316: Booking A Trip To Lovecraft Country - a podcast by Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole

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 and feel to the acting to Jonathan Majors's believable charisma drew us in. Then we drove our woody wagon Around The Dial with stops at Ted Lasso, Little Voice, and The Great Heist before Rebecca's Extra Credit tasked us with casting reality-competition shows with our favorite TV characters. Sarah then filed a Canon motion on behalf of a latter-season Law & Order Mothership episode. The British Empire won, the DC Universe lost, and we mashed up actor names and fictional reboots in Game Time. Grab a wooden bat and an illustrated map: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

SHOW TOPICS

• Lovecraft Country
• ATD: Ted Lasso
• ATD: Little Voice
• ATD: The Great Heist
• Extra Credit: Be Our Host
• The Canon: Law & Order S15.E13: Ain't No Love
• Winner and Loser of the Week
• Game Time: Name Above The Title

SHOW NOTES

• Follow Malcolm Venable on Twitter
• Malcolm at TV Guide
• "How Lovecraft Country Reappropriates H.P. Lovecraft's Notoriously Racist Creations," from Slate
• The Times on the arrests in Jam Master Jay's murder
• Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
• The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show
• The book Rap On Trial
• Alan Sepinwall on cop shows and why they have to change in Rolling Stone
• And Kathryn VanArendonk's on cops as main characters for Vulture
• Photo: HBO

DISCUSSION

• Talk about this episode on its dedicated page on ExtraHotGreat.com
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• We are @ExtraHotGreat on Instagram

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