Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

AMC's newest drama is Lodge 49, the story of a dirtbag ex-surfer mysteriously drawn to a Long Beach fraternal order; does it deserve its Better Call Saul lead-in? Surf fiction fan Adam Sternbergh returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Babylon Berlin, and HBO's Ben Bradlee doc Newspaperman. Adam makes the case for us to induct Killing Eve's series premiere into the Canon, and then it's up, up and away to a comic book-themed Game Time. Put on your signet ring and join us!GUESTS👤 Adam SternberghTOPICSLead Topic: 🛖 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 😥 Insecure Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin Around The Dial: 📰 Newspaperman: The Life And Times Of Ben Bradlee Around The Dial: 📺 Dave gets a 4K TVThe Canon: 🏆 Killing Eve S01.E01: Nice FaceWinner & Loser: 👍 Cord-cuttersWinner & Loser: 👎 Talking Dead Game Time: 🧠 Pros & Comic-ConsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter📕 The official website for Adam's novel, The Blinds🤬 Tara on I Hate It But I Love It talking Bring It On👗 Vulture's interview with Killing Eve's costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye

What's not to love about a crafting competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman? Wellll, Linda Holmes and the regulars could think of a few things, but our nitpicks stem almost entirely from liking the show and wanting it to be its best, punniest self. We talk host bits, judging inconsistencies, the comparison of apples to macrame, and there's even Sarah's obligatory semi-annual reference to Work Of Art. We go Around The Dial with Queer Eye, Kids Baking Championship, The Bletchley Circle: Mission Burrito (...okay, it's actually "San Francisco," but we like Dave's name better), and Trial & Error before Linda serves a warrant for inducting Brooklyn Nine-Nine into The Canon. Deadwood won (maybe; we'll see), networks' lip service to survivors and equal pay lost, and we entered the valley of the shadow of unbelievable/y crappy shows with Dan Cassino's Trough TV Game Time. Glue-gun those earbuds in: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Linda Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧵 Making It Around The Dial: 🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🥧 Kids Baking Championship Around The Dial: 🌁 The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Trial & Error The Canon: 🏆 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S05.E12: Safe House Winner & Loser: 👍 Deadwood Hoopleheads Winner & Loser: 👎 AMC, CBS, and Netflix Game Time: 🧠 Trough TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 213 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔐 Lucy Mangan on TBC: SF 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

Hulu's latest original series, Castle Rock, is inspired by the works of Stephen King -- but is the resulting series Stephen Kingdom Hearts? Deadspin editor, Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean co-host, and spouse of a Maine native David Roth makes his début to talk about it! Around The Dial spins to Seven Year Switch, Bosch, Last Chance U, and a vintage ad from Stephen King's past. David makes a pitch for us to induct the Law & Order: SVU episode "Wildlife" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we continue talking names in a Game Time all about TV characters' monikers. Grab some Wonder Bread and join us! GUESTS👤 David RothTOPICSLead Topic: 🏰 Castle Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 Seven Year Switch Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S10.E07: WildlifeWinner & Loser: 👍 Supergirl Winner & Loser: 👎 Fans of The Brady BunchGame Time: 🧠 A Rose By Any Other NameNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 212 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🍊 Orange Is The New Black at Vulture🎅 David Roth on Twitter⚾️ David Roth at Deadspin😵 The Deadcast🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean🚨 The Blotter🦨 Tara discussing "Wildlife" on These Are Their Stories🗣 Pacific Standard's oral history of "Wildlife"

Rebooting a show hosted by original Spock with the new Spock may have seemed...logical, but the summer-weight EHG panel didn't think much of the new In Search Of, which is perhaps a casualty of the internet, and definitely suffers from not committing to its crackpot premises. At least we got to make an American Movie reference about the premiere? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dr. Pimple Popper, an HBO doc on Robin Williams, and Ancient Aliens before Liz presented a fourth-season Frasier farce for the Canon. Jesus won, UnREAL lost (we think?), and Dan Cassino gave new meaning to the term "sibling rivalry" in a family-friendly Game Time. So loosen up those polygraph straps and get comfy with an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵️ In Search Of (2018) Around The Dial: 🧴 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 🤯 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Around The Dial: 🛸 Ancient Aliens The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S04.E18: Ham Radio Winner & Loser: 👍 John Legend Winner & Loser: 👎 UnREAL Game Time: 🧠 All In The Family NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 211 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Even in 2018, the summer TV season isn't all prestigious limited series and Emmy contenders: there's still misbegotten syndication-quality sci-fantasy stuff like The CW's overseas-Syfy import The Outpost! We stretched the bounds of Monty Ashley's patience by inviting him to join us and discuss it. Around The Dial clicks through the second seasons of Nailed It! and GLOW, as well as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Animal Kingdom. Monty presents Batman: The Animated Series's "Heart Of Ice" for induction into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we belly up to the bar for a Game Time about TV's watering holes. Lend us your pointy ears and enjoy! GUESTS👤 Monty AshleyTOPICSLead Topic: 🛖 The Outpost Around The Dial: 🍰 Nailed It Around The Dial: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW Around The Dial: 🪄 Penn & Teller: Fool Us Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom The Canon: 🏆 Batman: The Animated Series S01.E03: Heart Of IceWinner & Loser: 👍 Seinfeld Elaine BenesWinner & Loser: 👎 HBOGame Time: 🧠 Where Everybody Knows Your NameNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 210 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🦹 The Villain Edit podcast💵 Tara on Paid Off With Michael Torpey for Slate🗡 Tara's first Sharp Objects recap at Decider

The second season of Detroiters started last week, and new guest Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about why it's so great, and why it should be better known: the crack timing, the considered use of Tim Meadows in his lower "gear," and the things it gets right about longtime friendships. We're going Around The Dial with Pose, Nanette, Barry, Jersey Shore: Family Reunion (again), Luke Cage, and Handmaid's Tale before Detroiters's Tim Robinson makes another appearance in Josh's Canon pitch for Robinson's eponymous episode of The Characters. Roseanne-less Roseanne won, Prime subscribers lost (and didn't even know it), and Game Time became snacktime in a quiz about food/show mash-ups. Put us on for your commute (after you check your gas tank for sardines): it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Josh GondelmanTOPICSLead Topic: 😱 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🤭 Nanette Around The Dial: 👗 Pose Around The Dial: ⛱ Jersey Shore: Family Reunion Around The Dial: 🥊 Luke Cage Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale The Canon: 🏆 The Characters S01.E07: Tim RobinsonWinner & Loser: 👍 The Conners Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazon PrimeGame Time: 🧠 Foodie TVNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 209 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🕸 Josh Gondelman's website🐦 Josh Gondelman on Twitter💿 Or enjoy his album, "Physical Whisper"⚖️ Tara's review of Dietland at Vulture

While some prestigious shows do find berths on summer schedules, it's also still a dumping ground for C-list reality shows -- and for you, we welcomed back Jeff Drake...and made him join us in suffering through five premieres from the past week. In what ways does Travel Channel's Caribbean Pirate Treasure fail to live up to its title? Whose trust is being broken in Investigation Discovery's Broken Trust, other than the viewer's that her hour will pass enjoyably? Was 24 To Hell & Back too little time to spend with Gordon Ramsay in his latest Fox restaurant makeover show? How little effort could Howie Mandel expend on NatGeo Wild's Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things, and could it possibly be less than went into naming the show? And did The Proposal have us down on our knees praying for ABC to cancel it swiftly? Find out in our rapid-fire roundup! We also ponder the induction of Fleabag's series premiere to The Canon, name the week's Winner and Loser, and go around the world for a World Cup-inspired Game Time. Confirm that your surroundings are free of pirates and join us! GUESTS👤 Jeff DrakeTOPICSLead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ Caribbean Pirate Treasure Lead Topic: ❤️‍🩹 Broken Trust Lead Topic: 🔥 Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back Lead Topic: 🦔 Howie Mandel's Animals Doing Things Lead Topic: 💍 The Proposal The Canon: 🏆 Fleabag S01.E01Winner & Loser: 👍 Comic-Con attendeesWinner & Loser: 👎 Chris HardwickGame Time: 🧠 The World Cup Of TelevisionNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 208 page on ExtraHotGreat.com⚽️ World Cup 2018 countries

Season 2 of Claws is underway on TNT, and Jeb Lund returns to talk about everything from yummy visuals to tonal whiplash to Franka Potente's Rrrrrrussian accent. We're also going Around The Dial with an ATX Festival round-up, David Cassidy: The Last Session, and Sharp Objects; and into The Box with Jeb's Homicide: Life On The Street submission from the first season. Teresa of RHONJ is a winner, the other People Of Earth were losers, and Tara lit it up with a bad-behavior-based non-regulation Game Time. Hope you've got five ones for a five: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🎛 ATX FestivalAround The Dial: 🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session The Canon: 🏆 Homicide: Life On The Streets S01.E05: Three Men And AdenaWinner & Loser: 👍 Teresa GiudiceWinner & Loser: 👎 People Of Earth Game Time: 🧠 Dumpsters, FiredNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 207 page on ExtraHotGreat.com📺 The ATX Festival🦅 Vulture's Jen Chaney on Claws🚌 David Cassidy: The Last Session on A&E

It's time already for another Bachelor washout to take her turn as a chooser of men on a new season of The Bachelorette, and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who also happens to be a citizen of Bachelor Nation, is joining us to discuss the start of the season. Around The Dial flips through AMC's new dramedy Dietland, Jersey Shore: Family Reunion, The Tale, and Succession, before we move on to debate the induction of GLOW's "Live Studio Audience" into The Canon. We name a new Winner & Loser Of The Week, and close out with a Game Time that tk. Put on your most ludicrous sequined gown and join us! GUESTS👤 Diablo CodyTOPICSLead Topic: 🌹 The Bachelorette Around The Dial: 🥗 Dietland Around The Dial: 🏖 Jersey Shore Around The Dial: 📚 The Tale Around The Dial: 🤴 Succession The Canon: 🏆 GLOW S01.E07: Live Studio AudienceWinner & Loser: 👍 Dolly PartonWinner & Loser: 👎 Jesse WilliamsGame Time: 🧠 Pit Of Ultimate DarknessNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 206 page on ExtraHotGreat.com💊 Jagged Little Pill at the American Repertory Theater🎞 Tully

Our esteemed colleague and Star Trek fantasy-draft star Mo Ryan returns to the podcast to talk about Liz Garbus's four-part New York Times documentary, The Fourth Estate, and the various frustrations we all had with both the documentary itself; its sometimes navel-gazey and tone-deaf subject; and all the things we wished the series had covered (or skipped)...though the intensity of our feelings probably means it's worth a watch. Also worth a watch in our Around The Dial section: Killjoys, Wynonna Earp, and Jane The Virgin, with another Showtime doc project, Love Means Zero, rating a skip from Buntsy. We mourned Tara's DVR, took Mo's Canon pitch for a season finale One Day At A Time, and declared a couple of vintage sitcoms Winners AND Losers before playing a super(hero)-charged Game Time from Dan Cassino. Let's hope we didn't bury the lede for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS👤 Mo RyanTOPICSLead Topic: 📰 The Fourth Estate Around The Dial: 😵 Tara's DVR: A EulogyAround The Dial: 😇 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🤠 Wynonna Earp Around The Dial: 😡 Killjoys Around The Dial: 💔 Love Means Zero The Canon: 🏆 One Day At A Time S02.E13: Not YetWinner & Loser: 👍 The Golden Girls Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne Game Time: 🧠 Not Quite SuperheroesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 205 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🗞 Maureen Ryan's review of The Fourth Estate👵🏻 Deadpool 2 Golden Girls Ad

As Netflix gives us another installment of 13 Reasons Why (and we get why they wouldn't call it 13 More Reasons Why, but...come on), our dear friend Joe Reid returns to dig into the sophomore season that has dramatically divided TV critics. Around The Dial rolls through The Middle, Dancing With The Stars, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Champions, The Mick, and Below Deck Mediterranean, with a couple of cameos from Willie Survive. Joe presents Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's "Kimmy Does A Puzzle!" for submission to The Canon, and after naming -- and, in the latter case, really shaming -- the week's Winner and Loser, we put another dime in the TV Jukebox for a musical Game Time. Brace yourself for shocking revelations and join us! TOPICSLead Topic: 📝 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🖕 The Middle Around The Dial: 🕺 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 🚔 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🥇 Champions Around The Dial: 🇮🇪 The Mick Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S03.E08: Kimmy Does A Puzzle!Winner & Loser: 👍 Progressive Netflix subscribersWinner & Loser: 👎 Nev SchulmanGame Time: 🧠 TV JukeboxNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 204 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We hope Nick Rheinwald-Jones won't hold it against us that we invited him back to discuss Patrick Melrose, the Cinnamon Toastencrunch vanity proje-- er, "Benedict Cumberbatch-starring miniseries based on the St. Aubyn novel series." Because y'all, we haaaaated it, and we've got the extended remix of fart noises to prove it. It won't take a Sherlock to deduce that we moved smartly along to our Around The Dial section, with stops at the newest Little Women adaptation, Claws, and some Netflix comedy specials of note before Nick tried to prank the Canon with a third-season Happy Endings episode. Adopted series won, former headliners lost, and we made crossover events out of actors in a character-conflating Game Time. No need to go through Extra Hot Great withdrawal: an all-new episode is right here. GUESTS👤 Nick Rheinwald-JonesTOPICSLead Topic: 🍞 Patrick Melrose Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Little Women Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix stand-up specialsAround The Dial: 💅 Claws The Canon: 🏆 Happy Endings S03.E12: The Marry PranksterWinner & Loser: 👍 Orphaned/Rehomed ShowsWinner & Loser: 👎 Former HeadlinersGame Time: 🧠 Concise Character ConflationNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 203 page on ExtraHotGreat.com📺 The ATX Festival lineup as of this writing📖 Ian Parker's St. Aubyn profile from The New Yorker

Will Leitch is a renowned sports journalist, so did we have him on to talk about 30 For 30 or something similarly thoughtful and incisive about the world of athletics? No, he's joining us to talk about the very special all-athletes season of Dancing With The Stars! Around The Dial rolls through Good Girls, Gotham, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dear White People, and Myths And Monsters. Will presents Better Call Saul's "Chicanery" for submission to The Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's got a lot of stamps on its passport. Trade your Under Armor for Danskins and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏀 Dancing With The Stars Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Good Girls Around The Dial: 🗽 Gotham Around The Dial: 🚓 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🐁 Dear White People Around The Dial: 🧌 Myths And Monsters The Canon: 🏆 Better Call Saul S03.E05: Chicanery Winner & Loser: 👍 Criminal Justice Winner & Loser: 👎 Joe Piscopo Game Time: 🌏 Lost In Translation NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 202 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The Will Leitch Show on SI.com 🎤 The Grierson & Leitch podcast 📬 Will Leitch's Tinyletter

As HBO's obsession-inducing dystopia returns for a second season, Eve Batey also returns to discuss reflections on capitalism; college-dorm philosophizing; why wigs are still shite in the future; and whether Ed Harris is using a stunt double. Eve claimed not to be a crackpot for calling for a Simpsons cancellation -- with a surprising hatchet man -- and the Bosch theme may have been deemed Worse Than Jazz before we went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale, Splitting Up Together, and Unforgotten on Masterpiece Mystery. Then we were Flipping Out over Eve's Canon submission. Frankenstein's author won, Rectify's antagonist lost, and it all added up on a very mathy Game Time, in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS👤 Eve BateyTOPICSLead Topic: 🤠 Westworld I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Simpsons Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Bosch Around The Dial: ⛪️ The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🪦 Unforgotten The Canon: 🏆 Flipping Out S03.E07: Irreconcilable DifferencesWinner & Loser: 👍 Mary ShelleyWinner & Loser: 👎 Rectify Game Time: 🧠 I Was Told There Would Be No MathNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 201 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🌉 The Inside SF newsletter🎳 Help The Ruth Bowler Ginsbergs and the Gateway Women's Access Fund

Netflix having successfully adapted House Of Cards (*********) and remade One Day At A Time, it's reached back into the archives of classic TV to bring us an all-new take on Lost In Space -- and new guest Jeb Lund is here to talk about all the Robinsons' extraterrestrial meanderings. Around The Dial stops at that bad episode of The Simpsons, Patriot, and Season 4 of Bosch. Jeb presents the Connections episode "Death In The Morning" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we mark our 200th episode with a special 200th episode-themed Game Time. Grab your interstellar GPS and listen! GUESTS👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 🚀 Lost In Space Around The Dial: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch The Canon: 🧶 Connections Winner & Loser: 👍 BravoWinner & Loser: 👎 John MulaneyGame Time: 🧠 The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode SpectacularNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 200 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter🎧 Jeb's podcast, This Week In Atrocity💸 This Week In Atrocity on Patreon🎧 The History Of English Podcast

Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir joins the panel this week for the latest filmed take on E.M. Forster's Howards End, and while we liked some things -- the casting; the memories of Witches Of East End occasioned by Julia Ormond -- not everything about the new iteration worked for us. We went Around The Dial with New Girl, Billions, Paterno, and Killing Eve before sinking our teeth into Big Little Lies S01.E05, "Once Bitten." Renewed shows won, cretins lost, and Tara put a song in our hearts with the next chapter of Tube Tunes for Game Time. Hail a carriage with wifi; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Doree Shafrir TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Howards End Around The Dial: 👧 New Girl Around The Dial: 💰 Billions Around The Dial: 🏈 Paterno Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve The Canon: 🤫 Big Little Lies Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve Winner & Loser: 👍 Deep State Winner & Loser: 👍 Pure Winner & Loser: 👎 Harvey Weinstein, T.J. Miller Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 199 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Doree Shafrir on Twitter 🎧 The Forever 35 podcast 📖 Doree's novel Startup on Amazon

The Americans is wrapping up its spy mission in the U.S., and You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk has crammed his viewing of the previous two seasons to prepare for our discussion of the Season 6 premiere! Around The Dial takes us through Alex, Inc.; an update on Here And Now; HBO's latest doc The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling; and the fourth season of the Swedish/Danish crime drama Bron/Broen. Stephen makes the case for us to induct Archer's "Skytanic" into The Canon, before we name the week's Winner and Loser and then roll into a Game Time that Could! Change! EVERYTHING!!! Put on your headphones in the Secret Basement Of Spycraft and see if you can crack our code! (JK, we don't have the patience to make you a code.) GUESTS👤 Stephen FalkTOPICSLead Topic: 🗽 The Americans Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Margo Martindale interacts with Tara on TwitterAround The Dial: 🎧 Alex Inc. Around The Dial: ⏰ Here And Now Around The Dial: 🪶 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling Around The Dial: 🌉 Bron The Canon: 🎯 Archer S01.E07: SkytanicWinner & Loser: 👍 The Wendy Williams Show Winner & Loser: 👎 John KricfalusiGame Time: 🧠 Hot PotatoNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 198 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Stephen Falk on Twitter🎉 Margo Martindale's appreciative response to Tara's tweet

Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the show has left. How many times can it repeat the same cycles? How much longer can it really expect to keep Kumail Nanjiani? And seriously, what's with all the barfing? After Sarah celebrated a Real Housewife Tiny Triumph, we went Around The Dial with Roseanne, Splitting Up Together, the new Queer Eye, grandpa show American Experience, Barry, and a Will Dave Hate This? update on The Terror, before our guest pitched a first-season Leftovers episode, "Guest," for the Canon. Dirty John was a winner, another gross man was our loser, and Dan Cassino's Italianate pronunciation vincit omnia in a Latin-geek-nip Game Time. Grab a mug of your favored office coffee and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Bobby FingerTOPICSLead Topic: 💻 Silicon Valley Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Around The Dial: 🧺 Roseanne Around The Dial: 💔 Splitting Up Together Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Barry Around The Dial: 😱 The Terror The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Dirty John Connie BrittonWinner & Loser: 👎 Dan SchneiderGame Time: 🧠 Will Dave Say This?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 197 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter🎧 The Who? Weekly podcast

NBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it was made very clear to us that we had better not think of having any guest on to talk about it other than Adam Grosswirth -- and since we can take a hint, we were happy to have him on to discuss whether the show hits all the right notes. Around The Dial takes us through The Arrangement, Slings & Arrows and Nailed It! before we ponder the induction of The West Wing's "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen" to the Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a Game Time that's a real banger. Warm up your instrument and join us!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 🎶 Rise Around The Dial: 💔 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🏹 Slings & Arrows Around The Dial: 🧁 Nailed It The Canon: 🇺🇸 The West Wing Winner & Loser: 👍 Cagney And Lacey Sarah Drew, Michelle HurdWinner & Loser: 👎 The Crown Winner & Loser: 👎 The Man In The High Castle Game Time: 🧠 Tube TunesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 196 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter🏹 Slings And Arrows on YouTube🎭 Americans For The Arts

S2 of Netflix Marvel anti-heroine joint Jessica Jones was a long time coming -- and unfortunately it took a long time to get going. Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton joins the panel to discuss the absence of Kilgrave malice, whether thirteen episodes is five too many, and the evident female gaze of the season's directorial corps. Around The Dial recommended Champions, Altered Carbon, and the second season of The Good Fight, and Dave wondered if the Is This Worse Than Jazz theme is worse than jazz. This week's Canon submission is -- surprise! -- the second in a row from submitter Lauren, as she aims for a two-fer with BoJack Horseman S02.E04, "After The Party." And Dan Cassino hopes we get lucky with another mash-up Game Time, Before & After II. Don't punch a hole in your car; an all-new Extra Hot Great to the rescue! GUESTS👤 Kirk HamiltonTOPICSLead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Champions Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Fight Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Joel KinnamanThe Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman S02.E04: After The PartyWinner & Loser: 👍 Kim Kardashian, out-earning Kanye WestWinner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Jessica Capshaw and Sarah Drew, abruptly firedGame Time: 🧠 Before & After Yet AgainNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 195 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kirk Hamilton on Twitter🥃 Our first go-round with Jessica Jones in EHG 96🎧 The Splitscreen podcast

It's time once again for Gordon Ramsay to take a break from screaming at adults and spend a few weeks gently critiquing kids: that's right, MasterChef Junior is back for Season 6. To talk about the premiere, we welcome first-time guest Lindsey Weber of the Who Weekly podcast to talk about the half-sized hash slingers. Around The Dial takes us to Atlanta, Vanderpump Rules, Drunk History, and NightMan, before we ponder whether the series premiere of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, "Josh Just Happens To Live Here!," should be inducted into The Canon. From there, it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and to a Game Time built on Sound Foundations. Fill some ramekins with snacks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Lindsey Weber TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Masterchef Junior Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk History Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Gina Rodriguez Winner & Loser: 👎 The Walking Dead Winner & Loser: 👎 The Oscars Game Time: 🧠 Sound Foundations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 194 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Lindsey Weber on Twitter 🎧 The Who Weekly podcast 💻 Lindsey's UnREAL recaps on Vulture

After a literal car wreck of a second season, UnREAL is finally pulling back the curtain again on fictional dating show The Suitor -- and grown-ish writer Kara Brown pulled up a guesting chair for the first time to help us unpack the show's issues, starting with its, well, need to address capital-I Issues. Also Jeremy, who is not a fetch we're willing to see happen. Does UnREAL try to do too many things, or the wrong ones? Who on the panel is cautiously optimistic about it leaving S2 behind a la Friday Night Lights? And seriously, why is Jeremy? Later, we went Around The Dial with Nashville, Anna Deavere Smith's latest for HBO, Lovesick, and the return of NightMan, and Kara made the "wrecked" theme official with a Canon submission from Season 8 of RHONYC. The White House Correspondents' Dinner won, an entire southern state lost, and we got stuck in the middle (names) with a Game Time from David Dickerson. Please accept this rose, in the form of an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kara BrownTOPICSLead Topic: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🪕 Nashville Around The Dial: ❤️‍🩹 Lovesick Around The Dial: 🎭 Notes From The Field Around The Dial: 🎷 Nightman The Canon: 🏙 The Real Housewives Of New York City Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Wolf, hosting the White House Correspondents DinnerWinner & Loser: 👎 Productions in Georgia, after abortion restrictions passGame Time: 🧠 The MiddleNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 193 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kara Brown on Twitter🎓 Grown-ish on Freeform🎧 The Keep It! podcast🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Netflix has a new period drama, set in the '90s, called Everything Sucks. Where does it fall on the spectrum of Stranger Things to Freaks And Geeks? We've asked true '90s kid Stephanie Green to join us and break it down. Around The Dial takes us to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bachelor, and Chris Rock's new Netflix special, Tambourine. We ponder whether _The New Adventures Of Old Christine_S03.E06, confusingly also called "The New Adventures Of Old Christine," should be inducted into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's been around the world. Check on your Tamagotchi and then join us! GUESTS👤 Stephanie GreenTOPICSLead Topic: ✏️ Everything Sucks Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 💍 The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🎭 Chris Rock: Tamborine The Canon: 🧓 The New Adventures Of Old Christine Winner & Loser: 👍 The CW, adding original programming Sunday nightsWinner & Loser: 👎 Arrested Development Scott Baio and Jeffrey Tambor, both accused of sexual misconductGame Time: 🧠 Where In The World Is This Show?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 192 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter💻 StephanieEarlyGreen.com🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

It's an EHG reunion! Too bad it's for Here & Now, Alan Ball's new HBO show, and while Tara and Sarah couldn't make it past the pilot, Joe had some additional insights on the existential crises (and Jim Carrey-an supernatural twists) of a Portland blended family that even the show itself doesn't seem to like. We went around the dial with the new Queer Eye, American Crime Story: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace, Schitt's Creek, and Homeland, then tripled up on guessing the heart of our producer with a three-fer of Will Dave Hate These? before Joe pitched "the Martin Short episode" of Arrested Development for the Nonac. Netflix talk shows won, Omarosa lost, and Dan Cassino brought us a delightfully bookish Game Time. Park your Prius by the side of the road and sob (with laughter): it's an all-new, yet comfortingly familiar, Extra Hot Great. GUESTS👤 Joe ReidTOPICSLead Topic: ⏰ Here & Now Around The Dial: 👔 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🌴 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Around The Dial: 🌹 Schitt's Creek Around The Dial: 🧶 Homeland Will Dave Hate This?: 🚁 Magnum P.I. (2018) Justin Lin directing the pilotWill Dave Hate This?: 🦌 Hanna Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 The CaesarsThe Nonac: 🤮 Arrested Development Winner & Loser: 👍 The Break With Michelle Wolf Winner & Loser: 👎 The Celebrity Apprentice Omarosa Manigault NewmanGame Time: 🧠 Novel IdeasNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 191 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

As NBC leads us into the Olympics with a sneak peek of its new sitcom A.P. Bio, we call on Monty Ashley (get it) to discuss whether it should have been held back. Around The Dial takes us to 2 Dope Queens, Dragula, Intervention, Altered Carbon, and The Cloverfield Paradox. Monty makes the bold case for Episode #1839 of Sesame Street to be inducted into the Canon, and then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to the season's first Regulation Game Time. Sharpen your #2 pencil and join us!GUESTS👤 Monty AshleyTOPICSLead Topic: 🔬 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 👑 2 Dope Queens Around The Dial: 🧛‍♂️ Dragula Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🤖 Altered Carbon Around The Dial: 🚀 The Cloverfield Paradox The Canon: 🚸 Sesame Street S15.E04: Episode 1839Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Bekah MartinezWinner & Loser: 👎 30 For 30 Bill BelichickGame Time: 🧠 CliffhangersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 190 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter🧛‍♂️ Dragula on Amazon Prime🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

Season 2 of the updated One Day At A Time dropped last weekend, and we talked with Kim Reed about the fine balance between sitcommy and touching; how the two finales stacked up; and whether we'd keep watching if Rita Moreno leaves the show. We went around the dial with I Love Dick, The End Of The F**cking World, Black Lightning, and Big Mouth, and then Tara tried to deliver a Canon win with the first-series finale of Call The Midwife. Charmed won, ESPN lost (some more), and Tara led us in a remake/revival Game Time. How long will Dave stay drunk on power? Find out in an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSLead Topic: 🇨🇺 One Day At A Time Around The Dial: 🖼 I Love Dick Around The Dial: ⚡️ Black Lightning Around The Dial: 📚 Big Mouth The Canon: 👶 Call The Midwife Winner & Loser: 👍 Charmed (2018) Winner & Loser: 👎 SportsCenter Jemele Hill resignsGame Time: 🧠 Don't Call It A RebootNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 189 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

High Maintenance is back on HBO, and John Ramos is also back to talk about the adventures of The Guy in marijuana-delivery-land; whether the show's too New York-y to be relatable, or warm-hearted enough to have broad appeal; and what exactly happened to that one lady's cat. We also went around the dial with new Soderbergh joint Mosaic, new-to-John show Insecure, and the same old comforting Top Chef before considering a listener submission for Star Trek: Voyager changed the way we think about amphibians forever. Party Of Five won, casting agents looking for Trumps lost, and speaking of losing, boy did someone screw the pooch in a David T. Cole-authored Game Time. Pass around the edibles: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS👤 John RamosTOPICSLead Topic: 💨 High Maintenance Around The Dial: 🗻 Mosaic Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef The Nonac: 🚀 Star Trek: Voyager Winner & Loser: 👍 Party Of Five (2020) Winner & Loser: 👎 Fire And Fury Game Time: 🧠 12 QuestionsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 188 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

As we count down to the official premiere of Starz's previously sneak-peeked new J.K. Simmons vehicle Counterpart, Eve Batey and Tim Ehhalt join us to discuss all the twists, turns, and...twins? Around The Dial takes us to new series Alone Together and Dr. Pimple Popper; limited series Wormwood; and returning fan favorites The Magicians and The Fosters. We debate the induction of the Justified episode "Brother's Keeper" to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time (RIP Sarah) (just kidding, she'll probably live). Grab a nostalgic funnel cake and join us! GUESTS👤 Eve Batey👤 Tim EhhaltTOPICSLead Topic: 👯‍♀️ Counterpart Around The Dial: 🌴 Alone Together Around The Dial: 🌊 The Fosters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 🩺 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 💊 Wormwood The Canon: 🏆 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 Norsemen Winner & Loser: 👍 The Terror Game Time: 🧠 The Return Of The Steep Incline ClimberNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 187 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter🐦 Tim Ehhalt on Twitter

A new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas! We debate whether Dave Will Hate Ridley Scott's new TV project The Terror, before Around The Dial takes us to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 9-1-1, The X-Files, and The Leftovers. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes To A Play!" is submitted for induction into the EHG Nonac, and then after naming the new year's first Winner and Loser, it's we finish our televisual tour of these United States in Game Time. Put your chair and tray table into the upright position and listen! GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 🛩 L.A. To Vegas Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 The Terror Around The Dial: 🤣 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers The Nonac: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S02.E03: Kimmy Goes To A Play!Winner & Loser: 👍 Animaniacs Winner & Loser: 👎 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story The Versace familyGame Time: 🧠 The United States of Television Part 2NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 186 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth💧 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

Happy new year! And...unhappy near-future narratives, as Nick returns to discuss the fourth season of Black Mirror. We all ranked the episodes from our least to most favorite, and discussed what worked (Star Trek neckbeard vengeance; "San Junipero" with a twist) and what didn't (chases; barely altered procedurals). After we went Around The Dial with The Profit, Black-ish spin-off Grown-ish, and Runaways, Nick wined and dined us for our Canon votes with the "First Date" episode of Master Of None. Who were our Winners and Losers of all of 2017? Where in these United States (of TV) were the answers to this week's Game Time? And why might Monica Potter's agent be cringing? Auld lang syne up to download the first Extra Hot Great of 2018!GUESTS👤 Nick Rheinwald-JonesTOPICSLead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror Around The Dial: 🎓 Grown-ish Around The Dial: 🦸 Runaways Around The Dial: 📈 The Profit The Canon: 💓 Master Of None Winner & Loser: 👍 Late Night With Seth Meyers Winner & Loser: 👎 DicksGame Time: 🧠 The United States Of Television, Part INOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 185 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

What's under the Extra Hot Great tree today in this winter-holiday all-Canon episode? First up is Supernatural's fifth-season "Changing Channels," a TV trope send-up with a couple of Buntnip elements the submitter hopes will guarantee a vote from Sarah, followed by a very courageous anime submission in the form of Gurren Lagann S01.E08. And once we've dispensed with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in-jokes and AT-AT tiki walkers, it's time to contemplate the $165 budget of the pilot of NightMan, a show that couldn't even afford a fan and seems like it's maybe actually a pest-control porno. O Little Town Of *****, N*, there's a message for one of your residents in this very merry episode of Extra Hot Great.TOPICSThe Canon: 👿 Supernatural S05.E08: "Changing Channels"The Canon: 🇯🇵 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann S01.E08: "Later Buddy"The Canon: 🎷 Nightman S01.E01: "Episode 1"NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 184 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🌉 The NightMan credits sequence you can't live without

Heading into Christmas, we decided to do our most positive episode ever: offering up our "Best"s in categories selected by listeners like you! What's the best show to watch when you're sick? What's the best fake website from a TV show? What's the best thing about living in The Good Place? We answer these questions and many more in our first Besties-sode!TOPICSLead Topic: 🏆 The Extra Hot Great BestiesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 183 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We couldn't decide which was the week's most important TV premiere -- the second season of Netflix's QEII drama The Crown, or Syfy's dark Chris Meloni comedy Happy! -- so we decided to cover both! Joining us from Go Fug Yourself are our official purveyors of Epic Old School Recaps of The Crown, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan! Around The Dial takes us to quick mentions of Married At First Sight: Jamie & Doug Plus One, Encore!, The Mindy Project, Vanderpump Rules, American Vandal, and Norsemen. We consider inducting into The Canon Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's fourth episode, "I'm Going On A Date With Josh's Friend!" Then after discussing the week's Winner and Loser, we close things up with 2017's star-crossed final Game Time. Gather your corgis and listen!TOPICSLead Topic: 👑 The Crown Lead Topic: 😁 Happy! Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Doug & Jamie Plus One Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 🍸 Vanderpump Rules Around The Dial: 📹 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🚣‍♂️ Norsemen The Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Today Winner & Loser: 👎 Award nominee snubsGame Time: 🧠 Star-CrossedNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 182 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Go Fug Yourself on Twitter👙 GoFugYourself.com

Jim Durr joined us for the first time (on this pod, anyway) to talk about Knightfall, the new medieval drama on History, and while all its trebuchets, extreme helmet cams, and campy popes can't quite_make us care whether they ever track down that crusty old Grail. We went Around The Dial with _GBBO, Netflix's weird but compelling Stranger Things: Deutschland offering Dark, and the best (and family-friendliest) of recent stand-up specials before Jim sent us back to the late '90s with a Futurama Canon submission. Dave treated us to a very little The Littlest Hobo audio recap, Tara faced off against the Pickle & Peanut theme song (...for the last time???), and Dr. Phil won while just about every other man in television lost. And finally, Game Time got meta as the panel tried to guess the TV-show-based videogames. There is no Benson videogame. Go write your reps about that, and on your way to the mailbox, have a listen to the latest all-new regulation Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Jim DurrTOPICSLead Topic: ⚔️ Knightfall Around The Dial: 🤣 Recent standup specials from Tiffany Haddish, Brian Regan, and Michelle WolfAround The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Dark None: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo The Littlest "Littlest Hobo" Recap for S01.E01: "Smoke"The Canon: 🚀 Futurama Winner & Loser: 👍 Dr. Phil Phil McGraw, Jay McGrawWinner & Loser: 👎 Good grief, more TV men accused of sexual misconductGame Time: 🧠 Super Nintendo ChalmersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 181 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter

Daniel MacEachern visits from the Two Spotted Dicks podcast to join Dave and Tara for a special winter-themed all-TV forcening episode of the Extra Hot Great podcast! Whose picks are cool and who would have preferred being left on an ice floe? Listen and find out!GUESTS👤 Daniel MacEachernTOPICSLead Topic: ⚡️ The Flash S03.E17: "Duet"Lead Topic: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo S01.E16: "Snapshot"Lead Topic: 👑 Royal Pains S04.E15/16: "Off-Season Greetings"NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 180 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Kevin O'Keeffe and Kim Reed join us as we head into America's favourite eating holiday by gorging on more than two dozen FMK matchups! It's gonna rock you!GUESTS👤 Kevin O'Keeffe👤 Kim ReedTOPICSLead Topic: 🔪 F/M/KNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 179 page on ExtraHotGreat.com📸 Kevin O'Keeffe on Instagram🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Two ex-contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race see their web series graduate to a half-hour weekly comedy show on Viceland, so Mark Blankenship is here to help us spill the tea on The Trixie & Katya Show! Around The Dial spins to the series finale of The Mindy Project, Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience, ABC's new high school musical special Encore, and Rolling Stones: Stories From The Edge, before Tara gets another chance to master the Pickle And Peanut theme song. Mark presents Insecure's "Hella LA" for The Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that'll have you whipping off your bra and/or breathing fire. Tease up your wig and join us!GUESTS👤 Mark BlankenshipTOPICSLead Topic: 💄 The Trixie & Katya Show Around The Dial: 🩺 The Mindy Project Around The Dial: 👜 The Girlfriend Experience Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🎸 Rolling Stone: Stories From The Edge Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" ChallengeThe Canon: 🌴 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👍 Dynasty (2017) Winner & Loser: 👎 Yet more TV men accused to sexual misconductGame Time: 🧠 It's Only Tits And DragonsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 178 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

Frankie Shaw's new Showtime sitcom about a single mom in South Boston shows some promise, but did it make most of the panel -- including guest Stephanie Early Green -- too uncomfortable too continue? We discussed that, cute TV toddlers, and protagonists who don't learn before going around the dial with Rosehaven, 90 Day Fiance, a Netflix doc on Joan Didion, and The Pickle & Peanut Challenge. Tara took us to Detroiters with her Canon presentation, and Jordan Peele was this week's Winner, while our banned-men Loser list got rull long. Who was the odd man out in this week's Game Time? Listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great (while doing your Kegels?) and find out.GUESTS👤 Stephanie GreenTOPICSTiny Triumph: 💰 Old-School Recaps campaign more than 40% fundedLead Topic: 🇮🇪 SMILF Around The Dial: 🌹 Rosehaven Around The Dial: 💍 90 Day Fiancé Around The Dial: ✈️ Before The 90 Days Around The Dial: ✍️ Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The "Pickle & Peanut" ChallengeThe Canon: 💼 Detroiters Winner & Loser: 👍 Jordan PeeleWinner & Loser: 👎 More TV men accused of sexual misconductGame Time: 🧠 Odd Man OutNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 177 page on ExtraHotGreat.comhttps://twitter.com/eteffi/ Stephanie Green on Twitter

As yet another Margaret Atwood novel gets a TV adaptation, Allison Lowe Huff and Extra Hot Game Time impresario Rob Hartmann join us to talk about Alias Grace, Netflix/CBC's period prison drama. Tara and Allison discuss whether Mike Rinder has become The Pierce of Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath, or if Remini and her nails are already an unstoppable team without him. Around The Dial takes us to At Home With Amy Sedaris, Shetland, Stranger Things, and Pickle And Peanut(and to a mea culpa regarding recent episodes of Little House On The Podcast). We ponder whether "Missing Time" is a Nonac-worthy episode of Miami Vice, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that knows its worth. Curl up in your coziest cell and join us!GUESTS👤 Rob Hartmann👤 Allison Lowe HuffTOPICSLead Topic: 🧹 Alias Grace None: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Mike Rinder, The PierceAround The Dial: 🧶 At Home With Amy Sedaris Around The Dial: 🐴 Shetland Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things Around The Dial: 🥜 Pickle & Peanut The Nonac: 🦩 Miami Vice Winner & Loser: 👍 Pose Queer representationWinner & Loser: 👍 Andi Mack Queer representationWinner & Loser: 👎 Men being accused of sexual misconduct: Mark Halperin; Kevin SpaceyGame Time: 🧠 Network WorthNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 176 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Rob Hartmann on Twitter🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake is back -- and so is our esteemedest producer, David T. Cole -- to discuss Too Funny To Fail, Hulu's documentary on the much-anticipated The Dana Carvey Show and its ignominious end. After a Robin Williams-ectomy was proposed, Dave got the blues in his I Am Not A Crackpot segment, and then we went around the dial with Mom, American Vandal, Chance, and The Deuce. Tara hoped an episode of Better Things would be better enough for the Canon, Kardashians and Benson fans were winners and losers, and there was once a man from Nantucket...who wrote Game Time. Sort of. Alphabetize those network notes: it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Jeff DrakeTOPICSLead Topic: 🤣 Too Funny To Fail Lead Topic: 🍼 The Dana Carvey Show I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Don't let all your lighting look blueAround The Dial: 🍻 Mom Around The Dial: 🎨 American Vandal Around The Dial: 🌉 Chance Around The Dial: 🫦 The Deuce The Canon: 🌴 Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 The KardashiansWinner & Loser: 👎 Showbiz men getting outed for sexual misconductGame Time: 🧠 TV LimericksNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 175 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

With Dave still in the field, we've invited Monty Ashley back for a very special episode. Will the "Michael's Gambit" episode of The Good Place and "Parker Gail's Location Is Everything" from Documentary Now! make it into The Canon? And will My So-Called Life's "The Substitute" be inducted into The Nonac, The Canon's evil twin? Listen in and find out!GUESTS👤 Monty AshleyTOPICSThe Canon: 🍦 The Good Place The Canon: 🎞 Documentary Now! The Nonac: 📓 My So-Called Life NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 174 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

In our first-ever EHG without David T. Cole, Tara and Sarah recruited Fug Girls Heather and Jessica to help them dissect the Dynasty reboot. Do the kids today care about these iconic characters? Should the show have gone to a streaming or premium-cable network? And should any show be trying to make big business interesting? We went Around The Dial with Law & Order: SVU, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team, Undercover High, and Grey's Anatomy before settling in for the snark of an MST3K Canon submission. We declared a winner and a loser...and everybody and nobody won in a non-regulation Game Time that forced the panel to make some tough choices. Before you bite the head off a cake-topper, take a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Heather Cocks👤 Jessica MorganTOPICSLead Topic: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: ✏️ Undercover High Around The Dial: 🩺 Grey's Anatomy Around The Dial: 📣 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The Canon: 🎞 Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Winner & Loser: 👍 Debra MessingWinner & Loser: 👎 Project Runway All Stars Georgina ChapmanGame Time: 🧠 King Of Iconic TV Fashion MountainNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 173 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 The Fug Girls on Twitter

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's on to a very organized Game Time. Load up your frozen yogurt and join us!GUESTS👤 John RamosTOPICSLead Topic: 🍦 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire Around The Dial: 💄 American Beauty Star Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Discovery Around The Dial: 🗳 Veep Winner & Loser: 👍 Roseanne Emma KenneyWinner & Loser: 👎 The Orville Game Time: 🧠 Attention To DetailNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 172 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter🧺 Emma Kenney, newly cast on The Conners

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 Fitzgerald were our Winners and Losers, and Game Time has a lot more mass appeal than we predict our main topic is going to. Set phasers to kill for an all-new EHG!GUESTS👤 Omar GallagaTOPICSLead Topic: 🚀 The Orville Will Dave Hate This?: ⚔️ Tong WarsAround The Dial: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Outlander Around The Dial: 🍦 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🇻🇳 The Vietnam War The Canon: 🌴 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr.Winner & Loser: 👎 Z: The Beginning Of Everything Christina RicciGame Time: 🧠 The Masses Have SpokenNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 171 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter🪐 "Commercials Featuring Star Trek Members" on YouTube

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 imminent fourth season of BoJack Horseman. Melissa pitches the Designing Women episode 'Killing All The Right People' for The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really stinks. Supply yourself with the intoxicant of your choice and join us!GUESTS👤 Melissa LockerTOPICSLead Topic: 🇨🇴 Narcos Will Dave Hate This?: 🏛 Bromans Around The Dial: 🔪 American Horror Story: Cult Around The Dial: ⌛️ Will Vs. The Future Around The Dial: 🪲 The Tick (2016) Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway Around The Dial: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman The Canon: 🍑 Designing Women Winner & Loser: 👍 Property Brothers Drew ScottWinner & Loser: 👎 Tennis fansGame Time: 🧠 Pot TV HumorNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 170 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Melissa Locker on Twitter

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 around the dial with Ripper Street, Scientology, and the Face Off spin-off. Will Dave hate an upcoming Orlando Bloom project about faerie expats? Did Monty's MASH submission enter the Nonac? And what the helle is going on with the theme songs in Game Time? Stop searching the guide and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Monty AshleyTOPICSLead Topic: 🗓 Friday ForceningsIs This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Animal Kingdom Theme songAround The Dial: ⚓️ Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath Around The Dial: 👺 Face Off: Game Face Around The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Just Like Mom And Dad Will Dave Hate This?: 🎡 Carnival Row The Nonac: ⛺️ M*A*S*H Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle CarterisWinner & Loser: 👎 Fight fansGame Time: 🧠 Le Moment De JeuxNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 169 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter🎧 The Villain Edit podcast

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 for inducting Smash's pilot into the Canon, and after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time to die for. Put on your most bulletproof hoodie and join us!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 🏙 The Defenders Around The Dial: 💅 Claws Around The Dial: 🎥 Episodes Around The Dial: 🕺 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Just Like Mom Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Netflix auto-play trailersThe Canon: 🎼 Smash Winner & Loser: 👍 Suits Gina TorresWinner & Loser: 👎 Joss WhedonGame Time: 🧠 Dead Like MeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 168 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

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 killed? Only one way to find out, in an all-new, extra-large Extra Hot great.GUESTS👤 Jeff DrakeTOPICSLead Topic: 🔪 F/M/KNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 167 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

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 after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to another sequel in Game Time. Put on some sunscreen and join us!GUESTS👤 Adam SternberghTOPICSLead Topic: 🥫 Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later Around The Dial: 🔪 The Sinner Around The Dial: 🏔 Ozark Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention The Canon: 🌴 Three's Company Winner & Loser: 👍 Debra MessingWinner & Loser: 👎 Last Man Standing Game Time: 🧠 The Return Of Before & AfterNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 166 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

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.TOPICSLead Topic: 👻 The Lowe Files Around The Dial: 🌴 Insecure Around The Dial: 📰 NewsAround The Dial: 📈 The Profit Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad CornerThe Canon: 📎 The Office (US) Winner & Loser: 👍 Ike BarinholtzWinner & Loser: 👎 Mario CantoneGame Time: 🧠 Our Idiot BrothersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 165 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Dan Patrick Brady on Twitter