Tom Clancy's foxy CIA nerd is back in John Krasinski form for Amazon's new series, and first-time guests and ATX Festival poohbahs Cait and Emily joined us to talk about its problematic politics, whether the TV-scape needs another Homeland, why Krasinski chose THIS project, and Timothy Hutton's new corporate-douche casting lane. We went Around The Dial with Ozark, Anne With An E, The Big Family Cooking Showdown, Halt & Catch Fire, The Purge, and Paradise PD before taking a ferry to Gay Head for Cory's exasperated submission of a Season 6 Gilmore Girls to the Nonac. New Bachelor Colton won, NBC News lost, and Tara's non-regulation Game Time was music to (some of) our ears. Will Buntsy lose her mind at the Nonac music again? Has Jack Ryan crowned a new William Fichtner? Find out in an explosive new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Caitlin McFarland

👤 Emily Gipson

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧨 Jack Ryan

Around The Dial: ⚰️ The Purge

Around The Dial: 🍁 Anne With An E

Around The Dial: 🏔 Ozark

Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown

Around The Dial: 🔥 Halt And Catch Fire

Around The Dial: ⛱ Paradise Pd

The Nonac: 👩‍👧 Gilmore Girls S06.E15: A Vineyard Valentine

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Colton

Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC News

Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes III

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 217 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📺 The ATX Festival

🏕 The TV Campfire Podcast

🔎 The Blotter

😖 The Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown

🛼 Austin Anarchy Men's Roller Derby presents Drag Queens Of The Rink

Tom Clancy's foxy CIA nerd is back in John Krasinski form for Amazon's new series, and first-time guests and ATX Festival poohbahs Cait and Emily joined us to talk about its problematic politics, whether the TV-scape needs another Homeland, why Krasinski chose THIS project, and Timothy Hutton's new corporate-douche casting lane. We went Around The Dial with Ozark, Anne With An E, The Big Family Cooking Showdown, Halt & Catch Fire, The Purge, and Paradise PD before taking a ferry to Gay Head for Cory's exasperated submission of a Season 6 Gilmore Girls to the Nonac. New Bachelor Colton won, NBC News lost, and Tara's non-regulation Game Time was music to (some of) our ears. Will Buntsy lose her mind at the Nonac music again? Has Jack Ryan crowned a new William Fichtner? Find out in an explosive new Extra Hot Great.

Special Guests: Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson.

Matt Groening and a passel of ex-Futurama writers have brought Netflix a new animated sitcom set in a fantastical world with elves and personal demons and the like, but did we find Disenchantment enchanting? Omar Gallaga returns to join our discussion! Around The Dial clicks on Netflix's new teen romcom feature film To All The Boys I've Loved Before; Jerry Seinfeld's automotive chat show Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and Bravo's Below Deck-iverse. Omar makes the case for Detroiters's "Hark Motors" to be inducted into the Nonac, and then we're Hailing various Chiefs in the presidential Game Time America, The World, And Beyond. Get an Onion Julius and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Omar Gallaga

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪄 Disenchantment

Around The Dial: 💙 To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Around The Dial: ☕️ Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck

The Nonac: 🤮 Detroiters S02.E08: Hark Motors

Winner & Loser: 👍 Crafters

Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne

Game Time: 🧠 America, The World, And Beyond

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 216 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📲 TechMinuteTexas.com

💰 Money Can't Buy You Podcast

Matt Groening and a passel of ex-Futurama writers have brought Netflix a new animated sitcom set in a fantastical world with elves and personal demons and the like, but did we find Disenchantment_enchanting? Omar Gallaga returns to join our discussion! Around The Dial clicks on Netflix's new teen romcom feature film _To All The Boys I've Loved Before; Jerry Seinfeld's automotive chat show Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and Bravo's Below Deck-iverse. Omar makes the case for Detroiters's "Hark Motors" to be inducted into the Nonac, and then we're Hailing various Chiefs in the presidential Game Time America, The World, And Beyond. Get an Onion Julius and listen in!

Special Guest: Omar Gallaga.

Better Call Saul came back for its fourth season a few weeks ago, and Will Leitch came back to discuss what's transpired so far: the deliberate pace, the subplots we don't care as much about (sorry, Nacho), the forecast for Mesa Verde's plans for market domination, and what we think becomes of Kim...and of course the provenance of That Letter. We went Around The Dial with Marching Orders, Sharp Objects, Conan's transition away from music and the death throes (?) of late-night, and Babylon Berlin before Will had just one more thing on his Canon presentation for the first real Columbo episode. Who won the numbers game in a high-volume Game Time? Bag up that cast and hop into an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul

Around The Dial: 🥁 Marching Orders

Around The Dial: 👨‍🦰 Conan

Around The Dial: 🔪 Sharp Objects

Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin

The Canon: 🧥 Columbo S01.E01: Murder By The Book

Winner & Loser: 👍 Niecy Nash

Winner & Loser: 👎 Ian Ziering

Game Time: 🧠 Which Aired More, Vol. II

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 215 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🏈 The Will Leitch Show

📫 Will's Tinyletter

🔪 Tara on Sharp Objects at Decider

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

🧥 "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

Better Call Saul came back for its fourth season a few weeks ago, and Will Leitch came back to discuss what's transpired so far: the deliberate pace, the subplots we don't care as much about (sorry, Nacho), the forecast for Mesa Verde's plans for market domination, and what we think becomes of Kim...and of course the provenance of That Letter. We went Around The Dial with Marching Orders, Sharp Objects, Conan's transition away from music and the death throes (?) of late-night, and Babylon Berlin before Will had just one more thing on his Canon presentation for the first real Columbo episode. Who won the numbers game in a high-volume Game Time? Bag up that cast and hop into an all-new Extra Hot Great.

Special Guest: Will Leitch.

AMC's newest drama is Lodge 49, the story of a dirtbag ex-surfer mysteriously drawn to a Long Beach fraternal order; does it deserve its Better Call Saul lead-in? Surf fiction fan Adam Sternbergh returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Babylon Berlin, and HBO's Ben Bradlee doc Newspaperman. Adam makes the case for us to induct Killing Eve's series premiere into the Canon, and then it's up, up and away to a comic book-themed Game Time. Put on your signet ring and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🛖 Lodge 49

Around The Dial: 😥 Insecure

Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin

Around The Dial: 📰 Newspaperman: The Life And Times Of Ben Bradlee

Around The Dial: 📺 Dave gets a 4K TV

The Canon: 🏆 Killing Eve S01.E01: Nice Face

Winner & Loser: 👍 Cord-cutters

Winner & Loser: 👎 Talking Dead

Game Time: 🧠 Pros & Comic-Cons

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

📕 The official website for Adam's novel, The Blinds

🤬 Tara on I Hate It But I Love It talking Bring It On

👗 Vulture's interview with Killing Eve's costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye

AMC's newest drama is Lodge 49, the story of a dirtbag ex-surfer mysteriously drawn to a Long Beach fraternal order; does it deserve its Better Call Saul lead-in? Surf fiction fan Adam Sternbergh returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Babylon Berlin, and HBO's Ben Bradlee doc Newspaperman. Adam makes the case for us to induct Killing Eve's series premiere into the Canon, and then it's up, up and away to a comic book-themed Game Time. Put on your signet ring and join us!

Special Guest: Adam Sternbergh.

What's not to love about a crafting competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman? Wellll, Linda Holmes and the regulars could think of a few things, but our nitpicks stem almost entirely from liking the show and wanting it to be its best, punniest self. We talk host bits, judging inconsistencies, the comparison of apples to macrame, and there's even Sarah's obligatory semi-annual reference to Work Of Art. We go Around The Dial with Queer Eye, Kids Baking Championship, The Bletchley Circle: Mission Burrito (...okay, it's actually "San Francisco," but we like Dave's name better), and Trial & Error before Linda serves a warrant for inducting Brooklyn Nine-Nine into The Canon. Deadwood won (maybe; we'll see), networks' lip service to survivors and equal pay lost, and we entered the valley of the shadow of unbelievable/y crappy shows with Dan Cassino's Trough TV Game Time. Glue-gun those earbuds in: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Linda Holmes

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧵 Making It

Around The Dial: 🌈 Queer Eye

Around The Dial: 🥧 Kids Baking Championship

Around The Dial: 🌁 The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco

Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Trial & Error

The Canon: 🏆 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S05.E12: Safe House

Winner & Loser: 👍 Deadwood Hoopleheads

Winner & Loser: 👎 AMC, CBS, and Netflix

Game Time: 🧠 Trough TV

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 213 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🔐 Lucy Mangan on TBC: SF

🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

What's not to love about a crafting competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman? Wellll, Linda Holmes and the regulars could think of a few things, but our nitpicks stem almost entirely from liking the show and wanting it to be its best, punniest self. We talk host bits, judging inconsistencies, the comparison of apples to macrame, and there's even Sarah's obligatory semi-annual reference to Work Of Art. We go Around The Dial with Queer Eye, Kids Baking Championship, The Bletchley Circle: Mission Burrito (...okay, it's actually "San Francisco," but we like Dave's name better), and Trial & Error before Linda serves a warrant for inducting Brooklyn Nine-Nine into The Canon. Deadwood won (maybe; we'll see), networks' lip service to survivors and equal pay lost, and we entered the valley of the shadow of unbelievable/y crappy shows with Dan Cassino's Trough TV Game Time. Glue-gun those earbuds in: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. 

Special Guest: Linda Holmes.