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312: A Care Package From Killer Camp Jul 22, 2020

Show notes

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

Show notes

When is a movie fair game as a topic on a TV topic? When it premieres on a streaming service, of course! First-time guest Alanna Bennett takes a break from writing Roswell, New Mexico to join us to talk about the latest Lonely Island Classic. Around The Dial takes us through Little Voice, the original 1985 CBC miniseries adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables, Cheers, Close Enough, and the HAHA Awards. Listener Jenni pitches The Good Wife's "Hitting The Fan" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might earn us tenure. Reapply your sunscreen and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Alanna Bennett

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌵 Palm Springs

Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice

Around The Dial: 👩‍🦰 Anne Of Green Gables

Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough

Around The Dial: 🤣 The HAHA Awards

The Canon: ⚖️ The Good Wife

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Jane Lynch

Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi

Game Time: 🧠 It's All Academic

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 311 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Alanna Bennett on Twitter

🎙 Tara's Little Voice review at Collider

🏳️‍🌈 Pilot Viruet on queer joy at TVGuide.com

🏪 Vogue.com's report on The People's Bodega

📸 The People's Bodega NYC on Instagram

💰 The People's Bodega NYC on PayPal

🛸 The CW's Roswell, New Mexico

🎧 Quaid In Full

👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough scene

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

310: The Real Upstart Crowives Of The Outer Banks Jul 08, 2020

Show notes

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

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤬 The Real Housewives Of Potomac S04.E06: Sex, Lies, and Butter Knives

Lead Topic: 🪶 Upstart Crow S03.E02: Wild Laughter In The Throat Of Death

Lead Topic: 🛥 Outer Banks S01.E01: Pilot

NOTES

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

309: Holding Up Our Lighters for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga Jul 01, 2020

Show notes

Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell play enthusiastic but perhaps slightly self-deluded aspiring Icelandic pop stars in Netflix's new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, so who better than Eurovision devotee Mark Blankenship to join us to talk about it? Around The Dial takes us to Search Party, Hot Mess House, Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels, Unsolved Mysteries, and Outcry. Dave Lost Wages uses his Extra Credit to have us add a family member to a stale TV family. Mark presents the Dinosaurs series finale, "Changing Nature," for induction to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a Game Time that really Sporcles. Climb into your aerial harness and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Mark Blankenship

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏆 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga

Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party

Around The Dial: 🏚 Hot Mess House

Around The Dial: 🌴 Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels

Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries

Around The Dial: 🏈 Outcry

Extra Credit: 🤑 Welcome Cousin Oliver

The Canon: 🦎 Dinosaurs

Winner & Loser: 👍 Last Chance U Colin Kaepernick

Winner & Loser: 👎 Council Of Dads

Game Time: 🧠 Nobody Knows You

NOTES

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

🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma"

🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix"

🪀 Netta, "Toy"

🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah"

🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test

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

⚡️ The Flashpaper

🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on the Unsolved Mysteries revival at Primetimer

308: On The Case With Perry Mason Jun 24, 2020

Show notes

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

Show notes

Production Note: Dave did a bad copy-paste in his notes and credited the wrong Dave in Game Time. Dave is a bad Dave. Dave LARSON is not a bad Dave, he is a good Dave and the author of Viva Lost Wages!

Apparently unsatisfied by dominating the world of scripted film, Ryan Reynolds has branched out into alternative TV programming by creating a new ABC game show called Don't, hosted by Adam Scott. Will "Don't" also be our advice on whether you should watch it? Frequent Game Time writer Dan Cassino joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Netflix's latest dopey game show, Floor Is Lava; Top Chef All-Stars L.A.; and an I Am Not A Crackpot rant from Sarah regarding plotlines about bad and learning drivers. John Horner uses his Extra Credit to have us imagine TV characters from unusual careers trying to interview for jobs in the straight world. Dan presents the Father Brown episode "The Passing Bell" for induction into The Nonac. We name the week's Winner and Loser, and then we take a gamble on the latest Game Time. DON'T let your attention wander for a second!

GUESTS

👤 Dan Cassino

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚫 Don't

Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Floor Is Lava

Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef: All-Stars

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🚘 Subplots about bad/learning drivers should be forbidden

Extra Credit: 🤑 TV Character Job Interviews

The Nonac: 🙏 Father Brown

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Simpsons

Winner & Loser: 👍 Insecure

Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi

Game Time: 🧠 Viva Lost Wages

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 307 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter

⚔️ Tara's Crossing Swords review at Primetimer

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book at Abrams Books

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

306: Should You Hide From Trackers? Jun 10, 2020

Show notes

Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about Trackers, the 2019 South African "thriller" that Cinemax has imported. Unfortunately, the only place it led the EHG panel was Dullsville, despite big game, gun battles, and the apparent love child of Christian Bale and Randall Batinkoff...but we did talk about the "COVID programming trough" that's rapidly approaching for all TV fans. Later, we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Married At First Sight Australia, Please Like Me, 13 Reasons Why's final season, and Disney Gallery Colon The Mandalorian; then we wondered what themed episode titles would look like for series that don't already have them in David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sing successfully for its Canon supper? Who's smashing the Iron Throne on HBOMax, and what police (shows) got defunded? And who was attuned to Sad Hulk's rewrites of legendary TV theme songs during Game Time? Stare into the middle distance as you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Green

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚨 Trackers

Around The Dial: 💕 Love Life

Around The Dial: 🇦🇺 Married At First Sight: Australia

Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Please Like Me

Around The Dial: 📓 13 Reasons Why

Around The Dial: 🐭 Disney Gallery

Extra Credit: 🤑 The One Where The Titles Have A Theme

The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Winner & Loser: 👍 Looney Tunes Cartoons

Winner & Loser: 👎 Cops

Winner & Loser: 👎 Live PD

Winner & Loser: 👎 L.A.'s Finest

Game Time: 🧠 Songs In The Key Of Hulk

NOTES

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

🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter

👩‍🍳 Tara's post on homemaking Amys at Primetimer

📖 The New Ohio Review

🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

305: Enlisting In The Space Force Jun 03, 2020

Show notes

The announcement that Donald Trump was creating a new branch of the military called the Space Force was swiftly followed by the announcement that Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, the creator and star of The Office, would re-team on Space Force, a sitcom about said branch. Should that have occurred? Now that the first season has dropped on Netflix, John Ramos has returned to discuss the matter. Around The Dial takes us through AMC's ITV import Quiz, Season 2 of Ramy on Hulu, Netflix's docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, and the new Starz drama Hightown. Tara wastes no time in pitching the three-week-old What We Do In The Shadows episode "On The Run" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's the sequel to a Game Time that sings. Put on your moon-print fatigues and join us!

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚀 Space Force

Around The Dial: 💷 Quiz

Around The Dial: 🏡 Ramy

Around The Dial: 🏝 Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Around The Dial: 🚨 Hightown

The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ What We Do In The Shadows

Winner & Loser: 👍 Dishmantled

Winner & Loser: 👎 Glee Heather Morris, Lea Michelle

Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel 2: The Garfunkeling

NOTES

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

🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

💷 Tara's Quiz review on Primetimer

🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast

🌴 Again With Again With This on Patreon

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

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

304: Solving The Mystery Of Homecoming's Second Season May 27, 2020

Show notes

We're welcoming Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Soraiya to the guest chair to talk about the shorter, neater, Julia-Roberts-less-but-still-better second season of Amazon's Homecoming -- from sensible episode lengths to overacting extras to how TV has conditioned us to react to mystery shows. We went Around The Dial with Mrs. America, Run, Nadiya's Time To Eat, and a rare successful Zoom episode from Mystic Quest, before listener John rolled a 20-sided die on getting Community's D&D episode into the Canon. Vampires won, Skeet Ulrich lost, and one was the winningest number in a Pointless-inspired Game Time. Slap on a fake tattoo before you forget, and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Sonia Saraiya

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🫐 Homecoming

Around The Dial: 🙋‍♀️ Mrs. America

Around The Dial: 🚆 Run

Around The Dial: 🍽 Nadiya's Time To Eat

Around The Dial: 🎮 Mythic Quest

The Canon: 🎲 Community

Winner & Loser: 👍 What We Do In The Shadows

Winner & Loser: 👎 Riverdale Skeet Ulrich

Game Time: 🧠 Lowest Of The Low

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 304 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Sonia Saraiya on Twitter

🙋‍♀️ Sonia's Mrs. America review at VanityFair.com

🫐 Tara's Homecoming review at Primetimer

💻 Sonia at VanityFair.com

🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

303: Should You Chase Down Ultimate Tag? May 20, 2020

Show notes

Fox is welcoming summer with a very silly American Gladiators take on tag -- yes, the playground game -- so who better than Daniel MacEachern, veteran of our Holey Moley episode last year, to join us to discuss it? Around The Dial clicks through Snowpiercer, Katy Keene, Call The Midwife (CW: there are clips and you will cry), The Last Dance, Killing Eve, and a preview of Holey Moley's Season 2 premiere. Mary uses her Extra Credit to ask us which TV role permanently ruined an actor for us. We consider the induction of Big Mouth's "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that lives to serve. Race up a wall if you have to, but listen!

GUESTS

👤 Daniel MacEachern

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👉 Ultimate Tag

Around The Dial: 🚆 Snowpiercer

Around The Dial: 🏙 Katy Keene

Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife

Around The Dial: 🏀 The Last Dance

Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve

Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley

Extra Credit: 🤑 Who Stank Up The Actor?

The Canon: 😵 Big Mouth