Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Fox is welcoming summer with a very silly American Gladiators take on tag -- yes, the playground game -- so who better than Daniel MacEachern, veteran of our Holey Moley episode last year, to join us to discuss it? Around The Dial clicks through Snowpiercer, Katy Keene, Call The Midwife (CW: there are clips and you will cry), The Last Dance, Killing Eve, and a preview of Holey Moley's Season 2 premiere. Mary uses her Extra Credit to ask us which TV role permanently ruined an actor for us. We consider the induction of Big Mouth's "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that lives to serve. Race up a wall if you have to, but listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 👉 Ultimate Tag Around The Dial: 🚆 Snowpiercer Around The Dial: 🏙 Katy Keene Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🏀 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Extra Credit: 🤑 Who Stank Up The Actor? The Canon: 😵 Big Mouth Winner & Loser: 👍 The Mandalorian Timothy Olyphant Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🧠 Butlerfield Earth NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 303 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 👉 Tara's Ultimate Tag review at Primetimer 💻 Kai Power Tools 🚆 Tara's Snowpiercer review at Primetimer 🎙 Tara's Rich Sommer interview at Primetimer 🪨 CBC.ca's coverage of Newfoundland and Labrador 🫧 Sarah and Joe on the history of soap operas, also at Primetimer

We hope Bobby Krut agrees to come BACK to Extra Hot Great after putting him through the unrelenting barrage of anguish that is HBO's latest limited series, I Know This Much Is True. Sure, the acting is good; yeah, it's impressive that Mark Ruffalo plays twins; not one of us is planning to keep watching, because there's never a break or a moment of levity, and even Dave's ice-cream-fixins-bar metaphor made us sad. Our trip Around The Dial made us MAD, mostly -- Tara was disgusted with Regular Heroes, Sarah was disappointed in American Experience's Dubya-sode, and Dave was not a crackpot about The Good Fight's failure to understand electricity -- but at least Bobby brought in the Antenna TV Comfort Blanket roster to cheer us up. Jeff's Extra Credit saw us rewriting well-regarded series finales with How I Met Your Mother-style bungling, before we headed to the polls for Bobby's Canon submission, NewsRadio's "President" episode. Guy Fieri won (for once), Lori Loughlin lost (again), and the competition got feverish during Game Time. Give yourselves a hand for listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Robert Krut TOPICS Lead Topic: 😭 I Know This Much Is True Around The Dial: 📦 Regular Heroes Around The Dial: 🏙 Diff'rent Strokes Around The Dial: ✏️ The Facts Of Life Around The Dial: 🏡 Gimme A Break Around The Dial: 👨‍🏫 Head Of The Class Around The Dial: ⏲ The Hogan Family Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Good Fight Extra Credit: 🤑 Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E01: President Winner & Loser: 👍 Guy Fieri Winner & Loser: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Merry Maladies NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 302 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Robert Krut on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 💻 Robert Krut's website 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter

Hollywood, the latest product of Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal, has hit the streaming service. What did we think about his ahistorical take on marginalized voices in the film industry? Kevin O'Keeffe joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Betty, Never Have I Ever, The Circle Brasil, and Masterpiece's new procedural Baptiste. Erica uses her Extra Credit to get us to pitch new Big Mouth transfer students and the Hormone Monsters they'll bring with them. Kevin pitches The O.C.'s "The Rainy Day Women" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with a quiz that tests our knowledge of shows' 300th episodes. Jerk yourself a soda and join us! GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎥 Hollywood Around The Dial: 🛹 Betty Around The Dial: 😍 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🇧🇷 The Circle Brasil Around The Dial: 🇳🇱 Baptiste Extra Credit: 🤑 Hormone Monsters For Everyone! The Canon: 🍊 The O.C. Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 The Last Dance Game Time: 🧠 First And 300 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 301 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kevin O'Keeffe on Twitter 💰 Tara on Good Girls 🍹 Kiki With Kevin 🔪 The Blotter Presents

Captain America and Lady Mary did their best, but Allison and the rest of the panel still found legal procedural Defending Jacob guilty of crappy pacing in the second degree; aggravated TV tropes; and felony possession of moody blue gels with intent to distribute. Were the regulars able to get Al into a diversion program before she felt obliged to finish the season? We also went Around The Dial with Vida, Arde Madrid, and The Last Dance, before Dave trotted out a solution to the problems with Devs. Dan Cassino's Extra Credit tasked us with growing some goateed evil twins to spice up our favorite shows, and Elenore brought us back to a '90s kind of world with her Living Single Canon submission. Re-casting ("alleged") felons won, nudity lost (but also kind of won?), and we kicked up our heels with Tara's Tube Tunes 6 Game Time. Got a garage door to scrub? Pass the time with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍⚖️ Defending Jacob Around The Dial: 🍺 Vida Around The Dial: 🇪🇸 Arde Madrid Around The Dial: 💃 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 💾 Devs Extra Credit: 😈 The Upside Of Evil Twins The Canon: 🏆 Living Single S01.E06: Great Expectations Winner & Loser: 👍 Solid properties subtracting leads Winner & Loser: 👎 Sacramento reporter Melinda Meza Game Time: 📻 Tube Tunes VI NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 300 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚖️ "By the Content of Cousin Pam's Character" on Seven Scribes 🍻 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on Vida 💋 Tara's Vanity Fair kiss-off of the Will & Grace re-finale 🇪🇸 Al's Arde Madrid write-up on MHz Choice 💩 The Diarrhea Song by Michael Scott 🍆 KCRA goes full frontal 📷 Photo: Apple

In an absence of series premieres any of us could manage to get excited about, Dave came up with a new format: the ABCs of TV! With our beloved Joe Reid, we go around the horn, each naming an important TV person, show, feature, or just THING about TV that matches up with each letter of the alphabet. Then, it's on to a Game Time made for cuffing season. Did any of our letter picks line up with yours? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔤 The ABCs of TV Game Time: 🧠 The Story Of Us NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 299 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 🔫 The A-Team M-24 Assault Rifle toy 🤬 The Wire's "Fuck" scene ⚖️ Tara on the Better Call Saul finale 🕸 Primetimer.com 🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz 🎶 MASTAS on Dubious Heroes

Dan Rogge bought a ticket for our latest episode on HBO's Run, a "comedy thriller" about college sweethearts trying to reunite. Does the pleasure of watching Merritt Wever and Archie Punjabi at work outweigh the credibility issues? Do phones in the Run-verse never need charging? And is Rich Sommer TV's worst husband? We super-sized Around The Dial with stops at The Baker And The Beauty, Bosch, The Good Fight, Sesame Street, Money Heist, The Valhalla Murders, Devs, and Picard. And we chased that with a Sean double: first, whether he's a crackpot for thinking streaming services should offer a single-storyline watching option; and then his Canon pitch for the virulently catchy America's Next Top Model episode, "Game." Amy Schumer won, Lori Loughlin lost, and the melody lingered on in a musical Game Time. Grab your show-branded airhorn; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏃 Run Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🍪 The Baker And The Beauty Around The Dial: 🚸 Sesame Street Around The Dial: 🌆 Bosch Around The Dial: 🔪 The Valhalla Murders Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🫖 Star Trek: Picard I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Canon: 🏆 America's Next Top Model S17.E08: Game Winner & Loser: 👍 Amy Schumer Lead Topic: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Royalties ROI NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 298 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥊 Angelica Jade Bastién on The Good Fight's premiere 🍪 Tara's Primetimer piece on The Baker And The Beauty 🧛 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on What We Do In The Shadows Season 2 🩸 The Blotter Presents 👩‍🎨 Monica! The Podcast

Just a few short weeks after we tested our knowledge of Quibi titles in Game Time, Quibi is taking center stage: the platform has launched, and we have selected a total of eight of its 24 launch titles to discuss with returning guest Adam Sternbergh! For his Extra Credit topic, John C. challenges us to reimagine single-camera comedies as multi-cams. Adam makes the case for our inducting Cheer's series premiere, "God Blessed Texas," into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's a little objectionable. Settle in for the long haul and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏚 Murder House Flip Lead Topic: 🍽 Dishmantled Lead Topic: 🤬 I Promise Lead Topic: ⚖️ Chrissy's Court Lead Topic: 🕳 Memory Hole Lead Topic: 🤸 Flipped Lead Topic: 🎰 Gayme Show Lead Topic: ⛔️ Most Dangerous Game Extra Credit: 🤑 Should Have Been Filmed In Front Of A Live Studio Audience The Canon: 🏆 Cheer S01.E01: God Blessed Texas Winner & Loser: 👍 Craig Conover converted his pillow company to make PPE Winner & Loser: 👎 Ellen DeGeneres Game Time: 🧠 Objectionable People NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 297 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📱 Tara on Quibi at Primetimer 🚓 Tara on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (new!), also at Primetimer 🍑 Sarah on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, ALSO at Primetimer

One half of the GFY brain trust, Heather Cocks, came back to discuss Amazon's Project Runway with a big-budget twist: Making The Cut. As much as we love Naomi Campbell's sugar-free approach to, well, life, the panel agreed that Making The Cut has some structural problems (too long; dumb Tim 'n' Heidi "friend dates"), and too tight a focus on NOT being a sewing competition. Will any of us keep watching? You'll find out before we decide whether Emily Is Not A Crackpot for wanting period shows to air period commercials. We'll go Around The Dial with Call The Midwife content warning, the return of One Day At A Time, Barry, homemade Lego Masters spinoffs, Top Chef, and a Better Call Saul sound drop; later, we'll feel relieved that the Sherlock episode we all THOUGHT Erica presented as a Canon contender is actually for the Nonac. Kate McKinnon won, celebrity quarantine-busters lost, and Game Time stretched those family ties (sha la la laaaaa). Tick tock: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧵 Making The Cut I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Period shows should air period commercials Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 📆 One Day At A Time (2017) Around The Dial: 🥷 Barry Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef: All-Stars Around The Dial: ⚖️ Better Call Saul The Nonac: 🤮 Sherlock S04.E03: The Final Problem Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate McKinnon Winner & Loser: 👎 Celebrity quarantine-busters Game Time: 🧠 Family Ties NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 296 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📆 Tara's Primetimer piece on One Day At A Time 🍆 Tara's Primetimer piece on Black Monday's male nudity 🫅 Pre-order Heather Cocks's and Jessica Morgan's The Heir Affair 🩸 The Blotter Presents 🐯 Buntsy on Tiger King for Primetimer

Some shows -- your 30 Rocks, your Simpsonses -- get pitched to the Canon all the time. So for this special all-Canon episode, we reached into our mailbag and chose user submissions for shows that had never been pitched before. Dan Cassino challenged us to battle with Foyle's War; Caroline opened the door for The Haunting Of Hill House; and Jeff put all his eggs in a Baskets. Then, befitting an episode that started in World War II, Dave shocked Sarah and Tara with a Teutonic non-regulation Game Time. Hit up the buffet for some desserts and join us! TOPICS The Canon: 🏆 Foyle's War S04.E04 Casualties Of War The Canon: 🏆 The Haunting Of Hill House S01.E06: Two Storms The Canon: 🏆 Baskets S01.E04: Easter In Bakersfield Game Time: 🧠 German To The Situation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 295 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Appointment Television's Margaret H. Willison put a marshmallow on a stick to talk about Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, and whether THIS is the real "vanity-free performance" on Reese Witherspoon's recent résumé, plus Kerry Washington's interesting choices as Mia; the production's unwavering commitment to 1997-ness; and whether the male Dawson's Creek lead we'd have bought in the Bill role is actually Dawson himself. Tara refused to be labeled a crackpot for thinking Mike Schur's upcoming philosoph...omedy? book is going to join its "humorous"-essay brethren in sucking, and then we went Around The Dial with Black Monday, The Bachelor, Work In Progress, Please Like Me, an Evil Lunch Bunch concept, Project Runway, and an Amazing Stories update. Margaret couldn't help but wonder if a second-season Sex & The City would make it into the Canon, and after Laura Benanti was a winner and most TV productions were quarantined losers, the Game Time question was Quibi Or Not Quibi?. This all-new Extra Hot Great's got dial-up; listen now! GUESTS 👤 Margaret Willison TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔥 Little Fires Everywhere I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Mike Schur's book will suck Around The Dial: 📈 Black Monday Around The Dial: 🤵‍♂️ The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🗂 Work In Progress Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway Around The Dial: 😲 Amazing Stories The Canon: 🏆 Sex & The City S02.E07: The Chicken Dance Winner & Loser: 👍 Laura Benanti Lead Topic: 👎 Productions in quarantine Game Time: 🧠 Quibi Or Not Quibi? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 294 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Margaret H. Willison on Twitter 📕 Pre-order A Very Special 90210 Book! Still not a bit! 🌴 Again With Again With This 📺 The Appointment Television! podcast 👩‍👧 Tara's Primetimer piece on Mom