The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight, and then we threw Tubi's tortured new brand identity into the ring of Will Dave Hate This?. Wendy told us about Tasha Yar in her Canon pitch for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode before Netflix won, Paramount+ lost, and we confronted time rifts of our own during Game Time. Diaphragms, double spaces, and thee: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🗽 Elsbeth

Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind

Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance

Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight

Will Dave Hate This?: 🧪 Tubi branding

The Canon: 🪐 Star Trek: The Next Generation S03.E15: Yesterday's Enterprise

Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix

Winner & Loser: 👎 Paramount+

Game Time: ⏰ Where In Time Are These Nielsen Ratings?

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🐸 More on Adam's Muppets podcast, Muppeturgy

👩‍🦯 Our discussion of Love Is Blind S05 in EHG 478

🕳️ The Tubi rebrand announcement

🐴 Tara's Dick Turpin review at Cracked

📻 Sarah's As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial review at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: Elizabeth Fisher / CBS

501: Should You Make Elsbeth Your Co-Counsel?

James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shōgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV critic Alison Herman returns to join us in describing everything ELSE that's also going on. Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Abbott Elementary, S02 of Tokyo Vice, and the grand (or is it) finale of True Detective: Night Country. Returning submitter Francoise makes a case for the Better Things episode "Rising" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to The One Where We Wonder What Time It Is (it's Game Time). Put on your most sumptuous silks and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Alison Herman

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏯 Shōgun

Around The Dial: 🎒 Abbott Elementary

Around The Dial: 🚨 Tokyo Vice

Around The Dial: 👮 True Detective

The Canon: 🏖️ Better Things

Winner & Loser: 👍 Glaring SNL band member

Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix

Game Time: 🏆 The One With The Canon Episodes

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🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter

🏯 Alison's Shōgun review

👀 Tara's interview with Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Sal Gentile about A Closer Look at Cracked

🏥 Tara's review of The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy at Cracked

📰 Alison at Variety

📚 True Detective magazine for sale at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Katie Yu / FX

500: Buying Our Tickets To The Shōgun Show

When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear Taylor, Lucy, and (Bezoar) Laura try to decipher TV theme songs slowed WAY down; then, Dave hops in for a surprise round of 19 Questions. Don't just slow down everything else in your life: put it on pause and join us for this very special episode!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🐌 Slowly At First

Game Time: 😖 Revenge Of 19 Questions

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499: Slowing Down Game Time For The Listeners

This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher. Around The Dial takes us through The Amazing Race, This Fool, Kings From Queens, and Griselda. Tara pitches the Primo episode "The Game Champ" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time located next to either a wormhole or a dolphin tank. Hop in your RV and join us!

GUESTS

👤 David J. Roth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👣 Tracker

Around The Dial: 🗺️ The Amazing Race

Around The Dial: 🧁 This Fool

Around The Dial: 👑 Kings From Queens

Around The Dial: 🍚 Griselda

The Canon: 🎲 Primo S01.E04: The Game Champ

Winner & Loser: 👍 Eric Deggans

Winner & Loser: 👎 Holly Marie Combs and Wil Wheaton

Game Time: 🐬 Before & After: Deep Six Twelve Edition

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🌤️ David J. Roth on Bluesky

👣 "It's Tracker" at Defector.com

🏈 Tara's ranking of every Super Bowl lead-out at Cracked

🚫 Tara's Dos & Don'ts of action comedies at Cracked

♨️ "It Is Now Time To Discuss Jack Reacher Throwing A Grill At A Guy" at Defector

👑 Sarah's King From Queens review at Best Evidence

🎲 Tara's Primo review at Cracked

🗣️ Tara's Shea Serrano interview at Cracked

📚 Eric Deggans's book Race Baiter at Bookshop.org

📷 Photo: Lindsay Siu / CBS

498: On The Scent Of Tracker

Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks Sarah D. Bunting zoomed in on for confirmation, and what the Phoebe Waller-Bridge iteration of the show might have looked like. Then we went Around The Dial with Clone High, The Floor, Fargo, and Law & Order: SVU; and Buntsy stayed in the Order-verse to declare that she's NOT a crackpot for thinking Tony Goldwyn should play his Criminal Intent character on Mothership even though that character is dead. Alan Partridge won, Alyssa Milano lost, and we all tried to guess the horndog hearts of IMDb searchers in Game Time. This time it's cake AND death in an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Sarah Baker

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Mr. And Mrs. Smith 

Around The Dial: 🧬 Clone High 

Around The Dial: 🧠 The Floor 

Around The Dial: ❄️ Fargo 

Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Tony Goldwyn on L&O

The Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H S03.E11: Adam's Ribs

Winner & Loser: 👍 Alan Partridge

Winner & Loser: 👎 Alyssa Milano

Game Time: 📈 TV Popularity Contest

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😢 Watch Sarah Baker in Go On on Peacock

⚖️ Deadline on Tony Goldwyn joining Law & Order

💀 Fandom Wikia on Frank Goren's canonical deadness

🧬 Tara's Clone High review at Cracked.com

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs: The Weird Al vs. Everybody season

🥊 The latest round of Milano vs. Everybody...

💇🏻‍♀️ ...and Milano's stylist vs. Milano

🌴 Upcoming Again With Again With Thises will dig into the Charmed contretemps

📷 Photo: David Lee / Prime Video

497: Playing House With Mr. And Mrs. Smith

With Masters Of The Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us through a midseason Married At First Sight check-in; Season 1 of The Traitors; Bluey; and an Edgar Allan Poe episode of Homicide: Life On The Street. Jeff presents the Colin From Accounts episode "Toyota Cressida" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's fun much more than a third of the time. Fasten your seatbelt and listen!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ✈️ Masters Of The Air

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🔪 The Traitors

Around The Dial: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street

The Canon: 🦮 Colin From Accounts S01.E03: Toyota Cressida

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate Hudson

Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo

Game Time: 3️⃣ Third Word Problems

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🌤️ Jeff Drake on Bluesky

😬 "All Of The Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga" at TheCut.com

😆 Tara at Cracked.com

🛬 Jet Lag: The Game on YouTube.com

😡 The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast

🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street S04.E07: "Heartbeat" on Dailymotion

🦢 Feud: Capote vs. The Swans prep list at Best Evidence at Reality Blurred

📷 Photo: Apple

496: Does Masters Of The Air Take Flight?

We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive.

EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild One

Remember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was that bikers would just grab a waitress from a diner and make her join their gang?

EEHG 216: Dave Forces Tara To Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes

We close out our “Dry January” Forcening miniseries with Dave’s imposition on Tara: an episode of Ancient Aliens all about how desert geoglyphs were probably definitely designed by aliens as a way for humans to communicate with them. “Why?” Shut up, that’s why!

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🍽️ Watch Alice S06.E01: The Wild One on YouTube

👽 Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes on Hulu

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495: Dry January Forcenings

Mon dieu: Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not long enough? How well does star Clive Owen contend with the character's, and Humphrey Bogart's, legend? And should we strike until we get the full-frontal outtakes from the swimming scenes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office, So Help Me Todd, and For All Mankind, and Tara tried to paint a pretty picture of a King Of Queens episode for the Canon. Clone High won, Julia lost, and WE may have gotten lost in translation in a French-themed Non-Regulation Game Time. It's an all-new Extra Hot Great, and c'est magnifique.

GUESTS

👤 Caroline Lefloch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ♠️ Monsieur Spade

Around The Dial: 📬 Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office

Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♂️ So Help Me Todd

Around The Dial: 🛰️ For All Mankind

The Canon: 🤴🏻 The King Of Queens S08.E17: Present Tense

Winner & Loser: 👍 Clone High

Winner & Loser: 👎 Julia

Game Time: 🥖 Ah Ah Ah, En Français

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📜 "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice" in The New Yorker

🧑‍🚀 The For All Mankind Canon presentation in EHG 486

👑 The first King Of Queens Canon attempt in EHG 240

🦤 King Of Queens's top 50 episodes ranked at Vulture

🧸 Tara on Ted at Cracked.com

⚔️ Tara demands justice for Son Of Zorn

🎾 Joe on Break Point

🔪 How true-crimey is Leonardo DiCaprio's c.v.?

📷 Photo: Jean-Claude Lother / AMC

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494: Monsieur Spade Is A Mixed Baguette

AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record, is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial takes us through Grimsburg, Julia, The Gilded Age (including a Tiny Triumph from Brandi), Break Point, and The Bob Newhart Show. Past guest Ilan pitches Shoresy's "Players Wanted" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about screens big and small. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Brandi Brown

TOPICS

Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update

Lead Topic: 💂🏻 Criminal Record

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♂️ Grimsburg

Around The Dial: 🥖 Julia

Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age

Around The Dial: 🎾 Break Point

Around The Dial: 🛋️ The Bob Newhart Show

The Canon: 🏒 Shoresy S02.E04: Players Only

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White

Winner & Loser: 👎 Pat McAfee

Game Time: 🎬 Small Silver Screen

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🌤️ Brandi Brown on Bluesky

📸 Brandi on Instagram

🤷‍♂️ Tara's review of Grimsburg at Cracked.com

🥇 Tara's interview with Shea Serrano at Cracked.com

🎟️ Buy tickets to see Brandi Brown with headliner River Butcher at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis February 7-10

🎙️ Comedy Night at The Mudd Room in Mendota, MN, where you can see Brandi on February 14

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📷 Photo: AppleTV+

493: Recording Our Thoughts On Criminal Record

Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica dares us to watch a Monty Python's Flying Circus that breaks from both standard episode structure and good taste. And Françoise tries to exorcise the nadir of her House rewatch. You may need to suspend Dry January to get through this one, but we hope that won't stop you from joining us!

TOPICS

The Nonac: 🏝️ Survivor S39.E08: We Made It To The Merge!

The Nonac: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus S03.E08: The Cycling Tour

The Nonac: 👨🏻‍⚕️ House S02.E13: Skin Deep

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🪔 "Julius Caesar On An Aldis Lamp" on YouTube

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492: Merging, Cycling, And Offending Absolutely Everyone

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and join us!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚡️ New Thunderdome

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491: New Year, New Thunderdome

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault.

EEHG 212: Christmastalgia

Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how.

EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992

What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them.

EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!

We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef. In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎄 Reimagining Classic Christmas TV

Lead Topic: 🤑 December 6, 1992 Commercials

Lead Topic: 👩🏻‍🍳 The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!

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👼 "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org

🍇 A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com

🪨 "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co

💰 "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube

👩🏻‍🍳 Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!)

🍴 Watch the show Julia on HBO Max

🎥 Watch the documentary Julia, also on HBO Max

490: Extra Hot Great Christmas Cheer

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!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments

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489: 2023 Guest Thought Experiments

Do you know what time it is? It's Non-Regulation Game Time, courtesy of our friend Nick Rheinwald-Jones! Get out your No. 2 pencils, because Nick found a vacant high school gym, sat your co-hosts down, and administered The TV SATs. Whose scores will qualify them for consideration at prestigious Hillman College, and who's going to have to settle for Bovine University? Listen to find out!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Game Time: 🎓 The TV SATs

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488: Professor Nick's TV SATs

For years, you've heard us sing the D.B. Cooper song; now you're going to hear us talk about him. Just because no one knows what actually happened to Dan Cooper after he jumped out of that plane with a bag full of cash doesn't mean TV writers can't speculate about it in their entirely fictional shows. Three shows -- Leverage, Prison Break, and NewsRadio -- had three very different versions of how he could have ended up; we're leaping in to all three with today's very special episode!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job

Lead Topic: 🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7

Lead Topic: 🎥 Buntsy's D.B. Cooper Doc Recs

Lead Topic: 📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail; S05.E07: The Lam; S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans

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🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job on Freevee

🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7 on Hulu

📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail on The Roku Channel

📻 NewsRadio S05.E07: The Lam on The Roku Channel

📻 NewsRadio S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans on The Roku Channel

🫵 I Am DB Cooper on Prime Video

👀 Sarah's review of I Am DB Cooper at Best Evidence

🛩️ The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper on Prime Video

✍🏻 Sarah's review of The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper at Primetimer

💸 https://www.primetimer.com/quickhits/the-mystery-of-db-cooper-gives-an-old-case-new-life

🤔 Sarah's review of DB Cooper, Where Are You?! at Best Evidence

🕵🏻‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries S01.E05 on Freevee

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487: COOP! There He Is

The Crown is back with the first half (or so) of its final season; as it sends off Princess Diana, Heather Cocks joins us to discuss whether the season had to happen at all. Around The Dial takes us through The Real Housewives Of New York, Killing It, the second season of Julia, and the latest episode of Opera Wars, aka The Gilded Age. Heather makes the case for For All Mankind's "Hi Bob" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time you and all your nieces can enjoy. Shoo out any palace mice and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Heather Cocks

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown

Around The Dial: 🏙️ The Real Housewives Of New York City

Around The Dial: 🏝️ Love Island: The Game

Around The Dial: 🐊 Killin' It

Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia

Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age

The Canon: 🪐 For All Mankind S01.E07: Hi Bob

Winner & Loser: 👍 Big Little Lies

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling

Game Time: ✍🏻 Murder, She Wrote?

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🌤️ The Fug Girls on Bluesky

🦃 Tara's list of the 15 best Thanksgiving sitcom episodes

🚣🏻 The Again With This podcast, soon to start covering Dawson's Creek

🍸 Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan on Substack: Drinks With Broads

📚 Heather Cocks on Bookshop.org

🗺️ Trip-tested true crime at BestEvidence.fyi

📷 Photo: Des Willie / Netflix

486: Hanging Up The Crown

Our esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall is back, mate(y)! An Australian spin-off of an already banal cop-show franchise is maybe not the best use of his time, but we talked about NCIS-franchise stock characters, unmemorable TV for aging parents, and what happens when English actors try to play ugly Americans. Later, we went Around The Dial with The Curse, The O.C., and Murder One before wondering whether God is dead during Mike's The Leftovers Canon presentation. Alex P. Keaton won, Nickelodeon execs lost, and Game Time had us Quantum Leap-ing into TV characters -- all that and more on an all-new Extra Hot Great, oh boy!

GUESTS

👤 Alan Sepinwall

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐨 NCIS: Sydney

Tiny Triumph: 🌟 The Gilded Age

Around The Dial: 😱 The Curse

Around The Dial: 🍊 The O.C.

Around The Dial: 🔪 Murder One

The Canon: 🦁 The Leftovers S03.E05: It's A Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World

Winner & Loser: 👍 Still

Winner & Loser: 👎 Unnamed Nickelodeon pilot

Game Time: ⚛️ Quantum Leaping 2

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📚 Pre-order Alan Sepinwall's latest book, Welcome to The O.C.!

😱 Alan's review of The Curse for Rolling Stone

🙀 And Tara's for Cracked

🔪 An entirely different Murder One at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Daniel Asher Smith / Paramount+

485: Going Down Under (Navally) With NCIS: Sydney

AppleTV+'s new dramedy is a series adaptation of the famously unfinished Edith Wharton novel The Buccaneers; Margaret H. Willison joins us to discuss how it compares to the many other current and recently past entires into the thriving genre of corset TV. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight, Beckham, and Get Gotti, with just a little bit more on The Gilded Age than we already discussed in relation to our lead topic. Erin makes the case for the Spaced episode "Gone" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winners and Losers, we ROLE into a returning Game Time! Find a little time to yourself -- a nine-day Atlantic crossing should be plenty -- and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Margaret Willison

TOPICS

Announcement: 📢 Quick Club Plug

Lead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ The Buccaneers

Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: ⚽️ Beckham

Around The Dial: 🔫 Get Gotti

Around The Dial: 💛 The Gilded Age

The Canon: 👽 Spaced S02.E05: Gone

Winner & Loser: 🏟️ American Sports Story

Winner & Loser: 🌙 After Midnight

Game Time: 🎲 Re-Re-Role Playing Game

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📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram

🍆 Tara on FBoy Island host Nikki Glaser, at Cracked

📺 The Appointment Television podcast

👭 The Two Bossy Dames newsletter

📰 Sarah's Get Gotti review at Best Evidence

📚 John Gotti at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: AppleTV+

484: Sharing Arrr Views On The Buccaneers

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers, takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less than the sum of a few very good parts; what Roy Cohn content might do a better job with midcentury context than this show; and how much sex creates character development. Then we went Around The Dial with Everyone Else Burns, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Paramount+'s Milli Vanilli documentary, and Tara plotted to get a tenth (!) Simpsons episode into the Canon. Seth Rogen's ceramics hobby won, an ex-SNL writer lost, and we piled into the virtual minivan for a road-trippy Game Time. Moisturize your necks: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧳 Fellow Travelers

Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Everyone Else Burns

Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death

Around The Dial: 🎙️ Milli Vanilli

The Canon: 👨‍🦲 The Simpsons S08.E16: Brother From Another Series

Winner & Loser: 👍 Seth Rogen

Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Brennan

Game Time: 📍 The Great American TV Road Trip

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 483 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧳 Joe's review of Fellow Travelers at Primetimer

🌤️ Joe Reid on Bluesky

🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz on Patreon

🎞️ Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League

😆 Tara on the best imported comedies to stream right now at Cracked

🎙️ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

📷 Photo: Ben Mark Holzberg / SHOWTIME

483: Planning A Stay With Fellow Travelers

Bodies is the latest comic book to get a limited series adaptation at Netflix; Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss its many storylines, and timelines! Around The Dial takes us through Savior Complex; RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop; and (speaking of multiple timelines) various different iterations of Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Erin presents the series premiere of Starstruck for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we compete in a Game Time that's all 1s and 0s. Grab your badge and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Devindra Hardawar

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⏳ Bodies

Around The Dial: 😇 Savior Complex

Around The Dial: 🦾 RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop

Around The Dial: 🔪 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Canon: 🤩 Starstruck S01.E01: NYE

Winner & Loser: 👍 Coach K

Winner & Loser: 👎 SAG-AFTRA

Game Time: 🤖 I, Robot

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 482 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter

⚖️ "A Missionary On Trial" at The New Yorker

👄 Tara's Big Mouth S07 review

🦾 "'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' - Four-Part Docuseries Premieres August 29 on SCREAMBOX" at BloodyDisgusting.com

🎞️ The Film Cast podcast

👨🏾‍💻 Devindra at Engadget

🔪 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents playlist on YouTube

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

📚 The EHG listener discount at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Matt Towers / Netflix

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