462: Launching An Investigation On Deadloch
Anthony Farrell joins us from Australia to discuss Prime Video's new crime drama spoof import!
1hr 5m Jun 07, 2023
1hr 5m
461: Sticking Around For I Think You Should Leave
Will Hines is back to discuss Tim Robinson's surreal sketch show, plus a Lodge 49 Canon submission and a Monopoly-based Game Time!
1hr 15m May 31, 2023
1hr 15m
460: Can Clone High Duplicate Past Success?
National bridge champion John Ramos is back to talk about the cult animated fave, plus GLOW enters the Canon ring, and more!
1hr 29m May 24, 2023
1hr 29m
459: Heating Things Up With Our Summer TV Preview
First-time guest Phillip Maciak joins us to discuss what we're looking forward to (and...not).
1hr 21m May 17, 2023
1hr 21m
458: Going Down Deep Into Silo
Richard Lawson returns to talk about AppleTV+'s new dystopian drama!
1hr 25m May 10, 2023
1hr 25m
457: Spring Fling Forcenings
Listeners like you forcened us to watch TV episodes on the theme "Spring Fling." We MAY be mad.
1hr 14m May 03, 2023
1hr 14m
456: Making Womb For Dead Ringers
Roxana Hadadi returns to talk about Prime Video's gender-swapped remake!
1hr 13m Apr 26, 2023
1hr 13m
455: Is The Final Season of Barry Killing It?
Esther Zuckerman is back to chat about HBO's actor/hitman dramedy, plus an Other Two Canon pitch and more Tube Tuners!
1hr 13m Apr 19, 2023
1hr 13m
454: Chewing Over Beef
Will Leitch returns to talk about Netflix's new dark dramedy!
1hr 26m Apr 12, 2023
1hr 26m
453: Should You Press Play On Tetris?
Monty Ashley on the new "thriller" from Apple+, plus a Moonlighting Nonac submission and the return of 19 Questions!
1hr 34m Apr 05, 2023
1hr 34m
452: Talking Your Ear Off About Yellowjackets
Pamela Ribon returns to talk about Showtime's teen-girl survival drama!
1hr 51m Mar 29, 2023
1hr 51m
451: TV Nerd Thunderdome
They're taping up their glasses and preparing for combat!
1hr 40m Mar 22, 2023
1hr 40m
450: Do You Know What Time It Is? It's Curtain Time!
We're shamelessly stealing one player's joke to title this special Broadway/TV Listener Game Time!
1hr 22m Mar 15, 2023
1hr 22m
449: Should You Rock Out With Daisy Jones And The Six?
Kari Race joins us for Amazon Prime's Fleetwood Mac-umentary, plus a Bob's Burgers for the Canon and much more!
1hr 29m Mar 08, 2023
1hr 29m
448: Celebrating The Return Of Party Down
Mark Lisanti returns to talk about the third season of the beloved cater-com!
1hr 23m Mar 01, 2023
1hr 23m
447: Getting Comfortable With The Company You Keep
Krystal Farmer returns for ABC's new heist-family drama, plus Leverage tries to break into the Canon and an actress-c.v. Game Time!
1hr 29m Feb 22, 2023
1hr 29m
446: Pairing Up For Perfect Match
Christina Tucker returns to discuss Netflix's new dating show team-up!
1hr 26m Feb 15, 2023
1hr 26m
445: Should You Mark Dear Edward Return To Sender?
Mark Blankenship returns for AppleTV+'s latest sad-people series, plus a Cheers for the Canon, GBBO crackpottery, and more.
1hr 21m Feb 08, 2023
1hr 21m
444: Telling The Truth About Poker Face
Alan Sepinwall returns to discuss Peacock's new Lyonne/Johnson Columb-alike!
1hr 48m Feb 01, 2023
1hr 48m
443: Revenge Of The Listener Game Time Tournament
Our listeners test their nerves of steel through four rounds of Game Time play!
1hr 29m Jan 25, 2023
1hr 29m
442: Making Mushroom For The Last Of Us
Omar Gallaga returns to talk about HBO's new video game-inspired drama!
1hr 20m Jan 18, 2023
1hr 20m
441: Did Mayfair Witches Cast A Spell On Us?
Eve Batey is back to discuss toothless Anne Rice, fake New Orleans, a Supernatural Nonac submission and more!
1hr 28m Jan 11, 2023
1hr 28m
440: Let's Play Mullendash
Soon to sweep the nation: the game that marries Balderdash with EW mainstay Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet.
1hr 29m Jan 04, 2023
1hr 29m
439: Raising Our Glasses For A New Year's Eve Game Time
Getting bubbly in our last episode of 2022!
36m Dec 28, 2022
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438: Our Christmas Attack Zone
Happy holidays and bewildering time off! We're hanging our stockings with care so we bring you two holiday episodes from the EEHG archives.
1hr 6m Dec 21, 2022
1hr 6m
437: Do They Know What Time It Is?
Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concocted by some of our smartest, most devious and possibly French game makers. TOPICS Game Time: 🥖 En Français Game Time: 🌟 Special Guest Star Heather Locklear Game Time: 🛋️ The One With The One With Tit...
1hr Dec 14, 2022
1hr
436: 2022 Guest Thought Experiments
We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham (https://extrahotgreat.com/guests/andrew-cunningham/) 👤 Robert Krut (https://extrahotgreat.com/guests/robert-krut/) 👤 Brandi Brown (https://extrahotgreat.com/guests/brandi-brown/...
1hr 3m Dec 07, 2022
1hr 3m
435: Feasting On Snack Vs. Chef
Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Mythic Quest, Selena + Chef, and an update on Sarah's Cheers rewatch. Adam pitches ...
1hr 30m Nov 30, 2022
1hr 30m
434: Swiping Right On Fleishman Is In Trouble
Book critic and The Maris Review host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of Fleishman Is In Trouble, whether it works as TV given its structure as a book, and how. Is it better for people who didn't read the book? Is the pleasure in watching what Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and the former Seth Cohen do with the roles? And is Hannah the most sympathetically slap...
1hr 8m Nov 23, 2022
1hr 8m
433: Does Tulsa King Rule?
Did Paramount+'s Tulsa King SLY-ly (sorry) work its way into our hearts? The Filmcast's Devindra Hardawar is back to talk about the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, good pacing, bad wigs, and making room for weirdly charming B-minus viewing in your viewing diet. Later, we had Tyson drive us Around The Dial, with stops for The Big Brunch, the ends of The Crown and Atlanta AND The Good Fight, and true...
1hr 24m Nov 16, 2022
1hr 24m
432: Is The Crown Still One Of TV's Jewels?
The Crown is back for a new season, with a whole carriage load of new actors; Go Fug Yourself's Jessica Morgan returns to talk about whether its late 20th century setting has made it less compelling. Around The Dial takes us through Weird, Jersey Shore, Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, and a current TV ad that's really boiling Dave's potatoes. Sarah presents The Sopranos episode "Christopher"...
1hr 29m Nov 09, 2022
1hr 29m
431: Checking Into The White Lotus
The White Lotus is back on HBO for a second season of subjecting rich jerks to various indignities (now in Italy); Joe Reid returns to discuss, among other things, which guests may deserve better than they're getting, and who that season premiere corpse might be. Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind, The Vow, and the series premiere of You. Sophie makes the case for our inducting The ...
1hr 33m Nov 02, 2022
1hr 33m
430: Bundle Up For Our Winter TV Preview!
Big thanks to Nick for stepping in last-minute for our winter-television preview: all the new or returning shows we're psyched for (like The White Lotus), all the shows we should be psyched for but aren't (like Welcome To Chippendales), and a bunch of shows nobody should be psyched for or even in the same room as (didn't we cancel Criss Angel in the aughts?). After Nick tried to get an episode ...
1hr 39m Oct 26, 2022
1hr 39m
429: Should You Clap Eyes On The Watcher?
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take an unsolved stalking case as the inspiration for their latest Netflix limited series; Dan Rogge returns to discuss whether anyone should be watching it OTHER than The Watcher. Around The Dial takes us through Freevee's High School, baseball on TV, and the latest episodes of The Vow. Sarah and Tara try to determine whether Dave will Hate a TV series adaptation of...
1hr 22m Oct 19, 2022
1hr 22m
428: Should You Subscribe To Alaska Daily?
Canadian journalist Danny MacEachern is back to take a look at the frustrating, but also maaaaybe promising, Alaska Daily, which spends a good half of its first episode giving us unnecessary backstory and throwing around phrases like "woke wussies" before finally getting into the real story. We discussed star Hilary Swank's wigs, why a network version of this show is never going to center the I...
1hr 18m Oct 12, 2022
1hr 18m
427: Sitting Down With Interview With The Vampire
The Vampire Lestat is back in a new series adaptation of Interview With The Vampire at AMC, and You Must Remember This creator Karina Longworth is here to talk about all its pleasures -- which definitely extend past its bare butts, but very much include its bare butts. Around The Dial takes us through new seasons of The Amazing Race and Abbott Elementary; a new evolution of Celebrity Jeopardy!;...
59m Oct 05, 2022
59m
426: I'll Make My Own Star Wars With Hookers And Blackjack
The Star Wars universe has expanded yet again, and Never Not Funny's Matt Belknap joins us for the first time to talk about Andor, a Rogue One prequel of sorts that's much more meditative and "adult" than you'd expect from the franchise. Dave quizzes us on our favorite character from the new show, plus we talk about world-building, the first real swear word in Lucasfilm IP, whether we'd buy And...
1hr 36m Sep 28, 2022
1hr 36m
425: Oh Boy, It's A New Quantum Leap!
Everything old continues to be new again as NBC brings its late '80s/early '90s time travel series Quantum Leap back for a new generation; Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk joins us to discuss whether we wish we could travel back to stop it from happening. Around The Dial takes us through Los Espookys, Reservation Dogs, Halt And Catch Fire, and Journeyman. For the long-awaited return of Wil...
1hr 42m Sep 21, 2022
1hr 42m
424: Is American Gigolo Doing It For Us?
Forty-two years after Paul Schrader's American Gigolo pioneered the sex-worker neo-noir micro-genre, Showtime's limited series of the same name is trying it again -- and returning guest Sarah Baker joins us to talk about tone problems; weird directing choices; pervasive misogyny that's even more tiresome than usual; MVP Rosie O'Donnell; and whether Jon Bernthal should have gotten better writing...
1hr 15m Sep 14, 2022
1hr 15m
423: TV Teacher Thunderdome
It's the first week of September -- traditionally the time when students go back to school (and if your district is one of those cess pools that call kids back in early August: get yourself on the school board and FIX IT). So in recognition of the moment, we've chosen 27 TV educators to face each other in the Thunderdome and, per usual, fight to the death. Do magic users and telepaths have an a...
1hr 11m Sep 07, 2022
1hr 11m
422: Should You Enter Therapy With The Patient?
After co-creating The Americans, where have Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg gone next? Back to FX...on Hulu, with the psychological thriller The Patient, and first-time guest Patrick Monahan is joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Star Trek: Lower Decks, For All Mankind, Industry and Mike. Tara pitches the Regular Show episode "That's My Television!" for induction into the...
1hr 22m Aug 31, 2022
1hr 22m
421: Should You Take House Of The Dragon For A Ride?
Our resident (reluctant) GoT expert Jeff Drake is back to talk about HBO's ponderous, poorly wigged prequel to Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon -- who it's for, why it's so murkily lit, when it's going to get out of the administrative world-building weeds and get interesting, and which actors are making us long for the upcoming time jump. After that, we jumped into Around The Dial with She-...
1hr 38m Aug 24, 2022
1hr 38m
420: Playing Ball With A League Of Their Own
Beloved baseball movie in which there is no crying A League Of Their Own is the latest film to get a series reboot -- with a bunch of twists -- on Amazon Prime. We talked to Yahoo! Sports's Liz Roscher about the casting, the bifurcated stories, whether the baseball holds up, what happened to the Rockford Peaches' manager (and to Candy Bar Guy #1), and all that 2022 dialogue rattling around 1943...
1hr 32m Aug 17, 2022
1hr 32m
419: Should You Sleep On The Sandman?
Netflix is the latest platform to turn a Neil Gaiman property into a series with The Sandman. How does this one go? First-time guest Ilan Muskat is here to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of Harley Quinn; Season 2 of Girls5Eva; the TV movie Helter Skelter; and the ILM doc Light & Magic. Keira cashes in her Extra Credit to make us turn unexpected TV properties into video...
1hr 7m Aug 10, 2022
1hr 7m
418: Should You Get Consciously Uncoupled?
Sex & The City creator Darren Star has teamed up with Modern Family alumnus Jeffrey Richman to create Uncoupled, a NEW show about dating in New York, but from the perspective of a fortysomething gay man who's just been dumped HARD after 17 years. Should you make room for it on your schedule? Malcolm Venable returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Surface, Hulu's forthcoming T...
1hr 6m Aug 03, 2022
1hr 6m
417: Should You Make An Offer On The Ugliest House In America?
Wretched real estate, Retta, and rocks indoors -- The Ugliest House In America is back, and so is Alison Herman, as we debate which of the houses "in paradise" is the most hideous, talk Sarah through money-pit PTSD, and wonder if we haven't finally found a show that actually belonged on Quibi. Then we went Around The Dial with a Hider In My House follow-up, Rap Sh!t, and Black Bird before Tara ...
1hr Jul 27, 2022
1hr
416: Living (In The Walls) For Phrogging: Hider In My House
Did you know that the crime of secretly living in someone else's house happens so much it has A NAME? It's called "phrogging," and it's the subject of Lifetime's new true crime show, Phrogging: Hider In My House, which we're discussing with returning guest (and house-hider survivor) Robert Krut! Around The Dial takes us through 101 Places To Party Before You Die; a new season of Married At Firs...
1hr 36m Jul 20, 2022
1hr 36m
415: A Trio Of Listener Forcenings
We asked our Patreon supporters to suggest TV episodes we should be forced to watch, and boy, did they come through. From their many picks, we've gone with Breakout Kings's Season 2 premiere "An Unjust Death"; "Basic Lupine Urology," Community's take on Law & Order; and a Buck Rogers episode that features both frenetic youth dancing and Jerry Orbach. Join us, won't you? TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 B...
48m Jul 13, 2022
48m
414: Holiday Extravaganza
EEHG 104: Spreading Around The Holiday Cheer Eric A writes: lots of shows have done Christmas episodes. Friends did some great Thanksgiving episodes, and Roseanne was known for its Halloween episodes. Pitch an episode for a lesser-known or covered holiday. What show should do the episode, and how does it teach (or subvert) the message of the day? EEHG 112: Making Your Theme Park Mark J...
52m Jul 06, 2022
52m
413: Should You Go Back For Seconds Of The Bear?
Nadia Chaudhury is back to beef up our panel's discussion of The Bear, Hulu's tense, swear-packed story of a young chef's return to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop -- and how his fine-dining past collides with a blue-collar present. Is Jeremy Allen White giving us William Fichtner vibes as Carmy? Can Sarah get enough of Richie's profanity? Is the show really about Carmy's journey, or ...
1hr 16m Jun 29, 2022
1hr 16m