Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Even in 2018, the summer TV season isn't all prestigious limited series and Emmy contenders: there's still misbegotten syndication-quality sci-fantasy stuff like The CW's overseas-Syfy import The Outpost! We stretched the bounds of Monty Ashley's patience by inviting him to join us and discuss it. Around The Dial clicks through the second seasons of Nailed It! and GLOW, as well as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Animal Kingdom. Monty presents Batman: The Animated Series's "Heart Of Ice" for induction into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we belly up to the bar for a Game Time about TV's watering holes. Lend us your pointy ears and enjoy! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛖 The Outpost Around The Dial: 🍰 Nailed It Around The Dial: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW Around The Dial: 🪄 Penn & Teller: Fool Us Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom The Canon: 🏆 Batman: The Animated Series S01.E03: Heart Of Ice Winner & Loser: 👍 Seinfeld Elaine Benes Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Game Time: 🧠 Where Everybody Knows Your Name NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 210 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🦹 The Villain Edit podcast 💵 Tara on Paid Off With Michael Torpey for Slate 🗡 Tara's first Sharp Objects recap at Decider

The second season of Detroiters started last week, and new guest Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about why it's so great, and why it should be better known: the crack timing, the considered use of Tim Meadows in his lower "gear," and the things it gets right about longtime friendships. We're going Around The Dial with Pose, Nanette, Barry, Jersey Shore: Family Reunion (again), Luke Cage, and Handmaid's Tale before Detroiters's Tim Robinson makes another appearance in Josh's Canon pitch for Robinson's eponymous episode of The Characters. Roseanne-less Roseanne won, Prime subscribers lost (and didn't even know it), and Game Time became snacktime in a quiz about food/show mash-ups. Put us on for your commute (after you check your gas tank for sardines): it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICS Lead Topic: 😱 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🤭 Nanette Around The Dial: 👗 Pose Around The Dial: ⛱ Jersey Shore: Family Reunion Around The Dial: 🥊 Luke Cage Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale The Canon: 🏆 The Characters S01.E07: Tim Robinson Winner & Loser: 👍 The Conners Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazon Prime Game Time: 🧠 Foodie TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 209 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🕸 Josh Gondelman's website 🐦 Josh Gondelman on Twitter 💿 Or enjoy his album, "Physical Whisper" ⚖️ Tara's review of Dietland at Vulture

While some prestigious shows do find berths on summer schedules, it's also still a dumping ground for C-list reality shows -- and for you, we welcomed back Jeff Drake...and made him join us in suffering through five premieres from the past week. In what ways does Travel Channel's Caribbean Pirate Treasure fail to live up to its title? Whose trust is being broken in Investigation Discovery's Broken Trust, other than the viewer's that her hour will pass enjoyably? Was 24 To Hell & Back too little time to spend with Gordon Ramsay in his latest Fox restaurant makeover show? How little effort could Howie Mandel expend on NatGeo Wild's Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things, and could it possibly be less than went into naming the show? And did The Proposal have us down on our knees praying for ABC to cancel it swiftly? Find out in our rapid-fire roundup! We also ponder the induction of Fleabag's series premiere to The Canon, name the week's Winner and Loser, and go around the world for a World Cup-inspired Game Time. Confirm that your surroundings are free of pirates and join us! GUESTS 👤 Jeff Drake TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ Caribbean Pirate Treasure Lead Topic: ❤️‍🩹 Broken Trust Lead Topic: 🔥 Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back Lead Topic: 🦔 Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things Lead Topic: 💍 The Proposal The Canon: 🏆 Fleabag S01.E01 Winner & Loser: 👍 Comic-Con attendees Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Hardwick Game Time: 🧠 The World Cup Of Television NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 208 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚽️ World Cup 2018 countries

Season 2 of Claws is underway on TNT, and Jeb Lund returns to talk about everything from yummy visuals to tonal whiplash to Franka Potente's Rrrrrrussian accent. We're also going Around The Dial with an ATX Festival round-up, David Cassidy: The Last Session, and Sharp Objects; and into The Box with Jeb's Homicide: Life On The Street submission from the first season. Teresa of RHONJ is a winner, the other People Of Earth were losers, and Tara lit it up with a bad-behavior-based non-regulation Game Time. Hope you've got five ones for a five: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🎛 ATX Festival Around The Dial: 🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session The Canon: 🏆 Homicide: Life On The Streets S01.E05: Three Men And Adena Winner & Loser: 👍 Teresa Giudice Winner & Loser: 👎 People Of Earth Game Time: 🧠 Dumpsters, Fired NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 207 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival 🦅 Vulture's Jen Chaney on Claws 🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session on A&E

It's time already for another Bachelor washout to take her turn as a chooser of men on a new season of The Bachelorette, and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who also happens to be a citizen of Bachelor Nation, is joining us to discuss the start of the season. Around The Dial flips through AMC's new dramedy Dietland, Jersey Shore: Family Reunion, The Tale, and Succession, before we move on to debate the induction of GLOW's "Live Studio Audience" into The Canon. We name a new Winner & Loser Of The Week, and close out with a Game Time that tk. Put on your most ludicrous sequined gown and join us! GUESTS 👤 Diablo Cody TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌹 The Bachelorette Around The Dial: 🥗 Dietland Around The Dial: 🏖 Jersey Shore Around The Dial: 📚 The Tale Around The Dial: 🤴 Succession The Canon: 🏆 GLOW S01.E07: Live Studio Audience Winner & Loser: 👍 Dolly Parton Winner & Loser: 👎 Jesse Williams Game Time: 🧠 Pit Of Ultimate Darkness NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 206 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💊 Jagged Little Pill at the American Repertory Theater 🎞 Tully

Our esteemed colleague and Star Trek fantasy-draft star Mo Ryan returns to the podcast to talk about Liz Garbus's four-part New York Times documentary, The Fourth Estate, and the various frustrations we all had with both the documentary itself; its sometimes navel-gazey and tone-deaf subject; and all the things we wished the series had covered (or skipped)...though the intensity of our feelings probably means it's worth a watch. Also worth a watch in our Around The Dial section: Killjoys, Wynonna Earp, and Jane The Virgin, with another Showtime doc project, Love Means Zero, rating a skip from Buntsy. We mourned Tara's DVR, took Mo's Canon pitch for a season finale One Day At A Time, and declared a couple of vintage sitcoms Winners AND Losers before playing a super(hero)-charged Game Time from Dan Cassino. Let's hope we didn't bury the lede for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 📰 The Fourth Estate Around The Dial: 😵 Tara's DVR: A Eulogy Around The Dial: 😇 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🤠 Wynonna Earp Around The Dial: 😡 Killjoys Around The Dial: 💔 Love Means Zero The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time S02.E13: Not Yet Winner & Loser: 👍 The Golden Girls Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne Game Time: 🧠 Not Quite Superheroes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 205 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🗞 Maureen Ryan's review of The Fourth Estate 👵🏻 Deadpool 2 Golden Girls Ad

As Netflix gives us another installment of 13 Reasons Why (and we get why they wouldn't call it 13 More Reasons Why, but...come on), our dear friend Joe Reid returns to dig into the sophomore season that has dramatically divided TV critics. Around The Dial rolls through The Middle, Dancing With The Stars, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Champions, The Mick, and Below Deck Mediterranean, with a couple of cameos from Willie Survive. Joe presents Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Kimmy Does A Puzzle!" for submission to The Canon, and after naming -- and, in the latter case, really shaming -- the week's Winner and Loser, we put another dime in the TV Jukebox for a musical Game Time. Brace yourself for shocking revelations and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📝 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🖕 The Middle Around The Dial: 🕺 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 🚔 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🥇 Champions Around The Dial: 🇮🇪 The Mick Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S03.E08: Kimmy Does A Puzzle! Winner & Loser: 👍 Progressive Netflix subscribers Winner & Loser: 👎 Nev Schulman Game Time: 🧠 TV Jukebox NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 204 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We hope Nick Rheinwald-Jones won't hold it against us that we invited him back to discuss Patrick Melrose, the Cinnamon Toastencrunch vanity proje-- er, "Benedict Cumberbatch-starring miniseries based on the St. Aubyn novel series." Because y'all, we haaaaated it, and we've got the extended remix of fart noises to prove it. It won't take a Sherlock to deduce that we moved smartly along to our Around The Dial section, with stops at the newest Little Women adaptation, Claws, and some Netflix comedy specials of note before Nick tried to prank the Canon with a third-season Happy Endings episode. Adopted series won, former headliners lost, and we made crossover events out of actors in a character-conflating Game Time. No need to go through Extra Hot Great withdrawal: an all-new episode is right here. GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍞 Patrick Melrose Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Little Women Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix stand-up specials Around The Dial: 💅 Claws The Canon: 🏆 Happy Endings S03.E12: The Marry Prankster Winner & Loser: 👍 Orphaned/Rehomed Shows Winner & Loser: 👎 Former Headliners Game Time: 🧠 Concise Character Conflation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 203 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival lineup as of this writing 📖 Ian Parker's St. Aubyn profile from The New Yorker

Will Leitch is a renowned sports journalist, so did we have him on to talk about 30 For 30 or something similarly thoughtful and incisive about the world of athletics? No, he's joining us to talk about the very special all-athletes season of Dancing With The Stars! Around The Dial rolls through Good Girls, Gotham, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dear White People, and Myths And Monsters. Will presents Better Call Saul's "Chicanery" for submission to The Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's got a lot of stamps on its passport. Trade your Under Armor for Danskins and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏀 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Good Girls Around The Dial: 🗽 Gotham Around The Dial: 🚓 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🐁 Dear White People Around The Dial: 🧌 Myths And Monsters The Canon: 🏆 Better Call Saul S03.E05: Chicanery Winner & Loser: 👍 Criminal Justice Winner & Loser: 👎 Joe Piscopo Game Time: 🌏 Lost In Translation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 202 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The Will Leitch Show on SI.com 🎤 The Grierson & Leitch podcast 📬 Will Leitch's Tinyletter

As HBO's obsession-inducing dystopia returns for a second season, Eve Batey also returns to discuss reflections on capitalism; college-dorm philosophizing; why wigs are still shite in the future; and whether Ed Harris is using a stunt double. Eve claimed not to be a crackpot for calling for a Simpsons cancellation -- with a surprising hatchet man -- and the Bosch theme may have been deemed Worse Than Jazz before we went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale, Splitting Up Together, and Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery. Then we were Flipping Out over Eve's Canon submission. Frankenstein's author won, Rectify's antagonist lost, and it all added up on a very mathy Game Time, in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤠 Westworld I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Simpsons Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Bosch Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🪦 Unforgotten The Canon: 🏆 Flipping Out S03.E07: Irreconcilable Differences Winner & Loser: 👍 Mary Shelley Winner & Loser: 👎 Rectify Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No Math NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 201 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌉 The Inside SF newsletter 🎳 Help The Ruth Bowler Ginsbergs and the Gateway Women's Access Fund