Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Amazon Prime takes us back to the Vought cinematic universe with Gen V, a The Boys spinoff of sorts about up-and-coming college "supes" -- and we're glad Nick Rheinwald-Jones could join us to talk about whether it's a TV campus worth visiting, plus the pleasures of thorough world-building, CGI peens, and putting the grodiest deaths out of frame. We went Around The Dial with Starstruck, Only Connect, and the first season of Feud, then headed out to Neptune, CA for Sarah's Canon presentation on the Veronica Mars pilot. Kevin James won, Linda Fairstein lost, and we all gathered around the non-regulation piano for another round of Tube Tunes in Game Time. Add this all-new Extra Hot Great to your core listening curriculum today!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Announcement: 🏆 Canon Levels Low!

Lead Topic: 🧪 Gen V

Around The Dial: 🤩 Starstruck

Around The Dial: 🔢 Only Connect

Around The Dial: 🤺 Feud

The Canon: 🏴‍☠️ Veronica Mars S01.E01: Pilot

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kevin James

Winner & Loser: 👎 Linda Fairstein

Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIII

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 479 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧪 Tara's Gen V review at Cracked

🤷‍♀️ Chance Perdomo's "explanation" of his social-media challenges

🕵🏻‍♂️ Nick Rheinwald-Jones at SpyBrunch.com

🌤️ Nick on Bluesky

💗 Tara on romcom creators at Cracked

📚 Save some money at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / Prime Video

Love Is Blind is back with a whole new crop of singles willing to try their luck at finding love sight unseen; Tara's fellow Coelenologist Brittany Luse returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Story, Still Up, and the AppleTV+ documentary feature Still. Theresa pitches the third episode of Normal People for the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that feels really connected to you already. Grab your gold goblet and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Brittany Luse

TOPICS

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Drive Update

Lead Topic: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is Blind

Around The Dial: 🔪 American Horror Story: Delicate

Around The Dial: 🌜 Still Up

Around The Dial: 🫨 Still

The Canon: ☘️ Normal People S01.E03

Winner & Loser: 👍 The WGA

Winner & Loser: 👎 Oprah Winfrey

Game Time: 🔌 Also Also Connect

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 478 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Brittany Luse on Twitter

🌛 Tara's Still Up review at Cracked

⏱️ The It's Been A Minute podcast

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

📷 Photo: Netflix

Al Lowe Huff drags in a portable smelter -- and Dave gets high off the fumes -- for The Gold, a six-part scripted story about the 1983 Brink's Mat robbery in the UK. We're talking about proportions of process-iness, the class struggle in South London, and how much BAFTA-bait monologuing is too much, before we go Around The Dial with The Other Black Girl, Harry Wild, Whitstable Pearl, and Cagney & Lacey. (And Sean Connery. Don't ask.) Then Laura unfurled HER list of reasons we should consider a My Name Is Earl episode for the Canon. Disney won, Jeremy Strong lost, and we tried to connect the TV dots in Game Time. Put your corrupt lawyer on speed-dial for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Allison Lowe Huff

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥇 The Gold

Around The Dial: 👧🏾 The Other Black Girl

Around The Dial: 🐻 Harry Wild

Around The Dial: 🦪 Whitstable Pearl

Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♀️ Cagney And Lacey

The Canon: 📜 My Name Is Earl S02.E05: Van Hickey

Winner & Loser: 👍 Disney

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Strong

Game Time: 🔌 Also Connect

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 477 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👑 Dave summons The Gold into existence in EEHG 017

🏛️ Tara's review of Krapopolis

🏚️ Sarah's review of Amityville: An Origin Story

📷 Photo: Sally Mais / Tannadice Pictures / Paramount+

AppleTV+'s latest sci-fi series is the "modern fairy tale" The Changeling; Dan Cassino returns to discuss what, if anything, we'd have liked to see change. Around The Dial takes us through BS High, Season 2 of Wheel Of Time, the original Japanese Iron Chef, and Murder, She Wrote. Eleanor pitches the Project Runway episode "A Suitable Twist" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's time for us to stagger into a Non-Regulation Game Time, hoping our brains don't fail us. Put your baby (or is it) down for a nap and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Dan Cassino

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤰🏾 The Changeling

Around The Dial: 🏈 BS High

Around The Dial: 🛞 Wheel Of Time

Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Iron Chef

Around The Dial: ✍️ Murder, She Wrote

The Nonac: 💃 Project Runway S13.E05: A Suitable Twist

Winner & Loser: 👍 Fans of The Brady Bunch

Winner & Loser: 👎 Drew Barrymore

Game Time: 🧟‍♂️ He's In The Walking Dead?!

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 476 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

☁️ Dan Cassino on Bluesky

🫥 "The Changeling's Problem With a Disappearing Woman" at NewRepublic.com

🚽 Tara's piece on the end of How To With John Wilson at Cracked

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

😤 Gender Threat, the book Dan co-authored with Yasemin Besen-Cassino, on Bookshop.org

📚 Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: AppleTV+

To mark another Labor Day, we're turning our attention to TV bosses -- specifically, putting them all in a geodesic dome in a radiation-ravaged Australian Outback, and determining which of them would survive mortal combat with one another. We can say for certain that the ultimate victor will surprise you...but they surprised us! Listen for all the bloody speculation.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👔 TV Boss Thunderdome

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 475 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Stephanie Green is back to talk about a too-long, badly structured true-crime series from AppleTV+, and the many opportunities Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn wastes to tell a good story. Sarah thought it had nonfiction The Morning Show vibes, a characterization Tara resented; listen to our correct-length, non-backloaded conversation and see if you agree! We went Around The Dial with The Ultimatum, Sister Wives, 90 Day UK, and Project Greenlight, and Tara was NOT a crackpot about DIY haircuts on Ahsoka. Listener Jeff begged us to Please Like Me -- well, a third-season episode, anyway -- in this week's Canon segment, and then Adriana La Cerva won and Doogie Kamealoha lost before we all walked down the aisle for Game Time. About to flee the country? Download this all-new episode to your lawyer's hard-drive and hit the road!

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Green

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚙 Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn

Around The Dial: 🙅 The Ultimatum

Around The Dial: 💍 Sister Wives

Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 90 Day UK

Around The Dial: 🟢 Project Greenlight

I Am Not A Crackpot: 💇🏻‍♀️ Ahsoka Haircuts

The Canon: 💊 Please Like Me S03.E04: Natural Spring Water

Winner & Loser: 👍 Drea de Matteo

Winner & Loser: 👎 Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.

Game Time: 👰‍♀️ I Do, Or Maybe I Don't

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 474 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

✍️ Stephanie Early Green's website

💕 Stephanie talks about Please Like Me in episode 306

🧑‍✈️ Tara on the 50 greatest sitcom pilots at Cracked

🔎 BestEvidence.fyi

📷 Photo: AppleTV+

To celebrate the 10th (!!!) anniversary of EHG Mark II, we're flashing back to the week of August 17-23 in historical TV listings. Our time travel takes us back to 2003 for the fourth-season finale of The Amazing Race; to 2012, for a trip to the Hamptons with Royal Pains; and to the very day of our first episode to watch Lance Reddick's visit to NTSF: SD: SUV::. Join us as we revisit Augusts past!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌎 The Amazing Race S04.E13: It's Like Adam Building His First House!

Lead Topic: 🩺 Royal Pains S04.E10: Who's Your Daddy

Lead Topic: 🔫 NTSF:SD:SUV:: S03.E05: TGI Murder

Game Time: ⌛️ In The Year 2013

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 473 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

❤️‍🔥 Lance Reddick as Todd Broger

HBO's newest true crime docu-series, Telemarketers, a look at a New Jersey phone scam; Robert Krut returns to discuss it, and brings personal stories to share! Around The Dial takes us through Winning Time, Poker Face, and Painkiller. Bobby pitches the Atlanta episode "Woods" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us, and our bidding acumen, back to the Garden State. Hang up on that Likely Scam and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Robert Krut

TOPICS

Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update

Lead Topic: ☎️ Telemarketers

Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time

Around The Dial: ♠️ Poker Face

Around The Dial: 💊 Painkiller

The Canon: 🌲 Atlanta S02.E08: Woods

Winner & Loser: 👍 Sam Levinson

Winner & Loser: 👎 Sam Levinson

Game Time: 🐄 Garden State TV

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NOTES

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📸 Bobby Krut on Instagram

💉 Patton Oswalt's "Toronto Open Mic" on YouTube

👹 Holy Hell on Peacock

🏀 30 For 30's "Celtics/Lakers: Best Of Enemies" on ESPN

🤘 Tara on The Osbournes and At Home With The Furys for Cracked

🐦 Bobby on X

🪶 Bobby's website

🧠 The Masterminds Crazy Eddie episode, on YouTube

💊 Sarah's full Painkiller review at Best Evidence

🚗 "An Open Letter To David Simon, Who Tweeted NYC Is 'On The Make' Because He Got A $50 Speeding Ticket" at HellGate

📷 Photo: HBO

Only Murders In The Building is back for a third season of death, mayhem, and...theatre? New guest David Wiebe joins us to discuss all the players new and old. Around The Dial takes us through Physical, Letterman Originals on YouTube, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, and Star Trek's Paramount+ branding. Julie pitches The Bear's Season 1 episode "Dogs" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a highly questionable Game Time. Grab your Beats and listen!

GUESTS

👤 David Wiebe

TOPICS

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Snafu & Crisistunity

Lead Topic: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building

Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ Physical

Around The Dial: 🌃 Letterman Originals

Around The Dial: 🗺️ Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Around The Dial: 🖖 Star Trek

The Canon: 🐻 The Bear S01.E04: Dogs

Winner & Loser: 👍 Suits

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Church Of Scientology

Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions: Wiebe Edition

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 471 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 David Wiebe on Twitter

🏢 Tara's post on Only Murders In The Building at Cracked

🐶 "Can Comedy Shows Please Stop Killing Dogs For Laughs?" at Cracked [warning: spoilers]

🌃 Letterman Originals on YouTube

🏡 Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse on Netflix

🐦 Big House Stories on Twitter

🗺️ Sarah on Anthony Bourdain at the Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: Patrick Harbron / Hulu

Reservation Dogs is back on FX/Hulu this week, and Variety's Alison Herman is back on EHG to talk about the show's final season: realistic teenage-character arcs, spiritual cousins to Atlanta, and the meanings of "home." We went Around The Dial with This Fool, Minx's second season, and Hunted, aka "the darkest Amazing Race" (which we completely forgot we covered the American version of in a long-ago episode) before Tara took the solo on a Girls5Eva Canon pitch. The Glovers' future won, the former Arrow lost, and we set our minds to siblings of the small screen in Game Time. The bus is leaving, so charge up your phone for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Alison Herman

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪶 Reservation Dogs

Around The Dial: ☕️ This Fool

Around The Dial: 🍆 Minx

Around The Dial: 🏹 Hunted

The Canon: 🐈 Girls5Eva S02.E06: B.P.E.

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Glover Brothers

Winner & Loser: 👎 Stephen Amell

Game Time: 👯 Sibling Rivalry

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 470 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Alison on Twitter

📰 Alison Herman at Variety

🪶 Alison's review of Reservation Dogs

🤬 Tara talks Citadel on the Appointment Television podcast

🔦 Sarah reviews Hunted on Best Evidence

🤷‍♀️ We reviewed Hunted U.S. in episode 142 with Monty Ashley; oops

📷 Photo: Shane Brown / FX