Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Hulu dropped Veronica Mars a week sooner than anyone expected, but Kathryn VanArendonk was ready to leap into action and join us in a VERY SPOILER-FILLED discussion of Season 4! Around The Dial takes us to Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein on Netflix; a spoiler-free farewell to the imminently-ending Jane The Virgin; Last Chance U; and a potpourri of TV-adjacent remarks from Dave (including an update on the original book version of The Rook). Leanna cashes in her Extra Credit to get us to pick TV characters who deserve theme songs. Then Tara makes the case for One Day At A Time's "Strays" to be inducted into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and kick off a new season of Game Time with Sitcom Keyword Search. Post up on the couch with Pony and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 🧌 Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 😑 FMK Korrection Korner Around The Dial: 👶 The Rook Around The Dial: ☕️ Big Little Lies Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time S01.E05: Strays Winner & Loser: 👍 Sarah Winner & Loser: 👎 Crybaby Game Of Thrones alums Game Time: 🧠 Sitcom Keyword Search NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 260 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kathryn on Twitter 📺 Kathryn at Vulture 🎙 David Chen's new podcast, Culturally Relevant 📕 Tara's Handmaid's Tale post on BN.com 🦴 The Bones Zone podcast 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🧀 Cheddar Cheese Song 🏥 Clínica De Migrantes on HBO

TV-based F*ck, Marry, Kill is back, and so is famous original panelist Joe Reid, as we decide whether to bone, betroth, or bash in the heads of Mad Men items, Handmaid's deaths, episode types, trains, fonts, and unkillable robber barons of yesteryear. From Aquarius to Zoo and every Sophie's choice in between -- but this time we've added our own brainteasers for our fellow panelists. Cool off with an extra-hot Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 💍 F*ck, Marry, Kill NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 259 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Showtime has turned Gabriel Sherman's Roger Ailes book into a seven-part miniseries, and Will Leitch has returned to talk about what it is, whom it's for, and how it compares to recent-history HBO docudramas like Game Change. Around The Dial takes us through Divorce, the triumph of the USWNT, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Rook. Will Leitch presents "Pt. 5" of (the masterpiece) O.J.: Made In America to the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, an old favourite returns to Non-Regulation Game Time. Put on your shortest skirt, sit down behind a transparent desk, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 📢 The Loudest Voice Around The Dial: 💔 Divorce Around The Dial: ⚽️ The US Women's National Soccer Team Around The Dial: 🤦‍♀️ The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 👶 The Rook The Canon: 🏆 O.J.: Made In America Pt. 5 Winner & Loser: 👍 Stranger Things Winner & Loser: 👎 Amber Portwood Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes 5 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 258 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter ⚽️ Will on the USWNT, for New York 🏀 Will on Kevin Durant, also for New York ✉️ Will's (free!) TinyLetter 📺 The Will Leitch Show 🎙 The Grierson & Leitch Podcast 💔 Ben Travers on Divorce ⛳️ Tara on Holey Moley

Try as we might, we couldn't get that "putt down the remote" joke to work, so we'll just say we're happy Daniel MacEachern is back on the pod, and we're even happier to be talking about Holey Moley, the "Wipeout meets mini-golf" summer offering from ABC that finally found a way to use Kenny G's talents properly. From hosts to holes to gimmicky guest get-ups, it's fun for the whole family -- really! Later, we go Around The Dial with Years And Years, Animal Kingdom, Bosch, Lethal Weapon, Collateral, and Dave's non-crackpot theory on TV knockout drugs, before contemplating a universally despised Golden Girls episode that closed out that otherwise-great show's second season. Michael Sheen (not in character from The Good Fight) was a winner, execs trying to step to Buntsy's girl Roma Torre were losers, and someone got a helping hand on this week's Game Time. This is our windmil-lieu: an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Around The Dial: 📆 Years And Years Around The Dial: 🔫 Lethal Weapon Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🌒 Bosch Around The Dial: 💰 Collateral I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Using Chloroform The Nonac: 🤮 The Golden Girls S02.E26: Empty Nests Winner & Loser: 👍 Michael Sheen Winner & Loser: 👎 NY1 execs trying to step to Roma Torre Game Time: 🧠 Chums And Helpers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 257 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⛳️ Carl Carmoni and Quebecois putt-putt 👗 Pose ⚖️ The Best Evidence newsletter 🥼 How chloroform actually works ✍️ Michael Sheen takes up for fan-fic 🤺 NY1 anchors sue Charter Communications for marginalizing them

Comedy writer/performers Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres have brought HBO a new sitcom about a "horror group" that creates practical horror effects for ridiculous reasons (Fred Armisen's hardly in it, we swear!), and Omar Gallaga has returned to discuss it with us! Around The Dial clicks through Younger, Comedy Central's new sketch show Alternatino With Arturo Castro, the upcoming Amazon series Undone, and the third seasons of Claws and Jessica Jones. For her Extra Credit topic, Corey asks us each to choose a title from the AFI's top 100 films and turn it into a TV series. Omar presents the Atlanta episode "Teddy Perkins" for the Canon. Once we've recovered (barely), it's on to the week's Winner and Loser and a Game Time with a lot of cipherin'. Put on your werewolf teeth and join us! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 Los Espookys Around The Dial: 👶 Younger Around The Dial: 🎤 Alternatino With Arturo Castro Around The Dial: 🤪 Undone Around The Dial: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Jessica Jones Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 Atlanta S02.E06: Teddy Perkins Winner & Loser: 👍 PoseQueer Eye Winner & Loser: 👎 Bill Cosby Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No Math NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 256 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 👻 Omar's post on Los Espookys on Primetimer 🛣 The Washington Post's By The Way travel series 🩸 The Blotter Presents podcast 🍿 The AFI 100 Films list 🙅‍♀️ Bill Cosby's Father's Day tweet

We're thrilled to welcome Eve back to the guest chair...but were we as thrilled to welcome Big Little Lies back into our primetime lives? We talked about Meryl Streep's flawlessly passive-aggressive performance and loved Laura Dern because it's a day ending in Y. After Tara reported on a Kit-Kat-jingle-related Tiny Triumph, Sarah joined her to capsule-review the ATX Festival before we went around the dial with Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, and Black Mirror. Dan Cassino tasked us with assembling our own personal A-Teams as an Extra Credit, and everyone from Villanelle to Pam Poovey got in on the act. Then we took a tour of Senegal with Françoise's lovely Canon presentation on behalf of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Kristen Bell is a winner, Linda Fairstein is a loser, and we all shared a bowl of alphabet soup in Game Time. Don't get stuck in a hallway marching band: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤥 Big Little Lies Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Tara’s Kit-Kat jingle gets a key RT Around The Dial: 📺 ATX Festival Report Around The Dial: 💃 Pose Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🪞 Black Mirror Extra Credit: 🤑 Your Own Personal A-Team The Canon: 🏆 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S07.E06: Senegal Winner & Loser: 👍 Kristen Bell Winner & Loser: 👎 Linda Fairstein Game Time: 🧠 ABC TV Trivia NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 255 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The Alternatino premiere on YouTube ⚖️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📺 ATX’s TV Campfire podcast

Shocking the world, the Deadwood movie no one dared believe would actually happen has actually happened, and our old friend Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic of Rolling Stone, returns to discuss it. Around The Dial clicks through American Princess, The Handmaid's Tale, Netflix's sequel to Tales Of The City, Scott & Bailey, Good Omens, and Epix's Perpetual Grace, LTD. Alan takes a leap by submitting the Quantum Leap episode "The Leap Home, Part 1" to the Canon. Then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a very animated Game Time. Meet us in the thoroughfare and listen! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤠 Deadwood Around The Dial: 👸 American Princess Around The Dial: 👺 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🌁 Tales Of The City Around The Dial: 👮‍♀️ Scott & Bailey Around The Dial: 📿 Good Omens Around The Dial: ⏰ Perpetual Grace Ltd The Canon: ⚛️ Quantum Leap S03.E01: The Leap Home, Part 1 Winner & Loser: 👍 Vida Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo and Viola Davis Game Time: 🧠 Cels From Celluloid NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 254 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📊 The Extra Hot Great submission form 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🎸 Alan at Rolling Stone, including all his coverage on Deadwood: The Movie 📺 The ATX Festival 📚 All Alan's books on Amazon 🏊‍♀️ Sarah and Tara on Melrose Place at Primetimer 🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer ⚛️ Kathryn VanArendonk's interview with Scott Bakula about the 30th anniversary of Quantum Leap

Our (lack of?) enthusiasm for National Geographic's account of a late-'80s Ebola outbreak, The Hot Zone, is infectious -- and Kat Angus returns to the podcast to discuss the plague of wigs and clunky dialogue in the docuseries, plus exposition that made us itch and shows we'd rather watch instead. We went around the dial with Dynasty, What/If, Killing Eve, and Lonely Island's Bash Brothers special, and Tara hoped insurance would cover her Canon submission of a second-season GLOW episode. Chrissy Teigen won (as usual), Adam Levine lost, and a Game Time stuck in the middle of things. Gown up for an all-new Extra Hot (Zone) Great! GUESTS 👤 Kat Angus TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤢 The Hot Zone Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: 🤔 What If Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Killing Eve Around The Dial: ⚾️ The Lonely Island Presents The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience The Canon: 👩‍🎤 GLOW Winner & Loser: 👍 Chrissy's Court Chrissy Teigen Winner & Loser: 👎 The Voice Adam Levine Game Time: 🧠 TV Infixes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 253 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kat Angus on Twitter 📺 ATX Festival 🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter 🙃 The I Hate It But I Love It podcast 🎵 Adam Levine is a big old baby

Fleabag is back on Amazon for its second -- and last -- season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about the big swings the show takes, Olivia Colman's perfect performance, and the show's unique realness about everything from faith to sisterhood to bad haircuts. We go Around The Dial with a My Dad Wrote A Porno update, plus Vida, She-Ra, and a Ron Artest/Metta World Peace documentary on Showtime, and contemplate a short but very sweet Canon submission concerning a Hilda episode about a giant. President Carteris won (we hope), BH90210 lost, and we juggled Steal Meals in a ballsy Game Time. Break the fourth wall with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪰 Fleabag Around The Dial: 🍆 My Dad Wrote A Porno Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Vida Around The Dial: 👸 She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power Around The Dial: 🏀 Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story The Canon: 👧🏻 Hilda Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris Winner & Loser: 👎 BH90210 Game Time: 🧠 Name That Sport NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 252 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🫴 Who's who on Catch-22 🎶 MASTAS on Instagram 😔 I'm Sorry

Netflix tries to court the teens with The Society, in which a bunch of high schoolers return to their town to find it emptied of everyone who wasn't in their class; Emily Yoshida joins us to discuss whether Christopher "Party Of Five Keyser" still knows how to write for the youth. Around The Dial clicks through the comedy special My Dad Wrote A Porno, Klepper, Terrace House, Sneaky Pete, and The Good Fight (now we're up to Season 3!). Tara presents Season 1, Episode 4 of Rosehaven to The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roll up our sleeves for a game about jobs. Take a break from inventorying all the food in town and join us! GUESTS 👤 Emily Yoshida TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏘 The Society Around The Dial: 🍆 My Dad Wrote A Porno Around The Dial: 📺 Klepper Around The Dial: 🏡 Terrace House Around The Dial: 😏 Sneaky Pete Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight The Canon: 🏆 Rosehaven S01.E04 Winner & Loser: 👍 J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele Winner & Loser: 👎 Constance Wu Game Time: 🧠 What's My Job? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 251 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Emily Yoshida on Twitter 🌠 The Night Call podcast 🌠 Night Call on Patreon 🔖 Tara's Haley Lu Richardson post at Primetimer 👮‍♂️ Sarah's Bosch post at Primetimer