Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight, and then we threw Tubi's tortured new brand identity into the ring of Will Dave Hate This?. Wendy told us about Tasha Yar in her Canon pitch for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode before Netflix won, Paramount+ lost, and we confronted time rifts of our own during Game Time. Diaphragms, double spaces, and thee: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 Elsbeth Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Will Dave Hate This?: 🧪 Tubi branding The Canon: 🪐 Star Trek: The Next Generation S03.E15: Yesterday's Enterprise Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 Paramount+ Game Time: ⏰ Where In Time Are These Nielsen Ratings? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 501 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐸 More on Adam's Muppets podcast, Muppeturgy 👩‍🦯 Our discussion of Love Is Blind S05 in EHG 478 🕳️ The Tubi rebrand announcement 🐴 Tara's Dick Turpin review at Cracked 📻 Sarah's As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Elizabeth Fisher / CBS

James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shōgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV critic Alison Herman returns to join us in describing everything ELSE that's also going on. Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Abbott Elementary, S02 of Tokyo Vice, and the grand (or is it) finale of True Detective: Night Country. Returning submitter Francoise makes a case for the Better Things episode "Rising" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to The One Where We Wonder What Time It Is (it's Game Time). Put on your most sumptuous silks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏯 Shōgun Around The Dial: 🎒 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🚨 Tokyo Vice Around The Dial: 👮 True Detective The Canon: 🏖️ Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 Glaring SNL band member Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix Game Time: 🏆 The One With The Canon Episodes SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 500 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter 🏯 Alison's Shōgun review 👀 Tara's interview with Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Sal Gentile about A Closer Look at Cracked 🏥 Tara's review of The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy at Cracked 📰 Alison at Variety 📚 True Detective magazine for sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Katie Yu / FX

When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear Taylor, Lucy, and (Bezoar) Laura try to decipher TV theme songs slowed WAY down; then, Dave hops in for a surprise round of 19 Questions. Don't just slow down everything else in your life: put it on pause and join us for this very special episode! TOPICS Game Time: 🐌 Slowly At First Game Time: 😖 Revenge Of 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 499 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher. Around The Dial takes us through The Amazing Race, This Fool, Kings From Queens, and Griselda. Tara pitches the Primo episode "The Game Champ" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time located next to either a wormhole or a dolphin tank. Hop in your RV and join us! GUESTS 👤 David J. Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👣 Tracker Around The Dial: 🗺️ The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🧁 This Fool Around The Dial: 👑 Kings From Queens Around The Dial: 🍚 Griselda The Canon: 🎲 Primo S01.E04: The Game Champ Winner & Loser: 👍 Eric Deggans Winner & Loser: 👎 Holly Marie Combs and Wil Wheaton Game Time: 🐬 Before & After: Deep Six Twelve Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 498 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ David J. Roth on Bluesky 👣 "It's Tracker" at Defector.com 🏈 Tara's ranking of every Super Bowl lead-out at Cracked 🚫 Tara's Dos & Don'ts of action comedies at Cracked ♨️ "It Is Now Time To Discuss Jack Reacher Throwing A Grill At A Guy" at Defector 👑 Sarah's King From Queens review at Best Evidence 🎲 Tara's Primo review at Cracked 🗣️ Tara's Shea Serrano interview at Cracked 📚 Eric Deggans's book Race Baiter at Bookshop.org 📷 Photo: Lindsay Siu / CBS

Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks Sarah D. Bunting zoomed in on for confirmation, and what the Phoebe Waller-Bridge iteration of the show might have looked like. Then we went Around The Dial with Clone High, The Floor, Fargo, and Law & Order: SVU; and Buntsy stayed in the Order-verse to declare that she's NOT a crackpot for thinking Tony Goldwyn should play his Criminal Intent character on Mothership even though that character is dead. Alan Partridge won, Alyssa Milano lost, and we all tried to guess the horndog hearts of IMDb searchers in Game Time. This time it's cake AND death in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Mr. And Mrs. Smith  Around The Dial: 🧬 Clone High  Around The Dial: 🧠 The Floor  Around The Dial: ❄️ Fargo  Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Tony Goldwyn on L&O The Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H S03.E11: Adam's Ribs Winner & Loser: 👍 Alan Partridge Winner & Loser: 👎 Alyssa Milano Game Time: 📈 TV Popularity Contest SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 497 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😢 Watch Sarah Baker in Go On on Peacock ⚖️ Deadline on Tony Goldwyn joining Law & Order 💀 Fandom Wikia on Frank Goren's canonical deadness 🧬 Tara's Clone High review at Cracked.com 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs: The Weird Al vs. Everybody season 🥊 The latest round of Milano vs. Everybody... 💇🏻‍♀️ ...and Milano's stylist vs. Milano 🌴 Upcoming Again With Again With Thises will dig into the Charmed contretemps 📷 Photo: David Lee / Prime Video

With Masters Of The Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us through a midseason Married At First Sight check-in; Season 1 of The Traitors; Bluey; and an Edgar Allan Poe episode of Homicide: Life On The Street. Jeff presents the Colin From Accounts episode "Toyota Cressida" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's fun much more than a third of the time. Fasten your seatbelt and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: ✈️ Masters Of The Air Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🔪 The Traitors Around The Dial: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street The Canon: 🦮 Colin From Accounts S01.E03: Toyota Cressida Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate Hudson Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo Game Time: 3️⃣ Third Word Problems SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 496 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Jeff Drake on Bluesky 😬 "All Of The Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga" at TheCut.com 😆 Tara at Cracked.com 🛬 Jet Lag: The Game on YouTube.com 😡 The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street S04.E07: "Heartbeat" on Dailymotion 🦢 Feud: Capote vs. The Swans prep list at Best Evidence at Reality Blurred 📷 Photo: Apple

We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive. EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild One Remember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was that bikers would just grab a waitress from a diner and make her join their gang? EEHG 216: Dave Forces Tara To Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes We close out our “Dry January” Forcening miniseries with Dave’s imposition on Tara: an episode of Ancient Aliens all about how desert geoglyphs were probably definitely designed by aliens as a way for humans to communicate with them. “Why?” Shut up, that’s why! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 495 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍽️ Watch Alice S06.E01: The Wild One on YouTube 👽 Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes on Hulu CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Mon dieu: Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not long enough? How well does star Clive Owen contend with the character's, and Humphrey Bogart's, legend? And should we strike until we get the full-frontal outtakes from the swimming scenes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office, So Help Me Todd, and For All Mankind, and Tara tried to paint a pretty picture of a King Of Queens episode for the Canon. Clone High won, Julia lost, and WE may have gotten lost in translation in a French-themed Non-Regulation Game Time. It's an all-new Extra Hot Great, and c'est magnifique. GUESTS 👤 Caroline Lefloch TOPICS Lead Topic: ♠️ Monsieur Spade Around The Dial: 📬 Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♂️ So Help Me Todd Around The Dial: 🛰️ For All Mankind The Canon: 🤴🏻 The King Of Queens S08.E17: Present Tense Winner & Loser: 👍 Clone High Winner & Loser: 👎 Julia Game Time: 🥖 Ah Ah Ah, En Français SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 494 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📜 "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice" in The New Yorker 🧑‍🚀 The For All Mankind Canon presentation in EHG 486 👑 The first King Of Queens Canon attempt in EHG 240 🦤 King Of Queens's top 50 episodes ranked at Vulture 🧸 Tara on Ted at Cracked.com ⚔️ Tara demands justice for Son Of Zorn 🎾 Joe on Break Point 🔪 How true-crimey is Leonardo DiCaprio's c.v.? 📷 Photo: Jean-Claude Lother / AMC CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record, is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial takes us through Grimsburg, Julia, The Gilded Age (including a Tiny Triumph from Brandi), Break Point, and The Bob Newhart Show. Past guest Ilan pitches Shoresy's "Players Wanted" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about screens big and small. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and join us! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: 💂🏻 Criminal Record Around The Dial: 🤷‍♂️ Grimsburg Around The Dial: 🥖 Julia Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🎾 Break Point Around The Dial: 🛋️ The Bob Newhart Show The Canon: 🏒 Shoresy S02.E04: Players Only Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White Winner & Loser: 👎 Pat McAfee Game Time: 🎬 Small Silver Screen SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Brandi Brown on Bluesky 📸 Brandi on Instagram 🤷‍♂️ Tara's review of Grimsburg at Cracked.com 🥇 Tara's interview with Shea Serrano at Cracked.com 🎟️ Buy tickets to see Brandi Brown with headliner River Butcher at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis February 7-10 🎙️ Comedy Night at The Mudd Room in Mendota, MN, where you can see Brandi on February 14 🕵🏻‍♂️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica dares us to watch a Monty Python's Flying Circus that breaks from both standard episode structure and good taste. And Françoise tries to exorcise the nadir of her House rewatch. You may need to suspend Dry January to get through this one, but we hope that won't stop you from joining us! TOPICS The Nonac: 🏝️ Survivor S39.E08: We Made It To The Merge! The Nonac: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus S03.E08: The Cycling Tour The Nonac: 👨🏻‍⚕️ House S02.E13: Skin Deep SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 492 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪔 "Julius Caesar On An Aldis Lamp" on YouTube CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord