Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

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