Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Hulu apparently felt that the Michelle Carter "texting suicide" case hadn't been sufficiently covered by a Lifetime movie and a multi-hour documentary, so now its latest scripted true crime series, The Girl From Plainville, is taking its turn; Stephanie Early Green returns to discuss it. Around The Dial takes us through Music Box: Listening To Kenny G; Is It Cake?; Love On The Spectrum; and Mare Of Easttown. Amelia S. challenges us to forcen TV characters with TV episodes -- to delight ones we like and torture ones we don't. Stephanie presents the Detroiters episode "Hog Riders" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a real character of a Game Time. Take a break from yelling to everyone you know about Hulu's taste level and listen to us do that instead!

GUESTS

👤 Stephanie Green

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👧🏻 The Girl From Plainville

Around The Dial: 📯 Music Box

Around The Dial: 🥮 Is It Cake

Around The Dial: 🌈 Love On The Spectrum

Around The Dial: 🐴 Mare Of Easttown

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Around The Dial: 💖 When Calls The Heart

Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Picard

Extra Credit: 👀 Forcening For Good And For Evil

The Canon: 🏆 Detroiters S01.E02: Hog Riders

Winner & Loser: 👍 Cress Williams

Winner & Loser: 👎 Ex-Bachelor Colton Underwood

Game Time: 🧠 Hey! It's Those Three Guys!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 400 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter

👧🏻 "The Girl From Plainville" by Jesse Barron on Esquire.com

☠️ I Love You, Now Die on HBO Max

🚨 The Blotter Presents 103: "I Love You, Now Die and Patty Hearst (1988)

🍰 "Let's Make Is It Cake More Chaotic" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

👩‍🚒 Tara's interview with 9-1-1 stars Arielle Kebbel and Oliver Stark at Decider

🏠 Stephanie's "Hacienda," at Juked

🕸 More of Stephanie's fiction at her website, StephanieEarlyGreen.com

🎧 Sarah on the Crime Seen podcast, from the Rob Has A Podcast network

📰 The Best Evidence newletter

🕶 D.O.C.'s TV ad for Sexy Specs

Do you know what time it is? It's Game Time -- except THIS time, all our Valued Guests were drawn from among our Patreon supporters, and they're playing in a mini-tournament with your co-hosts as their lifelines. Listen to find out who defeats all their opponents and emerges victorious!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🌭 Order Up

Game Time: 📻 Tube Tunes IX

Game Time: 💬 Describe It To Me

Game Time: ⏩ Fast Jams

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 399 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

💰 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon

🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

💰 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

Brittany Luse took a break from co-hosting FCN and HBO Docs Club to talk about FOX's newest silly-competition reality show, Domino Masters -- and we all found lots of reasons you should probably just watch "topples" on YouTube instead, including weak chemistry, weaker jokes, frustrating lack of camera coverage, and drama that doesn't come from the craft. Oh, and: it's about 38 minutes too long. We did better going Around The Dial with Winning Time, Survivor, select Euphoria episodes, Top Chef: Houston, and Fast Foodies, and then Tara drove us around New Jersey for awhile with her Ramy Canon presentation. Fighters won, Baby-Sitters lost, and we were poets and didn't know it during a rhymin', Dave-pointy Game Time. Remind yourself how "GOAL" is spelled and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Brittany Luse

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💥 Domino Masters

Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time

Around The Dial: 🗿 Survivor

Around The Dial: 💊 Euphoria

Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Top Chef

Around The Dial: 🍟 Fast Foodies

Lead Topic: 🕌 Ramy S01.E07: Ne Me Quitte Pas

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Good Fight

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Baby-Sitters Club

Game Time: 🧠 Selective Effective Objective Detective

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 398 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🍽 Please put koshari in Dave's stomach

🐦 Brittany Luse on Twitter

🎧 The FCN podcast

🐦 FCN on Twitter

📸 FCN on Instagram

📹 The HBO Docs Club podcast (with Ronald Young Jr.)

🧼 Tara's soaps post at Decider

💄 Listen To Sassy Club

☔️ MASTAS: The "America's Damp 40" Season

📷 Photo: Ray Mickshaw / FOX

With Sarah unexpectedly out for the week, it's a slimmed-down installment of the podcast (no Canon or Game Time) -- but fortunately Eve Batey is here to bring her expertise in both San Francisco and true crime to join our discussion on The Dropout! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death, The Courtship, the Late Night With Seth Meyers Corrections series on YouTube, Vikings: Valhalla, and the latest on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Mlle. Caroline asks us to pick non-canonical middle names for TV characters. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser! Get your blood sugar up with a cookie (or two) and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Eve Batey

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💊 The Dropout

Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death

Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 The Courtship

Around The Dial: ✨ Late Night With Seth Meyers

Around The Dial: ⚔️ Vikings: Valhalla

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Extra Credit: 🤑 What's Your Middle Name?

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nailed It

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Big Leap

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 397 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

☀️ "The Dropout's Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani As Lady Macbeth" at Vulture

🍖 Tara's Jon Hamm interview at GQ.com

🤢 "How Seth Meyers Turned Internet Toxicity Into Emmy-Nominated Gold" at VanityFair.com

🌭 East Bay Nosh

🔍 The Best Evidence newsletter

🛍 Avenues Dry Goods

After almost 12 years, the original Law & Order has been revived at NBC for its 21st season, and superfan Mark Blankenship has returned to The Blankenship Chair to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Super Pumped, Love Is Blind, Reacher, Bug Out, and Worst Roommate Ever. Ilan cashes in an Extra Credit to get us to propose our finales for series that ended badly, or didn't really end at all. Carlos makes the case for inducting the series premiere of Mare Of Easttown to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with two separate, not really equally important rounds. No need to get down to Centre Street: we've brought our latest podcast right to you!

GUESTS

👤 Mark Blankenship

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👮🏻‍♂️ Law & Order

Around The Dial: 🧴 Super Pumped

Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind

Around The Dial: 🫱 Reacher

Around The Dial: 🪳 Bug Out

Around The Dial: 😳 Worst Roommate Ever

Extra Credit: 🛬 Re-Sticking The Landing

The Canon: 🏆 Mare Of Easttown S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

Winner & Loser: 👍 Dave

Winner & Loser: 👎 Twitting Celebs

Game Time: 🧠 Ignorance Of The Law & Order Is No Excuse

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 396 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

👩‍🦯 "Love Is Blind's Creator Answers Our Burning Season-Two Finale Questions" at Vulture

🌴 Again With This on Patreon

📺 Primetimer.com

🪳 Sarah's Bug Out and Worst Roommate Ever reviews at Best Evidence

☁️ The Far From Heaven episode of Quaid In Full

Two Cents Plus Tax co-host Krystal Farmer came by to talk about The Endgame, an overstuffed and underwhelming procedural that tries to do too much and is assembled from the spare parts of too many early-aughts shows. Why do networks still make shows like this? Do we need The Endgame if we still (seriously!) have The Blacklist? And how is Fedorova writing on the sticky side of Post-Its? We fared better going Around The Dial with Severance, a Married At First Sight update, Creamerie, Inventing Anna, Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Reacher, and gave TV characters (and hosts) some drugs for Extra Credit. Listener Michael hoped we'd visit Cougar Town with a Canon election before Dickens won, Erika Jayne lost (...again), and we answered the door to a hell of a season-clinching Game Time. No need to blackmail the Homeland Secretary -- an all-new Extra Hot Great is all yours.

GUESTS

👤 Krystal Farmer

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤯 The Endgame

Around The Dial: ✂️ Severance

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🥛 Creamerie

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ Inventing Anna

Around The Dial: 🤕 Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Around The Dial: 🫱 Reacher

The Canon: 🏆 Cougar Town S03.E05: A One Story Town

Winner & Loser: 👍 Great Expectations

Lead Topic: 👎 Erika Jayne

Game Time: 🧠 Knock-Knock

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 395 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Krystal Farmer on Twitter

🪙 The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast

💰 The Two Cents Plus Tax Patreon

🗣 Tara's Adam Scott interview at GQ

🎙 Tara's Arian Moayed interview, also at GQ

🔎 Best Evidence on Inventing Anna

We love it when our listeners submit Canon pitches so much that we're considering not one but THREE in this special episode. Will Karen's pitch on The Odd Couple rack up the requisite odd couple of votes? Will Doug Dale's advocacy for Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist move and challenge us? Will we make holiday dreams come true for Dave in Chicago and his case for Pee-wee's Playhouse's 1988 Christmas special? Listen and learn!

TOPICS

The Canon: 🏢 The Odd Couple S02.E04: Sleepwalker

The Canon: 🖼 Work Of Art S01.E02: The Shape Of Things To Come

The Canon: 🎄 Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special 1988

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 394 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

With so much TV either taken up by the Olympics or getting out of their way, we took our own stab at counter-programming: for our last episode before Valentine's Day, we're each forcening each other to watch a TV episode with "love" somewhere in its title. Dave assigns Sarah "The Secret War" from Love, Death + Robots; Sarah challenges Tara to take on the ABC Afterschool Special "It's No Crush, I'm In Love"; and Dave endures the series premiere of Tori & Dean: Inn Love. Following all our reports, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that you might find for sale at a love...shop? Grab your Valentine, or just treat yourself, and listen!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤖 Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War

Lead Topic: 🚌 ABC Afterschool Special It's No Crush, I'm In Love

Lead Topic: 🏨 Tori & Dean: Inn Love S01.E01: Dump Everything You Can Dump!

Game Time: 🧠 Channel 69

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 393 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🤖 Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War on Netflix

🚌 ABC Afterschool Special: It's No Crush, I'm In Love on YouTube

Waiting for Impact and Truu Stowray host Dave Holmes stopped by for the first time to talk about Pam & Tommy, Hulu's prestige miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, their whirlwind romance, and the sex tape seen 'round the world. Is the story of Seth Rogen's stiffed (...heh) contractor the real heart of the tale, or is it the Pam/Tommy romance? Is the mid-nineties soundtrack intrusive? And should that penis have talked? We went Around The Dial with Somebody Somewhere, The Real Dirty Dancing, The Museum of Home Video, The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, We Need To Talk About Cosby, and 9-1-1: Lone Star before marinating in the Zwick-Herskoverse with a Once & Again Canon submission. _Law & Order_s won, Showtime lost, and we married bands and TV shows in a musical Game Time. Look it up on Alta Vista: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Dave Holmes

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Pam & Tommy

Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere

Around The Dial: 💃 The Real Dirty Dancing

Around The Dial: 📹 Museum of Home Video

Around The Dial: ❌ Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour

Around The Dial: 😥 We Need To Talk About Cosby

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

The Canon: 🏆 Once & Again S03.E16: Aaron's List Of Dreams

Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order

Winner & Loser: 👎 Black Monday

Game Time: 🧠 Music Television

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 392 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Dave Holmes on Twitter

📻 Waiting For Impact: A Dave Holmes Passion Project

📹 Museum Of Home Video on Twitch

✍️ Tara's author page at Decider

😥 Eve Batey's review of We Need To Talk About Cosby

🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto, Abbott Elementary, Ozark, Season 2 of Cheer, Peacemaker, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinseltown. Erica S. asks us to invite several TV characters over for dinner and very specific kinds of discussion. Mlle. Caroline pitches "Redemption," the first-season finale of The Mandalorian, for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that brings that Christmas in July feeling to January. Send your servants back downstairs and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Mark Lisanti

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💡 The Gilded Age

Around The Dial: 🚗 American Auto

Around The Dial: 📓 Abbott Elementary

Around The Dial: 🐊 Ozark

Around The Dial: 📣 Cheer

Around The Dial: 🦅 Peacemaker

Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star

Around The Dial: 🍞 Toast Of Tinseltown

Extra Credit: 🥔 Mashed Debate-os

The Canon: 🏆 The Mandalorian S01.E08: Redemption

Winner & Loser: 👍 Amy Schneider

Winner & Loser: 👎 Maggie

Game Time: 🧠 Mark The Halls

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 391 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

💡 "How The Gilded Age's Denée Benton Made Sure Peggy Scott's Story Was Told Right" at Glamour.com

🥁 Tara's post on The CW's March at Decider

🗣 Tara's Christina Ricci interview at GQ.com

📣 Sarah on Season 2 of Cheer at BestEvidence.fyi