Podcasts by Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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488: Professor Nick's TV SATs from 2023-12-06T10:00
487: COOP! There He Is from 2023-11-29T10:00
486: Hanging Up The Crown from 2023-11-22T10:00
485: Going Down Under (Navally) With NCIS: Sydney from 2023-11-15T10:00
484: Sharing Arrr Views On The Buccaneers from 2023-11-08T10:00
483: Planning A Stay With Fellow Travelers from 2023-11-01T09:00
482: Spending Time With Bodies from 2023-10-25T09:00
493: Frasier Has Not Left The Building from 2023-10-18T09:00
480: Testifying On The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial from 2023-10-11T09:00
479: Gen V's Good Genes from 2023-10-04T09:00
478: Side-Eyeing The Season 5 Premiere Of Love Is Blind from 2023-09-27T09:00
477: Should You Go For The Gold? from 2023-09-20T09:00
476: Rocking The Cradle With The Changeling from 2023-09-13T09:00
475: TV Boss Thunderdome from 2023-09-06T09:00
474: In Not-So-Hot Pursuit Of Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn from 2023-08-30T09:00
473: This Week In EHG Anniversary TV History from 2023-08-23T09:00
472: Should You Pick Up Telemarketers? from 2023-08-16T09:00
471: Getting Cozy In Only Murders In The Building from 2023-08-09T09:00
470: Don't Let Reservation Dogs Lie from 2023-08-02T09:00
469: Should You Revere Praise Petey? from 2023-07-26T09:00
468: Should You Visit Justified: City Primeval? from 2023-07-19T09:00
467: Dishing On The Horror Of Dolores Roach from 2023-07-12T09:00
466: Canada Day Forcenings from 2023-07-05T09:00
465: Do The Stars Align For I'm A Virgo? from 2023-06-28T09:00
464: Reflecting On Black Mirror from 2023-06-21T09:00
463: Should You Hang With The Full Monty? from 2023-06-14T09:00
462: Launching An Investigation On Deadloch from 2023-06-07T09:00
461: Sticking Around For I Think You Should Leave from 2023-05-31T09:00
460: Can Clone High Duplicate Past Success? from 2023-05-24T09:00
459: Heating Things Up With Our Summer TV Preview from 2023-05-17T09:00
458: Going Down Deep Into Silo from 2023-05-10T09:00
457: Spring Fling Forcenings from 2023-05-03T09:00
456: Making Womb For Dead Ringers from 2023-04-26T09:00
455: Is The Final Season of Barry Killing It? from 2023-04-19T09:00
454: Chewing Over Beef from 2023-04-12T09:00
453: Should You Press Play On Tetris? from 2023-04-05T09:00
452: Talking Your Ear Off About Yellowjackets from 2023-03-29T09:00
451: TV Nerd Thunderdome from 2023-03-22T09:00
450: Do You Know What Time It Is? It's Curtain Time! from 2023-03-15T09:00
449: Should You Rock Out With Daisy Jones And The Six? from 2023-03-08T10:00
448: Celebrating The Return Of Party Down from 2023-03-01T10:00
447: Getting Comfortable With The Company You Keep from 2023-02-22T10:00
446: Pairing Up For Perfect Match from 2023-02-15T10:00
445: Should You Mark Dear Edward Return To Sender? from 2023-02-08T10:00
444: Telling The Truth About Poker Face from 2023-02-01T10:00
443: Revenge Of The Listener Game Time Tournament from 2023-01-25T10:00
442: Making Mushroom For The Last Of Us from 2023-01-18T10:00
441: Did Mayfair Witches Cast A Spell On Us? from 2023-01-11T10:00
440: Let's Play Mullendash from 2023-01-04T10:00
439: Raising Our Glasses For A New Year's Eve Game Time from 2022-12-28T10:00
438: Our Christmas Attack Zone from 2022-12-21T10:00
EEHG 156: The 12 Shows Of Christmas
437: Do They Know What Time It Is? from 2022-12-14T04:00
Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concoc...
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436: 2022 Guest Thought Experiments from 2022-12-07T04:00
We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode!
435: Feasting On Snack Vs. Chef from 2022-11-30T04:00
Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (on...
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434: Swiping Right On Fleishman Is In Trouble from 2022-11-23T04:00
Book critic and The Maris Review host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of Fleishman Is In Trouble, whether it works as TV given its structur...
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433: Does Tulsa King Rule? from 2022-11-16T04:00
Did Paramount+'s Tulsa King SLY-ly (sorry) work its way into our hearts? The Filmcast's Devindra Hardawar is back to talk about the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, good pacing, bad...
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432: Is The Crown Still One Of TV's Jewels? from 2022-11-09T04:00
The Crown is back for a new season, with a whole carriage load of new actors; Go Fug Yourself's Jessica Morgan returns to talk about whether its late 20th century setting has made it le...
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431: Checking Into The White Lotus from 2022-11-02T04:00
The White Lotus is back on HBO for a second season of subjecting rich jerks to various indignities (now in Italy); Joe Reid returns to discuss, among other things, which guests may dese...
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430: Bundle Up For Our Winter TV Preview! from 2022-10-26T04:00
Big thanks to Nick for stepping in last-minute for our winter-television preview: all the new or returning shows we're psyched for (like The White Lotus), all the shows we should Listen
429: Should You Clap Eyes On The Watcher? from 2022-10-19T04:00
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take an unsolved stalking case as the inspiration for their latest Netflix limited series; Dan Rogge returns to discuss whether anyone should be watching it OTHER tha...
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428: Should You Subscribe To Alaska Daily? from 2022-10-12T04:00
Canadian journalist Danny MacEachern is back to take a look at the frustrating, but also maaaaybe promising, Alaska Daily, which spends a good half of its first episode giving us unnece...
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427: Sitting Down With Interview With The Vampire from 2022-10-05T04:00
The Vampire Lestat is back in a new series adaptation of Interview With The Vampire at AMC, and You Must Remember This creator Karina Longworth is here to talk about all its pl...
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426: I'll Make My Own Star Wars With Hookers And Blackjack from 2022-09-28T04:00
The Star Wars universe has expanded yet again, and Never Not Funny's Matt Belknap joins us for the first time to talk about Andor, a Rogue One prequel of sort...
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425: Oh Boy, It's A New Quantum Leap! from 2022-09-21T04:00
Everything old continues to be new again as NBC brings its late '80s/early '90s time travel series Quantum Leap back for a new generation; Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk joins us...
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424: Is American Gigolo Doing It For Us? from 2022-09-14T04:00
Forty-two years after Paul Schrader's American Gigolo pioneered the sex-worker neo-noir micro-genre, Showtime's limited series of the same name is trying it again -- and returning guest...
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423: TV Teacher Thunderdome from 2022-09-07T04:00
It's the first week of September -- traditionally the time when students go back to school (and if your district is one of those cess pools that call kids back in early August: get yourself on t...
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422: Should You Enter Therapy With The Patient? from 2022-08-31T04:00
After co-creating The Americans, where have Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg gone next? Back to FX...on Hulu, with the psychological thriller The Patient, and first-time guest Patr...
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421: Should You Take House Of The Dragon For A Ride? from 2022-08-24T04:00
Our resident (reluctant) GoT expert Jeff Drake is back to talk about HBO's ponderous, poorly wigged prequel to Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon -- who it's for, wh...
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420: Playing Ball With A League Of Their Own from 2022-08-17T04:00
Beloved baseball movie in which there is no crying A League Of Their Own is the latest film to get a series reboot -- with a bunch of twists -- on Amazon Prime. We talked to Yahoo! Spor...
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419: Should You Sleep On The Sandman? from 2022-08-10T04:00
Netflix is the latest platform to turn a Neil Gaiman property into a series with The Sandman. How does this one go? First-time guest Ilan Muskat is here to talk about it! Around The Dia...
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418: Should You Get Consciously Uncoupled? from 2022-08-03T04:00
Sex & The City creator Darren Star has teamed up with Modern Family alumnus Jeffrey Richman to create Uncoupled, a NEW show about dating in New York, but from the ...
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417: Should You Make An Offer On The Ugliest House In America? from 2022-07-27T00:00
Wretched real estate, Retta, and rocks indoors -- The Ugliest House In America is back, and so is Alison Herman, as we debate which of the houses "in paradise" is the most hideous, talk...
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416: Living (In The Walls) For Phrogging: Hider In My House from 2022-07-20T00:00
Did you know that the crime of secretly living in someone else's house happens so much it has A NAME? It's called "phrogging," and it's the subject of Lifetime's new true crime show, Phroggi...
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415: A Trio Of Listener Forcenings from 2022-07-13T00:00
We asked our Patreon supporters to suggest TV episodes we should be forced to watch, and boy, did they come through. From their many picks, we've gone with Breakout Kings's Season 2 pre...
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414: Holiday Extravaganza from 2022-07-06T00:00
EEHG 104: Spreading Around The Holiday Cheer
Eric A writes: lots of shows have done Christmas episodes. Friends did some great Thanksgiving episodes, and Roseanne w...
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413: Should You Go Back For Seconds Of The Bear? from 2022-06-29T00:00
Nadia Chaudhury is back to beef up our panel's discussion of The Bear, Hulu's tense, swear-packed story of a young chef's return to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop -- and how ...
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412: Should The Old Man Get Off Your Lawn? from 2022-06-22T00:00
Fill a dish with hard candies for Dave Chen, who's back after a long absence to talk about the somewhat mysterious appeal of FX's aging-spy-vs.-spy drama, The Old Man. Does Sarah think ...
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411: Punching Up With Ms. Marvel from 2022-06-15T00:00
Ms. Marvel, the latest MCU TV series to arrive on Disney+, takes viewers home to Jersey City with the titular character, but what did certified Kamala Khan expert Kate Sánchez think of ...
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410: Playing With The Boys from 2022-06-08T00:00
The Boys are back in town for a third season of extremely bloody mayhem, and Will Hines has returned to talk to us about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Real World (NO...
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409: Pounding Sand With Obi-Wan Kenobi from 2022-06-01T00:00
The latest live-action Disney Plus series to tell us what happened between Star Wars movies is Obi-Wan Kenobi, and first-time guest Simone Chavoor is here to discuss whether it...
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408: Enrolling In Lovestruck High from 2022-05-25T00:00
Some maniac got the idea to throw a bunch of British adults (and one Irish adult) into a fake American high school set and make them date each other in the manner of teen movie characters; some ...
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407: Roman Holiday from 2022-05-18T00:00
EEHG 143: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Nero Episode Of Ancient Rome
Don't you DAAAAAAAAAARE miss this episode.
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406: Boldly Going With Star Trek: Strange New Worlds from 2022-05-11T00:00
We're joined on the bridge this week by ATV Podcast's Andrew Cunningham, to talk about the latest addition to the Star Trek family, Paramount+'s Strange New Worlds: th...
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405: TV Mom Thunderdome from 2022-05-04T00:00
Mother's Day 2022 is nearly upon us, and if you haven't made a brunch reservation by this point, you're probably screwed. However, we have made something for you that you can pass on to...
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404: Did We Buy Into We Own This City? from 2022-04-27T00:00
The fact-based cop drama We Own This City brings co-creator David Simon back to Baltimore and to HBO; it also brings Santiago Melli-Huber back to the podcast to discuss this take on Bal...
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403: Better Call Saul One More Time from 2022-04-20T00:00
Our longtime Better Call Saul correspondent Will Leitch returns along with BCS to discuss the first episodes of the show's final season. Which moments made us think, "Ah yes, o...
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402: Interrogating The CW's Would I Lie To You? from 2022-04-13T09:00:11
Sometimes American remakes of British comedies are big hits, like The Office! And sometimes they're not, like Taskmaster. Where does The CW's take on Would I...
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401: Are We Over The Moon Knight? from 2022-04-06T09:00:48
Roxana Hadadi is back to talk about the latest minor Marvel superhero, Moon Knight, and whether an inconsistent premiere outweighs the charisma of Oscar Isaac in the lead role. Wil...
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400: Getting To Know The Girl From Plainville from 2022-03-30T09:00:28
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 seri...
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399: The Listener Game Time Tournament from 2022-03-23T09:00:16
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 a...
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398: Putting The "No" In Domino Masters from 2022-03-16T09:00:33
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&nbs...
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397: Should You Stick On The Dropout? from 2022-03-09T10:00:31
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...
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396: Breaking The Law & Order from 2022-03-02T10:00:15
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 ab...
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395: Should You Stick Around For The Endgame? from 2022-02-23T10:00:41
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 fr...
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394: Springtime Canon Fodder from 2022-02-16T10:00:43
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 Couplerack up the requisi...
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393: Love Is In The Airwaves from 2022-02-09T10:00:47
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 o...
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392: Taking Out The Trash With Pam & Tommy from 2022-02-02T10:00:05
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 ...
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391: Does The Gilded Age Get A Glowing Review? from 2022-01-26T10:00:33
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 ...
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390: TV Moustache Thunderdome from 2022-01-19T10:00:22
For this special episode, we have selected 27 very memorable TV mustaches to do battle in our Thunderdome. Listen to find out which of them vanquishes all its opponents!
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389: Is The Amazing Race Still A Top Finisher? from 2022-01-12T10:00:51
Resident Amazing Race expert Jessica returns to the guest chair to talk about the legendary reality show's unique thirty-third season: how it handled an 18-month interruption, wh...
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388: Non-Regulation Game Time, Times Three! from 2022-01-05T10:00:23
So...the original plan was to watch the 1979 miniseries Backstairs At The White House -- even though, at nine hours, it's longer than some actual series are these days. Then D...
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387: Extra Hic Great from 2021-12-29T10:00:32
From December 25, 2020: We challenged our listeners to get us to 1000 Patreon supporters by December 15, and they went above and beyond. Your reward? This drunk episode. Author, screenwriter, and s...
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386: Coming Home To Being The Ricardos from 2021-12-22T10:00:05
Being The Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV ...
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385: We Couldn't Help But Wonder About And Just Like That from 2021-12-15T10:00:14
Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just ...
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384: Did We Dig Landscapers? from 2021-12-08T10:00:52
HBO's latest British miniseries import is Landscapers, telling the story about Christopher and Susan Edwards and their, er, unorthodox gardening habits; we tell you whether we thought...
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383: Selective HBO Character Thunderdome from 2021-12-01T10:00:43
It's the return of the EHG Thunderdome! This time we're sending 27 HBO characters of our choosing into the Thunderdome to see who is the last character standing. Will it be the horse from ...
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382: Wheel Of Time And Thyme Again from 2021-11-24T10:00:08
Sarah and Tara are busy eating turkey so Dave assembled a crew of Wheel Of Time experts to try to explain what the hell he just watched. Join Dan Cassino, Sean Pflueger and Jim Durr as ...
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381: Analyzing The Shrink Next Door from 2021-11-17T10:00:12
Returning guest Dave Roth got on the couch with us for The Shrink Next Door, the Apple TV adaptation of the Wondery podcast of the same name. We discussed the pacing, whether the s...
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380: Debating The New Head Of The Class from 2021-11-10T10:00:10
The latest high school-based '80s sitcom to get a revival is HBO Max's 2021 take on Head Of The Class, so Daniel MacEachern -- a fan of the original in its day -- has joined us to tal...
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379: EHG Listener Fall Forcening from 2021-11-03T09:00:37
Your co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vot...
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378: Investigating Inside Job from 2021-10-27T09:00:07
Netflix's new animated series Inside Job posits a world in which basically every conspiracy theory you've ever seen on Facebook is real; John Ramos returns to discuss whether ...
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377: Spinoffs! Spinoffs! Spinoffs! from 2021-10-20T09:00:18
004: That's Just Wrong
Our patron Eric Akawie challenges us to name shows that got Wrong Spinoffs, and to correct history by proposing spinoffs that would have been Ri...
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376: Putting CSI: Vegas Under The Microscope from 2021-10-13T09:00:19
We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor CSI, so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing...
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375: Congregating For The Many Saints Of Newark from 2021-10-06T09:00:58
The SCU (Sopranos Cinematic Universe) expands with the release, in theaters and on HBO Max, of the prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark, and Rolling Stone Listen
374: Sinking Into La Brea from 2021-09-29T09:00:12
We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea, NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole i...
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373: Drinking Too Much Espresso With The Morning Show from 2021-09-22T09:00:35
Nearly two years after its first-season premiere, The Morning Show is back on AppleTV+, and its #1 fan Christina Tucker has returned to talk about all the delightful madness! Aro...
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372: Should You Ask Yourself Y: The Last Man? from 2021-09-15T09:00
FX on Hulu's take on comics series Y: The Last Man has finally made it to air -- and Taylor Cole has finally made it over from The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show to talk...
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371: Testifying About Impeachment: American Crime Story from 2021-09-08T09:00
Since the third season of American Crime Story revolves around Bill Clinton's late-'90s impeachment scandal, we could think of no better guest to join us in discussing it than...
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370: Shut Up Alfred Poochinski from 2021-09-01T09:00
EEHG 102: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye
Join us for the third-season premiere of Sarah's go-to mid-century anthology ...
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369: Settling Into The Chair from 2021-08-25T09:00
University of California (NOT California University...you'll see) faculty member Bobby Krut returns to talk about Sandra Oh's new English-department half-hour dramedy on Netflix, The Ch...
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368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels from 2021-08-18T09:00
With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW, Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of ...
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367: Mr. Corman's Existential Crisis from 2021-08-11T09:00
Kamille Washington of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast is back to discuss Mr. Corman, a (possibly too) slow-building show about a musician turned grade-school teacher/anxiety s...
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366: Shouldn't Have Worked But It Did from 2021-08-04T09:00
The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode...
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365: Speed-Dating Sexy Beasts from 2021-07-28T09:00
When schedulers at the Food Network foiled our original plans for this episode, our returning guest Will Ellis rolled with the punches and joined us to talk about Netflix's bizarre new dating sh...
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364: Visiting Schmigadoon! from 2021-07-21T09:00
AppleTV+'s newest musical series, Schmigadoon!, strands a couple of contemporary big-city doctors in a strange town lost in time, requiring them to find their true loves before the...
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363: Should You Slide Into The New Gossip Girl's DMs? from 2021-07-14T09:00
Nadia Chaudhury of Eater Austin joins us for the first time to talk about the second time around for Gossip Girl. Does the 2021 reboot know who it's for? Did the original benefit f...
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362: America's-Birthday Forcenings! from 2021-07-07T09:00
It's a holiday week: time for a good old-fashioned Forcening, in which each of your EHG regulars makes another one watch a TV episode or movie. This time, we're acknowledging July 4th by obligin...
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361: Should You Join The Mysterious Benedict Society? from 2021-06-30T09:00
Disney Plus's latest series for teens and tweens is the very puzzle-y The Mysterious Benedict Society, based on a beloved novel, and Leigh-Ann Jackson is here to talk about how wel...
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360: Bouncing Into Physical from 2021-06-23T09:00
The latest new series from AppleTV+ is Physical, starring Rose Byrne as an aerobics addict in 1981 San Diego; Jeb Lund joins us to discuss whether the first three episodes left us ...
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359: Is Loki A Good Time? from 2021-06-16T09:00
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair is back to talk about the latest product off the Marvel industrial complex assembly line: Disney+'s Loki. We discussed everything f...
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358: Getting A Taste Of Sweet Tooth from 2021-06-09T09:00
Netflix joins Amazon in boldly dropping a soft sci-fi story about an extremely contagious disease outbreak mid-covid pandemic...but at least Sweet Tooth, unlike Utopia Listen
357: Securing Crime Scene Kitchen, Investing In Small Fortune from 2021-06-02T09:00
Writer and co-host of The Nod Brittany Luse joins us for a double shot of summer TV fare, starting with NBC's well-hosted but incorrectly constructed Small Fortune. We like the dio...
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356: Diving Into The 2021 Summer TV Preview from 2021-05-26T09:00
With summer nearly upon us, we're dusting off a format we haven't done in a while, looking at the premieres that are coming in the weeks and months ahead and each choosing one title we're into; ...
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355: A Talking Boat, The Queen and The End Of Liberty from 2021-05-19T09:00
Dave died so we're slapping together two Patreon episodes for your listening pleasure.
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354: Girls5Eva Passes The Audition from 2021-05-12T09:00
Slate TV critic Willa Paskin is back to talk about Peacock's girl-group-comeback addition to the Tina Fey-verse, Girls5Eva. Did the panel's opinions on the show's quality harmonize...
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353: Nice British People Doing Nice Things from 2021-05-05T09:00
A while back, we put out a call for six-word pitches to program a whole episode of this podcast, and our listener Heather was the victor with "Nice British People Doing Nice Things." As a result...
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352: Zooming In On The Reality Show Exposure from 2021-04-28T09:00
Jessica Liese is here to talk about a brand-new, brand-content competition reality show from Hulu -- Exposure, in which professional photographers compete in irrelevant-to-their-st...
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351: Should You Enter Into Couples Therapy? from 2021-04-21T09:00
Dr. Orna Guralnik has returned to Showtime to work with a whole new crop of troubled partners in a new season of Couples Therapy, and Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk -- one of the sh...
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350: Should You Be Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson? from 2021-04-14T09:00
Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson joined the ranks of "rich people hanging out with each other" shows last week, and Here For It author R. Eric Thomas joined U...
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349: Surveilling Law & Order: Organized Crime from 2021-04-07T09:00
Elliot Stabler has returned from his ignominious exile in...uh, a very nice-sounding job in Italy, and into an SVU spinoff that will find him Taking! His wife's murder! Person...
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348: Did Pooch Perfect Made Us Want To Flea? from 2021-03-31T09:00
Reality-television expert Andy is back to talk about Pooch Perfect, and why you shouldn't sit, stay in front of the show, including awkward hosting by Rebel Wilson, consent issues ...
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347: Muppet Thunderdome from 2021-03-24T09:00
Over New Year's, we treated our Patreon supporters to a very important thought experiment: if 27 Smurfs entered Thunderdome to compete in battles to the death, who would be the last Smurf standi...
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346: Is Waffles + Mochi The Cream Of The Crop? from 2021-03-17T09:00
We're thrilled the third time was the charm for our guest Alison Herman, as we all dug into the pro-cooking kids' show from the Obama-tainment industrial complex, Waffles + Mochi. ...
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345: Moving Back Into The Loft For The Real World Homecoming: New York from 2021-03-10T10:00
As part of the relaunch of CBS All Access as Paramount Plus, the original Season 1 cast of The Real World has reunited in their old Soho loft for a limited series, so we got b...
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344: Brutal Bridesmaids Isn't Brutal Enough from 2021-03-03T10:00
Brandon is back to talk about last weekend's Brutal Bridesmaids and its strange lack of bloodshed, plus ugly bridal fashion, an emergency male-stripper substitution, and reali...
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343: Taking Off Our Glasses For Superman & Lois from 2021-02-24T10:00
After illness prevented her from making her earlier booking, LaToya Ferguson has returned to talk about another show she feels passionate about: The CW's Superman & Lois! Is sh...
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342: The Stinky Teenagers Who Live In Secrets Places In Your House from 2021-02-17T10:00
Austin HQ had a water pipe burst on record day so we celebrate with two EEHG about other bad things in your house.
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341: The Equalizer Racks Up The "Fine"s from 2021-02-10T10:00
Fametracker's own Adam Sternbergh (oh, also the New York Times's but whatever)(hee) is back to discuss The Equalizer, the perfectly acceptable re-imagining of the '80...
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340: Running Down Firefly Lane from 2021-02-03T10:00
With our intended guest and Firefly Lane expert LaToya Ferguson forced to bow out (we'll re-book her again ASAP!), your co-hosts muddled through on Netflix's new middlebrow bo...
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339: A Bridge & Tunnel Too Far from 2021-01-27T06:00
Our esteemed colleague, "Pot Ledom"-ologist, and Long Island native Dan Rogge returns to analyze Edward Burns's thoroughly mediocre Bridge & Tunnel, about the post-college live...
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338: Adjusting The Horizontal Hold For WandaVision from 2021-01-20T10:00
Marvel Studios has kicked off its slate of TV series with WandaVision, a sort-of spoof of classic sitcoms starring a couple of Avengers. What's actually going on? We don't know (th...
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337: Big Dickinson Energy from 2021-01-13T10:00
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 al...
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336: Matlock's Big Bang Plaza from 2021-01-06T10:00
We're off this week but we've glued together three episode forcening, uh, episodes from our Patreon supporter bonus podcast Extra Extra Hot Great.
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335: Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes from 2020-12-30T10:00
To help get you through our holiday break, Tara wrote a special festive version of her fan-favorite (...is it?) Non-Regulation Game Time: it's Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes! Some original holiday so...
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334: Finding Out If Enthusiasm For The Stand Is Infectious from 2020-12-23T10:00
Stephen King's 1978 novel has already been turned into a miniseries once, but it's time for this generation to get its own, apparently? So CBS All Access has made one, and Rox...
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333: Is Tiny Pretty Things On Point? from 2020-12-16T10:00
First-time guest Kamille joins us for a conversation about Tiny Pretty Things, Netflix's new Center Stage-with-teens ballet thriller (?), and while she watched the wh...
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332: Investigating The Hardy Boys from 2020-12-09T10:00
Hulu and Canada's kids' broadcaster YTV have brought the world a new adaptation of the nearly-100-year-old boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, and we've enlisted Adam Grosswirth to join us in di...
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331: War Is Hell: An All-Canon Episode from 2020-12-02T10:00
The panel is contemplating three user submissions for the Canon this week, starting with the extremely highly rated, extreeeeemely looooong series finale of MASH. Lindy makes a fas...
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330: Saying A Final Farewell To Supernatural from 2020-11-25T10:00
After 15 seasons on two networks, Supernatural has finally hunted its last monster, and our French friend Caroline Lefloch is joining us to bury the series finale in an unmark...
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329: (Baby-)Sitting With Becoming You from 2020-11-18T10:00
It might not be Olivia Colman's highest-profile streaming series this week, but Apple TV+'s Becoming You, which explores how the first 2000 days of our lives shape our futures, is ...
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328: Celebrating Christmastime In The City With Dash & Lily from 2020-11-11T10:00
Perhaps you feel the 2020 holiday season should start a little earlier than may be strictly traditional? So does Netflix, as it brings us all Dash & Lily, in which a pair of ad...
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327: The Extra Hot Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show from 2020-11-04T10:00
EHG's Dave and Game Time veteran Dan Cassino along with host Taylor Cole welcome Tara, Sarah and Mark Blankenship for a special crossover episode with Listen
326: Unpacking The Undoing or Too Many Butterflies from 2020-10-28T09:00
What if Big Little Lies, but in New York City and with no point? That's kind of how Emily and the regulars all felt about The Undoing, the latest Nicole Kidman-David ...
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325: Are We Living For Someone Has To Die? from 2020-10-21T09:00
Netflix's new import is a miniseries set in Franco-era Spain and revolving around a just-returned college grad and his Mexican ballerino friend. How does Lázaro's arrival tear the community apar...
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324: The Right Stuff May Not Have...Well, You Know from 2020-10-14T09:00
Disney+ and NatGeo decided to remake beloved '80s Mercury-astronauts epic (and earlier Tom Wolfe book) The Right Stuff as a series...and Adam Moussa decided to talk about it w...
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323: Doing A Tight Five On The Comedy Store from 2020-10-07T12:00
Showtime's latest docuseries is a deep (maybe too deep) dive on L.A. comedy club The Comedy Store, and first-time guest Brandi Brown -- herself a comic -- is joining us to tal...
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322: Should You Search For Utopia? from 2020-09-30T09:00
We're thrilled Devindra could step over from Engadget and Slashfilm to talk to us about Utopia, Gillian Flynn's reimagining of a belovedly culty UK original. Sarah was less thrille...
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321: Coming Clean On Filthy Rich from 2020-09-23T09:00
Fox's newest soap opera places Kim Cattrall at the head of a televangelist family that -- and you're never going to believe this -- are not as polished and pious as they appear on TV. First-time...
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320: Zooming In On Home-Shot Reality TV from 2020-09-16T09:00
Reality-TV vet Andy Dehnart has seen a LOT of unscripted crap in his decades in the field, so we're glad he brought his expertise to our discussion of this unprecedented time in the genre's hist...
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319: Should Away Be Tossed Away? from 2020-09-09T09:00
Netflix's latest space drama takes a mother, played by Hilary Swank, to Mars, to try to balance work and family; Inkoo Kang of THR joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial t...
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318: Premium Filler from 2020-09-02T09:00
We're off this week but we've glued together three listener-suggested topics from our Patreon supporter bonus podcast Extra Extra Hot Great.
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317: Appraising Lifetime's Ruthless Realtor from 2020-08-26T09:00
Podcaster and Lifetime-movie-ologist Brandon is going deep on not just Ruthless Realtor (we would give you a plot summary, but it's...that, with a dash of Bad Ronald<...
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316: Booking A Trip To Lovecraft Country from 2020-08-19T09:00
TV Guide senior editor Malcolm Venable is here to talk about Lovecraft Country, HBO's series imagining of Matt Ruff's novel -- and why everything from the show's look...
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315: Taking Aim At Hitmen from 2020-08-12T09:00
Before they were the original co-hosts of The Great British Bake Off, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were comedy partners, and their new project Hitmen, imported from S...
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314: Frayed Unraveled from 2020-08-05T09:01
Production Note: Uploaded new version to restore 15 seconds of missing Tara audio at 13:10.
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313: Finding Ourselves At Lost Resort from 2020-07-29T09:00
Apparently TBS is not just for "very funny" shows anymore, as we learned from the premiere of Lost Resort, a new series with the bones of a reality show and the shredded guts of un...
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312: A Care Package From Killer Camp from 2020-07-22T09:00
Production Note: We uploaded a new version because the host misrendered the episode this morning -- creating a file with just an ad.
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311: Having A Dry Discussion About Palm Springs from 2020-07-15T09:00
Production Note: Friday July 17, uploaded new version to (possibly) address a couple of reports of older iOS issues with this episode.
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310: The Real Upstart Crowives Of The Outer Banks from 2020-07-08T09:00
Esteemed recent guests Stephanie Green, Dan Cassino, and Richard Lawson each picked out an episode for your three panelists to watch for Episode 310's Forcening. First into the breach was David ...
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309: Holding Up Our Lighters for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga from 2020-07-01T09:00
Production Note: The intro clip was cut off in the original upload. It has been corrected and replaced.
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308: On The Case With Perry Mason from 2020-06-24T09:00
Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson returns to the pod for the first time since Mark 1 to talk about an equally old-timey take on a beloved character: HBO's dark take on Perry Mason Listen
307: Is Don't A Don't-Miss? from 2020-06-17T09:00
Production Note: Dave did a bad copy-paste in his notes and credited the wrong Dave in Game Time. Dave is a bad Dave. Dave LARSON is not a bad Dave, he is a good Dave and the author of V...
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306: Should You Hide From Trackers? from 2020-06-10T09:00
Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about Trackers, the 2019 South African "thriller" that Cinemax has imported. Unfortunately, the only place it led the EHG panel was Dullsville...
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305: Enlisting In The Space Force from 2020-06-03T09:00
The announcement that Donald Trump was creating a new branch of the military called the Space Force was swiftly followed by the announcement that Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, the creator and s...
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304: Solving The Mystery Of Homecoming's Second Season from 2020-05-27T09:00
We're welcoming Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Soraiya to the guest chair to talk about the shorter, neater, Julia-Roberts-less-but-still-better second season of Amazon's
303: Should You Chase Down Ultimate Tag? from 2020-05-20T09:00
Fox is welcoming summer with a very silly American Gladiators take on tag -- yes, the playground game -- so who better than Daniel MacEachern, veteran of our Holey Mo...
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302: I Know This Much Is True Is Misery Porn from 2020-05-13T09:00
We hope Bobby Krut agrees to come BACK to Extra Hot Great after putting him through the unrelenting barrage of anguish that is HBO's latest limited series, I Know This Much Is True...
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301: Taking A Dream Trip To Hollywood from 2020-05-06T09:00
Hollywood, the latest product of Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal, has hit the streaming service. What did we think about his ahistorical take on marginalized voices in the film industry? Kev...
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300: Defending Jacob Isn't Easy from 2020-04-29T09:00
Captain America and Lady Mary did their best, but Allison and the rest of the panel still found legal procedural Defending Jacob guilty of crappy pacing in the second degree; ...
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299: The ABCs Of TV from 2020-04-22T09:00
In an absence of series premieres any of us could manage to get excited about, Dave came up with a new format: the ABCs of TV! With our beloved Joe Reid, we go around the horn, each naming an im...
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298: Run: Hot And Cold from 2020-04-15T09:00
Production note: Uploaded a new version with different spoiler buzzes that will not signal the apocalypse.
Dan Rogge b...
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297: Making A Whole Meal Out Of Quibi from 2020-04-08T09:00
Just a few short weeks after we tested our knowledge of Quibi titles in Game Time, Quibi is taking ...
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296: Will Heidi And Tim's New Fashion Show Be Making The Cut? from 2020-04-01T09:00
One half of the GFY brain trust, Heather Cocks, came back to discuss Amazon's Project Runway with a big-budget twist: Making The Cut. As much as we love Naomi Ca...
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295: First-Time Shows At The Canon Ball from 2020-03-25T09:00
Some shows -- your 30 Rocks, your Simpsonses -- get pitched to the Canon all the time. So for this special all-Canon episode, we reached into our mailbag and chose us...
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294: Warming Up To Little Fires Everywhere from 2020-03-18T09:00
Appointment Television's Margaret H. Willison put a marshmallow on a stick to talk about Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, and whether THIS is the real "vanity-free performance" on R...
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293: Politely Sitting Through Amazing Stories from 2020-03-11T09:00
Apple TV+ has brought Amazing Stories, the less-nihilistic take on The Twilight Zone, back for all the '80s kids, though confusingly premiered this anthology series w...
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292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere from 2020-03-04T10:00
AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alterna...
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291: Breaking Confidentiality To Talk About Better Call Saul from 2020-02-26T10:00
As Better Call Saul returns for its fifth and almost final season, superfan Will Leitch joins us to check in on Jimmy, Kim, Nacho, Mike, and of course, good old black-and-whit...
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290: February Forcenings from 2020-02-19T10:00
To keep you in content while Dave and Tara go on vacation, we're forcening each other to watch TV episodes! Dave forcens Tara to watch what happens when a zombie virus ravages the Smurf village....
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289: Building Something Real With Lego Masters from 2020-02-11T10:00:04
Will Arnett has followed his ex-wife Amy Poehler into the field of highly meta reality show hosting with his gig on Fox's Lego Masters, and American dad (and therefore Lego Master) Jim Durr has ...
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288: Should You Gamble On McMillions? from 2020-02-05T10:00
Even though Eve and Sarah D. spend most weekdays thinking about the true crime that's worth your time for their newsletter, they still didn't know much about the Mobbed-up McDonald's Monopoly-ga...
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287: Raising A Nice Glass Of Bordeaux To Picard from 2020-01-29T10:00:12
Note: Re-uploaded podcast to turn off the "edit point marker" track which Dave left on because he was editing this until 2am and was sleeeeeepy.
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286: Visiting Little America from 2020-01-22T10:00
Apple TV+'s Little America premiered last week, and Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returned to talk about the heartwarming, but not treacly, anth...
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285: Making Reservations For Party Of Five from 2020-01-15T10:00
When we decided to cover Freeform's remake of Fox's iconic teen soap Party Of Five, there was one obvious choice of guest: Meredith Smith, recent submitter of a Canon presentation ...
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284: Sinking Our Teeth Into Dracula from 2020-01-08T10:00
The BBC rolled out Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula on New Year's Day; we Yanks endured it over the weekend, and Nick and the panel agree that this grimly joyless take ...
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283: Buffy The Timekeeper from 2020-01-01T11:00
Happy New Year! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great! See you next week for a new episode.
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282: The Way We Were from 2019-12-25T11:00
Merry Christmas! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great!
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281: Celebrating The Holidays Amid The Mistletoe & Menorahs from 2019-12-18T11:00
It's the most wonderful time of the year...if your very favourite thing is oppressively jolly holiday programming! We asked you, our listeners, to help us choose which piece of brand-new 2019 ho...
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280: Conscientious Objectors In V Wars from 2019-12-11T11:00
How did Netflix think it would get away with a stinker like V Wars in the age of peak TV? We ponder that question with returning guest Monty, and we investigate the ingredient...
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279: All Canons, All The Time from 2019-12-04T11:00
In this episode, we dig in on some of the Canons submitted by you, our beloved listeners! First, we consider Doug Dale's case for Are You The One?'s eighth-season premiere, "Come O...
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278: Would You Rather from 2019-11-27T11:00
At Extra Hot Great, holiday time means non-regulations episodes -- like a supersized round of Would You Rather? with Blankenship Chair creator Mark Blankenship. The four of us confront identity-...
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277: Welcoming New Faces To Season 3 Of The Crown from 2019-11-20T11:00
The Crown has returned for Season 3 with new actors in all the key roles, and who better to talk about it than semi-professional royal watchers Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of ...
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276: Disney+ Blasts Off With The Mandalorian from 2019-11-13T11:00
Disney+ finally launched earlier this week, so we thought we'd talk The Mandalorianwith Adam Grosswirth. How does the show fit into the Star Wars universe -- and...
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275: Waking Up To The Morning Show from 2019-11-06T11:00
Apple TV+ is first to market in this month's battle of the brand-new streaming services, and Slate's TV critic Willa Paskin is joining us to talk about it -- starting with its fanciest new serie...
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274: Meet Mrs. Fletcher from 2019-10-30T10:00
Mrs. Fletcher gives Kathryn Hahn a star turn as a divorced empty-nester trying to find herself (sexily!), and we're thrilled that star critic Maureen Ryan could return to discuss i...
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273: Getting On Our High Horse To Talk About HBO's Catherine The Great from 2019-10-23T10:00
HBO has imported Sky Atlantic's miniseries Catherine The Great -- starring seasoned queen portrayer Helen Mirren -- and first-time guest Karen Geier is Russian (sorry) to join...
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272: Flooring It With El Camino from 2019-10-16T10:00:08
We're so glad our esteemed colleague and Breaking Bad 101 author Alan Sepinwall could join us to talk about El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel...
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271: Stopping The Presses For Press On Masterpiece from 2019-10-09T10:00
PBS's Masterpiece has premiered the British miniseries Press, a tale of warring London newspapers, and we've brought a former newspaper reporter, Daniel MacEache...
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270: The Survivor Stumptown Sunnyside Shot Clock from 2019-10-02T10:00
We couldn't decide which headline show to cover for EHG 270, so we set our shot clocks to eight minutes each for three: Survivor's 39th (!) season, with an idolatrous twist; new si...
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269: Polishing The Silver For Downton Abbey: The Movie from 2019-09-25T11:00
Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to ...
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268: The Ups And Downs Of Coming Undone from 2019-09-18T11:00
Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a ...
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267: Tearing Down A Very Brady Renovation from 2019-09-11T11:00
It's the show Lance Bass never wanted you to see: A Very Brady Renovation, in which a collection of HGTV stars join forces with the surviving cast of The Brady Bunch&...
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266: The Episode That's Two Episodes from 2019-09-04T11:00
We're not able to record this week so we're treating y'all to a sneak peak at Extra Extra Hot Great, our patrons-only bonus podcast.
Part 1: The Jimmy Kimmel-spearheaded, ABC-aired res...
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265: Is On Becoming A God In Central Florida A Scheme Worth Buying Into? from 2019-08-28T11:00
On Becoming A God In Central Florida premiered on Showtime recently, and Floridian Jeb Lund returned to the podcast to discuss its geographic and period accuracy, whether it celebr...
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264: Praying On The Righteous Gemstones from 2019-08-21T11:00:50
HBO's new Danny McBride/Jody Hill sitcom, The Righteous Gemstones, takes aim at megachurch evangelists, but will it make you throw up your hands in praise? Adam Sternbergh returns ...
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263: Pinning Down Season 3 Of GLOW from 2019-08-14T11:00:46
GLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more ser...
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262: Burying Four Weddings And A Funeral from 2019-08-07T12:00
Noted romcom fan Mindy Kaling has been tasked by Hulu to bring the world a series adaptation of the 1994 feature film Four Weddings And A Funeral, and noted romcom fan Linda Holmes...
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261: The Boys! The Boys! Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come For You? from 2019-07-31T12:00
John couldn't make it last week for our Veronica Mars discussion, but he fired a baby's laser-beam eyes at Amazon's latest original, The Boys, which we all quite...
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260: Discussing An Explosive New Season Of Veronica Mars from 2019-07-24T12:00
NOTE: A version of 260 was released with a connect-the-dots spoiler in it and it was available for a few hours on July 24. This version edits that out. We are releasing this as a new epi...
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259: Here We Are With Our Rickets Problem On An All New FMK Special from 2019-07-17T12:00
TV-based F*ck, Marry, Kill is back, and so is famous original panelist Joe Reid, as we decide whether to bone, betroth, or bash in the heads of Mad Men items, Handmai...
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258: Yelling About The Loudest Voice from 2019-07-10T05:00
Showtime has turned Gabriel Sherman's Roger Ailes book into a seven-part miniseries, and Will Leitch has returned to talk about what it is, whom it's for, and how it compares to recent-history H...
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257: Is Holey Moley A Summertime Viewing Champion? from 2019-06-26T12:00
Try as we might, we couldn't get that "putt down the remote" joke to work, so we'll just say we're happy Daniel MacEachern is back on the pod, and we're even happier to be talking about
256: Exorcising Our Demons With Los Espookys from 2019-06-19T12:00
Comedy writer/performers Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres have brought HBO a new sitcom about a "horror group" that creates practical horror effects for ridiculous reasons (Fred Armisen's hardly in ...
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255: Telling Another Season Of Big Little Lies from 2019-06-12T12:00:04
We're thrilled to welcome Eve back to the guest chair...but were we as thrilled to welcome Big Little Lies back into our primetime lives? We talked about Meryl Streep's flawle...
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254: Welcome Back To F---in' Deadwood from 2019-06-05T12:00
Shocking the world, the Deadwood movie no one dared believe would actually happen has actually happened, and our old friend Alan Sepinwall, Chief TV Critic of Rolling...
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253: Sweating Out The Hot Zone from 2019-05-29T12:00
Our (lack of?) enthusiasm for National Geographic's account of a late-'80s Ebola outbreak, The Hot Zone, is infectious -- and Kat Angus returns to the podcast to discuss the plague...
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252: Fleabag's Second Season Takes Us To Church from 2019-05-22T12:00
Fleabag is back on Amazon for its second -- and last -- season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about the big swings the show takes, Olivia Colman's perfect performance, and the sho...
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251: Living In The Society from 2019-05-15T12:00
Netflix tries to court the teens with The Society, in which a bunch of high schoolers return to their town to find it emptied of everyone who wasn't in their cla...
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250: Melting Down Over Chernobyl from 2019-05-08T12:00
HBO has gone back to the 1980s for a miniseries take on the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; to discuss whether the show is as big a catastrophe as the event, we've invited Adam Sternbergh to j...
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249: Should You Get Behind The Red Line? from 2019-05-01T12:00
It's a good thing today's Canon pitch is for The Other Two, because returning guest John Ramos is a super-fan -- but before we got around to that, we had to punch our tickets for T...
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248: A Game Time Promise Kept from 2019-04-28T00:49:24
It's an all-Game Time episode to make up for last week's missing competition. Testing their TV knowledge are Kari Race, Chris Billig and Sarah S. Coward. We played TV themes, they tried to figur...
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247: Getting Seduced By Gentleman Jack from 2019-04-24T12:00
HBO has imported Gentleman Jack, a BBC dramedy based on the journals of 19th-century lesbian landowner Anne Lister, and we've invited Mark Blankenship to join us in getting way up ...
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246: Game Of Thrones Enters Its Final Round from 2019-04-17T12:00
Game Of Thrones is finally back, and so are Kim and Jim, partly because Tara and Sarah have no real idea what's going on on the show but also because we treasure their insights on ...
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245: Putting On Our Capezios For Fosse/Verdon from 2019-04-10T12:00
FX is returning to the Feud space with Fosse/Verdon, a deep dive on a pair of contentious performing geniuses; Broadway savant Adam Grosswirth joins us to opine ...
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244: Twilight Zone-ing Out With Jordan Peele's CBS Reboot from 2019-04-03T12:00
Will Hines joins the panel for the latest imagining of The Twilight Zone from Jordan Peele -- an idea whose time may have come and (thanks to Black Mirror) gone....
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243: Having A Bloody Great Time With What We Do In The Shadows from 2019-03-27T12:00
FX has adapted the 2014 vampire mockumentary film What We Do In The Shadows as a TV series: does it have the same bite as the original? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to discuss...
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242: Project Runway Makes It Work At Bravo (Again) from 2019-03-20T12:00
Project Runway returns to Bravo for its 17th season (the spread-eagle), and Fug Girls Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks return to the podcast to talk about new judges, new mentor Ch...
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241: Surviving After Life from 2019-03-13T12:00
Ricky Gervais has brought us another sitcom and dared us to reject both it and him; Will Leitch has returned to accept the challenge. Around The Dial clicks through G...
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240: Proposing A Toast To Whiskey Cavalier from 2019-02-27T13:00
Does Whiskey Cavalier seem familiar? And is it because ABC is trying to clone Castle again, some more? That's returning guest Kathryn VanArendonk's theory, and the regulars are in...
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239: Telling The Truth About Documentary Now! from 2019-02-20T13:00
IFC's parody series Documentary Now! is back for its third season with six new spoofs of noteworthy docs, starting with Wild Wild Country (here reimagined as Batsh*t Val...
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238: Should You Chase White Dragon? from 2019-02-13T13:00
Amazon's import from ITV, White Dragon, is about a life and marriage that isn't what it seemed...and unfortunately, that's a meta comment on the show, because it seemed good, but was not. A...
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237: Is Russian Doll To Die For? from 2019-02-06T13:00
Just in time for Groundhog Day, Netflix has released Russian Doll, in which Natasha Lyonne's Nadia keeps dying and being resurrected into the bathroom at her birthday party. Joining us to d...
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236: Is The Other Two Number One In Our Hearts? from 2019-01-30T13:00
Comedy Central's new..."sibcom"?, The Other Two, follows the (usually falling) fortunes of Cary and Brooke when their 13-year-old brother becomes an overnight internet sensation, and enduri...
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235: Getting In A New York State Of Mind-Altering Substances With Black Monday and High Maintenance from 2019-01-23T13:00
Showtime has tried something new with a sitcom project: hired a creator who's actually good at making funny shows! So we're seeing how well this strategy is working with a discussion of David "H...
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234: Probing A Rebooted Roswell, New Mexico from 2019-01-16T13:00
Yet another reboot of a '90s WB "classic" has hit the earth in Roswell, a "reimagining" of Roswell -- and we were very lucky that the TWoP recapper of that "fine" original, Dan Bl...
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233: Suiting Up For Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club And The Masked Singer from 2019-01-09T12:00
A new year has dawned, and with it two buzzy new reality shows: MTV's Vanderpump Rules-alike Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, and Fox's Korean import, The Masked Singer. To join us in ...
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232: New Year, New Batch Of FMK Matchups from 2019-01-02T12:00
Happy new year! It may comfort you to know that we did not resolve to be less ridiculous in 2019, which is how we have brought you another very special all-FMK episode -- this time, also ...
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231: Deck The Halls With The RuPaul's Drag Race And Nailed It! Holiday Specials from 2018-12-19T12:00
'Tis the season to be...janky? Not for us -- we got a top-of-the-line guest, Kevin P. O'Keeffe, to join us -- but janky is Nailed It!'s specialty, and we're here for their melty, slapped-up...
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230: Grabbing Our Mics For Season 2 Of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel from 2018-12-12T11:00
Here's hoping you rested your ears over Thanksgiving, because they're getting battered by Season 2 of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Sherman-Palladino superfan Nick Rheinwald-Jones...
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229: The Christmas-Creep TV Forcening from 2018-12-05T13:00
It's just the three of us for our EHG "holiday episode" -- a meditation on the theme of Christmas creep. And yeah, they DO start playing carols in the mall on, like, November 2 these days...but ...
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228: Making A Break For It With Escape At Dannemora from 2018-11-28T12:00
Resident upstate...er, resident Kim Reed is back to talk about Ben Stiller-directed drama/thriller/Shawshank aspirant Escape At Dannemora. We discuss everything from accents to wardrob...
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227: Getting High On Narcos: Mexico from 2018-11-21T14:00
Netflix's Narcos has moved to a new time period and a new location with the spinoff Narcos: Mexico, and Maggie Serota has joined us to talk about what's changed ...
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226: Talking Through Our Memories Of Homecoming from 2018-11-14T13:00
As Amazon brings the scripted podcast Homecoming to TV in an adaptation starring Julia Roberts -- apparently she's done some films? -- we welcome Mark Lisanti to talk about its music, its...
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225: House Of Cards Season 6 Faces The Nation from 2018-11-07T13:00
Netflix's political potboiler returned last weekend -- without its former linchpin in the Frank Underwood role. WE returned with first-time guest Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about whether this i...
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224: Getting Spellbound By Charmed And Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina from 2018-10-31T12:00
With Hallowe'en upon us, we decided to take a look at this season's two witch remakes: The CW's Charmed, and Netflix's Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina. Eve Batey joins us to discuss...
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223: Life After Roseanne On The Conners from 2018-10-24T12:00
The Conners debuted last week, sans its controversial founder -- and Sarah Baker made HER EHG debut to talk about everything from how the show handled "Roseanne"'s death to the healing pr...
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222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth from 2018-10-10T11:00
Big Mouth has returned to Netflix for a second season of monstrous puberty (and puberty monsters), and Joe Reid is joining us to talk about the various sweaty humiliations that come with ...
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221: A Million Little Things: This Is (-n't For) Us from 2018-10-03T12:00
When the most exciting thing about a new show is the moment David T. Cole rechristens it Men Of A Certain Beige, you know you've got problems...but returning guest Jeb Lund soldiered brav...
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220: Saying Aloha To A New Magnum, P.I. from 2018-09-26T12:00
After the successes of its Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver remakes, CBS has turned west -- way west -- to bring Thomas Magnum to a new generation. Did it work? We invited Stephen J. Ske...
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219: Saddle Up A New Season Of BoJack Horseman from 2018-09-19T12:00
BoJack Horseman dropped another season last weekend -- along with practically every other streaming show, but this simultaneously hilarious, dirty, and dark animated dramedy is the one we...
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218: Getting Into A Pickle With Kidding from 2018-09-12T12:00
Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry have re-teamed, for the first time since Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, on Kidding, the story of a children's TV host dealing with grief; Rolli...
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217: You Don't Know Jack Ryan from 2018-09-05T12:00
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...
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216: Will You Be Enchanted By Disenchantment? from 2018-08-29T12:00
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 Dis...
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215: Regarding Better Call Saul's Fourth Season from 2018-08-22T12:00
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 ab...
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214: Should You Get Initiated Into Lodge 49? from 2018-08-15T12:00
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 ...
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213: Does Making It Work? from 2018-08-01T12:00
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 enti...
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212: Scaling The Walls Of Castle Rock from 2018-07-25T12:00
Hulu's latest original series, Castle Rock, is inspired by the works of Stephen King -- but is the resulting series Stephen Kingdom Hearts? Deadspin editor, Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean co-ho...
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211: Looking For Signs Of Life On In Search Of from 2018-07-18T12:00
Rebooting a show hosted by original Spock with the new Spock may have seemed...logical, but the summer-weight EHG panel didn't think much of the new In Search Of, which is perhaps a casua...
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210: Journeying To The Outpost from 2018-07-11T12:00
Even in 2018, the summer TV season isn't all prestigious limited series and Emmy contenders: there's still misbegotten syndication-quality sci-fantasy stuff like The CW's overseas-Syfy im...
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209: Does Detroiters S2 Get A Yes In The Room? from 2018-06-27T12:00
The second season of Detroiters started last week, and new guest Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about why it's so great, and why it should be better known: the crack timing, the consider...
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208: Going Off-Script To Talk About Summer Reality Premieres from 2018-06-20T12:00
While some prestigious shows do find berths on summer schedules, it's also still a dumping ground for C-list reality shows -- and for you, we welcomed back Jeff Drake...and made him join us in s...
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207: Getting Our Claws Into Season 2 from 2018-06-13T12:00
Season 2 of Claws is underway on TNT, and Jeb Lund returns to talk about everything from yummy visuals to tonal whiplash to Franka Potente's Rrrrrrussian accent. We're also going Around T...
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206: Stopping To Smell The Roses On The Bachelorette from 2018-06-06T12:00
It's time already for another Bachelor washout to take her turn as a chooser of men on a new season of The Bachelorette, and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who also ha...
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205: On The Record With The Fourth Estate from 2018-05-30T12:00
Our esteemed colleague and Star Trek fantasy-draft star Mo Ryan returns to the podcast to talk about Liz Garbus's four-part New York Times documentary, The Fourth Estate, an...
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204: Counting Down 13 Reasons Why from 2018-05-23T12:00
As Netflix gives us another installment of 13 Reasons Why (and we get why they wouldn't call it 13 More Reasons Why, but...come on), our dear friend Joe Reid returns to dig into th...
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203: Patrick Melrose Is Best In Small Doses from 2018-05-16T12:00
We hope Nick Rheinwald-Jones won't hold it against us that we invited him back to discuss Patrick Melrose, the Cinnamon Toastencrunch vanity proje-- er, "Benedict Cumberbatch-starring min...
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202: Having A Bunch Of Different Kinds Of Balls With Dancing With The Stars: Athletes from 2018-05-09T12:00
Will Leitch is a renowned sports journalist, so did we have him on to talk about 30 For 30 or something similarly thoughtful and incisive about the world of athletics? No, he's joining us...
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201: Now Re-Entering Westworld from 2018-04-25T12:00
As HBO's obsession-inducing dystopia returns for a second season, Eve Batey also returns to discuss reflections on capitalism; college-dorm philosophizing; why wigs are still shite in the future...
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200: Finding Our Way Through Lost In Space from 2018-04-18T13:00
Netflix having successfully adapted House Of Cards (*********) and remade One Day At A Time, it's reached back into the archives of classic TV to bring us an all-new take on Los...
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199: Does The Howards End Justify The Means? from 2018-04-11T12:00
Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir joins the panel this week for the latest filmed take on E.M. Forster's Howards End, and while we liked some things -- the casting; the memories of Witches Of E...
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198: Gathering The Comrades For The Americans from 2018-04-04T12:00
The Americans is wrapping up its spy mission in the U.S., and You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk has crammed his viewing of the previous two seasons to prepare for our discussio...
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197: Should Silicon Valley Get Another Round Of Funding? from 2018-03-28T12:00
Silicon Valley returns for its fifth season on HBO, and a Who Weekly podcast host returns to the panel -- this time, Jezebel's Bobby Finger, and we're all wondering how much battery the s...
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196: Raising Our Voices On Rise from 2018-03-21T12:00
NBC having lined up the showrunner from Friday Night Lights, a producer of Hamilton, and the former Ted Mosby for a weekly drama series about a high school putting on a musical, it...
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195: Hitting The High Points Of Jessica Jones Season 2 from 2018-03-14T12:00
S2 of Netflix Marvel anti-heroine joint Jessica Jones was a long time coming -- and unfortunately it took a long time to get going. Kotaku's Kirk Hamilton joins the panel to discuss the a...
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194: Filling Our Plates With MasterChef Junior from 2018-03-08T03:00
It's time once again for Gordon Ramsay to take a break from screaming at adults and spend a few weeks gently critiquing kids: that's right, MasterChef Junior is back for Season 6. To talk...
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193: UnREAL Season 3 Tries To Make A Connection from 2018-02-28T13:00
After a literal car wreck of a second season, UnREAL is finally pulling back the curtain again on fictional dating show The Suitor -- and grown-ish writer Kara Brown pulled ...
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192: Booting Up Our Powerbooks For The '90s Dramedy Everything Sucks from 2018-02-21T13:00
Netflix has a new period drama, set in the '90s, called Everything Sucks. Where does it fall on the spectrum of Stranger Things to Freaks And Geeks? We've asked true '90s ki...
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191: A Meditation On Here & Now At Exactly 11:11 from 2018-02-14T13:00
It's an EHG reunion! Too bad it's for Here & Now, Alan Ball's new HBO show, and while Tara and Sarah couldn't make it past the pilot, Joe had some additional insights on the existential c...
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190: Taking Notes On A.P. Bio from 2018-02-07T13:00
As NBC leads us into the Olympics with a sneak peek of its new sitcom A.P. Bio, we call on Monty Ashley (get it) to discuss whether it should have been held back. Around The Dial takes us...
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189: Taking It One Day At A Time from 2018-02-01T03:00
Season 2 of the updated One Day At A Time dropped last weekend, and we talked with Kim Reed about the fine balance between sitcommy and touching; how the two finales stacked up; and wheth...
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188: Does High Maintenance's Second Season Deliver A High? from 2018-01-25T03:00
High Maintenance is back on HBO, and John Ramos is also back to talk about the adventures of The Guy in marijuana-delivery-land; whether the show's too New York-y to be relatable, or warm...
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187: Doubling Our Fun With Counterpart from 2018-01-17T13:00
As we count down to the official premiere of Starz's previously sneak-peeked new J.K. Simmons vehicle Counterpart, Eve Batey and Tim Ehhalt join us to discuss all the twists, turns, and.....
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186: Now Boarding L.A. To Vegas from 2018-01-10T13:00
A new year means new sitcoms, and Spotted Dick/seasoned business traveler Adam Grosswirth is joining us to discuss one in particular: Fox's budget-airline-com L.A. To Vegas! We debate whe...
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185: Reflecting On A New Season Of Black Mirror from 2018-01-02T13:00
Happy new year! And...unhappy near-future narratives, as Nick returns to discuss the fourth season of Black Mirror. We all ranked the episodes from our least to most favorite, and discuss...
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184: O Canon-baum, O Canon-baum from 2017-12-27T13:00
What's under the Extra Hot Great tree today in this winter-holiday all-Canon episode? First up is Supernatural's fifth-season "Changing Channels," a TV trope send-up with a couple of Buntnip...
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183: The Extra Hot Great Besties from 2017-12-20T13:00
Heading into Christmas, we decided to do our most positive episode ever: offering up our "Best"s in categories selected by listeners like you! What's the best show to watch when you're sick? What's...
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182: Curtsying To The Crown from 2017-12-13T13:00
We couldn't decide which was the week's most important TV premiere -- the second season of Netflix's QEII drama The Crown, or Syfy's dark Chris Meloni comedy Happy! -- so we decide...
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181: The Quest To Care About Knightfall from 2017-12-06T13:00
Jim Durr joined us for the first time (on this pod, anyway) to talk about Knightfall, the new medieval drama on History, and while all its trebuchets, extreme helmet cams, and campy popes...
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180: Bundle Up For A Wintry Round Of TV Forcenings from 2017-11-29T13:00
Daniel MacEachern visits from the Two Spotted Dicks podcast to join Dave and Tara for a special winter-themed all-TV forcening episode of the Extra Hot Great podcast! Whose picks are cool...
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179: Give Thanks For Another All-FMK Episode Of Extra Hot Great from 2017-11-22T13:00
Kevin O'Keeffe and Kim Reed join us as we head into America's favourite eating holiday by gorging on more than two dozen FMK matchups! It's gonna rock you!
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178: Wigging Out With The Trixie & Katya Show from 2017-11-15T13:00
Two ex-contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race see their web series graduate to a half-hour weekly comedy show on Viceland, so Mark Blankenship is here to help us spill the tea on The Trix...
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177: Is SMILF A Problem Child? from 2017-11-08T13:00
Frankie Shaw's new Showtime sitcom about a single mom in South Boston shows some promise, but did it make most of the panel -- including guest Stephanie Early Green -- too uncomfortable t...
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176: Getting Locked Up With Alias Grace from 2017-11-01T12:00
As yet another Margaret Atwood novel gets a TV adaptation, Allison Lowe Huff and Extra Hot Game Time impresario Rob Hartmann join us to talk about Alias Grace, Netflix/CBC's period prison...
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175: Does Too Funny To Fail Succeed? from 2017-10-26T03:00
Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake is back -- and so is our esteemedest producer, David T. Cole -- to discuss Too Funny To Fail, Hulu's documentary on the much-anticipated The Dana Carv...
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174: Vote-A-Rama: It's Another All-Canon/Nonac Episode Of Extra Hot Great! from 2017-10-19T18:00
With Dave still in the field, we've invited Monty Ashley back for a very special episode. Will the "Michael's Gambit" episode of The Good Place and "Parker Gail's Location Is Everything" ...
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173: Soft-Soaping Dynasty's 2017 Reboot from 2017-10-11T14:00
In our first-ever EHG without David T. Cole, Tara and Sarah recruited Fug Girls Heather and Jessica to help them dissect the Dynasty reboot. Do the kids today care about these iconic char...
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172: Getting A Forking Forkful Of The Good Place from 2017-09-26T12:00
As The Good Place's second season jumps off from its game-changing freshman finale, Kristen Bell expert John Ramos of the Go Pirates podcast on Veronica Mars returns to talk about ...
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171: The Orville Crashes And Burns from 2017-09-13T13:15
We're glad Omar Gallaga returned to Extra Hot Great; we just wish we hadn't inflicted Seth MacFarlane's limp and self-indulgent The Orville on him (and ourselves). Fortunately, things per...
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170: Staying Hooked On Narcos from 2017-09-07T04:00
Narcos reboots for a third season (minus Murphy, not that anyone's complaining), and first-time guest Melissa Locker joins us to discuss all the addictive action! We ask Will Dave Hate Th...
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169: TGIFF: Thank Goodness It's Friday Forcenings from 2017-08-30T13:15
Monty returns during the deadest week on the TV schedule, and Tara proposed a TV forcening that had us all pick episodes from the week's deadest night -- Friday -- for each other to watch. We ca...
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168: Getting Our Hands On The Defenders from 2017-08-24T04:00
Netflix's long-awaited Marvel team-up The Defenders arrives...but given how long it was awaited, why isn't it better? Our Two Spotted Dicks pal Adam Grosswirth joins us to discuss....
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167: We Say 'Good Night, Snuggles' On Our Epic All-FMK Episode from 2017-08-16T13:15
Tara and Dave returned from a brief vacay to the carnage of a Fuck/Marry/Kill round of Wagnerian length and scope. Robot cars, starship captains, streaming (ew) services, Debra Messing character...
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166: Drinking Bug Juice With Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later from 2017-08-09T13:00
Netflix drops a sequel to its Wet Hot American Summer TV series, and Adam Sternbergh makes his long-awaited return to discuss whether it's as refreshing as an Otter Pop or disappointing a...
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165: The Lowdown On The Lowe Files from 2017-08-02T13:15
It's a double-date episode (aw) (barf) as Sarah D. Bunting's husband, Dan Brady, joins the panel to discuss the Lowe family's foray into the supernatural.
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164: A Quartet Of Summer TV Forcenings from 2017-07-26T13:15
Stephanie Green returns, and immediately regrets it when she finds out what Dave is going to make her watch.
Special Guest: Stephanie Green.
Snowfall, John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and de...
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161: Settling Down With Playing House from 2017-06-28T13:15
Kim Reed joins us for a look at the new season, plus a Cheers Canon and a Dave-hate double dip!
Special Guest: Kim Reed.
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160: Scoring The Gong Show from 2017-06-21T13:15
ABC adds The Gong Show to its lineup of rebooted game and variety shows, and Jeff Drake joins us as we get out our scorecards to rate the results. Around The Dial clicks to Better Call...
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159: Does Claws Scratch An Itch? from 2017-06-14T13:15
Eve returns to the guest chair to discuss whether TNT can finally Claws its way into the prestige-TV discussion with a dramedy about a nail salon's dirty bidness. We went around the dial ...
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158: Standing Up With I'm Dying Up Here from 2017-06-07T13:15
As I'm Dying Up Here, the series adaptation of a non-fiction book, premieres on Showtime, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about its portrayal of the L.A. comedy scene in the '70s (and precis...
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157: Should House Of Cards Fold Or Double Down? from 2017-05-31T13:00
First-time guest Roger Cormier joins the panel to talk about House Of Cards's fifth season, and whether real-life crazer news cycles have made the Underwoods' nutty machinations suffer by...
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156: Washing Ashore With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt from 2017-05-24T13:15
John Ramos joins us to talk about the third season!
Special Guest: John Ramos.
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154: Raising Consciousness With Dear White People from 2017-05-03T13:15
With Netflix launching the series sequel to the 2014 film Dear White People, we welcome back Kim Reed to talk about how well the adaptation works. Around The Dial stops at the latest B...
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153: The Handmaid's Tale Has Us Seeing Red from 2017-04-26T13:15
Tammy Everts joins us to discuss Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's all-too-relevant dystopian story, plus Oprah and a Nonac!
Special Guest: Tammy Everts.
150: Turning It Out For RuPaul's Drag Race from 2017-03-29T13:15
RuPaul's Drag Race has packed up all its wigs to move from LogoTV to VH1, and we welcome back our resident expert, Mark Blankenship, to talk about the Season 9 premiere! Around The Dial s...
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149: Getting Punchy With Iron Fist from 2017-03-22T13:15
Our esteemed colleague Chris is back to talk about Iron Fist, a show only he among the panel managed to get more than a couple episodes into -- and what exactly the show's problem is, from b...
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148: Lining Up For Hip Hop Squares from 2017-03-15T13:15
As VH1 and Ice Cube breathe new life into an old game show format with Hip Hop Squares, Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss whether circle got the square this time around. Around The Dia...
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147: We're Digging The Americans from 2017-03-08T04:45
But maybe not Paige? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk tradecraft, Mad Men, and comedy on TV.
Special Guest: Nick Rheinwald-Jones.
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145: Joining The Fight With The Walking Dead from 2017-02-15T14:15
AMC's return to the zombie apocalypse after a midseason hiatus has us bringing Omar back to talk Negan, King Ezekiel, and zombie dismemberment! The Blotter Presents a look at two Texas true crim...
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144: Rising To The Challenge's 372nd Season from 2017-02-08T14:00
jk, it's 'only' Season 29 -- but will this round of innovations breathe new life into MTV's old warhorse? Kim Reed has thoughts!
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141: Making Deductions About Sherlock from 2017-01-18T14:15
Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk about what may be 'The Final Problem' for real.
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140: Getting Our Nick-ers In A Twist Over The Bachelor from 2017-01-11T14:15
It's a new year for EHG, and a new journey for The Bachelor. Jeff Drake returns to talk about the special madness of Corinne, plus we pick our winners and wonder whether watching UnREA...
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139: Who's The King Of The Man In The High Castle? from 2016-12-20T14:15
Chris Huff returns for a discussion of The Man In The High Castle -- what works (set design; Smith); what doesn't (Juliana; Joe); and whether we'll finish out the season. The Blotter Pres...
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138: Filling Our Plates With Top Chef from 2016-12-13T14:15
TV's most famous cooking competition returns for a new season set in Charleston, South Carolina, so we've brought back our official Top Chef correspondent to talk about the rookies vs. ve...
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137: Going All In On The Family With This Is Us from 2016-12-06T14:15
Allison Lowe Huff is back to talk about This Is Us, the lovably imperfect tearjerker that's occupying the Friday Night Lights lane in our hearts. We bid farewell to The Killing ...
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136: Stuffing Thanksgiving TV Episodes Into The Canon from 2016-11-22T14:15
In anticipation of America's favourite bird-based holiday, we're serving up an all-Canon edition of the podcast, with the focus on episodes taking place around Thanksgiving! Dave presents "Homecomi...
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135: The EHG Crime Omnibus: It's Killer from 2016-11-16T00:00
Eve Batey returns for a comprehensive look at crime TV past and present: Brooklyn 99, The Jinx, foreign-language series, trashy ID shows and even COPS. We went Around The Dial ...
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134: Going Long With Saturday Night Live from 2016-11-08T02:30
On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives!...
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133: Looking Into The Black Mirror from 2016-10-25T13:15
Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror, from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and every...
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132: The Listener Game Time Finals from 2016-10-12T13:15
Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion!
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129: Snatching Wigs With RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars from 2016-09-13T13:15
With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Bl...
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128: Voting Early And Often On The West Wing from 2016-08-30T13:15
TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorki...
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127: Committing Mutiny With Halt And Catch Fire from 2016-08-23T13:15
As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's ne...
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126: Big Draw: Animated Shows For Grown-Ups from 2016-08-16T13:15
Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well fo...
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125: The Question Is Zoot from 2016-08-02T13:15
For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions subm...
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124: Where No EHG Has Gone Before: The Star Trek Fantasy Draft from 2016-07-26T13:15
Trek Week continues on Previously.TV with an all-new Extra Hot Great featuring Maureen "Mo" Ryan and the Star Trek Fantasy Draft! David Snyder kindly shepherded this EHG enterprise (geddit?!) throu...
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123: Rebooting Mr. Robot from 2016-07-19T23:00
As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around T...
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122: The Night Of At The EHG Round Table from 2016-07-12T13:15
Criminal Justice remake The Night Of bowed on HBO this week, and Al Lowe Huff is back to discuss the show, the original, and the importance of casting. The History Channel wondered if DB Cooper's c...
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121: Loading In With Roadies from 2016-06-28T13:15
Remember how much you loved Cameron Crowe circa Almost Famous? Showtime must hope you do, because it's airing his new dramedy series about roadies on a rock tour; designated Rock Cop Jeff Drake joi...
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120: Paying The Piper With Orange Is The New Black from 2016-06-21T13:15
Orange Is The New Black Season 4 dropped over the weekend, and Monty joined the panel to talk pacing, mental illness, casting churn, and dark turns. We went around the dial with The Girlfriend Expe...
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119: Tackling O.J.: Made In America from 2016-06-14T13:15
Just when you thought you were O.J.ed out after American Crime Story, ESPN presents O.J.: Made In America, and we bring true crime aficionada Stephanie Green back to talk about the first episode! A...
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118: UnREAL-ity Television from 2016-06-07T13:15
UnREAL is back for Season 2, and so is our esteemed colleague John Ramos, who joins the panel for a discussion of Hollywood truisms, miscasting, and whether the show is using Craig Bierko correctly...
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117: Saying A Little Prayer For Preacher from 2016-05-24T13:15
Eve Batey returns, but will it be to worship AMC's new drama Preacher, or to condemn it to Hell?
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115: Sissying That Walk With RuPaul's Drag Race from 2016-05-10T13:30
Mark Blankenship brings his charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to a discussion of Ru's latest girls.
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113: Crawling Into The Bunker With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt from 2016-04-19T13:15
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back for Season 2, but did she get more breakable during her hiatus? John Ramos joins us to...
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112: THIS...Was American Idol (And Some Other Stuff) from 2016-04-12T13:30
Sarah D. Bunting is back from baseballing, and Stephanie Cangro is back to discuss the final season of American Idol, the Idol farewell, and what it all meant to us as a culture. L...
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111: Delivering A Suspenseful Beating To The Walking Dead from 2016-04-05T13:30
New guest Daniel MacEachern and returning champion Omar Gallaga join us to talk about an apocalyptic cliffhanger!
Special Guests: Nick Rheinwald-Jones and Omar Gallaga.
110: Daredevil: The Blind Leading The Bored from 2016-03-29T13:15
After David T. Cole died, then came back to life as befitting the Easter weekend, Jeff Alexander sat down with the gang to discuss the second season of Daredevil, Joe's issues with Jon Bernt...
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109: Pledging Allegiance To The Americans from 2016-03-15T13:15
Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans. We break with tradition to let Dave inte...
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108: Is House Of Cards A Good Play? from 2016-03-08T05:00
House Of Cards dropped its fourth filibuster last Friday, and our esteemed colleague Kim Reed joined the gang to discuss how Frank Underwood and Scandal's Fitz stack up, plus const...
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107: Speaking Truth To Catfish from 2016-03-01T05:00
Max defender and periodically ashamed Michigander Stephanie Green returns to talk about the ménage à trois that was the Season 5 premiere of Catfish and whether there's even a point to it...
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106: It's Time For Rhyme from 2016-02-23T05:00
The first round of the Extra Hot Great Listener Game Time concludes with the Son Of The Game That Rhymes from Rob Hartmann. Who's the last one to advance to the Hallowed Hall Of Champions round? Fi...
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105: Ringing In A New Season Of Better Call Saul from 2016-02-16T05:00
Better Call Saul returns for its second season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about that, plus how much he hates Vinyl and which S2 Fargo should go into the Canon. Liv lear...
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104: A Little Taste from 2016-02-09T05:00
Game experts and EHG contributors Trip Payne, David Ellis Dickerson and Rob Hartmann join Dave and Tara for a TV show theme quiz. Oh, the clips are only one and three seconds long. So there's th...
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103: The People Vs. The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story from 2016-02-02T05:00
The old TWoP bullpen is reunited as Pop Culture Happy Hour's own Linda Holmes joins us for a discussion of American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy's dramatization of (this season) the O.J. Simp...
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102: The X-Files Returns, And We Want To Believe from 2016-01-26T05:00
As The X-Files gets back on the case, so does our esteemed colleague Eve Batey -- does the show improve after the premiere? What's with the cast not aging? And who greenlighted those supe...
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101: Legends Of Tomorrow...Today! from 2016-01-19T05:00
Our designated Legends Of Tomorrow correspondent John Ramos joins us to bend the very laws of time itself and discuss the series premiere of The CW's Legends Of Tomorrow DAYS befor...
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100: The Final Count-Downton from 2016-01-12T05:00
Downton Abbey is back for one last spin around the foxhunting course...or something, and Nick's back to discuss the wedding, ageless Daisy, and what will become of Thomas and Lady f'ing E...
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99: The Bachelor Turns Things Over To Gentle Ben from 2016-01-06T05:00
It's a new year, which means it's time for a new Bachelor, and we've brought our Bachelor correspondent Stephanie Green back to the podcast to discuss the Season 20 premiere (AND TWINNNNN...
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98: That Championship Season: The Law & Order Fantasy Draft from 2015-12-15T05:00
Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall kindly subjected himself to our very first Extra Hot Great franchise draft as we all picked from our favorite detectives, ADAs, MEs, and baddies to form Law & Order Listen
97: Heading Into The Lyons' Den For Empire from 2015-12-08T05:00
Empire has taken its final bow (before coming back in like a Lyon next March), so we've invited Empire correspondents Eve Batey and Mark Blankenship back to tell us what they thoug...
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96: The Marvel-ous Jessica Jones from 2015-11-24T05:00
Let's get this Joe on the road: with Reid off for the week, we asked esteemed colleagues John and Nick to join us for a discussion of Netflix's Jessica Jones, whether it works as a Veroni...
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95: Dressing Down With Project Runway: Junior from 2015-11-17T05:00
Tim Gunn gets another chance at shoring up his fan base with Project Runway: Junior, the shrunk-down version of the fashion competition, and Stephanie Cangro returns to talk about it! Aro...
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94: Less Kissing, More Superpowers from 2015-11-10T05:00
Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley covers most of the comic-book shows on Previously.TV, and he's back to talk about superhero TV from Arrow to, er, Zagents of SHIELD. We wrapped ...
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93: TV That Battles Ghouls Between Giggles from 2015-11-03T05:00
With Ash Vs. Evil Dead premiering on Starz and iZombie well into a strong second season on The CW, we felt it was time to bring back horror/comedy/horror-comedy fan (and iZombie...
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92: Supergirl Takes Her First Flight from 2015-10-27T04:00
Does CBS's new Supergirl soar or splat? Jeff Alexander, who'll be covering the show for Previously.TV all season, returns to the podcast to join us in a discussion about the pilot. Liv gi...
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91: Raiding The Mini Bar With American Horror Story: Hotel from 2015-10-20T13:15
That's right, listeners: Joe "Awardsy" Reid is back in the permanent Extra Hot Great rotation, as the gang (of four!) checks into American Horror Story: Hotel. When will the show lose most o...
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90: The Good Wife: Still Good? from 2015-10-05T04:00
As The Good Wife returns for its seventh season, we welcome Adam Grosswirth to talk about how well the season premiere washes away the bad taste left by Season 6. Liv gives us her report ...
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89: It's The Most TV-ful Time Of The Year! from 2015-09-29T04:00
Fall premiere season is upon us, and since we know you rely on us to advise you as to what to watch and what you can skip (you do, right?), we've invited Jeff Drake to join us for a discussion o...
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88: They Win Some, We Lose Some from 2015-09-23T04:00
Now that we've put our champagne flutes in the dishwasher and peeled off our Spanx, we're ready to look back on the 2015 Emmy awards telecast, from how much funnier Andy Samberg was than the sti...
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87: Giving Project Greenlight The, Well, Green Light from 2015-09-15T04:00
The Good Wife Marathon Diarist Kim is back to discuss the un-Moored return of Project Greenlight, and whether a fourth season a decade in the making is off to a first-rate start. T...
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86: Do You EHG Listeners Know What Time It is? from 2015-09-08T04:00
Has PICCI been kind to Kim, Lea, Ian, and Michele? Listen to our latest special all-listener Game Time and find out!
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85: Coming Home To Playing House from 2015-09-01T04:00
Now that Playing House's second season is well underway, we've invited Nick Rheinwald-Jones, one of its staunchest fans, to join us for a discussion of how things are going so far. Tara s...
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84: More Like Bear The Walking Dead, Are We Right? from 2015-08-25T04:00
Omar's back to talk about AMC's Walking Dead prequel, Fear The Walking Dead. Does it need more process and less teen angst? What's with the stupid driving? And will we keep watchin...
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83: Humans: Heard Of 'Em? from 2015-08-18T04:00
As Humans (heard of 'em) wraps its first season, John Ramos joins us to talk about the titular humans and their synth friends...and foes! Liv tells us all about a wedding-themed episode o...
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82: Project Runway Makes The Cut...Barely. from 2015-08-11T04:00
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan joined the gang this week to take a closer look at Project Runway as it returns for a fourteenth season. Liv trolled us in her Face Off report, Tar...
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81: Let's Give Summer TV A Hand! from 2015-08-04T04:00
Since summer TV is no longer dumber TV, we've invited Mark Blankenship back to the Blankenship Chair to join us for a discussion of our most winning series picks! Niece Liv -- now seven years ol...
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80: A Fine Kettle Of Catfish from 2015-07-28T04:00
Our esteemed colleague Kim helped the gang poke holes in Catfish this week, as we wondered whether Max has gotten better...or everything else around him on the show has gotten worse. We g...
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79: Strained Explanations from 2015-07-21T04:00
The vampire zombies of The Strain are back on FX, and Omar Gallaga, our resident expert, is back to tell us all about the early days of the second season. From there, we go on to check on...
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78: Scream-ing Meanies from 2015-07-16T04:00
Eve Batey makes it a threequel when she returns to discuss -- and diagnose -- Scream with the rest of the gang. We met the newest EHG-themed shirts, despaired of Under The Dome, an...
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77: I Am Not A Crackpot, And Neither Are You from 2015-07-07T04:00
Dear Mr. President, There are too many ways TV can confuse us or let us down. Please eliminate three. We are NOT crackpots! Dave, Sarah, Tara, and special guest Nick Rheinwald-Jones share their ...
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76: Under The Dome And Dumber from 2015-06-30T04:00
Our esteemed colleague Nick willingly trapped himself Under The Dome as CBS's summer "hit" returns for another season of crappy acting, bad CGI, and inexplicable character beats. After Sa...
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75: Ew Detective from 2015-06-23T04:00
Point your GPS to Central California and meet your EHG regulars and frequent guest Jeff Drake for a discussion of True Detective's divisive Season 2 premiere! From there, we zoom on to an...
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74: Hannibal: Food, Sex, And Death from 2015-06-16T04:00
Our esteemed colleague Joe K. Reid (note: not his middle initial) returned to discuss Hannibal's third season and whether the show's serving cannibalistic realness so far. Then we cleanse...
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73: Brain, Fried from 2015-06-09T04:00
With iZombie's season finale bearing down on us like a cannibalistic gym rat, we invited our iZombie correspondent Eve Batey to join us to talk about the season. Around The Dial ta...
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72: The Bachelorette's Rose-Colored Asses from 2015-06-01T04:00
Our esteemed colleague Stephanie Green is back to help us mull the current season of The Bachelorette, including the "shocking" twist that began the season, the "explosive" "revelations" ...
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71: Drag Race To The Finish from 2015-05-26T04:00
Now that the field of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants has been whittled down to just about the size of Violet Chachki's waist, it's time for us to bring back our resident Drag Race ...
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70: Don't Go Away Mad from 2015-05-19T04:00
Have a/some Coke and a smile as our esteemed colleague John Ramos returns to discuss whether Mad Men and Don Draper got a proper sendoff -- and Buntsy finally stops torturing Dave with th...
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69: In For A Penny from 2015-05-15T04:00
It's officially summer, and you know what that means: time to start a fire in the hearth, brew a pot of tea, and snuggle under a fur blanket for Showtime's Victorian supernatural drama, Penny...
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68: Do They Know What Time It Is? from 2015-05-06T04:00
Lauren, Andrew, and Shannon join us for our first listeners-only Game Time event!
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66: Game Recognize Game from 2015-04-14T04:00
As Game Of Thrones launches its fifth season, both Particleer Nick Rheinwald-Jones and Ravens correspondent Jeff Drake join us to talk about the premiere. Sarah then launches her new M...
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65: The Beginning Of The End Of Mad Men from 2015-04-07T04:00
With Sarah back from baseball nerd camp at last, esteemed contributor John Ramos returned to EHG to talk Mad Men, shapeless narrative, and Roger Sterling's savvy borrowing of Sam Elliott'...
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64: Dead And Loving It from 2015-03-31T04:00
As The Walking Dead wraps up its fifth season, regular Dead correspondent and designated pinch-hitter Jeff Alexander join us for a talk that ranges through the show, the comics, th...
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63: Dancing With The Gladiators from 2015-03-24T04:00
Our esteemed colleague and ABC aficionado Kim Reed joins the gang for a discussion of Scandal, Dancing With The Stars's 20th season, and the extraneous bits of both. We premiered a...
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62: Facing The Seven Hours Of Music (or You're Talented) from 2015-03-17T04:00
American Idol and The Voice correspondent Stephanie Cangro joins us to compare and contrast TV's current big two singing competition shows, and confirm for all of us that Harry Con...
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61: Burning Down The House Of Cards from 2015-03-10T04:00
Thanks for your patience, friends! We're back, and we're joined by our esteemed colleague Alex Zeidel for a discussion of House Of Cards's third season. Sarah's not a crackpot for thinkin...
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60: Tough Cookies from 2015-02-24T05:00
Dean of the Blankenship Chair Mark Blankenship joins us to talk about the newest show he's covering for Previously.TV -- Fox's runaway hit hip-hop soap opera Empire! Liv returns to tell u...
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59: Here For The Right Seasonings from 2015-02-17T05:00
Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake helped the gang dish on the Boston season of Top Chef, before seeing if we felt a connection with the current Bachelor and his crop o' lipstick-sh...
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58: Riddle Of The Jinx from 2015-02-10T05:00
If HBO's going to bring us a true crime docuseries about notorious non-convicted alleged murderer Robert Durst, we're going to talk about it -- and we're going to get true crime expert Eve Batey...
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57: Holmes Sweet Holmes from 2015-02-03T05:00
Our esteemed colleague Allison Lowe Huff joined us to discuss a recent major arc on Elementary, and why the Sherlock Holmes-verse is so durable. After Liv reported on Face Off and ...
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56: Boyds On The Side from 2015-01-27T05:00
Nick Rheinwald-Jones is our guest for a discussion of the just-kicked-off final season of Justified, just in time for Sarah to get on board. Niece Liv returns to cover Part 2 of the Fa...
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55: Gleeking Out from 2015-01-20T05:00
Our esteemed colleague Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to talk about Glee's final season, the two Ryan Murphys, and how the polarizing show will end. After we laughed at Kroll Show...
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54: The 72nd Oscars Jr. Awards from 2015-01-13T05:00
The 2015 televised entertainment award season kicks off with the People's Choice Awards, and...just kidding, we're talking Golden Globes with Joe Reid. We then revive "Will Dave Hate This?" in r...
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53: Downton For The Count from 2015-01-05T05:00
Our esteemed colleague John Ramos is back to assess the stateside season premiere of Downton Abbey -- with all the Sarah Buntings that entails. We also sicced Wardrobe Cop on Rags To R...
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52: 2014 In Review from 2014-12-30T05:00
The EHG team breaks its long silence for a quick look back at the TV year that was, with some highly partial superlatives including Best New Show, Most Tragic Renewal, and Pierce Of The Year. Join ...
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51: Nonacs-travaganza! from 2014-11-17T05:00
It's time once again to consider nominees for the Nonac -- the opposite of the EHG Canon, where the worst-ever episodes of otherwise-good shows reside. After Dave clarified a point of Nonac law, we...
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50: The A&E Afternoon-Programming Canon from 2014-11-10T05:00
Once upon a time, long ago (read: "the early aughts"), before the tyranny of Duck Dynasty, A&E really was about art and entertainment -- viz. their weekday-afternoon "rock block" of enjoyabl...
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49: The Extra Hot Great Program Parole Board Special from 2014-11-03T05:00
Our very special all-Program Parole Board special looks around the TV landscape and makes recommendations on which currently-barely-available series deserve to be put online for streaming, put back...
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48: The Extra Hot Great TV Cop Special from 2014-10-27T04:00
For our very special TV Cop special, we hear from specially trained officers working cases involving special effects overreach, sexual ethics, booze, and much more!
46: Dead And Circuses from 2014-10-16T04:00
Joe Reid joins us to discuss the week in TV as Ryan Murphy premieres the fourth season of American Horror Story, murderous clown and all. Around The Dial takes us through Extreme Cheap...
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45: Homeland Wants Its Spy Mommy from 2014-10-07T04:00
Our esteemed colleague Jeff Drake came not to praise Homeland's season premiere, but to bury it -- but he and the gang found a lot to like. We went around the dial with animated shows, Br...
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44: Wayney Days from 2014-09-30T04:00
Fox gets into the comic book adaptation game with Gotham, and Previously.TV's resident Gotham watcher Nick Rheinwald-Jones is here to talk about it with us! Around The Dial rolls t...
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43: Madam Secretary's Diplomatic Immunity Is Revoked from 2014-09-23T04:00
Our esteemed colleague and EHG first-timer Allison Lowe Huff headed up the Madam Secretary discussion committee this week before Liv and Dave filed reports on Face Off and Billy...
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42: The Fall Guys from 2014-09-16T04:00
Our long, long three-week hiatus comes to an end with the return of John Ramos, and a discussion of new fall series -- the ones each of us are into; the ones we should be into but aren't; and th...
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41: Making It Work (Yum!) from 2014-08-19T04:00
One half of the Fug Girls, Jessica Morgan, returns to the guest chair as we consider Project Runway and whether it's showing its age. We also talked about Utopia's not-that-crazy i...
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40: Getting Knicked from 2014-08-12T04:00
Alan Sepinwall joins us for his first-ever full episode of the podcast for a discussion of The Knick! After Face Off correspondent Olivia Kwan updates us on Episode 3, we go around...
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39: Hear For The Right Reasons from 2014-08-05T04:00
Previously's Bachelor/ette expert, Stephanie Green, joins us -- even Sarah, with Time Warner Cable's capricious blessing! -- to discuss the latest Bachelorette finale, slut-shaming...
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38: Making Up Is Hard To Do from 2014-07-29T04:00
The return of SyFy's Face Off brings series expert/first-time guest Monty Ashley (plus six-year-old fan Olivia Kwan) to the podcast to talk locked molds, co-operation, and why taking one ...
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37: The Most Bad-Ass Podcast You're Going To Hear All Week! from 2014-07-08T04:00
If we were going to be talking about the greatest TV bad-asses in a variety of sub-categories, it seemed obvious that we would need to bring bad-ass Omar Gallaga into the mix to join us and shar...
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36: Mentally Challenged from 2014-07-01T04:00
Our esteemed colleague and Challenge poobah Lilit Marcus joined the regulars this week for a spirited discussion of the artist formerly known as The Real World/Road Rules Challenge...
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35: Such Super Ladies from 2014-06-24T04:00
Learned correspondent Jeff Alexander returns to discuss what worked and what didn't in the season finales of Fargo and Orphan Black. Around The Dial takes us through The Hauntin...
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34: Never Poop In Westeros from 2014-06-17T04:00
Our esteemed colleagues Jeff Drake and Nick Rheinwald-Jones join the gang to talk Game Of Thrones, including the fate of The Hound, why Stannis sucks, whether we can compare the show to <...
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33: Summer TV Weather Report from 2014-06-10T04:00
The great Joe Reid returns to his old stomping grounds for a roundup of the shows we'll be watching this summer, as we each pick one respectable series and one piece of beloved garbage. A super-...
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32: Gone Catfish-ing from 2014-05-20T04:00
It's about finding love on this week's EHG, as we're joined by @midnight writer and Frasier superfan Matt Mira to try to answer burning questions about Catfish: how much of ...
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31: BOOP BEEP! BOOP BEEP! from 2014-05-12T04:00
Official 24 correspondent Jeff Alexander joins us all the way from Minneapolis to discuss the first two episodes of the new mini-series. Around The Dial brings discussion of The Good W...
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30: Back To Louie from 2014-05-06T04:00
Sports On Earth's Will Leitch takes another run at what we like to call 'The Leitch' -- successfully pitching a Canon entry AND winning a Game Time in a single guest shot -- as we discuss the re...
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29: Clone Club Colloquy from 2014-04-29T04:00
The great Jesse Murray returns for the first time in this podcast run to talk about the first season of Orphan Black, and what we’ve seen thus far of Season 2. Then he joins us to go Arou...
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28: It's A Mad Mad Mad Men World from 2014-04-22T04:00
As Tara takes a vacay, John Ramos joins the rest of the crew to discuss Mad Men's return for the first half of its final season. Has it lost its sense of humor? And how would we like to s...
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27: Game Of Chicken from 2014-04-08T04:00
HBO’s monster hit sci-fantasy series Game Of Thrones, which means we tapped our two Thronesters — Rankler Jeff Drake and Particleer Nick Rheinwald-Jones — to discuss it. We also go Around...
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26: Ah, Peanut Butter! We're In A Jam Now! from 2014-04-01T04:00
As The Walking Dead trudges its last walker of the fourth season across our screens, first-time guest/Walking Dead Particleer Omar Gallaga joins us to discuss it, all the way from ...
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25: Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, And Trip from 2014-03-25T04:00
Honored guest Trip "Willa Fortune" Payne joined Regina Dentata, Juana B. Arthur, and Salacious Bum to tell the T about Drag Race: what we like (Snatch Game), whom we hate (Santino), which...
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24: We Used To Be Friends from 2014-03-18T04:00
With a Time Warner Cable outage preventing Sarah from joining us, we have to soldier on with our two guests, John Ramos and Nick Rheinwald-Jones, for a discussion about the new, Kickstarter-supp...
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23: Aggressive Scruffle from 2014-03-11T04:00
Back from a power-surge hiatus, the EHG gang welcomes our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones to talk Hannibal, Bates Motel, and horror in primetime. We debated whether to welc...
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22: How Amazing Is The Amazing Race? from 2014-02-25T05:00
Previously.TV’s Official Amazing Race commentator John Ramos returns to discuss the premiere of the show’s latest all-star season, although, as usual, your star mileage may vary. (...
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21: Four Of A Kind or Good Meechums from 2014-02-18T05:00
Dave Bunting Jr. rejoins us for a discussion of House Of Cards's second season -- and his sister's headlong dash through 26 eps in four days. We determined whether Dave C. would hate upco...
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20: That's So Medal from 2014-02-11T05:00
First-time guest Joe Reid joins us to discuss the Winter Olympics in Sochi (with an assist from Olympics superfan Kat Hazzard). We then go Around The Dial to share what we’ve each been obsessing...
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19: The Case Of Sherlock's Third Season from 2014-02-04T05:00
As the third season of Sherlock comes to a close, we discussed the show's fidelity to the Conan Doyle stories with our esteemed colleague John Ramos, and whether the fan service of the fi...
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18: Steakface from 2014-01-28T05:00
Fametracker co-founder/recently published novelist/brand-new father Adam Sternbergh visits to discuss the series premieres of Rake and Black Sails. After favouring us with a short ...
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17: Looking For Love from 2014-01-21T05:00
Very special guest Mark Blankenship returns to his eponymous chair as we discuss HBO's newest shows -- "gay Girls" Looking and cop-show/acting master class True Detective. We talke...
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16: A Willingness To Return To Downton from 2014-01-14T05:00
Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to help us discuss the fourth-season premiere of Downton Abbey and the fifth-season premiere of Justified. After touching on a Tara Tiny Triumph, Nick ...
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15: Crazy Name Mom Jeans from 2013-12-17T05:00
Honored guest Jeff Drake helps the regular EHG gang bid farewell to 2013 with a discussion of two melodramatic third-season shows, Homeland and Scandal. We shared a listener's Tiny...
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14: Come On Down! from 2013-12-10T05:00
It’s Game Show Week on Previously.TV, and we could welcome no more appropriate guest than crossword puzzle maker, game show consultant, and EHG game contributor Trip Payne to join us for a discu...
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13: SOAPnet Goes Down The Drain from 2013-12-03T05:00
Go Fug Yourself co-founder/co-editor Jessica Morgan makes her EHG debut as we discuss the imminent decommissioning of SOAPne...
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12: The Comfort of Procedurals from 2013-11-20T05:00
We're back! And so is valued guest Mark Blankenship, who from the Blankenship Chair steers us into a discussion of what makes a great (or good enough) TV procedural. From there, Tara insisted th...
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11: Say It Ain't So from 2013-11-04T05:00
Since it's Joe's last big episode as a podcast regular, we let him run the show, which starts with a check-in on Saturday Night Live, focusing on Kerry Washington's guest-hosting gig. We zig...
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10: Should You Invest In Dracula? from 2013-10-29T04:00
The full EHG roster is back in effect just in time to discuss NBC's supernatural energy-mogul series Dracula! The show that's so scary that not all of our co-hosts could watch the whole epis...
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9: Warrior Women of the Small Screen from 2013-10-22T04:00
Joined by special guest Nick Rheinwald-Jones, the gang talks about their favorite -- and least favorite -- lady bad-asses from A (Anna Espinosa) to…uh, A (President Laura Roslin's fondness for t...
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8: American Horror Story Stories from 2013-10-14T04:00
With honoured guest Dave Bunting, we talk about the premiere of the new season of American Horror Story -- how it compares to past seasons, and to other horror series on TV (The Walkin...
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7: Hooray For Fall TV from 2013-10-02T04:00
Now that most of the season's new shows have premiered, we review the ones we've sampled and discuss which we liked, which we didn't, and which might be gone by the time you get to the end of th...
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6: Canna-Vale Of Tears from 2013-09-24T04:00
In our latest XL episode, the gang rants and raves about the bests and worsts at the 2013 Emmys, including the internal results of the Emmy pool and one last Southland eulogy from Buntsy....
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5: You Wanna Be On Top? from 2013-09-17T04:00
The return of reality television's Old Man River, Survivor, prompts a discussion of the state of Reality TV, and in particular, what ingredients go into making a good reality competition ser...
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4: Stretch Jersey from 2013-09-10T04:00
The EHG crew collectively heaves a sigh and collectively turns its attention to the Season 4 premiere of Boardwalk Empire. Moving on from the HBO of the present (and past, kind of), we consi...
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3: Beeb-er Fever from 2013-09-03T12:00
This week, we take on BBC (America) programming. Should you watch the third series of Luther? Is the British Law & Order worth a look? What about one of the bazillion Jack-the-Ripper-...
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2: The State of AMC from 2013-08-26T04:00
Special guest star Dave Bunting is on hand for a deep dive on Breaking Bad and the state of the AMC brand in general. What's to become of the home of Low Winter Sun once its flagsh...
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1: Summer TV from 2013-08-22T04:00
The EHG Mark 1 crew is joined by Previously.TV East Coast Editor/new podcast anchor Sarah D. Bunting to share picks for the best and worst of summer 2013 TV. Sarah presents the "College" episode...
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