Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

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