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HBO's newest true crime docu-series, Telemarketers , a look at a New Jersey phone scam; Robert Krut returns to discuss it, and brings personal stories to share! Around The Dial takes us through Winning Time , Poker Face , and Painkiller . Bobby pitches the Atlanta episode "Woods" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us, and...

Only Murders In The Building is back for a third season of death, mayhem, and...theatre? New guest David Wiebe joins us to discuss all the players new and old. Around The Dial takes us through Physical , Letterman Originals on YouTube, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown , and Star Trek 's Paramount+ branding. Julie pitches The Bear 's Season 1 episode "Dogs" for induction into The Canon. Then after n...

Reservation Dogs is back on FX/Hulu this week, and Variety's Alison Herman is back on EHG to talk about the show's final season: realistic teenage-character arcs, spiritual cousins to Atlanta , and the meanings of "home." We went Around The Dial with This Fool , Minx 's second season, and Hunted , aka "the darkest Amazing Race " (which we completely forgot we covered the American version of in a l...

Ex- SNL head writer Anna Drezen teamed up with King Of The Hill co-creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge on Praise Petey , the story of a New York girl boss taking over her late father's doomsday cult; we tell you whether it's...well, doomed. Around The Dial takes us through the re-re-revived Futurama , the spinoff XO, Kitty , and the true crime miniseries Myth Of The Zodiac Killer . Mlle. Caroline...

Justified is back, and so is Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about it: vibes versus process, when you can't replace Walton Goggins, what great villains know about themselves, and whether (...sigh) Kentucky was a character in the original. Then we went Around The Dial with The Real Housewives Of Jenna Ly-- er, New York , Project Greenlight , Dennis Quaid's Full Circle coif, and Hack My Home before Tara...

The Horror Of Dolores Roach has evolved from a one-person Broadway play to a podcast to a Prime Video series; Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence.com joins us to discuss the story's final (?) form. Around The Dial takes us through Couples Therapy , My Adventures With Superman , and Last Call . Erica pitches the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Terminal Provocations" for induction into The Canon. Then...

For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall ; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy ; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot . We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-p...

Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley is back with a delightful Marxist fairy-tale dramedy (...right? Let's just go with it) on Amazon Prime, and Dan D'Addario is back in the guest chair for the first time since EHG Mark 1 to talk about it: how much overt Marxism it gets away with given where we're watching it, the care of the world-building, Jharrel Jerome's storytelling superpowers, and more....

Black Mirror has returned for Season 6 with five new episodes of (as usual) varying quality; Brandi Brown has also returned to discuss and rank them! Around The Dial takes us through The Righteous Gemstones ; Ovation as a background cable channel; Season 2 of The Cleaner on BritBox; and an important line reading from a Camp LeJeune-related class-action legal solicitation commercial. Sarah makes th...

More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial...

Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch , an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love , Fear The Walking Dead , and 30 For 30 . Julie presents the thirtysomething episod...

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back on Netflix for Season 3, and actor/comedian/media mogul Will Hines is also back to talk about the season's best sketches, unique sketch-show rhythms, and whether Robinson is still TV's best screamer. We went Around The Dial with Platonic , The Night Agent , and Primo , and then relaxed by the pool with Chris's Lodge 49 Canon submission. Kenan Thom...

Way way back in the early aughties, we all adored Clone High , an animated satire of Dawson's Creek and its ilk that featured wall-to-wall gags and catchphrases your regular panelists -- and esteemed guest John -- still use to this day. Naturally, we welcomed news of a decades-later second season...but does the show still have the same deranged energy, or is it too careful? We talked about how lon...

The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly upon us, and there's only one thing on all our minds: what shows are we going to be watching? The New Republic 's TV critic Phillip Maciak joins us for the first time as we all share our picks for the shows we're into; the shows we SHOULD be into, but aren't; and the shows we feel NO ONE should be into. Philip makes the case for the pilot of The Amer...

Not content to have bummed us all out with Extrapolations earlier this spring, AppleTV+ is back with yet another grim vision of our environmentally devastated future: Silo ! Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through the new third season of The Other Two , Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network oeuvre, Secrets Of The Dead , and Star Wars: Vis...

When we invited listeners to program this Forcening episode on the theme "Spring Fling," people went wild. Did these selections have us feeling as bright and cheerful as a field of wildflowers, or leave us screaming "MAYDAY"? Listen and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦴 Bones S02.E13: The Girl In The Gator Lead Topic: 🍷 Vanderpump Rules S02.E11: The Ultimatum Lead Topic: 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 SU...

Prime Video has reimagined David Cronenberg's classic body horror film Dead Ringers as a series, starring two Rachels Weisz where two Jeremies Irons once were; Vulture's Roxana Hadadi returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind , Seinfeld , and Top Chef World All Stars . We consider a Canon pitch on the Monk episode "Mr. Monk And The Garbage Strike." Then after naming...

Esther Zuckerman returns to talk about the early going of the final season of Barry , including how we felt about Sally's parents, self-indulgent directing, entertainment-reporter scavenger hunts, and our panel's predictions for how the show ends. Later, we went Around The Dial with Single Drunk Female , Perry Mason , and Somebody Somewhere before putting our (bare) feet up to listen to Esther's T...

Netflix's latest sensational new series is Beef , in which a blood feud breaks out between Angelenos after a road rage incident; Will Leitch is back to dig in on it! Around The Dial takes us through Jury Duty , a new season of baseball, and the doc Reggie . P.A. believes they are not a crackpot for believing all cameos should be four minutes nineteen seconds or less. Will makes the case for the Ch...

Monty returns to talk about Apple+'s rights-clearance/Cold-War espionage tale, Tetris , and how it stacks up against the actual game. Spoiler: most of the panel would have preferred playing to watching, but we did like some of the performances, and Sarah didn't mind a certain true-crime trifecta. Next, we went Around The Dial with Unstable , The Exhibit , Yellowjackets tasting notes from our estee...

It's time to reconnect with the Wiskayok Yellowjackets in a whole new season of Showtime's runaway hit drama, and Pamela Ribon is back -- with a sober Dave, for a change -- to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us on a real journey through Succession , Be Melodramatic , and Waco: American Apocalypse . Pam takes a big swing by pitching the Girls episode "Japan" for The Canon. Then after naming th...

The Thunderdome is welcoming combatants again, and this time, they're all TV nerds! Will their big, juicy chess club brains serve them, or is it all down to pure brute strength? We tell you EXACTLY how such fights would DEFINITELY go down, as 27 TV nerds enter, leaving just one victorious (and alive) at the end. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤓 TV Nerd Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on t...

Dave had collected several different Game Times about the intersection of stage and TV stardom, so what could he do but save them for our most theatre-knowledgeable friends to play in this special episode? Mark Blankenship, Sean Pflueger, and Adam Grosswirth (that was his joke in the episode title) join us to test their memories for stage trivia and their ears for famous stage singers. Those blink...

We're thrilled to welcome first-time guest Kari Race to talk about Amazon's limited-series adaptation of Daisy Jones And The Six ; we're less thrilled by the show, which is handsome to look at, but...knows that, and doesn't move fast enough. We also talk about bad wigs, resting dickface, "the Studio 60 rule," and the character whose story we really wanted to see instead. Later, we went Around The...

If you've been waiting since Party Down 's S02 finale in 2010 for your pink-bowtied friends to come back into your life: good news! S03 premiered on Starz last week, and Mark Lisanti has come back to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through The Consultant , Harrison Ford's new TV career, a selection of highlights from Peacock, Yellowjackets , and a horrifying ad for the home repair app...