Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast's Krystal Farmer is back, and we picked her a good one this time -- to everyone's surprise! ABC's new Soderberghian con-fam rom-com isn't perfect, but it's cast really well, has good romantic and familial chemistry, and seems to think it's on premium cable, and for whatever reason, it works for us. (And so, for a change, does Sarah Callies!) After a list of mostly fa...

Just because some stars of Love Is Blind , Too Hot To Handle , and Sexy Beasts (among others) failed to find love on their shows, does that mean they should give up entirely? Netflix said NO, and put a bunch of them together in Perfect Match ; Christina Tucker bravely returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through Season 4 of You ; The Real Housewives Of Potomac ; The Good Fight S...

Primetimer's Mark Blankenship returns to his eponymous chair to talk about Dear Edward , an adaptation of a 2020 book that most of the panel found manipulative and stilted -- but others thought was moving and sweet. Does the show's success depend on what mood you're in when you sit down to watch? Why can't writers' rooms get middle-grade children's dialogue right? And how's Connie Britton's hair?...

Peacock's latest original series is a Rian Johnson-created Columbo -esque "case of the week" procedural starring a fugitive cocktail waitress/human lie detector played by Natasha Lyonne; Rolling Stone Chief TV Critic Alan Sepinwall returns to discuss it (and bring with him all his coverage from the magazine)! Around The Dial takes us through the start of a new season of Married At First Sight (yes...

Nine Extra Hot Great listeners who do know how to tell time, unlike some people , compete in a special all-Game Time episode! We test their knowledge of TV MacGuffins, TV vampires, and TV weddings; then the winner of each game progresses on to the finals, in which they show off how much they know about shows that changed their theme songs. Find out which Valued Guest is the most Valued in this ver...

Chernobyl 's Craig Mazin has teamed with Neil Druckman, creator of the video game The Last Of Us , to adapt said game as a post-apocalyptic drama series; Omar Gallaga is here to discuss the series premiere! Around The Dial takes us through MILF Manor (a real show, not a 30 Rock gag); Alice In Borderland , a whole pile of Nordic crime dramas, and the British true crime period piece Stonehouse . Oma...

Anne Rice source material is back on TV, and Best Evidence's Eve Batey is back to talk about Mayfair Witches , the latest Rice IP to hit the small screen. Listen and find out whether anyone on the panel is going to keep watching, how realistic an Alexandra D'Addario neurosurgeon is, why Interview With The Vampire works better than this one, and when to stop reading Rice. We also went Around The Di...

It's a mini Television Without Pity reunion as the gang and former recappers Dan Rogge (DJB), John Ramos (Couch Baron), Kim Reed (Kim), and Joe Reid (Joe R) play Mullendash -- a game invented and played at the TWoP annual summits of yore. Take the game Balderdash and replace the cards with items from Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet from the pages of Entertainment Weekly . The set up to a Hot Sheet "joke" i...

To ring in 2023, Tara has crafted a very special non-regulation game time. Refill your champagne and find someone to kiss! Or just listen in the normal way.

EEHG 156: The 12 Shows Of Christmas We’ll all getting our asses ready for some serious not-moving-off-the-couch action over the holidays. So here are 12 shows from each of us that we think are worth your time. EEHG 158: What Made Your Christmas Crappy? If you’re a TV character approaching a holiday, one thing is certain: something is going to happen that will make it SUCK. But how well do Dave and...

Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concocted by some of our smartest, most devious and possibly French game makers. TOPICS Game Time: 🥖 En Français Game Time: 🌟 Special Guest Star Heather Locklear Game Time: 🛋️ The One With The One With Titles G...

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! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham 👤 Robert Krut 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Dan Rogge 👤 Daniel MacEachern 👤 Dave Chen 👤 Devindra Hardawar 👤 Ilan Muskat 👤 Jeff Drake 👤 Joe Reid 👤 John Ramos 👤 Karina Longw...

Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of  Mythic Quest ,  Selena + Chef , and an update on Sarah's  Cheers  rewatch. Adam pitch...

Book critic and  The Maris Review  host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of  Fleishman Is In Trouble , whether it works as TV given its structure as a book, and how. Is it better for people who  didn't  read the book? Is the pleasure in watching what Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and the former Seth Cohen do with the roles? And is Hannah the most sympathetically s...

Did Paramount+'s  Tulsa King  SLY-ly (sorry) work its way into our hearts?  The Filmcast 's Devindra Hardawar is back to talk about the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, good pacing, bad wigs, and making room for weirdly charming B-minus viewing in your viewing diet. Later, we had Tyson drive us Around The Dial, with stops for  The Big Brunch , the ends of  The Crown  and  Atlanta  AND  The Good Fight ,...

The Crown  is back for a new season, with a whole carriage load of new actors; Go Fug Yourself's Jessica Morgan returns to talk about whether its late 20th century setting has made it less compelling. Around The Dial takes us through  Weird ,  Jersey Shore ,  Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty , and a current TV ad that's really boiling Dave's potatoes. Sarah presents  The Sopranos  episode "Christ...

The White Lotus  is back on HBO for a second season of subjecting rich jerks to various indignities (now in Italy); Joe Reid returns to discuss, among other things, which guests may deserve better than they're getting, and who that season premiere corpse might be. Around The Dial takes us through  Love Is Blind ,  The Vow , and the series premiere of  You . Sophie makes the case for our inducting ...

Big thanks to Nick for stepping in last-minute for our winter-television preview: all the new or returning shows we're psyched for (like  The White Lotus ), all the shows we  should  be psyched for but aren't (like  Welcome To Chippendales ), and a bunch of shows  nobody  should be psyched for or even in the same room as (didn't we cancel Criss Angel in the aughts?). After Nick tried to get an epi...

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take an unsolved stalking case as the inspiration for their latest Netflix limited series; Dan Rogge returns to discuss whether anyone should be watching it OTHER than The Watcher. Around The Dial takes us through Freevee's High School , baseball on TV, and the latest episodes of The Vow . Sarah and Tara try to determine whether Dave will Hate a TV series adaptation of...

Canadian journalist Danny MacEachern is back to take a look at the frustrating, but also maaaaybe promising, Alaska Daily , which spends a good half of its first episode giving us unnecessary backstory and throwing around phrases like "woke wussies" before finally getting into the real story. We discussed star Hilary Swank's wigs, why a network version of this show is never going to center the Ind...

The Vampire Lestat is back in a new series adaptation of Interview With The Vampire at AMC, and You Must Remember This creator Karina Longworth is here to talk about all its pleasures -- which definitely extend past its bare butts, but very much include its bare butts. Around The Dial takes us through new seasons of The Amazing Race and Abbott Elementary ; a new evolution of Celebrity Jeopardy! ;...

The Star Wars universe has expanded yet again, and Never Not Funny 's Matt Belknap joins us for the first time to talk about Andor , a Rogue One prequel of sorts that's much more meditative and "adult" than you'd expect from the franchise. Dave quizzes us on our favorite character from the new show, plus we talk about world-building, the first real swear word in Lucasfilm IP, whether we'd buy Ando...

Everything old continues to be new again as NBC brings its late '80s/early '90s time travel series Quantum Leap back for a new generation; Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk joins us to discuss whether we wish we could travel back to stop it from happening. Around The Dial takes us through Los Espookys , Reservation Dogs , Halt And Catch Fire , and Journeyman . For the long-awaited return of Wi...

Forty-two years after Paul Schrader's American Gigolo pioneered the sex-worker neo-noir micro-genre, Showtime's limited series of the same name is trying it again -- and returning guest Sarah Baker joins us to talk about tone problems; weird directing choices; pervasive misogyny that's even more tiresome than usual; MVP Rosie O'Donnell; and whether Jon Bernthal should have gotten better writing to...

It's the first week of September -- traditionally the time when students go back to school (and if your district is one of those cess pools that call kids back in early August: get yourself on the school board and FIX IT). So in recognition of the moment, we've chosen 27 TV educators to face each other in the Thunderdome and, per usual, fight to the death. Do magic users and telepaths have an adva...