Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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 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...

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 Code...

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 out...

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...

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 o...

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and...

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault. EEHG 212: Christmastalgia Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how. EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commerc...

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments 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 th...

Do you know what time it is? It's Non-Regulation Game Time, courtesy of our friend Nick Rheinwald-Jones! Get out your No. 2 pencils, because Nick found a vacant high school gym, sat your co-hosts down, and administered The TV SATs. Whose scores will qualify them for consideration at prestigious Hillman College, and who's going to have to settle for Bovine University? Listen to find out! GUESTS 👤...

For years, you've heard us sing the D.B. Cooper song; now you're going to hear us talk about him. Just because no one knows what actually happened to Dan Cooper after he jumped out of that plane with a bag full of cash doesn't mean TV writers can't speculate about it in their entirely fictional shows. Three shows -- Leverage , Prison Break , and NewsRadio -- had three very different versions of ho...

The Crown is back with the first half (or so) of its final season; as it sends off Princess Diana, Heather Cocks joins us to discuss whether the season had to happen at all. Around The Dial takes us through The Real Housewives Of New York , Killing It , the second season of Julia , and the latest episode of Opera Wars, aka The Gilded Age . Heather makes the case for For All Mankind 's "Hi Bob" to...

Our esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall is back, mate(y)! An Australian spin-off of an already banal cop-show franchise is maybe not the best use of his time, but we talked about NCIS -franchise stock characters, unmemorable TV for aging parents, and what happens when English actors try to play ugly Americans. Later, we went Around The Dial with The Curse , The O.C. , and Murder One before wondering...

AppleTV+'s new dramedy is a series adaptation of the famously unfinished Edith Wharton novel The Buccaneers ; Margaret H. Willison joins us to discuss how it compares to the many other current and recently past entires into the thriving genre of corset TV. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight , Beckham , and Get Gotti , with just a little bit more on The Gilded Age than we alrea...

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers , takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less than the sum of a few very good parts; what Roy Cohn content might do a better job with midcentury context than this show; and how much sex creates character...

Bodies is the latest comic book to get a limited series adaptation at Netflix; Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss its many storylines, and timelines! Around The Dial takes us through Savior Complex ; RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop ; and (speaking of multiple timelines) various different iterations of Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Erin presents the series premiere of Starstruck for induction into The...

Appointment Television and Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham returns to talk about the return of Frasier , and whether it was necessary. Should the creators have taken a hint from the universe (and David Hyde Pierce)? Could the re-imagining of the beloved original have worked with a few conceptual tweaks? Would we advise you to watch it, or take Eddie for a walk instead? Later, we went Around The D...

The latest screen adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial was directed by the late William Friedkin and premiered on Paramount+ With Showtime, which means we can claim it as TV and we have; certified film critic Tim Grierson returns to discuss it! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death S02, comedy specials from John Mulaney and (separately) Taylor Tomlinson, The Restaurant , an...

Amazon Prime takes us back to the Vought cinematic universe with Gen V , a The Boys spinoff of sorts about up-and-coming college "supes" -- and we're glad Nick Rheinwald-Jones could join us to talk about whether it's a TV campus worth visiting, plus the pleasures of thorough world-building, CGI peens, and putting the grodiest deaths out of frame. We went Around The Dial with Starstruck , Only Conn...

Love Is Blind is back with a whole new crop of singles willing to try their luck at finding love sight unseen; Tara's fellow Coelenologist Brittany Luse returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Story , Still Up , and the AppleTV+ documentary feature Still . Theresa pitches the third episode of Normal People for the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and L...

Al Lowe Huff drags in a portable smelter -- and Dave gets high off the fumes -- for The Gold , a six-part scripted story about the 1983 Brink's Mat robbery in the UK. We're talking about proportions of process-iness, the class struggle in South London, and how much BAFTA-bait monologuing is too much, before we go Around The Dial with The Other Black Girl , Harry Wild , Whitstable Pearl , and Cagne...

AppleTV+'s latest sci-fi series is the "modern fairy tale" The Changeling ; Dan Cassino returns to discuss what, if anything, we'd have liked to see change. Around The Dial takes us through BS High , Season 2 of Wheel Of Time , the original Japanese Iron Chef , and Murder, She Wrote . Eleanor pitches the Project Runway episode "A Suitable Twist" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the...

To mark another Labor Day, we're turning our attention to TV bosses -- specifically, putting them all in a geodesic dome in a radiation-ravaged Australian Outback, and determining which of them would survive mortal combat with one another. We can say for certain that the ultimate victor will surprise you...but they surprised us! Listen for all the bloody speculation. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👔 TV Boss...

Stephanie Green is back to talk about a too-long, badly structured true-crime series from AppleTV+, and the many opportunities Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn wastes to tell a good story. Sarah thought it had nonfiction The Morning Show vibes, a characterization Tara resented; listen to our correct-length, non-backloaded conversation and see if you agree! We went Around The Dial with The Ultima...

To celebrate the 10th (!!!) anniversary of EHG Mark II, we're flashing back to the week of August 17-23 in historical TV listings. Our time travel takes us back to 2003 for the fourth-season finale of The Amazing Race ; to 2012, for a trip to the Hamptons with Royal Pains ; and to the very day of our first episode to watch Lance Reddick's visit to NTSF: SD: SUV:: . Join us as we revisit Augusts pa...