Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

But maybe not Paige? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk tradecraft, Mad Men , and comedy on TV. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🤫 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🛋 Crashing (HBO) Around The Dial: 🤣 Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes Around The Dial: 📜 American Experience Around The Dial: ⏳ Time After Time The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Winner & Loser: 👍 The Celebrity Appre...

Eve is back to talk about Big Little Lies , from Kidman's wig to good child actors to what we're hoping happens in the finale. Then Eve shared a Tiny Jane The Virgin triumph before we went around the dial with Homeland , The Good Fight , and First Time Flippers . We trundled "Into The Woods" with a Nonac submission from Buffy , and American Crime Story won...but CBS All Access may have lost us (an...

AMC's return to the zombie apocalypse after a midseason hiatus has us bringing Omar back to talk Negan, King Ezekiel, and zombie dismemberment! The Blotter Presents a look at two Texas true crime stories before stops Around The Dial at Humans , Legion , Imposters , and a vintage ad that might choke you up. Omar makes a case for the induction of the Imposters series finale, "Beyond Life And Death,"...

jk, it's 'only' Season 29 -- but will this round of innovations breathe new life into MTV's old warhorse? Kim Reed has thoughts! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Solitary: Inside Red Onion I Am Not A Crackpot: 📺 TV Should Do More Positive Propaganda Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 💄 America's Next Top Model Around T...

Leah Kwan joins us to talk about The CW's new Archie Comics adaptation! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📚 Riverdale The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Investigator The Blotter Presents: 👀 Expedition Unknown Around The Dial: 🏙 30 Rock Around The Dial: 🐴 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Around The Dial: ❄️ Timber Creek Lodge Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 60 Minutes...

Monty Ashley on The Amazing Fugitive , home movies, podcasts, and more! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👀 Hunted The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Witness Around The Dial: 🕶 Throwing Shade Around The Dial: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Around The Dial: 🤑 Return Of The Retro Ad The Canon: 🎞 Home Movies Winner & Loser: 👍 Thi...

Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk about what may be 'The Final Problem' for real. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔎 Sherlock The Blotter Presents: 🏈 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth MeyersSaturday Night Live Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix comedy specials; FX Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Foyle's War Around The Dial: 🛶 Fronti...

It's a new year for EHG, and a new journey for The Bachelor . Jeff Drake returns to talk about the special madness of Corinne, plus we pick our winners and wonder whether watching UnREAL has enhanced our experience of the original. The Blotter Presents caught us up with the Menendezes and OJ, and we debated whether Dave would hate Canadian outlaw period drama Frontier before going around the dial...

Chris Huff returns for a discussion of The Man In The High Castle -- what works (set design; Smith); what doesn't (Juliana; Joe); and whether we'll finish out the season. The Blotter Presents tipped us to Unsolved Mysteries streaming online, plus the '16 crime shows to marathon over the holidays, before we went around the dial with Rectify , The OA , Fuller House , and Intervention . Chris hoped w...

TV's most famous cooking competition returns for a new season set in Charleston, South Carolina, so we've brought back our official Top Chef correspondent to talk about the rookies vs. veterans format; the problematic setting; and also, oh right, the food. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot for thinking that TV home buying shows should always end with people actually buying homes. Around The D...

Allison Lowe Huff is back to talk about This Is Us , the lovably imperfect tearjerker that's occupying the Friday Night Lights lane in our hearts. We bid farewell to The Killing Season , wondered how Noel Crane fit into a true-crime classic, and celebrated a Tiny Twitter Triumph involving poo before going around the dial with Gilmore Girls , Below Deck , Search Party , and Westworld . Listener Mat...

In anticipation of America's favourite bird-based holiday, we're serving up an all-Canon edition of the podcast, with the focus on episodes taking place around Thanksgiving! Dave presents "Homecoming" ( The Incredible Hulk ); Sarah presents "The Wheel" ( Mad Men ); and for the Nonac, Tara offers "Freefall" ( ER ). Then there's a quick stop to name the week's Winner and Loser before a non-regulatio...

Eve Batey returns for a comprehensive look at crime TV past and present: Brooklyn 99 , The Jinx , foreign-language series, trashy ID shows and even COPS . We went Around The Dial with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , Rectify , American Horror Story , and an apology for covering a certain business-reality program. Rosie was the winner, SVU was the loser, Tara tried to smoke out our votes with a High Maintenan...

On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live 's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives! The Blotter Presents a brief (and dismissive) look at Lifetime's scripted movie Who Killed JonBenét ?. Around The Dial stops at Ancient Aliens , Planet Earth II , The Crown , and People Of Earth ! Omar presents...

Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror , from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and everything in between. Buntsy updated us on future true-crime programming before we went Around The Dial with Jane The Virgin , Halloween on TV, Bull , superheroes, startups, and Negan. Everybody wants something, and...

Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything? Supertroll Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk Luke Cage , from the acting to the soundtrack to whether the 13-episode season felt like (or should have been) two shorter seasons. After a debate about whether David T. Cole will hate the distaff Magnum, PI and a Blotter review of Netflicumentary Amanda Knox , we went Around The Dial with Pitch , Timeless , Westworld (heard of it), and a...

It's the pumpkin-spice latte of autumnal programming overviews! ...Unless you hate those. Eve Batey's back to look at the best, worst, and meh-est of new and returning shows. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall 2016 Preview The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenet Ramsey JonBenet Ramsey Tiny Triumph: 🍑 Narcos Pedro Pascal RTs Tara's piece on him The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys Winner &am...

With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Blotter Presents a true crime twofer: Sarah's assessment of the latest in JonBenét Ramsey investigations, and a survey of coverage on East Tennessee catfisher Jenelle Potter! Around The Dial stops at Son O...

TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorkiniest moments, and the stuff that hasn't aged well (paging, um, all those pagers in the premiere). The Blotter Presents watched Marg Helgenberger chow the scenery in a vintage JonBenét TV movie, and we w...

As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's new true crime docuseries Unlocking The Truth, and then we go Around The Dial with stops at Key & Peele, British Premier League soccer on NBC, Ripper Street, and an appropriate vintage Vic-20 ad. Phil...

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well for adults as for kids (lookin' at you, SpongeBob), the most beautifully drawn (and scored) shows, and much more. The Blotter managed to dig up a crime cartoon, and then we went around the dial with human...

For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions submitted by listeners like you, grading them on an appropriately jazzy scale: Rusty Gate The Question Is Zoot Smooth Poison Atonal Omens Of Pain Scat Man Down Barrelhouse Of Horror Boogie Woogie Influenza S...

Trek Week continues on Previously. TV with an all-new Extra Hot Great featuring Maureen "Mo" Ryan and the Star Trek Fantasy Draft! David Snyder kindly shepherded this EHG enterprise (geddit?!) through the lesser science officers, 90210 Borg Queens, and Count Bakula picks the draft entailed. Who will emerge victorious with the very best Trek team*? Stay tuned! But first, go Around The Dial with us...

As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around The Dial spins to the series premiere of HBO's Vice Principals, TNT's Animal Kingdom, last week's Emmy nominations, the pleasingly scaled-back Intervention, and Netflix's throwback suspense series Strange...