The regular panelists had to forge ahead without esteemed colleague Kathryn VanArendonk in our discussion of Dickinson's second season; that's the bad news. The good news is, we all like Apple TV's imagining of poet Emily Dickinson's life and loves with lots of swearing and twenty-first-century slang. How DOES the show balance the demands of historical fact with flights of fancy, and not take itself too seriously? And are Season 2's creepy [character spoiler redacted] the key to its success? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Masked Dancer, Everything Is Going Great, Cheers Season 5, Mr. Mayor's debut, and Lupin and other "Pringle mysteries." A new detective franchise won, an old HBO franchise lost, and we continued the episode's verse theme with the Tara-crafted Tube Tunes VII. Pass Nobody an earbud for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪶 Dickinson

Around The Dial: 🎉 Everyone Is Doing Great

Around The Dial: 🕺 The Masked Dancer

Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers

Around The Dial: 🏢 Mr. Mayor

Around The Dial: 🥷 Lupin

Winner & Loser: 👍 Keegan-Michael Key

Winner & Loser: 👎 And Just Like That

Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes VII

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 337 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🪶 Kathryn VanArendonk, with us in spirit with her Dickinson deep dive for Vulture

🎉 Tara's Everyone Is Doing Great review for Primetimer

🕺 Tara's Masked Dancer review, ditto

🖐 Tara's Force Five podcast appearance

🐯 Sarah on Tiger's identity crisis for Primetimer

📷 Photo: Apple TV