Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Elliot Stabler has returned from his ignominious exile in...uh, a very nice-sounding job in Italy, and into an SVU spinoff that will find him Taking! His wife's murder! Personally! all over the Mob. Christina Tucker joins us to discuss this new vehicle and what a(n unpleasantly) surprising departure it actually is from the Law & Order model. Around The Dial takes us through Made For Love, Wipeout, Godzilla vs. Kong (on HBO Max! Watch it while you can! A lot!), and The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. Olivia makes the case for Doctor Who's "Silence In The Library" to be inducted into our Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time that has us choosing some odd numbers. Get on the Wonder Wheel and crank us up!GUESTS👤 Christina TuckerTOPICSLead Topic: 👮‍♂️ Law & Order: Organized Crime Around The Dial: 😍 Made For Love Around The Dial: 🔴 Wipeout Around The Dial: 🦍 Godzilla vs. KongAround The Dial: ⛄️ The Falcon And The Winter Soldier The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S04.E08: Silence In The LibraryWinner & Loser: 👍 C.S.I.: Vegas Winner & Loser: 👎 Paul PierceGame Time: 🧠 I'm Not Like The OthersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 349 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter🧱 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of the Organized Crime premiere🔀 Variety's list of the best L&O intra-franchise crossovers😖 Tara's review of FX's Hysterical👩🏻‍🌾 Christina's review of Martha Stewart's Very Good Things at the Boston Globe✋🏽 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast🌈 Christina at Autostraddle

Reality-television expert Andy is back to talk about Pooch Perfect, and why you shouldn't sit, stay in front of the show, including awkward hosting by Rebel Wilson, consent issues with dyeing dogs, and a total lack of narrative tension. Matters improved with Around The Dial, as we discussed Genius: Aretha, Superstore, Race To The Center Of The Earth, Tough As Nails, The Bridge, and Housewives in the age of COVID before generating a suite of new Survivor themes for Josh's Extra Credit. After Andy tried to find Starz's The Chair a seat in The Canon, true crime won, CBS lost, and Dan Cassino forced us to answer casting calls during Game Time. Give yourself a treat: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Andy DehnartTOPICSLead Topic: 🐶 Pooch Perfect Around The Dial: 🤯 Genius Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌎 Race To The Center Of The Earth Around The Dial: 💪 Tough As Nails Around The Dial: 🌉 The Bridge Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Extra Credit: 🗿 New Survivor ThemesThe Canon: 🪑 The Chair S01.E09: The TestWinner & Loser: 👍 True CrimeWinner & Loser: 👎 CBSGame Time: 🧠 Casting CallsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 348 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Andy Dehnart on Twitter📰 Subscribe to Andy's newsletter👓 Read Andy's reviews of The Bridge, Tough As Nails, and Race To The Center Of The Earth on Reality Blurred🗣 Tara's Ben Feldman interview for Vanity Fair📷 Photo: ABC / Robert Trachtenberg

Over New Year's, we treated our Patreon supporters to a very important thought experiment: if 27 Smurfs entered Thunderdome to compete in battles to the death, who would be the last Smurf standing? Now, we are turning our minds to the same question...but with Muppets from The Muppet Show. Naturally, we had to bring in an expert to consider the question, which is why Adam Grosswirth of the Muppeturgy podcast is here. Will Fozzie Bear emerge alive from combat with Lew Zealand and Sam the Eagle? Does Camilla the Chicken peck her way out of battle with Sweetums and Scooter? Listen as we plumb the depths of these philosophical questions and so many more!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: ☠️ Muppet ThunderdomeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 347 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter▶️ Adam's collection of relevant GIFs

We're thrilled the third time was the charm for our guest Alison Herman, as we all dug into the pro-cooking kids' show from the Obama-tainment industrial complex, Waffles + Mochi. We talked about "variety" shows for children, whether Mrs. Obama is as stiff as Mochi is adorable, and supplemental tomato facts before going Around The Dial with Step Up: High Water, kid 90, Allen vs. Farrow, Greek, Last Chance U: Basketball, and famous original 9-1-1. Dave hoped a first-season episode of Warrior had a fighting chance to get into the Canon. British divorces won, American engagements lost, and we all struggled to see the answers in Tara's non-regulation Game Time. Put a potato in some formalwear and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Alison HermanTOPICSLead Topic: 🧇 Waffles + Mochi Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Step Up: High Water Around The Dial: 👧🏼 Kid 90 Around The Dial: 💥 Allen Vs. Farrow Around The Dial: 🏺 Greek Around The Dial: 🏀 Last Chance U: Basketball Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1 The Canon: 🏆 Warrior S01.E05: The Blood and the ShitWinner & Loser: 👍 Paul Bettany and Claire FoyWinner & Loser: 👎 Chris HarrisonGame Time: 🧠 Camera-ShyNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 346 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧇 Waffles + Mochi review by Alison's colleague Justin Charity at The Ringer🍡 Sonia Saraiya's review for Vanity Fair🏛 Alison's anniversary piece on Greek🐦 Alison on Twitter💄 Listen To Sassy🌹 "I Am Your Bachelor, and I Am Also Running to Be Your Governor" by Stephanie Early Green📷 Photo: Adam Rose / Netflix

As part of the relaunch of CBS All Access as Paramount Plus, the original Season 1 cast of The Real World has reunited in their old Soho loft for a limited series, so we got back together with our former Real World recapper Kim Reed to discuss the series premiere! Also on the Paramount Plus tip, Tara also has to stress that she is not a crackpot for being irate that Oprah's interview with Harry and Meghan is somehow not on it. Around The Dial takes us through Good Girls, an update on Married At First Sight, the WandaVision finale, a Cop Rock tie-in on Last Week Tonight, and the midseason finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Lauren uses her Extra Credit to make us assemble a group of TV friends we would want to hang out with -- and who we think would enjoy hanging out with each other; then Sean makes the case for the Nonac induction of ER's Season 4 travelogue "Fathers And Sons." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a Game Time as sticky as it is speedy. After you're done taking Gouda for a quick walk around the block, join us for our latest episode!GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSLead Topic: 🌎 The Real World Homecoming: New York I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Not having Oprah's Harry and Meghan interview on Paramount Plus is a gigantic failureAround The Dial: 😊 Good Girls Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🧙🏻‍♀️ Wandavision Around The Dial: 🚓 Cop Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👯‍♀️ Make New FriendsThe Nonac: 🩻 ER S04.E07: Fathers And SonsWinner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO MaxGame Time: 🧠 The Wide Stick That Gives You The EdgeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 345 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim on Twitter🌎 Andy Dehnart's The Real World Homecoming: New York premiere review🦤 Jen Chaney's review at Vulture🗞 James Poniewozik's review at The New York Times🎥 Tara's review at Variety🤴🏻 "Why Isn't Oprah's Bombshell Interview With Meghan and Harry on Paramount Plus?" at Variety👰‍♀️ The Married At First Sight scene where two women shut Chris down HARD🎞 Tara on Slashfilmcast👀 Alan Sepinwall's podcast, Too Long Didn't Watch🗓 Last Week Tonight's "Raids" segment on YouTube🎶 March MASTAS 2021: Ultimate Teen Idols

Brandon is back to talk about last weekend's Brutal Bridesmaids and its strange lack of bloodshed, plus ugly bridal fashion, an emergency male-stripper substitution, and realistic wedding-party cliques. We went Around The Dial with Close Enough, Punky Brewster's reboot, Search Party, Murder Among The Mormons, and Dave's 911 Lone Star report before re-imagining legendary episodes of TV as Lifetime movies in an Extra Credit from David Ellis Dickerson. We dug into a classic episode of The Mole for Canon Consideration, then declared the GLOW team winners and Joss Whedon a huge loser before heading to the DC-verse for Game Time. Chug that Booty Blaster; it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Brandon TOPICS Lead Topic: 👰‍♀️ Brutal Bridesmaids Around The Dial: 🏠 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🧑‍🎤 Punky Brewster Around The Dial: 🔦 Search Party Around The Dial: ☠️ Murder Among The Mormons Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👼 Mother, May I Sleep With Angel? The Canon: 🏆 The Mole S02.E11: The Eleventh Betrayal Winner & Loser: 👍 GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch Winner & Loser: 👎 Joss Whedon Game Time: 🧠 It Happened in DC NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 344 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧑‍🎤 Tara's review of the new Punky Brewster for Primetimer 🐦 Find Brandon on Twitter 🎧 Listen to Brandon's podcast, The Discourse 📷 Photo: LMN

After illness prevented her from making her earlier booking, LaToya Ferguson has returned to talk about another show she feels passionate about: The CW's Superman & Lois! Is she all in on this latest iteration of the Man of Steel and his family? Listen and find out! Around The Dial takes us through It's A Sin, Cherries Wild, In & Of Itself, the full-throated endorsement of Firefly Lane that circumstances ROBBED LaToya of the chance to deliver earlier this month, and a report on a particularly bonkers episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Francoise uses her Extra Credit to ask us to share any TV-related resolutions we've made for 2021 (look, we're close to the Lunar New Year); then it's on to Tara's Canon presentation on Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: "House Party." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a game that requires us to determine, once again: is this anything? Put on your tights and cape -- or take them off; whichever feels right -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 LaToya Ferguson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Superman & Lois Around The Dial: 😈 It's A Sin Around The Dial: 🍒 Cherries Wild Around The Dial: 🗂 In & Of Itself Around The Dial: 🪰 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 📺 TV Resolutions The Canon: 🔔 Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: House Party Winner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max Game Time: 🧠 Again, Is This Anything? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 343 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 LaToya Ferguson on Twitter 🎰 Explaining the Cherries Wild slot machine disclaimer 🍒 Tara's Cherries Wild review at Primetimer 🌙 Tara's For All Mankind Season 2 review at VanityFair.com 🧛🏻‍♂️ LaToya's Vampire Diaries podcast The AMPire Diaries on Twitter 😇 LaToya's Angel podcast Angel On Top on Twitter 🗳 Linda Holmes's review of In & Of Itself at NPR.org 🐒 "Monkey Christ" 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

Austin HQ had a water pipe burst on record day so we celebrate with two EEHG about other bad things in your house. EEHG 094: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The 1974 Made For TV Movie Bad Ronald Bad Ronald lives in a hidden room in the house you just bought. What a weirdo! EEHG 096: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch Crawlspace When the search results for Bad Ronald included another TV movie called Crawlspace, Tara decided we had to stay in the "'70s paranoia about a dude living in your home's secret places" genre. But is Richard another (Bad) Ronald? Plus! Tara gives her report on Bad Ronald: the novel. Spoiler: there is toilet strat!!! TOPICS Lead Topic: 😈 Bad Ronald TV Movie Lead Topic: 🫣 Crawlspace TV Movie NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 342 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Fametracker's own Adam Sternbergh (oh, also the New York Times's but whatever)(hee) is back to discuss The Equalizer, the perfectly acceptable re-imagining of the '80s classic. Whom on the panel did the new verzh win over with casting coups, origami tradecraft, and similarities to Leverage and Blindspot? Who called it the three-camera sitcom of cop shows? And is anyone setting their DVR to watch more of it? We went Around The Dial with Framing Britney Spears, Married At First Sight, GBBO, Big Family Cooking Showdown, and Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel before finding ways to Defund The Police Shows in an Extra Credit from Francoise. Succession tried to ascend to the Canon throne; comedy both won AND lost; and we may have flunked out of electoral college during Game Time. Settle down in front of your only-on-TV massive monitor bank for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ The Equalizer Around The Dial: 🖼 The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown Around The Dial: 🫥 Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel Extra Credit: 🚔 Defund The Police Shows The Canon: 🦺 Succession S02.E04: Safe Room Winner & Loser: 🤣 Impractical Jokers Winner & Loser: 🦚 NBC Game Time: 🧠 Hail To The Chiefs NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 341 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚖️ Tara's review of The Equalizer for Primetimer 🔮 "The Oracle of Britney Spears" in Vanity Fair 👴🏼 "How The Elderly Lose Their Rights" in the New Yorker 🌅 Tara (and John Ramos!) on the Postcards From The Edge ep of Quaid In Full 💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 📷 Photo: CBS / Barbara Nitke

With our intended guest and Firefly Lane expert LaToya Ferguson forced to bow out (we'll re-book her again ASAP!), your co-hosts muddled through on Netflix's new middlebrow book adaptation to the best of our ability. Around The Dial takes us through the late Quibi sitcom Mapleworth Murders, Hulu's Canadian import Jann, HBO Max's Danish import The Investigation -- and Borgen, with which it shares approximately half its cast -- the just-announced Black Panther show coming to Disney+ from Ryan Coogler, and Syfy's Resident Alien. Tara presents the A.P. Bio episode "Teacher Jail" to The Canon. And because the Loser is VERY dark, we name the Loser THEN the Winner this week, rather than send you home on a downer. Freshen up your Aqua Net and join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 🏘 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 🍁 Mapleworth Murders Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🌾 Jann Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ The Investigation Around The Dial: 🇩🇰 Borgen Around The Dial: 🐆 Black Panther Around The Dial: 👽 Resident Alien The Canon: 🏆 A.P. Bio S01.E02: Teacher JailWinner & Loser: 👍 Whac-a-MoleWinner & Loser: 👎 Wipeout NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 340 page on ExtraHotGreat.com👩🏻‍🌾 Tara's Jann review at Primetimer💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast🐆 Collider's report on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther TV series🕵️‍♀️ Sarah's review of The Investigation at Primetimer