Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

Apple TV+ has brought Amazing Stories, the less-nihilistic take on The Twilight Zone, back for all the '80s kids, though confusingly premiered this anthology series with only one episode. Mark Lisanti joins us to talk about the fishiness of this rollout strategy, and whether "The Cellar" was a compelling enough episode to get anyone back to watch more. Around The Dial takes us through For Life; a roundup of the series premieres on FX (and FX on Hulu): Devs, Breeders, and Dave; Jersey Shore: Family Vacation; and Season 3 of Babylon Berlin. Mark presents the "Hamm On Toast" episode of Toast Of London for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all sit a spell for this week's Game Time. Make yourself a bathtub gin and tonic and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 😲 Amazing Stories Around The Dial: 🛟 For Life Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🐩 Breeders Around The Dial: 🤬 Dave Around The Dial: 🏄 Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin The Canon: 🏆 Toast Of London S03.E03: Hamm On Toast Winner & Loser: 👍 Casting agents for The Brides Winner & Loser: 👎 RuPaul's Drag Race Sherry Pie Game Time: 🧠 Letter Flip NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 293 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Lisanti on Twitter 🩸 The Blotter Presents 🍞 The Clem Fandango supercut

AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind, The Outsider, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, A French Village, and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dave Chen TOPICS Lead Topic: 📬 Dispatches From Elsewhere Around The Dial: 🙈 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🍃 The Outsider Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🇫🇷 A French Village Around The Dial: 🌍 TV in East Africa I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Transparent Computer Screens The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E10: Nobody Is Ever Missing Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek Winner & Loser: 👎 Disgracios Game Time: 🧠 They Get Around NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 292 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Chen on Twitter 🧐 Culturally Relevant with David Chen 🤠 Decoding Westworld 🎈 Tara on Party Of Five at Primetimer ⚖️ Sarah on The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez at Primetimer 👃 The Sweet Smell of Succession

As Better Call Saul returns for its fifth and almost final season, superfan Will Leitch joins us to check in on Jimmy, Kim, Nacho, Mike, and of course, good old black-and-white Gene. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot to feel infuriated by the current Chili's TV ad campaign. We ponder David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit question about which TV shows should go to an all-nude format. Will presents (heh) Party Down's "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday" for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to a Game Time that really sings. Fire up your complimentary burner phone and listen! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Chili's ads are maddening Extra Credit: 🤑 NCIS Oh Calcutta! The Canon: 🏆 Party Down S02.E05: Steve Guttenberg's Birthday Game Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 291 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter 📩 Will's newsletter 👨‍💻 Will's blog