Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

University of California (NOT California University...you'll see) faculty member Bobby Krut returns to talk about Sandra Oh's new English-department half-hour dramedy on Netflix, The Chair. We discussed the almost-perfect pacing and casting, underrating Amanda Peet at your peril, whether Holland Taylor should get a spinoff, and more. Then we went Around The Dial with Nine Perfect Strangers, Messyness, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, and Unforgotten before Doug tasked us with adding a Russian Roulette-style trapdoor to a TV moment. Sarah wouldn't let the bird rest in her Canon presentation for a fifth-season Cheers episode; true crime won and Mike Richards lost; and the truth was once again stranger than fiction in a Game Time animé sequel. Don't pine for a crumpled podcast; listen to this shiny new episode of Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Robert KrutTOPICSLead Topic: 🪑 The Chair Around The Dial: 9️⃣ Nine Perfect Strangers Around The Dial: 🗑 Messyness Around The Dial: ↩️ I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson Around The Dial: 🙇‍♀️ Unforgotten Extra Credit: 🔫 Russian RouletteThe Canon: 🍻 Cheers S05.E09: Thanksgiving OrphansWinner & Loser: 👍 Josh DuhamelWinner & Loser: 👎 Michael RichardsGame Time: 🧠 More Animé BullshitNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 369 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🪶 Bobby Krut's website🐦 Bobby on Twitter📷 Bobby on Instagram📺 The Kominsky Method on Netflix💰 The National Network of Abortion Funds🔎 The "Bet-Crap" on Best Evidence🔫 A Russian Roulette reference video🙋‍♀️ The The Thing About Pam podcast

With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW, Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of Michael Waldron's Heels; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs, The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island, Big Brother, Animal Kingdom, and What If...?. David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the talents of both January Jones and David Duchovny to the fullest advantage. Joe presents the Girls5Eva episode "Cease And Desist" for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and head straight into a Game Time that gets a little romantic. Get into your spangliest leggings and listen!GUESTS👤 Joe ReidTOPICSLead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ Heels Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs Around The Dial: 🧘 The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🏝 Fantasy Island (2021) Around The Dial: 👨‍👦 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🦌 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🤔 What If Extra Credit: 🚁 Rigid Air VehiclesThe Canon: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And DesistWinner & Loser: 👍 CornWinner & Loser: 👎 Men behaving badlyGame Time: 🧠 Double DateNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 368 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter👡 Joe's Heels review at Primetimer🤼‍♂️ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider👠 LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste🌺 Mitchell Kuga at Vox on The White Lotus's portrayal of Native Hawaiian characters🧘‍♂️ Tara discussing The White Lotus with Dave Chen on his Patreon podcast✍️ Joe's author page on Primetimer🏆 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast on Twitter🦊 Sarah's Primetimer post about Season 4 of Animal Kingdom📚 Exhibit B. Books📷 January Jones on Instagram⚖️ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism

Kamille Washington of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast is back to discuss Mr. Corman, a (possibly too) slow-building show about a musician turned grade-school teacher/anxiety sufferer and his angst. Did star/producer/crafty coordinator Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on too many jobs -- and not enough fresh story? Why couldn't the show be about Arturo Castro's character? And can we look forward to a Debra Wingeraissance? We went Around The Dial with First Wives Club's second season, FBoy Island, Real Housewives Of Potomac, CNBC crime shows, and UFO; then Courtney and Craig asked us which TV characters are the most likely to vape obnoxiously (and none of us had any trouble answering). We conferred on whether a New Girl episode was adorkable enough for the Canon, then declared a Winner and a Loser of the week before finding out whether a superpowered Game Time was our kryptonite. Get your sneakers off the couch and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kamille WashingtonTOPICSLead Topic: 🥱 Mr. Corman Around The Dial: ♣️ First Wives Club Around The Dial: 🍆 FBoy Island Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: 🥷 Super Heists Around The Dial: 💶 Money Court Around The Dial: 🛸 UFO Extra Credit: 💨 Who Here Vapes?The Canon: 👧🏼 New Girl S02.E15: CoolerWinner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Organized Crime Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael RichardsGame Time: 🧠 Alter EgosNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 367 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Kamille Washington on Twitter✋🏽 Listen to the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast🎥 Daniel Fienberg's Mr. Corman review for The Hollywood Reporter🦤 Jen Chaney's at Vulture🏝 Joe Reid reviews FBoy Island for Primetimer🗣 Tara's Paul Scheer interview at Decider📰 The Best Evidence newsletter📷 Photo: Apple TV+

The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap. Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle, Nailed It!, Pop-Up Video, and Battle Of The Network Stars, before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People. AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz résumés for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Jeff DrakeTOPICSLead Topic: 🫧 Soap Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🎂 Nailed It Around The Dial: 📼 Pop-Up Video Around The Dial: 🏃‍♀️ Battle Of The Network Stars The Canon: 🧍‍♂️ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10Winner & Loser: 👍 Ted Lasso Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazing Stories Game Time: 🧠 Working Hard Or Hardly Working?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter👰‍♀️ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montré Burton at Decider🌳 Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park, on AppleTV+💿 Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp📼 Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video🌠 Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars🏃🏻‍♂️ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay🎶 Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon

When schedulers at the Food Network foiled our original plans for this episode, our returning guest Will Ellis rolled with the punches and joined us to talk about Netflix's bizarre new dating show, Sexy Beasts! Around The Dial takes us through the new season of Married At First Sight, The Real Housewives Of Potomac, Married To Medicine, and Search Party. Last week's guest Sean Pflueger returns...via an Extra Credit question about actors whose range we underestimated. Will presents the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked episode "It Takes Two" for submission to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roar and scratch our way through a Non-Regulation Game Time. Get a beer (good luck drinking it around your bottle-nosed dolphin special effects makeup) and listen!GUESTS👤 Will EllisTOPICSLead Topic: 👹 Sexy Beasts Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac Around The Dial: 💊 Married To Medicine Around The Dial: 👀 Search Party Extra Credit: 🤦‍♂️ UnderestimatedThe Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Untucked S01.E01: It Takes TwoWinner & Loser: 👍 YouTuber ShamookWinner & Loser: 👎 The WGAGame Time: 🧠 Regular Beasts That Are Not Here To Be ObjectifiedNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 365 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Will Ellis on Twitter🌴 The Again With This podcast🏳️‍🌈 Harvard Kennedy School's LGBTQ Policy Journal, in the spring 2021 issue of which Will has an article📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

AppleTV+'s newest musical series, Schmigadoon!, strands a couple of contemporary big-city doctors in a strange town lost in time, requiring them to find their true loves before they can cross the bridge home. Did we true-love it, or did we feel trapped? New guest Sean Pflueger joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Stories, Never Have I Ever, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Love, Victor, and Dr. Death. Don (on behalf of the @EHGAssist crew) uses his Extra Credit segment to let us give a TV character a late-night cable access show. Tara explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking the Marvel shows on Disney+ are just very expensive advertainment. Sean pitches Schitt's Creek's "Open Mic" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with perfect pitch. Ladle up a big bowl of corn puddin' and listen in!GUESTS👤 Sean PfluegerTOPICSLead Topic: 🎼 Schmigadoon Around The Dial: 🪦 American Horror Stories Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🏫 High School Musical: The Musical The Series Around The Dial: 💕 Love Victor Around The Dial: ☠️ Dr. Death Extra Credit: 🚠 Cable AccessI Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Marvel Shows On Disney+ Are Just 2020s WebisodesThe Canon: 💩 Schitt's Creek S04.E06: Open MicWinner & Loser: 👍 CrocsWinner & Loser: 👎 Erika JayneGame Time: 🧠 Another Pair Of Jazz HandsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 364 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Sean Pflueger on Twitter🎼 Tara's Schmigadoon! review at VanityFair.com☠️ Roundup of Dr. Death reviews at Best Evidence🧵 Best Evidence's Dr. Death open thread🗣 Tara's Joshua Jackson interview at VanityFair.com🐦 EHG Assist on Twitter🐊 "The Loki Season Finale Exit Survey" at The Ringer

Nadia Chaudhury of Eater Austin joins us for the first time to talk about the second time around for Gossip Girl. Does the 2021 reboot know who it's for? Did the original benefit from the suspense surrounding Gossip Girl's identity? And will we keep watching even if Tavi Gevinson's acting doesn't improve? After Gordon Lightfoot Cole dropped in to make a request, we went Around The Dial with White Lotus, Monsters At Work, We Are Lady Parts, Heist, and This Is Pop before listener Lauren pitched an ICO (initial Canon offering) for a third-season Halt And Catch Fire episode. Kiefer won (the presidency), a Netflix show lost, and we cast about for answers in Game Time. Listen now! xoxo, EHGGUESTS👤 Nadia ChaudhuryTOPICSLead Topic: 😮 Gossip Girl Around The Dial: 🧘‍♀️ The White Lotus Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work Around The Dial: 💅🏽 We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: 🦹 Heist Around The Dial: 🍾 This Is Pop The Canon: 🧯 Halt And Catch Fire S03.E07: The ThresholdWinner & Loser: 👍 Kiefer SutherlandWinner & Loser: 👎 Cursed Game Time: 🧠 Last Minute ChangesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 363 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter🍱 Nadia at at Eater Austin👨‍🍳 Nadia's "The 38 Essential Restaurants In Austin"🪷 Willa Paskin's White Lotus review at Slate💁‍♀️ Tara's Laura Leighton piece at Decider🎄 Tara discusses You Had Me At Aloha on the It's Christmastown podcast🦹 Sarah's Heist review on Primetimer🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs📷 Photo: HBO Max

It's a holiday week: time for a good old-fashioned Forcening, in which each of your EHG regulars makes another one watch a TV episode or movie. This time, we're acknowledging July 4th by obliging one another to watch shows with "America" in the title, and Tara's first up, forcing Sarah to watch 2000's short-lived, extremely derivative, stupidly enjoyable Young Americans, a Dawson's Creek spin-off featuring references to Stephen King, Dead Poets Society, The Skulls, and kindling. ...Wait, that last thing was actually Kate Bosworth. Next, Sarah forced Dave to watch a third-season episode of cocaine fever-dream The Greatest American Hero -- a great theme song in search of half-decent CGI, a team of writers who would stay for the whole episode, and better costume strat. Finally, Dave made Tara take The American Bible Challenge, and we all learned that there's more than one Herod, it's hard to flip a fork, and Jeff Foxworthy might be America's Host. Praise God -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!TOPICSLead Topic: 🧒 Young Americans S01.E01: PilotLead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero S03.E08: Space RangerLead Topic: 📖 The American Bible Challenge S03.E09: Grand FinaleNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 362 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧒 Young Americans on Dailymotion🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero on Peacock📖 And The American Bible Challenge on Netflix

Disney Plus's latest series for teens and tweens is the very puzzle-y The Mysterious Benedict Society, based on a beloved novel, and Leigh-Ann Jackson is here to talk about how well it works! Around The Dial takes us through In Treatment, The Good Fight, Jiva!, Flack, the (sort of) final season of B-B-B-B-Bosch, CSI, and Derry Girls! Craig and Courtney argue for the Canon induction of the King Of The Hill episode "The Wedding Of Bobby Hill." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a contest that may be something, or may be nothing. No need to pass any test: our latest podcast is right here for you to enjoy!GUESTS👤 Leigh-Ann JacksonTOPICSLead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ The Mysterious Benedict Society Around The Dial: 😶‍🌫️ In Treatment Around The Dial: ✊ The Good Fight Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Jiva Around The Dial: 🧨 Flack Around The Dial: 🅱️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🍎 The Crime AppleAround The Dial: 🇮🇪 Derry Girls The Canon: 🏆 King Of The Hill S03.E14: The Wedding Of Bobby HillWinner & Loser: 👍 True-crime castingWinner & Loser: 👎 Jared PadaleckiGame Time: 🧠 Once Again, Is This Anything?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 361 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Leigh-Ann Jackson on Twitter🛋 "New Pop Culture Tred Alert: the Black Lady Therapist" at Slate👩‍🚒 Tara on the 9-1-1 franchise at Primetimer.com🛍 Leanna Lin's Wonderland

The latest new series from AppleTV+ is Physical, starring Rose Byrne as an aerobics addict in 1981 San Diego; Jeb Lund joins us to discuss whether the first three episodes left us wanting more, or...wanting more of GLOW (R.I.P.). Around The Dial takes us through Cruel Summer, Holey Moley, Exterminate All The Brutes, American Barbecue Showdown, the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special, and Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell. Tara and Sarah share a Tiny Triumph (thanks, Slate!), and Shan takes to Extra Credit to have us gender-swap TV detectives. Jeb makes his case for the Rick & Morty episode "The Ricklantis Mixup" to be inducted into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time with a lot of pomp and circumstance. Pull on your leg warmers and join us!GUESTS👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 🤸‍♀️ Physical Around The Dial: 😎 Cruel Summer Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Around The Dial: 🪦 Exterminate All The Brutes Around The Dial: 🍖 American Barbecue Showdown Around The Dial: 🎑 I'll Be Gone In The Dark Around The Dial: 😬 Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Again With Them in SlateExtra Credit: 🕵️‍♀️ Flipping The DetectivesThe Canon: 🏆 Rick And Morty S03.E07: The Ricklantis MixupWinner & Loser: 👍 Legendary Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael CostelloGame Time: 🧠 Dads, Grads, And BradsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 360 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter🏌️‍♂️ Vulture's roundup of Season 3's new Holey Moley holes🧊 Tara's review of The Cube at Primetimer🎄 Jeb's Hallmark podcast It's Christmastown on Facebook🎑 Sarah's review of the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special at Primetimer🎧 Slate's article on B-list stars' podcasts recapping their own shows