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252: Fleabag's Second Season Takes Us To Church May 22, 2019

Show notes

Fleabag is back on Amazon for its second -- and last -- season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about the big swings the show takes, Olivia Colman's perfect performance, and the show's unique realness about everything from faith to sisterhood to bad haircuts. We go Around The Dial with a My Dad Wrote A Porno update, plus Vida, She-Ra, and a Ron Artest/Metta World Peace documentary on Showtime, and contemplate a short but very sweet Canon submission concerning a Hilda episode about a giant. President Carteris won (we hope), BH90210 lost, and we juggled Steal Meals in a ballsy Game Time. Break the fourth wall with an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪰 Fleabag

Around The Dial: 🍆 My Dad Wrote A Porno

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Vida

Around The Dial: 👸 She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power

Around The Dial: 🏀 Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story

The Canon: 👧🏻 Hilda

Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris

Winner & Loser: 👎 BH90210

Game Time: 🧠 Name That Sport

NOTES

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

🫴 Who's who on Catch-22

🎶 MASTAS on Instagram

😔 I'm Sorry

251: Living In The Society May 15, 2019

Show notes

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

Show notes

HBO has gone back to the 1980s for a miniseries take on the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; to discuss whether the show is as big a catastrophe as the event, we've invited Adam Sternbergh to join us! Around The Dial clicks through Tuca & Bertie, Dead To Me, Money Heist, Atlanta, and Hulu's upcoming Catch-22. Sean and Tim use their Extra Credit to challenge us to rank the caregivers of Call The Midwife before Adam presents the first Barry episode to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we each try not to be the last holding the Hot Potato during Game Time. Put on your hazmat suit and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ☢️ Chernobyl

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Tuca & Bertie

Around The Dial: 😵 Dead To Me

Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist

Around The Dial: 📼 Atlanta

Around The Dial: 🫴 Catch-22

Extra Credit: 🤑 Rank A Midwife

The Canon: 🏆 Barry S01.E07: Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast, And Keep Going

Winner & Loser: 👍 Elizabeth Banks

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Game Of Thrones set dec who left a takeout coffee cup in a shot, and the HBO PR team that tried to be cute about it

Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato

NOTES

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

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

🏦 Tara on Good Girls for Primetimer

😷 Sarah on The Act for Primetimer

249: Should You Get Behind The Red Line? May 01, 2019

Show notes

It's a good thing today's Canon pitch is for The Other Two, because returning guest John Ramos is a super-fan -- but before we got around to that, we had to punch our tickets for The Red Line, CBS's weighty series on how three Chicago families intersect in the aftermath of a police shooting. Is it trying too hard for significance? Is the writing writing checks some of the acting can't cash? And do we wish Regina Taylor had a more central role? After debate club, we went Around The Dial with I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, High Maintenance, and MTV's Jersey Shore/Bachelor hybrid Double Shot At Love, then High Castled some alternate-timeline/dystopian show pitches in an Extra Credit from C.G. before hearing that The Other Two Canon submission. Shannen Doherty won, Game Of Thrones took a bunch of losses, and we jammed with the return of One Letter Off Game Time. Throw a tiny needlepoint pillow on a concrete lounger and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📈 The Red Line

Around The Dial: 😱 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

Around The Dial: 🪴 High Maintenance

Around The Dial: 💘 Double Shot At Love With DJ Pauly D And Vinny

Extra Credit: 🤑 The Showrunner In The High Castle

The Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S01.E03: Chase Gets A Girlfriend

Winner & Loser: 👍 Shannen Doherty

Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones people

Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 249 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🥷 Tara's Barry piece for Decider

🎶 MASTAS

✍️ Crime Writers On

248: A Game Time Promise Kept Apr 27, 2019

Show notes

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

Show notes

HBO has imported Gentleman Jack, a BBC dramedy based on the journals of 19th-century lesbian landowner Anne Lister, and we've invited Mark Blankenship to join us in getting way up under its skirts! Around The Dial takes us through the débuts of The New Negroes and Ramy; Losers; Fleabag; and The Good Fight. Jacqueline brings us an Extra Credit question about our teen BFFs. Mark presents the Designing Women episode "The Beauty Contest" to The Canon then we name the week's Winner and Loser. Loosen your corset and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Mark Blankenship

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👩‍🌾 Gentleman Jack

Around The Dial: 🚨 The New Negroes

Around The Dial: 🇯🇪 Ramy

Around The Dial: 😪 Losers

Around The Dial: 🪰 Fleabag

Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight

Extra Credit: 🤑 Your TV Teen BFFs

The Canon: 🏆 Designing Women S01.E02: The Beauty Contest

Winner & Loser: 👍 Chaos

Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Che

NOTES

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

🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

🪑 The Blankenship Chair

👎 Tara on the rotten kids of Better Things at Decider

✍️ The Crime Writers On podcast

📙 Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel at Amazon

246: Game Of Thrones Enters Its Final Round Apr 17, 2019

Show notes

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

Show notes

FX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon, a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine on whether it should have opened and closed the same night. Around The Dial spins through the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve; the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Brit crime drama Unforgotten; and Cinemax's new period immigration/tong drama Warrior. In the absence of a Canon segment (...it's a long story), we speed through the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a special double shot of Game Time. Grab a Seconal and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕺 Fosse/Verdon

Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve

Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Unforgotten

Around The Dial: ⚔️ Warrior

Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave

Winner & Loser: 👎 Drunks; CBS

Game Time: 🧠 TV Pets

Game Time: 🧠 These Shows Have Issues

NOTES

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

🧸 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter

🧌 Upstart Creatures

🎭 National Alliance For Musical Theatre

244: Twilight Zone-ing Out With Jordan Peele's CBS Reboot Apr 03, 2019

Show notes

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

Show notes

FX has adapted the 2014 vampire mockumentary film What We Do In The Shadows as a TV series: does it have the same bite as the original? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to discuss! Around The Dial spins through The Village; Playing House alumni Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair's live UCB improv show; Season 3 of The Good Fight; and commonwealth news spoofs This Time With Alan Partridge and Get Krack!n. Tara celebrates a Taskmaster-related Tiny Triumph before pitching the Frasier episode "The Matchmaker" for induction into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and then close up with a Game Time that challenges us all on our spelling ability. Close all your blackout curtains and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧛 What We Do In The Shadows

Around The Dial: 🏘 The Village

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Lennon Parham & Jessica St. Clair

Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight

Around The Dial: ⏳ This Time With Alan Partridge

Around The Dial: 🚨 Get Krack!n

Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Taskmaster

The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S02.E03: The Matchmaker

Winner & Loser: 👍 Emily Dickinson