AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish, features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anything with 2010s crime-show cliches? Who has notes on car-chase credibility? And on a scale of one to ten plastic babies, how "Nawlins" is the show? Later, we're going Around The Dial with Taskmaster's seventeenth season, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, and how to rewatch Boardwalk Empire; and finding out whether Tara's Canon pitch for This Fool is worth one MEEELLION dollars. RHONY won, Tori Spelling lost, and we obeyed a VERY strict speed limit for Game Time -- so buckle your seatbelt for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Omar Gallaga

Lead Topic: 🚗 Parish

Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster

Around The Dial: 😬 Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show

Around The Dial: 🍾 Boardwalk Empire

The Canon: 🕺 This Fool S01.E05: Sandy Says

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Real Housewives Of New York City

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling

Game Time: 🐢 Slowly At First II

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💻 Omar Gallaga at CNET

🎞️ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe

💌 Tara's interview with Alex and Greg of Taskmaster at Cracked.com

🪄 Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show

⚾️ Ottawa University's Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference

🔎 Best Evidence

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Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memories of the original. Around The Dial takes us through Girls5eva, Lost, Homicide: New York, and Chicken Nugget. Taylor makes the case for inducting Andor's "One Way Out" into the Canon; then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a game about who's at whose throat. No throats are ripped out in the course of this episode, so feel free to listen!

👤 Taylor Cole

Lead Topic: 👊 Road House

Around The Dial: 🎙️ Girls5Eva

Around The Dial: 🗺️ Lost

Around The Dial: 🗽 Homicide: New York

Around The Dial: 🟠 Chicken Nugget

The Canon: ➡️ Andor S01.E10: One Way Out

Winner & Loser: 👍 Cypress Hill

Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green

Game Time: 😡 Nemeses

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🐦 Taylor S. Cole on Twitter

💾 "Original 'Road House' Writer Sues Amazon, Alleges Streamer Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices" at Variety.com

🎬 "The New 'Road House' Shows the Perils of Adapting Ridiculous 80s Movies" at DecodingEverything.com

✍🏻 Tara's interview with Girls5eva creator Meredith Scardino at Cracked

🍹 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked

🏙️ The Docket on Homicide: New York

📷 Photo: Laura Radford / Prime Video

Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very special episode, we're addressing not one, not two, but NINE Extra Credit submissions with answers as considered as they are ridiculous. Cha-ching!

Extra Credit: 🎣 Hook Line And Sinker

Extra Credit: 😮‍💨 Creative Compromise

Extra Credit: 🏺 Historical Absurdity

Extra Credit: 🫥 Insert Yourselves

Extra Credit: 🗺️ Keoghan's Heroes

Extra Credit: 🔪 New Benedict Arnolds

Extra Credit: ✍🏻 Initial Similarities

Extra Credit: 👵🏻 Everything Old Is Old Again

Extra Credit: 🟤 Great TV Bezoars

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🚬 NewsRadio: "Smoking" clip on YouTube

Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control, The Curse, and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order episode "Trophy" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we play BALL (sometimes; sometimes not) with a sportsy Non-Regulation Game Time. Get to your club, pour some 18-year-old scotch, and join us!

👤 Will Leitch

Lead Topic: 🎩 The Gentlemen

Around The Dial: 🦝 Animal Control

Around The Dial: 😈 The Curse

Around The Dial: 🎤 As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial

Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun

The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order S06.E12: Trophy

Winner & Loser: 👍 James Wolk

Winner & Loser: 👎 Gary Goldsmith

Game Time: 🙋🏼‍♀️ The World Series Of 19 Questions

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🦋 Will Leitch on Bluesky

🥇 Will and Tim Grierson's Guy Ritchie movie ranking, at Vulture

🤣 Tara at Cracked.com

📚 Will's books at HarperCollins

🕺 The Will Leitch Experience

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

🔫 Best Evidence, where Sarah's interview with Manhunt author James L. Swanson will run later this week

📷 Photo: Kevin Baker / Netflix

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!

👤 Adam Grosswirth

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

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!

👤 Alison Herman

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

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!

Game Time: 🐌 Slowly At First

Game Time: 😖 Revenge Of 19 Questions

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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!

👤 David J. Roth

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

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.

👤 Sarah Baker

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

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!

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