Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

As The Good Place 's second season jumps off from its game-changing freshman finale, Kristen Bell expert John Ramos of the Go Pirates podcast on Veronica Mars returns to talk about how Good it actually is! Around The Dial stops at Broad City , Broad City , Halt And Catch Fire , American Beauty Star , and Star Trek Discovery . John pitches Veep 's 'Mother' for induction into The Canon, and then it'...

We're glad Omar Gallaga returned to Extra Hot Great; we just wish we hadn't inflicted Seth MacFarlane's limp and self-indulgent The Orville on him (and ourselves). Fortunately, things perked up a bit when we went around the dial with Outlander , The Good Place , Ken Burns's latest opus on PBS, and vintage ads by Star Trek . Tara was Insecure about her Canon submission, The Bachelor and Zelda Fitzg...

Narcos reboots for a third season (minus Murphy, not that anyone's complaining), and first-time guest Melissa Locker joins us to discuss all the addictive action! We ask Will Dave Hate This? about ITV's new gladiator-cosplay competition Bromans . Around The Dial stops at American Horror Story , Will Vs. The Future , The Tick , Project Runway , Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath , and the i...

Monty returns during the deadest week on the TV schedule, and Tara proposed a TV forcening that had us all pick episodes from the week's deadest night -- Friday -- for each other to watch. We caught up with House Hunters , searched for Bering Sea Gold , survived A Murder In The Family , and tasted Epic Sweets . Then we assessed whether the Animal Kingdom theme is worse than jazz before going aroun...

Netflix's long-awaited Marvel team-up The Defenders arrives...but given how long it was awaited, why isn't it better? Our Two Spotted Dicks pal Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss. Around The Dial stops at the Claws finale, Episodes , So You Think You Can Dance , and Project Runway , ahead of Dave's musical question: are Netflix's trailer preview screens Worse Than Jazz? Adam boldly makes the case...

Tara and Dave returned from a brief vacay to the carnage of a Fuck/Marry/Kill round of Wagnerian length and scope. Robot cars, starship captains, streaming (ew) services, Debra Messing characters, Golden Girls, Dean Norris, Briscoe vs. Frisco...people, it was terrifying. And exhilarating! And we can't unknow any of it, and if you listen, neither will you. How many times did Crying Dawson get kille...

Netflix drops a sequel to its Wet Hot American Summer TV series, and Adam Sternbergh makes his long-awaited return to discuss whether it's as refreshing as an Otter Pop or disappointing as a melted S'More. Around The Dial brings us to USA's new limited whydunit The Sinner , Ozark , and Intervention . Adam boldly proposes the Three's Company episode 'Up In The Air' for induction into The Canon, and...

It's a double-date episode (aw) (barf) as Sarah D. Bunting's husband, Dan Brady, joins the panel to discuss the Lowe family's foray into the supernatural. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👻 The Lowe Files Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 📰 News Around The Dial: 📈 The Profit Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: 📎 The Office (US) Winner & Loser: 👍 Ike Barinholtz Winner & Loser:...

Stephanie Green returns, and immediately regrets it when she finds out what Dave is going to make her watch. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Forcenings Around The Dial: 🎶 Nashville Around The Dial: 💻 The Bold Type Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: ☘️ Father Ted Winner & Loser: 👍 Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker Winner &...

TV: The Book co-author and Law & Order Fantasy Draft winner Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Season 7 of Game Of Thrones . Should the show be moving faster, plotwise? Who's going to end up "winning" when all is said and done? Which characters are human memes? And is Ed Sheeran a big baby for deleting his Twitter? After considering these questions, we went Around The Dial with The Challenge...

FX fills Fargo's time slot with Snowfall , John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and definitely NOT because he is a crackhead. Sarah explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking cable networks should just leave swear words in movies. Around The Dial takes us through Lifetime's movie Tiny House Of...

Kim Reed joins us for a look at the new season, plus a Cheers Canon and a Dave-hate double dip! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏡 Playing House Will Dave Hate This?: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2020) Will Dave Hate This?: 🦸‍♂️ Watchmen Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: 📺 Battle Of The Network Stars Around The Dial: 👀 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🎸 Boy Band Aro...

ABC adds The Gong Show to its lineup of rebooted game and variety shows, and Jeff Drake joins us as we get out our scorecards to rate the results. Around The Dial clicks to Better Call Saul , Fargo , and 30 For 30 , and includes an update on The Previouslies, our upcoming TV awards. Jeff makes the case for the induction of the Barney Miller episode "Hash" to The Canon, and after a creepier-than-us...

Eve returns to the guest chair to discuss whether TNT can finally Claws its way into the prestige-TV discussion with a dramedy about a nail salon's dirty bidness. We went around the dial with OITNB , The Handmaid's Tale , stupid Bravo tricks, and iZombie before muttering "the horror, the horror" at a Simpsons Canon presentation. Alison Brie won, Bachelor In Paradise lost (big-time, probably foreve...

As I'm Dying Up Here , the series adaptation of a non-fiction book, premieres on Showtime, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about its portrayal of the L.A. comedy scene in the '70s (and precisely how awful its opening credits sequence actually is). Around the dial stops at The Leftovers , Fear The Walking Dead , Amazon's documentary Long Strange Trip , and a retro surprise from Dave. Omar makes the ca...

First-time guest Roger Cormier joins the panel to talk about House Of Cards 's fifth season, and whether real-life crazer news cycles have made the Underwoods' nutty machinations suffer by comparison. We discussed whether Dave will hate History's upcoming UFO drama Blue Book , then went around the dial with Drag Race , The Americans , Animal Kingdom , and American Gods , and considered The X-Files...

John Ramos joins us to talk about the third season! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Around The Dial: 💃 Dirty Dancing (2017) Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Three Girls Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return The Canon: 🤯 Fringe Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan Winner & Loser: 👎 Alex Rodriguez Game Time: 🧠 TV Pil...

New guest and certified Canadian Alex Collins sits with the panel for a discussion of Netflix's "gritty" take on Canadian kiddie-lit classic Anne Of Green Gables , and how it fares compared with the Megan Follows classic of yesteryear. We went around the dial with The Mick , a documentary about anxiety, a daytime courtroom show (spoiler: Dave WILL hate this), and Downward Dog 's fleas before we ca...

With Netflix launching the series sequel to the 2014 film Dear White People , we welcome back Kim Reed to talk about how well the adaptation works. Around The Dial stops at the latest Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Pop's reruns of ER , and Season 3 of Bosch . Kim makes the case for Felicity 's "Final Answer" to be inducted into The Canon; then after we name the week's Winner and Losers, we arrive at a deadl...

Tammy Everts joins us to discuss Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's all-too-relevant dystopian story, plus Oprah and a Nonac! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧬 The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Around The Dial: 📔 13 Reasons Why The Nonac: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👎 The Bachelor Chris Soules Game Time: 🧠 The One-S...

As Better Call Saul returns for its third season, Jeff Drake joins us to discuss the slow-burning premiere (with a few peeks ahead at its showier second episode, shhhh). Around The Dial clicks through the series finale of Switched At Birth , Amazon's under-the-radar spy show Patriot , and American Experience 's three-part series, "The Great War." Jeff presents his case for the induction of Monty P...

Our esteemed colleague John returns for an overview of spring TV: the shows we can't wait to see or be reunited with; the shows we SHOULD be psyched about, but aren't; and the shows noooooobody should go anywhere near. We went around the dial with 13 Reasons Why , Tara's favorite show Legion , teen clam enthusiasts, and the end of Review before John Potts went the extra light-year with his Deep Sp...

RuPaul's Drag Race has packed up all its wigs to move from LogoTV to VH1, and we welcome back our resident expert, Mark Blankenship, to talk about the Season 9 premiere! Around The Dial spins to HBO's documentary Rock And A Hard Place ; the 29th season of The Amazing Race ; Campus PD'_s and _ER 's triumphant returns to syndication; and another TV ad from the internet's deepest bowels. Sarah pitche...

Our esteemed colleague Chris is back to talk about Iron Fist , a show only he among the panel managed to get more than a couple episodes into -- and what exactly the show's problem is, from bad fights to worse accents. We went around the dial with Catfish , Love , Happy Endings , and a violent vintage cologne ad before Caroline tried to "extract" a Canon victory from us for a Golden Girls episode....

As VH1 and Ice Cube breathe new life into an old game show format with Hip Hop Squares , Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss whether circle got the square this time around. Around The Dial stops at Feud , Amazon's Ronja The Robber's Daughter , Samurai Jack , and another classic TV promo Dave unearthed from the depths of the internet. Dave then makes his case for The Venture Bros. episode "The Doc...