Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

👤 Dave Chen

👤 Devindra Hardawar

👤 Ilan Muskat

👤 Jeff Drake

👤 Joe Reid

👤 John Ramos

👤 Karina Longworth

👤 Kim Reed

👤 Nadia Chaudhury

👤 Roxana Hadadi

👤 Santiago Melli-Huber

👤 Sarah Baker

👤 Simone Chavoor

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 436 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👤 Will Hines

👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments

NOTES

435: Feasting On Snack Vs. Chef 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 435 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📺 "The One Streaming Service You Should Subscribe To For December" at GQ.com

📸 Adam on Instagram

🍖 The Bon Appétit Gourmet Makes series

🌳 "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

🐸 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

📷 Photo: Netflix

434: Swiping Right On Fleishman Is In Trouble 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

433: Does Tulsa King Rule? 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

432: Is The Crown Still One Of TV's Jewels? Nov 09, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 432 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

431: Checking Into The White Lotus Nov 02, 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

🔀 "Inside The White Lotus Premiere's Survivor Crossover" at Vulture

👧🏻 Support The Girls on Prime Video

🎙 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

430: Bundle Up For Our Winter TV Preview! 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 430 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🎶 MASTAS's Beats Around The Bush E01, "Hippie Hop Hooray"

🕵🏻 Spy Brunch on Twitter

📚 #asseenonTV books at Exhibit B. Books

🦇 Tara endorses Pennyworth at GQ.com

🎙 Tara interviews Cooper Van Grootel at GQ.com

429: Should You Clap Eyes On The Watcher? 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

428: Should You Subscribe To Alaska Daily? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 428 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

427: Sitting Down With Interview With The Vampire Oct 05, 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

426: I'll Make My Own Star Wars With Hookers And Blackjack 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 Andortoys, 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+

425: Oh Boy, It's A New Quantum Leap! 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 425 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 424 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 Photo: Ron Batzdorff / NBC

424: Is American Gigolo Doing It For Us? 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

🎙 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

423: TV Teacher Thunderdome Sep 07, 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

422: Should You Enter Therapy With The Patient? 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

421: Should You Take House Of The Dragon For A Ride? 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

420: Playing Ball With A League Of Their Own 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

419: Should You Sleep On The Sandman? 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 Team Fortress 2 character intro videos on YouTube

📷 Photo: Netflix

418: Should You Get Consciously Uncoupled? Aug 03, 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

417: Should You Make An Offer On The Ugliest House In America? 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

416: Living (In The Walls) For Phrogging: Hider In My House 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

415: A Trio Of Listener Forcenings 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

414: Holiday Extravaganza Jul 06, 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

413: Should You Go Back For Seconds Of The Bear? 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

412: Should The Old Man Get Off Your Lawn? 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

411: Punching Up With Ms. Marvel 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

410: Playing With The Boys Jun 08, 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

409: Pounding Sand With Obi-Wan Kenobi Jun 01, 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 Black Mass Appeal podcast

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 408 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

408: Enrolling In Lovestruck High 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

🐦 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

407: Roman Holiday 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

406: Boldly Going With Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 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

405: TV Mom Thunderdome May 04, 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

404: Did We Buy Into We Own This City? 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

403: Better Call Saul One More Time 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's novel, How Lucky, out in paperback on May 10

🎬 The Grierson & Leitch podcast

📰 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"

402: Interrogating The CW's Would I Lie To You? 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

🦦 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of Minx on Vulture

👃 The Classic WILTY channel on YouTube

⏳ Nina Metz's Beforeigners review at the Chicago Tribune

♣️ The Listen To Sassy Club

😖 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

401: Are We Over The Moon Knight? Apr 06, 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

☔️ MASTAS: The "America's Damp 40" Season

400: Getting To Know The Girl From Plainville 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 400 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

399: The Listener Game Time Tournament 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

398: Putting The "No" In Domino Masters 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

397: Should You Stick On The Dropout? Mar 09, 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

☀️ "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

396: Breaking The Law & Order Mar 02, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 396 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

👩‍🦯 "Love Is Blind's Creator Answers Our Burning Season-Two Finale Questions" at Vulture

🪳 Sarah's Bug Out and Worst Roommate Ever reviews at Best Evidence

📺 Primetimer.com

☁️ The Far From Heaven episode of Quaid In Full

395: Should You Stick Around For The Endgame? 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

394: Springtime Canon Fodder 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

393: Love Is In The Airwaves Feb 09, 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

392: Taking Out The Trash With Pam & Tommy Feb 02, 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

391: Does The Gilded Age Get A Glowing Review? 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

390: TV Moustache Thunderdome 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

389: Is The Amazing Race Still A Top Finisher? 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

388: Non-Regulation Game Time, Times Three! Jan 05, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 387 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

387: Extra Hic Great 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

386: Coming Home To Being The Ricardos 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

385: We Couldn't Help But Wonder About And Just Like That 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 385 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

💃 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 384 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 Photo: HBO Max

384: Did We Dig Landscapers? Dec 08, 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

📰 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

383: Selective HBO Character Thunderdome Dec 01, 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

382: Wheel Of Time And Thyme Again 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

381: Analyzing The Shrink Next Door 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

380: Debating The New Head Of The Class 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 380 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🚽 "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

379: EHG Listener Fall Forcening Nov 03, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 379 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🚽 "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

☕️ "Good To The Last Drop" on Dailymotion

🌴 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

378: Investigating Inside Job 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 377 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

✍️ Tara's author page at Decider

👃 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

🤬 Q: Into The Storm on HBO Max

377: Spinoffs! Spinoffs! Spinoffs! 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

376: Putting C.S.I.: Vegas Under The Microscope 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

375: Congregating For The Many Saints Of Newark Oct 06, 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 Sopranologist 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 375 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🔫 "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

374: Sinking Into La Brea 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 374 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Follow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🕵🏼‍♂️ Nick's immersive-theater project, Spy Brunch

⛳️ Tara's Holey Moley piece at Defector

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 373 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC

373: Drinking Too Much Espresso With The Morning Show 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

🐦 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

372: Should You Ask Yourself Y: The Last Man? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 371 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

371: Testifying About Impeachment: American Crime Story Sep 08, 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

🐦 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

370: Shut Up Alfred Poochinski Sep 01, 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

369: Settling Into The Chair 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

368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels 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

👠 LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste

👡 Joe's Heels review at Primetimer

🤼‍♂️ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider

🌺 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 367 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 January Jones on Instagram

⚖️ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism

367: Mr. Corman's Existential Crisis 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

🐦 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 Photo: Apple TV+

366: Shouldn't Have Worked But It Did Aug 04, 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

🐦 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

365: Speed-Dating Sexy Beasts 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 364 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

364: Visiting Schmigadoon! 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

🐦 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

363: Should You Slide Into The New Gossip Girl's DMs? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 362 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📷 Photo: HBO Max

362: America's-Birthday Forcenings! Jul 07, 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

🧒 Young Americans on Dailymotion

🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero on Peacock

📖 And The American Bible Challenge on Netflix

361: Should You Join The Mysterious Benedict Society? 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

360: Bouncing Into Physical 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

359: Is Loki A Good Time? 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+

358: Getting A Taste Of Sweet Tooth Jun 09, 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 Boy In The Plastic Bubble On Amazon Prime Video

🫧 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble On YouTube

357: Securing Crime Scene Kitchen, Investing In Small Fortune Jun 02, 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

356: Diving Into The 2021 Summer TV Preview 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

355: A Talking Boat, The Queen and The End Of Liberty 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

354: Girls5Eva Passes The Audition 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

353: Nice British People Doing Nice Things May 05, 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

352: Zooming In On The Reality Show Exposure 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

351: Should You Enter Into Couples Therapy? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 351 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

350: Should You Be Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson? 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

349: Surveilling Law & Order: Organized Crime Apr 07, 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

348: Did Pooch Perfect Made Us Want To Flea? 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

347: Muppet Thunderdome 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 347 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ☠️ Muppet Thunderdome

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 346 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter

▶️ Adam's collection of relevant GIFs

346: Is Waffles + Mochi The Cream Of The Crop? 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

🧇 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

345: Moving Back Into The Loft For The Real World Homecoming: New York 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

344: Brutal Bridesmaids Isn't Brutal Enough Mar 03, 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

343: Taking Off Our Glasses For Superman & Lois 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

342: The Stinky Teenagers Who Live In Secret Places In Your House 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

341: The Equalizer Racks Up The "Fine"s 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 341 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

⚖️ 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

340: Running Down Firefly Lane Feb 03, 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

🐆 Collider's report on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther TV series

🕵️‍♀️ Sarah's review of The Investigation at Primetimer

339: A Bridge & Tunnel Too Far 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 Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast

📸 Photo: Epix

338: Adjusting The Horizontal Hold For WandaVision 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

337: Big Dickinson Energy 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

336: Matlock's Big Bang Plaza Jan 06, 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 Angelesmagazine 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

335: Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes 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

334: Finding Out If Enthusiasm For The Stand Is Infectious 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

333: Is Tiny Pretty Things On Point? 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

332: Investigating The Hardy Boys Dec 09, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 332 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🥴 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

331: War Is Hell: An All-Canon Episode Dec 02, 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

330: Saying A Final Farewell To Supernatural 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

329: (Baby-)Sitting With Becoming You 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 329 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🏆 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

328: Celebrating Christmastime In The City With Dash & Lily 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

327: The Extra Hot Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Nov 04, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 327 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧠 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show crossover

NOTES

🎧 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

🐦 Taylor Cole on Twitter

326: Unpacking The Undoing or Too Many Butterflies 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

325: Are We Living For Someone Has To Die? 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

324: The Right Stuff May Not Have...Well, You Know 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

323: Doing A Tight Five On The Comedy Store Oct 07, 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

322: Should You Search For Utopia? 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 video of Kathie Lee Giffords's son-in-law and his too-tight pants

321: Coming Clean On Filthy Rich 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

🎧 Charting TV theme songs of the '90s at Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

💸 Again With This on Patreon

🎶 MASTAS ranks songs called "Hold On"

📽 MASTAS on "Co-op"

320: Zooming In On Home-Shot Reality TV 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

319: Should Away Be Tossed Away? Sep 09, 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

318: Premium Filler Sep 02, 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

317: Appraising Lifetime's Ruthless Realtor 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

316: Booking A Trip To Lovecraft Country 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 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

315: Taking Aim At Hitmen 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

314: Unraveling Frayed Aug 05, 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

313: Finding Ourselves At Lost Resort 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

🎧 Citations Needed Episode 115: How The Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking

312: A Care Package From Killer Camp 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

311: Having A Dry Discussion About Palm Springs 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 310 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

310: The Real Upstart Crowives Of The Outer Banks Jul 08, 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

309: Holding Up Our Lighters for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga Jul 01, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 309 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

💍 Stephanie Green's story "Fourteen Meals" in The New Ohio Review

🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma"

🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix"

🪀 Netta, "Toy"

🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah"

🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test

⚡️ The Flashpaper

🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on the Unsolved Mysteries revival at Primetimer

308: On The Case With Perry Mason 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

307: Is Don't A Don't-Miss? 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

⚔️ Tara's Crossing Swords review at Primetimer

🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 191 with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors

🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book at Abrams Books

306: Should You Hide From Trackers? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 306 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

👩‍🍳 Tara's post on homemaking Amys at Primetimer

📖 The New Ohio Review

🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 305 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

305: Enlisting In The Space Force Jun 03, 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

🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Sinéad O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"

💷 Tara's Quiz review on Primetimer

🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast

🌴 Again With Again With This on Patreon

💻 "Cops Are Always The Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

304: Solving The Mystery Of Homecoming's Second Season 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 Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

303: Should You Chase Down Ultimate Tag? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 303 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🪨 CBC.ca's coverage of Newfoundland and Labrador

👉 Tara's Ultimate Tag review at Primetimer

💻 Kai Power Tools

🚆 Tara's Snowpiercer review at Primetimer

🎙 Tara's Rich Sommer interview at Primetimer

🫧 Sarah and Joe on the history of soap operas, also at Primetimer

302: I Know This Much Is True Is Misery Porn 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

💻 Robert Krut's website

301: Taking A Dream Trip To Hollywood May 06, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 301 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Kevin O'Keeffe on Twitter

💰 Tara on Good Girls

🍹 Kiki With Kevin

🔪 The Blotter Presents

300: Defending Jacob Isn't Easy 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 300 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

⚖️ "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

299: The ABCs Of TV 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 298 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🔫 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

298: Run: Hot And Cold 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

🥊 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

👩‍🎨 Monica! The Podcast

297: Making A Whole Meal Out Of Quibi Apr 08, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 297 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🚓 Tara on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (new!), also at Primetimer

📱 Tara on Quibi at Primetimer

🍑 Sarah on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, ALSO at Primetimer

296: Will Heidi And Tim's New Fashion Show Be Making The Cut? Apr 01, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 296 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📆 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 295 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐯 Buntsy on Tiger King for Primetimer

295: First-Time Shows At The Canon Ball Mar 25, 2020

Some shows -- your 30 Rocks, your Simpsonses -- 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

294: Warming Up To Little Fires Everywhere 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

293: Politely Sitting Through Amazing Stories 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 292 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🍞 The Clem Fandango supercut

292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere Mar 04, 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

🐦 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

291: Breaking Confidentiality To Talk About Better Call Saul 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 290 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📩 Will's newsletter

👨‍💻 Will's blog

290: February Forcenings 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

👿 The Purple Smurfs

🎭 Encore!'s 'Annie Get Your Gun'

🌅 The series premiere of Daybreak

289: Building Something Real With Lego Masters 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 288 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

288: Should You Gamble On McMillions? Feb 05, 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

🍟 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

287: Raising A Nice Glass Of Bordeaux To Picard 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

286: Visiting Little America 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 286 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🪨 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

285: Making Reservations For Party Of Five 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

284: Sinking Our Teeth Into Dracula Jan 08, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 284 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🧛‍♂️ 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

283: Buffy The Timekeeper Jan 01, 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

282: The Way We Were 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

281: Celebrating The Holidays Amid The Mistletoe & Menorahs 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

280: Conscientious Objectors In V Wars 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 280 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

😖 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 279 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

279: All Canons, All The Time Dec 04, 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

278: Would You Rather 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 278 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: Panel Round

Lead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: EHG Assist Round

NOTES

277: Welcoming New Faces To Season 3 Of The Crown 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 277 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Heather & Jessica on Twitter

👗 Go Fug Yourself

👸 Heather & Jessica's latest novel, The Royal We

276: Disney+ Blasts Off With The Mandalorian 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 276 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🎬 You Must Remember This

🌴 Again With This

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 275 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

275: Waking Up To The Morning Show Nov 06, 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

🐦 Willa Paskin on Twitter

✍️ Willa on Slate

💍 Willa's podcast, Decoder Ring

🚀 The Season 1 Finale of the Quaid In Full podcast

274: Meet Mrs. Fletcher 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!

273: Getting On Our High Horse To Talk About HBO's Catherine The Great 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

272: Flooring It With El Camino 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 272 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🌆 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

🎥 Quaid In Full

271: Stopping The Presses For Press On Masterpiece Oct 09, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 271 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🏸 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

270: The Survivor Stumptown Sunnyside Shot Clock Oct 02, 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

🤯 Dalton Ross's oral history of Erik's blindside

📉 Sunnyside's low ratings

🛍 GQ on Bissinger's shopaholism

🎙 Sweet Smell Of Succession

📺 Sarah's Primetimer author page

📸 We're @extrahotgreat on Instagram

269: Polishing The Silver For Downton Abbey: The Movie 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

👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter

📺 Primetimer

🎶 MASTAS Live!

🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast

📺 Chris at Primetimer

🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

268: The Ups And Downs Of Undone 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 268 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📺 Appointment TV podcast

💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project

🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

267: Tearing Down A Very Brady Renovation 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

266: The Episode That's Two Episodes Sep 04, 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

265: Is On Becoming A God In Central Florida A Scheme Worth Buying Into? 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

264: Praying On The Righteous Gemstones 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 264 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

💍 Decoder Ring's episode on the Johnlock Conspiracy

📰 The 1619 Project at the New York Times

📺 Sarah at Primetimer

263: Pinning Down Season 3 Of GLOW 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 263 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🚀 Sarah's Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter

262: Burying Four Weddings And A Funeral Aug 07, 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

261: The Boys! The Boys! Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You? 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

260: Discussing An Explosive New Season Of Veronica Mars 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 260 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 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

259: Here We Are With Our Rickets Problem On An All New FMK Special 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

258: Yelling About The Loudest Voice Jul 09, 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 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

257: Is Holey Moley A Summertime Viewing Champion? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 257 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

⛳️ 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

256: Exorcising Our Demons With Los Espookys 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 256 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🛣 The Washington Post's By The Way travel series

👻 Omar's post on Los Espookys on Primetimer

🩸 The Blotter Presents podcast

🍿 The AFI 100 Films list

🙅‍♀️ Bill Cosby's Father's Day tweet

255: Telling Another Season Of Big Little Lies 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

254: Welcome Back To F---in' Deadwood Jun 05, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 254 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📊 The Extra Hot Great submission form

🎸 Alan at Rolling Stone, including all his coverage on Deadwood: The Movie

🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer

📚 All Alan's books on Amazon

🏊‍♀️ Sarah and Tara on Melrose Place at Primetimer

⚛️ Kathryn VanArendonk's interview with Scott Bakula about the 30th anniversary of Quantum Leap

253: Sweating Out The Hot Zone 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 252 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🙃 The I Hate It But I Love It podcast

🎵 Adam Levine is a big old baby

252: Fleabag's Second Season Takes Us To Church 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

🫴 Who's who on Catch-22

🎶 MASTAS on Instagram

😔 I'm Sorry

251: Living In The Society 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

250: Melting Down Over Chernobyl May 08, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 250 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 249 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🏦 Tara on Good Girls for Primetimer

😷 Sarah on The Act for Primetimer

249: Should You Get Behind The Red Line? May 01, 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

🥷 Tara's Barry piece for Decider

🎶 MASTAS

✍️ Crime Writers On

248: A Game Time Promise Kept 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

247: Getting Seduced By Gentleman Jack 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 247 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

👎 Tara on the rotten kids of Better Things at Decider

🪑 The Blankenship Chair

✍️ The Crime Writers On podcast

📙 Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel at Amazon

246: Game Of Thrones Enters Its Final Round 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"

245: Putting On Our Capezios For Fosse/Verdon 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 245 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🧸 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter

🧌 Upstart Creatures

🎭 National Alliance For Musical Theatre

244: Twilight Zone-ing Out With Jordan Peele's CBS Reboot Apr 03, 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

243: Having A Bloody Great Time With What We Do In The Shadows 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 243 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🪒 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🫧 Nick's new immersive show The Pod at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

242: Project Runway Makes It Work At Bravo (Again) 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 242 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🎩 Go Fug Yourself

🤦‍♂️ Reality Steve

🏝 Again With This

241: Surviving After Life 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'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

240: Proposing A Toast To Whiskey Cavalier 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 240 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🥃 Kathryn's review of Whiskey Cavalier on Vulture

📺 The Appointment Television podcast

🛩 How to watch Taskmaster "through methods"

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 239 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🎹 The Video for Billy Joel's "My Life"

🧞 Cover of Bob James' "The Genie"

239: Telling The Truth About Documentary Now! 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

🐦 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

238: Should You Chase White Dragon? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 238 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🔥 The Extra Hot Great Patreon page

🐦 Al Lowe Huff on Twitter

🇬🇧 Al's writing at MHz Choice

☕️ The Midsomer Murders plot-bot on Twitter

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 237 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

237: Is Russian Doll To Die For? Feb 06, 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

🔥 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

236: Is The Other Two Number One In Our Hearts? 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

🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 235 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

235: Getting In A New York State Of Mind-Altering Substances With Black Monday And High Maintenance 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

🐦 David J. Roth on Twitter

😵‍💫 Roth on Deadspin

🎅 Dave's Hallmark movie podcast Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

234: Probing A Rebooted Roswell, New Mexico 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

233: Suiting Up For Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club And The Masked Singer 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

232: New Year, New Batch Of FMK Matchups Jan 02, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 232 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👰 FMK

NOTES

231: Deck The Halls With The RuPaul's Drag Race And Nailed It! Holiday Specials 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 231 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

👠 Kevin O'Keeffe's YouTube show, "The Kiki," on Twitter

230: Grabbing Our Mics For Season 2 Of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 230 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🏨 Touch all of Nick's things at his '70s-style L.A. AirBnB

229: The Christmas-Creep TV Forcening Dec 05, 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

228: Making A Break For It With Escape At Dannemora 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

227: Getting High On Narcos: Mexico 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

226: Talking Through Our Memories Of Homecoming 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

225: House Of Cards Season 6 Faces The Nation Nov 07, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 225 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter

🤦‍♀️ Diane Lane biffs the Bechdel test

🏚 Tara on Homecoming (warning: spoilerish)

💂 Kathryn on that Bodyguard twist

📆 The Appointment TV podcast

224: Getting Spellbound By Charmed And Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 223 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

💞 Tara's Twitter thread on Runaway Heart

🗞 Eve's Inside Media newsletter

223: Life After Roseanne On The Conners 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

📈 The Conners's ratings

👴 The official Kominsky Method trailer

222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 221 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🗳 Joe on Decider

🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz

221: A Million Little Things: This Is (-n't For) Us Oct 03, 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

🤰 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

220: Saying Aloha To A New Magnum, P.I. 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

219: Saddle Up A New Season Of BoJack Horseman 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 219 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🏄‍♂️ Tara's Sean Penn ranking for Mel Magazine

🍣 McElhone tries not to scratch Salmon Penn's eyes out

218: Getting Into A Pickle With Kidding 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 218 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🪨 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

217: You Don't Know Jack Ryan Sep 05, 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 Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown

🏕 The TV Campfire Podcast

🔎 The Blotter

🛼 Austin Anarchy Men's Roller Derby presents Drag Queens Of The Rink

216: Will You Be Enchanted By Disenchantment? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 216 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📲 TechMinuteTexas.com

💰 Money Can't Buy You Podcast

215: Regarding Better Call Saul's Fourth Season 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

🧥 "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

214: Should You Get Initiated Into Lodge 49? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📕 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

213: Does Making It Work? Aug 01, 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

212: Scaling The Walls Of Castle Rock 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"

211: Looking For Signs Of Life On In Search Of 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

210: Journeying To The Outpost 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 210 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🦹 The Villain Edit podcast

💵 Tara on Paid Off With Michael Torpey for Slate

🗡 Tara's first Sharp Objects recap at Decider

209: Does Detroiters S2 Get A Yes In The Room? 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

208: Going Off-Script To Talk About Summer Reality Premieres 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

207: Getting Our Claws Into Season 2 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 206 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🦅 Vulture's Jen Chaney on Claws

🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session on A&E

206: Stopping To Smell The Roses On The Bachelorette Jun 06, 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

💊 Jagged Little Pill at the American Repertory Theater

🎞 Tully

205: On The Record With The Fourth Estate 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

204: Counting Down 13 Reasons Why 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

203: Patrick Melrose Is Best In Small Doses 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 203 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

📺 The ATX Festival lineup as of this writing

📖 Ian Parker's St. Aubyn profile from The New Yorker

202: Having A Bunch Of Different Kinds Of Balls With Dancing With The Stars: Athletes May 09, 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

201: Now Re-Entering Westworld 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

200: Finding Our Way Through Lost In Space 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

199: Does The Howards End Justify The Means? 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

198: Gathering The Comrades For The Americans Apr 04, 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

197: Should Silicon Valley Get Another Round Of Funding? 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

196: Raising Our Voices On Rise 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 196 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 195 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🏹 Slings And Arrows on YouTube

🎭 Americans For The Arts

195: Hitting The High Points Of Jessica Jones Season 2 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

🐦 Kirk Hamilton on Twitter

🥃 Our first go-round with Jessica Jones in EHG 96

🎧 The Splitscreen podcast

194: Filling Our Plates With MasterChef Junior Mar 07, 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

193: UnREAL Season 3 Tries To Make A Connection 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

192: Booting Up Our Powerbooks For The '90s Dramedy Everything Sucks 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 192 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

💻 StephanieEarlyGreen.com

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 191 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

191: A Meditation On Here & Now At Exactly 11:11 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

190: Taking Notes On A.P. Bio Feb 07, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 190 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 189 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧛‍♂️ Dragula on Amazon Prime

🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

189: Taking It One Day At A Time 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 188 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

188: Does High Maintenance's Second Season Deliver A High? 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

💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

187: Doubling Our Fun With Counterpart 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

🐦 Tim Ehhalt on Twitter

186: Now Boarding L.A. To Vegas 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 186 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Adam Grosswirth

💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

185: Reflecting On A New Season Of Black Mirror Jan 02, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 185 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 184 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

184: O Canon-baum, O Canon-baum 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

🌉 The NightMan credits sequence you can't live without

183: The Extra Hot Great Besties 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

182: Curtsying To The Crown 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

181: The Quest To Care About Knightfall Dec 06, 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

180: Bundle Up For A Wintry Round Of TV Forcenings 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 180 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

179: Give Thanks For Another All-FMK Episode Of Extra Hot Great 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 179 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👤 Kim Reed

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🔪 F/M/K

NOTES

📸 Kevin O'Keeffe on Instagram

178: Wigging Out With The Trixie & Katya Show 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 178 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

177: Is SMILF A Problem Child? Nov 08, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 177 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

https://twitter.com/eteffi/ Stephanie Green on Twitter

176: Getting Locked Up With Alias Grace Nov 01, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 176 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 Rob Hartmann on Twitter

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 175 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

175: Does Too Funny To Fail Succeed? 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

174: Vote-A-Rama: It's Another All-Canon/Nonac Episode Of Extra Hot Great! 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 174 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

The Canon: 🍦 The Good Place

The Canon: 🎞 Documentary Now!

The Nonac: 📓 My So-Called Life

NOTES

173: Soft-Soaping Dynasty's 2017 Reboot 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 173 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🐦 The Fug Girls on Twitter

172: Getting A Forking Forkful Of The Good Place 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

🧺 Emma Kenney, newly cast on The Conners

171: The Orville Crashes And Burns 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 171 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🪐 "Commercials Featuring Star Trek Members" on YouTube

170: Staying Hooked On Narcos Sep 06, 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

169: TGIFF: Thank Goodness It's Friday Forcenings 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 169 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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

🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

168: Getting Our Hands On The Defenders 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 168 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 167 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

167: We Say 'Good Night, Snuggles' On Our Epic All-FMK Episode 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

166: Drinking Bug Juice With Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later Aug 09, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 166 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 165 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

165: The Lowdown On The Lowe Files Aug 02, 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

🐦 Dan Patrick Brady on Twitter

164: A Quartet Of Summer TV Forcenings 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

163: Shooting The Shit On The Game Of Thrones Poomiere 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 162 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

162: Plowing Through Snowfall 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 161 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

161: Settling Down With Playing House 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 160 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📸 Damon Lindelof on Instagram

160: Scoring The Gong Show 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 159 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

159: Does Claws Scratch An Itch? 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 158 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

158: Standing Up With I'm Dying Up Here Jun 07, 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 157 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

157: Should House Of Cards Fold Or Double Down? 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

🐦 Roger Cormier on Twitter

156: Washing Ashore With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 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

🐟 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

155: Is Anne With An E The Red-Headed Stepchild Of Reboots? 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

154: Raising Consciousness With Dear White People May 03, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 153 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

153: The Handmaid's Tale Has Us Seeing Red 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

🐦 Tammy Everts on Twitter

152: If It Please The Court: Better Call Saul 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 151 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

151: Spring Forward With Our Midseason Roundup! Apr 05, 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 150 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

150: Turning It Out For RuPaul's Drag Race 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 149 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

149: Getting Punchy With Iron Fist 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

🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter

148: Lining Up For Hip Hop Squares 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 147 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧛‍♂️ Sarah's Buffy season ranking on Vulture

147: We're Digging The Americans Mar 07, 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 146 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

146: Big Little Lies Our Mothers Told Us 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

👟 Law And Order Jog And Dog on Instagram

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 145 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

145: Joining The Fight With The Walking Dead 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 144 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🍅 The Vine column at TomatoNation.com

144: Rising To The Challenge's 372nd Season Feb 08, 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 143 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

143: Gingerly Broaching The Topic Of Riverdale Feb 01, 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

🐦 Leah Ariano on Twitter

142: Does Hunted's Good Idea Make For Bad TV? 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 141 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📹 The Villain Edit podcast

141: Making Deductions About Sherlock 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 140 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

140: Getting Our Nick-ers In A Twist Over The Bachelor 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

🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 139 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

139: Who's The King Of The Man In The High Castle? 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

🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 138 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

138: Filling Our Plates With Top Chef 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 137 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

137: Going All In On The Family With This Is Us Dec 06, 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 136 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

136: Stuffing Thanksgiving TV Episodes Into The Canon 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

135: The EHG Crime Omnibus: It's Killer 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 134 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

134: Going Long With Saturday Night Live Nov 07, 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 133 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

133: Looking Into The Black Mirror 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 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

132: The Listener Game Time Finals 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

131: Is Luke Cage Bulletproof? Oct 04, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 130 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

130: The Extra Hot Great Fall 2016 Preview 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

🚨 "Narcos Faces Law & Order: SVU In The Battle Of The Crime-Fighting Crushes" on Previously.TV

🐦 Pedro Pascal's RT

129: Snatching Wigs With RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 128 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

128: Voting Early And Often On The West Wing 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

🐦 Sarah Hope on Twitter

127: Committing Mutiny With Halt And Catch Fire 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

126: Big Draw: Animated Shows For Grown-Ups 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 125 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

125: The Question Is Zoot Aug 02, 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

124: Where No EHG Has Gone Before: The Star Trek Fantasy Draft 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

123: Rebooting Mr. Robot 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 122 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

122: The Night Of At The EHG Round Table 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 121 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

121: Loading In With Roadies 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 120 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

120: Paying The Piper With Orange Is The New Black 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 119 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

119: Tackling O.J.: Made In America 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 118 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

118: UnREAL-ity Television Jun 07, 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 117 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

117: Saying A Little Prayer For Preacher 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 116 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

116: The Heat Is On: Summer TV Preview 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 115 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

115: Sissying That Walk With RuPaul's Drag Race 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 114 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

114: Blindly Watching Game Of Thrones 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 113 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

113: Crawling Into The Bunker With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 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 112 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

112: THIS...Was American Idol (And Some Other Stuff) 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

🐦 Stephanie Cangro on Twitter

111: Delivering A Suspenseful Beating To The Walking Dead Apr 05, 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 110 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

110: Daredevil: The Blind Leading The Bored 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

🐦 Jeff Alexander on Twitter

🖥 Joe on Decider

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

109: Pledging Allegiance To The Americans 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

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 108 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🎶 Rachel Bloom on YouTube

🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

108: Is House Of Cards A Good Play? Mar 07, 2016

House Of Cards dropped its fourth filibuster last Friday, and our esteemed colleague Kim Reed joined the gang to discuss how Frank Underwood and Scandal's Fitz stack up, plus constitutional procedure, hateful heroes, and a listener's possibly crackpot theory that all sitcoms should end after three seasons. We went around the dial with the end of Downton, new Broad City, Intervention, and Late Night With Seth Meyers, and Joe Reid pitched us an all-star Survivor for the Canon. Nancy Drew won, wigs lost, and a cliffhanger-based Game Time had a shocking outcome! ...Probably! Before you shove your TV in front of a train, have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 House Of Cards

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Sitcoms Should Be Limited To 3 Seasons

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🎩 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth Meyers

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Broad City

Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention

The Canon: 🌴 Survivor

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nancy Drew Sarah Shahi

Winner & Loser: 👎 House Of CardsThe Good Wife Wigs

Game Time: 🧠 Cliffhangers

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 107 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🖥 Joe on Decider

107: Speaking Truth To Catfish Feb 29, 2016

Max defender and periodically ashamed Michigander Stephanie Green returns to talk about the ménage à trois that was the Season 5 premiere of Catfish and whether there's even a point to it anymore (...if ever). Liv takes us through the stages of the latest Gauntlet challenge in her Face Off report; Sarah takes us through American Tragedy, ABC's 2000 miniseries on the O.J. Simpson trial, for The Blotter Presents. Tara and Sarah consider the forthcoming Biblical miniseries Of Kings And Prophets and ask: Will Dave Hate This? Around The Dial stops at Togetherness, Fit To Fat To Fit, Married By Mom And Dad, Love, The Biggest Loser, and The X-Files before Dave In Chicago makes his pitch for That '70s Show's "That '70s Musical" to be inducted into the Nonac. Tara and Joe identify the week's Winner and Loser, and then it's on to a Game Time set in Sarah's very favourite place. Turn off the ringer on your burner phone and join us!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎣 Catfish

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 American Tragedy

Will Dave Hate This?: 👑 Of Kings And Prophets

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Togetherness

Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Fit To Fat To Fit

Around The Dial: 💍 Married By Mom And Dad

Around The Dial: 💞 Love

Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Biggest Loser

Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files

The Nonac: 💨 That '70s Show

Winner & Loser: 👍 America's Next Top Model

Winner & Loser: 👎 American Idol

Game Time: 🧠 Spaaaaaaaaace!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 106 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🖥 Joe on Decider

106: It's Time For Rhyme Feb 22, 2016

The first round of the Extra Hot Great Listener Game Time concludes with the Son Of The Game That Rhymes from Rob Hartmann. Who's the last one to advance to the Hallowed Hall Of Champions round? Find out!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧠 Son Of The Game That Rhymes

NOTES

105: Ringing In A New Season Of Better Call Saul Feb 15, 2016

Better Call Saul returns for its second season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about that, plus how much he hates Vinyl and which S2 Fargo should go into the Canon. Liv learned about parasites on Face Off, Sarah talked about American Crime Story's foundation book, and we went around the dial with SNL, The Good Wife, Alyssa Milano's wardrobe issues, and Teresa Giudice's parole tour before Bill Cosby "won" and Michael Skupin lost. Was Game Time Anything? How many times did someone yell "SPAAAAAACE!!"? Only one way to find out: listen to this mint-condition no-creases Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💼 Better Call Saul

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Jeffrey Toobin's The Run Of His Life

Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl

Around The Dial: 🗽 Saturday Night Live

Around The Dial: 🪡 Project Runway All Stars

The Canon: 🚓 Fargo

Winner & Loser: 👍 Bill Cosby

Winner & Loser: 👎 Survivor Michael Skupin

Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything?: EHG Assist Edition

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 105 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 104 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

104: A Little Taste Feb 08, 2016

Game experts and EHG contributors Trip Payne, David Ellis Dickerson and Rob Hartmann join Dave and Tara for a TV show theme quiz. Oh, the clips are only one and three seconds long. So there's that.

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧠 A Little Taste

NOTES

103: The People Vs. The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Feb 01, 2016

The old TWoP bullpen is reunited as Pop Culture Happy Hour's own Linda Holmes joins us for a discussion of American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy's dramatization of (this season) the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Where will your panelists fall on the matter of John Travolta and his Robert Shapiro eyebrows?! After Liv's latest report on Face Off, Around The Dial stops at Jane The Virgin, Rehab Addict, Hollywood Game Night, Drunk History, Ken Burns's Prohibition, and an ad from the '80s that maybe should have stayed there. Linda makes her (couch-)explosive case for the induction of the "Honeymoon In Metropolis" episode of Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman into the Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, Game Time revisits the age-old question Is This Anything? Pull on your gloves and your Bruno Magli shoes and listen up!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏈 American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin

Around The Dial: 🔨 Rehab Addict

Around The Dial: ✨ Hollywood Game Night

Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk HistoryKen Burns's Prohibition

The Canon: 🦸‍♂️ Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman

Winner & Loser: 👍 American Horror Story: Hotel Slenderman

Winner & Loser: 👎 Danielle Staub

Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything?: Competitive Edition

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 103 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

🌴 Again With This

😎 Hollywood Handbook

🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour

102: The X-Files Returns, And We Want To Believe Jan 25, 2016

As The X-Files gets back on the case, so does our esteemed colleague Eve Batey -- does the show improve after the premiere? What's with the cast not aging? And who greenlighted those super-gross SFX? After Liv (and Ellie) took us through Face Off, The Blotter recommended American Experience's crimey new season, and we went around the dial with Blackish, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Pablo Escobar, enraging insurance ads, and Andre Braugher -- who popped up again in Eve's Canon nom, Homicide: LOTS's "Subway" ep. UNReal won, Second Chance lost, and the Game Time season hung in the balance as the panel Venn-diagrammed actors. Give us a listen while you're hitchhiking to meet your Deep Throat; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🛸 The X-Files

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 American Experience

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🖤 Black-ish

Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Around The Dial: 📺 Liberty Mutual ads

Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos

Around The Dial: 🚨 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The Canon: 🚊 Homicide: Life On The Street

Winner & Loser: 👍 UnREAL Breeda Wool

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Golden Globes "John Hamm"

Game Time: 🧠 Haven't We Met Before?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 102 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 101 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🌉 SFist.com

🖥 Joe at Decider.com

🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour

🌴 Again With This

101: Legends Of Tomorrow...Today! Jan 18, 2016

Our designated Legends Of Tomorrow correspondent John Ramos joins us to bend the very laws of time itself and discuss the series premiere of The CW's Legends Of Tomorrow DAYS before it actually premieres! Also returning? Liv Kwan, our seven-year-old Face Off reporter, with a report on the season premiere. Around The Dial stops at Mercy Street, The Laramie Project, the mytharc episodes of The X-Files, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Second Chance (...but really Almost Human). Erin presents the Mad Men episode "Shut The Door. Have A Seat." to the Canon, and after pausing to identify the week's Winner and Loser, Rob Hartman challenges us with a Game Time straight from the barnyard. If you don't listen now, you'll have regrets in the future! TIME TRAVEL!!!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦸‍♀️ Legends Of Tomorrow

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🏥 Mercy Street

Around The Dial: 🎭 The Laramie Project

Around The Dial: 👽 The X-Files

Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Around The Dial: 🥼 Second Chance

Around The Dial: 🤖 Almost Human

The Canon: 💼 Mad Men

Winner & Loser: 🥃 Jessica Jones

Winner & Loser: 🔪 Making A Murderer

Game Time: 🐔 Chicken And Egg

NOTES

100: The Final Count-Downton Jan 11, 2016

Downton Abbey is back for one last spin around the foxhunting course...or something, and Nick's back to discuss the wedding, ageless Daisy, and what will become of Thomas and Lady f'ing Edith. We celebrated a Tiny Triumph, welcomed Smooth Joey Apollo to talk Golden Globes, joined The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth, and went around the dial with Angie Tribeca, Sherlock, American Crime (NOT American Crime Story or, um, Crime Story), Hoarders, and Pickle & Peanut before declaring an unlikely winner and a tardy loser. Will Game Time coin a new phrase? Did Flight Of The Conchords come in for a smooth Canon landing? How many times did we scream "SPAAAACE"? Don't make us blackmail you into listening to an all-new EHG.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 100 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎩 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🟡 The Golden Globes

The Blotter Presents: 🔫 The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth

Around The Dial: 👮🏻 Angie Tribeca

Around The Dial: 🔎 Sherlock

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Crime

Around The Dial: 🗑 Hoarders

Around The Dial: 🥒 Pickle & Peanut

Tiny Triumph: 🥳 In The Guardian

The Canon: 🎸 Flight Of The Conchords S01.E10: New Fans

Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Sorkin

Winner & Loser: 👎 George R.R. Martin

Game Time: 💬 Perfectly Cromulent Words

NOTES

99: The Bachelor Turns Things Over To Gentle Ben Jan 05, 2016

It's a new year, which means it's time for a new Bachelor, and we've brought our Bachelor correspondent Stephanie Green back to the podcast to discuss the Season 20 premiere (AND TWINNNNNNNS!). We also update you on the most popular team of the Law & Order draft, and return to the topic of Netflix's Making A Murderer to discuss whether it's worse than jazz (uh, in the sense, this time, of more infuriating and upsetting, of course). Around The Dial makes stops at Call The Midwife, Last Tango In Halifax, The Art Of More, and the forthcoming Lucifer. Joe dials in to present his case for inducting Enlightened's "Consider Helen" into the Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we dig into a Game Time everyone's dying to play. Grab a glass or twelve of champagne and join us!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 099 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤵‍♂️ The Bachelor

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Making A Murderer

The Blotter Presents: 🚨 I Made A List

Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍⚕️ Call The Midwife

Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax

Around The Dial: 🖼 The Art Of More

Around The Dial: 👹 Lucifer

The Canon: 🧘‍♀️ Enlightened S01.E09: Consider Helen

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jane Lynch

Winner & Loser: 👎 Bill Cosby

Game Time: 🧾 That Eulogy Better Not Show Up On The Bill

NOTES

98: That Championship Season: The Law & Order Fantasy Draft Dec 14, 2015

Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall kindly subjected himself to our very first Extra Hot Great franchise draft as we all picked from our favorite detectives, ADAs, MEs, and baddies to form Law & Order-verse superteams. Who emerged victorious? That's up to you, and you'll have to listen to know what we mean! After Sarah recommended Netflix's inconveniently timed but still solid Making A Murderer, we went Around The Dial with the Fargo finale, iZombie, 30 For 30, the Globe noms, and a vintage Star Wars ad. Someone's agent won, Eli Gold lost, and we were family for the last Game Time of 2015. Thanks for making it a great year, listeners! Insert your own "should auld acquaintance be my first ex-wife" joke here, and enjoy backseat general-managing another episode of Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 098 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚖️ Law & Order Fantasy Draft

Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie

Around The Dial: 🪵 Fargo

Around The Dial: 🟡 The Golden Globes

Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Making A Murderer

The Canon: 🧪 Breaking Bad S05.E14: Ozymandias

Winner & Loser: 👍 Abigail Breslin

Winner & Loser: 👎 Eli Gold

Game Time: 👩‍👧‍👦 Brother From Another Mothershow

NOTES

97: Heading Into The Lyons' Den For Empire Dec 07, 2015

Empire has taken its final bow (before coming back in like a Lyon next March), so we've invited Empire correspondents Eve Batey and Mark Blankenship back to tell us what they thought of the season to date. For The Blotter Presents..., Sarah tells us about Investigation Discovery's Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals. Joe shares a recent Tiny Triumph. Around The Dial stops at American Horror Story, The Wiz Live!, The Great Pottery Throw Down, Transparent, Homeland, the Dolly Parton TV movie Coat Of Many Colors, and Fargo, and then Mark presents the series finale of Six Feet Under, "Everyone's Waiting," for submission into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and then Rob Hartmann tests us with his latest Game Time! Hop on your hoverboard and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 097 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💿 Empire

Around The Dial: 🏨 American Horror Story: Hotel

Around The Dial: 🧙‍♀️ The Wiz: Live!

Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down

Around The Dial: 🏳️‍⚧️ Transparent

Around The Dial: 🗽 Homeland

Around The Dial: 🧥 Coat Of Many Colours

Around The Dial: 🪵 Fargo

The Canon: 🪦 Six Feet Under S05.E12: Everybody's Waiting

Winner & Loser: 👍 Sarah Paulson

Winner & Loser: 👎 Ramsay Bolton

Game Time: 👤 Name Game

NOTES

96: The Marvel-ous Jessica Jones Nov 23, 2015

Let's get this Joe on the road: with Reid off for the week, we asked esteemed colleagues John and Nick to join us for a discussion of Netflix's Jessica Jones, whether it works as a Veronica McNulty PI show of its own, and who Wil Traval reminds us of. The Blotter Presents scratched your Panettiere itch with an Amanda Knox movie before we went around the dial with bullshit dream-sequisodes, Britcoms, How To Get Away With Murder, nutty Thanksgiving Day programming, and Dave's suggestion for the next TV/comics adaptation. Nick and John tag-teamed a heisty half hour of Brooklyn Nine-Nine for their Canon presentation, and we deemed a couple of farewells Winner and Loser before Tara rolled out a very learned non-regulation Game Time. From all of us Agents Of E.H.G., we're thankful you're listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 096 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones

The Blotter Presents: 🍝 Amanda Knox

Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers

Around The Dial: 💥 Catastrophe

Around The Dial: 🪃 The Comeback Kid

Around The Dial: 🦃 Thanksgiving TV

The Canon: 👻 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S02.E04: Halloween II

Winner & Loser: 👍 Gravity Falls

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tyra Banks

Game Time: 📚 TV Is My Friend Who Reads Books To Me That Do Not Exist

NOTES

95: Dressing Down With Project Runway: Junior Nov 16, 2015

Tim Gunn gets another chance at shoring up his fan base with Project Runway: Junior, the shrunk-down version of the fashion competition, and Stephanie Cangro returns to talk about it! Around The Dial stops at Peep Show, London Spy, The Man In The High Castle, How To Get Away With Murder, MasterChef Junior, Into The Badlands, and W/ Bob & David. Stephanie makes her case for the induction to The Canon of the West Wing episode "The Indians In The Lobby." Then after a quick consideration of the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a sequel to one of our most math-intensive Game Times ever. Put away your pinking shears and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Cangro

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🩳 Project Runway Junior

Around The Dial: 👀 Peep Show

Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ London Spy

Around The Dial: 🏰 The Man In The High Castle

Around The Dial: 🔪 How To Get Away With Murder

Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Masterchef Junior

Around The Dial: 🤯 Into The Badlands

Around The Dial: 🐛 W/ Bob And David

The Canon: 🏛 The West Wing S03.E08: The Indians in the Lobby

Winner & Loser: 👍 DJ Arch Jnr

Winner & Loser: 👎 Rob Lowe

Game Time: 🧗‍♀️ Return Of The Mountain Climber

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 095 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

94: Less Kissing, More Superpowers Nov 09, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley covers most of the comic-book shows on Previously.TV, and he's back to talk about superhero TV from Arrow to, er, Zagents of SHIELD. We wrapped Project Project Greenlight, recommended Maura Murray materials in The Blotter Presents, and went around the dial with ballet, buried treasure, Survivor's eternal allure, Aussie TV recs, and Cheese of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Monty made his pitch to put an It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia episode in the Nonac; Jones won and Trump lost; and the rule of threes ruled Game Time in another Rob Hartmann creation. Who saved the day and who got stuck in the phone booth? Listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great and find out!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 094 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦸‍♀️ Superhero Television

Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight

The Blotter Presents: 🫥 The Disappearance of Maura Murray

Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ The Curse of Oak Island

Around The Dial: 🗿 Survivor

Around The Dial: 🧀 Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends

Around The Dial: 🦘 Aussie Stuff

The Nonac: 🔔 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S07.E05: Frank's Brother

Winner & Loser: 👍 Angie Tribeca

Winner & Loser: 👎 Saturday Night Live

Game Time: 😓 We're All Busy People

NOTES

93: Ghouls Between Giggles: iZombie And Ash Vs. Evil Dead Nov 02, 2015

With Ash Vs. Evil Dead premiering on Starz and iZombie well into a strong second season on The CW, we felt it was time to bring back horror/comedy/horror-comedy fan (and iZombie correspondent) Eve Batey for a discussion of both. Liv delivers her final Face Off report on Season 9, and all of us share our thoughts on the season finale of Project Greenlight...until next week when we talk about The Leisure Class, the movie it spawned. Around The Dial stops at Nashville, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Scream Queens, Project Runway, and CBS's just-announced new Star Trek series. Patrick presents the 30 Rock episode "Cleveland" for induction into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us on a whirlwind trip around the world! Make sure your hand's screwed on tight, and then make sure your headphones are!

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪚 Ash Vs. Evil Dead

Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight

Around The Dial: 🎸 Nashville

Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Around The Dial: 😱 Scream Queens

Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway

Around The Dial: 🔭 Star Trek: Discovery

The Canon: 🪨 30 Rock S01.E20: Cleveland

Winner & Loser: 👍 Viola Davis

Winner & Loser: 👎 Scientology

Game Time: 🌎 America, The World and Beyond!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 093 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

92: Supergirl Takes Her First Flight Oct 26, 2015

Does CBS's new Supergirl soar or splat? Jeff Alexander, who'll be covering the show for Previously.TV all season, returns to the podcast to join us in a discussion about the pilot. Liv gives us her thoughts on the season's penultimate Face Off before the rest of us chew over the season's penultimate Project Greenlight. (TOO SOON!) The Blotter Presents takes us through the high points of The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case before Around The Dial stops at Arranged and Married At First Sight: The First Year; The Librarians; You're The Worst; and Residue. Jeff makes an intoxicating case for the induction of Drunk History's "Montgomery, AL" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that risks going tit...ulars up. Make sure all your green kryptonite's safely locked up and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Alexander

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦸‍♀️ Supergirl

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 👶 The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Around The Dial: 🏥 The Knick

Around The Dial: 📚 The Librarians

Around The Dial: 😞 You're The Worst

Around The Dial: 🫠 Residue

The Canon: 🥴 Drunk History S02.E01: Montgomery, AL

Winner & Loser: 👍 Rocky Horror Picture Show

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jimmy Fallon

Game Time: 🍈 Show Me Your Titulars

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 092 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

91: Raiding The Mini Bar With American Horror Story: Hotel Oct 20, 2015

That's right, listeners: Joe "Awardsy" Reid is back in the permanent Extra Hot Great rotation, as the gang (of four!) checks into American Horror Story: Hotel. When will the show lose most of us this season? What's with that kid looking like Noah Syndergaard? And are we gaga for Gaga? Then we ordered up some room service with the Face Off report, bitched about Jason Mann in our Project Project Greenlight segment, and went around the dial with Jane The Virgin, The Walking Dead, Casual, and Sleepy Hollow. Joe made a list! Abby Lee Miller got indicted! David took us on an Adventure Time with his Canon submission! But just how happy is Joe's reunion with Game Time? He says he's just honored to be nominated; we're very glad he's back, on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏨 American Horror Story: Hotel

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight

Around The Dial: 😇 Jane The Virgin

Around The Dial: 💪 TV's Hot Jerks

Around The Dial: 🎃 Sleepy Hollow

Around The Dial: 🧟 The Walking Dead

The Canon: ⚔️ Adventure Time S01.E23: Rainy Day Daydream

Winner & Loser: 👍 Heba Amin, Caram Kapp & Stone

Winner & Loser: 👎 Abby Lee Miller

Game Time: 🏆 It’s An Honor Just To Be Nominated

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 091 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

90: The Good Wife: Still Good? Oct 04, 2015

As The Good Wife returns for its seventh season, we welcome Adam Grosswirth to talk about how well the season premiere washes away the bad taste left by Season 6. Liv gives us her report on a freak show-focused episode of Face Off, and The Blotter Presents tells you about Showtime's Warren Jeffs documentary Prophet's Prey (and some other highlights from the annals of Mormon true crime). Around The Dial stops at The Daily Show, Once Upon A Time, the just-announced TV series adaptation of the podcast Serial, and Manhattan, and then Adam makes the case for Star Trek's "Mirror Mirror" to be inducted into The Canon. We very briefly discuss the week's Winner and Loser before barreling ahead to a Game Time that will decide the season's victor! Make sure your wig's on straight and then listen!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 090 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤦🏻‍♀️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🦅 Prophet's Prey

Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show

Around The Dial: 🔮 Once Upon A Time

Around The Dial: 🔪 Serial

Around The Dial: 🏙 Manhattan

The Canon: 🪞 Star Trek S02.E04: Mirror, Mirror

Winner & Loser: 👍 Smithers

Winner & Loser: 👎 Fuller House

Game Time: 🍽 Food & Drink

NOTES

89: It's The Most TV-ful Time Of The Year! Sep 28, 2015

Fall premiere season is upon us, and since we know you rely on us to advise you as to what to watch and what you can skip (you do, right?), we've invited Jeff Drake to join us for a discussion of the season: what we're into; what we probably should be into but aren't, or have given up on; and what no one should be into. We move from there into Liv's report on the latest apocalyptic Face Off, and then into Sarah's look at the specials marking the 20th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson murder trial verdict in The Blotter Presents. We take a moment to speculate in a special Will Dave Hate These? segment covering both Troy: Fall Of A City and a just-announced reboot of The A Team. Then Jeff makes his case for "The Germans" episode of Fawlty Towers to be inducted into The Canon, from which point we name the week's Winner and Loser, and then wind up with a thrilling installment of Game Time. Put on your gloves and earmuffs and then take off your earmuffs and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍁 Fall Tv Hopes And Dreams

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🚨 O.J. Anniverdictsary

Will Dave Hate This?: 🐴 Troy: Fall Of A City

Will Dave Hate This?: 🏅 The A-Team Remake

The Canon: 🏨 Fawlty Towers S01.E06: The Germans

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jill & Jessa

Winner & Loser: 👎 "Comedian" Krista Allen

Game Time: 👬 Team Building Exercise

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 089 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

88: They Win Some, We Lose Some Sep 22, 2015

Now that we've put our champagne flutes in the dishwasher and peeled off our Spanx, we're ready to look back on the 2015 Emmy awards telecast, from how much funnier Andy Samberg was than the stiffs in the room to the feelings we experienced watching Jon Hamm literally climb on stage to accept his statuette -- and thank God Joe Reid was able to return to the podcast and join us. After Liv gives us her report on the latest Face Off, Sarah debuts a new segment, The Blotter Presents, covering all manner of true crime TV, starting with the 1986 Ted Bundy miniseries The Deliberate Stranger. Around The Dial makes stops at Best Time Ever, So You Think You Can Dance, Project Runway, and Fargo. Mark makes a brief cameo to update us on a past Tiny Triumph and -- spoiler alert! -- it's quite a bit less Tiny than it used to be. Joe makes the case for the induction of the Best Friends Forever episode "Butt Dial" into the Canon, and then after a more overstuffed Winners and Losers segment than usual, it's on to a Game Time that has us pondering wheels within wheels. Grab some sliders and crab puffs and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏆 The Emmys

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🚨 Deliberate Stranger

Around The Dial: 🎉 Best Time Ever

Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance

Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway

Tiny Triumph: 📺 Mark on Jeopardy!

The Canon: 👯‍♀️ Best Friends Forever S01.E02: The Butt Dial

Winner & Loser: 👍 Once Upon A Time

Winner & Loser: 👎 Steve Rannazzisi

Game Time: ⚙️ Wheels Within Wheels

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 088 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

87: Giving Project Greenlight The, Well, Green Light Sep 14, 2015

The Good Wife Marathon Diarist Kim is back to discuss the un-Moored return of Project Greenlight, and whether a fourth season a decade in the making is off to a first-rate start. Tara shared a You're The Worst Tiny Triumph that is kind of the best before Liv weighed in on two weeks of Face Off and we all bid Under The Dome its overdue (but still dumb) farewell. We went around the dial with Playing House, Colbert's first week, a true-crime show that's actually decent, a pilot that isn't, another Star Wars ad, and the lameness of Good Wife S06 before Tara oppo-researched the hell out of Buntsy's sitcom preferences as she tried to get a Veep episode into the Canon. Ugly cars won, Johnny Depp lost, and Game Time fell into a K-hole. Don't put this episode of Extra Hot Great in turnaround: listen now!

GUESTS

👤 Kim Reed

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚥 Project Greenlight

Tiny Triumph: 🥤 Free Lacroix For Stephen Falk

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🏠 Playing House

Around The Dial: 🌃 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♀️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 📼 Missing Evidence

Around The Dial: 🚀 Man, More Star Wars Ads?

The Canon: 🗽 Veep S03.E07: Special Relationship

Winner & Loser: 👍 Pontiac Aztek

Winner & Loser: 👎 Johnny Depp

Game Time: 🦖 Tyrannosaurus Rx

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 087 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

86: Do You EHG Listeners Know What Time It is? Sep 07, 2015

Has PICCI been kind to Kim, Lea, Ian, and Michele? Listen to our latest special all-listener Game Time and find out!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧌 Don’t Feed The Trolls

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 086 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

85: Coming Home To Playing House Aug 31, 2015

Now that Playing House's second season is well underway, we've invited Nick Rheinwald-Jones, one of its staunchest fans, to join us for a discussion of how things are going so far. Tara shares a Playing House-based Tiny Triumph, after which it's time for Liv to report on the latest Face Off, and for Tara to share the latest insanity from Under The Dome. Around The Dial stops at Regular Show, Show Me A Hero, Drunk History, Project Greenlight, Hannibal, and the apparently infinite galaxy of Star Wars toy ads from the '80s. Nick makes a case for the induction of the Veronica Mars episode "Spit And Eggs" into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we dive into Rob Hartmann's latest diabolical Game Time. Load up some gingi and new-news and enjoy!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 085 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏠 Playing House

Tiny Triumph: 🐦 Retweeted by Jessica St. Clair

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🦝 Regular Show

Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Show Me A Hero

Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History

Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight

Around The Dial: 🍽 Hannibal

Around The Dial: 🚀 Good Gravy, Yet More Star Wars Ads

The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars S03.E09: Spit & Eggs

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jorge Ramos

Winner & Loser: 👎 Curt Schilling

Game Time: 🔢 4-5-6-7

NOTES

84: Challenge Accepted: Fear The Walking Dead Aug 24, 2015

Omar's back to talk about AMC's Walking Dead prequel, Fear The Walking Dead. Does it need more process and less teen angst? What's with the stupid driving? And will we keep watching? Dave explained a few EHG facts before Liv learned subtlety on the Face Off report and Tara made us Domer, and we went around the dial with documentary spoofs, vintage reality shows, dysfunctional comedy joints, and crappy Star Wars gifts. Will Dave un-Pierce Gene of Bob's Burgers? Is Sarah's X-Files Canon submission out of this world? Did Sorkin win or lose this week? And who used his or her brain best -- i.e., not eating them -- in Game Time? It's an apocalyptically good time on this week's all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 084 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧟 Fear The Walking Dead

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🎥 Documentary Now!

Around The Dial: 🤷🏾‍♂️ Why? With Hannibal Buress

Around The Dial: 🚥 Project Greenlight

Around The Dial: 🚀 Yet More Star Wars Ads

The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S06.E19: The Unnatural

Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Sorkin

Winner & Loser: 👎 90210 Stars

Game Time: 🤔 Is This Anything?

NOTES

83: Humans: Heard Of 'Em? Aug 17, 2015

As Humans (heard of 'em) wraps its first season, John Ramos joins us to talk about the titular humans and their synth friends...and foes! Liv tells us all about a wedding-themed episode of Face Off, and Tara takes us through the latest idiocy making us all Domer on Under The Dome. Around The Dial stops at Last Week Tonight, Show Me A Hero, Rectify, Mr. Robot, and another confounding Star Wars toy ad. Dave makes a singular case for the submission to The Canon of the G.I. Joe episode "The Viper Is Coming," and no, that is not a very long typo. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a Game Time that takes us through all of life's biggest events! Top up your synth fluid and join us!

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👂 Humans

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Show Me A Hero

Around The Dial: ⬛️ Rectify

Around The Dial: 🤖 Mr. Robot

Around The Dial: 🚀 More Star Wars Ads

The Canon: 🪖 G.I. Joe S01.E29: The Viper Is Coming

Winner & Loser: 👍 Michael Moriarty and DJ Jazzy Jeff

Winner & Loser: 👎 David Simon

Game Time: 😍 First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes Game Time With The Baby Carriage

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 083 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

82: Project Runway Makes The Cut...Barely. Aug 10, 2015

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan joined the gang this week to take a closer look at Project Runway as it returns for a fourteenth season. Liv trolled us in her Face Off report, Tara recharged the amethysts Under The Dome with rage, and we went around the dial with Jon Stewart, Cait Jenner, Becoming Us, Nic Pizzicato Five, the resurgence of Big Brother, and the lies Saturday-morning ads tell -- before Heather wigged us out with a Melrose Place Canon submission. We declared a winner and loser, then scaled a traditional Egyptian burial structure for 25 Dave points in this week's Game Time. Work wives, dead wives, crying and cutting: we've got it all (plus a ton of TV Republicans for some reason?) on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 082 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👗 Project Runway

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show

Around The Dial: 🙋🏻‍♀️ I Am Cait

Around The Dial: 👏 Becoming Us

Around The Dial: ⭕️ True Detective

Around The Dial: 👁 Big Brother

Around The Dial: ⚔️ Return Of The Jedi

The Canon: 🏠 Melrose Place S02.E28: The Bitch Is Back

Winner & Loser: 👍 Republicans

Winner & Loser: 👎 David Fincher

Game Time: 🔺 The New 25 Dave Point Pharaoh’s Tomb

NOTES

81: Let's Give Summer TV A Hand! Aug 03, 2015

Since summer TV is no longer dumber TV, we've invited Mark Blankenship back to the Blankenship Chair to join us for a discussion of our most winning series picks! Niece Liv -- now seven years old -- returns to bring us the scoop on Face Off's Season 9 premiere, and then Tara tells us the latest ways Under The Dome has made us Domer. Mark makes a case for the induction of Downton Abbey's S05E03 to the Nonac -- the reverse Canon -- and then after identifying the Winner & Loser Of The Week, we finish up with a very critical Game Time. Turn up the AC and enjoy!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 081 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Picks

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Nonac: 🎩 Downton Abbey S05.E03: Episode 3

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nicholas Brendon

Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Harrison

Game Time: 🤦‍♂️ You’re The Worst

NOTES

80: A Fine Kettle Of Catfish Jul 27, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Kim helped the gang poke holes in Catfish this week, as we wondered whether Max has gotten better...or everything else around him on the show has gotten worse. We got psyched about the revivals of Wet Hot American Summer and America's Best Dance Crew, took a buggy down memory lane with Little House, and got on board with Humans ("...heard of 'em") before bringing Zoo Under The Dome and trying to bring a Friday Night Lights episode to the Canon championship. Caitlyn Jenner won another event, Jon Stewart's imitation game is a loser, and we passed the Hot Potato in a brand-new Game Time. Should you arrange to meet an all-new Extra Hot Great in a park? Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

GUESTS

👤 Kim Reed

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐟 Catfish

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🦁 Zoo

Around The Dial: 🕺 America's Best Dance Crew

Around The Dial: 🤩 The Most Awesome Thing

Around The Dial: 👂 Humans

Around The Dial: 🦷 The War On Teeth

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 How To Answer A Phone

The Canon: 🏈 Friday Night Lights S01.E20: Mud Bowl

Winner & Loser: 👍 Caitlyn Jenner

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jon Stewart

Game Time: 🥔 Blank Stuffed Hot Potato

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 080 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

79: Strained Explanations Jul 20, 2015

The vampire zombies of The Strain are back on FX, and Omar Gallaga, our resident expert, is back to tell us all about the early days of the second season. From there, we go on to check on the latest events making us Domer, and flip Around The Dial with stops at In Search Of..., The Astronaut Wives Club, the Netflix documentary Tig, and the Spike miniseries Tut. Omar makes a case for the induction of The Walking Dead episode "The Grove" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we finish up with a Game Time that's the OPPOSITE of boring and tedious! Grab a cup of worms and enjoy!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 079 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦠 The Strain

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🔦 In Search Of

Around The Dial: 👨‍🚀 The Astronaut Wives Club

Around The Dial: 🐯 Tig

Around The Dial: 👑 Tut

The Canon: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead

Winner & Loser: 👍 Colonists

Winner & Loser: 👎 Aquarius & Hannibal

Game Time: 🌓 Opposites

NOTES

78: Scream-ing Meanies Jul 15, 2015

Eve Batey makes it a threequel when she returns to discuss -- and diagnose -- Scream with the rest of the gang. We met the newest EHG-themed shirts, despaired of Under The Dome, and recommended Bosch, UnREAL, and British reality-show sleep aids, and Dave was hopeful about Daredevil's second season. Tara and Melanie explained (at normal volumes) why they are NOT Crackpots before we congratulated Lester Holt and shunned Jared Fogle. And I don't want to alarm you guys but Game Time is COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. (Unless it was only the cat.)

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🙀 Scream

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🐼 We Bought Into A Zoo

Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Bosch

Around The Dial: 🫠 UnREAL

Around The Dial: 🧹 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil

I Am Not A Crackpot: 👂 Humans

Winner & Loser: 👍 Lester Holt

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jared Fogle

Game Time: 🔪 Do You Want To Play A Game?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 078 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

77: I Am Not A Crackpot, And Neither Are You Jul 06, 2015

Dear Mr. President, There are too many ways TV can confuse us or let us down. Please eliminate three. We are NOT crackpots! Dave, Sarah, Tara, and special guest Nick Rheinwald-Jones share their own crackpot TV theories or opinions, and discuss submissions from listeners just like you. Join us for a completely sane, non-fruitcakey outing!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 077 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥜 I Am Not A Crackpot

Game Time: ☁️ I Am Not A Crackpot

NOTES

76: Under The Dome And Dumber Jun 29, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Nick willingly trapped himself Under The Dome as CBS's summer "hit" returns for another season of crappy acting, bad CGI, and inexplicable character beats. After Sarah ripped off a rant about jeans and we compared jazz unfavorable with a certain True Detective's anti-bullying regime, we went around the dial with Key & Peele, A History of Radness, European shows of Dave enjoyment, and the excellent wardrobe in a bad ad. The Panel considered The Alias for The Inclusion in The Canon and we cringed at Messrs. Trump and Lecter before a Game Time on finales. If you can jump the chasm of killer butterflies, join us at the Zenith of fun on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 076 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍙 Under The Dome

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Your Father Being Buttfucked With Your Mom’s Headless Corpse On This Goddamn Lawn

Around The Dial: 🔑 Key & Peele

Around The Dial: 🩸 Another Period

Around The Dial: 🧥 Humira-Commercial Jacket Fashion

Around The Dial: 👂 Humans

Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 83

The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Alias S03.E19: Hourglass

Winner & Loser: 👍 Univision

Winner & Loser: 👎 Hannibal

Game Time: 🎁 Wrapping It Up

NOTES

75: The Ew In True Detective Jun 22, 2015

Point your GPS to Central California and meet your EHG regulars and frequent guest Jeff Drake for a discussion of True Detective's divisive Season 2 premiere! From there, we zoom on to an Around The Dial that stops at A Deadly Adoption, Poldark, The Crimson Field, Catastrophe, which HBO documentaries you should smarten up your summer with, and another dip into classic TV ads of yore. Jeff makes a case for the induction of The Mary Tyler Moore Show pilot into the Canon, and then after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, we wind up with a Game Time you might consider a little too informal. Swirl it all a little before you gulp it down!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⭕️ True Detective

Around The Dial: 💈 Poldark

Around The Dial: 🟥 The Crimson Field

Around The Dial: 🤯 Catastrophe

Around The Dial: 📹 HBO Documentaries

Around The Dial: 🚂 The Old West

The Canon: 📡 The Mary Tyler Moore Show S01.E01: Love Is All Around

Winner & Loser: 👍 Lester Holt

Winner & Loser: 👎 Married At First Sight

Game Time: 💐 Call A Rose

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 075 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

74: Hannibal: Food, Sex, And Death Jun 15, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Joe K. Reid (note: not his middle initial) returned to discuss Hannibal's third season and whether the show's serving cannibalistic realness so far. Then we cleansed our palates with a quintessentially inessential TNT summer drama, an Orphan Black clone ranking, and early returns on Orange Is The New Black, and Joe made his pitches for acting-Emmy long shots. A Canon submission made our gorges rise yet again as we reviewed a notorious episode of Review before Degrassi got a stay of execution and Stamos got pulled over. Who did the best job explaining our TV culture to aliens in this week's Game Time? Which Hannibal characters do we hold most deer? Save room for dessert, Clarice: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍽 Hannibal

Around The Dial: 🔪 Murder In The First

Around The Dial: 🏆 The Emmys

Around The Dial: 🍊 Orange Is The New Black

Around The Dial: 🧬 Orphan Black

The Canon: 🥞 Review S01.E03: Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes

Winner & Loser: 👍 Degrassi

Winner & Loser: 👎 STAMOOOOS!

Game Time: 👽 EMDb

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 074 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

73: Brain, Fried On iZombie Jun 08, 2015

With iZombie's season finale bearing down on us like a cannibalistic gym rat, we invited our iZombie correspondent Eve Batey to join us to talk about the season. Around The Dial takes us through Hoarders Live!, Serial Thriller, Tara's report on the ATX Festival, and some more outstanding local ads. After Tara shares a recent Tiny Triumph, Eve proposes the "Christmas" episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine for submission to The Canon. After briefly touching on the week's Winner and Loser, we proceed to a Game Time that just might be fatal. Grab your Cholula and listen up!

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧠 iZombie

Around The Dial: 🌮 ATX Festival

Around The Dial: 🧽 Hoarders Live

Around The Dial: 🔪 Serial Thriller

Around The Dial: 📺 Local Ads

Tiny Triumph: 🗯 Pull Quoted

The Canon: 👮‍♂️ Brooklyn Nine-Nine S01.E11: Christmas

Winner & Loser: 👍 Love, Pride

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Duggars

Game Time: 😵 Bring Out Your Dead!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 073 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

72: The Bachelorette's Rose-Colored Asses May 31, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Stephanie Green is back to help us mull the current season of The Bachelorette, including the "shocking" twist that began the season, the "explosive" "revelations" we can expect in coming weeks, and why Kaitlyn can't stop sucking her teeth. We also pondered Lifetime's new behind-the-scenes scripted/fictional Bachelor series, UnREAL, before going Around The Dial with That '60s Duchovny Show, Scott & Bailey, all about an HBO documentary from April, and Mr. Robot, and Stephanie hoped Freaks & Geeks could sit at the Canon table. Which Girl is our Winner of the week, and which one's our Loser? How many guest-star Emmy nominations does it take for Sarah to get screwed by Sorkin in Game Time? Can we steal you for a second -- to listen to the latest EHG?

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 072 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌹 The Bachelorette

Lead Topic: 🎥 UnREAL

Around The Dial: ♒️ Aquarius

Around The Dial: 🦺 Scott & Bailey

Around The Dial: 👵🏻 All About Ann

Around The Dial: 🤖 Mr. Robot

The Canon: 🤓 Freaks & Geeks S01.E12: The Garage Door

Winner & Loser: 👍 Zosia Mamet

Winner & Loser: 👎 Wendy Molyneux

Game Time: 🏨 Be Our Guests

NOTES

71: Drag Race To The Finish May 25, 2015

Now that the field of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants has been whittled down to just about the size of Violet Chachki's waist, it's time for us to bring back our resident Drag Race expert Mark Blankenship for a discussion of the season to date, and the outcome we want and/or predict will occur. Around The Dial stops at The Bachelorette, Nurse Jackie, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and some more adorable local TV ads, and then a mini-Game Time just for Mark regarding a recent Tiny Triumph. Listener Patrick Felton submits the "Wacky Delly" episode of Rocko's Modern Life for submission to the Canon, and then after the Winner and Loser, it's on to Name Ti-- excuse us, "Game Time." Tuck in and enjoy!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 071 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race

Around The Dial: 🌹 The Bachelorette

Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍⚕️ Nurse Jackie

Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Around The Dial: 🍛 Quickway Diner

Tiny Triumph: 💬 Jeopardy! Audition!

The Canon: 🐕 Rocko's Modern Life S05.E04: Wacky Delly

Winner & Loser: 👍 Mindy Kaling

Winner & Loser: 👎 Nicholas Brendon

Game Time: 🙋🏻‍♂️ These Are The Daves I Know

NOTES

70: The Mad End Of Mad Men May 18, 2015

Have a/some Coke and a smile as our esteemed colleague John Ramos returns to discuss whether Mad Men and Don Draper got a proper sendoff -- and Buntsy finally stops torturing Dave with the DB Cooper thing. (Probably.) We discuss Nashville, vintage ads, crappy Washingtons, and Under The Dome trolling Tara before Sarah proposes another Weiner-related finale, The Sopranos's "Made In America," for its Canon button. Mindy won, Gossip Girl lost, and the panel put on ears for a Game Time about signature sounds. Pack your "The Suitcase" and take a hobo trip with these friends of ours on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😡 Mad Men

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

Around The Dial: 🎸 Nashville

Around The Dial: 🗽 Turn

Around The Dial: 🦌 Deer Forest

The Canon: 🔫 The Sopranos S06.E09: Made In America

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Mindy Project

Winner & Loser: 👎 Gossip Girl

Game Time: 📟 Bleep Bloop

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 070 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

69: In For A Penny Dreadful May 14, 2015

It's officially summer, and you know what that means: time to start a fire in the hearth, brew a pot of tea, and snuggle under a fur blanket for Showtime's Victorian supernatural drama, Penny Dreadful! Naturally, we were thrilled to welcome Matt Debenham, our resident Penny Dreadful correspondent, to join in the discussion. From there, we check in on the evolution of Mad Men's Don Draper into D.B. Cooper on the eve of the series finale. Around The Dial takes us through stops at Finding Carter, The Following, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife, and a very brief peek back at 30 Rock. Matt makes the case for the induction of The Comeback's Season 2 finale, "Valerie Gets What She Really Wants," into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a very descriptive Game Time. Grab all your werewolf buddies and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Matt Debenham

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐺 Penny Dreadful

Around The Dial: 🪂 Mad Men D.B. Cooper Watch

Around The Dial: 🫀 The Following

Around The Dial: 🔦 Finding Carter

Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍⚕️ Nurse Jackie

Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♀️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 🪨 30 Rock

Will Dave Hate This?: 👑 Tut

The Canon: ⏮ The Comeback S02.E08: Valerie Gets What She Really Wants

Winner & Loser: 👍 Ladies

Winner & Loser: 👎 American Idol

Game Time: 📺 Title Carded

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 069 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

68: Do They Know What Time It Is? May 05, 2015

Lauren, Andrew, and Shannon join us for our first listeners-only Game Time event!

TOPICS

Game Time: 👥 The Name Game

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 068 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

67: Orphan Black Marks Apr 22, 2015

Our Orphan Black and Daredevil correspondent, Jeff Alexander, returns to talk boy clones, beatings, and Buntsy's boneheaded D.B. Cooper theory. Liv submitted her final Face Off report of the season, and we all learned something about corporate synergy. Then we went Around The Dial with the Justified finale (approved), the Daredevil renewal (approved), Catfish's obviously imminent end (should be approved), and some TV Canadiana ("Meat!") before bending an elbow for Jeff's Canon submission, Cheers's "Simon Says." Galaxy Quest goes to TV, Baffleck's foot goes in his mouth, and Game Time gets a see-plus in an Extra Hot Great worth waiting for.

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Alexander

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👯‍♀️ Orphan Black

Around The Dial: 🪂 Mad Men D.B. Cooper Watch

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified

Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil

Around The Dial: 🐟 Catfish

Around The Dial: 💥 Ads

The Canon: 🍻 Cheers S05.E21: Simon Says

Winner & Loser: 👍 Britt McHenry

Winner & Loser: 👎 Britt McHenry

Game Time: 🫥 The Invisible Man

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 067 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

66: High Five For Game Of Thrones Apr 13, 2015

As Game Of Thrones launches its fifth season, both Particleer Nick Rheinwald-Jones and Ravens correspondent Jeff Drake join us to talk about the premiere. Sarah then launches her new Mad Men D.B. Cooper-watch segment, and Liv checks in with her comments on Face Off's penultimate episode of the season. Sarah explains why she is NOT a crackpot for believing there need to be more dance-school teen dramas on TV, and then Around The Dial makes stops at Daredevil, Slate's podcast on The Americans, The Daily Show's Trevor Noah problem, a worthy webseries replacement for Kroll Show, and the revamped Turn. Nick presents Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Kimmy's In A Love Triangle!" for submission to the Canon, and then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a clip-riffic Game Time. Put your direwolves outside and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 066 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚽 Game Of Thrones

Around The Dial: 🪂 Mad Men D.B. Cooper Watch

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Dance-School Teen Dramas

Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans

Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show

Around The Dial: 🐣 I Wanna Have Your Baby

Around The Dial: 🗽 Turn

The Canon: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S01.E10: Kimmy’s In A Love Triangle!

Winner & Loser: 👍 '80s Rock Stars

Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden

Game Time: 👂 Eary Similarities II

NOTES

65: The Beginning Of The End Of Mad Men Apr 06, 2015

With Sarah back from baseball nerd camp at last, esteemed contributor John Ramos returned to EHG to talk Mad Men, shapeless narrative, and Roger Sterling's savvy borrowing of Sam Elliott's mustache. After a Face Off report on creepy dollies from Liv, we iced The Slap, bowed before Game Of Thrones, hummed along with the recent crop of awesome music documentaries, and reproached reboots before the Canon parole board considered the case of a first-season Oz episode. Lip-sync battles and communicable diseases were our Winners and Losers, and it took a global village to play Dan Blau Rogge's fantastic Game Time. Dolls, diners, the death penalty, Devon Gummersall and more, in an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥃 Mad Men

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 👋 The Slap

Around The Dial: 🚽 Game Of Thrones

Around The Dial: 🎼 Music Docs

Around The Dial: 🥾 Reboots Aplenty

The Canon: 🛖 Oz S01.E04: Capital P

Winner & Loser: 👍 Spike

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Measles

Game Time: 🐵 Purple Monkey Dishwasher

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 065 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

64: Walking Dead And Loving It Mar 30, 2015

As The Walking Dead wraps up its fifth season, regular Dead correspondent and designated pinch-hitter Jeff Alexander join us for a talk that ranges through the show, the comics, the spinoff, and which characters we could stand to see axed in Season 6! Liv gives the kid perspective on a kid-centered Face Off challenge. We go Around The Dial with stops at Going Clear, The Daily Show, Orphan Black, and Scandal, and The Good Wife. Dave presents the Magnum, P.I. episode "Paper War" for the Canon. After identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a very special, maybe never-to-be-repeated Game Time event! Shamble on in and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Alexander

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 064 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧟 The Walking Dead

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 👩‍⚕️ Call The Midwife

Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show

Around The Dial: 🧬 Orphan Black

Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍🔧 Scandal

Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♀️ The Good Wife

The Canon: 🌺 Magnum P.I. (1980) S07.E08: Paper War

Winner & Loser: 👍 X-Philes

Winner & Loser: 👎 Looking

Game Time: 🍌 Third Bananas

NOTES

63: Scandalously Dancing With The Stars Mar 23, 2015

Our esteemed colleague and ABC aficionado Kim Reed joins the gang for a discussion of Scandal, Dancing With The Stars's 20th season, and the extraneous bits of both. We premiered a new Phrase That Doesn't Pay, learned about Liv's superpower in the Face Off report, Catfished Nev Schulman's podcast, sank one at the buzzer with ESPN's Christian Laettner doc, and got public-service announcements about poison and bad plotting. Kim proposed a Parks & Recreation episode for the Canon before RuPaul and James Caan helped us out with Winners and Losers, and Game Time got aughty by nature. We're the white hats -- and we'd like you to stop pooping on this week's Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kim Reed

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👩🏽‍🔧 Scandal

Lead Topic: 💃🏽 Dancing With The Stars

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍆 Dick Week

Around The Dial: 🐟 Nev Schulman

Around The Dial: 🏈 30 For 30

Around The Dial: ⛪️ Broadchurch

Around The Dial: 😱 '70s PSA

The Canon: 🌳 Parks And Recreation S03.E02: Flu Season

Winner & Loser: 👍 RuPaul's Drag Race

Winner & Loser: 👎 Punters

Game Time: 🎼 The Cyber Awesome Millennial TV Theme Quiz

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 063 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

62: Singing Along With The Voice And American Idol Mar 16, 2015

American Idol and The Voice correspondent Stephanie Cangro joins us to compare and contrast TV's current big two singing competition shows, and confirm for all of us that Harry Connick Jr. is, in fact, the best. Liv walks us through an intergalactic beauty pageant challenge on Face Off, before we go Around The Dial with stops at The Jinx, The Royals, The Last Man On Earth, and Syfy's forthcoming Olympus. Stephanie makes her case for the submission of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" to The Canon, and then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, a mega-sized Game Time may decide the standings for the season!

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Cangro

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎶 The Voice

Lead Topic: 🎵 American Idol

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🤞 The Jinx

Around The Dial: 🤴 The Royals

Around The Dial: 🌎 The Last Man On Earth

Around The Dial: 🏛 Olympus

The Canon: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Winner & Loser: 👍 Fixers

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Bachelorette Basic Bitches

Game Time: 🛟 Women And Children First

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 062 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

61: Burning Down The House Of Cards Mar 09, 2015

Thanks for your patience, friends! We're back, and we're joined by our esteemed colleague Alex Zeidel for a discussion of House Of Cards's third season. Sarah's not a crackpot for thinking TV kids need to have a seat at the dinner table, Liv's talking scary makeup with Dave, and we're circling the dial with Togetherness, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, obscure Nimoy, and CSI: Dawson. After considering whether Alex's RuPaul's Drag Race Canon submission was sickening in the right ways, we crowned a winner and a loser, and Game Time really stretched the term "working title." Over the Underwoods? Either way, there's something fishy about this week's episode of Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Alex Zeidel

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ♠️ House Of Cards

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🍽 Kids Dinner Stormin'

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🤲 Togetherness

Around The Dial: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Around The Dial: 🔎 In Search Of

Around The Dial: 🚙 Flo From Progressive Lore

Around The Dial: 💾 C.S.I.: Cyber

The Canon: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race S05.E05: Snatch Game

Winner & Loser: 👍 Sex Criminals

Winner & Loser: 👎 Phil Robertson

Game Time: 🙋‍♂️ First Name Basis

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 061 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

60: Empire Delivers Tough Cookies Feb 23, 2015

Dean of the Blankenship Chair Mark Blankenship joins us to talk about the newest show he's covering for Previously.TV -- Fox's runaway hit hip-hop soap opera Empire! Liv returns to tell us all about the "Troll Bridge" episode of Face Off, and then we go around the dial to discuss The Americans, the new Emmy eligibility rules, another weird old TV ad, and the imminent return of Intervention. Mark presents the "Don't Make Me Over" episode of Roseanne to The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all dig into a Game Time (from our beloved Joe Reid) that requires us to bust out our calculators. Take a dose of your experimental medicine and enjoy!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 060 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💿 Empire

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans

Around The Dial: 🤥 Lying

Around The Dial: 🏆 Emmy Rules

Around The Dial: 🍦 Carvel Ice Cream

Around The Dial: 🙅‍♂️ Intervention

The Canon: 🌹 Roseanne S04.E24: Don’t Make Me Over

Winner & Loser: 👍 Professor Utonium

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Nutty Professor

Game Time: 🧗 Mountain Climber

NOTES

59: Top Chef Is Here For The Right Seasonings Feb 16, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake helped the gang dish on the Boston season of Top Chef, before seeing if we felt a connection with the current Bachelor and his crop o' lipstick-sharing crazies. Then Tara backhanded The Slap (for its own good, of course!), Jeff visited Broad City and Transparent, and Sarah pitched PBS's endangered documentary programs before Dave taught us all a very important lesson about admitting it when you break a crotchety neighbor's window. A Canon nomination for Fringe may have frozen us in amber; terrorists won, TV journalism lost; and FOEHG Alan Sepinwall submitted a great Game Time about lesser partners. Listeners, will you accept this rose...water aioli?

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef

Around The Dial: 📆 The Daily Show

Around The Dial: 👋 The Slap

Around The Dial: 🏙 Broad City

Around The Dial: 🏳️‍⚧️ Transparent

Around The Dial: 📹 HBO Documentaries

Around The Dial: 🪟 Who Broke My Window?

The Canon: 🐮 Fringe S05.E01: Transilience Thought Unifier-Model 11

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Terrorists

Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Williams

Game Time: 👭 Partners And Other Strangers

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 059 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

58: Riddle Of The Jinx Feb 09, 2015

If HBO's going to bring us a true crime docuseries about notorious non-convicted alleged murderer Robert Durst, we're going to talk about it -- and we're going to get true crime expert Eve Batey to pause her Marathon Diary of The Wire and join us. A playing card-based Face Off challenges our six-year-old correspondent Liv. Around The Dial takes us through one of Dave's favourite old Canadian ads, Netflix's Daredevil, the sudden improvement on SVU, and the sweet Jane The Virgin. Eve presents the "Never Again" episode of The X-Files for admission to The Canon, and then after we identify the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time Ripped From The Headlines! Put down your hoagie and listen.

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤞 The Jinx

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🇨🇦 A Very Canadian Ad

Around The Dial: 👺 Daredevil

Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Around The Dial: 🍆 Jane The Virgin

The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S04.E13: Never Again

Winner & Loser: 👍 Chicago

Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Williams

Game Time: 📰 Ripped From The Headlines

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 058 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

57: Holmes Sweet Holmes On Elementary Feb 02, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Allison Lowe Huff joined us to discuss a recent major arc on Elementary, and why the Sherlock Holmes-verse is so durable. After Liv reported on Face Off and the dietary preferences of lion sunflower creatures, we considered whether Dave would hate Syfy Greek-myth drama Olympus, mourned the once-great Sleepy Hollow, compared The Americans and Allegiance, and set sail with Vikings, before a (final?) round of Bunting vs. Bunting. David Dickerson endured a Star Trek: TNG episode to submit it for the Nonac before we declared a winner, a loser, and another loser. Who won the elaborate and awesome 25,000 Dave Point Pyramid-esque Game Time? Which Bunting prevailed? Will Dave follow Matt Frewer anywhere? Get a clue with an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 057 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕵🏻 Elementary

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 Olympus

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Sarah Bunting vs. Sarah D. Bunting

Around The Dial: 🎃 Sleepy Hollow

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans

Around The Dial: 🎩 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🪓 Vikings

The Nonac: 🌠 Star Trek: The Next Generation S02.E22: Shades Of Gray

Winner & Loser: 👍 Stan Lee Pointer-outers

Winner & Loser: 👎 Nationwide Insurance

Game Time: 👂 Eary Similarities

NOTES

56: Boyds On The Side On Justified Jan 26, 2015

Nick Rheinwald-Jones is our guest for a discussion of the just-kicked-off final season of Justified, just in time for Sarah to get on board. Niece Liv returns to cover Part 2 of the Face Off season premiere, before we move on to the most explosive Bunting vs. Bunting segment of Downton Abbey Series 5 to date. Around The Dial makes stops at The Nightly Show, Togetherness, Wolf Hall, Better Call Saul, and Restaurant Startup, before Nick makes the case for inducting the Gilmore Girls episode "Twenty-One Is The Loneliest Number" to The Canon. Once we crown the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time we...got through, eventually, after some misadventure. Put on your cowboy hat and set a spell!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 056 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤠 Justified

Around The Dial: 🎆 The Nightly Show

Around The Dial: 🤲 Togetherness

Around The Dial: 🐺 Wolf Hall

Around The Dial: ☎️ Better Call Saul

Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Restaurant Startup

The Canon: 👧 Gilmore Girls S06.E07: Twenty-One Is The Loneliest Number

Winner & Loser: 👍 Serial fans

Winner & Loser: 👎 Mike Huckabee

Game Time: 💩 Shitcoms

NOTES

55: Gleeking Out Jan 19, 2015

Our esteemed colleague Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to talk about Glee's final season, the two Ryan Murphys, and how the polarizing show will end. After we laughed at Kroll Show and failed to fall for The Fall, Dave showed off his Night Moves, and we wondered which live musical would hit the nets next. Liv took inspiration from Face Off, one Sarah Bunting cleared a manor house of Russians, and Adam produced a third-season Muppet Show for the Canon before we played a dy-no-miiiiiiiite theme-song Game Time. Find out why we got kicked out of Fuddrucker's and why Buntsy's doing the robot on all-new old-school super-size Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 055 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📣 Glee

Around The Dial: 🌆 Broad City

Around The Dial: 🥩 Kroll Show

Around The Dial: 🍂 The Fall

Around The Dial: 🌃 Night Moves

Around The Dial: 🦴 Flesh And Bone

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Sarah Bunting vs. Sarah D. Bunting

The Canon: 🐽 The Muppet Show S03.E05: Pearl Bailey

Winner & Loser: 👍 NBC News

Winner & Loser: 👎 Gary Sinise

Game Time: 🙂 The Super Funky 70s TV Theme Show Quiz

NOTES

54: The 72nd Oscars Jr. Awards Jan 12, 2015

The 2015 televised entertainment award season kicks off with the People's Choice Awards, and...just kidding, we're talking Golden Globes with Joe Reid. We then revive "Will Dave Hate This?" in response to Amazon's announcement of its TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle, and examine the latest Downton Abbey through the lens of Sarah Bunting vs. Sarah D. Bunting. Around The Dial stops at Parenthood, the American Heroes Channel, The Celebrity Apprentice, and My Husband's Not Gay, before Joe presents "The One Where Ross Got High" episode of Friends to The Canon.

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🟡 The Golden Globes

Will Dave Hate This?: 🏰 The Man In The High Castle

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Parenthood

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Heroes Channel

Around The Dial: 🤑 The Celebrity Apprentice

Around The Dial: 🥍 My Strange Addiction

The Canon: 🛋 Friends S06.E09: The One Where Ross Got High

Winner & Loser: 👍 The CW

Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Carter

Game Time: 🔪 Broadcast To Kill

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 054 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

53: Downton For The Count Jan 04, 2015

Our esteemed colleague John Ramos is back to assess the stateside season premiere of Downton Abbey -- with all the Sarah Buntings that entails. We also sicced Wardrobe Cop on Rags To Riches, admired FXX's movie-advertising game, ran through the pleasures of The Flash, and worked up an appetite for The Great British Bake Off. John then gestated a Playing House Canon submission before Game Time forced us to wonder Who In The What Now. How much do the two S. Buntings have in common? What does the newest Spike reality competition have on Common? Are times changing? The latest full-strength ep of EHG has more info than a clever schoolteacher.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👒 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🎩 Rags To Riches

Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off

Around The Dial: 🎞 FXX Movie Ads

Around The Dial: ⚡️ The Flash

The Canon: 🏡 Playing House S01.E08: 37 Weeks

Winner & Loser: 👍 Hip-hop furniture

Winner & Loser: 👎 Teresa Giudice

Game Time: 🤷‍♂️ Who In The What Now?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 053 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

52: 2014 In Review Dec 29, 2014

The EHG team breaks its long silence for a quick look back at the TV year that was, with some highly partial superlatives including Best New Show, Most Tragic Renewal, and Pierce Of The Year. Join us for all the triumphant laurels and rotten tomatoes!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍾 Year In Review

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 052 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

51: Nonacs-travaganza! Nov 16, 2014

It's time once again to consider nominees for the Nonac -- the opposite of the EHG Canon, where the worst-ever episodes of otherwise-good shows reside. After Dave clarified a point of Nonac law, we turned our attention to the "disgusting clothing" and ridiculous challenge in a ninth-season Project Runway; remembered how much we hated stupid Nick, Kalinda's stupid husband, on The Good Wife; failed to take Joey Potter's mugging plight seriously on Dawson's Creek; and said nice things about James Van Der Beek, Michael Kors, and soft-serve ice cream. Did this trio of terror make it into the Nonac, thus closing the books on their respective shows...FOREVAAAAAH? Quick, listen to Extra Hot Great and find out before you get hit by a car or something.

TOPICS

The Nonac: 🛶 Dawson's Creek S05.E15: Downtown Crossing

The Nonac: 😇 The Good Wife S04.E02: And The Law Won

The Nonac: 👗 Project Runway S09.E03: Go Big Or Go Home

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 051 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

50: The A&E Afternoon-Programming Canon Nov 09, 2014

Once upon a time, long ago (read: "the early aughts"), before the tyranny of Duck Dynasty, A&E really was about art and entertainment -- viz. their weekday-afternoon "rock block" of enjoyable classics. NewsRadio, Northern Exposure, and Law & Order: Mothership helped the gang while away many a dull PM at their desks. Today, we nominate favorites from each show for Canon consideration, and fondly remember Phil Hartman, Joel Fleischman's mullet, and that halcyon time before Michael Moriarty went bonkers and started running for king of countries he isn't a citizen of. Do you agree with our decisions? Hop in Extra Hot Great's daytime-TV time machine.

TOPICS

The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S04.E04: Arcade

The Canon: 👨🏾‍⚖️ Law & Order S01.E07: Mushrooms

The Canon: 🐻‍❄️ Northern Exposure S04.E23: Cicely

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 050 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

49: The Extra Hot Great Program Parole Board Special Nov 02, 2014

Our very special all-Program Parole Board special looks around the TV landscape and makes recommendations on which currently-barely-available series deserve to be put online for streaming, put back into the syndication rotation, or straight-up rebooted.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👩🏽‍⚖️ Program Parole Board Special

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 049 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

48: The Extra Hot Great TV Cop Special Oct 26, 2014

For our very special TV Cop special, we hear from specially trained officers working cases involving special effects overreach, sexual ethics, booze, and much more!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚔 TV Cops

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 048 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

47: The Trip Has Spoken On Survivor Oct 21, 2014

Our esteemed colleague Trip Payne takes a break from hunting for the hidden immunity idol to join us for discussions of Survivor, TV's krappiest kids, a notable casting change, and a South Korean reality show. The hills were alive with the sound of a Will & Grace nomination for the Canon, and we also heard from Liv on Face Off and crowned our Winner and Loser before Game Time blindsided everyone! (Well, almost.) Drop your buffs: it's time to merge with Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Trip Payne

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🗿 Survivor

Around The Dial: 😯 Scandal

Around The Dial: 🧠 The Genius

Around The Dial: 😇 The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 📚 Read All About It

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Canon: 👩🏻‍🎨 Will & Grace S08.E10: Von Trapped

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kim Dickens

Winner & Loser: 👎 Freaks & Geeks

Game Time: 🎲 The Game Game: Second Edition

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 047 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

46: Dead And Circuses On American Horror Story Oct 15, 2014

Joe Reid joins us to discuss the week in TV as Ryan Murphy premieres the fourth season of American Horror Story, murderous clown and all. Around The Dial takes us through Extreme Cheapskates, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., HBO's announcement of a standalone streaming service, and Sarah and Joe engaging in a postseason baseball commentator fantasy draft (and if you're friends with Joe Buck, don't let him listen). The unwelcome return of the We Are All Domer segment carries us into a much more enjoyable topic: Joe's submission of The Good Wife's "Red Team, Blue Team" to The Canon. An overstuffed listing of the week's Winner and Loser is our last stop before a seasonally appropriate spoooooky Game Time, with a very special host. Snuggle up on your picnic blanket without a single care in the world and enjoy!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤡 American Horror Story: Freakshow

Around The Dial: 👛 Extreme Cheapskates

Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball

Around The Dial: 📺 HBO

Around The Dial: 🛡 Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Canon: 😇 The Good Wife S04.E14: Red Team Blue Team

Winner & Loser: 👍 NFL

Winner & Loser: 👎 Phil Robertson

Game Time: 🧌 Monster Mash

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 046 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

45: Homeland Wants Its Spy Mommy Oct 06, 2014

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake came not to praise Homeland's season premiere, but to bury it -- but he and the gang found a lot to like. We went around the dial with animated shows, British-history-based streaming sleep aids, and a great ending to a great Bob's Burgers, before Liv accidentally NSFWed the Face Off report and Sarah reviewed Lena Dunham's new book. The Giudices got jail time, Tara got (pea)cocky for Game Time, and we tried not to drone on in a radical Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Homeland

Around The Dial: ⚠️ Gravity Falls

Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Wars: Rebels

Around The Dial: 👑 Monarchy

Around The Dial: 🍔 Bob's Burgers

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 📖 TV-Book Korner

The Canon: 🍆 The Dick Van Dyke Show S05.E01: Coast To Coast Big Mouth

Winner & Loser: 👍 Alyssa Milano

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Giudices

Game Time: 🦚 Be NBC’s Guest

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 045 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

44: Wayney Days In Gotham Sep 29, 2014

Fox gets into the comic book adaptation game with Gotham, and Previously.TV's resident Gotham watcher Nick Rheinwald-Jones is here to talk about it with us! Around The Dial rolls through The Flash, Chicago PD, The Good Wife, and How To Get Away With Murder. True professional Olivia Kwan updates us on the latest Face Off even though its "childhood fears" theme was so scary that her mom only let her watch a little bit of it. Tara busts out the last "We Are All Domer" of the season (or maybe forever...?). Nick offers up the Season 3 finale of Episodes for submission into The Canon, and then after we call out the week's Winner and Loser, it's a game that's so vain, it probably thinks this Game Time's about it. Quit morbidly fixating on local street crime and listen!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 044 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦇 Gotham

Around The Dial: ⚡️ The Flash

Around The Dial: 💨 Chicago PD

Around The Dial: 🐂 The Roosevelts

Around The Dial: 🔪 How To Get Away With Murder

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Canon: 📺 Episodes S03.E09: Episode Nine

Winner & Loser: 👍 True Detective

Winner & Loser: 👎 Rob Schneider

Game Time: 🦚 Vanity Fare

NOTES

43: Madam Secretary's Diplomatic Immunity Is Revoked Sep 22, 2014

Our esteemed colleague and EHG first-timer Allison Lowe Huff headed up the Madam Secretary discussion committee this week before Liv and Dave filed reports on Face Off and Billy Eichner, respectively. We also put a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode to a vote (...at Tenagra), tried to solve The Mysteries Of Laura, and fell for Gravity Falls before taking a trip through fictional small-town America during Game Time. Is Space Louis a real place? What does "Shaka" mean? And is Tea Leoni really our most underrated actress? Join us for state dinner and a movie on Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 043 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🗽 Madam Secretary

Around The Dial: ⚠️ Gravity Falls

Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway

Around The Dial: 😈 Lucifer

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Mysteries Of Laura

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Tiny Triumph: 🛣 Billy Eichner

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: The Next Generation S05.E02: Darmok

Winner & Loser: 👍 Graham Yost

Winner & Loser: 👎 Darrell Hammond

Game Time: 🗺 Quirky Falls, USA

NOTES

42: The Fall Guys Sep 15, 2014

Our long, long three-week hiatus comes to an end with the return of John Ramos, and a discussion of new fall series -- the ones each of us are into; the ones we should be into but aren't; and the ones we feel no one should be into. After Olivia's latest Face Off report (warning: contains Beauty And The Beast and Frozen spoilers), we go around the dial to touch on Couples Therapy, The Chair, Iyanla, Fix My Life, and an insane rant from Dave about marketing The Blacklist. The episode also features Tiny Triumphs, the Domest thing about the latest Under The Dome, John's submission of the Enlisted series finale to the Canon, and finally the week's Winner and Loser and a Game Time that is fought...navally.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍁 Fall TV Picks

Around The Dial: 🤼‍♀️ Couples Therapy

Around The Dial: 🪑 The Chair

Around The Dial: ⬛️ The Blacklist

Around The Dial: 🛠 Iyanla, Fix My Life

Tiny Triumph: 🦌 Moose tweets Sarah

Tiny Triumph: 👕 Glarkware on TV

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

The Canon: 🪖 Enlisted S01.E13: Alive Day

Winner & Loser: 👍 Peter Gallagher

Winner & Loser: 👎 Nev Schulman

Game Time: 🚢 I’m On A Boat

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 042 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

41: Making It Work (Yum!) With Project Runway Aug 18, 2014

One half of the Fug Girls, Jessica Morgan, returns to the guest chair as we consider Project Runway and whether it's showing its age. We also talked about Utopia's not-that-crazy ideas, Rectify's Emmy chances in 2015, corporate fan-fic, and televised LARPing before assessing a five-makeover Clone High ep for the canon. Could the gang guess which portmanteaux names went with which couples in Game Time? Will Nicollette Sheridan have her day in court? Find out on a one-day-challenge episode of Extra Hot Great. ...STAMOS!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 041 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👗 Project Runway

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🕊 Utopia

Around The Dial: 💥 Rectify

Around The Dial: 🩼 Kindle Worlds

Around The Dial: ⚔️ The Quest

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Canon: ⚗️ Clone High S01.E12: Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode

Winner & Loser: 👍 Bob's Burgers

Winner & Loser: 👎 Nicollette Sheridan

Game Time: 💑 Ships Ahoy!

NOTES

40: Getting Knicked Aug 11, 2014

Alan Sepinwall joins us for his first-ever full episode of the podcast for a discussion of The Knick! After Face Off correspondent Olivia Kwan updates us on Episode 3, we go around the dial with Outlander, Dirk Gently, Amy Pascale's new Joss Whedon biography, and Extreme Guide To Parenting. Sarah shares a couple of recent Tiny Triumphs, Tara tells us why We Are All Domer for knowing anything at all about Under The Dome, Alan presents the Cheers episode "Endless Slumper" for submission into The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser and a musical Game Time. Dip your beard in some water and scrub in!

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 040 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥼 The Knick

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Outlander

Around The Dial: 🫖 Dirk Gently

Around The Dial: 🤮 Joss Whedon: The Biography

Around The Dial: 🪂 Extreme Guide To Parenting

Tiny Triumph: 🪅 Richard LaGravenese and the Banza Brothers

Around The Dial: 🍙 Under The Dome

The Canon: 🍺 Cheers S01.E10: Endless Slumper

Winner & Loser: 👍 James Corden

Winner & Loser: 👎 Victoria Jackson

Game Time: 🏂 Most X-Treme 90s TV Theme Song Quiz

NOTES

39: The Bachelorette: Hear For The Right Reasons Aug 04, 2014

Previously's Bachelor/ette expert, Stephanie Green, joins us -- even Sarah, with Time Warner Cable's capricious blessing! -- to discuss the latest Bachelorette finale, slut-shaming, and whether anyone's still watching it (or going on the show) unironically. After we went around the dial with Stephen 'DGAF' Colbert, Dave's take on Tara's Fringe rewatch, and The Leftovers book club, Olivia Kwan reported on Face Off, and we wrote Felicity's first-season sex episode in our day planners. Did Game Time accept this rose? Was Janeane Garofalo drunk when she recorded those 'Dear Felicity' spots? The gang tells all in this week's Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 039 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌹 The Bachelorette

Around The Dial: 🏥 The Knick

Around The Dial: 🪺 Sex In The Wild

Around The Dial: 🐮 Fringe

Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers

Around The Dial: 🧌 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🫠 Under The Dome

The Canon: 💇🏻‍♀️ Felicity S01.E11: Gimme An O!

Winner & Loser: 👍 Tara Reid

Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox News

Game Time: 🤡 Also Known As

NOTES

38: Making Up Is Hard To Do On Face Off Jul 28, 2014

The return of SyFy's Face Off brings series expert/first-time guest Monty Ashley (plus six-year-old fan Olivia Kwan) to the podcast to talk locked molds, co-operation, and why taking one class with your son might not be adequate preparation for a prospective contestant on the show. Then Sarah's network craps out and we're forced to carry on without her to talk Ancient Aliens, the original Batman TV series, and Married At First Sight. Tara inaugurates a new Under The Dome segment and Dave shares a Batman Day Tiny Triumph, and then it's on to Monty's Canon submission: the "Scott Tenorman Must Die" episode of South Park. Tara names the week's Winner and Loser, and then it's on to a very educational Game Time. Without giving anything away...trust when we say this episode is more suspenseful than most.

GUESTS