Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

With Sarah unexpectedly out for the week, it's a slimmed-down installment of the podcast (no Canon or Game Time) -- but fortunately Eve Batey is here to bring her expertise in both San Francisco and true crime to join our discussion on The Dropout ! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death , The Courtship , the Late Night With Seth Meyers Corrections series on YouTube, Vikings: Valhal...

After almost 12 years, the original Law & Order has been revived at NBC for its 21st season, and superfan Mark Blankenship has returned to The Blankenship Chair to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Super Pumped , Love Is Blind , Reacher , Bug Out , and Worst Roommate Ever . Ilan cashes in an Extra Credit to get us to propose our finales for series that ended badly, or didn't real...

Two Cents Plus Tax co-host Krystal Farmer came by to talk about The Endgame , an overstuffed and underwhelming procedural that tries to do too much and is assembled from the spare parts of too many early-aughts shows. Why do networks still make shows like this? Do we need The Endgame if we still (seriously!) have The Blacklist ? And how is Fedorova writing on the sticky side of Post-Its? We fared...

We love it when our listeners submit Canon pitches so much that we're considering not one but THREE in this special episode. Will Karen's pitch on The Odd Couple rack up the requisite odd couple of votes? Will Doug Dale's advocacy for Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist move and challenge us? Will we make holiday dreams come true for Dave in Chicago and his case for Pee-wee's Playhouse 's 1988 Chri...

With so much TV either taken up by the Olympics or getting out of their way, we took our own stab at counter-programming: for our last episode before Valentine's Day, we're each forcening each other to watch a TV episode with "love" somewhere in its title. Dave assigns Sarah "The Secret War" from Love, Death + Robots ; Sarah challenges Tara to take on the ABC Afterschool Special "It's No Crush, I'...

Waiting for Impact and Truu Stowray host Dave Holmes stopped by for the first time to talk about Pam & Tommy , Hulu's prestige miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, their whirlwind romance, and the sex tape seen 'round the world. Is the story of Seth Rogen's stiffed (...heh) contractor the real heart of the tale, or is it the Pam/Tommy romance? Is the mid-nineties soundtrack intrusive?...

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age ; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto , Abbott Elementary , Ozark , Season 2 of Cheer , Peacemaker , 9-1-1: Lone Star , and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinse...

For this special episode, we have selected 27 very memorable TV mustaches to do battle in our Thunderdome. Listen to find out which of them vanquishes all its opponents! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥸 TV Moustache Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 390 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Resident Amazing Race expert Jessica returns to the guest chair to talk about the legendary reality show's unique thirty-third season: how it handled an 18-month interruption, whether we expect more from its production than we do from other shows, the true-crime connection that's somehow charming, and whom we expect to win. We went Around The Dial with the new Joe Millionaire , Married At First Si...

So...the original plan was to watch the 1979 miniseries Backstairs At The White House -- even though, at nine hours, it's longer than some actual series are these days. Then Dave and Tara got less than half an hour into it and pulled the plug. Dan -- who did watch it -- tells us what we missed, but then we just roll on past that to a trio of Non-Regulation Game Times! Who knows the most about TV a...

EEHG 097: Extra Hic Great We challenged our listeners to get us to 1000 Patreon supporters by December 15, and they went above and beyond. Your reward? This drunk episode. Author, screenwriter, and sake enthusiast Pamela Ribon joins us as we discuss Bridgerton , the first Shonda Rhimes show to hit Netflix. Which of us found its 1813 society romances compelling? The answer won't surprise you! Aroun...

Being The Ricardos , Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy ) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The...

Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City ...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just Like That . And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to...

HBO's latest British miniseries import is Landscapers , telling the story about Christopher and Susan Edwards and their, er, unorthodox gardening habits; we tell you whether we thought it was, heh, fertile ground for drama. Around The Dial takes us through Annie Live! , Money Heist , Baptiste , and Hawkeye . Elenore pitches the Drunk History episode "Civil Rights" for the Canon. Then after naming...

It's the return of the EHG Thunderdome! This time we're sending 27 HBO characters of our choosing into the Thunderdome to see who is the last character standing. Will it be the horse from Luck ? WILL IT?! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛈ Selective HBO Character Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 383 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Sarah and Tara are busy eating turkey so Dave assembled a crew of Wheel Of Time experts to try to explain what the hell he just watched. Join Dan Cassino, Sean Pflueger and Jim Durr as they discuss Amazon's adaption of the epic series then stick around for a spicy game time! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Jim Durr 👤 Sean Pflueger TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Wheel Of Time Game Time: 🧠 Wheel Of Thyme NOTES 🗒...

Returning guest Dave Roth got on the couch with us for The Shrink Next Door , the Apple TV adaptation of the Wondery podcast of the same name. We discussed the pacing, whether the show needed more jokes and less attention to production-design details, and the very obviously not New York light on the outdoor sets. Did true-crime "expert" Buntsy feel differently from the rest of the panel? Later, we...

The latest high school-based '80s sitcom to get a revival is HBO Max's 2021 take on Head Of The Class , so Daniel MacEachern -- a fan of the original in its day -- has joined us to talk about whether it's a pass or fail! Around The Dial takes us through Season 2 of Frayed , an update on Married At First Sight , Deutschland 89 , Yellowstone , The Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show , depending o...

Your co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law 's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hy...

Netflix's new animated series Inside Job posits a world in which basically every conspiracy theory you've ever seen on Facebook is real; John Ramos returns to discuss whether it's worth exposing the NSA to it via the recording device that's always running in your phone! Around The Dial takes us through the third seasons of Succession and You , and the second season of We're Here . Tara takes a har...

EEHG 004: That's Just Wrong Our patron Eric Akawie challenges us to name shows that got Wrong Spinoffs, and to correct history by proposing spinoffs that would have been Right! EEHG 081: The Lowest Of Decks Sarah asked: What about creating Star Trek: Lower Decks -style shows for other series? Which low-powered employees from an existing TV show would make for a good spinoff? EEHG 125: Second-Gener...

We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor C.S.I. , so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing old favorite (which...only went off the air like six years ago?). We talked about whether we'll keep watching for "The New Class" after l'affaire Hodges gets resolved, when exactly the show thinks it is culturally,...

The SCU ( Sopranos Cinematic Universe) expands with the release, in theaters and on HBO Max, of the prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark , and Rolling Stone Senior TV Critic/certified Soprano logist Alan Sepinwall is here to discuss it with us! Around The Dial takes us through The Problem With Jon Stewart , Our Kind Of People , Maid , and the Working Girl TV series adaptation. Rebecca uses her E...

We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea , NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost " mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed g...

Nearly two years after its first-season premiere, The Morning Show is back on AppleTV+, and its #1 fan Christina Tucker has returned to talk about all the delightful madness! Around The Dial takes us through The Premise , Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. , and the new seasons of Sex Education and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Amelia asks us to poach good characters from bad shows and put them toge...