Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Vince Gilligan returns to the prestige airwaves with Pluribus, an apocalyptic Rhea Seehorn vehicle that's getting uniformly great reviews -- and Jeff Drake returns to the podcast to talk about why WE aren't all on the same page with its world-building, self-consciously beautiful shot compositions, and more (though we all DO agree that Seehorn is the President of Acting). We went Around The Dial with Stumble, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, and Who Hired The Hitman? before Jeff went nuts with a Canon pitch from The Dick Van Dyke Show. All's Fair won, Kim Kardashian's bar-exam support team lost, and we reeled in the years with a historical-TV Game Time. Polish off that rosé and join us!GUESTS👤 Jeff DrakeTOPICSLead Topic: 📡 PluribusAround The Dial: 🩼 StumbleAround The Dial: 📔 The Zen Diaries Of Garry ShandlingAround The Dial: 🔫 Who Hired The Hitman?The Canon: 🥜 The Dick Van Dyke Show S02.E20: It May Look Like a WalnutWinner & Loser: ⚖️ All's FairWinner & Loser: 😩 Kim KardashianGame Time: 📅 Which Came First?SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Jeff Drake on Bluesky🚧 Jeff's podcast about "9 Chickweed Lane"💌 Paul F. Tompkins on the Taskmaster podcast🤔 Get those Would You Rather? prompts to Tara💵 Sarah's Who Hired The Hitman? review😿 Get (or give) some assistance with pet expenses at Pet Help Finder📷 Photo: Apple

Bottoms star and co-writer Rachel Sennott has created a new sitcom star vehicle, I Love L.A., for HBO, all about the world of Zoomer influencers. How much could we take? L.A.'s own Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Nobody Wants This S02, Wayward, Aileen: Queen Of The Serial Killers, and Down Cemetery Road. Dave pitched "Those Old Scientists" from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a new season of Game Time, kicking off with a Cassino special. Grab your limited-edition Chipotle bowl and listen!GUESTS👤 Nick Rheinwald-JonesTOPICSLead Topic: 🤳 I Love LAAround The Dial: 🕍 Nobody Wants ThisAround The Dial: 🗺️ WaywardAround The Dial: 😵 Aileen: Queen Of The Serial KillersThe Canon: ⏳ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02.E07: Those Old ScientistsWinner & Loser: 🛟 Dave FoleyWinner & Loser: 💸 RidiculousnessGame Time: 👵🏻 Odd Age OutSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Bluesky🙅🏽‍♀️ The bad Nobody Wants This thinkpiece🌮 Donate to Street Forum ATX🥨 The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank👑 Sarah's review of Aileen: Queen Of The Serial Killers at Best Evidence📍 Find a Little Free Pantry near you😬 Yo, Is This Racist? on Apple Podcasts📷 Photo: Kenny Laubbacher / HBO

TV returns to the King-verse with HBO's It: Welcome To Derry, a prequel (or side...show?) of sorts for various characters from Stephen King's It -- and Josh Gondelman also returns to accept our apologies before talking about doing gory bits, using your best actors wisely, and the different kinds of tension. We're going Around The Dial with the nineteenth seasons of Married At First Sight and Taskmaster, plus Nightmares & Dreamscapes and The Lowdown, and Tara hopes we have Great News about her Canon pitch. The Pitt wins, various Nobody Wants This actors lose, and we're filling our pillowcases with points in a candy-based Non-Regulation Game Time. Grab a jar of pickles and join us!GUESTS👤 Josh GondelmanTOPICSLead Topic: 🤡 It: Welcome To DerryAround The Dial: 💍 Married At First SightAround The Dial: 🤠 The LowdownAround The Dial: 💌 TaskmasterAround The Dial: 😴 Nightmares & DreamscapesThe Canon: 📰 Great News S02.E05: Night Of The Living ScreenWinner & Loser: 🕳️ The PittWinner & Loser: 😑 Nobody Wants ThisGame Time: 🍫 Trick Or Treat WilliamsSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site👍 Josh Gondelman's comedy special, Positive Reinforcement🙌 Josh's newsletter, That's Marvelous!🥱 Nightmares & Dreamscapes E05🧭 The text of "The Road Virus Heads North"🔥 The Extra Hot Great Club page🌀 Hurricane Melissa resource and donation links📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / HBO

Blue Bloods is dead, but its spirit lives on (along with however many actors don't have anything better to do) in Boston Blue, CBS's new Beantown-set spinoff. How authentic is it to the Boston a Bostonian would know? Boston's own Margaret H. Willison returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Downey Wrote That, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Love Is Blind, and Task. Never Not Mike pitches the Mad Men episode "The Suitcase" for induction into The Canon -- because no, it wasn't in there already, and we were surprised about that too. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that only has a little bit to say. Park yourself at the Green Monster and join us!GUESTS👤 Margaret H. WillisonTOPICSLead Topic: 🦞 Boston BlueAround The Dial: ✍🏻 Downey Wrote ThatAround The Dial: 😇 The Good WifeAround The Dial: 👨‍🦯 Love Is BlindAround The Dial: 🛩️ TaskThe Canon: 🧳 Mad Men S04.E07: The SuitcaseWinner & Loser: 🏛️ Michael FassbenderWinner & Loser: 😷 Rockmond DunbarGame Time: 😶 Get Margaret ThereSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram🦋 Margaret on Bluesky🌴 Again With Again With This✈️ EEHG 372 [in which we talked about Task]🕵🏻‍♀️ Best Evidence👀 Game Time answers: Streaming, Westeros, Neilsen, Pivot, Showrunner, Dharma, Crossover, Wednesday, Chyron, Maggie📷 Photo: John Medland / CBS

Tim Robinson is back with The Chair Company, a cringe-com with a mystery (or is it??) at its center, and Variety's Alison Herman is also back to talk about it: the little self-flagellating moments the show gets right, whether it's the Tim Robinson property for people who usually don't enjoy Tim Robinson, and why Robinson is like David Lynch. We went Around The Dial with 9-1-1s old and new, Devil In Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, and The Alabama Solution, and Tara busted out her see! cret! skill! at Canon pitching for a first-season episode of Platonic. Julio Torres won, Yellowjackets lost, and the panel tried to hit IMDb episode-count bulls-eyes in the second half of the 30 Under 30 Game Time. Leave that deviled-egg remnant right where it is and come join us!GUESTS👤 Alison HermanTOPICSLead Topic: 🪑 The Chair CompanyAround The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: NashvilleAround The Dial: 🚒 9-1-1Around The Dial: 🤡 Devil In DisguiseAround The Dial: 😮‍💨 The Alabama SolutionThe Canon: 🏟️ Platonic S01.E05: My Wife's BoyfriendWinner & Loser: 🔷 Julio TorresWinner & Loser: 🐝 YellowjacketsGame Time: ⬇️ 30 Under 30 Part 2SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site✍️ Alison Herman at Variety💺 Alison's review of The Chair Company for Variety📜 Sarah's review of The Alabama Solution at Best Evidence📚 Exhibit B. Books🍆 Tara's interview with Platonic's Luke Macfarlane🤝 Alison's review of Platonic S01📷 Photo: Sarah Shatz / HBO

The fourth season of Monster, Netflix's true crime anthology, concerns itself with Wisconsin serial killer (or was he? (he probably was)) Ed Gein, played by former Queer As Folk cutie Charlie Hunnam. Did it get under our skin? Richard Lawson returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Only Connect, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Richard presents the Season 2 finale of The Traitors Australia for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about the shows select actors did for up to but NOT more than 30 episodes. Take a break from wood chopping and join us! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Monster: The Ed Gein Story Around The Dial: ⛄️ Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent Around The Dial: 🔌 Only Connect Around The Dial: 🖖 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Canon: 🪃 The Traitors (AU) S02.E09 Winner & Loser: 🅱️ Ballard Winner & Loser: 🌴 Beverly Hills, 90210 Game Time: ⬇️ 30 Under 30: Part 1 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site 🦋 Richard Lawson on Bluesky ✍🏻 Sarah's review of Monster: The Ed Gein Story at Best Evidence 💂🏻 Richard's profile page (including his Monster: The Ed Gein Story review) at The Guardian 💄 The Listen To Sassy Club 🎹 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranking of the tracks on Billy Joel's The Stranger, with Dan Rogge 📷 Photo: Netflix

Pretend we made a witty "third and taking-too-long" pun, because that's what we -- and guest Kim "Best Thing" Reed -- thought about Glen Powell vehicle Chad Powers. It isn't bad, but between the first-drafty jokes and getting stuck between two tones, we're not sure you should watch all the way to the end zone. Okay, let's ditch the football puns to go Around The Dial with On Brand With Jimmy Fallon, Kim's recent-reality overview, and Sarah's High Maintenance rewatch; and let's see if the panel respected "Authority," Sarah's L&O: SVU Canon pitch. Nicole Beharie won, Mid-Century Modern lost, and we juggled a hot potato of HBO series "lifers" in Game Time. Pair your podcast app with your Cybertruck's sound system and join us!GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSAnnouncement: 📢 Club Drive UpdateLead Topic: 🏈 Chad PowersAround The Dial: 📦 On Brand With Jimmy FallonAround The Dial: 🏃🏻‍♂️ Competitive Reality RoundupAround The Dial: 🚬 High MaintenanceThe Canon: 🐑 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E17: AuthorityWinner & Loser: 🩸 All The Sinners BleedWinner & Loser: 🛋️ Mid-Century ModernGame Time: ↔️ Cap'n Connors's Oops! All HBO SurvivorsSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🍏 Kim Reed's "Most Awesome Thing" segment in EEHG 374🏟️ Tara's Chad Powers review at Cracked💀 Tara's interview with Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson🌴 Again With This🪦 Sarah's essay on the passing of Robin Williams🏀 EHG 212 with the monkey/basketball🛋️ EHG 556 on Mid-Century Modern📷 Photo: Disney / Daniel Delgado Jr.

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has reunited with his S03 guest star Ethan Hawke for The Lowdown, a shaggy Tulsa neo-noir. Should you put it high on your list of priorities? We discuss. (Spoiler: yes.) Around The Dial takes us to Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian, The Great Pottery Throw Down, and Lynley. Tara pitches the Regular Show episode "Sleep Cycle" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we finish up with a Game Time on various TV actors' personal and professional histories. Give yourself some rudimentary first aid and join us!GUESTS👤 Patrick MonahanTOPICSLead Topic: 📚 The LowdownAround The Dial: 🤣 Caleb Hearon: Model ComedianAround The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw DownAround The Dial: 👮🏻‍♀️ LynleyThe Canon: 🦝 Regular Show S07.E11: Sleep CycleWinner & Loser: 🫆 Pete Earley and Gerald ShurWinner & Loser: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is BlindGame Time: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I EverSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Patrick Monahan on Bluesky🥃 Tara's review of The Lowdown at Cracked📰 “Why ‘Rez Dogs’ creator Sterlin Harjo made a love letter to Tulsa and its contradictions” at the Los Angeles Times🤣 Tara's review of Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian at Cracked👀 Alan Sepinwall's newsletter, What's Alan Watching?⏳ The What A Time To Be Alive podcast🏦 The Extra Hot Great Mutual Aid Vault🛂 PBS Passport📷 Photo: Shane Brown / FX

The Morning Show is back to bring us its version of 2024. Can any of us possibly be ready to go back there? Maybe not, but we don't have the strength to resist gorging on The Morning Show's baloney, either. Morning Show-ologist Christina Tucker returns to talk about it. Around The Dial clicks through Futurama S13, Rivals, and Celebrity Weakest Link, then takes a trip to the cinema for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Margaret pitches The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air episode "The Big Four-Oh" -- yes, the one where Aunt Viv slays a dance audition in a clip you've probably watched at least once if not 20 times -- for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close on a Game Time everyone should swipe right on. Get yourself the strongest coffee commercially available and join us!GUESTS👤 Christina TuckerTOPICSLead Topic: ☀️ The Morning ShowAround The Dial: 🚀 FuturamaAround The Dial: 💷 RivalsAround The Dial: 🔗 The Weakest LinkAround The Dial: 🏰 Downton AbbeyThe Canon: 💃 The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air S02.E07: The Big Four-OhWinner & Loser: 👨🏻‍⚖️ Presumed InnocentWinner & Loser: 👊 The guy who sucker-punched James McAvoy in TorontoGame Time: 👩🏻‍🦳 Silver VixensSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Christina Tucker on Bluesky🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S13🤦🏻‍♂️ Tara's essay on aka Charlie Sheen📰 Christina's newsletter, Chaos! It's The New Cocaine!💿 The hip-hop episode of Celebrity Weakest Link on YouTube👑 1999: The Podcast on The Thomas Crown Affair, guest-starring Sarah📷 Photo: Apple

Will Leitch, sportswriter and newspaper journalist, is back to talk about The Office-verse sitcom The Paper -- and whether you should bother with the season that just dropped in its entirety on Peacock. Has the world moved on from the TV mockumentary? Does this show understand what it is to love reporting? And does any of that matter if the show's not quite funny enough? Later, we went Around The Dial with Only Murders In The Building's fifth season, 30 Rock's YouTube channel, and Love Con Revenge before Will tried to find room in the Canon budget for Dept. Q's premiere episode. Going Dutch won, Selena Gomez lost, and we found out who skips the closing credits in Game Time. Take a break from lining that birdcage and have a listen!GUESTS👤 Will LeitchTOPICSAnnouncement: 🥴 Drunk Dave ComethLead Topic: 📰 The PaperAround The Dial: 🏢 Only Murders In The BuildingAround The Dial: 🪨 30 RockAround The Dial: 🖤 Love Con RevengeThe Canon: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dept. Q S01.E01: Episode 1Winner & Loser: 🪖 Going DutchWinner & Loser: 🍪 Selena GomezGame Time: 🎶 Outré OutrosSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📚 Keep up with all things Will Leitch🧻 Tara's review of The Paper at Cracked🏢 Tara's Only Murders S05 review🪨 30 Rock's YouTube channel👠 Step On Me Giganta🖤 Sarah's review of Love Con Revenge at Best Evidence🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our discussion of Dept. Q in EHG 565🏝 The Lonely Island And Seth Meyers Podcast "Listener Q&A Episode 5"📷 Photo: Aaron Epstein / Peacock