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134: Going Long With Saturday Night Live Nov 07, 2016

Show notes

On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives! The Blotter Presents a brief (and dismissive) look at Lifetime's scripted movie Who Killed JonBenét?. Around The Dial stops at Ancient Aliens, Planet Earth II, The Crown, and People Of Earth! Omar presents the BoJack Horseman episode "Fish Out Of Water" for submission to The Canon, and then after we address the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's in a family way. Set aside 90 minutes (and then...some more time after that) and join us!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌃 Saturday Night Live

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Who Killed JonBenét

Around The Dial: 👽 Ancient Aliens

Around The Dial: 🌎 Planet Earth II

Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 The Crown

Around The Dial: 🛸 People Of Earth

The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman

Winner & Loser: 👍 Major League Baseball

Winner & Loser: 👎 Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons Bill Simmons

Game Time: 🧠 Showbiz Moms And Dads

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 134 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

133: Looking Into The Black Mirror Oct 25, 2016

Show notes

Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror, from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and everything in between. Buntsy updated us on future true-crime programming before we went Around The Dial with Jane The Virgin, Halloween on TV, Bull, superheroes, startups, and Negan. Everybody wants something, and Danny wouldn't give up on his Degrassi Junior High Canon submission, plus Nev Schulman actually picked out a half-decent kid name and Sarah's sure NBC's going to lace its Sneakers up wrong. What's the best use of a drone on TV? Why didn't Dave cry at "San Junipero"? And what kind of greasy kid stuff did we get up to in Game Time? Enter the Extra Hot Greatrix with an all-new episode and find out!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Murder In The Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited

Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin

Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Supergirl

Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway: Fashion Startup

Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead

The Canon: 🇨🇦 Degrassi Junior High

Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish

Winner & Loser: 👎 Sneakers

Game Time: 🧠 Kids Stuff

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 133 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

132: The Listener Game Time Finals Oct 12, 2016

Show notes

Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything? Supertroll Edition

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

131: Is Luke Cage Bulletproof? Oct 04, 2016

Show notes

Our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk Luke Cage, from the acting to the soundtrack to whether the 13-episode season felt like (or should have been) two shorter seasons. After a debate about whether David T. Cole will hate the distaff Magnum, PI and a Blotter review of Netflicumentary Amanda Knox, we went Around The Dial with Pitch, Timeless, Westworld (heard of it), and a Rachael Ray-meets-Look Around You web series from Australia before Nick hummed a few bars of Garfunkel & Oates for the Canon. A bunch of fall series won, Dr. Phil and Steven Avery lost, and Game Time tried to get between us and our Calvins.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🗽 Luke Cage

Will Dave Hate This?: 🕵️‍♀️ Magnum P.I. (2018)

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Amanda Knox

Around The Dial: 🤠 Westworld

Around The Dial: ⏳ Timeless

Around The Dial: 🌬 Easy

Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch

The Canon: 🎶 Garfunkel & Oates

Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Phil

Game Time: 🧠 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Men World

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 131 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

130: The Extra Hot Great Fall 2016 Preview Sep 20, 2016

Show notes

It's the pumpkin-spice latte of autumnal programming overviews! ...Unless you hate those. Eve Batey's back to look at the best, worst, and meh-est of new and returning shows.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall 2016 Preview

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenet Ramsey JonBenet Ramsey

Tiny Triumph: 🍑 Narcos Pedro Pascal RTs Tara's piece on him

The Canon: 🤠 Justified

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys

Game Time: 🧠 We're Number 2!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 130 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

🚨 "Narcos Faces Law & Order: SVU In The Battle Of The Crime-Fighting Crushes" on Previously.TV

🐦 Pedro Pascal's RT

129: Snatching Wigs With RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Sep 13, 2016

Show notes

With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Blotter Presents a true crime twofer: Sarah's assessment of the latest in JonBenét Ramsey investigations, and a survey of coverage on East Tennessee catfisher Jenelle Potter! Around The Dial stops at Son Of Zorn, the Creative Arts Emmys, an update on how Sarah liked Better Things, and Narcos. Mark makes the case for The Real World's Season 1 episode "Julie In A Homeless Shelter?" to be inducted into the Canon, and then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we get into a Game Time that's double trouble. Zip up your ball gown and listen in!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenét Ramsey

Around The Dial: 💪 Son Of Zorn

Around The Dial: 👧 Girls Peter Scolari's Emmy win

Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things

Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos

The Canon: 📹 The Real World

Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO; Jim Jones

Winner & Loser: 👎 Miss America pageant

Game Time: 🧠 My Single My Single Is Dropping Is Dropping

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 129 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

128: Voting Early And Often On The West Wing Aug 30, 2016

Show notes

TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorkiniest moments, and the stuff that hasn't aged well (paging, um, all those pagers in the premiere). The Blotter Presents watched Marg Helgenberger chow the scenery in a vintage JonBenét TV movie, and we went around the dial with new FX sitcoms, Lethal Weapon, The Night Of, and British teen coming-of-age story My Mad Fat Diary before Sarah H. held her nose and submitted Friday Night Lights's second-season premiere for the Nonac. Empire won, Dr. Drew lost, and tag we were all it for a very close Game Time. How does a bill become an "aw, man"? Find out on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The West Wing

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta

Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things

Around The Dial: 📔 My Mad Fat Diary

Around The Dial: 🌃 The Night Of

Around The Dial: 🚨 Lethal Weapon

The Nonac: 🏈 Friday Night Lights

Winner & Loser: 👍 Empire

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Drew On Call

Game Time: 🧠 Taglines

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 128 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Sarah Hope on Twitter

127: Committing Mutiny With Halt And Catch Fire Aug 23, 2016

Show notes

As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's new true crime docuseries Unlocking The Truth, and then we go Around The Dial with stops at Key & Peele, British Premier League soccer on NBC, Ripper Street, and an appropriate vintage Vic-20 ad. Phil presents the Simpsons episode "Last Exit To Springfield" for the Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, we hold our noses through a..."delightful" Game Time. Log in and join us!

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Lead Topic: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unlocking The Truth

Around The Dial: 🗝 Key & Peele

Around The Dial: ⚽️ British premier league on NBC

Around The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street

The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons

Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Katy Perry

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Nightly Show Amy Schumer; Kurt Metzger

Game Time: 🧠 The Delightful Dozen

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 127 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Philip Michaels on Twitter

💻 Phil at Tom's Guide

🎧 These Are Their Stories podcast

126: Big Draw: Animated Shows For Grown-Ups Aug 16, 2016

Show notes

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well for adults as for kids (lookin' at you, SpongeBob), the most beautifully drawn (and scored) shows, and much more. The Blotter managed to dig up a crime cartoon, and then we went around the dial with human cartoons on Catfish, Seeso's Take My Wife, the finale of The Great British Baking Show (get the PBS app, y'all!), and Occupied. Did Monty get whammied in his Press Your Luck Canon submission? Did a Criminal Minds star lose(r) the plot? And who's at the top of the podium after Game Time? We've got the line on an all-new Extra Hot Great, so check it out.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ✍️ Adult Cartoons round-up

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Crime: The Animated Series

Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish

Around The Dial: 💍 Take My Wife

Around The Dial: 🎂 The Great British Bake Off

Around The Dial: 🇳🇴 Occupied

The Canon: 📺 Press Your Luck

Winner & Loser: 👍 Making A Murderer Brendan Dassey

Winner & Loser: 👎 Criminal Minds Thomas Gibson

Game Time: 🧠 Gold, Silver, Bronze

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 126 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

125: The Question Is Zoot Aug 02, 2016

Show notes

For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions submitted by listeners like you, grading them on an appropriately jazzy scale:

Rusty Gate
The Question Is Zoot
Smooth Poison
Atonal Omens Of Pain
Scat Man Down
Barrelhouse Of Horror
Boogie Woogie Influenza
Slaughterhouse Jive
Hateful Freeform Jazz
Infernal Tootling

The results may...really distress you. (Trigger alert: jazz.)

Sarah and The Blotter's apprentice investigator Olivia bring us a City Confidential episode about a murdered jazz musician to determine whether it is worse than jazz. Then Around The Dial stops at Married At First Sight, Netflix's Last Chance U, and another topic-appropriate vintage ad unearthed by Dave. We debate whether Everwood's Season 1 finale 'Home' deserves a spot in the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a non-regulation Game Time that smells a bit...rank. Limber up your trumpeting lips and join us!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎷 Is This Worse Than Jazz?

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 City Confidential

Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U

Around The Dial: 🤠 The Sixth Gun

The Canon: 🏔 Everwood

Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing

Game Time: 🧠 This Smells Rank

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 125 page on ExtraHotGreat.com