Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

HBO has gone back to the 1980s for a miniseries take on the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; to discuss whether the show is as big a catastrophe as the event, we've invited Adam Sternbergh to join us! Around The Dial clicks through Tuca & Bertie, Dead To Me, Money Heist, Atlanta, and Hulu's upcoming Catch-22. Sean and Tim use their Extra Credit to challenge us to rank the caregivers of Call The Midwife before Adam presents the first Barry episode to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we each try not to be the last holding the Hot Potato during Game Time. Put on your hazmat suit and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ☢️ Chernobyl Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Tuca & Bertie Around The Dial: 😵 Dead To Me Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📼 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🫴 Catch-22 Extra Credit: 🤑 Rank A Midwife The Canon: 🏆 Barry S01.E07: Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast, And Keep Going Winner & Loser: 👍 Elizabeth Banks Winner & Loser: 👎 The Game Of Thrones set dec who left a takeout coffee cup in a shot, and the HBO PR team that tried to be cute about it Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 250 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 🏦 Tara on Good Girls for Primetimer 😷 Sarah on The Act for Primetimer

It's a good thing today's Canon pitch is for The Other Two, because returning guest John Ramos is a super-fan -- but before we got around to that, we had to punch our tickets for The Red Line, CBS's weighty series on how three Chicago families intersect in the aftermath of a police shooting. Is it trying too hard for significance? Is the writing writing checks some of the acting can't cash? And do we wish Regina Taylor had a more central role? After debate club, we went Around The Dial with I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, High Maintenance, and MTV's Jersey Shore/Bachelor hybrid Double Shot At Love, then High Castled some alternate-timeline/dystopian show pitches in an Extra Credit from C.G. before hearing that The Other Two Canon submission. Shannen Doherty won, Game Of Thrones took a bunch of losses, and we jammed with the return of One Letter Off Game Time. Throw a tiny needlepoint pillow on a concrete lounger and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 📈 The Red Line Around The Dial: 😱 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: 🪴 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 💘 Double Shot At Love With DJ Pauly D And Vinny Extra Credit: 🤑 The Showrunner In The High Castle The Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S01.E03: Chase Gets A Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Shannen Doherty Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones people Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 249 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥷 Tara's Barry piece for Decider 🎶 MASTAS ✍️ Crime Writers On

It's an all-Game Time episode to make up for last week's missing competition. Testing their TV knowledge are Kari Race, Chris Billig and Sarah S. Coward. We played TV themes, they tried to figure out what show they were from. Sounds easy, right? GUESTS 👤 Kari Race 👤 Chris Billig 👤 Sarah S. Coward TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Name That Theme NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 248 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

HBO has imported Gentleman Jack, a BBC dramedy based on the journals of 19th-century lesbian landowner Anne Lister, and we've invited Mark Blankenship to join us in getting way up under its skirts! Around The Dial takes us through the débuts of The New Negroes and Ramy; Losers; Fleabag; and The Good Fight. Jacqueline brings us an Extra Credit question about our teen BFFs. Mark presents the Designing Women episode "The Beauty Contest" to The Canon then we name the week's Winner and Loser. Loosen your corset and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🌾 Gentleman Jack Around The Dial: 🚨 The New Negroes Around The Dial: 🇯🇪 Ramy Around The Dial: 😪 Losers Around The Dial: 🪰 Fleabag Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Extra Credit: 🤑 Your TV Teen BFFs The Canon: 🏆 Designing Women S01.E02: The Beauty Contest Winner & Loser: 👍 Chaos Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Che NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 247 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🪑 The Blankenship Chair 👎 Tara on the rotten kids of Better Things at Decider ✍️ The Crime Writers On podcast 📙 Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel at Amazon

Game Of Thrones is finally back, and so are Kim and Jim, partly because Tara and Sarah have no real idea what's going on on the show but also because we treasure their insights on everything from Lady Mormont, to whether Jon and Dany have chemistry (no), to whether ANYONE in any kingdom is wearing a hat (no, and Jim has questions about that). After discussing important matters like dragon kibble, we went Around The Dial with CBS reality shows, The Magicians, Bosch, and Bless This Mess, and Dave sneak-previewed part of our Patreon-only discussion of incorrect spin-offs. Charles put us in the box with Pembleton with a Homicide: Life On The Street submission for the Canon, and while casting agents for streaming services were winners, Lori Loughlin and Massimo Targetini were losers...aaaaagain. Did Tara's non-regulation Game Time fill our hearts with song? Does Euron look like Pacey Witter? And why is Tyrion's one-liner game (as it were) going downhill? All those answers and more in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚽 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 🙏🏻 Bless This Mess Around The Dial: ⛺️ Survivor Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch Around The Dial: 🧐 Jeopardy The Canon: 🏆 Homicide: Life On The Street S02.E02: Black And Blue Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate McKinnon and Sterling K. Brown Winner & Loser: 👎 Lori Loughlin Game Time: 🧠 Tube Toons IV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 246 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😈 Bran memes 😈 More Bran memes 😇 Tara's Jane The Virgin post on Decider 🛥 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs talks about "Rio"

FX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon, a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine on whether it should have opened and closed the same night. Around The Dial spins through the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve; the series finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Brit crime drama Unforgotten; and Cinemax's new period immigration/tong drama Warrior. In the absence of a Canon segment (...it's a long story), we speed through the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a special double shot of Game Time. Grab a Seconal and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕺 Fosse/Verdon Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Unforgotten Around The Dial: ⚔️ Warrior Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave Winner & Loser: 👎 Drunks; CBS Game Time: 🧠 TV Pets Game Time: 🧠 These Shows Have Issues NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 245 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧸 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🧌 Upstart Creatures 🎭 National Alliance For Musical Theatre

Will Hines joins the panel for the latest imagining of The Twilight Zone from Jordan Peele -- an idea whose time may have come and (thanks to Black Mirror) gone. Will the show find its footing once the proof-of-concept episodes are done? And is this enough to get folks to pay for CBS All Access? Later, we went Around The Dial with HBO's peek comedies Veep and Barry, Aeon Flux-y guilty pleasure Love, Death & Robots, ER, and Deadwind before Dave The Poker Pro challenged us to find the next deep-dive Again With This podcast topic. We considered a precious (geddit?) Steven Universe episode for The Canon before declaring SVU a long-running winner and Tori Spelling an Insta loser...and then Phil Collins sang us into a very friendly Game Time. There's something on the wing! (It's an all-new Extra Hot Great.) GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌌 The Twilight Zone (2019) Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Veep Around The Dial: 🥷 Barry Around The Dial: 🦾 Love, Death + Robots Around The Dial: 🩻 ER Around The Dial: 🌬 Deadwind Extra Credit: 🤑 Again With Again With This The Canon: 🏆 Steven Universe S03.E12: Mr. Greg Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: 🧠 I've Seen Your Face Before My Friend But I Don't Know If You Know Who I Am NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 244 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌌 Watch the first ep of Twilight Zone free on YouTube 🏝 Again With This 🎶 March MASTAS 💥 Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Spiderman 🎙 Will Hines on Comedy Bang Bang