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402: Interrogating The CW's Would I Lie To You? Apr 13, 2022

Show notes

Sometimes American remakes of British comedies are big hits, like The Office! And sometimes they're not, like Taskmaster. Where does The CW's take on Would I Lie To You? land? Panel show aficionado Dan Cassino returns to discuss it. Around The Dial takes us through Minx, The Ultimatum, Beforeigners, Julia, and Atlanta. Dave S. uses his Extra Credit to challenge us to reinvent the dating show à la The Courtship (except...good). Listener Françoise pitches the Top Chef All-Stars episode "Restaurant Wars: One Night Only" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, tag! It's on to a Game Time full of taglines. You won't want to miss this one, and that's the truth!

GUESTS

👤 Dan Cassino

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🙊 Would I Lie To You

Around The Dial: 🦦 Minx

Around The Dial: 🖐 The Ultimatum

Around The Dial: 🪓 Beforeigners

Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia

Around The Dial: 🥤 Atlanta

Extra Credit: 👩‍❤️‍👨 Beyond The Courtship

The Canon: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef S08.E07: Restaurant Wars: One Night Only

Winner & Loser: 👍 Better Call Saul

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dancing With The Stars

Game Time: 🧠 TV Taglines of the 21st Century

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 402 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter

👃 The Classic WILTY channel on YouTube

🦦 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of Minx on Vulture

💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast

♣️ The Listen To Sassy Club

⏳ Nina Metz's Beforeigners review at the Chicago Tribune

😖 Dan's new book, Gender Threat: American Masculinity In The Face Of Change at Stanford University Press

👎 "Why are Republicans so focused on restricting trans lives?" by Dan Cassino at the Washingon Post

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

🕵️‍♀️ The Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: The CW

401: Are We Over The Moon Knight? Apr 06, 2022

Show notes

Roxana Hadadi is back to talk about the latest minor Marvel superhero, Moon Knight, and whether an inconsistent premiere outweighs the charisma of Oscar Isaac in the lead role. Will TV's usual difficulty portraying gods apply to this series? Should Ethan Hawke's cult-leader subplot have gotten cut entirely? And is Dave a crackpot for thinking it's enough already with animated tattoos? After we went Around The Dial with Julia, How We Roll, Eye Candy, Tokyo Vice, 30 Rock, and The Andy Warhol Diaries, listener Laura prayed that we'd vote a second-season episode of The Righteous Gemstones into the Canon. Capote's "swans" won, sci-fi shows lost, and Game Time turned into a case of sibling rivalry. Strap yourself to your podcast player of choice: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Roxana Hadadi

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌜 Moon Knight

Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia

Around The Dial: 🍬 Eye Candy

Around The Dial: 🎏 Tokyo Vice

Around The Dial: 👨‍🎨 The Andy Warhol Diaries

The Canon: 🏆 The Righteous Gemstones S02.E04: As To How They May Destroy Him

Winner & Loser: 👍 Naomi Watts

Winner & Loser: 👎 The AMPTP

Game Time: 🧠 Relativity

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 401 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter

🦤 Roxana at Vulture

🌙 Roxana's Moon Knight review

🌴 Again With This on Patreon

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

400: Getting To Know The Girl From Plainville Mar 30, 2022

Show notes

Hulu apparently felt that the Michelle Carter "texting suicide" case hadn't been sufficiently covered by a Lifetime movie and a multi-hour documentary, so now its latest scripted true crime series, The Girl From Plainville, is taking its turn; Stephanie Early Green returns to discuss it. Around The Dial takes us through Music Box: Listening To Kenny G; Is It Cake?; Love On The Spectrum; and Mare Of Easttown. Amelia S. challenges us to forcen TV characters with TV episodes -- to delight ones we like and torture ones we don't. Stephanie presents the Detroiters episode "Hog Riders" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a real character of a Game Time. Take a break from yelling to everyone you know about Hulu's taste level and listen to us do that instead!

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Green

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👧🏻 The Girl From Plainville

Around The Dial: 📯 Music Box

Around The Dial: 🥮 Is It Cake

Around The Dial: 🌈 Love On The Spectrum

Around The Dial: 🐴 Mare Of Easttown

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Around The Dial: 💖 When Calls The Heart

Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Picard

Extra Credit: 👀 Forcening For Good And For Evil

The Canon: 🏆 Detroiters S01.E02: Hog Riders

Winner & Loser: 👍 Cress Williams

Winner & Loser: 👎 Ex-Bachelor Colton Underwood

Game Time: 🧠 Hey! It's Those Three Guys!

NOTES

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

🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter

👧🏻 "The Girl From Plainville" by Jesse Barron on Esquire.com

☠️ I Love You, Now Die on HBO Max

🚨 The Blotter Presents 103: "I Love You, Now Die and Patty Hearst (1988)

🍰 "Let's Make Is It Cake More Chaotic" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

👩‍🚒 Tara's interview with 9-1-1 stars Arielle Kebbel and Oliver Stark at Decider

🏠 Stephanie's "Hacienda," at Juked

🕸 More of Stephanie's fiction at her website, StephanieEarlyGreen.com

🎧 Sarah on the Crime Seen podcast, from the Rob Has A Podcast network

📰 The Best Evidence newletter

🕶 D.O.C.'s TV ad for Sexy Specs

399: The Listener Game Time Tournament Mar 23, 2022

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

With Sarah unexpectedly out for the week, it's a slimmed-down installment of the podcast (no Canon or Game Time) -- but fortunately Eve Batey is here to bring her expertise in both San Francisco and true crime to join our discussion on The Dropout! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death, The Courtship, the Late Night With Seth Meyers Corrections series on YouTube, Vikings: Valhalla, and the latest on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Mlle. Caroline asks us to pick non-canonical middle names for TV characters. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser! Get your blood sugar up with a cookie (or two) and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💊 The Dropout

Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death

Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 The Courtship

Around The Dial: ✨ Late Night With Seth Meyers

Around The Dial: ⚔️ Vikings: Valhalla

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Extra Credit: 🤑 What's Your Middle Name?

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nailed It

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Big Leap

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 397 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

☀️ "The Dropout's Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani As Lady Macbeth" at Vulture

🍖 Tara's Jon Hamm interview at GQ.com

🤢 "How Seth Meyers Turned Internet Toxicity Into Emmy-Nominated Gold" at VanityFair.com

🌭 East Bay Nosh

🔍 The Best Evidence newsletter

🛍 Avenues Dry Goods

396: Breaking The Law & Order Mar 02, 2022

Show notes

After almost 12 years, the original Law & Order has been revived at NBC for its 21st season, and superfan Mark Blankenship has returned to The Blankenship Chair to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Super Pumped, Love Is Blind, Reacher, Bug Out, and Worst Roommate Ever. Ilan cashes in an Extra Credit to get us to propose our finales for series that ended badly, or didn't really end at all. Carlos makes the case for inducting the series premiere of Mare Of Easttown to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with two separate, not really equally important rounds. No need to get down to Centre Street: we've brought our latest podcast right to you!

GUESTS

👤 Mark Blankenship

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👮🏻‍♂️ Law & Order

Around The Dial: 🧴 Super Pumped

Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind

Around The Dial: 🫱 Reacher

Around The Dial: 🪳 Bug Out

Around The Dial: 😳 Worst Roommate Ever

Extra Credit: 🛬 Re-Sticking The Landing

The Canon: 🏆 Mare Of Easttown S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave

Winner & Loser: 👎 Twitting Celebs

Game Time: 🧠 Ignorance Of The Law & Order Is No Excuse

NOTES

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

🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

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

🌴 Again With This on Patreon

📺 Primetimer.com

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

☁️ The Far From Heaven episode of Quaid In Full

395: Should You Stick Around For The Endgame? Feb 23, 2022

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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