Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Apparently TBS is not just for "very funny" shows anymore, as we learned from the premiere of Lost Resort, a new series with the bones of a reality show and the shredded guts of untreated trauma. The Verge's TV and film critic Joshua Rivera joins us to discuss what entertainment value its producers think the show has, and whether they are right. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight; Hannibal; Twin Peaks: The Return; and Last Chance U. Joshua presents Watchmen's "This Extraordinary Being" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time seething with personal animosity. Limber up all your ecstatic dance muscles and join us! GUESTS 👤 Joshua Rivera TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Lost Resort Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍽 Hannibal Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🦸‍♀️ Watchmen Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Game Time: 🧠 Enemies: A Hate Story NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 313 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joshua Rivera on Twitter 🎶 Tara's review of Maxxx at Primetimer 💻 Joshua at The Verge 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter 🎧 Citations Needed Episode 115: How The Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking

The But Why Tho? podcast's Kate Sánchez is here to help the panel figure out why Killer Camp -- the CW's horror-trope competitive-reality show -- and others like it don't quite work. Is it because horror-movie tropes and American-summer-camp tropes clash (especially as embodied by a bunch of British nationals)? Is it that an organic timeline for solving the mystery isn't possible on a network show? Is it the annoying host? We gathered around our own figurative campfire to go Around The Dial with P-Valley, The Dog House UK, Cursed, Junior Bake Off, Doom Patrol, and Harley Quinn before Kate schooled us on anime and TV's most melodramatic guitar string in her Given Canon submission. Crime documentaries won, hockey commentary lost, and we went through the ringer with character's who've done the same in a season-defining Game Time. Finish up those lanyards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kate Sánchez TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Killer Camp Around The Dial: 👙 P-Valley Around The Dial: 🐶 The Dog House UK Around The Dial: ⚔️ Cursed Around The Dial: 🧁 Junior Bake Off Around The Dial: 🤖 Doom Patrol Around The Dial: 🏏 Harley Quinn The Canon: 🎶 Given Winner & Loser: 👍 30 For 30 The '86 Mets Winner & Loser: 👍 Godfather Of Harlem Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Roenick Winner & Loser: 👎 Kermit's weird new voice Game Time: 🧠 Adverse Conditions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 312 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kate Sánchez on Twitter 💻 "'This Was Abuse': The Fall Of A CBS Showrunner" at VanityFair.com ⚔️ Kate's review of Cursed at ButWhyTho.com 🎧 The Blotter Presents podcast

When is a movie fair game as a topic on a TV topic? When it premieres on a streaming service, of course! First-time guest Alanna Bennett takes a break from writing Roswell, New Mexico to join us to talk about the latest Lonely Island Classic. Around The Dial takes us through Little Voice, the original 1985 CBC miniseries adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables, Cheers, Close Enough, and the HAHA Awards. Listener Jenni pitches The Good Wife's "Hitting The Fan" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might earn us tenure. Reapply your sunscreen and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alanna Bennett TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌵 Palm Springs Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice Around The Dial: 👩‍🦰 Anne Of Green Gables Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🤣 The HAHA Awards The Canon: ⚖️ The Good Wife Winner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Jane Lynch Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi Game Time: 🧠 It's All Academic NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 311 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alanna Bennett on Twitter 🎙 Tara's Little Voice review at Collider 🏳️‍🌈 Pilot Viruet on queer joy at TVGuide.com 🏪 Vogue.com's report on The People's Bodega 📸 The People's Bodega NYC on Instagram 💰 The People's Bodega NYC on PayPal 🛸 The CW's Roswell, New Mexico 🎧 Quaid In Full 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough scene 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Esteemed recent guests Stephanie Green, Dan Cassino, and Richard Lawson each picked out an episode for your three panelists to watch for Episode 310's Forcening. First into the breach was David T. Cole, ordered by Stephanie to watch a fourth-season Real Housewives Of Potomac episode involving purse-smacking, (alleged) sausage-sucking, and how long after the stated start time one should arrive at a party -- and we also discussed the underwhelming interior-design narratives of so-called rich people. Next up was Buntsy's foray into Dan's "what if Shakespeare, but a laugh-tracked sitcom" mission for her, Upstart Crow's episode on the writing of Hamlet and the (convenient?) murder of Christopher Marlowe. Was her admiration for the propmaster's novelty-Tudor-London-keychain work enough to win her over, or is the show for those Columbia professors who always got to the art-house movie late and spent the whole time laughing performatively at the jokes? Lastly, Richard told Tara to dive into Outer Banks and its punchable-face-of-voice-over protagonist. Is a shipwreck mystery the right plot for a teen show? And does that matter if all the "teens" look 28? Grab a butter knife and cut into an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤬 The Real Housewives Of Potomac S04.E06: Sex, Lies, and Butter Knives Lead Topic: 🪶 Upstart Crow S03.E02: Wild Laughter In The Throat Of Death Lead Topic: 🛥 Outer Banks S01.E01: Pilot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 310 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell play enthusiastic but perhaps slightly self-deluded aspiring Icelandic pop stars in Netflix's new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, so who better than Eurovision devotee Mark Blankenship to join us to talk about it? Around The Dial takes us to Search Party, Hot Mess House, Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels, Unsolved Mysteries, and Outcry. Dave Lost Wages uses his Extra Credit to have us add a family member to a stale TV family. Mark presents the Dinosaurs series finale, "Changing Nature," for induction to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a Game Time that really Sporcles. Climb into your aerial harness and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party Around The Dial: 🏚 Hot Mess House Around The Dial: 🌴 Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries Around The Dial: 🏈 Outcry Extra Credit: 🤑 Welcome Cousin Oliver The Canon: 🦎 Dinosaurs Winner & Loser: 👍 Last Chance U Colin Kaepernick Winner & Loser: 👎 Council Of Dads Game Time: 🧠 Nobody Knows You NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 309 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma" 🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix" 🪀 Netta, "Toy" 🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" 🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test 💍 Stephanie Green's story "Fourteen Meals" in The New Ohio Review ⚡️ The Flashpaper 🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on the Unsolved Mysteries revival at Primetimer

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson returns to the pod for the first time since Mark 1 to talk about an equally old-timey take on a beloved character: HBO's dark take on Perry Mason before he became the gold standard of TV defense attorneys. Is this imagining of his life before Raymond Burr canonical? Did we need to see that level of post-violence gore? And does EVERY cell of this show's being hate the LAPD? (Not that we're complaining about that.) Then we went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase, Legendary, Taste The Nation, and Lenox Hill, and Richard announced Tara's upcoming Forcening before humming a few bars of "La Vie En Ro" in his Sopranos Canon presentation. Jharrel Jerome won, Chris D'Elia lost, and the players got very animated during a Dan Cassino Game Time. Pass the time during a home marcel wave with this all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔍 Perry Mason (2020) Around The Dial: 🕺 Sherman's Showcase Around The Dial: 💄 Legendary Around The Dial: 🍽 Taste The Nation Around The Dial: 🩺 Lenox Hill The Canon: 🍝 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: 👍 Jharrel Jerome Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris D'Elia Game Time: 🧠 Simpsons Did It NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 308 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter 💻 Richard at VanityFair.com 🕺 The Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular ❤️‍🔥 Tara's Floor Is Lava review at Primetimer 📖 Richard's novel All We Can Do Is Wait at Penguin Random House 🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast

Production Note: Dave did a bad copy-paste in his notes and credited the wrong Dave in Game Time. Dave is a bad Dave. Dave LARSON is not a bad Dave, he is a good Dave and the author of Viva Lost Wages! Apparently unsatisfied by dominating the world of scripted film, Ryan Reynolds has branched out into alternative TV programming by creating a new ABC game show called Don't, hosted by Adam Scott. Will "Don't" also be our advice on whether you should watch it? Frequent Game Time writer Dan Cassino joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Netflix's latest dopey game show, Floor Is Lava; Top Chef All-Stars L.A.; and an I Am Not A Crackpot rant from Sarah regarding plotlines about bad and learning drivers. John Horner uses his Extra Credit to have us imagine TV characters from unusual careers trying to interview for jobs in the straight world. Dan presents the Father Brown episode "The Passing Bell" for induction into The Nonac. We name the week's Winner and Loser, and then we take a gamble on the latest Game Time. DON'T let your attention wander for a second! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚫 Don't Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Floor Is Lava Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef: All-Stars I Am Not A Crackpot: 🚘 Subplots about bad/learning drivers should be forbidden Extra Credit: 🤑 TV Character Job Interviews The Nonac: 🙏 Father Brown Winner & Loser: 👍 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi Game Time: 🧠 Viva Lost Wages NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 307 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter ⚔️ Tara's Crossing Swords review at Primetimer 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book at Abrams Books 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 191 with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors

Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about Trackers, the 2019 South African "thriller" that Cinemax has imported. Unfortunately, the only place it led the EHG panel was Dullsville, despite big game, gun battles, and the apparent love child of Christian Bale and Randall Batinkoff...but we did talk about the "COVID programming trough" that's rapidly approaching for all TV fans. Later, we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Married At First Sight Australia, Please Like Me, 13 Reasons Why's final season, and Disney Gallery Colon The Mandalorian; then we wondered what themed episode titles would look like for series that don't already have them in David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sing successfully for its Canon supper? Who's smashing the Iron Throne on HBOMax, and what police (shows) got defunded? And who was attuned to Sad Hulk's rewrites of legendary TV theme songs during Game Time? Stare into the middle distance as you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚨 Trackers Around The Dial: 💕 Love Life Around The Dial: 🇦🇺 Married At First Sight: Australia Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Please Like Me Around The Dial: 📓 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🐭 Disney Gallery Extra Credit: 🤑 The One Where The Titles Have A Theme The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Looney Tunes Cartoons Winner & Loser: 👎 Cops Winner & Loser: 👎 Live PD Winner & Loser: 👎 L.A.'s Finest Game Time: 🧠 Songs In The Key Of Hulk NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 306 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter 👩‍🍳 Tara's post on homemaking Amys at Primetimer 📖 The New Ohio Review 🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

The announcement that Donald Trump was creating a new branch of the military called the Space Force was swiftly followed by the announcement that Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, the creator and star of The Office, would re-team on Space Force, a sitcom about said branch. Should that have occurred? Now that the first season has dropped on Netflix, John Ramos has returned to discuss the matter. Around The Dial takes us through AMC's ITV import Quiz, Season 2 of Ramy on Hulu, Netflix's docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, and the new Starz drama Hightown. Tara wastes no time in pitching the three-week-old What We Do In The Shadows episode "On The Run" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's the sequel to a Game Time that sings. Put on your moon-print fatigues and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 Space Force Around The Dial: 💷 Quiz Around The Dial: 🏡 Ramy Around The Dial: 🏝 Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich Around The Dial: 🚨 Hightown The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👍 Dishmantled Winner & Loser: 👎 Glee Heather Morris, Lea Michelle Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel 2: The Garfunkeling NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 305 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 💷 Tara's Quiz review on Primetimer 🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast 🌴 Again With Again With This on Patreon 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Sinéad O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" 💻 "Cops Are Always The Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

We're welcoming Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Soraiya to the guest chair to talk about the shorter, neater, Julia-Roberts-less-but-still-better second season of Amazon's Homecoming -- from sensible episode lengths to overacting extras to how TV has conditioned us to react to mystery shows. We went Around The Dial with Mrs. America, Run, Nadiya's Time To Eat, and a rare successful Zoom episode from Mystic Quest, before listener John rolled a 20-sided die on getting Community's D&D episode into the Canon. Vampires won, Skeet Ulrich lost, and one was the winningest number in a Pointless-inspired Game Time. Slap on a fake tattoo before you forget, and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Sonia Saraiya TOPICS Lead Topic: 🫐 Homecoming Around The Dial: 🙋‍♀️ Mrs. America Around The Dial: 🚆 Run Around The Dial: 🍽 Nadiya's Time To Eat Around The Dial: 🎮 Mythic Quest The Canon: 🎲 Community Winner & Loser: 👍 What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👎 Riverdale Skeet Ulrich Game Time: 🧠 Lowest Of The Low NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 304 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Sonia Saraiya on Twitter 🙋‍♀️ Sonia's Mrs. America review at VanityFair.com 🫐 Tara's Homecoming review at Primetimer 💻 Sonia at VanityFair.com 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast 🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast