Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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Sep 15, 2021 โ€ข 1h 28min

372: Should You Ask Yourself Y: The Last Man?

FX on Hulu's take on comics series Y: The Last Man has finally made it to air -- and Taylor Cole has finally made it over from The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show to talk about it with us! How is the show different from the comics? Can Diane Lane's hair still be a national treasure if her roots are a plot point? And does a certain Hero need to get written out of the story? We went Around The Dial with Frogger, Scenes From A Marriage, Miracle Workers, and 30 For 30's take on the '86 Mets before carefully selecting TV's smartest (and hottest) characters to get us Extra Credit at pub quiz. Taylor sent us a care package containing his Canon submission for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp before Momoa won and copaganda lost. And Tara's non-regulation Game Time taught us all a lot. Make 90 minutes disappear Yorick-style by listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ’ Y: The Last Man Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’ Scenes From A Marriage Around The Dial: ๐Ÿธ Frogger Around The Dial: ๐Ÿชฌ Miracle Workers Around The Dial: โšพ๏ธ 30 For 30 Extra Credit: ๐Ÿค” Pub Quiz The Canon: ๐Ÿฉณ Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp S01.E06: Electro/City Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ See Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Fox Nation Game Time: ๐Ÿง  That'll Teach 'Em NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 372 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Follow Taylor Cole on Twitter ๐Ÿธ The G&T With Greta And Taylor podcast ๐Ÿ’„ Listen To Sassy on Patreon ๐Ÿ—ฝ The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show ๐Ÿ“ฐ The Best Evidence newsletter
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Sep 8, 2021 โ€ข 1h 50min

371: Testifying About Impeachment: American Crime Story

Since the third season of American Crime Story revolves around Bill Clinton's late-'90s impeachment scandal, we could think of no better guest to join us in discussing it than Dan Rogge, noted co-writer of the mid-'00s theatrical production Monica! The Musical. And we got him! Around The Dial takes us through A.P. Bio, Money Heist, Black Monday, and Only Murders In The Building. Katherine asks us to suggest better monikers for mis-named TV characters. Then Dan makes his case for inducting NewsRadio's Season 3 episode "Kids" into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a big-name Game Time. Got dry cleaning to drop off? Take us with you and listen! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Impeachment: American Crime Story Around The Dial: ๐Ÿงซ A.P. Bio Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’ธ Money Heist Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ“‰ Black Monday Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ”ช Only Murders In The Building Extra Credit: ๐Ÿค‘ Restoring Their Good Name The Canon: ๐Ÿ“ป NewsRadio S03.E16: Kids Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Reservation Dogs Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: ๐Ÿง  That's My Name, Too NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 371 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Dan Rogge on Twitter ๐Ÿ‘— Monica! The Podcast โœ๏ธ Sarah's Impeachment review at Primetimer ๐Ÿ’ธ Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture ๐ŸŒ Andy Dehnart's oral history of The Amazing Race's first season at Reality Blurred
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Sep 1, 2021 โ€ข 48min

370: Shut Up Alfred Poochinski

EEHG 102: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye Join us for the third-season premiere of Sarah's go-to mid-century anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuring Captain Kirk, Jessica Tandy, ventriloquism Deadheads, spinster-ist propaganda, and a hall-of-fame crappy TV kid. EEHG 122: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Failed 1990 Pilot Of Poochinski Woof! Woof! I'm Poochinski, the talking dog! EEHG 131: Hey You, Shut Up 150 things that need to shut up. TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ”ช Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye Lead Topic: ๐Ÿถ Poochinski S01.E01: Pilot Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ™Š Hey You, Shut Up NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 370 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿงฟ "The Glass Eye" on Peacock
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Aug 25, 2021 โ€ข 1h 28min

369: Settling Into The Chair

University of California (NOT California University...you'll see) faculty member Bobby Krut returns to talk about Sandra Oh's new English-department half-hour dramedy on Netflix, The Chair. We discussed the almost-perfect pacing and casting, underrating Amanda Peet at your peril, whether Holland Taylor should get a spinoff, and more. Then we went Around The Dial with Nine Perfect Strangers, Messyness, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, and Unforgotten before Doug tasked us with adding a Russian Roulette-style trapdoor to a TV moment. Sarah wouldn't let the bird rest in her Canon presentation for a fifth-season Cheers episode; true crime won and Mike Richards lost; and the truth was once again stranger than fiction in a Game Time animรฉ sequel. Don't pine for a crumpled podcast; listen to this shiny new episode of Extra Hot Great. GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Robert Krut TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿช‘ The Chair Around The Dial: 9๏ธโƒฃ Nine Perfect Strangers Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ—‘ Messyness Around The Dial: โ†ฉ๏ธ I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ™‡โ€โ™€๏ธ Unforgotten Extra Credit: ๐Ÿ”ซ Russian Roulette The Canon: ๐Ÿป Cheers S05.E09: Thanksgiving Orphans Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Josh Duhamel Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Michael Richards Game Time: ๐Ÿง  More Animรฉ Bullshit NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 369 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿชถ Bobby Krut's website ๐Ÿฆ Bobby on Twitter ๐Ÿ“ท Bobby on Instagram ๐Ÿ“บ The Kominsky Method on Netflix ๐Ÿ’ฐ The National Network of Abortion Funds ๐Ÿ”Ž The "Bet-Crap" on Best Evidence ๐Ÿ”ซ A Russian Roulette reference video ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ The The Thing About Pam podcast
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Aug 18, 2021 โ€ข 1h 47min

368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels

With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW, Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of Michael Waldron's Heels; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs, The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island, Big Brother, Animal Kingdom, and What If...?. David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the talents of both January Jones and David Duchovny to the fullest advantage. Joe presents the Girls5Eva episode "Cease And Desist" for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and head straight into a Game Time that gets a little romantic. Get into your spangliest leggings and listen! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿคผโ€โ™€๏ธ Heels Around The Dial: ๐Ÿชถ Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: ๐Ÿง˜ The White Lotus Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ Fantasy Island (2021) Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ Big Brother Around The Dial: ๐ŸฆŒ Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: ๐Ÿค” What If Extra Credit: ๐Ÿš Rigid Air Vehicles The Canon: ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽค Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And Desist Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Corn Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Men behaving badly Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Double Date NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 368 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Joe Reid on Twitter ๐Ÿ‘ก Joe's Heels review at Primetimer ๐Ÿคผโ€โ™‚๏ธ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider ๐Ÿ‘  LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste ๐ŸŒบ Mitchell Kuga at Vox on The White Lotus's portrayal of Native Hawaiian characters ๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ Tara discussing The White Lotus with Dave Chen on his Patreon podcast โœ๏ธ Joe's author page on Primetimer ๐Ÿ† The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast on Twitter ๐ŸฆŠ Sarah's Primetimer post about Season 4 of Animal Kingdom ๐Ÿ“š Exhibit B. Books ๐Ÿ“ท January Jones on Instagram โš–๏ธ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism
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Aug 11, 2021 โ€ข 1h 38min

367: Mr. Corman's Existential Crisis

Kamille Washington of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast is back to discuss Mr. Corman, a (possibly too) slow-building show about a musician turned grade-school teacher/anxiety sufferer and his angst. Did star/producer/crafty coordinator Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on too many jobs -- and not enough fresh story? Why couldn't the show be about Arturo Castro's character? And can we look forward to a Debra Wingeraissance? We went Around The Dial with First Wives Club's second season, FBoy Island, Real Housewives Of Potomac, CNBC crime shows, and UFO; then Courtney and Craig asked us which TV characters are the most likely to vape obnoxiously (and none of us had any trouble answering). We conferred on whether a New Girl episode was adorkable enough for the Canon, then declared a Winner and a Loser of the week before finding out whether a superpowered Game Time was our kryptonite. Get your sneakers off the couch and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Kamille Washington TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿฅฑ Mr. Corman Around The Dial: โ™ฃ๏ธ First Wives Club Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ† FBoy Island Around The Dial: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: ๐Ÿฅท Super Heists Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’ถ Money Court Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ›ธ UFO Extra Credit: ๐Ÿ’จ Who Here Vapes? The Canon: ๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿผ New Girl S02.E15: Cooler Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Law & Order: Organized Crime Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Michael Richards Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Alter Egos NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 367 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Follow Kamille Washington on Twitter โœ‹๐Ÿฝ Listen to the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast ๐ŸŽฅ Daniel Fienberg's Mr. Corman review for The Hollywood Reporter ๐Ÿฆค Jen Chaney's at Vulture ๐Ÿ Joe Reid reviews FBoy Island for Primetimer ๐Ÿ—ฃ Tara's Paul Scheer interview at Decider ๐Ÿ“ฐ The Best Evidence newsletter ๐Ÿ“ท Photo: Apple TV+
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Aug 4, 2021 โ€ข 1h 27min

366: Shouldn't Have Worked But It Did

The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap. Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle, Nailed It!, Pop-Up Video, and Battle Of The Network Stars, before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People. AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz rรฉsumรฉs for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿซง Soap Around The Dial: โญ•๏ธ The Circle Around The Dial: ๐ŸŽ‚ Nailed It Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ“ผ Pop-Up Video Around The Dial: ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ Battle Of The Network Stars The Canon: ๐Ÿงโ€โ™‚๏ธ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10 Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Ted Lasso Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Amazing Stories Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Working Hard Or Hardly Working? NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Jeff Drake On Twitter ๐Ÿ‘ฐโ€โ™€๏ธ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montrรฉ Burton at Decider ๐ŸŒณ Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park, on AppleTV+ ๐Ÿ’ฟ Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp ๐Ÿ“ผ Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video ๐ŸŒ  Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay ๐ŸŽถ Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon
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Jul 28, 2021 โ€ข 1h 20min

365: Speed-Dating Sexy Beasts

When schedulers at the Food Network foiled our original plans for this episode, our returning guest Will Ellis rolled with the punches and joined us to talk about Netflix's bizarre new dating show, Sexy Beasts! Around The Dial takes us through the new season of Married At First Sight, The Real Housewives Of Potomac, Married To Medicine, and Search Party. Last week's guest Sean Pflueger returns...via an Extra Credit question about actors whose range we underestimated. Will presents the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked episode "It Takes Two" for submission to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roar and scratch our way through a Non-Regulation Game Time. Get a beer (good luck drinking it around your bottle-nosed dolphin special effects makeup) and listen! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Will Ellis TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ‘น Sexy Beasts Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ‘ฐโ€โ™€๏ธ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’Š Married To Medicine Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ‘€ Search Party Extra Credit: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Underestimated The Canon: ๐Ÿ† RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Untucked S01.E01: It Takes Two Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ YouTuber Shamook Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž The WGA Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Regular Beasts That Are Not Here To Be Objectified NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 365 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Will Ellis on Twitter ๐ŸŒด The Again With This podcast ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Harvard Kennedy School's LGBTQ Policy Journal, in the spring 2021 issue of which Will has an article ๐Ÿ“ฐ The Best Evidence newsletter
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Jul 21, 2021 โ€ข 1h 50min

364: Visiting Schmigadoon!

AppleTV+'s newest musical series, Schmigadoon!, strands a couple of contemporary big-city doctors in a strange town lost in time, requiring them to find their true loves before they can cross the bridge home. Did we true-love it, or did we feel trapped? New guest Sean Pflueger joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Stories, Never Have I Ever, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Love, Victor, and Dr. Death. Don (on behalf of the @EHGAssist crew) uses his Extra Credit segment to let us give a TV character a late-night cable access show. Tara explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking the Marvel shows on Disney+ are just very expensive advertainment. Sean pitches Schitt's Creek's "Open Mic" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with perfect pitch. Ladle up a big bowl of corn puddin' and listen in! GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Sean Pflueger TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐ŸŽผ Schmigadoon Around The Dial: ๐Ÿชฆ American Horror Stories Around The Dial: ๐Ÿคž Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: ๐Ÿซ High School Musical: The Musical The Series Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’• Love Victor Around The Dial: โ˜ ๏ธ Dr. Death Extra Credit: ๐Ÿš  Cable Access I Am Not A Crackpot: ๐Ÿคช The Marvel Shows On Disney+ Are Just 2020s Webisodes The Canon: ๐Ÿ’ฉ Schitt's Creek S04.E06: Open Mic Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Crocs Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Erika Jayne Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Another Pair Of Jazz Hands NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 364 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Sean Pflueger on Twitter ๐ŸŽผ Tara's Schmigadoon! review at VanityFair.com โ˜ ๏ธ Roundup of Dr. Death reviews at Best Evidence ๐Ÿงต Best Evidence's Dr. Death open thread ๐Ÿ—ฃ Tara's Joshua Jackson interview at VanityFair.com ๐Ÿฆ EHG Assist on Twitter ๐ŸŠ "The Loki Season Finale Exit Survey" at The Ringer
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Jul 14, 2021 โ€ข 1h 13min

363: Should You Slide Into The New Gossip Girl's DMs?

Nadia Chaudhury of Eater Austin joins us for the first time to talk about the second time around for Gossip Girl. Does the 2021 reboot know who it's for? Did the original benefit from the suspense surrounding Gossip Girl's identity? And will we keep watching even if Tavi Gevinson's acting doesn't improve? After Gordon Lightfoot Cole dropped in to make a request, we went Around The Dial with White Lotus, Monsters At Work, We Are Lady Parts, Heist, and This Is Pop before listener Lauren pitched an ICO (initial Canon offering) for a third-season Halt And Catch Fire episode. Kiefer won (the presidency), a Netflix show lost, and we cast about for answers in Game Time. Listen now! xoxo, EHG GUESTS ๐Ÿ‘ค Nadia Chaudhury TOPICS Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ˜ฎ Gossip Girl Around The Dial: ๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™€๏ธ The White Lotus Around The Dial: ๐ŸงŒ Monsters At Work Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿฝ We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: ๐Ÿฆน Heist Around The Dial: ๐Ÿพ This Is Pop The Canon: ๐Ÿงฏ Halt And Catch Fire S03.E07: The Threshold Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Kiefer Sutherland Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž Cursed Game Time: ๐Ÿง  Last Minute Changes NOTES ๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 363 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ๐Ÿฆ Follow Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter ๐Ÿฑ Nadia at at Eater Austin ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ Nadia's "The 38 Essential Restaurants In Austin" ๐Ÿชท Willa Paskin's White Lotus review at Slate ๐Ÿ’โ€โ™€๏ธ Tara's Laura Leighton piece at Decider ๐ŸŽ„ Tara discusses You Had Me At Aloha on the It's Christmastown podcast ๐Ÿฆน Sarah's Heist review on Primetimer ๐ŸŽถ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ๐Ÿ“ท Photo: HBO Max

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