Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

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