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202: Having A Bunch Of Different Kinds Of Balls With Dancing With The Stars: Athletes May 09, 2018

Show notes

Will Leitch is a renowned sports journalist, so did we have him on to talk about 30 For 30 or something similarly thoughtful and incisive about the world of athletics? No, he's joining us to talk about the very special all-athletes season of Dancing With The Stars! Around The Dial rolls through Good Girls, Gotham, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dear White People, and Myths And Monsters. Will presents Better Call Saul's "Chicanery" for submission to The Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's got a lot of stamps on its passport. Trade your Under Armor for Danskins and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏀 Dancing With The Stars

Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Good Girls

Around The Dial: 🗽 Gotham

Around The Dial: 🚓 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Around The Dial: 🐁 Dear White People

Around The Dial: 🧌 Myths And Monsters

The Canon: 🏆 Better Call Saul S03.E05: Chicanery

Winner & Loser: 👍 Criminal Justice

Winner & Loser: 👎 Joe Piscopo

Game Time: 🌏 Lost In Translation

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 202 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📺 The Will Leitch Show on SI.com

🎤 The Grierson & Leitch podcast

📬 Will Leitch's Tinyletter

201: Now Re-Entering Westworld Apr 25, 2018

Show notes

As HBO's obsession-inducing dystopia returns for a second season, Eve Batey also returns to discuss reflections on capitalism; college-dorm philosophizing; why wigs are still shite in the future; and whether Ed Harris is using a stunt double. Eve claimed not to be a crackpot for calling for a Simpsons cancellation -- with a surprising hatchet man -- and the Bosch theme may have been deemed Worse Than Jazz before we went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale, Splitting Up Together, and Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery. Then we were Flipping Out over Eve's Canon submission. Frankenstein's author won, Rectify's antagonist lost, and it all added up on a very mathy Game Time, in an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤠 Westworld

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Simpsons

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Bosch

Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale

Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together

Around The Dial: 🪦 Unforgotten

The Canon: 🏆 Flipping Out S03.E07: Irreconcilable Differences

Winner & Loser: 👍 Mary Shelley

Winner & Loser: 👎 Rectify

Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No Math

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 201 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🌉 The Inside SF newsletter

🎳 Help The Ruth Bowler Ginsbergs and the Gateway Women's Access Fund

200: Finding Our Way Through Lost In Space Apr 18, 2018

Show notes

Netflix having successfully adapted House Of Cards (*********) and remade One Day At A Time, it's reached back into the archives of classic TV to bring us an all-new take on Lost In Space -- and new guest Jeb Lund is here to talk about all the Robinsons' extraterrestrial meanderings. Around The Dial stops at that bad episode of The Simpsons, Patriot, and Season 4 of Bosch. Jeb presents the Connections episode "Death In The Morning" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we mark our 200th episode with a special 200th episode-themed Game Time. Grab your interstellar GPS and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Jeb Lund

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚀 Lost In Space

Around The Dial: 🍩 The Simpsons

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot

Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch

The Canon: 🧶 Connections

Winner & Loser: 👍 Bravo

Winner & Loser: 👎 John Mulaney

Game Time: 🧠 The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 200 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter

🎧 Jeb's podcast, This Week In Atrocity

💸 This Week In Atrocity on Patreon

🎧 The History Of English Podcast

199: Does The Howards End Justify The Means? Apr 11, 2018

Show notes

Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir joins the panel this week for the latest filmed take on E.M. Forster's Howards End, and while we liked some things -- the casting; the memories of Witches Of East End occasioned by Julia Ormond -- not everything about the new iteration worked for us. We went Around The Dial with New Girl, Billions, Paterno, and Killing Eve before sinking our teeth into Big Little Lies S01.E05, "Once Bitten." Renewed shows won, cretins lost, and Tara put a song in our hearts with the next chapter of Tube Tunes for Game Time. Hail a carriage with wifi; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Doree Shafrir

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎩 Howards End

Around The Dial: 👧 New Girl

Around The Dial: 💰 Billions

Around The Dial: 🏈 Paterno

Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve

The Canon: 🤫 Big Little Lies

Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve

Winner & Loser: 👍 Deep State

Winner & Loser: 👍 Pure

Winner & Loser: 👎 Harvey Weinstein, T.J. Miller

Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes II

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 199 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Doree Shafrir on Twitter

🎧 The Forever 35 podcast

📖 Doree's novel Startup on Amazon

198: Gathering The Comrades For The Americans Apr 04, 2018

Show notes

The Americans is wrapping up its spy mission in the U.S., and You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk has crammed his viewing of the previous two seasons to prepare for our discussion of the Season 6 premiere! Around The Dial takes us through Alex, Inc.; an update on Here And Now; HBO's latest doc The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling; and the fourth season of the Swedish/Danish crime drama Bron/Broen. Stephen makes the case for us to induct Archer's "Skytanic" into The Canon, before we name the week's Winner and Loser and then roll into a Game Time that Could! Change! EVERYTHING!!! Put on your headphones in the Secret Basement Of Spycraft and see if you can crack our code! (JK, we don't have the patience to make you a code.)

GUESTS

👤 Stephen Falk

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🗽 The Americans

Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Margo Martindale interacts with Tara on Twitter

Around The Dial: 🎧 Alex Inc.

Around The Dial: ⏰ Here And Now

Around The Dial: 🪶 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling

Around The Dial: 🌉 Bron

The Canon: 🎯 Archer S01.E07: Skytanic

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Wendy Williams Show

Winner & Loser: 👎 John Kricfalusi

Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 198 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Stephen Falk on Twitter

🎉 Margo Martindale's appreciative response to Tara's tweet

197: Should Silicon Valley Get Another Round Of Funding? Mar 28, 2018

Show notes

Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the show has left. How many times can it repeat the same cycles? How much longer can it really expect to keep Kumail Nanjiani? And seriously, what's with all the barfing? After Sarah celebrated a Real Housewife Tiny Triumph, we went Around The Dial with Roseanne, Splitting Up Together, the new Queer Eye, grandpa show American Experience, Barry, and a Will Dave Hate This? update on The Terror, before our guest pitched a first-season Leftovers episode, "Guest," for the Canon. Dirty John was a winner, another gross man was our loser, and Dan Cassino's Italianate pronunciation vincit omnia in a Latin-geek-nip Game Time. Grab a mug of your favored office coffee and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Bobby Finger

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💻 Silicon Valley

Tiny Triumph: 🎉

Around The Dial: 🧺 Roseanne

Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together

Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale

Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Eye

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience

Around The Dial: 🎭 Barry

Around The Dial: 😱 The Terror

The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers

Winner & Loser: 👍 Dirty John Connie Britton

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dan Schneider

Game Time: 🧠 Will Dave Say This?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 197 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter

🎧 The Who? Weekly podcast

196: Raising Our Voices On Rise Mar 21, 2018

Show notes

NBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement, Slings & Arrows and Nailed It! before we ponder the induction of The West Wing's "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen" to the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a Game Time that's a real banger. Warm up your instrument and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎶 Rise

Around The Dial: 💔 The Arrangement

Around The Dial: 🏹 Slings & Arrows

Around The Dial: 🧁 Nailed It

The Canon: 🇺🇸 The West Wing

Winner & Loser: 👍 Cagney And Lacey Sarah Drew, Michelle Hurd

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Crown

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Man In The High Castle

Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 196 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter

🏹 Slings And Arrows on YouTube

🎭 Americans For The Arts

195: Hitting The High Points Of Jessica Jones Season 2 Mar 14, 2018

Show notes

S2 of Netflix Marvel anti-heroine joint Jessica Jones was a long time coming -- and unfortunately it took a long time to get going. Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton joins the panel to discuss the absence of Kilgrave malice, whether thirteen episodes is five too many, and the evident female gaze of the season's directorial corps. Around The Dial recommended Champions, Altered Carbon, and the second season of The Good Fight, and Dave wondered if the Is This Worse Than Jazz theme is worse than jazz. This week's Canon submission is -- surprise! -- the second in a row from submitter Lauren, as she aims for a two-fer with BoJack Horseman S02.E04, "After The Party." And Dan Cassino hopes we get lucky with another mash-up Game Time, Before & After II. Don't punch a hole in your car; an all-new Extra Hot Great to the rescue!

GUESTS

👤 Kirk Hamilton

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones

Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Champions

Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon

Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Fight

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Joel Kinnaman

The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman S02.E04: After The Party

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kim Kardashian, out-earning Kanye West

Winner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew, abruptly fired

Game Time: 🧠 Before & After Yet Again

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 195 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Kirk Hamilton on Twitter

🥃 Our first go-round with Jessica Jones in EHG 96

🎧 The Splitscreen podcast

194: Filling Our Plates With MasterChef Junior Mar 07, 2018

Show notes

It's time once again for Gordon Ramsay to take a break from screaming at adults and spend a few weeks gently critiquing kids: that's right, MasterChef Junior is back for Season 6. To talk about the premiere, we welcome first-time guest Lindsey Weber of the Who Weekly podcast to talk about the half-sized hash slingers. Around The Dial takes us to Atlanta, Vanderpump Rules, Drunk History, and NightMan, before we ponder whether the series premiere of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, "Josh Just Happens To Live Here!," should be inducted into The Canon. From there, it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and to a Game Time built on Sound Foundations. Fill some ramekins with snacks and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Lindsey Weber

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍽 Masterchef Junior

Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta

Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules

Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History

Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman

The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Winner & Loser: 👍 Gina Rodriguez

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Walking Dead

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Oscars

Game Time: 🧠 Sound Foundations

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 194 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Lindsey Weber on Twitter

🎧 The Who Weekly podcast

💻 Lindsey's UnREAL recaps on Vulture

193: UnREAL Season 3 Tries To Make A Connection Feb 28, 2018

Show notes

After a literal car wreck of a second season, UnREAL is finally pulling back the curtain again on fictional dating show The Suitor -- and grown-ish writer Kara Brown pulled up a guesting chair for the first time to help us unpack the show's issues, starting with its, well, need to address capital-I Issues. Also Jeremy, who is not a fetch we're willing to see happen. Does UnREAL try to do too many things, or the wrong ones? Who on the panel is cautiously optimistic about it leaving S2 behind a la Friday Night Lights? And seriously, why is Jeremy? Later, we went Around The Dial with Nashville, Anna Deavere Smith's latest for HBO, Lovesick, and the return of NightMan, and Kara made the "wrecked" theme official with a Canon submission from Season 8 of RHONYC. The White House Correspondents' Dinner won, an entire southern state lost, and we got stuck in the middle (names) with a Game Time from David Dickerson. Please accept this rose, in the form of an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kara Brown

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL

Around The Dial: 🪕 Nashville

Around The Dial: ❤️‍🩹 Lovesick

Around The Dial: 🎭 Notes From The Field

Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman

The Canon: 🏙 The Real Housewives Of New York City

Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Wolf, hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner

Winner & Loser: 👎 Productions in Georgia, after abortion restrictions pass

Game Time: 🧠 The Middle