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272: Flooring It With El Camino Oct 16, 2019

Show notes

We're so glad our esteemed colleague and Breaking Bad 101 author Alan Sepinwall could join us to talk about El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel on Netflix that starts just minutes after the finale ended. Did we think it was necessary and/or satisfying? Were the fan-service elements welcome, or distracting? And which other characters should get their own post-BB films? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dynasty, Riverdale's Luke Perry tribute episode, Lodge 49, Private Lives Of The Windsors, and an objection from Dave to breathy cover-song TV themes (and the ending of Press, kind of), before Alan warmed up a second-season Leftovers episode as his Canon submission. Holey Moley won, a FOX affiliate (and racist sports teams) lost, and we sprang into action (verbs) for Game Time with the season hanging in the balance. An all-new Extra Hot Great: that's church, yo.

GUESTS

👤 Alan Sepinwall

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚘 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017)

Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Riverdale

Around The Dial: 🍺 Lodge 49

Around The Dial: 👑 Private Lives Of The Windsors

Around The Dial: 🎞 Get Shorty

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Breathy slowed-down cover songs as TV themes

Around The Dial: 🗞 Press

The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers

Winner & Loser: 👍 Holey Moley

Winner & Loser: 👎 California Fox affiliate using chyron "Braves Scalped?"

Game Time: 🧠 The Verb Is The Word

NOTES

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

🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter

🌆 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

🎥 Quaid In Full

271: Stopping The Presses For Press On Masterpiece Oct 09, 2019

Show notes

PBS's Masterpiece has premiered the British miniseries Press, a tale of warring London newspapers, and we've brought a former newspaper reporter, Daniel MacEachern, back to the podcast to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through Evil, Big Mouth, and Cash Cab, before we each pitch our own Fosse/Verdon-style limited series based on a real person's life (and possibly a specific biography). Danny presents The Grinder's "Grinder v. Grinder" for induction into the Canon. Then we're on to naming the week's Winner and Loser, and finishing up with a Game Time that might sound a little familiar. Put down any newspaper you might be reading and listen to us instead!

GUESTS

👤 Daniel MacEachern

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📰 Press

Around The Dial: 👿 Evil

Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth

Around The Dial: 🚕 Cash Cab

Extra Credit: 🤑 Small Screen / Larger Than Life

The Canon: 🏆 The Grinder S01.E13: Grinder v. Grinder

Winner & Loser: 👍 Rachel Maddow

Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan

Game Time: 🧠 Familiar Situations

NOTES

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

🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

🏸 David Roth, Laura Wagner, and Kelsey McKinney's Deadspin report on TheMaven's Sports Illustrated takeover

👄 Big Mouth co-creator Andrew Goldberg apologized for the show's description of pansexuality

🕳 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranks "Live Through This"

🚀 Quaid In Full's episode on Dennis Quaid's Baretta episode

🏞 The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt

270: The Survivor Stumptown Sunnyside Shot Clock Oct 02, 2019

Show notes

We couldn't decide which headline show to cover for EHG 270, so we set our shot clocks to eight minutes each for three: Survivor's 39th (!) season, with an idolatrous twist; new sitcom Sunnyside, starring Kal Penn as a disgraced city councilman; and semi-charming, SUPER-piloty PI/PTSD drama Stumptown. Will any of us keep watching any of these? Can we, when a couple of them already pulled basement-ish ratings? Later, we went Around The Dial with Bissinger doc Buzz, Perfect Harmony, The Challenge, and Below Deck Med before Kim brought us back to Survivor and fans vs. favorites with her Canon presentation. Moriarty's a winner, Ray Lewis is a loser, and we explored not-that-secret identities in Game Time. Behold the giant wooden busts of your panel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kim Reed

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏜 Survivor

Lead Topic: ☕️ Stumptown

Lead Topic: 🌞 Sunnyside

Around The Dial: 🎼 Perfect Harmony

Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz

Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge

Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean

The Canon: 🏆 Survivor S16.E13: If It Smells Like A Rat, Give It Cheese

Winner & Loser: 👍 Andrew Scott

Winner & Loser: 👎 Ray Lewis

Game Time: 🧠 Also Known As

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 270 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

📉 Sunnyside's low ratings

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

🛍 GQ on Bissinger's shopaholism

🎙 Sweet Smell Of Succession

📺 Sarah's Primetimer author page

📸 We're @extrahotgreat on Instagram

269: Polishing The Silver For Downton Abbey: The Movie Sep 25, 2019

Show notes

Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through a trio of CBS sitcom pilots, Unbelievable, 30 For 30's "Rodman: For Better Or Worse," and Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. Sarah and Tara take a look at Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail's just-announced Battlestar Galactica reboot and ask: Will Dave Hate This? We take on Mary's Muppetational Extra Credit question. Chris and Joe make the case for Project Runway S02.E09, "Flower Power," to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after talking Emmy Winners and Losers, it's on to a Game Time that tests our knowledge of our Boomer relatives' favourite shows. Grab your favourite footman and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏰 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🥈 Carol's Second Act

Around The Dial: 💕 Bob Hearts Abishola

Around The Dial: 🦄 The Unicorn

Around The Dial: 🧐 Unbelievable

Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30

Around The Dial: 🔮 Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance

Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Battlestar Galactica

Extra Credit: 🤑 Flesh-Covered Muppets

The Canon: 🏆 Project Runway S02.E09: Flower Power

Winner & Loser: 👍 Some people at the Emmys

Winner & Loser: 👎 Different people at the Emmys

Game Time: 🧠 Uncle Billy & Aunt Joan

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 269 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter

📺 Primetimer

🎶 MASTAS Live!

🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast

📺 Chris at Primetimer

🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

268: The Ups And Downs Of Undone Sep 18, 2019

Show notes

Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight, Are You The One?, and The Challenge, then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kevin O'Keeffe

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⌚️ Undone

Around The Dial: 👰 Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🥇 Are You The One

Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge

Tiny Triumph: 🎉

Extra Credit: 🤑 A Very Blanky Renovation

The Canon: 🏆 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills S01.E09: The Dinner Party From Hell

Winner & Loser: 👍 Norman Lear

Winner & Loser: 👎 Shane Gillis

Game Time: 🧠 What's The Difference

NOTES

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

📺 Appointment TV podcast

💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project

🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

267: Tearing Down A Very Brady Renovation Sep 11, 2019

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

Show notes

HBO's new Danny McBride/Jody Hill sitcom, The Righteous Gemstones, takes aim at megachurch evangelists, but will it make you throw up your hands in praise? Adam Sternbergh returns to discuss it. Around The Dial makes stops at Lodge 49, The Boys, Years And Years, and QB1: Beyond The Lights, before we roll into a Canon presentation on the series premiere of Sherlock, "A Study In Pink." After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all say "¡si!" to a Game Time about TV's non-union Mexican equivalents. Our episode is an awesome episode, and you should listen!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones

Around The Dial: 🛖 Lodge 49

Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys

Around The Dial: 📅 Years And Years

Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1: Beyond The Lights

The Canon: 🏆 Sherlock S01.E01: A Study In Pink

Winner & Loser: 👍 St. Elmo's Fire

Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends

Game Time: 🧠 Non-Union Mexican Equivalent

NOTES

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

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

📰 The 1619 Project at the New York Times

📺 Sarah at Primetimer

💍 Decoder Ring's episode on the Johnlock Conspiracy

263: Pinning Down Season 3 Of GLOW Aug 14, 2019

Show notes

GLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family, Wu Assassins, So You Think You Can Dance, and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek, then declared a dead Confederate a winner, and LiLo's antics a loser, before sampling a rollercoaster of a musical Game Time. Hike up those leotards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 The Family

Around The Dial: 🩰 So You Think You Can Dance

Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax

Around The Dial: 🥷 Wu Assassins

Extra Credit: 🤑 When The Emmys Meet The Tonys

The Canon: 🏆 Schitt's Creek S01.E06: Wine And Roses

Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO

Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan