Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

As NBC leads us into the Olympics with a sneak peek of its new sitcom A.P. Bio, we call on Monty Ashley (get it) to discuss whether it should have been held back. Around The Dial takes us to 2 Dope Queens, Dragula, Intervention, Altered Carbon, and The Cloverfield Paradox. Monty makes the bold case for Episode #1839 of Sesame Street to be inducted into the Canon, and then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to the season's first Regulation Game Time. Sharpen your #2 pencil and join us! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔬 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 👑 2 Dope Queens Around The Dial: 🧛‍♂️ Dragula Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 🚀 The Cloverfield Paradox The Canon: 🚸 Sesame Street S15.E04: Episode 1839 Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Bekah Martinez Winner & Loser: 👎 30 For 30 Bill Belichick Game Time: 🧠 Cliffhangers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 190 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 🧛‍♂️ Dragula on Amazon Prime 🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

Season 2 of the updated One Day At A Time dropped last weekend, and we talked with Kim Reed about the fine balance between sitcommy and touching; how the two finales stacked up; and whether we'd keep watching if Rita Moreno leaves the show. We went around the dial with I Love Dick, The End Of The F**cking World, Black Lightning, and Big Mouth, and then Tara tried to deliver a Canon win with the first-series finale of Call The Midwife. Charmed won, ESPN lost (some more), and Tara led us in a remake/revival Game Time. How long will Dave stay drunk on power? Find out in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇨🇺 One Day At A Time Around The Dial: 🖼 I Love Dick Around The Dial: ⚡️ Black Lightning Around The Dial: 📚 Big Mouth The Canon: 👶 Call The Midwife Winner & Loser: 👍 Charmed (2018) Winner & Loser: 👎 SportsCenter Jemele Hill resigns Game Time: 🧠 Don't Call It A Reboot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 189 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

High Maintenance is back on HBO, and John Ramos is also back to talk about the adventures of The Guy in marijuana-delivery-land; whether the show's too New York-y to be relatable, or warm-hearted enough to have broad appeal; and what exactly happened to that one lady's cat. We also went around the dial with new Soderbergh joint Mosaic, new-to-John show Insecure, and the same old comforting Top Chef before considering a listener submission for Star Trek: Voyager changed the way we think about amphibians forever. Party Of Five won, casting agents looking for Trumps lost, and speaking of losing, boy did someone screw the pooch in a David T. Cole-authored Game Time. Pass around the edibles: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 💨 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 🗻 Mosaic Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef The Nonac: 🚀 Star Trek: Voyager Winner & Loser: 👍 Party Of Five (2020) Winner & Loser: 👎 Fire And Fury Game Time: 🧠 12 Questions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 188 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

As we count down to the official premiere of Starz's previously sneak-peeked new J.K. Simmons vehicle Counterpart, Eve Batey and Tim Ehhalt join us to discuss all the twists, turns, and...twins? Around The Dial takes us to new series Alone Together and Dr. Pimple Popper; limited series Wormwood; and returning fan favorites The Magicians and The Fosters. We debate the induction of the Justified episode "Brother's Keeper" to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time (RIP Sarah) (just kidding, she'll probably live). Grab a nostalgic funnel cake and join us! GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey 👤 Tim Ehhalt TOPICS Lead Topic: 👯‍♀️ Counterpart Around The Dial: 🌴 Alone Together Around The Dial: 🌊 The Fosters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🩺 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 💊 Wormwood The Canon: 🏆 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 Norsemen Winner & Loser: 👍 The Terror Game Time: 🧠 The Return Of The Steep Incline Climber NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 187 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 🐦 Tim Ehhalt on Twitter

A new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas! We debate whether Dave Will Hate Ridley Scott's new TV project The Terror, before Around The Dial takes us to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 9-1-1, The X-Files, and The Leftovers. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To A Play!" is submitted for induction into the EHG Nonac, and then after naming the new year's first Winner and Loser, it's we finish our televisual tour of these United States in Game Time. Put your chair and tray table into the upright position and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛩 L.A. To Vegas Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 The Terror Around The Dial: 🤣 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers The Nonac: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S02.E03: Kimmy Goes To A Play! Winner & Loser: 👍 Animaniacs Winner & Loser: 👎 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story The Versace family Game Time: 🧠 The United States of Television Part 2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 186 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth 💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

Happy new year! And...unhappy near-future narratives, as Nick returns to discuss the fourth season of Black Mirror. We all ranked the episodes from our least to most favorite, and discussed what worked (Star Trek neckbeard vengeance; "San Junipero" with a twist) and what didn't (chases; barely altered procedurals). After we went Around The Dial with The Profit, Black-ish spin-off Grown-ish, and Runaways, Nick wined and dined us for our Canon votes with the "First Date" episode of Master Of None. Who were our Winners and Losers of all of 2017? Where in these United States (of TV) were the answers to this week's Game Time? And why might Monica Potter's agent be cringing? Auld lang syne up to download the first Extra Hot Great of 2018! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror Around The Dial: 🎓 Grown-ish Around The Dial: 🦸 Runaways Around The Dial: 📈 The Profit The Canon: 💓 Master Of None Winner & Loser: 👍 Late Night With Seth Meyers Winner & Loser: 👎 Dicks Game Time: 🧠 The United States Of Television, Part I NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 185 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

What's under the Extra Hot Great tree today in this winter-holiday all-Canon episode? First up is Supernatural's fifth-season "Changing Channels," a TV trope send-up with a couple of Buntnip elements the submitter hopes will guarantee a vote from Sarah, followed by a very courageous anime submission in the form of Gurren Lagann S01.E08. And once we've dispensed with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in-jokes and AT-AT tiki walkers, it's time to contemplate the $165 budget of the pilot of NightMan, a show that couldn't even afford a fan and seems like it's maybe actually a pest-control porno. O Little Town Of *****, N*, there's a message for one of your residents in this very merry episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS The Canon: 👿 Supernatural S05.E08: "Changing Channels" The Canon: 🇯🇵 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann S01.E08: "Later Buddy" The Canon: 🎷 Nightman S01.E01: "Episode 1" NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 184 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌉 The NightMan credits sequence you can't live without

Heading into Christmas, we decided to do our most positive episode ever: offering up our "Best"s in categories selected by listeners like you! What's the best show to watch when you're sick? What's the best fake website from a TV show? What's the best thing about living in The Good Place? We answer these questions and many more in our first Besties-sode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 The Extra Hot Great Besties NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 183 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We couldn't decide which was the week's most important TV premiere -- the second season of Netflix's QEII drama The Crown, or Syfy's dark Chris Meloni comedy Happy! -- so we decided to cover both! Joining us from Go Fug Yourself are our official purveyors of Epic Old School Recaps of The Crown, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan! Around The Dial takes us to quick mentions of Married At First Sight: Jamie & Doug Plus One, Encore!, The Mindy Project, Vanderpump Rules, American Vandal, and Norsemen. We consider inducting into The Canon Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's fourth episode, "I'm Going On A Date With Josh's Friend!" Then after discussing the week's Winner and Loser, we close things up with 2017's star-crossed final Game Time. Gather your corgis and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Lead Topic: 😁 Happy! Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Doug & Jamie Plus One Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 📹 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🚣‍♂️ Norsemen The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Today Winner & Loser: 👎 Award nominee snubs Game Time: 🧠 Star-Crossed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 182 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Go Fug Yourself on Twitter 👙 GoFugYourself.com

Jim Durr joined us for the first time (on this pod, anyway) to talk about Knightfall, the new medieval drama on History, and while all its trebuchets, extreme helmet cams, and campy popes can't quite_make us care whether they ever track down that crusty old Grail. We went Around The Dial with _GBBO, Netflix's weird but compelling Stranger Things: Deutschland offering Dark, and the best (and family-friendliest) of recent stand-up specials before Jim sent us back to the late '90s with a Futurama Canon submission. Dave treated us to a very little The Littlest Hobo audio recap, Tara faced off against the Pickle & Peanut theme song (...for the last time???), and Dr. Phil won while just about every other man in television lost. And finally, Game Time got meta as the panel tried to guess the TV-show-based videogames. There is no Benson videogame. Go write your reps about that, and on your way to the mailbox, have a listen to the latest all-new regulation Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jim Durr TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚔️ Knightfall Around The Dial: 🤣 Recent standup specials from Tiffany Haddish, Brian Regan, and Michelle Wolf Around The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Dark None: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo The Littlest "Littlest Hobo" Recap for S01.E01: "Smoke" The Canon: 🚀 Futurama Winner & Loser: 👍 Dr. Phil Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw Winner & Loser: 👎 Good grief, more TV men accused of sexual misconduct Game Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo Chalmers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 181 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter