Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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 Tr...

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...

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...

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 Nig...

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...

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.E0...

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 Assassinat...

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 w...

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 th...

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 C...

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...

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...

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 , an...

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 a...

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...

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...

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 fam...

Daniel MacEachern visits from the Two Spotted Dicks podcast to join Dave and Tara for a special winter-themed all-TV forcening episode of the Extra Hot Great podcast! Whose picks are cool and who would have preferred being left on an ice floe? Listen and find out! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ The Flash S03.E17: "Duet" Lead Topic: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo S01.E16: "Snapshot" Lead...

Kevin O'Keeffe and Kim Reed join us as we head into America's favourite eating holiday by gorging on more than two dozen FMK matchups! It's gonna rock you! GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 F/M/K NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 179 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Kevin O'Keeffe on Instagram 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Two ex-contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race see their web series graduate to a half-hour weekly comedy show on Viceland, so Mark Blankenship is here to help us spill the tea on The Trixie & Katya Show ! Around The Dial spins to the series finale of The Mindy Project , Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience , ABC's new high school musical special Encore , and Rolling Stones: Stories From The Edge...

Frankie Shaw's new Showtime sitcom about a single mom in South Boston shows some promise, but did it make most of the panel -- including guest Stephanie Early Green -- too uncomfortable too continue? We discussed that, cute TV toddlers, and protagonists who don't learn before going around the dial with Rosehaven , 90 Day Fiance , a Netflix doc on Joan Didion, and The Pickle & Peanut Challenge....

As yet another Margaret Atwood novel gets a TV adaptation, Allison Lowe Huff and Extra Hot Game Time impresario Rob Hartmann join us to talk about Alias Grace , Netflix/CBC's period prison drama. Tara and Allison discuss whether Mike Rinder has become The Pierce of Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath , or if Remini and her nails are already an unstoppable team without him. Around The Dial t...

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake is back -- and so is our esteemedest producer, David T. Cole -- to discuss Too Funny To Fail , Hulu's documentary on the much-anticipated The Dana Carvey Show and its ignominious end. After a Robin Williams-ectomy was proposed, Dave got the blues in his I Am Not A Crackpot segment, and then we went around the dial with Mom , American Vandal , Chance , and The Deuc...

With Dave still in the field, we've invited Monty Ashley back for a very special episode. Will the "Michael's Gambit" episode of The Good Place and "Parker Gail's Location Is Everything" from Documentary Now! make it into The Canon? And will My So-Called Life 's "The Substitute" be inducted into The Nonac, The Canon's evil twin? Listen in and find out! GUESTS 👤 Monty Ashley TOPICS The Canon: 🍦 T...

In our first-ever EHG without David T. Cole, Tara and Sarah recruited Fug Girls Heather and Jessica to help them dissect the Dynasty reboot. Do the kids today care about these iconic characters? Should the show have gone to a streaming or premium-cable network? And should any show be trying to make big business interesting? We went Around The Dial with Law & Order: SVU , Dallas Cowboys Cheerle...