 Sneaky Pete Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight The Canon: 🏆 Rosehaven S01.E04 Winner & Loser: 👍 J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele Winner & Loser: 👎 Constance Wu Game Time: 🧠 What's My Job? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 251 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Emily Yoshida on Twitter 🌠 The Night Call podcast 🌠 Night Call on Patreon 🔖 Tara's Haley Lu Richardson post at Primetimer 👮‍♂️ Sarah's Bosch post at Primetimer

May 8, 2019

HBO has gone back to the 1980s for a miniseries take on the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; to discuss whether the show is as big a catastrophe as the event, we've invited Adam Sternbergh to join us! Around The Dial clicks through Tuca & Bertie , Dead To Me , Money Heist , Atlanta , and Hulu's upcoming Catch-22 . Sean and Tim use their Extra Credit to challenge us to rank the caregivers of Call The Midwife before Adam presents the first Barry episode to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we each try not to be the last holding the Hot Potato during Game Time. Put on your hazmat suit and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ☢️ Chernobyl Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Tuca & Bertie Around The Dial: 😵 Dead To Me Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📼 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🫴 Catch-22 Extra Credit: 🤑 Rank A Midwife The Canon: 🏆 Barry S01.E07: Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast, And Keep Going Winner & Loser: 👍 Elizabeth Banks Winner & Loser: 👎 The Game Of Thrones set dec who left a takeout coffee cup in a shot, and the HBO PR team that tried to be cute about it Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 250 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 🏦 Tara on Good Girls for Primetimer 😷 Sarah on The Act for Primetimer

May 1, 2019

It's a good thing today's Canon pitch is for The Other Two , because returning guest John Ramos is a super-fan -- but before we got around to that, we had to punch our tickets for The Red Line , CBS's weighty series on how three Chicago families intersect in the aftermath of a police shooting. Is it trying too hard for significance? Is the writing writing checks some of the acting can't cash? And do we wish Regina Taylor had a more central role? After debate club, we went Around The Dial with I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson , High Maintenance , and MTV's Jersey Shore / Bachelor hybrid Double Shot At Love , then High Castled some alternate-timeline/dystopian show pitches in an Extra Credit from C.G. before hearing that The Other Two Canon submission. Shannen Doherty won, Game Of Thrones took a bunch of losses, and we jammed with the return of One Letter Off Game Time. Throw a tiny needlepoint pillow on a concrete lounger and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 📈 The Red Line Around The Dial: 😱 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: 🪴 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 💘 Double Shot At Love With DJ Pauly D And Vinny Extra Credit: 🤑 The Showrunner In The High Castle The Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S01.E03: Chase Gets A Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Shannen Doherty Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones people Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 249 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥷 Tara's Barry piece for Decider 🎶 MASTAS ✍️ Crime Writers On

Apr 27, 2019

It's an all-Game Time episode to make up for last week's missing competition. Testing their TV knowledge are Kari Race, Chris Billig and Sarah S. Coward. We played TV themes, they tried to figure out what show they were from. Sounds easy, right? GUESTS 👤 Kari Race 👤 Chris Billig 👤 Sarah S. Coward TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Name That Theme NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 248 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Apr 24, 2019

HBO has imported Gentleman Jack , a BBC dramedy based on the journals of 19th-century lesbian landowner Anne Lister, and we've invited Mark Blankenship to join us in getting way up under its skirts! Around The Dial takes us through the débuts of The New Negroes and Ramy ; Losers ; Fleabag ; and The Good Fight . Jacqueline brings us an Extra Credit question about our teen BFFs. Mark presents the Designing Women episode "The Beauty Contest" to The Canon then we name the week's Winner and Loser. Loosen your corset and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🌾 Gentleman Jack Around The Dial: 🚨 The New Negroes Around The Dial: 🇯🇪 Ramy Around The Dial: 😪 Losers Around The Dial: 🪰 Fleabag Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Extra Credit: 🤑 Your TV Teen BFFs The Canon: 🏆 Designing Women S01.E02: The Beauty Contest Winner & Loser: 👍 Chaos Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Che NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 247 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🪑 The Blankenship Chair 👎 Tara on the rotten kids of Better Things at Decider ✍️ The Crime Writers On podcast 📙 Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel at Amazon

Apr 17, 2019

Game Of Thrones is finally back, and so are Kim and Jim, partly because Tara and Sarah have no real idea what's going on on the show but also because we treasure their insights on everything from Lady Mormont, to whether Jon and Dany have chemistry (no), to whether ANYONE in any kingdom is wearing a hat (no, and Jim has questions about that). After discussing important matters like dragon kibble, we went Around The Dial with CBS reality shows, The Magicians , Bosch , and Bless This Mess , and Dave sneak-previewed part of our Patreon-only discussion of incorrect spin-offs. Charles put us in the box with Pembleton with a Homicide: Life On The Street submission for the Canon, and while casting agents for streaming services were winners, Lori Loughlin and Massimo Targetini were losers...aaaaagain. Did Tara's non-regulation Game Time fill our hearts with song? Does Euron look like Pacey Witter? And why is Tyrion's one-liner game (as it were) going downhill? All those answers and more in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚽 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 🙏🏻 Bless This Mess Around The Dial: ⛺️ Survivor Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch Around The Dial: 🧐 Jeopardy The Canon: 🏆 Homicide: Life On The Street S02.E02: Black And Blue Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate McKinnon and Sterling K. Brown Winner & Loser: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Tube Toons IV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 246 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😈 Bran memes 😈 More Bran memes 😇 Tara's Jane The Virgin post on Decider 🛥 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs talks about "Rio"

Apr 10, 2019

FX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon , a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine on whether it should have opened and closed the same night. Around The Dial spins through the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve ; the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ; Brit crime drama Unforgotten ; and Cinemax's new period immigration/tong drama Warrior . In the absence of a Canon segment (...it's a long story), we speed through the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a special double shot of Game Time. Grab a Seconal and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕺 Fosse/Verdon Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Unforgotten Around The Dial: ⚔️ Warrior Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave Winner & Loser: 👎 Drunks; CBS Game Time: 🧠 TV Pets Game Time: 🧠 These Shows Have Issues NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 245 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧸 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🧌 Upstart Creatures 🎭 National Alliance For Musical Theatre

Apr 3, 2019

Will Hines joins the panel for the latest imagining of The Twilight Zone from Jordan Peele -- an idea whose time may have come and (thanks to Black Mirror ) gone. Will the show find its footing once the proof-of-concept episodes are done? And is this enough to get folks to pay for CBS All Access? Later, we went Around The Dial with HBO's peek comedies Veep and Barry , Aeon Flux -y guilty pleasure Love, Death & Robots , ER , and Deadwind before Dave The Poker Pro challenged us to find the next deep-dive Again With This podcast topic. We considered a precious (geddit?) Steven Universe episode for The Canon before declaring SVU a long-running winner and Tori Spelling an Insta loser...and then Phil Collins sang us into a very friendly Game Time. There's something on the wing! (It's an all-new Extra Hot Great.) GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌌 The Twilight Zone (2019) Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Veep Around The Dial: 🥷 Barry Around The Dial: 🦾 Love, Death + Robots Around The Dial: 🩻 ER Around The Dial: 🌬 Deadwind Extra Credit: 🤑 Again With Again With This The Canon: 🏆 Steven Universe S03.E12: Mr. Greg Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: 🧠 I've Seen Your Face Before My Friend But I Don't Know If You Know Who I Am NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 244 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌌 Watch the first ep of Twilight Zone free on YouTube 🏝 Again With This 🎶 March MASTAS 💥 Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Spiderman 🎙 Will Hines on Comedy Bang Bang

Mar 27, 2019

FX has adapted the 2014 vampire mockumentary film What We Do In The Shadows as a TV series: does it have the same bite as the original? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to discuss! Around The Dial spins through The Village ; Playing House alumni Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair's live UCB improv show; Season 3 of The Good Fight ; and commonwealth news spoofs This Time With Alan Partridge and Get Krack!n . Tara celebrates a Taskmaster -related Tiny Triumph before pitching the Frasier episode "The Matchmaker" for induction into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and then close up with a Game Time that challenges us all on our spelling ability. Close all your blackout curtains and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛 What We Do In The Shadows Around The Dial: 🏘 The Village Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Lennon Parham & Jessica St. Clair Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: ⏳ This Time With Alan Partridge Around The Dial: 🚨 Get Krack!n Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Taskmaster The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S02.E03: The Matchmaker Winner & Loser: 👍 Emily Dickinson Winner & Loser: 👎 Supernatural Mme. Caroline and other Supernatural fans Game Time: 🧠 If Leaving E Is Easy NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 243 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪒 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🫧 Nick's new immersive show The Pod at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Mar 20, 2019

Project Runway returns to Bravo for its 17th season (the spread-eagle), and Fug Girls Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks return to the podcast to talk about new judges, new mentor Christian Siriano, a new challenge "twist" we all dislike, and the same old reliable show structure. We make some shot-in-the-dark guesses about the season's eventual winner, too, while feeling relieved the show has a proper budget again. Then it's a super-size Around The Dial discussing Shrill , Instant Hotel , the return of Hoarders , Summer House , and Mental Samurai before we tucked into some wine and cheese with Caroline's Extra Credit on our favorite shows to snack in front of. Spring was in the air for Heather's presentation of a first-season Beverly Hills, 90210 for the Canon; Great British Bake Off won, and Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin lost, some more; and we had our Phil of "Easy Lover," Jacqueline's love-triangle Game Time. Where's Andre? He's listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪡 Project Runway Around The Dial: 🧙‍♀️ Shrill Around The Dial: 🏩 Instant Hotel Around The Dial: 💩 Hoarders Around The Dial: ☀️ Summer House Around The Dial: 🙇 Mental Samurai Extra Credit: 🤑 The Cheese And Wine Show The Canon: 🏆 Beverly Hills, 90210 S01.E21: Spring Dance Winner & Loser: 👍 The Great British Bake Off Winner & Loser: 👎 Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, some more Game Time: 🧠 Easy Lover NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 242 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎩 Go Fug Yourself 🤦‍♂️ Reality Steve 🏝 Again With This

Mar 13, 2019

Ricky Gervais has brought us another sitcom and dared us to reject both it and him; Will Leitch has returned to accept the challenge. Around The Dial clicks through Good Girls , Creative Galaxy , and Call The Midwife , before Dave and Tara take on a Taskmaster task for Extra Credit. Will presents Nathan For You 's "Finding Frances" for the Canon; we crown the week's Winners and Losers; and then we finish "That's What It's Called?" in Game Time. Take a break from mourning and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 😇 After Life Around The Dial: 🏦 Good Girls Around The Dial: 🌌 Creative Galaxy Around The Dial: 🍼 Call The Midwife Extra Credit: 🤑 Taking To Taskmaster The Canon: 🏆 Nathan For You S04.E08: Finding Frances Winner & Loser: 👍 Silver foxes Winner & Loser: 👎 Rich parents of dumb children Game Time: 🧠 That's What It's Called? Part 2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 241 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter ✍️ Will's Tinyletter 🏀 The Will Leitch Show 🎞 Grierson & Leitch 🏄‍♂️ Sarah on Luke Perry at Pop Culture Happy Hour 👨‍🚒 Sarah on Backdraft at I Hate It But I Love It ☄️ Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🤷 Tara on Decider

Feb 27, 2019

Does Whiskey Cavalier seem familiar? And is it because ABC is trying to clone Castle again, some more? That's returning guest Kathryn VanArendonk's theory, and the regulars are inclined to agree -- but we also agree that, although the new spy drama isn't prestige TV and doesn't make sense all the time, it's also pretty good and doesn't take itself too seriously, and once Lauren Cohan learns how to handle a gun (and stop looking like Countess Luann from RHONYC ), it's got a bright future. After we downed those shots (fired), we went Around The Dial with Desus & Mero , a High Maintenance complaint, The Magicians , Schitt's Creek , Grace & Frankie , and Taskmaster before personalizing our own The Good Places in an Extra Credit for Erica. Tara accepted a months-old Canon challenge from Dave when she tried to get a King Of Queens episode crowned for the Canon, before a boy-band alliance was declared a Winner, another King (of Pop's estate) tried to make a Loser out of HBO, and sad songs said TOO much about Game Time. Hide a knife in your boot and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥃 Whiskey Cavalier Around The Dial: ✍️ Desus & Mero Around The Dial: 🪴 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🏞 Schitt's Creek Around The Dial: 🧓 Grace & Frankie Around The Dial: 📝 Taskmaster Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 The King Of Queens S05.E21: Clothes Encounters Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Colton Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO, sort of Game Time: 🧠 That's What It's Called?! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 240 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥃 Kathryn's review of Whiskey Cavalier on Vulture 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 🛩 How to watch Taskmaster "through methods" 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🎹 The Video for Billy Joel's "My Life" 🧞 Cover of Bob James' "The Genie"

Feb 20, 2019

IFC's parody series Documentary Now! is back for its third season with six new spoofs of noteworthy docs, starting with Wild Wild Country (here reimagined as Batsh*t Valley ). Is it still as note-perfect as its first two seasons have been? Molly Lambert makes her Extra Hot Great début to join us and discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Adam McKay's new Amazon infotainment series This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy , Naked & Afraid , Sneaky Pete , and Miracle Workers . Erica presents the Series 6 finale of The Great British Bake Off for induction into the Canon, and then after identifying the week's Winner and Loser -- identifying rather closely, in the former case -- we face off in a Game Time that has some harsh words for all of us. Put on your black and yellow finery and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Molly Lambert TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎞 Documentary Now! Around The Dial: 📈 This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy Around The Dial: 🙀 Naked & Afraid Around The Dial: 😏 Sneaky Pete Around The Dial: 😇 Miracle Workers The Canon: 🏆 The Great British Bake Off S06.E10: Final Winner & Loser: 👍 Us Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 I'm Rubber And You're Glue NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 239 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Molly Lambert on Twitter 📸 Molly Lambert on Instagram 💍 Sarah and Tara's latest trip to Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean to discuss The Wedding March 3: Here Comes The Bride 🌚 Night Call Podcast 👯‍♀️ Molly's Sleazy Friends 🦇 Batsh*t Valley on YouTube 🪨 TV Stones Challenge 🍞 Sarah and Dan's GBBO Halloween

Feb 13, 2019

Amazon's import from ITV, White Dragon , is about a life and marriage that isn't what it seemed...and unfortunately, that's a meta comment on the show, because it seemed good, but was not. Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss the show's first dumb, then too-Bond protagonist; the actors we didn't see enough of; and the Lost -ish Hydra of questions and puzzles. Then we moved on to a mini-Wheel of Murder and recommended overseas crime shows we DID like, including a French Agatha Christie, a Japanese Sherlock Holmes, a Spanish Ocean's 11 , and the pretenders to Happy Valley 's throne. And we STILL had yet to go Around The Dial to discuss One Day At A Time 's third season, American Soul , the Studio 54 doc, and the Big Mouth Valentine's special! After Caroline hit us with an EHG-history game in her Extra Credit, we were... Charmed by a listener's Canon presentation. The Other Two won, NBC lost Bob Costas, and it's all about location in a very stately Game Time. Don't lose your passport: it's time to visit an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐲 White Dragon Lead Topic: 👁 Private Eyes Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Miss Sherlock Lead Topic: 🧩 Agatha Christie's Criminal Games Lead Topic: 😬 No Offense Lead Topic: 🏞 Happy Valley Lead Topic: 💰 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📆 One Day At A Time Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Soul Around The Dial: 🪩 Studio 54 Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Extra Credit: 🤑 EHG History The Canon: 🏆 Charmed S02.E02: Morality Bites Winner & Loser: 👍 The Other Two Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC Game Time: 🧠 Location, Location, Location NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 238 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 The Extra Hot Great Patreon page 🐦 Al Lowe Huff on Twitter 🇬🇧 Al's writing at MHz Choice ☕️ The Midsomer Murders plot-bot on Twitter 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

Feb 6, 2019

Just in time for Groundhog Day, Netflix has released Russian Doll , in which Natasha Lyonne's Nadia keeps dying and being resurrected into the bathroom at her birthday party. Joining us to discuss is first-time guest/New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik! Around The Dial checks in with Speechless , Corporate , The Challenge (speaking of immortal), and Bud Light's bizarre Game Of Thrones crossover. Lauren tries to make it a Canon submission hat trick with "The Equestranots" episode of Bob's Burgers . Then after a (slightly ambiguous) Winner and Loser pair, Super Nintendo Chalmers returns to Game Time! Pull the trigger on that bathroom door handle and join us! GUESTS 👤 James Poniewozik TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪆 Russian Doll Around The Dial: 🤫 Speechless Around The Dial: 🗄 Corporate Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🍺 Bud Light's Super Bowl ad The Canon: 🏆 Bob's Burgers S04.E17: The Equestranots Winner & Loser: 👍 Andy King Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Telek Game Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo Chalmers 2: Steamed Hams NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 237 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🐦 James Poniewozik on Twitter 📰 Jim's Times review of Russian Doll 📆 The latest episode of the Appointment Television podcast 📺 The Times list of The 20 Best TV Dramas Since The Sopranos 🗒 All Jim's work at the Times 💻 Sarah on SVU 's "Avatar" on the These Are Their Stories podcast

Jan 30, 2019

Comedy Central's new..."sibcom"?, The Other Two , follows the (usually falling) fortunes of Cary and Brooke when their 13-year-old brother becomes an overnight internet sensation, and enduring internet sensation Joe Reid is back to talk about the little things the show gets right, how to talk about Survivor superfans, and why lonely and funny can co-exist. We went Around The Dial with The Good Place , Rent! Live , QB1: Beyond The Lights , and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt before Dan Cassino asked us to hand out awards for technical achievement in this week's Extra Credit. Joe Pose -d the question of a season finale for the Canon; cookies were a Winner, and messing with Terry Crews always makes a Loser; and we all crammed for a school-based test of wits in Game Time. Grab some napkins from the limo, it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍👧‍👦 The Other Two Around The Dial: 🚂 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🎭 Rent: Live! Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1 Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Extra Credit: 🤑 Technical Awards The Canon: 🏆 Pose S01.E08: Mother Of The Year Winner & Loser: 👍 Mackenzie Hanciscsak Winner & Loser: 👎 D.L. Hughley Game Time: 🧠 School's In NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 236 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

Jan 23, 2019

Showtime has tried something new with a sitcom project: hired a creator who's actually good at making funny shows! So we're seeing how well this strategy is working with a discussion of David " Happy Endings " Caspe's new '80s Wall Street sitcom Black Monday -- as well as HBO's third season of High Maintenance (now in the Sunday night big leagues) -- with returning guest and tri-state native David J. Roth! The announcement of a Perry Mason remake starring Matthew Rhys has us debating Will Dave Hate This? Around The Dial clicks through The Punisher ; Killing Eve ; and Hulu and Netflix's dueling Fyre Festival docs, Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened . Dave Roth presents Enlightened 's Season 1 finale, "Burn It All Down," for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close up with a Game Time that puts things in order. Roll up your crispest Benjamin and take a big sniff! GUESTS 👤 David Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 📉 Black Monday Lead Topic: 🪴 High Maintenance Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Perry Mason (2020) Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Punisher Around The Dial: 🗡 Killing Eve Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🔥 Fyre Fraud Around The Dial: ☄️ Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened The Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E10: Burn It Down Winner & Loser: 👍 Unsolved Mysteries Winner & Loser: 👎 Aaron Sorkin Game Time: 🧠 Order Of Events NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 235 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 David J. Roth on Twitter 😵‍💫 Roth on Deadspin 🎅 Dave's Hallmark movie podcast Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

Jan 16, 2019

Yet another reboot of a '90s WB "classic" has hit the earth in Roswell , a "reimagining" of Roswell -- and we were very lucky that the TWoP recapper of that "fine" original, Dan Blau Rogge, could join us to wonder who the new version is for, why the consistent element among the two series had to be the crappish acting, and when the show will stop being quite so obvious about the double meaning of the word "alien." Next, we went Around The Dial with Fosters spinoff Good Trouble, Adam Ruins Everything, True D Season 3, and Project Blue Book before John "Pottsy" Potts tasked us with competing against each other on a reality show in an Extra Credit (and two of us... Nailed It! ). Dan proposed Getting On with/for The Canon; a Korean Villainess won and an American music journo lost; and Tara Hammed it up in a non-regulation Game Time. Submit to our technicolor hands of healing with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 👽 Roswell New Mexico Around The Dial: 😅 Good Trouble Around The Dial: 😠 Adam Ruins Everything Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ True Detective Around The Dial: 📘 Project Blue Book Extra Credit: 🤑 Competing against each other on reality shows The Canon: 🏆 Getting On S03.E01: This Is About Vomit, People Winner & Loser: 👍 The Villainess Winner & Loser: 👎 Touré Game Time: 🧠 Ha Ha Hamm NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 234 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter 😴 The Dream 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs , in whose feed you'll also find Money Can't Buy You Podcast

Jan 10, 2019

A new year has dawned, and with it two buzzy new reality shows: MTV's Vanderpump Rules -alike Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club , and Fox's Korean import, The Masked Singer . To join us in discussing any complicated feelings we may have had about them, we've invited Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie, co-hosts of the podcast I Hate It But I Love It. Around The Dial takes us through Tidying Up With Marie Kondo , Gary And His Demons , Project Runway All Stars , She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power , and an I Am Not A Crackpot from Dave on how bad Hulu's user interface is. Lauren invites us to describe ourselves in terms of our personal TV Zodiacs. Em makes the case for the induction of Doctor Who 's "Midnight" into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we face off in a Game Time that Special Guest Stars. Make sure your VIP hostess has you set up with bottle service, and then listen up! GUESTS 👤 Kat Angus 👤 Jocelyn Geddie TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏝 Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club Lead Topic: 👺 The Masked Singer Around The Dial: 🧹 Tidying Up With Marie Kondo Around The Dial: 😈 Gary And His Demons Around The Dial: 👖 Project Runway All Stars Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power Around The Dial: 🪞 Black Mirror I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Hulu's bad user interface Extra Credit: 🤑 Our TV zodiacs The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S04.E10: Midnight Winner & Loser: 👍 Royal Pains alums Winner & Loser: 👎 Ellen DeGeneres Game Time: 🧠 Special Guest Stars NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 233 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kat Angus on Twitter 🐦 Jocelyn Geddie on Twitter ❤️‍🔥 Kat and Jocelyn's podcast, I Hate It But I Love It

Jan 2, 2019

Happy new year! It may comfort you to know that we did not resolve to be less ridiculous in 2019, which is how we have brought you another very special all-FMK episode -- this time, also implicating Nick Rheinwald-Jones. How did your FMK submissions shake out? Find out now! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 👰 FMK NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 232 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Dec 19, 2018

'Tis the season to be...janky? Not for us -- we got a top-of-the-line guest, Kevin P. O'Keeffe, to join us -- but janky is Nailed It! 's specialty, and we're here for their melty, slapped-up brand of holiday cheer, including the joy Jacques brings to the world, '80s-movie slow claps, and those hilarious reveals. But we're also discussing the RPDR "Holi-Slay Spectacular," and that hour was not on everyone's nice list despite a festive effort at twerking from Ru and Michelle's stunt doubles. Later, we go Around The Dial with Dr. Pimple Popper, Runaways, Teen Mom: Young And Pregnant , and Little Drummer Girl , and give reality-show side character spin-offs in this week's Extra Credit. Tara lugs her Canon seating chart up to the panel with a One Day At A Time finale before we declare Steve Sanders a winner, and Carlton and his dance a loser (maybe? ask Dave). And Game Time gifted us a look at the before-and-after roles for the casts of legendary shows. Dog rest ye, merry listeners: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Lead Topic: 🍰 Nailed It Around The Dial: 🧴 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 🏃‍♀️ Runaways Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🥁 The Little Drummer Girl Extra Credit: 🤑 Reality-show spin-offs for side characters The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time (2017) S01.E13: Quinces Winner & Loser: 👍 Ian Ziering Winner & Loser: 👎 Alfonso Ribeiro Game Time: 🧠 On The Map, Off The Map NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 231 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👠 Kevin O'Keeffe's YouTube show, "The Kiki," on Twitter

Dec 12, 2018

Here's hoping you rested your ears over Thanksgiving, because they're getting battered by Season 2 of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel , and Sherman-Palladino superfan Nick Rheinwald-Jones is returning to discuss whether it killed or bombed. Around The Dial clicks through the Comedy Central sketch special Goatface , Magic For Humans , The Comedy Lineup , and a whole slate of food shows, including Top Chef , The Final Table , and The Great British Bake Off . For her Extra Credit question, Caroline asks us each to identify a show recommended by a trusted source that just didn't take. Nick pitches Community 's "App Development And Condiments" for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close up with a Game Time that's a bit pricey. You don't need to pay a cover charge to hear our whole set! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎤 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Around The Dial: 🐐 Goatface Around The Dial: 🪄 Magic For Humans Around The Dial: 🎤 The Comedy Lineup Around The Dial: 🍽 The Final Table Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🥐 The Great British Bake Off Extra Credit: 🤑 Recommended shows that didn't "take" The Canon: 🏆 Community S05.E08: App Development And Condiments Winner & Loser: 👍 RuPaul's Drag Race Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Hart Game Time: 🧠 The Price Is Correct NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 230 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🏨 Touch all of Nick's things at his '70s-style L.A. AirBnB

Dec 5, 2018

It's just the three of us for our EHG "holiday episode" -- a meditation on the theme of Christmas creep. And yeah, they DO start playing carols in the mall on, like, November 2 these days...but that's not exactly the definition "creep" that became central to our discussion as we contemplated a Hill Street Blues that contained literally all the acting, plus plenty of judgment of singletons; an All In The Family double episode in which a hate crime led to a lengthy crisis of faith for Edith, who was not that crime's victim; and a Pickle & Peanut segment that abandoned us all in the Uncanny Valley. So when we say "Christmas creep," get ready to shudder as you deck the halls with a very special Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👮‍♂️ Hill Street Blues S03.E12: Santaclaustrophobia Lead Topic: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 All In The Family S08.E13 & S08.E14: Edith's Crisis Of Faith Lead Topic: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut S02.E17: Merry Mo-Cap NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 229 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥜 Watch Pickle & Peanut 's Merry Mo-Cap

Nov 28, 2018

Resident upstate...er, resident Kim Reed is back to talk about Ben Stiller-directed drama/thriller/ Shawshank aspirant Escape At Dannemora . We discuss everything from accents to wardrobe to pacing to whether trying to recreate '70s thrillers is a worthwhile goal. Should Sarah keep watching past Episode 4? Keep listening and find out. After that, we debate whether Dave would Hate This Jekyll-and-Hyde thing on The CW, and go Around The Dial with two comedy specials, Catastrophe , The Final Table , Wellington Paranormal , 30 For 30 , and a Very Special Again With This announcement; we also saved five TV characters each in today's lifeboat Extra Credit; declared Ice T's breakfast a winner and NBC a loser, and tried to recognize patterns in Game Time. Tunnel on over to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚓 Escape At Dannemora Around The Dial: 🦍 Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape Will Dave Hate This?: 🎭 Jekyll & Hyde show on the CW Around The Dial: 🥗 Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh Around The Dial: 🌋 Catastrophe Around The Dial: 🍽 The Final Table Around The Dial: 👻 Wellington Paranormal Around The Dial: 🥍 30 For 30 Extra Credit: 🤑 Put 5 TV characters in a lifeboat The Canon: 🏆 Game Of Thrones S06.E10: The Winds Of Winter Winner & Loser: 👍 Ice-T Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC's Megyn Kelly experiment Game Time: 🧠 Test Patterns NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 228 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥯 Ice T eats a bagel at last

Nov 21, 2018

Netflix's Narcos has moved to a new time period and a new location with the spinoff Narcos: Mexico , and Maggie Serota has joined us to talk about what's changed as our attention turns from Colombian cartels to ones closer to a certain famous border. Around The Dial clicks through Showtime's Shut Up And Dribble , A&E's The Clinton Affair , perennial segment star Patriot , and an update on Teen Titans Go! . Tara makes the case for inducting The Larry Sanders Show 's "Where Is The Love?" to the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser and -- just in time for Thanksgiving -- a Game Time to gorge on. Light up a joint or a field of weed visible from space (we don't judge) and join us! GUESTS 👤 Maggie Serota TOPICS Lead Topic: 💊 Narcos: Mexico Around The Dial: 🏀 Shut Up And Dribble Around The Dial: 👗 The Clinton Affair Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 💨 Teen Titans Go! The Canon: 🏆 The Larry Sanders Show S05.E03: Where Is The Love? Winner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🧠 Order Up NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 227 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Maggie Serota on Twitter 💿 Maggie at Spin.com 🪓 Maggie's deep dive on So I Married An Axe Murderer

Nov 14, 2018

As Amazon brings the scripted podcast Homecoming to TV in an adaptation starring Julia Roberts -- apparently she's done some films? -- we welcome Mark Lisanti to talk about its music, its colour scheme, and how engrossing we found its conspiracy thriller storyline. Around The Dial takes us to two comedies by and for fortysomething women ( Baroness Von Sketch Show and Sally4Ever ), two other Amazon series ( The Romanoffs and Patriot ), the ninth season of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey , and Dave's latest forcening: Teen Titans Go! . We consider a very regal Extra Credit query from Corey before Mark pitches 30 Rock 's "Succession" for The Canon. We name the week's Winner and Loser, and then kick off a new season of Game Time with an outing that requires us to dig deep into our facility with the alphabet. Grab a giant helping of gnocchi and listen! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥳 Homecoming Around The Dial: 👑 Baroness Von Sketch Show Around The Dial: ⏰ Sally4Ever Around The Dial: 🇷🇺 The Romanoffs Around The Dial: ⚔️ Patriot Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Around The Dial: 💨 Teen Titans Go! Extra Credit: 👑 The Canon: 🏆 30 Rock S02.E13: Succession Winner & Loser: 👍 Jesse Pinkman Winner & Loser: 👎 Ice-T Game Time: 🧠 Letters From Philo NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 226 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Lisanti on Twitter

Nov 7, 2018

Netflix's political potboiler returned last weekend -- without its former linchpin in the Frank Underwood role. WE returned with first-time guest Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about whether this is the one Netflix-original season that actually felt too short; which is more egregious, Doug's beard or Claire's pregnancy pad; and what the franchise might have gained by just coming back in five years' time with all-new characters and no Spacey baggage. We went Around The Dial with Will & Grace, Superstore, The Shivering Truth , the original Rake , and Bodyguard before exclaiming, "Great Scott!" at the lives, loves, and butts of a first-season Outlander . Julianne Hough won, Alec Baldwin and Kevin James lost, Tara ad-ded value to the episode with her non-regulation Game Time. Fili-bust out your earbuds; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🃏 House Of Cards Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🦰 Will & Grace Around The Dial: 🏪 Superstore Around The Dial: 🥶 The Shivering Truth Around The Dial: 🍂 Rake Around The Dial: 💂‍♀️ Bodyguard The Canon: 🏆 Outlander S01.E07: The Wedding Winner & Loser: 👍 Julianne Hough Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin James and Alec Baldwin Game Time: 🧠 Promotional Considerations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 225 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter 🤦‍♀️ Diane Lane biffs the Bechdel test 🏚 Tara on Homecoming (warning: spoilerish) 💂 Kathryn on that Bodyguard twist 📆 The Appointment TV podcast

Oct 31, 2018

With Hallowe'en upon us, we decided to take a look at this season's two witch remakes: The CW's Charmed , and Netflix's Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina . Eve Batey joins us to discuss whether they put a spell on us, or if we wished we could burn them at the stake. Around The Dial stops at The House On Haunted Hill , Iron Fist 's second (and final) season, and Counterpart . Find out whether the climax for Seinfeld 's "The Contest" is its induction into The Canon. And then, after you learn the week's Winner or Loser, you can play along with a Game Time full of memorable First Impressions. It's no toil and only good trouble in our latest Extra Hot Great podcast! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ Charmed (2018) Lead Topic: 👻 The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Around The Dial: 👻 The Haunting Of Hill House Around The Dial: 🥋 Iron Fist Around The Dial: 👯‍♂️ Counterpart The Canon: 🏆 Seinfeld S04.E11: The Contest Winner & Loser: 👍 Sofia Vergara Winner & Loser: 👎 Megyn Kelly Game Time: 🧠 First Impressions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 224 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 💞 Tara's Twitter thread on Runaway Heart 🗞 Eve's Inside Media newsletter

Oct 24, 2018

The Conners debuted last week, sans its controversial founder -- and Sarah Baker made HER EHG debut to talk about everything from how the show handled "Roseanne"'s death to the healing properties of Goodman and Metcalf to whether we'll keep watching without a possible train-wreck as motivation. We went Around The Dial with The Cool Kids , Get A Room With Carson And Thom , a Camping / Splitting Up Together comparison, and a German Flying Circus before Dylan Garsee hoped an RPDR All Stars episode would get to sashay-you-stay into the Canon. A Midwife won, Marvel lost, and a monstrous game time had us all screaming -- on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛋 The Conners Around The Dial: ⛺️ Camping Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 😎 The Cool Kids Around The Dial: 🪟 Get A Room With Carson And Thom Around The Dial: 🎪 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus The Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars S02.E05: Revenge Of The Queens Winner & Loser: 👍 Emerald Fennell Winner & Loser: 👎 Marvel's Street Team Game Time: 🧠 Monster Mash NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 223 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📈 The Conners 's ratings 👴 The official Kominsky Method trailer

Oct 10, 2018

Big Mouth has returned to Netflix for a second season of monstrous puberty (and puberty monsters), and Joe Reid is joining us to talk about the various sweaty humiliations that come with it! Around The Dial takes us to America To Me , Maniac , Chuck , and Dave's forcened sampling of Dreamland . Joe proposes the induction of the Friends episode "The One Where Rosita Dies" into the Nonac. Then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a golden Game Time. Get a textbook to hide your boner and listen! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 America To Me Around The Dial: 🤪 Maniac Around The Dial: 👟 Chuck Around The Dial: 😴 Dreamland The Nonac: 🤮 Friends S07.E13: The One Where Rosita Dies Winner & Loser: 👍 Lance Bass Winner & Loser: 👎 James Franco Game Time: 🧠 Slumming It For An Emmy NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 222 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 🗳 Joe on Decider 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz

Oct 3, 2018

When the most exciting thing about a new show is the moment David T. Cole rechristens it Men Of A Certain Beige , you know you've got problems...but returning guest Jeb Lund soldiered bravely through our grumpy discussion of ABC's attempt to throw This Is Us , Desperate Housewives , and thirtysomething in a blender. We went around the dial with the new Murphy Brown , HBO's Jane Fonda docu, Ken Burns's Prohibition , a plea to reboot Behind The Music , and Dave's French stand-up TV forcening. Jeb hoped we wouldn't declare his House Canon submission dead on arrival before we named Kareem Abdul Jabbar a winner and Weiner a loser, and tossed around a pay-cable pomme frite with an all-HBO Hot Potato. Come for the tasteless puns on "Rutledge"; stay for Sarah saying the phrase "stunt penis" too many times in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧔‍♂️ A Million Little Things Around The Dial: 📰 Murphy Brown Around The Dial: 🏋🏻‍♀️ Jane Fonda In Five Acts Around The Dial: 🍸 Ken Burns's Prohibition Around The Dial: 🎸 Behind The Music Around The Dial: 🛌 Gad Elmaleh: American Dream The Canon: 🩻 House S04.E15: House's Head Winner & Loser: 👍 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Winner & Loser: 👎 Matthew Weiner Game Time: 🧠 HBO-t Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 221 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🤰 Tara on Bristol Palin's Teen Mom -mery 👩‍⚖️ The Blotter Presents on Prohibition 🎸 Behind The Music on YouTube 🎅 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs and sometimes are mean

Sep 26, 2018

After the successes of its Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver remakes, CBS has turned west -- way west -- to bring Thomas Magnum to a new generation. Did it work? We invited Stephen J. Skelton and Todd Robert Anderson, co-hosts of the Film Pigs podcast and die-hard fans of the original, to dissect 2018's Magnum P.I. (KEEP YOUR COMMA, GRANDPA). Around The Dial takes us through New Amsterdam (no relation to the one from ten years ago), Netflix's Maniac , The Good Place , and Family Ties . We then go back in time to consider the original Magnum, P.I. with a Canon submission for the two-part Season 3 premiere, "Did You See The Sunrise?" Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to another installment of Backdoor Pilots from our old friend Dan Cassino. Put Zeus and Apollo in their crates and join us! GUESTS 👤 Stephen J. Skelton 👤 Todd Robert Anderson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌺 Magnum P.I. (2018) Around The Dial: 🏥 New Amsterdam (2018) Around The Dial: 🤪 Maniac Around The Dial: ⭐️ The Good Place Around The Dial: 🏡 Family Ties The Canon: 🏆 Magnum P.I. (1980) S03.E01 & 02: Did You See The Sunrise? Winner & Loser: 👍 Marshmallows Winner & Loser: 👎 Colin Jost and Michael Che Game Time: 🧠 Back Door Pilots NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 220 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐷 Stephen J. Skelton on Twitter 🐷 Todd Robert Anderson on Twitter 🎬 The Film Pigs podcast 🙅‍♀️ You're The Worst on Hulu

Sep 19, 2018

BoJack Horseman dropped another season last weekend -- along with practically every other streaming show, but this simultaneously hilarious, dirty, and dark animated dramedy is the one we chose to discuss, along with the correct amount of Todd; background hilarity; and spot-on guest casting. We went Around The Dial with Forever , The First , Deutschland 83 and 86 , the newest American Horror Story , and a years-in-the-making verdict on whether Dave hated Troy: Fall Of A City , and Adam hoped to declare mission accomplished on his submission of the Alias two-part second-season finale for the Canon. Aaron "Todd" Paul won, the Downey/Burnett household lost, and we went through the stages of TV relationships in a quotable Game Time from Caroline. Don't be a neigh-sayer: give Episode 219 a listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: ⏳ Forever Around The Dial: 🥇 The First Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 83 Around The Dial: 👻 American Horror Story: Apocalypse Around The Dial: 🏛 Troy: Fall Of A City The Canon: 🏆 Alias S02.E21 & 22: Second Double / The Telling Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Paul Winner & Loser: 👎 Roma Downey, Mark Burnett, and Tom Arnold Game Time: 🧠 Love, Relationships, And All That Crap NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 219 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏄‍♂️ Tara's Sean Penn ranking for Mel Magazine 🍣 McElhone tries not to scratch Salmon Penn's eyes out

Sep 12, 2018

Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry have re-teamed, for the first time since Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, on Kidding , the story of a children's TV host dealing with grief; Rolling Stone's Chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returns to talk about it (and not as if he's talking to a bunch of four-year-olds). Around The Dial brings us to Lifetime's stalker thriller You ; Season 2 of American Vandal ; and The Forger's Masterclass . Alan presents the ER episode "Exodus" for submission into the Canon. Then after identifying the week's Winner and Loser(s), we start a new season of Game Time with Before & After III. Grab your favourite puppet friend and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 👶 Kidding Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🍆 American Vandal Around The Dial: ✍️ The Forger's Masterclass The Canon: 🏆 ER S04.E15: Exodus Winner & Loser: 👍 John Legend Winner & Loser: 👎 Les Moonves Game Time: 🧠 Before & After III NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 218 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪨 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 📚 Alan's books on Amazon ✍️ Episode 1 of The Forger's Masterclass on YouTube 👁 Visit SimpleContacts.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout 🫦 Visit SuperChewer.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout

Sep 5, 2018

Tom Clancy's foxy CIA nerd is back in John Krasinski form for Amazon's new series, and first-time guests and ATX Festival poohbahs Cait and Emily joined us to talk about its problematic politics, whether the TV-scape needs another Homeland , why Krasinski chose THIS project, and Timothy Hutton's new corporate-douche casting lane. We went Around The Dial with Ozark , Anne With An E , The Big Family Cooking Showdown , Halt & Catch Fire , The Purge , and Paradise PD before taking a ferry to Gay Head for Cory's exasperated submission of a Season 6 Gilmore Girls to the Nonac. New Bachelor Colton won, NBC News lost, and Tara's non-regulation Game Time was music to (some of) our ears. Will Buntsy lose her mind at the Nonac music again? Has Jack Ryan crowned a new William Fichtner? Find out in an explosive new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Caitlin McFarland 👤 Emily Gipson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧨 Jack Ryan Around The Dial: ⚰️ The Purge Around The Dial: 🍁 Anne With An E Around The Dial: 🏔 Ozark Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown Around The Dial: 🔥 Halt And Catch Fire Around The Dial: ⛱ Paradise Pd The Nonac: 👩‍👧 Gilmore Girls S06.E15: A Vineyard Valentine Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Colton Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC News Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes III NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 217 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival 🏕 The TV Campfire Podcast 🔎 The Blotter 😖 The Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown 🛼 Austin Anarchy Men's Roller Derby presents Drag Queens Of The Rink

Aug 29, 2018

Matt Groening and a passel of ex- Futurama writers have brought Netflix a new animated sitcom set in a fantastical world with elves and personal demons and the like, but did we find Disenchantment enchanting? Omar Gallaga returns to join our discussion! Around The Dial clicks on Netflix's new teen romcom feature film To All The Boys I've Loved Before ; Jerry Seinfeld's automotive chat show Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee , and Bravo's Below Deck -iverse. Omar makes the case for Detroiters 's "Hark Motors" to be inducted into the Nonac, and then we're Hailing various Chiefs in the presidential Game Time America, The World, And Beyond. Get an Onion Julius and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪄 Disenchantment Around The Dial: 💙 To All The Boys I've Loved Before Around The Dial: ☕️ Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck The Nonac: 🤮 Detroiters S02.E08: Hark Motors Winner & Loser: 👍 Crafters Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne Game Time: 🧠 America, The World, And Beyond NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 216 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📲 TechMinuteTexas.com 💰 Money Can't Buy You Podcast

Aug 22, 2018

Better Call Saul came back for its fourth season a few weeks ago, and Will Leitch came back to discuss what's transpired so far: the deliberate pace, the subplots we don't care as much about (sorry, Nacho), the forecast for Mesa Verde's plans for market domination, and what we think becomes of Kim...and of course the provenance of That Letter. We went Around The Dial with Marching Orders , Sharp Objects , Conan 's transition away from music and the death throes (?) of late-night, and Babylon Berlin before Will had just one more thing on his Canon presentation for the first real Columbo episode. Who won the numbers game in a high-volume Game Time? Bag up that cast and hop into an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🥁 Marching Orders Around The Dial: 👨‍🦰 Conan Around The Dial: 🔪 Sharp Objects Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin The Canon: 🧥 Columbo S01.E01: Murder By The Book Winner & Loser: 👍 Niecy Nash Winner & Loser: 👎 Ian Ziering Game Time: 🧠 Which Aired More, Vol. II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 215 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏈 The Will Leitch Show 📫 Will's Tinyletter 🔪 Tara on Sharp Objects at Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🧥 "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

Aug 15, 2018

AMC's newest drama is Lodge 49 , the story of a dirtbag ex-surfer mysteriously drawn to a Long Beach fraternal order; does it deserve its Better Call Saul lead-in? Surf fiction fan Adam Sternbergh returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Insecure , Babylon Berlin , and HBO's Ben Bradlee doc Newspaperman . Adam makes the case for us to induct Killing Eve 's series premiere into the Canon, and then it's up, up and away to a comic book-themed Game Time. Put on your signet ring and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛖 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 😥 Insecure Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin Around The Dial: 📰 Newspaperman: The Life And Times Of Ben Bradlee Around The Dial: 📺 Dave gets a 4K TV The Canon: 🏆 Killing Eve S01.E01: Nice Face Winner & Loser: 👍 Cord-cutters Winner & Loser: 👎 Talking Dead Game Time: 🧠 Pros & Comic-Cons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📕 The official website for Adam's novel, The Blinds 🤬 Tara on I Hate It But I Love It talking Bring It On 👗 Vulture's interview with Killing Eve 's costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye

Aug 1, 2018

What's not to love about a crafting competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman? Wellll, Linda Holmes and the regulars could think of a few things, but our nitpicks stem almost entirely from liking the show and wanting it to be its best, punniest self. We talk host bits, judging inconsistencies, the comparison of apples to macrame, and there's even Sarah's obligatory semi-annual reference to Work Of Art . We go Around The Dial with Queer Eye , Kids Baking Championship , The Bletchley Circle: Mission Burrito (...okay, it's actually "San Francisco," but we like Dave's name better), and Trial & Error before Linda serves a warrant for inducting Brooklyn Nine-Nine into The Canon. Deadwood won (maybe; we'll see), networks' lip service to survivors and equal pay lost, and we entered the valley of the shadow of unbelievable/y crappy shows with Dan Cassino's Trough TV Game Time. Glue-gun those earbuds in: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Linda Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧵 Making It Around The Dial: 🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🥧 Kids Baking Championship Around The Dial: 🌁 The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Trial & Error The Canon: 🏆 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S05.E12: Safe House Winner & Loser: 👍 Deadwood Hoopleheads Winner & Loser: 👎 AMC, CBS, and Netflix Game Time: 🧠 Trough TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 213 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔐 Lucy Mangan on TBC: SF 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

Jul 25, 2018

Hulu's latest original series, Castle Rock , is inspired by the works of Stephen King -- but is the resulting series Stephen Kingdom Hearts? Deadspin editor, Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean co-host, and spouse of a Maine native David Roth makes his début to talk about it! Around The Dial spins to Seven Year Switch , Bosch , Last Chance U , and a vintage ad from Stephen King's past. David makes a pitch for us to induct the Law & Order: SVU episode "Wildlife" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we continue talking names in a Game Time all about TV characters' monikers. Grab some Wonder Bread and join us! GUESTS 👤 David Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏰 Castle Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 Seven Year Switch Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S10.E07: Wildlife Winner & Loser: 👍 Supergirl Winner & Loser: 👎 Fans of The Brady Bunch Game Time: 🧠 A Rose By Any Other Name NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 212 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍊 Orange Is The New Black at Vulture 🎅 David Roth on Twitter ⚾️ David Roth at Deadspin 😵 The Deadcast 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🚨 The Blotter 🦨 Tara discussing "Wildlife" on These Are Their Stories 🗣 Pacific Standard's oral history of "Wildlife"

Jul 18, 2018

Rebooting a show hosted by original Spock with the new Spock may have seemed...logical, but the summer-weight EHG panel didn't think much of the new In Search Of , which is perhaps a casualty of the internet, and definitely suffers from not committing to its crackpot premises. At least we got to make an American Movie reference about the premiere? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dr. Pimple Popper , an HBO doc on Robin Williams, and Ancient Aliens before Liz presented a fourth-season Frasier farce for the Canon. Jesus won, UnREAL lost (we think?), and Dan Cassino gave new meaning to the term "sibling rivalry" in a family-friendly Game Time. So loosen up those polygraph straps and get comfy with an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵️ In Search Of (2018) Around The Dial: 🧴 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 🤯 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Around The Dial: 🛸 Ancient Aliens The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S04.E18: Ham Radio Winner & Loser: 👍 John Legend Winner & Loser: 👎 UnREAL Game Time: 🧠 All In The Family NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 211 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jul 11, 2018

Even in 2018, the summer TV season isn't all prestigious limited series and Emmy contenders: there's still misbegotten syndication-quality sci-fantasy stuff like The CW's overseas-Syfy import The Outpost ! We stretched the bounds of Monty Ashley's patience by inviting him to join us and discuss it. Around The Dial clicks through the second seasons of Nailed It! and GLOW , as well as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Animal Kingdom . Monty presents Batman: The Animated Series 's "Heart Of Ice" for induction into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we belly up to the bar for a Game Time about TV's watering holes. Lend us your pointy ears and enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛖 The Outpost Around The Dial: 🍰 Nailed It Around The Dial: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW Around The Dial: 🪄 Penn & Teller: Fool Us Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom The Canon: 🏆 Batman: The Animated Series S01.E03: Heart Of Ice Winner & Loser: 👍 Seinfeld Elaine Benes Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Game Time: 🧠 Where Everybody Knows Your Name NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 210 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🦹 The Villain Edit podcast 💵 Tara on Paid Off With Michael Torpey for Slate 🗡 Tara's first Sharp Objects recap at Decider

Jun 27, 2018

The second season of Detroiters started last week, and new guest Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about why it's so great, and why it should be better known: the crack timing, the considered use of Tim Meadows in his lower "gear," and the things it gets right about longtime friendships. We're going Around The Dial with Pose, Nanette, Barry, Jersey Shore: Family Reunion (again), Luke Cage, and Handmaid's Tale before Detroiters 's Tim Robinson makes another appearance in Josh's Canon pitch for Robinson's eponymous episode of The Characters . Roseanne-less Roseanne won, Prime subscribers lost (and didn't even know it), and Game Time became snacktime in a quiz about food/show mash-ups. Put us on for your commute (after you check your gas tank for sardines): it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICS Lead Topic: 😱 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🤭 Nanette Around The Dial: 👗 Pose Around The Dial: ⛱ Jersey Shore: Family Reunion Around The Dial: 🥊 Luke Cage Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale The Canon: 🏆 The Characters S01.E07: Tim Robinson Winner & Loser: 👍 The Conners Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazon Prime Game Time: 🧠 Foodie TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 209 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🕸 Josh Gondelman's website 🐦 Josh Gondelman on Twitter 💿 Or enjoy his album, "Physical Whisper" ⚖️ Tara's review of Dietland at Vulture

Jun 20, 2018

While some prestigious shows do find berths on summer schedules, it's also still a dumping ground for C-list reality shows -- and for you, we welcomed back Jeff Drake...and made him join us in suffering through five premieres from the past week. In what ways does Travel Channel's Caribbean Pirate Treasure fail to live up to its title? Whose trust is being broken in Investigation Discovery's Broken Trust , other than the viewer's that her hour will pass enjoyably? Was 24 To Hell & Back too little time to spend with Gordon Ramsay in his latest Fox restaurant makeover show? How little effort could Howie Mandel expend on NatGeo Wild's Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things , and could it possibly be less than went into naming the show? And did The Proposal have us down on our knees praying for ABC to cancel it swiftly? Find out in our rapid-fire roundup! We also ponder the induction of Fleabag 's series premiere to The Canon, name the week's Winner and Loser, and go around the world for a World Cup-inspired Game Time. Confirm that your surroundings are free of pirates and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ Caribbean Pirate Treasure Lead Topic: ❤️‍🩹 Broken Trust Lead Topic: 🔥 Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back Lead Topic: 🦔 Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things Lead Topic: 💍 The Proposal The Canon: 🏆 Fleabag S01.E01 Winner & Loser: 👍 Comic-Con attendees Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Hardwick Game Time: 🧠 The World Cup Of Television NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 208 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚽️ World Cup 2018 countries

Jun 13, 2018

Season 2 of Claws is underway on TNT, and Jeb Lund returns to talk about everything from yummy visuals to tonal whiplash to Franka Potente's Rrrrrrussian accent. We're also going Around The Dial with an ATX Festival round-up, David Cassidy: The Last Session , and Sharp Objects ; and into The Box with Jeb's Homicide: Life On The Street submission from the first season. Teresa of RHONJ is a winner, the other People Of Earth were losers, and Tara lit it up with a bad-behavior-based non-regulation Game Time. Hope you've got five ones for a five: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🎛 ATX Festival Around The Dial: 🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session The Canon: 🏆 Homicide: Life On The Streets S01.E05: Three Men And Adena Winner & Loser: 👍 Teresa Giudice Winner & Loser: 👎 People Of Earth Game Time: 🧠 Dumpsters, Fired NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 207 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival 🦅 Vulture's Jen Chaney on Claws 🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session on A&E

Jun 6, 2018

It's time already for another Bachelor washout to take her turn as a chooser of men on a new season of The Bachelorette , and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who also happens to be a citizen of Bachelor Nation, is joining us to discuss the start of the season. Around The Dial flips through AMC's new dramedy Dietland , Jersey Shore: Family Reunion , The Tale , and Succession , before we move on to debate the induction of GLOW 's "Live Studio Audience" into The Canon. We name a new Winner & Loser Of The Week, and close out with a Game Time that tk. Put on your most ludicrous sequined gown and join us! GUESTS 👤 Diablo Cody TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌹 The Bachelorette Around The Dial: 🥗 Dietland Around The Dial: 🏖 Jersey Shore Around The Dial: 📚 The Tale Around The Dial: 🤴 Succession The Canon: 🏆 GLOW S01.E07: Live Studio Audience Winner & Loser: 👍 Dolly Parton Winner & Loser: 👎 Jesse Williams Game Time: 🧠 Pit Of Ultimate Darkness NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 206 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💊 Jagged Little Pill at the American Repertory Theater 🎞 Tully

May 30, 2018

Our esteemed colleague and Star Trek fantasy-draft star Mo Ryan returns to the podcast to talk about Liz Garbus's four-part New York Times documentary, The Fourth Estate , and the various frustrations we all had with both the documentary itself; its sometimes navel-gazey and tone-deaf subject; and all the things we wished the series had covered (or skipped)...though the intensity of our feelings probably means it's worth a watch. Also worth a watch in our Around The Dial section: Killjoys , Wynonna Earp , and Jane The Virgin , with another Showtime doc project, Love Means Zero , rating a skip from Buntsy. We mourned Tara's DVR, took Mo's Canon pitch for a season finale One Day At A Time , and declared a couple of vintage sitcoms Winners AND Losers before playing a super(hero)-charged Game Time from Dan Cassino. Let's hope we didn't bury the lede for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 📰 The Fourth Estate Around The Dial: 😵 Tara's DVR: A Eulogy Around The Dial: 😇 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🤠 Wynonna Earp Around The Dial: 😡 Killjoys Around The Dial: 💔 Love Means Zero The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time S02.E13: Not Yet Winner & Loser: 👍 The Golden Girls Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne Game Time: 🧠 Not Quite Superheroes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 205 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🗞 Maureen Ryan's review of The Fourth Estate 👵🏻 Deadpool 2 Golden Girls Ad

May 23, 2018

As Netflix gives us another installment of 13 Reasons Why (and we get why they wouldn't call it 13 More Reasons Why , but...come on), our dear friend Joe Reid returns to dig into the sophomore season that has dramatically divided TV critics. Around The Dial rolls through The Middle , Dancing With The Stars , Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Champions , The Mick , and Below Deck Mediterranean , with a couple of cameos from Willie Survive. Joe presents Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 's "Kimmy Does A Puzzle!" for submission to The Canon, and after naming -- and, in the latter case, really shaming -- the week's Winner and Loser, we put another dime in the TV Jukebox for a musical Game Time. Brace yourself for shocking revelations and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📝 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🖕 The Middle Around The Dial: 🕺 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 🚔 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🥇 Champions Around The Dial: 🇮🇪 The Mick Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S03.E08: Kimmy Does A Puzzle! Winner & Loser: 👍 Progressive Netflix subscribers Winner & Loser: 👎 Nev Schulman Game Time: 🧠 TV Jukebox NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 204 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

May 16, 2018

We hope Nick Rheinwald-Jones won't hold it against us that we invited him back to discuss Patrick Melrose , the Cinnamon Toastencrunch vanity proje-- er, "Benedict Cumberbatch-starring miniseries based on the St. Aubyn novel series." Because y'all, we haaaaated it, and we've got the extended remix of fart noises to prove it. It won't take a Sherlock to deduce that we moved smartly along to our Around The Dial section, with stops at the newest Little Women adaptation, Claws , and some Netflix comedy specials of note before Nick tried to prank the Canon with a third-season Happy Endings episode. Adopted series won, former headliners lost, and we made crossover events out of actors in a character-conflating Game Time. No need to go through Extra Hot Great withdrawal: an all-new episode is right here. GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍞 Patrick Melrose Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Little Women Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix stand-up specials Around The Dial: 💅 Claws The Canon: 🏆 Happy Endings S03.E12: The Marry Prankster Winner & Loser: 👍 Orphaned/Rehomed Shows Winner & Loser: 👎 Former Headliners Game Time: 🧠 Concise Character Conflation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 203 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival lineup as of this writing 📖 Ian Parker's St. Aubyn profile from The New Yorker

May 9, 2018

Will Leitch is a renowned sports journalist, so did we have him on to talk about 30 For 30 or something similarly thoughtful and incisive about the world of athletics? No, he's joining us to talk about the very special all-athletes season of Dancing With The Stars ! Around The Dial rolls through Good Girls , Gotham , Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Dear White People , and Myths And Monsters . Will presents Better Call Saul 's "Chicanery" for submission to The Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's got a lot of stamps on its passport. Trade your Under Armor for Danskins and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏀 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Good Girls Around The Dial: 🗽 Gotham Around The Dial: 🚓 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🐁 Dear White People Around The Dial: 🧌 Myths And Monsters The Canon: 🏆 Better Call Saul S03.E05: Chicanery Winner & Loser: 👍 Criminal Justice Winner & Loser: 👎 Joe Piscopo Game Time: 🌏 Lost In Translation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 202 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The Will Leitch Show on SI.com 🎤 The Grierson & Leitch podcast 📬 Will Leitch's Tinyletter

Apr 25, 2018

As HBO's obsession-inducing dystopia returns for a second season, Eve Batey also returns to discuss reflections on capitalism; college-dorm philosophizing; why wigs are still shite in the future; and whether Ed Harris is using a stunt double. Eve claimed not to be a crackpot for calling for a Simpsons cancellation -- with a surprising hatchet man -- and the Bosch theme may have been deemed Worse Than Jazz before we went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale , Splitting Up Together , and Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery . Then we were Flipping Out over Eve's Canon submission. Frankenstein 's author won, Rectify 's antagonist lost, and it all added up on a very mathy Game Time, in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤠 Westworld I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Simpsons Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Bosch Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🪦 Unforgotten The Canon: 🏆 Flipping Out S03.E07: Irreconcilable Differences Winner & Loser: 👍 Mary Shelley Winner & Loser: 👎 Rectify Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No Math NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 201 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌉 The Inside SF newsletter 🎳 Help The Ruth Bowler Ginsbergs and the Gateway Women's Access Fund

Apr 18, 2018

Netflix having successfully adapted House Of Cards (*********) and remade One Day At A Time , it's reached back into the archives of classic TV to bring us an all-new take on Lost In Space -- and new guest Jeb Lund is here to talk about all the Robinsons' extraterrestrial meanderings. Around The Dial stops at that bad episode of The Simpsons , Patriot , and Season 4 of Bosch . Jeb presents the Connections episode "Death In The Morning" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we mark our 200th episode with a special 200th episode-themed Game Time. Grab your interstellar GPS and listen! GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 Lost In Space Around The Dial: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch The Canon: 🧶 Connections Winner & Loser: 👍 Bravo Winner & Loser: 👎 John Mulaney Game Time: 🧠 The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 200 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter 🎧 Jeb's podcast, This Week In Atrocity 💸 This Week In Atrocity on Patreon 🎧 The History Of English Podcast

Apr 11, 2018

Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir joins the panel this week for the latest filmed take on E.M. Forster's Howards End , and while we liked some things -- the casting; the memories of Witches Of East End occasioned by Julia Ormond -- not everything about the new iteration worked for us. We went Around The Dial with New Girl , Billions , Paterno , and Killing Eve before sinking our teeth into Big Little Lies S01.E05, "Once Bitten." Renewed shows won, cretins lost, and Tara put a song in our hearts with the next chapter of Tube Tunes for Game Time. Hail a carriage with wifi; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Doree Shafrir TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Howards End Around The Dial: 👧 New Girl Around The Dial: 💰 Billions Around The Dial: 🏈 Paterno Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve The Canon: 🤫 Big Little Lies Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve Winner & Loser: 👍 Deep State Winner & Loser: 👍 Pure Winner & Loser: 👎 Harvey Weinstein, T.J. Miller Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 199 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Doree Shafrir on Twitter 🎧 The Forever 35 podcast 📖 Doree's novel Startup on Amazon

Apr 4, 2018

The Americans is wrapping up its spy mission in the U.S., and You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk has crammed his viewing of the previous two seasons to prepare for our discussion of the Season 6 premiere! Around The Dial takes us through Alex, Inc. ; an update on Here And Now ; HBO's latest doc The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling ; and the fourth season of the Swedish/Danish crime drama Bron/Broen . Stephen makes the case for us to induct Archer 's "Skytanic" into The Canon, before we name the week's Winner and Loser and then roll into a Game Time that Could! Change! EVERYTHING!!! Put on your headphones in the Secret Basement Of Spycraft and see if you can crack our code! (JK, we don't have the patience to make you a code.) GUESTS 👤 Stephen Falk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 The Americans Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Margo Martindale interacts with Tara on Twitter Around The Dial: 🎧 Alex Inc. Around The Dial: ⏰ Here And Now Around The Dial: 🪶 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling Around The Dial: 🌉 Bron The Canon: 🎯 Archer S01.E07: Skytanic Winner & Loser: 👍 The Wendy Williams Show Winner & Loser: 👎 John Kricfalusi Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 198 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephen Falk on Twitter 🎉 Margo Martindale's appreciative response to Tara's tweet

Mar 28, 2018

Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the show has left. How many times can it repeat the same cycles? How much longer can it really expect to keep Kumail Nanjiani? And seriously, what's with all the barfing? After Sarah celebrated a Real Housewife Tiny Triumph, we went Around The Dial with Roseanne , Splitting Up Together , the new Queer Eye , grandpa show American Experience , Barry , and a Will Dave Hate This? update on The Terror , before our guest pitched a first-season Leftovers episode, "Guest," for the Canon. Dirty John was a winner, another gross man was our loser, and Dan Cassino's Italianate pronunciation vincit omnia in a Latin-geek-nip Game Time. Grab a mug of your favored office coffee and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Bobby Finger TOPICS Lead Topic: 💻 Silicon Valley Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Around The Dial: 🧺 Roseanne Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Barry Around The Dial: 😱 The Terror The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Dirty John Connie Britton Winner & Loser: 👎 Dan Schneider Game Time: 🧠 Will Dave Say This? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 197 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter 🎧 The Who? Weekly podcast

Mar 21, 2018

NBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights , a producer of Hamilton , and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement , Slings & Arrows and Nailed It! before we ponder the induction of The West Wing 's "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen" to the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a Game Time that's a real banger. Warm up your instrument and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 Rise Around The Dial: 💔 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🏹 Slings & Arrows Around The Dial: 🧁 Nailed It The Canon: 🇺🇸 The West Wing Winner & Loser: 👍 Cagney And Lacey Sarah Drew, Michelle Hurd Winner & Loser: 👎 The Crown Winner & Loser: 👎 The Man In The High Castle Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 196 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🏹 Slings And Arrows on YouTube 🎭 Americans For The Arts

Mar 14, 2018

S2 of Netflix Marvel anti-heroine joint Jessica Jones was a long time coming -- and unfortunately it took a long time to get going. Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton joins the panel to discuss the absence of Kilgrave malice, whether thirteen episodes is five too many, and the evident female gaze of the season's directorial corps. Around The Dial recommended Champions , Altered Carbon , and the second season of The Good Fight , and Dave wondered if the Is This Worse Than Jazz theme is worse than jazz. This week's Canon submission is -- surprise! -- the second in a row from submitter Lauren, as she aims for a two-fer with BoJack Horseman S02.E04, "After The Party." And Dan Cassino hopes we get lucky with another mash-up Game Time, Before & After II. Don't punch a hole in your car; an all-new Extra Hot Great to the rescue! GUESTS 👤 Kirk Hamilton TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Champions Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Fight Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Joel Kinnaman The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman S02.E04: After The Party Winner & Loser: 👍 Kim Kardashian, out-earning Kanye West Winner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew, abruptly fired Game Time: 🧠 Before & After Yet Again NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 195 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kirk Hamilton on Twitter 🥃 Our first go-round with Jessica Jones in EHG 96 🎧 The Splitscreen podcast

Mar 7, 2018

It's time once again for Gordon Ramsay to take a break from screaming at adults and spend a few weeks gently critiquing kids: that's right, MasterChef Junior is back for Season 6. To talk about the premiere, we welcome first-time guest Lindsey Weber of the Who Weekly podcast to talk about the half-sized hash slingers. Around The Dial takes us to Atlanta , Vanderpump Rules , Drunk History , and NightMan , before we ponder whether the series premiere of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , "Josh Just Happens To Live Here!," should be inducted into The Canon. From there, it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and to a Game Time built on Sound Foundations. Fill some ramekins with snacks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Lindsey Weber TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Masterchef Junior Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Gina Rodriguez Winner & Loser: 👎 The Walking Dead Winner & Loser: 👎 The Oscars Game Time: 🧠 Sound Foundations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 194 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Lindsey Weber on Twitter 🎧 The Who Weekly podcast 💻 Lindsey's UnREAL recaps on Vulture

Feb 28, 2018

After a literal car wreck of a second season, UnREAL is finally pulling back the curtain again on fictional dating show The Suitor -- and grown-ish writer Kara Brown pulled up a guesting chair for the first time to help us unpack the show's issues, starting with its, well, need to address capital-I Issues. Also Jeremy, who is not a fetch we're willing to see happen. Does UnREAL try to do too many things, or the wrong ones? Who on the panel is cautiously optimistic about it leaving S2 behind a la Friday Night Lights ? And seriously, why is Jeremy? Later, we went Around The Dial with Nashville , Anna Deavere Smith's latest for HBO, Lovesick , and the return of NightMan , and Kara made the "wrecked" theme official with a Canon submission from Season 8 of RHONYC . The White House Correspondents' Dinner won, an entire southern state lost, and we got stuck in the middle (names) with a Game Time from David Dickerson. Please accept this rose, in the form of an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kara Brown TOPICS Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🪕 Nashville Around The Dial: ❤️‍🩹 Lovesick Around The Dial: 🎭 Notes From The Field Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🏙 The Real Housewives Of New York City Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Wolf, hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner Winner & Loser: 👎 Productions in Georgia, after abortion restrictions pass Game Time: 🧠 The Middle NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 193 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kara Brown on Twitter 🎓 Grown-ish on Freeform 🎧 The Keep It! podcast 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Feb 21, 2018

Netflix has a new period drama, set in the '90s, called Everything Sucks . Where does it fall on the spectrum of Stranger Things to Freaks And Geeks ? We've asked true '90s kid Stephanie Green to join us and break it down. Around The Dial takes us to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , The Bachelor , and Chris Rock's new Netflix special, Tambourine . We ponder whether _The New Adventures Of Old Christine_S03.E06, confusingly also called "The New Adventures Of Old Christine," should be inducted into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's been around the world. Check on your Tamagotchi and then join us! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: ✏️ Everything Sucks Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 💍 The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🎭 Chris Rock: Tamborine The Canon: 🧓 The New Adventures Of Old Christine Winner & Loser: 👍 The CW, adding original programming Sunday nights Winner & Loser: 👎 Arrested Development Scott Baio and Jeffrey Tambor, both accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Where In The World Is This Show? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 192 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter 💻 StephanieEarlyGreen.com 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Feb 14, 2018

It's an EHG reunion! Too bad it's for Here & Now , Alan Ball's new HBO show, and while Tara and Sarah couldn't make it past the pilot, Joe had some additional insights on the existential crises (and Jim Carrey-an supernatural twists) of a Portland blended family that even the show itself doesn't seem to like. We went around the dial with the new Queer Eye , American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace , Schitt's Creek , and Homeland , then tripled up on guessing the heart of our producer with a three-fer of Will Dave Hate These? before Joe pitched "the Martin Short episode" of Arrested Development for the Nonac. Netflix talk shows won, Omarosa lost, and Dan Cassino brought us a delightfully bookish Game Time. Park your Prius by the side of the road and sob (with laughter): it's an all-new, yet comfortingly familiar, Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏰ Here & Now Around The Dial: 👔 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🌴 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Around The Dial: 🌹 Schitt's Creek Around The Dial: 🧶 Homeland Will Dave Hate This?: 🚁 Magnum P.I. (2018) Justin Lin directing the pilot Will Dave Hate This?: 🦌 Hanna Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 The Caesars The Nonac: 🤮 Arrested Development Winner & Loser: 👍 The Break With Michelle Wolf Winner & Loser: 👎 The Celebrity Apprentice Omarosa Manigault Newman Game Time: 🧠 Novel Ideas NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 191 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

Feb 7, 2018

As NBC leads us into the Olympics with a sneak peek of its new sitcom A.P. Bio , we call on Monty Ashley (get it) to discuss whether it should have been held back. Around The Dial takes us to 2 Dope Queens , Dragula , Intervention , Altered Carbon , and The Cloverfield Paradox . Monty makes the bold case for Episode #1839 of Sesame Street to be inducted into the Canon, and then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to the season's first Regulation Game Time. Sharpen your #2 pencil and join us! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔬 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 👑 2 Dope Queens Around The Dial: 🧛‍♂️ Dragula Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 🚀 The Cloverfield Paradox The Canon: 🚸 Sesame Street S15.E04: Episode 1839 Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Bekah Martinez Winner & Loser: 👎 30 For 30 Bill Belichick Game Time: 🧠 Cliffhangers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 190 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 🧛‍♂️ Dragula on Amazon Prime 🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

Jan 31, 2018

Season 2 of the updated One Day At A Time dropped last weekend, and we talked with Kim Reed about the fine balance between sitcommy and touching; how the two finales stacked up; and whether we'd keep watching if Rita Moreno leaves the show. We went around the dial with I Love Dick , The End Of The F**cking World , Black Lightning , and Big Mouth , and then Tara tried to deliver a Canon win with the first-series finale of Call The Midwife . Charmed won, ESPN lost (some more), and Tara led us in a remake/revival Game Time. How long will Dave stay drunk on power? Find out in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇨🇺 One Day At A Time Around The Dial: 🖼 I Love Dick Around The Dial: ⚡️ Black Lightning Around The Dial: 📚 Big Mouth The Canon: 👶 Call The Midwife Winner & Loser: 👍 Charmed (2018) Winner & Loser: 👎 SportsCenter Jemele Hill resigns Game Time: 🧠 Don't Call It A Reboot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 189 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Jan 24, 2018

High Maintenance is back on HBO, and John Ramos is also back to talk about the adventures of The Guy in marijuana-delivery-land; whether the show's too New York-y to be relatable, or warm-hearted enough to have broad appeal; and what exactly happened to that one lady's cat. We also went around the dial with new Soderbergh joint Mosaic , new-to-John show Insecure , and the same old comforting Top Chef before considering a listener submission for Star Trek: Voyager changed the way we think about amphibians forever. Party Of Five won, casting agents looking for Trumps lost, and speaking of losing, boy did someone screw the pooch in a David T. Cole-authored Game Time. Pass around the edibles: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 💨 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 🗻 Mosaic Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef The Nonac: 🚀 Star Trek: Voyager Winner & Loser: 👍 Party Of Five (2020) Winner & Loser: 👎 Fire And Fury Game Time: 🧠 12 Questions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 188 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

Jan 17, 2018

As we count down to the official premiere of Starz's previously sneak-peeked new J.K. Simmons vehicle Counterpart , Eve Batey and Tim Ehhalt join us to discuss all the twists, turns, and...twins? Around The Dial takes us to new series Alone Together and Dr. Pimple Popper ; limited series Wormwood ; and returning fan favorites The Magicians and The Fosters . We debate the induction of the Justified episode "Brother's Keeper" to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time (RIP Sarah) (just kidding, she'll probably live). Grab a nostalgic funnel cake and join us! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey 👤 Tim Ehhalt TOPICS Lead Topic: 👯‍♀️ Counterpart Around The Dial: 🌴 Alone Together Around The Dial: 🌊 The Fosters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🩺 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 💊 Wormwood The Canon: 🏆 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 Norsemen Winner & Loser: 👍 The Terror Game Time: 🧠 The Return Of The Steep Incline Climber NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 187 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 🐦 Tim Ehhalt on Twitter

Jan 10, 2018

A new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas ! We debate whether Dave Will Hate Ridley Scott's new TV project The Terror , before Around The Dial takes us to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel , 9-1-1 , The X-Files , and The Leftovers . The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To A Play!" is submitted for induction into the EHG Nonac, and then after naming the new year's first Winner and Loser, it's we finish our televisual tour of these United States in Game Time. Put your chair and tray table into the upright position and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛩 L.A. To Vegas Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 The Terror Around The Dial: 🤣 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers The Nonac: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S02.E03: Kimmy Goes To A Play! Winner & Loser: 👍 Animaniacs Winner & Loser: 👎 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story The Versace family Game Time: 🧠 The United States of Television Part 2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 186 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth 💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

Jan 2, 2018

Happy new year! And...unhappy near-future narratives, as Nick returns to discuss the fourth season of Black Mirror . We all ranked the episodes from our least to most favorite, and discussed what worked ( Star Trek neckbeard vengeance; "San Junipero" with a twist) and what didn't (chases; barely altered procedurals). After we went Around The Dial with The Profit , Black-ish spin-off Grown-ish , and Runaways , Nick wined and dined us for our Canon votes with the "First Date" episode of Master Of None . Who were our Winners and Losers of all of 2017? Where in these United States (of TV) were the answers to this week's Game Time? And why might Monica Potter's agent be cringing? Auld lang syne up to download the first Extra Hot Great of 2018! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror Around The Dial: 🎓 Grown-ish Around The Dial: 🦸 Runaways Around The Dial: 📈 The Profit The Canon: 💓 Master Of None Winner & Loser: 👍 Late Night With Seth Meyers Winner & Loser: 👎 Dicks Game Time: 🧠 The United States Of Television, Part I NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 185 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Dec 27, 2017

What's under the Extra Hot Great tree today in this winter-holiday all-Canon episode? First up is Supernatural 's fifth-season "Changing Channels," a TV trope send-up with a couple of Buntnip elements the submitter hopes will guarantee a vote from Sarah, followed by a very courageous anime submission in the form of Gurren Lagann S01.E08. And once we've dispensed with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in-jokes and AT-AT tiki walkers, it's time to contemplate the $165 budget of the pilot of NightMan , a show that couldn't even afford a fan and seems like it's maybe actually a pest-control porno. O Little Town Of *****, N*, there's a message for one of your residents in this very merry episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS The Canon: 👿 Supernatural S05.E08: "Changing Channels" The Canon: 🇯🇵 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann S01.E08: "Later Buddy" The Canon: 🎷 Nightman S01.E01: "Episode 1" NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 184 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌉 The NightMan credits sequence you can't live without

Dec 20, 2017

Heading into Christmas, we decided to do our most positive episode ever: offering up our "Best"s in categories selected by listeners like you! What's the best show to watch when you're sick? What's the best fake website from a TV show? What's the best thing about living in The Good Place ? We answer these questions and many more in our first Besties-sode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 The Extra Hot Great Besties NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 183 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 13, 2017

We couldn't decide which was the week's most important TV premiere -- the second season of Netflix's QEII drama The Crown , or Syfy's dark Chris Meloni comedy Happy! -- so we decided to cover both! Joining us from Go Fug Yourself are our official purveyors of Epic Old School Recaps of The Crown , Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan! Around The Dial takes us to quick mentions of Married At First Sight: Jamie & Doug Plus One , Encore! , The Mindy Project , Vanderpump Rules , American Vandal , and Norsemen . We consider inducting into The Canon Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 's fourth episode, "I'm Going On A Date With Josh's Friend!" Then after discussing the week's Winner and Loser, we close things up with 2017's star-crossed final Game Time. Gather your corgis and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Lead Topic: 😁 Happy! Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Doug & Jamie Plus One Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 📹 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🚣‍♂️ Norsemen The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Today Winner & Loser: 👎 Award nominee snubs Game Time: 🧠 Star-Crossed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 182 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Go Fug Yourself on Twitter 👙 GoFugYourself.com

Dec 6, 2017

Jim Durr joined us for the first time (on this pod, anyway) to talk about Knightfall , the new medieval drama on History, and while all its trebuchets, extreme helmet cams, and campy popes can't quite_make us care whether they ever track down that crusty old Grail. We went Around The Dial with _GBBO , Netflix's weird but compelling Stranger Things: Deutschland offering Dark , and the best (and family-friendliest) of recent stand-up specials before Jim sent us back to the late '90s with a Futurama Canon submission. Dave treated us to a very little The Littlest Hobo audio recap, Tara faced off against the Pickle & Peanut theme song (...for the last time???), and Dr. Phil won while just about every other man in television lost. And finally, Game Time got meta as the panel tried to guess the TV-show-based videogames. There is no Benson videogame. Go write your reps about that, and on your way to the mailbox, have a listen to the latest all-new regulation Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚔️ Knightfall Around The Dial: 🤣 Recent standup specials from Tiffany Haddish, Brian Regan, and Michelle Wolf Around The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Dark None: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo The Littlest "Littlest Hobo" Recap for S01.E01: "Smoke" The Canon: 🚀 Futurama Winner & Loser: 👍 Dr. Phil Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw Winner & Loser: 👎 Good grief, more TV men accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo Chalmers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 181 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter

Nov 29, 2017

Daniel MacEachern visits from the Two Spotted Dicks podcast to join Dave and Tara for a special winter-themed all-TV forcening episode of the Extra Hot Great podcast! Whose picks are cool and who would have preferred being left on an ice floe? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ The Flash S03.E17: "Duet" Lead Topic: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo S01.E16: "Snapshot" Lead Topic: 👑 Royal Pains S04.E15/16: "Off-Season Greetings" NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 180 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Nov 22, 2017

Kevin O'Keeffe and Kim Reed join us as we head into America's favourite eating holiday by gorging on more than two dozen FMK matchups! It's gonna rock you! GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 F/M/K NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 179 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Kevin O'Keeffe on Instagram 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Nov 15, 2017

Two ex-contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race see their web series graduate to a half-hour weekly comedy show on Viceland, so Mark Blankenship is here to help us spill the tea on The Trixie & Katya Show ! Around The Dial spins to the series finale of The Mindy Project , Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience , ABC's new high school musical special Encore , and Rolling Stones: Stories From The Edge , before Tara gets another chance to master the Pickle And Peanut theme song. Mark presents Insecure 's "Hella LA" for The Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that'll have you whipping off your bra and/or breathing fire. Tease up your wig and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 The Trixie & Katya Show Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 👜 The Girlfriend Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🎸 Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" Challenge The Canon: 🌴 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👍 Dynasty (2017) Winner & Loser: 👎 Yet more TV men accused to sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 It's Only Tits And Dragons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 178 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

Nov 8, 2017

Frankie Shaw's new Showtime sitcom about a single mom in South Boston shows some promise, but did it make most of the panel -- including guest Stephanie Early Green -- too uncomfortable too continue? We discussed that, cute TV toddlers, and protagonists who don't learn before going around the dial with Rosehaven , 90 Day Fiance , a Netflix doc on Joan Didion, and The Pickle & Peanut Challenge. Tara took us to Detroiters with her Canon presentation, and Jordan Peele was this week's Winner, while our banned-men Loser list got rull long. Who was the odd man out in this week's Game Time? Listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great (while doing your Kegels?) and find out. GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Tiny Triumph: 💰 Old-School Recaps campaign more than 40% funded Lead Topic: 🇮🇪 SMILF Around The Dial: 🌹 Rosehaven Around The Dial: 💍 90 Day Fiancé Around The Dial: ✈️ Before The 90 Days Around The Dial: ✍️ Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" Challenge The Canon: 💼 Detroiters Winner & Loser: 👍 Jordan Peele Winner & Loser: 👎 More TV men accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Odd Man Out NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 177 page on ExtraHotGreat.com https://twitter.com/eteffi/ Stephanie Green on Twitter

Nov 1, 2017

As yet another Margaret Atwood novel gets a TV adaptation, Allison Lowe Huff and Extra Hot Game Time impresario Rob Hartmann join us to talk about Alias Grace , Netflix/CBC's period prison drama. Tara and Allison discuss whether Mike Rinder has become The Pierce of Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath , or if Remini and her nails are already an unstoppable team without him. Around The Dial takes us to At Home With Amy Sedaris , Shetland , Stranger Things , and Pickle And Peanut (and to a mea culpa regarding recent episodes of Little House On The Podcast). We ponder whether "Missing Time" is a Nonac-worthy episode of Miami Vice , and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that knows its worth. Curl up in your coziest cell and join us! GUESTS 👤 Rob Hartmann 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧹 Alias Grace None: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Mike Rinder, The Pierce Around The Dial: 🧶 At Home With Amy Sedaris Around The Dial: 🐴 Shetland Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The Nonac: 🦩 Miami Vice Winner & Loser: 👍 Pose Queer representation Winner & Loser: 👍 Andi Mack Queer representation Winner & Loser: 👎 Men being accused of sexual misconduct: Mark Halperin; Kevin Spacey Game Time: 🧠 Network Worth NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 176 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Rob Hartmann on Twitter 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Oct 25, 2017

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake is back -- and so is our esteemedest producer, David T. Cole -- to discuss Too Funny To Fail , Hulu's documentary on the much-anticipated The Dana Carvey Show and its ignominious end. After a Robin Williams-ectomy was proposed, Dave got the blues in his I Am Not A Crackpot segment, and then we went around the dial with Mom , American Vandal , Chance , and The Deuce . Tara hoped an episode of Better Things would be better enough for the Canon, Kardashians and Benson fans were winners and losers, and there was once a man from Nantucket...who wrote Game Time. Sort of. Alphabetize those network notes: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤣 Too Funny To Fail Lead Topic: 🍼 The Dana Carvey Show I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Don't let all your lighting look blue Around The Dial: 🍻 Mom Around The Dial: 🎨 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🌉 Chance Around The Dial: 🫦 The Deuce The Canon: 🌴 Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 The Kardashians Winner & Loser: 👎 Showbiz men getting outed for sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 TV Limericks NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 175 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Oct 19, 2017

With Dave still in the field, we've invited Monty Ashley back for a very special episode. Will the "Michael's Gambit" episode of The Good Place and "Parker Gail's Location Is Everything" from Documentary Now! make it into The Canon? And will My So-Called Life 's "The Substitute" be inducted into The Nonac, The Canon's evil twin? Listen in and find out! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS The Canon: 🍦 The Good Place The Canon: 🎞 Documentary Now! The Nonac: 📓 My So-Called Life NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 174 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

Oct 11, 2017

In our first-ever EHG without David T. Cole, Tara and Sarah recruited Fug Girls Heather and Jessica to help them dissect the Dynasty reboot. Do the kids today care about these iconic characters? Should the show have gone to a streaming or premium-cable network? And should any show be trying to make big business interesting? We went Around The Dial with Law & Order: SVU , Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team , Undercover High , and Grey's Anatomy before settling in for the snark of an MST3K Canon submission. We declared a winner and a loser...and everybody and nobody won in a non-regulation Game Time that forced the panel to make some tough choices. Before you bite the head off a cake-topper, take a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: ✏️ Undercover High Around The Dial: 🩺 Grey's Anatomy Around The Dial: 📣 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The Canon: 🎞 Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Winner & Loser: 👍 Debra Messing Winner & Loser: 👎 Project Runway All Stars Georgina Chapman Game Time: 🧠 King Of Iconic TV Fashion Mountain NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 173 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 The Fug Girls on Twitter

Sep 26, 2017

As The Good Place 's second season jumps off from its game-changing freshman finale, Kristen Bell expert John Ramos of the Go Pirates podcast on Veronica Mars returns to talk about how Good it actually is! Around The Dial stops at Broad City , Broad City , Halt And Catch Fire , American Beauty Star , and Star Trek Discovery . John pitches Veep 's 'Mother' for induction into The Canon, and then it's on to a very organized Game Time. Load up your frozen yogurt and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍦 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire Around The Dial: 💄 American Beauty Star Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Discovery Around The Dial: 🗳 Veep Winner & Loser: 👍 Roseanne Emma Kenney Winner & Loser: 👎 The Orville Game Time: 🧠 Attention To Detail NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 172 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🧺 Emma Kenney, newly cast on The Conners

Sep 13, 2017

We're glad Omar Gallaga returned to Extra Hot Great; we just wish we hadn't inflicted Seth MacFarlane's limp and self-indulgent The Orville on him (and ourselves). Fortunately, things perked up a bit when we went around the dial with Outlander , The Good Place , Ken Burns's latest opus on PBS, and vintage ads by Star Trek . Tara was Insecure about her Canon submission, The Bachelor and Zelda Fitzgerald were our Winners and Losers, and Game Time has a lot more mass appeal than we predict our main topic is going to. Set phasers to kill for an all-new EHG! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 The Orville Will Dave Hate This?: ⚔️ Tong Wars Around The Dial: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Outlander Around The Dial: 🍦 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🇻🇳 The Vietnam War The Canon: 🌴 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. Winner & Loser: 👎 Z: The Beginning Of Everything Christina Ricci Game Time: 🧠 The Masses Have Spoken NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 171 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🪐 "Commercials Featuring Star Trek Members" on YouTube

Sep 6, 2017

Narcos reboots for a third season (minus Murphy, not that anyone's complaining), and first-time guest Melissa Locker joins us to discuss all the addictive action! We ask Will Dave Hate This? about ITV's new gladiator-cosplay competition Bromans . Around The Dial stops at American Horror Story , Will Vs. The Future , The Tick , Project Runway , Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath , and the imminent fourth season of BoJack Horseman . Melissa pitches the Designing Women episode 'Killing All The Right People' for The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really stinks. Supply yourself with the intoxicant of your choice and join us! GUESTS 👤 Melissa Locker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇨🇴 Narcos Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 Bromans Around The Dial: 🔪 American Horror Story: Cult Around The Dial: ⌛️ Will Vs. The Future Around The Dial: 🪲 The Tick (2016) Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway Around The Dial: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman The Canon: 🍑 Designing Women Winner & Loser: 👍 Property Brothers Drew Scott Winner & Loser: 👎 Tennis fans Game Time: 🧠 Pot TV Humor NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 170 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Melissa Locker on Twitter

Aug 30, 2017

Monty returns during the deadest week on the TV schedule, and Tara proposed a TV forcening that had us all pick episodes from the week's deadest night -- Friday -- for each other to watch. We caught up with House Hunters , searched for Bering Sea Gold , survived A Murder In The Family , and tasted Epic Sweets . Then we assessed whether the Animal Kingdom theme is worse than jazz before going around the dial with Ripper Street , Scientology , and the Face Off spin-off. Will Dave hate an upcoming Orlando Bloom project about faerie expats? Did Monty's MASH submission enter the Nonac? And what the helle is going on with the theme songs in Game Time? Stop searching the guide and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗓 Friday Forcenings Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Animal Kingdom Theme song Around The Dial: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Around The Dial: 👺 Face Off: Game Face Around The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Just Like Mom And Dad Will Dave Hate This?: 🎡 Carnival Row The Nonac: ⛺️ M*A*S*H Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris Winner & Loser: 👎 Fight fans Game Time: 🧠 Le Moment De Jeux NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 169 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

Aug 23, 2017

Netflix's long-awaited Marvel team-up The Defenders arrives...but given how long it was awaited, why isn't it better? Our Two Spotted Dicks pal Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss. Around The Dial stops at the Claws finale, Episodes , So You Think You Can Dance , and Project Runway , ahead of Dave's musical question: are Netflix's trailer preview screens Worse Than Jazz? Adam boldly makes the case for inducting Smash 's pilot into the Canon, and after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time to die for. Put on your most bulletproof hoodie and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏙 The Defenders Around The Dial: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🎥 Episodes Around The Dial: 🕺 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Just Like Mom Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Netflix auto-play trailers The Canon: 🎼 Smash Winner & Loser: 👍 Suits Gina Torres Winner & Loser: 👎 Joss Whedon Game Time: 🧠 Dead Like Me NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 168 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Aug 16, 2017

Tara and Dave returned from a brief vacay to the carnage of a Fuck/Marry/Kill round of Wagnerian length and scope. Robot cars, starship captains, streaming (ew) services, Debra Messing characters, Golden Girls, Dean Norris, Briscoe vs. Frisco...people, it was terrifying. And exhilarating! And we can't unknow any of it, and if you listen, neither will you. How many times did Crying Dawson get killed? Only one way to find out, in an all-new, extra-large Extra Hot great. GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 F/M/K NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 167 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Aug 9, 2017

Netflix drops a sequel to its Wet Hot American Summer TV series, and Adam Sternbergh makes his long-awaited return to discuss whether it's as refreshing as an Otter Pop or disappointing as a melted S'More. Around The Dial brings us to USA's new limited whydunit The Sinner , Ozark , and Intervention . Adam boldly proposes the Three's Company episode 'Up In The Air' for induction into The Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to another sequel in Game Time. Put on some sunscreen and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥫 Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later Around The Dial: 🔪 The Sinner Around The Dial: 🏔 Ozark Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention The Canon: 🌴 Three's Company Winner & Loser: 👍 Debra Messing Winner & Loser: 👎 Last Man Standing Game Time: 🧠 The Return Of Before & After NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 166 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Aug 2, 2017

It's a double-date episode (aw) (barf) as Sarah D. Bunting's husband, Dan Brady, joins the panel to discuss the Lowe family's foray into the supernatural. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 The Lowe Files Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 📰 News Around The Dial: 📈 The Profit Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: 📎 The Office (US) Winner & Loser: 👍 Ike Barinholtz Winner & Loser: 👎 Mario Cantone Game Time: 🧠 Our Idiot Brothers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 165 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Patrick Brady on Twitter

Jul 26, 2017

Stephanie Green returns, and immediately regrets it when she finds out what Dave is going to make her watch. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Forcenings Around The Dial: 🎶 Nashville Around The Dial: 💻 The Bold Type Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: ☘️ Father Ted Winner & Loser: 👍 Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker Winner & Loser: 👎 Shark After Dark Game Time: 🧠 Small But Perfectly Formed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 164 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter ⚾️ Good Fundies

Jul 19, 2017

TV: The Book co-author and Law & Order Fantasy Draft winner Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Season 7 of Game Of Thrones . Should the show be moving faster, plotwise? Who's going to end up "winning" when all is said and done? Which characters are human memes? And is Ed Sheeran a big baby for deleting his Twitter? After considering these questions, we went Around The Dial with The Challenge , Friends From College , and Ozark before picking off another Canon submission with Justified 's "Decoy." Talented (future) parents were our winners, The Biggest Loser was...well, that, and we played with perceptions of opening-credits fame in a hotly contested Game Time. Make sure you pick a rubber mask with holes for your earbuds: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗡 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📚 Friends From College Around The Dial: ⛰ Ozark Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 The Biggest Loser Game Time: 🧠 And With NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 163 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter

Jul 12, 2017

FX fills Fargo's time slot with Snowfall , John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and definitely NOT because he is a crackhead. Sarah explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking cable networks should just leave swear words in movies. Around The Dial takes us through Lifetime's movie Tiny House Of Terror , Younger , GLOW , and Prime Suspect - Tennison. Hannah makes her case for our inducting the series premiere of Catastrophe into The Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a poetic Game Time. Light it up! TOPICS Lead Topic: ❄️ Snowfall I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Basic cable needs to start leaving the swears in movies Around The Dial: 📚 Younger Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW Around The Dial: 🚨 Prime Suspect 1973 Around The Dial: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 Donal Logue Winner & Loser: 👎 Hawaii Five-0 (2010) Game Time: 🧠 Haiku TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 162 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Jun 28, 2017

Kim Reed joins us for a look at the new season, plus a Cheers Canon and a Dave-hate double dip! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏡 Playing House Will Dave Hate This?: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2020) Will Dave Hate This?: 🦸‍♂️ Watchmen Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: 📺 Battle Of The Network Stars Around The Dial: 👀 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🎸 Boy Band Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW The Canon: 🍻 Cheers Winner & Loser: 👍 The Leftovers Damon Lindelof Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order True Crime Elizabeth Reaser Game Time: 🧠 These Are The Daves I Know #2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 161 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 📸 Damon Lindelof on Instagram

Jun 21, 2017

ABC adds The Gong Show to its lineup of rebooted game and variety shows, and Jeff Drake joins us as we get out our scorecards to rate the results. Around The Dial clicks to Better Call Saul , Fargo , and 30 For 30 , and includes an update on The Previouslies, our upcoming TV awards. Jeff makes the case for the induction of the Barney Miller episode "Hash" to The Canon, and after a creepier-than-usual Loser (and Winner), it's on to a savage Game Time. Peel a banana and listen in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎭 The Gong Show (2017) Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🌨 Fargo Around The Dial: 🏅 30 For 30 The Canon: 🚨 Barney Miller Winner & Loser: 👍 Bill Cosby's defense attorney Winner & Loser: 👎 Megyn Kelly Today Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones Game Time: 🧠 Ibex Moose Duck Bumblebee NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 160 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Jun 14, 2017

Eve returns to the guest chair to discuss whether TNT can finally Claws its way into the prestige-TV discussion with a dramedy about a nail salon's dirty bidness. We went around the dial with OITNB , The Handmaid's Tale , stupid Bravo tricks, and iZombie before muttering "the horror, the horror" at a Simpsons Canon presentation. Alison Brie won, Bachelor In Paradise lost (big-time, probably forever), and Game Time proved monotony can be fun. You'll be gellin' like a felon with an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 💅 Claws None: 🌃 Saturday Night Live First-time hosts we'd like to see Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🏖 Invite Only Cabo Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean Around The Dial: 🩳 Orange Is The New Black The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🎥 Entourage Alison Brie Around The Dial: 👙 Bachelor In Paradise Game Time: 🧠 Monotone Readings Of Theme Song Lyrics: The Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 159 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

Jun 7, 2017

As I'm Dying Up Here , the series adaptation of a non-fiction book, premieres on Showtime, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about its portrayal of the L.A. comedy scene in the '70s (and precisely how awful its opening credits sequence actually is). Around the dial stops at The Leftovers , Fear The Walking Dead , Amazon's documentary Long Strange Trip , and a retro surprise from Dave. Omar makes the case for us to induct the Ren & Stimpy episode "Space Madness"/"The Boy Who Cried Rat" into the Canon; and then after a discussion of the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might really make you sick. Get ready to shell out for the two-drink minimum and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎙 I'm Dying Up Here Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Fear The Walking Dead Around The Dial: 💊 Long Strange Trip Around The Dial: 👀 Exploration shows The Canon: 😸 The Ren & Stimpy Show Winner & Loser: 👍 Kathy Griffin Winner & Loser: 👎 Real Time With Bill Maher Game Time: 🧠 WebMDTV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 158 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

May 31, 2017

First-time guest Roger Cormier joins the panel to talk about House Of Cards 's fifth season, and whether real-life crazer news cycles have made the Underwoods' nutty machinations suffer by comparison. We discussed whether Dave will hate History's upcoming UFO drama Blue Book , then went around the dial with Drag Race , The Americans , Animal Kingdom , and American Gods , and considered The X-Files 's "The Field Where I Died" (...of boredom) for The Nonac. The Big Bang Theory won, a very big human lost, and we put on our best announcer voices to pair off presenters in this week's Game Time. Filibuster your commute with an all-new Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: ♠️ House Of Cards Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Project Blue Book Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🙏 American Gods The Nonac: 🛸 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👍 The Big Bang Theory Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones Thor Bjornsson Game Time: 🧠 Bruce Vilanch, Eat Your Heart Out NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 157 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roger Cormier on Twitter

May 24, 2017

John Ramos joins us to talk about the third season! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Around The Dial: 💃 Dirty Dancing (2017) Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Three Girls Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return The Canon: 🤯 Fringe Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan Winner & Loser: 👎 Alex Rodriguez Game Time: 🧠 TV Pilot Announcements NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 156 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🐟 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

May 17, 2017

New guest and certified Canadian Alex Collins sits with the panel for a discussion of Netflix's "gritty" take on Canadian kiddie-lit classic Anne Of Green Gables , and how it fares compared with the Megan Follows classic of yesteryear. We went around the dial with The Mick , a documentary about anxiety, a daytime courtroom show (spoiler: Dave WILL hate this), and Downward Dog 's fleas before we came to bury Nate, not to praise him during Alex's Six Feet Under Canon submission. Jessica St. Clair won, the Deadwood movie lost (some more), and Game Time made a (series) run for it as we tried to guess which shows had more episodes. Put a doily on your head and enjoy a brand-new episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🦰 Anne With An E Around The Dial: 🐶 Downward Dog Around The Dial: 🍺 The Mick Around The Dial: 💊 It's "Just" Anxiety Around The Dial: ⚖️ Judge Hatchett Around The Dial: 🤑 Ads The Canon: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 Jessica St. Clair Winner & Loser: 👎 Deadwood Powers Boothe Game Time: 🧠 More Episodes! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 155 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alex Collins on Twitter

May 3, 2017

With Netflix launching the series sequel to the 2014 film Dear White People , we welcome back Kim Reed to talk about how well the adaptation works. Around The Dial stops at the latest Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Pop's reruns of ER , and Season 3 of Bosch . Kim makes the case for Felicity 's "Final Answer" to be inducted into The Canon; then after we name the week's Winner and Losers, we arrive at a deadly Game Time. Dear All People: join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎓 Dear White People Around The Dial: 🚨 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🩺 ER Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch The Canon: 👩‍🦱 Felicity Winner & Loser: 👍 Live With Kelly And Ryan Ryan Seacrest Winner & Loser: 👎 PitchSweet/Vicious Game Time: 🧠 This Is The End NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 154 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Apr 26, 2017

Tammy Everts joins us to discuss Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's all-too-relevant dystopian story, plus Oprah and a Nonac! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧬 The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Around The Dial: 📔 13 Reasons Why The Nonac: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👎 The Bachelor Chris Soules Game Time: 🧠 The One-Second TV Show Theme Challenge NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 153 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Tammy Everts on Twitter

Apr 12, 2017

As Better Call Saul returns for its third season, Jeff Drake joins us to discuss the slow-burning premiere (with a few peeks ahead at its showier second episode, shhhh). Around The Dial clicks through the series finale of Switched At Birth , Amazon's under-the-radar spy show Patriot , and American Experience 's three-part series, "The Great War." Jeff presents his case for the induction of Monty Python's Flying Circus 's series premiere, "Whither Canada?," to the Canon. And after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all learn that some demented maniac (you know you are, Rob Hartmann) has gamified F/M/K. All rise! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 👶 Switched At Birth Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 🌎 American Experience The Canon: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus Winner & Loser: 👍 Hasan Minhaj, The White House Correspondents Dinner Winner & Loser: 👎 Homeland Game Time: 🧠 F/M/K: The Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 152 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Apr 5, 2017

Our esteemed colleague John returns for an overview of spring TV: the shows we can't wait to see or be reunited with; the shows we SHOULD be psyched about, but aren't; and the shows noooooobody should go anywhere near. We went around the dial with 13 Reasons Why , Tara's favorite show Legion , teen clam enthusiasts, and the end of Review before John Potts went the extra light-year with his Deep Space Nine Canon submission. Senior citizens both won and lost, before a Game Time had us all trying to guess the hearts of IMDb searchers. We're watering the seeds of chang...ing the channel in an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌸 Midseason TV Roundup Around The Dial: ✍️ Review Around The Dial: 🦸‍♂️ Legion Around The Dial: 📔 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro TV Ad The Canon: 🛸 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 America's Next Top Model Tyra removes maximum contestant age Winner & Loser: 👎 Groundlings founder Gary Austin dies Game Time: 🧠 IMDb Firsts NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 151 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

Mar 29, 2017

RuPaul's Drag Race has packed up all its wigs to move from LogoTV to VH1, and we welcome back our resident expert, Mark Blankenship, to talk about the Season 9 premiere! Around The Dial spins to HBO's documentary Rock And A Hard Place ; the 29th season of The Amazing Race ; Campus PD'_s and _ER 's triumphant returns to syndication; and another TV ad from the internet's deepest bowels. Sarah pitches the Law & Order episode "Performance" for the Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, an old un-favourite rages back into Game Time. Beat your face and join us, honey! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🪨 Rock And A Hard Place Around The Dial: 🌎 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🚨 Campus PD Around The Dial: 🩺 ER The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order Winner & Loser: 👍 True Detective Winner & Loser: 👎 Cher Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 150 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Mar 22, 2017

Our esteemed colleague Chris is back to talk about Iron Fist , a show only he among the panel managed to get more than a couple episodes into -- and what exactly the show's problem is, from bad fights to worse accents. We went around the dial with Catfish , Love , Happy Endings , and a violent vintage cologne ad before Caroline tried to "extract" a Canon victory from us for a Golden Girls episode. RuPaul won, Rita Ora lost, and Rob Hartmann took a letter in this week's Game Time. Kick your shoes off, put on some grimy pajamas, and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👊 Iron Fist Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: ❤️ Love Around The Dial: 😁 Happy Endings Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: 🌴 The Golden Girls Winner & Loser: 👍 RuPaul Winner & Loser: 👎 Scientology Game Time: 🧠 TV Typos, Part Tw NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 149 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter

Mar 15, 2017

As VH1 and Ice Cube breathe new life into an old game show format with Hip Hop Squares , Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss whether circle got the square this time around. Around The Dial stops at Feud , Amazon's Ronja The Robber's Daughter , Samurai Jack , and another classic TV promo Dave unearthed from the depths of the internet. Dave then makes his case for The Venture Bros. episode "The Doctor Is Sin" to the Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, we toy with a thrilling new Game Time. Top up your cocktail and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 Hip Hop Squares Around The Dial: 🤬 Feud Around The Dial: 🚨 Ronja The Robber's Daughter Around The Dial: 🗡 Samurai Jack Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro TV Promo The Canon: 🧬 The Venture Bros. Winner & Loser: 👍 Hanna Winner & Loser: 👎 Iron Fist Game Time: 🧠 Children Of The Free Market NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 148 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter 🧛‍♂️ Sarah's Buffy season ranking on Vulture

Mar 7, 2017

But maybe not Paige? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk tradecraft, Mad Men , and comedy on TV. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🤫 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🛋 Crashing (HBO) Around The Dial: 🤣 Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes Around The Dial: 📜 American Experience Around The Dial: ⏳ Time After Time The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Winner & Loser: 👍 The Celebrity Apprentice Arnold Schwarzenegger Winner & Loser: 👎 Eyewitness Game Time: 🧠 Spies Like Them NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 147 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Feb 23, 2017

Eve is back to talk about Big Little Lies , from Kidman's wig to good child actors to what we're hoping happens in the finale. Then Eve shared a Tiny Jane The Virgin triumph before we went around the dial with Homeland , The Good Fight , and First Time Flippers . We trundled "Into The Woods" with a Nonac submission from Buffy , and American Crime Story won...but CBS All Access may have lost us (and everyone else). Did Tara take home the season crown in a rhyme-y Game Time? Stare out the floor-to-ceiling windows of your eight gazillion-dollar Monterey house as you listen to an all-new EHG! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌊 Big Little Lies Tiny Triumph: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Eve predicts time jump Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🔨 First Time Flippers Around The Dial: 👀 Homeland The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer Winner & Loser: 👍 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Darren Criss cast as Andrew Cunanan Winner & Loser: 👎 The Good Fight Game Time: 🧠 Rhyming Reboots NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 146 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 👟 Law And Order Jog And Dog on Instagram 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Feb 15, 2017

AMC's return to the zombie apocalypse after a midseason hiatus has us bringing Omar back to talk Negan, King Ezekiel, and zombie dismemberment! The Blotter Presents a look at two Texas true crime stories before stops Around The Dial at Humans , Legion , Imposters , and a vintage ad that might choke you up. Omar makes a case for the induction of the Imposters series finale, "Beyond Life And Death," to The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, names are ALSO the game for Game Time. Wrap a bat in barbed wire and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Southwest Of Salem: The Story Of The San Antonio Four The Blotter Presents: 📚 Tower Around The Dial: 🤖 Humans Around The Dial: 🦸‍♂️ Legion Around The Dial: 🕶 Imposters Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 🏔 Twin Peaks Winner & Loser: 👍 The Crown Michael C. Hall Winner & Loser: 👎 Real Time With Bill Maher Piers Morgan Game Time: 🧠 Name Of Thrones NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 145 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🍅 The Vine column at TomatoNation.com

Feb 8, 2017

jk, it's 'only' Season 29 -- but will this round of innovations breathe new life into MTV's old warhorse? Kim Reed has thoughts! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Solitary: Inside Red Onion I Am Not A Crackpot: 📺 TV Should Do More Positive Propaganda Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 💄 America's Next Top Model Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 🩺 Scrubs Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Winner & Loser: 👎 The White House Correspondents; Dinner Game Time: 🧠 Is This Benson? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 144 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast

Feb 1, 2017

Leah Kwan joins us to talk about The CW's new Archie Comics adaptation! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📚 Riverdale The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Investigator The Blotter Presents: 👀 Expedition Unknown Around The Dial: 🏙 30 Rock Around The Dial: 🐴 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Around The Dial: ❄️ Timber Creek Lodge Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 60 Minutes Winner & Loser: 👎 Today Game Time: 🧠 Two For Two NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 143 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Leah Ariano on Twitter

Jan 25, 2017

Monty Ashley on The Amazing Fugitive , home movies, podcasts, and more! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👀 Hunted The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Witness Around The Dial: 🕶 Throwing Shade Around The Dial: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Around The Dial: 🤑 Return Of The Retro Ad The Canon: 🎞 Home Movies Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us Winner & Loser: 👎 Desperate Housewives Marc Cherry, Nicolette Sheridan Game Time: 🧠 Just One Letter NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 142 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 📹 The Villain Edit podcast

Jan 18, 2017

Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk about what may be 'The Final Problem' for real. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔎 Sherlock The Blotter Presents: 🏈 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth MeyersSaturday Night Live Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix comedy specials; FX Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Foyle's War Around The Dial: 🛶 Frontier The Canon: 😄 Happy Endings Winner & Loser: 👍 Space Winner & Loser: 👎 Sherlock Game Time: 🧠 Title Treatment NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 141 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Jan 11, 2017

It's a new year for EHG, and a new journey for The Bachelor . Jeff Drake returns to talk about the special madness of Corinne, plus we pick our winners and wonder whether watching UnREAL has enhanced our experience of the original. The Blotter Presents caught us up with the Menendezes and OJ, and we debated whether Dave would hate Canadian outlaw period drama Frontier before going around the dial with One Day At A Time 's reboot, The Young Pope , Sleepy Hollow , and games we play with Siri on Apple TV. Caroline tried to Psych us out in the Canon; the CW lost and NBC News won; and Game Time put us all to work on the chain gang. Can we steal you for a second -- for an all-new Extra Hot Great? TOPICS Lead Topic: 😘 The Bachelor The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing EvidenceThe Killing Season Will Dave Hate This?: 🛶 Frontier Around The Dial: 🇨🇺 One Day At A Time (2017) Around The Dial: 🙏 The Young Pope Around The Dial: 🐎 Sleepy Hollow The Canon: 🤯 Psych Winner & Loser: 👍 The CW Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox News Game Time: 🧠 Chain Gang NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 140 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Dec 20, 2016

Chris Huff returns for a discussion of The Man In The High Castle -- what works (set design; Smith); what doesn't (Juliana; Joe); and whether we'll finish out the season. The Blotter Presents tipped us to Unsolved Mysteries streaming online, plus the '16 crime shows to marathon over the holidays, before we went around the dial with Rectify , The OA , Fuller House , and Intervention . Chris hoped we'd Just Say Yes to a drugs-are-bad ep of Family Ties for the Canon, and we declared a winner (TV queens) and loser (the County of Kings) before getting on a first-name basis with another Rob Hartmann Game Time. It's the last all-new full-size Extra Hot Great of the year, so dig in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Man In The High Castle The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unsolved Mysteries Around The Dial: 🤔 The OA Around The Dial: 🚨 Rectify Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention The Canon: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Ties Winner & Loser: 👍 RiverdaleStar Trek: Discovery Molly Ringwald, Sonequa Martin-free, Julia Roberts Winner & Loser: 👎 Homeland Game Time: 🧠 First Name Basis (II) NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 139 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Dec 13, 2016

TV's most famous cooking competition returns for a new season set in Charleston, South Carolina, so we've brought back our official Top Chef correspondent to talk about the rookies vs. veterans format; the problematic setting; and also, oh right, the food. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot for thinking that TV home buying shows should always end with people actually buying homes. Around The Dial takes us to Divorce , Fleabag , and Pitch , before we consider the submission of the Sopranos episode "Funhouse" to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a game that may prove...popular. Choose the right wine pairing and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Top Chef I Am Not A Crackpot: 🏘 House hunting shows that end without a purchase Around The Dial: 💔 Divorce Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Fleabag Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch The Canon: 🍝 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: 👍 The Oscars Jimmy Kimmel named host Winner & Loser: 👎 The Celebrity Apprentice Game Time: 🧠 Popular Hits NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 138 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Dec 6, 2016

Allison Lowe Huff is back to talk about This Is Us , the lovably imperfect tearjerker that's occupying the Friday Night Lights lane in our hearts. We bid farewell to The Killing Season , wondered how Noel Crane fit into a true-crime classic, and celebrated a Tiny Twitter Triumph involving poo before going around the dial with Gilmore Girls , Below Deck , Search Party , and Westworld . Listener Matthew submitted a rageful Nonac candidate, the HIMYM finale, and we declared satire a winner and sex a loser (for Showtime) before juggling a hilarious Hot Potato Game Time. This is EHG -- an all-new one. Listen now! TOPICS Lead Topic: 😭 This Is Us The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Fatal Vision The Blotter Presents: 🛣 The Killing Season Tiny Triumph: 🏆 Pickle & Peanut Around The Dial: ☕️ Gilmore Girls Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Around The Dial: 🤖 Westworld The Nonac: 👩‍❤️‍👨 How I Met Your Mother Winner & Loser: 👍 Swimming With Sharks Winner & Loser: 👎 Masters Of Sex Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato Primetime Laughs Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 137 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Nov 22, 2016

In anticipation of America's favourite bird-based holiday, we're serving up an all-Canon edition of the podcast, with the focus on episodes taking place around Thanksgiving! Dave presents "Homecoming" ( The Incredible Hulk ); Sarah presents "The Wheel" ( Mad Men ); and for the Nonac, Tara offers "Freefall" ( ER ). Then there's a quick stop to name the week's Winner and Loser before a non-regulation Game Time that's murrrrrrrrrrrder (among other crimes). Load up your plate and listen! TOPICS The Canon: 🦃 The Incredible Hulk The Nonac: 🚁 ER The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Game Time: 🧠 Mother, May I Sleep With Game Time? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 136 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 15, 2016

Eve Batey returns for a comprehensive look at crime TV past and present: Brooklyn 99 , The Jinx , foreign-language series, trashy ID shows and even COPS . We went Around The Dial with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , Rectify , American Horror Story , and an apology for covering a certain business-reality program. Rosie was the winner, SVU was the loser, Tara tried to smoke out our votes with a High Maintenance Canon pitch, and we all played poet in an IMDb-keyword-haiku Game Time on an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Crime Show roundup Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 🍬 Sweet/Vicious Around The Dial: 📹 American Horror Story: Roanoke Around The Dial: 🚨 Rectify The Canon: 🚬 High Maintenance Winner & Loser: 👍 SMILF Rosie O'Donnell Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 Plot Keyword Haiku NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 135 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

Nov 7, 2016

On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live 's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives! The Blotter Presents a brief (and dismissive) look at Lifetime's scripted movie Who Killed JonBenét ?. Around The Dial stops at Ancient Aliens , Planet Earth II , The Crown , and People Of Earth ! Omar presents the BoJack Horseman episode "Fish Out Of Water" for submission to The Canon, and then after we address the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's in a family way. Set aside 90 minutes (and then...some more time after that) and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌃 Saturday Night Live The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Who Killed JonBenét Around The Dial: 👽 Ancient Aliens Around The Dial: 🌎 Planet Earth II Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 The Crown Around The Dial: 🛸 People Of Earth The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Winner & Loser: 👍 Major League Baseball Winner & Loser: 👎 Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons Bill Simmons Game Time: 🧠 Showbiz Moms And Dads NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 134 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Oct 25, 2016

Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror , from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and everything in between. Buntsy updated us on future true-crime programming before we went Around The Dial with Jane The Virgin , Halloween on TV, Bull , superheroes, startups, and Negan. Everybody wants something, and Danny wouldn't give up on his Degrassi Junior High Canon submission, plus Nev Schulman actually picked out a half-decent kid name and Sarah's sure NBC's going to lace its Sneakers up wrong. What's the best use of a drone on TV? Why didn't Dave cry at "San Junipero"? And what kind of greasy kid stuff did we get up to in Game Time? Enter the Extra Hot Greatrix with an all-new episode and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Murder In The Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Supergirl Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway: Fashion Startup Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead The Canon: 🇨🇦 Degrassi Junior High Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Winner & Loser: 👎 Sneakers Game Time: 🧠 Kids Stuff NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 133 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Oct 12, 2016

Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything? Supertroll Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Oct 4, 2016

Our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk Luke Cage , from the acting to the soundtrack to whether the 13-episode season felt like (or should have been) two shorter seasons. After a debate about whether David T. Cole will hate the distaff Magnum, PI and a Blotter review of Netflicumentary Amanda Knox , we went Around The Dial with Pitch , Timeless , Westworld (heard of it), and a Rachael Ray-meets- Look Around You web series from Australia before Nick hummed a few bars of Garfunkel & Oates for the Canon. A bunch of fall series won, Dr. Phil and Steven Avery lost, and Game Time tried to get between us and our Calvins. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 Luke Cage Will Dave Hate This?: 🕵️‍♀️ Magnum P.I. (2018) The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Amanda Knox Around The Dial: 🤠 Westworld Around The Dial: ⏳ Timeless Around The Dial: 🌬 Easy Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch The Canon: 🎶 Garfunkel & Oates Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Phil Game Time: 🧠 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Men World NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 131 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Sep 20, 2016

It's the pumpkin-spice latte of autumnal programming overviews! ...Unless you hate those. Eve Batey's back to look at the best, worst, and meh-est of new and returning shows. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall 2016 Preview The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenet Ramsey JonBenet Ramsey Tiny Triumph: 🍑 Narcos Pedro Pascal RTs Tara's piece on him The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Game Time: 🧠 We're Number 2! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 130 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 🚨 " Narcos Faces Law & Order: SVU In The Battle Of The Crime-Fighting Crushes" on Previously.TV 🐦 Pedro Pascal's RT

Sep 13, 2016

With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Blotter Presents a true crime twofer: Sarah's assessment of the latest in JonBenét Ramsey investigations, and a survey of coverage on East Tennessee catfisher Jenelle Potter! Around The Dial stops at Son Of Zorn, the Creative Arts Emmys, an update on how Sarah liked Better Things, and Narcos. Mark makes the case for The Real World's Season 1 episode "Julie In A Homeless Shelter?" to be inducted into the Canon, and then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we get into a Game Time that's double trouble. Zip up your ball gown and listen in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenét Ramsey Around The Dial: 💪 Son Of Zorn Around The Dial: 👧 Girls Peter Scolari's Emmy win Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos The Canon: 📹 The Real World Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO; Jim Jones Winner & Loser: 👎 Miss America pageant Game Time: 🧠 My Single My Single Is Dropping Is Dropping NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 129 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

Aug 30, 2016

TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorkiniest moments, and the stuff that hasn't aged well (paging, um, all those pagers in the premiere). The Blotter Presents watched Marg Helgenberger chow the scenery in a vintage JonBenét TV movie, and we went around the dial with new FX sitcoms, Lethal Weapon, The Night Of, and British teen coming-of-age story My Mad Fat Diary before Sarah H. held her nose and submitted Friday Night Lights's second-season premiere for the Nonac. Empire won, Dr. Drew lost, and tag we were all it for a very close Game Time. How does a bill become an "aw, man"? Find out on an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The West Wing The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 📔 My Mad Fat Diary Around The Dial: 🌃 The Night Of Around The Dial: 🚨 Lethal Weapon The Nonac: 🏈 Friday Night Lights Winner & Loser: 👍 Empire Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Drew On Call Game Time: 🧠 Taglines NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 128 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Sarah Hope on Twitter

Aug 23, 2016

As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's new true crime docuseries Unlocking The Truth, and then we go Around The Dial with stops at Key & Peele, British Premier League soccer on NBC, Ripper Street, and an appropriate vintage Vic-20 ad. Phil presents the Simpsons episode "Last Exit To Springfield" for the Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, we hold our noses through a..."delightful" Game Time. Log in and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unlocking The Truth Around The Dial: 🗝 Key & Peele Around The Dial: ⚽️ British premier league on NBC Around The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Katy Perry Winner & Loser: 👎 The Nightly Show Amy Schumer; Kurt Metzger Game Time: 🧠 The Delightful Dozen NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 127 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Philip Michaels on Twitter 💻 Phil at Tom's Guide 🎧 These Are Their Stories podcast

Aug 16, 2016

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well for adults as for kids (lookin' at you, SpongeBob), the most beautifully drawn (and scored) shows, and much more. The Blotter managed to dig up a crime cartoon, and then we went around the dial with human cartoons on Catfish, Seeso's Take My Wife, the finale of The Great British Baking Show (get the PBS app, y'all!), and Occupied. Did Monty get whammied in his Press Your Luck Canon submission? Did a Criminal Minds star lose(r) the plot? And who's at the top of the podium after Game Time? We've got the line on an all-new Extra Hot Great, so check it out. TOPICS Lead Topic: ✍️ Adult Cartoons round-up The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Crime: The Animated Series Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: 💍 Take My Wife Around The Dial: 🎂 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇳🇴 Occupied The Canon: 📺 Press Your Luck Winner & Loser: 👍 Making A Murderer Brendan Dassey Winner & Loser: 👎 Criminal Minds Thomas Gibson Game Time: 🧠 Gold, Silver, Bronze NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 126 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

Aug 2, 2016

For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions submitted by listeners like you, grading them on an appropriately jazzy scale: Rusty Gate The Question Is Zoot Smooth Poison Atonal Omens Of Pain Scat Man Down Barrelhouse Of Horror Boogie Woogie Influenza Slaughterhouse Jive Hateful Freeform Jazz Infernal Tootling The results may...really distress you. (Trigger alert: jazz.) Sarah and The Blotter's apprentice investigator Olivia bring us a City Confidential episode about a murdered jazz musician to determine whether it is worse than jazz. Then Around The Dial stops at Married At First Sight , Netflix's Last Chance U , and another topic-appropriate vintage ad unearthed by Dave. We debate whether Everwood 's Season 1 finale 'Home' deserves a spot in the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a non-regulation Game Time that smells a bit...rank. Limber up your trumpeting lips and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎷 Is This Worse Than Jazz? The Blotter Presents: 🔪 City Confidential Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤠 The Sixth Gun The Canon: 🏔 Everwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 This Smells Rank NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 125 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jul 26, 2016

Trek Week continues on Previously.TV with an all-new Extra Hot Great featuring Maureen "Mo" Ryan and the Star Trek Fantasy Draft! David Snyder kindly shepherded this EHG enterprise (geddit?!) through the lesser science officers, 90210 Borg Queens, and Count Bakula picks the draft entailed. Who will emerge victorious with the very best Trek team*? Stay tuned! But first, go Around The Dial with us for Full Frontal, UnREAL, the Looking movie, Superstore, and a Stranger Squirrel Girl, then see if Mo's Deep Space 9 pick entered the Canon wormhole. Rita Ora won, bloodsuckers lost, and nobody contested a winner-take-all political Game Time. Make some SPAAAAAAAACE!! on your iPod, then listen long and prosper! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💫 Star Trek Fantasy Draft Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌁 Looking Looking: The Movie Around The Dial: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🐿 Squirrel Girl The Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 Rita Ora Winner & Loser: 👎 The Vampire Diaries Game Time: 🧠 The EHG Convention NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 124 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter

Jul 19, 2016

As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around The Dial spins to the series premiere of HBO's Vice Principals, TNT's Animal Kingdom, last week's Emmy nominations, the pleasingly scaled-back Intervention, and Netflix's throwback suspense series Stranger Things. Tara offers up the Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we move on to a Game Time about humble beginnings. Log on and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤖 Mr. Robot Around The Dial: 🚌 Vice Principals Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🏆 The Emmys Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things The Canon: 🌲 Gravity Falls Winner & Loser: 👍 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Kim Kardashian Winner & Loser: 👎 Scott Baio Game Time: 🧠 Before They Were Famous NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 123 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Jul 12, 2016

Criminal Justice remake The Night Of bowed on HBO this week, and Al Lowe Huff is back to discuss the show, the original, and the importance of casting. The History Channel wondered if DB Cooper's case is Closed? before Tara Flipped Out, Allison joined the Odd Squad, Joe was Shown A Hero, and Sarah went on The Hunt while Dave got tired of being Preached to. Ron pitched Deadwood's second season premiere for the fucking Canon; Carrie Coon won and Roger Ailes lost; and Rob Hartmann bent our minds with another timely Game Time. It's time to open a file on an all-new Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌃 The Night Of The Blotter Presents: 🔪 D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? Around The Dial: 🔨 Flipping Out Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ Odd Squad Around The Dial: 🗳 Show Me A Hero Around The Dial: 🐻 The Hunt Around The Dial: 🙏 Preacher The Canon: ⛏ Deadwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Fargo Carrie Coon Winner & Loser: 👎 Roger Ailes Game Time: 🧠 More Chicken, More Egg NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 122 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Jun 28, 2016

Remember how much you loved Cameron Crowe circa Almost Famous? Showtime must hope you do, because it's airing his new dramedy series about roadies on a rock tour; designated Rock Cop Jeff Drake joins us to talk about where it went right, and wrong. Around The Dial stops at The Jim Gaffigan Show, Game Of Thrones's Season 6 finale, ABC's rebooted Match Game, and Below Deck Mediterranean. Listener Laura submits the Parenthood episode "Just Go Home" for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and wrap things up with a very animated Game Time. Grab your laminate and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎸 Roadies Around The Dial: 🧔‍♂️ The Jim Gaffigan Show Around The Dial: 🪶 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📺 Match Game Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parenthood Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Winner & Loser: 👎 Vinyl Game Time: 🧠 Let's Go Grape Ape NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 121 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Jun 21, 2016

Orange Is The New Black Season 4 dropped over the weekend, and Monty joined the panel to talk pacing, mental illness, casting churn, and dark turns. We went around the dial with The Girlfriend Experience, a Skin Wars spinoff ("skin-off"?), Samantha Bee, OJ, and series that should know when to end before they start. After we got juiced with a Bob's Burgers Canon submission, Younger won, a Game Of Thrones bastard (and viewers) lost, and hilariously passionate user reviews dictated Game Time. Get on the corrections bus for an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚨 Orange Is The New Black Around The Dial: 💋 The Girlfriend Experience Around The Dial: 💄 Skin Wars: Fresh Paint Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Orphan Black The Canon: 🍔 Bob's Burgers Winner & Loser: 👍 Younger Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Now Game Time: 🧠 Everyone's A Critic NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 120 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

Jun 14, 2016

Just when you thought you were O.J.ed out after American Crime Story, ESPN presents O.J.: Made In America, and we bring true crime aficionada Stephanie Green back to talk about the first episode! Around The Dial spins through Veep, The Real Housewives Of Orange County, the Tony Awards, Cop Rock, and another very culturally sensitive ad of yesteryear. Stephanie makes her case for the Happy Endings episode "The Shershow Redemption" to be inducted into The Canon, and then after crowning the week's Winner and Loser, Game Time takes us somewhere no one can year you scream. Get your podcast ready for the run of its life! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Veep Around The Dial: 🍊 Real Housewives Of Orange County Around The Dial: 🎭 The Tony Awards Around The Dial: 🚨 Cop Rock The Canon: 😃 Happy Endings Winner & Loser: 👍 Nashville Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Sports, Emily Austen Game Time: 🧠 SPAAAAAACE! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 119 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter

Jun 7, 2016

UnREAL is back for Season 2, and so is our esteemed colleague John Ramos, who joins the panel for a discussion of Hollywood truisms, miscasting, and whether the show is using Craig Bierko correctly. We went around the dial with Angie Tribeca, The Challenge, RHONYC, comics we had TV hopes for (now dashed), and the "high"lights of 1991 TV, before John brought an episode of Humans (heard of 'em?) to the Canon and we played a Nick Rheinwald-Jones Hot Potato Game Time. Who's more of a winner: The Bachelorette's Chad or Prison Break's Dominic? Is Niska our spirit animal? And will non-carnal wifeys Tara and Sarah be getting matching wristtoos? Buy into the fairy tale on an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Archer Around The Dial: 🌄 Twin Peaks Around The Dial: 🗽 The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: ✉️ Letter 44 Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans The Canon: 🤖 Humans Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelorette Winner & Loser: 👎 Prison Break Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 118 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

May 24, 2016

Eve Batey returns, but will it be to worship AMC's new drama Preacher, or to condemn it to Hell? TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Preacher The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Missing: Dial Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🎶 Empire Around The Dial: 🩺 Grey's Anatomy Around The Dial: 🚨 60 Days In The Canon: 🏥 ER Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Nev Schulman Winner & Loser: 👎 Damien Game Time: 🧠 Rhymes With Shonda NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 117 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

May 17, 2016

As the "regular season" wraps up -- is that even a thing anymore? -- the gang plus Kim looks ahead to the new crop of shows, old favorites, and what we can't wait to watch...or boot off the season-pass list. Catfish, The Americans, Survivor, Scandal, and the now-weekly plug for Happy Valley took us Around The Dial before we got Lost in Kim's bold Canon submission, and declared the colonies and America our winner and loser. But who won Joe Reid's yodelicious Game Time? Where are we, really? You'll have to listen to find out, Freckles: it's an all-new SPF 50 Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Preview Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: 🏝 Survivor Around The Dial: 🔪 Scandal Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley The Canon: ✈️ Lost Winner & Loser: 👍 Sleepy HollowTurn Winner & Loser: 👎 The Night Manager Game Time: 🧠 Mountain Climber NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 116 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

May 10, 2016

Mark Blankenship brings his charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to a discussion of Ru's latest girls. TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Wife Around The Dial: 🏨 The Night Manager Around The Dial: 🛩 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 👯‍♀️ Broad City Winner & Loser: 👍 Feud Winner & Loser: 👎 Dateline Game Time: 🧠 Oscar Winner TV Dinner NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 115 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

Apr 26, 2016

As Game Of Thrones returns from hiatus, and moves beyond the books, the gang plus Jeff and Nick talked about Jon Snow, Crone Castle, and what's next for the Starks. We went around the dial with Better Call Saul , Valleys Silicon and Happy , Houdini & Doyle , Project Runway All-Stars , and the National Enquirer before putting Angie's 30 Rock Canon submission under a "Black Light." Humans ? Heard of 'em (they're winners), whoever has to retitle Live With Someone and Maybe Kelly is a loser, and Rib Hurtmann changed a few things in this week's Game Time. Don't lose us in the tall grass; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪶 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley Around The Dial: 🪄 Houdini & Doyle Around The Dial: 🖥 Silicon Valley Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway All Stars The Canon: 📺 30 Rock Winner & Loser: 👍 Humans Winner & Loser: 👎 Live With Michael And Kelly Game Time: 🧠 TV Typos NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 114 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast

Apr 19, 2016

TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Game TIME TO DIE Around The Dial: ⚖️ Confirmation Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍👨 The Outs Around The Dial: 🚔 60 Days In The Canon: 🍷 Brothers & Sisters Winner & Loser: 👍 Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce Winner & Loser: 👎 Horace And Pete Game Time: 🧠 Catch The Here's Butt NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 113 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

Apr 12, 2016

Sarah D. Bunting is back from baseballing, and Stephanie Cangro is back to discuss the final season of American Idol , the Idol farewell, and what it all meant to us as a culture. Liv and a sugar high told us about Face Off and My Little Pony , and we went around the dial with Togetherness , true crime, dance shows, try-hards, and a creepy deodorant ad. Was Stephanie's I Love Lucy Canon TOO classic? Should Martin Sheen consider shutting up? And why did Sarah get Rickie Vasquez and a Nats catcher mixed up? Don't wait until after an ad break to find out with an all-new, unpitchy Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 American Idol None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Togetherness Around The Dial: 🔪 The Case Of JonBenet Ramsey Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🏈 American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson The Canon: 💝 I Love Lucy Winner & Loser: 👍 Greek Winner & Loser: 👎 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence Game Time: 🧠 Two For The Price Of One NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 112 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Cangro on Twitter

Apr 5, 2016

New guest Daniel MacEachern and returning champion Omar Gallaga join us to talk about an apocalyptic cliffhanger! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🥃 Horace And Pete Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Scandal Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl The Canon: 📹 The Newsroom (Canada) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Blacklist Famke Janssen Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Sterling K. Brown, Cuba Gooding Jr. Game Time: 🧠 Unsung Themes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 111 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Mar 29, 2016

After David T. Cole died, then came back to life as befitting the Easter weekend, Jeff Alexander sat down with the gang to discuss the second season of Daredevil , Joe's issues with Jon Bernthal, why a character based IN NEW YORK CITY can't just be Irish already, and whether any of us will be back for S3. After Liv's candy high took us through Face Off and Buntsy thumbs-upped the original Helter Skelter TV movie, we checked in with Married At First Sight: The First Year , Untucked , the Flash/Supergirl crossover, and The Real O'Neals . The Tick was a winner, the world's first supermodel was a loser, and Tom & Dick & Harry & Jane & Kate & Mary inspired a hotly-contested Game Time -- or, as Sarah's cold would have it, "Gabe Tibe." (Sorry about that, guys.) Did Jeff's mid- Office submission "win" admission to the Nonac? Does Foggy need a haircut? The answers to all these questions, plus something about a bear attack, in an all-new extra-crunchy Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕶 Daredevil None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Helter Skelter Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ⚡️ SupergirlThe Flash Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 The Real O'Neals Around The Dial: 💋 Untucked The Canon: 📑 The Office (US) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Tick (2016) Peter Serafinowicz Winner & Loser: 👎 Janice Dickinson Game Time: 🧠 Tom, Dick, Or Harry; Jane, Kate, Or Mary? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 110 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Alexander on Twitter 🖥 Joe on Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Mar 15, 2016

Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans . We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off , and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains , Not Safe With Nikki Glaser , the pre- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch , and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick makes the case for the induction of the "4 Days Out" episode of Breaking Bad to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a starchy Game Time. Go dark (to the rest of the world) and enjoy! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans None: 💄 Face Off Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 House Of Cards The Jazz In The Jazz Club Around The Dial: 👑 Royal Pains Around The Dial: 🦺 Not Safe With Nikki Glaser Around The Dial: 🚨 Bosch The Canon: 🧪 Breaking Bad Winner & Loser: 👍 Game Of Thrones Amy Ryan, Nicole Holofcener, Ian McShane Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends Unauthorized Musical NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 109 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🎶 Rachel Bloom on YouTube 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs