Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

FX has adapted the 2014 vampire mockumentary film What We Do In The Shadows as a TV series: does it have the same bite as the original? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to discuss! Around The Dial spins through The Village; Playing House alumni Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair's live UCB improv show; Season 3 of The Good Fight; and commonwealth news spoofs This Time With Alan Partridge and Get Krack!n. Tara celebrates a Taskmaster-related Tiny Triumph before pitching the Frasier episode "The Matchmaker" for induction into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and then close up with a Game Time that challenges us all on our spelling ability. Close all your blackout curtains and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧛 What We Do In The Shadows Around The Dial: 🏘 The Village Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Lennon Parham & Jessica St. Clair Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: ⏳ This Time With Alan Partridge Around The Dial: 🚨 Get Krack!n Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Taskmaster The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S02.E03: The Matchmaker Winner & Loser: 👍 Emily Dickinson Winner & Loser: 👎 Supernatural Mme. Caroline and other Supernatural fans Game Time: 🧠 If Leaving E Is Easy NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 243 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪒 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🫧 Nick's new immersive show The Pod at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Project Runway returns to Bravo for its 17th season (the spread-eagle), and Fug Girls Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks return to the podcast to talk about new judges, new mentor Christian Siriano, a new challenge "twist" we all dislike, and the same old reliable show structure. We make some shot-in-the-dark guesses about the season's eventual winner, too, while feeling relieved the show has a proper budget again. Then it's a super-size Around The Dial discussing Shrill, Instant Hotel, the return of Hoarders, Summer House, and Mental Samurai before we tucked into some wine and cheese with Caroline's Extra Credit on our favorite shows to snack in front of. Spring was in the air for Heather's presentation of a first-season Beverly Hills, 90210 for the Canon; Great British Bake Off won, and Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin lost, some more; and we had our Phil of "Easy Lover," Jacqueline's love-triangle Game Time. Where's Andre? He's listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪡 Project Runway Around The Dial: 🧙‍♀️ Shrill Around The Dial: 🏩 Instant Hotel Around The Dial: 💩 Hoarders Around The Dial: ☀️ Summer House Around The Dial: 🙇 Mental Samurai Extra Credit: 🤑 The Cheese And Wine Show The Canon: 🏆 Beverly Hills, 90210 S01.E21: Spring Dance Winner & Loser: 👍 The Great British Bake Off Winner & Loser: 👎 Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, some more Game Time: 🧠 Easy Lover NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 242 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎩 Go Fug Yourself 🤦‍♂️ Reality Steve 🏝 Again With This

Ricky Gervais has brought us another sitcom and dared us to reject both it and him; Will Leitch has returned to accept the challenge. Around The Dial clicks through Good Girls, Creative Galaxy, and Call The Midwife, before Dave and Tara take on a Taskmaster task for Extra Credit. Will presents Nathan For You's "Finding Frances" for the Canon; we crown the week's Winners and Losers; and then we finish "That's What It's Called?" in Game Time. Take a break from mourning and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 😇 After Life Around The Dial: 🏦 Good Girls Around The Dial: 🌌 Creative Galaxy Around The Dial: 🍼 Call The Midwife Extra Credit: 🤑 Taking To Taskmaster The Canon: 🏆 Nathan For You S04.E08: Finding Frances Winner & Loser: 👍 Silver foxes Winner & Loser: 👎 Rich parents of dumb children Game Time: 🧠 That's What It's Called? Part 2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 241 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter ✍️ Will's Tinyletter 🏀 The Will Leitch Show 🎞 Grierson & Leitch 🏄‍♂️ Sarah on Luke Perry at Pop Culture Happy Hour 👨‍🚒 Sarah on Backdraft at I Hate It But I Love It ☄️ Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🤷 Tara on Decider

Does Whiskey Cavalier seem familiar? And is it because ABC is trying to clone Castle again, some more? That's returning guest Kathryn VanArendonk's theory, and the regulars are inclined to agree -- but we also agree that, although the new spy drama isn't prestige TV and doesn't make sense all the time, it's also pretty good and doesn't take itself too seriously, and once Lauren Cohan learns how to handle a gun (and stop looking like Countess Luann from RHONYC), it's got a bright future. After we downed those shots (fired), we went Around The Dial with Desus & Mero, a High Maintenance complaint, The Magicians, Schitt's Creek, Grace & Frankie, and Taskmaster before personalizing our own The Good Places in an Extra Credit for Erica. Tara accepted a months-old Canon challenge from Dave when she tried to get a King Of Queens episode crowned for the Canon, before a boy-band alliance was declared a Winner, another King (of Pop's estate) tried to make a Loser out of HBO, and sad songs said TOO much about Game Time. Hide a knife in your boot and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kathryn VanArendonk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥃 Whiskey Cavalier Around The Dial: ✍️ Desus & Mero Around The Dial: 🪴 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🏞 Schitt's Creek Around The Dial: 🧓 Grace & Frankie Around The Dial: 📝 Taskmaster Extra Credit: 🤑 The Canon: 🏆 The King Of Queens S05.E21: Clothes Encounters Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Colton Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO, sort of Game Time: 🧠 That's What It's Called?! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 240 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🥃 Kathryn's review of Whiskey Cavalier on Vulture 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 🛩 How to watch Taskmaster "through methods" 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🎹 The Video for Billy Joel's "My Life" 🧞 Cover of Bob James' "The Genie"

IFC's parody series Documentary Now! is back for its third season with six new spoofs of noteworthy docs, starting with Wild Wild Country (here reimagined as Batsh*t Valley). Is it still as note-perfect as its first two seasons have been? Molly Lambert makes her Extra Hot Great début to join us and discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Adam McKay's new Amazon infotainment series This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy, Naked & Afraid, Sneaky Pete, and Miracle Workers. Erica presents the Series 6 finale of The Great British Bake Off for induction into the Canon, and then after identifying the week's Winner and Loser -- identifying rather closely, in the former case -- we face off in a Game Time that has some harsh words for all of us. Put on your black and yellow finery and listen in! GUESTS 👤 Molly Lambert TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎞 Documentary Now! Around The Dial: 📈 This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy Around The Dial: 🙀 Naked & Afraid Around The Dial: 😏 Sneaky Pete Around The Dial: 😇 Miracle Workers The Canon: 🏆 The Great British Bake Off S06.E10: Final Winner & Loser: 👍 Us Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 I'm Rubber And You're Glue NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 239 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Molly Lambert on Twitter 📸 Molly Lambert on Instagram 💍 Sarah and Tara's latest trip to Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean to discuss The Wedding March 3: Here Comes The Bride 🌚 Night Call Podcast 👯‍♀️ Molly's Sleazy Friends 🦇 Batsh*t Valley on YouTube 🪨 TV Stones Challenge 🍞 Sarah and Dan's GBBO Halloween

Amazon's import from ITV, White Dragon, is about a life and marriage that isn't what it seemed...and unfortunately, that's a meta comment on the show, because it seemed good, but was not. Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss the show's first dumb, then too-Bond protagonist; the actors we didn't see enough of; and the Lost-ish Hydra of questions and puzzles. Then we moved on to a mini-Wheel of Murder and recommended overseas crime shows we DID like, including a French Agatha Christie, a Japanese Sherlock Holmes, a Spanish Ocean's 11, and the pretenders to Happy Valley's throne. And we STILL had yet to go Around The Dial to discuss One Day At A Time's third season, American Soul, the Studio 54 doc, and the Big Mouth Valentine's special! After Caroline hit us with an EHG-history game in her Extra Credit, we were...Charmed by a listener's Canon presentation. The Other Two won, NBC lost Bob Costas, and it's all about location in a very stately Game Time. Don't lose your passport: it's time to visit an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Allison Lowe Huff TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐲 White Dragon Lead Topic: 👁 Private Eyes Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Miss Sherlock Lead Topic: 🧩 Agatha Christie's Criminal Games Lead Topic: 😬 No Offense Lead Topic: 🏞 Happy Valley Lead Topic: 💰 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📆 One Day At A Time Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Soul Around The Dial: 🪩 Studio 54 Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Extra Credit: 🤑 EHG History The Canon: 🏆 Charmed S02.E02: Morality Bites Winner & Loser: 👍 The Other Two Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC Game Time: 🧠 Location, Location, Location NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 238 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 The Extra Hot Great Patreon page 🐦 Al Lowe Huff on Twitter 🇬🇧 Al's writing at MHz Choice ☕️ The Midsomer Murders plot-bot on Twitter 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

Just in time for Groundhog Day, Netflix has released Russian Doll, in which Natasha Lyonne's Nadia keeps dying and being resurrected into the bathroom at her birthday party. Joining us to discuss is first-time guest/New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik! Around The Dial checks in with Speechless, Corporate, The Challenge (speaking of immortal), and Bud Light's bizarre Game Of Thrones crossover. Lauren tries to make it a Canon submission hat trick with "The Equestranots" episode of Bob's Burgers. Then after a (slightly ambiguous) Winner and Loser pair, Super Nintendo Chalmers returns to Game Time! Pull the trigger on that bathroom door handle and join us! GUESTS 👤 James Poniewozik TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪆 Russian Doll Around The Dial: 🤫 Speechless Around The Dial: 🗄 Corporate Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🍺 Bud Light's Super Bowl ad The Canon: 🏆 Bob's Burgers S04.E17: The Equestranots Winner & Loser: 👍 Andy King Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Telek Game Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo Chalmers 2: Steamed Hams NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 237 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🐦 James Poniewozik on Twitter 📰 Jim's Times review of Russian Doll 📆 The latest episode of the Appointment Television podcast 📺 The Times list of The 20 Best TV Dramas Since The Sopranos 🗒 All Jim's work at the Times 💻 Sarah on SVU's "Avatar" on the These Are Their Stories podcast

Comedy Central's new..."sibcom"?, The Other Two, follows the (usually falling) fortunes of Cary and Brooke when their 13-year-old brother becomes an overnight internet sensation, and enduring internet sensation Joe Reid is back to talk about the little things the show gets right, how to talk about Survivor superfans, and why lonely and funny can co-exist. We went Around The Dial with The Good Place, Rent! Live, QB1: Beyond The Lights, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt before Dan Cassino asked us to hand out awards for technical achievement in this week's Extra Credit. Joe Pose-d the question of a season finale for the Canon; cookies were a Winner, and messing with Terry Crews always makes a Loser; and we all crammed for a school-based test of wits in Game Time. Grab some napkins from the limo, it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍👧‍👦 The Other Two Around The Dial: 🚂 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🎭 Rent: Live! Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1 Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Extra Credit: 🤑 Technical Awards The Canon: 🏆 Pose S01.E08: Mother Of The Year Winner & Loser: 👍 Mackenzie Hanciscsak Winner & Loser: 👎 D.L. Hughley Game Time: 🧠 School's In NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 236 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔥 Extra Hot Great on Patreon 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🌃 Tara's I Am The Night recaps at Decider

Showtime has tried something new with a sitcom project: hired a creator who's actually good at making funny shows! So we're seeing how well this strategy is working with a discussion of David "Happy Endings" Caspe's new '80s Wall Street sitcom Black Monday -- as well as HBO's third season of High Maintenance (now in the Sunday night big leagues) -- with returning guest and tri-state native David J. Roth! The announcement of a Perry Mason remake starring Matthew Rhys has us debating Will Dave Hate This? Around The Dial clicks through The Punisher; Killing Eve; and Hulu and Netflix's dueling Fyre Festival docs, Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Dave Roth presents Enlightened's Season 1 finale, "Burn It All Down," for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close up with a Game Time that puts things in order. Roll up your crispest Benjamin and take a big sniff! GUESTS 👤 David Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 📉 Black Monday Lead Topic: 🪴 High Maintenance Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Perry Mason (2020) Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Punisher Around The Dial: 🗡 Killing Eve Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🔥 Fyre Fraud Around The Dial: ☄️ Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened The Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E10: Burn It Down Winner & Loser: 👍 Unsolved Mysteries Winner & Loser: 👎 Aaron Sorkin Game Time: 🧠 Order Of Events NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 235 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 David J. Roth on Twitter 😵‍💫 Roth on Deadspin 🎅 Dave's Hallmark movie podcast Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

Yet another reboot of a '90s WB "classic" has hit the earth in Roswell, a "reimagining" of Roswell -- and we were very lucky that the TWoP recapper of that "fine" original, Dan Blau Rogge, could join us to wonder who the new version is for, why the consistent element among the two series had to be the crappish acting, and when the show will stop being quite so obvious about the double meaning of the word "alien." Next, we went Around The Dial with Fosters spinoff Good Trouble, Adam Ruins Everything, True D Season 3, and Project Blue Book before John "Pottsy" Potts tasked us with competing against each other on a reality show in an Extra Credit (and two of us...Nailed It!). Dan proposed Getting On with/for The Canon; a Korean Villainess won and an American music journo lost; and Tara Hammed it up in a non-regulation Game Time. Submit to our technicolor hands of healing with an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 👽 Roswell New Mexico Around The Dial: 😅 Good Trouble Around The Dial: 😠 Adam Ruins Everything Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ True Detective Around The Dial: 📘 Project Blue Book Extra Credit: 🤑 Competing against each other on reality shows The Canon: 🏆 Getting On S03.E01: This Is About Vomit, People Winner & Loser: 👍 The Villainess Winner & Loser: 👎 Touré Game Time: 🧠 Ha Ha Hamm NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 234 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter 😴 The Dream 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs, in whose feed you'll also find Money Can't Buy You Podcast