Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Netflix having successfully adapted House Of Cards (*********) and remade One Day At A Time, it's reached back into the archives of classic TV to bring us an all-new take on Lost In Space -- and new guest Jeb Lund is here to talk about all the Robinsons' extraterrestrial meanderings. Around The Dial stops at that bad episode of The Simpsons, Patriot, and Season 4 of Bosch. Jeb presents the Connections episode "Death In The Morning" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we mark our 200th episode with a special 200th episode-themed Game Time. Grab your interstellar GPS and listen! GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚀 Lost In Space Around The Dial: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch The Canon: 🧶 Connections Winner & Loser: 👍 Bravo Winner & Loser: 👎 John Mulaney Game Time: 🧠 The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 200 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter 🎧 Jeb's podcast, This Week In Atrocity 💸 This Week In Atrocity on Patreon 🎧 The History Of English Podcast

Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir joins the panel this week for the latest filmed take on E.M. Forster's Howards End, and while we liked some things -- the casting; the memories of Witches Of East End occasioned by Julia Ormond -- not everything about the new iteration worked for us. We went Around The Dial with New Girl, Billions, Paterno, and Killing Eve before sinking our teeth into Big Little Lies S01.E05, "Once Bitten." Renewed shows won, cretins lost, and Tara put a song in our hearts with the next chapter of Tube Tunes for Game Time. Hail a carriage with wifi; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Doree Shafrir TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Howards End Around The Dial: 👧 New Girl Around The Dial: 💰 Billions Around The Dial: 🏈 Paterno Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve The Canon: 🤫 Big Little Lies Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve Winner & Loser: 👍 Deep State Winner & Loser: 👍 Pure Winner & Loser: 👎 Harvey Weinstein, T.J. Miller Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 199 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Doree Shafrir on Twitter 🎧 The Forever 35 podcast 📖 Doree's novel Startup on Amazon

The Americans is wrapping up its spy mission in the U.S., and You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk has crammed his viewing of the previous two seasons to prepare for our discussion of the Season 6 premiere! Around The Dial takes us through Alex, Inc.; an update on Here And Now; HBO's latest doc The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling; and the fourth season of the Swedish/Danish crime drama Bron/Broen. Stephen makes the case for us to induct Archer's "Skytanic" into The Canon, before we name the week's Winner and Loser and then roll into a Game Time that Could! Change! EVERYTHING!!! Put on your headphones in the Secret Basement Of Spycraft and see if you can crack our code! (JK, we don't have the patience to make you a code.) GUESTS 👤 Stephen Falk TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 The Americans Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Margo Martindale interacts with Tara on Twitter Around The Dial: 🎧 Alex Inc. Around The Dial: ⏰ Here And Now Around The Dial: 🪶 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling Around The Dial: 🌉 Bron The Canon: 🎯 Archer S01.E07: Skytanic Winner & Loser: 👍 The Wendy Williams Show Winner & Loser: 👎 John Kricfalusi Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 198 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephen Falk on Twitter 🎉 Margo Martindale's appreciative response to Tara's tweet

Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the show has left. How many times can it repeat the same cycles? How much longer can it really expect to keep Kumail Nanjiani? And seriously, what's with all the barfing? After Sarah celebrated a Real Housewife Tiny Triumph, we went Around The Dial with Roseanne, Splitting Up Together, the new Queer Eye, grandpa show American Experience, Barry, and a Will Dave Hate This? update on The Terror, before our guest pitched a first-season Leftovers episode, "Guest," for the Canon. Dirty John was a winner, another gross man was our loser, and Dan Cassino's Italianate pronunciation vincit omnia in a Latin-geek-nip Game Time. Grab a mug of your favored office coffee and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Bobby Finger TOPICS Lead Topic: 💻 Silicon Valley Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Around The Dial: 🧺 Roseanne Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Barry Around The Dial: 😱 The Terror The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Dirty John Connie Britton Winner & Loser: 👎 Dan Schneider Game Time: 🧠 Will Dave Say This? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 197 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter 🎧 The Who? Weekly podcast

NBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement, Slings & Arrows and Nailed It! before we ponder the induction of The West Wing's "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen" to the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a Game Time that's a real banger. Warm up your instrument and join us! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 Rise Around The Dial: 💔 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🏹 Slings & Arrows Around The Dial: 🧁 Nailed It The Canon: 🇺🇸 The West Wing Winner & Loser: 👍 Cagney And Lacey Sarah Drew, Michelle Hurd Winner & Loser: 👎 The Crown Winner & Loser: 👎 The Man In The High Castle Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 196 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 🏹 Slings And Arrows on YouTube 🎭 Americans For The Arts

S2 of Netflix Marvel anti-heroine joint Jessica Jones was a long time coming -- and unfortunately it took a long time to get going. Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton joins the panel to discuss the absence of Kilgrave malice, whether thirteen episodes is five too many, and the evident female gaze of the season's directorial corps. Around The Dial recommended Champions, Altered Carbon, and the second season of The Good Fight, and Dave wondered if the Is This Worse Than Jazz theme is worse than jazz. This week's Canon submission is -- surprise! -- the second in a row from submitter Lauren, as she aims for a two-fer with BoJack Horseman S02.E04, "After The Party." And Dan Cassino hopes we get lucky with another mash-up Game Time, Before & After II. Don't punch a hole in your car; an all-new Extra Hot Great to the rescue! GUESTS 👤 Kirk Hamilton TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Champions Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Fight Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Joel Kinnaman The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman S02.E04: After The Party Winner & Loser: 👍 Kim Kardashian, out-earning Kanye West Winner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew, abruptly fired Game Time: 🧠 Before & After Yet Again NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 195 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kirk Hamilton on Twitter 🥃 Our first go-round with Jessica Jones in EHG 96 🎧 The Splitscreen podcast

It's time once again for Gordon Ramsay to take a break from screaming at adults and spend a few weeks gently critiquing kids: that's right, MasterChef Junior is back for Season 6. To talk about the premiere, we welcome first-time guest Lindsey Weber of the Who Weekly podcast to talk about the half-sized hash slingers. Around The Dial takes us to Atlanta, Vanderpump Rules, Drunk History, and NightMan, before we ponder whether the series premiere of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, "Josh Just Happens To Live Here!," should be inducted into The Canon. From there, it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and to a Game Time built on Sound Foundations. Fill some ramekins with snacks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Lindsey Weber TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Masterchef Junior Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Gina Rodriguez Winner & Loser: 👎 The Walking Dead Winner & Loser: 👎 The Oscars Game Time: 🧠 Sound Foundations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 194 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Lindsey Weber on Twitter 🎧 The Who Weekly podcast 💻 Lindsey's UnREAL recaps on Vulture

After a literal car wreck of a second season, UnREAL is finally pulling back the curtain again on fictional dating show The Suitor -- and grown-ish writer Kara Brown pulled up a guesting chair for the first time to help us unpack the show's issues, starting with its, well, need to address capital-I Issues. Also Jeremy, who is not a fetch we're willing to see happen. Does UnREAL try to do too many things, or the wrong ones? Who on the panel is cautiously optimistic about it leaving S2 behind a la Friday Night Lights? And seriously, why is Jeremy? Later, we went Around The Dial with Nashville, Anna Deavere Smith's latest for HBO, Lovesick, and the return of NightMan, and Kara made the "wrecked" theme official with a Canon submission from Season 8 of RHONYC. The White House Correspondents' Dinner won, an entire southern state lost, and we got stuck in the middle (names) with a Game Time from David Dickerson. Please accept this rose, in the form of an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kara Brown TOPICS Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🪕 Nashville Around The Dial: ❤️‍🩹 Lovesick Around The Dial: 🎭 Notes From The Field Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🏙 The Real Housewives Of New York City Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Wolf, hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner Winner & Loser: 👎 Productions in Georgia, after abortion restrictions pass Game Time: 🧠 The Middle NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 193 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kara Brown on Twitter 🎓 Grown-ish on Freeform 🎧 The Keep It! podcast 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Netflix has a new period drama, set in the '90s, called Everything Sucks. Where does it fall on the spectrum of Stranger Things to Freaks And Geeks? We've asked true '90s kid Stephanie Green to join us and break it down. Around The Dial takes us to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bachelor, and Chris Rock's new Netflix special, Tambourine. We ponder whether _The New Adventures Of Old Christine_S03.E06, confusingly also called "The New Adventures Of Old Christine," should be inducted into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's been around the world. Check on your Tamagotchi and then join us! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: ✏️ Everything Sucks Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 💍 The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🎭 Chris Rock: Tamborine The Canon: 🧓 The New Adventures Of Old Christine Winner & Loser: 👍 The CW, adding original programming Sunday nights Winner & Loser: 👎 Arrested Development Scott Baio and Jeffrey Tambor, both accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Where In The World Is This Show? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 192 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter 💻 StephanieEarlyGreen.com 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

It's an EHG reunion! Too bad it's for Here & Now, Alan Ball's new HBO show, and while Tara and Sarah couldn't make it past the pilot, Joe had some additional insights on the existential crises (and Jim Carrey-an supernatural twists) of a Portland blended family that even the show itself doesn't seem to like. We went around the dial with the new Queer Eye, American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace, Schitt's Creek, and Homeland, then tripled up on guessing the heart of our producer with a three-fer of Will Dave Hate These? before Joe pitched "the Martin Short episode" of Arrested Development for the Nonac. Netflix talk shows won, Omarosa lost, and Dan Cassino brought us a delightfully bookish Game Time. Park your Prius by the side of the road and sob (with laughter): it's an all-new, yet comfortingly familiar, Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏰ Here & Now Around The Dial: 👔 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🌴 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Around The Dial: 🌹 Schitt's Creek Around The Dial: 🧶 Homeland Will Dave Hate This?: 🚁 Magnum P.I. (2018) Justin Lin directing the pilot Will Dave Hate This?: 🦌 Hanna Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 The Caesars The Nonac: 🤮 Arrested Development Winner & Loser: 👍 The Break With Michelle Wolf Winner & Loser: 👎 The Celebrity Apprentice Omarosa Manigault Newman Game Time: 🧠 Novel Ideas NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 191 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter