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222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth Oct 10, 2018

Show notes

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

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

🗳 Joe on Decider

🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz

221: A Million Little Things: This Is (-n't For) Us Oct 03, 2018

Show notes

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

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

🤰 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

Show notes

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

Show notes

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

👤 Adam Grosswirth

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

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

🏄‍♂️ 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

Show notes

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

👤 Alan Sepinwall

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

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

🪨 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter

📚 Alan's books on Amazon

✍️ Episode 1 of The Forger's Masterclass on YouTube

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217: You Don't Know Jack Ryan Sep 05, 2018

Show notes

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 ATX Festival

🏕 The TV Campfire Podcast

🔎 The Blotter

😖 The Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown

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

216: Will You Be Enchanted By Disenchantment? Aug 29, 2018

Show notes

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

👤 Omar Gallaga

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

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

📲 TechMinuteTexas.com

💰 Money Can't Buy You Podcast

215: Regarding Better Call Saul's Fourth Season Aug 22, 2018

Show notes

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

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

🧥 "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

214: Should You Get Initiated Into Lodge 49? Aug 15, 2018

Show notes

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

👤 Adam Sternbergh

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

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

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

📕 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

Show notes

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