

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 32min
463: Should You Hang With The Full Monty?
More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever, I, Tina, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before Tara hoped a second-season episode of Reservation Dogs would get adopted into the Canon. Bill Hader won, The Crowded Room lost, and Game Time had us scouring the index of Mo's book. Grab a bag of chips and run: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Mo Ryan
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🍆 The Full Monty
Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever
Around The Dial: 🎶 Tina
Around The Dial: ⛽️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey
Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The Canon: 🧀 Reservation Dogs S02.E07: Stay Gold Cheesy Boy
Winner & Loser: 🔫 Bill Hader
Winner & Loser: 🚪 The Crowded Room
Game Time: 🔥 19 Questions: Burn It Down Edition
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 463 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Mo Ryan on Twitter
❤️🔥 Buy Burn It Down
🪫 The NY Daily News cites Burn It Down on Jeff Garlin's The Goldbergs power trip
🤨 Garlin denies getting fired to Vanity Fair
📜 Tara's Based On A True Story review at Cracked.com
💔 “America loved Tina Turner. But it wasn’t good to her.” at Andscape.com
🐦 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Twitter
📷 Photo: Ben Blackall / FX

Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 6min
462: Launching An Investigation On Deadloch
Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch, an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Fear The Walking Dead, and 30 For 30. Julie presents the thirtysomething episode "Mr. Right" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that has us hearing double. Check your peripherals for Kevin The Seal and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Anthony Farrell
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢
Lead Topic: 🐨 Deadloch
Around The Dial: 💗 The Ultimatum
Around The Dial: 🧟♀️ Fear The Walking Dead
Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30
The Canon: 👞 thirtysomething S03.E03: Mr. Right
Winner & Loser: 👍 Somebody Somewhere
Winner & Loser: 👎 Top Chef
Game Time: 🗣️ Syllable Bull
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 462 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Anthony on Twitter
🦘 Tara's Deadloch review at Cracked
😵 Kroll Show's "Dead Girl Town" on YouTube
🤠 Tara's ATX Festival coverage at Cracked
📚 Exhibit B. Books
❤️🔥 Buy Maureen Ryan's book Burn It Down at Exhibit B. Books
📷 Photo: Amazon Studios

May 31, 2023 • 1h 16min
461: Sticking Around For I Think You Should Leave
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back on Netflix for Season 3, and actor/comedian/media mogul Will Hines is also back to talk about the season's best sketches, unique sketch-show rhythms, and whether Robinson is still TV's best screamer. We went Around The Dial with Platonic, The Night Agent, and Primo, and then relaxed by the pool with Chris's Lodge 49 Canon submission. Kenan Thompson won, Andy Cohen lost, and we rolled the dice in TV real estate during Game Time. Hop off the zipline and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Will Hines
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🚪 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
Around The Dial: 🤝 Platonic
Around The Dial: 🌚 The Night Agent
Around The Dial: ☝️ Primo
The Canon: 😼 Lodge 49 S02.E09: The Reve Impossible
Winner & Loser: 👍 Kenan Thompson
Winner & Loser: 👎 Andy Cohen
Game Time: 🏨 Go Directly To Jail
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 461 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🤣 Mr. Boop
🥚 Alec Robbins's egg-game tweet
🐦 Will Hines on Twitter
🌎 CBB World
📜 More from Will Hines
🤝 Alison Herman's review of Platonic at Variety
✝️ Sarah's coverage of The Secrets of Hillsong at Vanity Fair
🔥 Future guest Mo Ryan's book, Burn It Down, as excerpted in VF
📺 ATX Festival
📷 Photo: Terence Patrick / Netflix

May 24, 2023 • 1h 30min
460: Can Clone High Duplicate Past Success?
Way way back in the early aughties, we all adored Clone High, an animated satire of Dawson's Creek and its ilk that featured wall-to-wall gags and catchphrases your regular panelists -- and esteemed guest John -- still use to this day. Naturally, we welcomed news of a decades-later second season...but does the show still have the same deranged energy, or is it too careful? We talked about how long it dwells on cancel culture (...sigh), who's the best new clone (and who's our most beloved returning character), and whether this version is getting renewed (spoiler: doubt it). Then we went Around The Dial with Primo, a last-minute Tiny Triumph, Mrs. Davis, and Happy Valley before Tara tried to pile-drive another episode of Glow into the Canon. Jason Momoa won, SVU's casting department lost, and DJ Farnsworth mixed everyone up with a theme-song mash-up Game Time. Try not to burn yourself on an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 John Ramos
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update
Lead Topic: 🧬 Clone High
Around The Dial: 👩👦 Primo
Around The Dial: 🍗 Mrs. Davis
Around The Dial: 👮 Happy Valley
The Canon: 🤼♀️ GLOW S03.E05: Freaky Tuesday
Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Momoa
Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Game Time: 🎶 DJ Farnsworth's Fresh Dope Drops
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 460 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🧬 The original very good Clone High website on the Wayback Machine
👯♂️ Tara’s review of Clone High
🐦 John Ramos on Twitter
👩👦 Tara's Primo review for Cracked.com
🦻 EEHG 237 on Mrs. Davis
🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter
📬 GLOW cast members of color's letter to producers about the show's portrayal of race
Screen: Max

May 17, 2023 • 1h 22min
459: Heating Things Up With Our Summer TV Preview
The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly upon us, and there's only one thing on all our minds: what shows are we going to be watching? The New Republic's TV critic Phillip Maciak joins us for the first time as we all share our picks for the shows we're into; the shows we SHOULD be into, but aren't; and the shows we feel NO ONE should be into. Philip makes the case for the pilot of The Americans to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that may require parental guidance. Make yourself a nice Arnold Palmer (or a Negroni; you're an adult) and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Philip Maciak
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ⛱️ Summer TV Preview
The Canon: 🪆 The Americans S01.E01: Pilot
Winner & Loser: 👍 Justin Kirk
Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling
Game Time: 🍼 Nepo Babies Of 21st Century TV
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 459 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Phillip Maciak on Twitter
📺 Avidly Reads Screen Time at NYUPress.org
🏛️ Phil at The New Republic
☎️ The Best Evidence newsletter -- and hotline, 919.75.CRIME
🔎 Hey Yahoo! preview clip
🙋🏼♀️ Send a question for Ask EHG

May 10, 2023 • 1h 25min
458: Going Down Deep Into Silo
Not content to have bummed us all out with Extrapolations earlier this spring, AppleTV+ is back with yet another grim vision of our environmentally devastated future: Silo! Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through the new third season of The Other Two, Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network oeuvre, Secrets Of The Dead, and Star Wars: Visions. Richard makes the case for inducting Australian Survivor S10.E07 into The Canon. Then after naming a bunch of Winners and Losers of the WGA strike (which: solidarity with the workers!), it's on to a high-flying Game Time. Find a source of natural light and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Richard Lawson
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Patreon Updates
Lead Topic: 👨🌾 Silo
Around The Dial: 👯 The Other Two
Around The Dial: 🍛 Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network Shows
Around The Dial: 🪦 Secrets Of The Dead
Around The Dial: 😱 Star Wars: Visions
The Canon: 🏝️ Australian Survivor S10.E07: Episode 7
Winner & Loser: 👍 Drew Barrymore
Winner & Loser: 👎 Scab Productions
Game Time: 👩🏼✈️ Pilot Test II: Return Flight
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 458 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter
🗼 Richard's Silo review at VanityFair.com
🙈 "Massive Spoilers!" for the Silo book series at HughHowey.com
👯♀️ Richard's review of The Other Two at VanityFair.com
😢 Tara's essay on The Conners at Cracked.com
👀 The Still Watching podcast
🐨 Australian Survivor S10.E07 on YouTube
📷 Photo: Apple
🙋🏼♀️ Send a question for Ask EHG

May 3, 2023 • 1h 14min
457: Spring Fling Forcenings
When we invited listeners to program this Forcening episode on the theme "Spring Fling," people went wild. Did these selections have us feeling as bright and cheerful as a field of wildflowers, or leave us screaming "MAYDAY"? Listen and find out!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🦴 Bones S02.E13: The Girl In The Gator
Lead Topic: 🍷 Vanderpump Rules S02.E11: The Ultimatum
Lead Topic: 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 457 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
😨 Panik Kalm meme
🍷 "'Vanderpump Rules' Fires Stassi Schroeder And Kristen Doute For Racist Actions" at Variety.com
🤷♀️ "Disgraced Reality Star Stassi Schroeder Is Profiting Off Her Racism -- And Blaming 'Cancel Culture,' Of Course" at TheDailyBeast.com
🤳 May 30, 2020: Stassi posts a #justiceforgeorgefloyd video on her Instagram
⬛️ June 2, 2020: Stassi posts a black square on her Instagram
🗒️ June 7, 2020: Stassi posts a Notes app apology about being racist on her Instagram
🪔 Gun lamp gift from Stassi's dad on her Instagram
🔫 Stassi, age 5, posing with a machine gun, posted on her Instagram
🩳 MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube
🎶 MTV Spring Break 1989 setlists at Setlist.fm

Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 13min
456: Making Womb For Dead Ringers
Prime Video has reimagined David Cronenberg's classic body horror film Dead Ringers as a series, starring two Rachels Weisz where two Jeremies Irons once were; Vulture's Roxana Hadadi returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind, Seinfeld, and Top Chef World All Stars. We consider a Canon pitch on the Monk episode "Mr. Monk And The Garbage Strike." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that will have you seeing double. Put your hair down, or up -- whichever is the opposite of how you started -- and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Roxana Hadadi
TOPICS
Announcement: 🥙 Patreon Campaign Updates
Lead Topic: 🥙 Dead Ringers
Around The Dial: 🥙 Love Is Blind
Around The Dial: 🥙 Seinfeld
Around The Dial: 🥙 Top Chef World All Stars
The Canon: 🥙 Monk S05.E02: Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike
Winner & Loser: 🥙 Gayle King and Charles Barkley
Winner & Loser: 🥙 America's Next Top Model
Game Time: 🥙 Little Twin Stars
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 456 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter
⚰️ “The Strange Death Of The Twin Gynecologists” cover story from the September 8, 1975 issue of New York magazine
🎙️ Tara's Jeff Hiller interview at Cracked
🦤 Roxana at Vulture
📚 Exhibit B. Books's #asseenonTV section
📷 Photo: Amazon Studios

Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 14min
455: Is The Final Season of Barry Killing It?
Esther Zuckerman returns to talk about the early going of the final season of Barry, including how we felt about Sally's parents, self-indulgent directing, entertainment-reporter scavenger hunts, and our panel's predictions for how the show ends. Later, we went Around The Dial with Single Drunk Female, Perry Mason, and Somebody Somewhere before putting our (bare) feet up to listen to Esther's The Other Two Canon submission. Brooke Shields won, Netflix's tech problems lost, and musician TV cameos made in encore in Game Time. Take a break from changing your iPhone photo settings: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Esther Zuckerman
TOPICS
Announcement: 👯♂️ Patreon Double Downloads
Announcement: 🥳 Ask EHG Goal Hit!
Lead Topic: 🫐 Barry
Around The Dial: 🍺 Single Drunk Female
Around The Dial: 🚜 Somebody Somewhere
Around The Dial: ⚖️ Perry Mason (2020)
The Canon: 🕳️ The Other Two S02.E09: Chase & Pat Are Killing It
Winner & Loser: 👍 Pretty Baby
Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix
Game Time: 🎸 Tube Tuners Part II
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 455 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Esther Zuckerman on Twitter
🎙️ Esther's interview with Henry Winkler on Thrillist
🎬 Esther's piece on Kelly Reichardt movies for the New York Times
👗 Beyond The Best Dressed at Running Press
🥃 Tara's Single Drunk Female review at Cracked
📚 Exhibit B. Books
😈 The Listen To Sassy Watch-Along this Friday, April 21: She-Devil!
🤔 Kari's Hey Remember The 80s podcast
📻 Kari's radio station Charlie's 80s Attic
📷 Photo: Merrick Morton / HBO

Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 27min
454: Chewing Over Beef
Netflix's latest sensational new series is Beef, in which a blood feud breaks out between Angelenos after a road rage incident; Will Leitch is back to dig in on it! Around The Dial takes us through Jury Duty, a new season of baseball, and the doc Reggie. P.A. believes they are not a crackpot for believing all cameos should be four minutes nineteen seconds or less. Will makes the case for the Chernobyl finale "Vichnaya Pamyat" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's right on key. Safely pull over to the shoulder and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Will Leitch
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🥩 Beef
Around The Dial: ⚖️ Jury Duty
Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball
Around The Dial: 🏟️ Reggie
Announcement: 📢 Exciting Patreon Update!
I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Cameos
The Canon: ☢️ Chernobyl S01.E05: Vichnaya Pamyat
Winner & Loser: 👍 MetalocalypseSlow Horses
Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden
Game Time: 🎸 Tube Tuners
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 454 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter
🥩 "Why 'Beef' Doesn't Focus On Race: 'These Characters Happen To Be Asian American, But There's So Much More To Them" at Variety
👩⚖️ Tara's post on Jury Duty at Cracked
📚 Will's new novel, The Time Has Come, at HarperCollins
📰 Will's newsletter
🎞️ Grierson & Leitch
🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast
🛹 Kari's Hey Remember The 80s podcast
📻 Kari's radio station Charlie's 80s Attic
📷 Photo: Andrew Cooper / Netflix


