Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age ; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto , Abbott Elementary , Ozark , Season 2 of Cheer , Peacemaker , 9-1-1: Lone Star , and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinseltown . Erica S. asks us to invite several TV characters over for dinner and very specific kinds of ...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 391
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! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥸 TV Moustache Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 390 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 390
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, whether we expect more from its production than we do from other shows, the true-crime connection that's somehow charming, and whom we expect to win. We went Around The Dial with the new Joe Millionaire , Married At First Sight , Letterkenny , Yellowjackets , and 9-1-1: Lone Star before celebrating a Tiny Triumph for Tara ...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 389
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 Dave and Tara got less than half an hour into it and pulled the plug. Dan -- who did watch it -- tells us what we missed, but then we just roll on past that to a trio of Non-Regulation Game Times! Who knows the most about TV actors who share names with U.S. presidents, and about original songs from TV episodes, AND about reu...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 388
EEHG 097: Extra Hic Great 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 sake enthusiast Pamela Ribon joins us as we discuss Bridgerton , the first Shonda Rhimes show to hit Netflix. Which of us found its 1813 society romances compelling? The answer won't surprise you! Around The Dial takes us through How To With John Wilson , the feature film We Are Little Zombies (availa...
Dec 29, 2021•51 min•Ep. 387
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 (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy ) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike ; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation M...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 386
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 Like That . And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to relate to here? Does the show, as it used to, still do a couple of things extremely well while being...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 385
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 it was, heh, fertile ground for drama. Around The Dial takes us through Annie Live! , Money Heist , Baptiste , and Hawkeye . Elenore pitches the Drunk History episode "Civil Rights" for the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close out with a Game Time that's live from New York, featuring surp...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 384
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 Luck ? WILL IT?! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛈ Selective HBO Character Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 383 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 383
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 they discuss Amazon's adaption of the epic series then stick around for a spicy game time! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Jim Durr 👤 Sean Pflueger TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Wheel Of Time Game Time: 🧠 Wheel Of Thyme NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 382 page on ExtraHotGreat.com...
Nov 24, 2021•48 min•Ep. 382
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 show needed more jokes and less attention to production-design details, and the very obviously not New York light on the outdoor sets. Did true-crime "expert" Buntsy feel differently from the rest of the panel? Later, we went Around The Dial with Yellowjackets , SNL , Evil , and The Curse Of Von Dutch before popping on...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 381
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 talk about whether it's a pass or fail! Around The Dial takes us through Season 2 of Frayed , an update on Married At First Sight , Deutschland 89 , Yellowstone , The Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show , depending on where you are), Project Runway , and the findings of the TV Holiday Corridor Committee. Tara expla...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 380
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 vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law 's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hysterectomies and their possible side effects? Around The Dial takes us through Insecure , Queens , T...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 379
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 it's worth exposing the NSA to it via the recording device that's always running in your phone! Around The Dial takes us through the third seasons of Succession and You , and the second season of We're Here . Tara takes a hard stance on when holiday episodes should air. Erica makes a case for Brooklyn Nine-Nine 's "Casecati...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 378
EEHG 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 Right! EEHG 081: The Lowest Of Decks Sarah asked: What about creating Star Trek: Lower Decks -style shows for other series? Which low-powered employees from an existing TV show would make for a good spinoff? EEHG 125: Second-Generation Spinoff Lots of spinoffs involve giving side characters the spotlight -- your Rhodas, your Lou...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 377
We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor C.S.I. , so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing old favorite (which...only went off the air like six years ago?). We talked about whether we'll keep watching for "The New Class" after l'affaire Hodges gets resolved, when exactly the show thinks it is culturally, and what's going on with the sloppy editing. Then we went Around The Dial with Call The Midwife , Le...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 376
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 Senior TV Critic/certified Soprano logist Alan Sepinwall is here to discuss it with us! Around The Dial takes us through The Problem With Jon Stewart , Our Kind Of People , Maid , and the Working Girl TV series adaptation. Rebecca uses her Extra Credit topic to have us remove and recast disgraced stars from their TV vehicles to make them p...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 375
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 in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost " mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears , The Big Leap , Being James Bond , Tea With Th...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 374
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! Around The Dial takes us through The Premise , Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. , and the new seasons of Sex Education and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . Amelia asks us to poach good characters from bad shows and put them together in a new project. Tara presents The Other Two 's very recent "Chase Gets Baptized" for Canon co...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 373
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 about it with us! How is the show different from the comics? Can Diane Lane's hair still be a national treasure if her roots are a plot point? And does a certain Hero need to get written out of the story? We went Around The Dial with Frogger , Scenes From A Marriage , Miracle Workers , and 30 For 30 's take on the '86 Mets...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 372
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 Dan Rogge, noted co-writer of the mid-'00s theatrical production Monica! The Musical . And we got him! Around The Dial takes us through A.P. Bio , Money Heist , Black Monday , and Only Murders In The Building . Katherine asks us to suggest better monikers for mis-named TV characters. Then Dan makes his case for inducting N...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 371
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 series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents , featuring Captain Kirk, Jessica Tandy, ventriloquism Deadheads, spinster-ist propaganda, and a hall-of-fame crappy TV kid. EEHG 122: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Failed 1990 Pilot Of Poochinski Woof! Woof! I'm Poochinski, the talking dog! EEHG 131: Hey You, Shut Up 150 things that need to sh...
Sep 01, 2021•48 min•Ep. 370
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 Chair . We discussed the almost-perfect pacing and casting, underrating Amanda Peet at your peril, whether Holland Taylor should get a spinoff, and more. Then we went Around The Dial with Nine Perfect Strangers , Messyness , I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson , and Unforgotten before Doug tasked us with addi...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 369
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 Michael Waldron's Heels ; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs , The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island , Big Brother , Animal Kingdom , and What If...? . David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 368
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 sufferer and his angst. Did star/producer/crafty coordinator Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on too many jobs -- and not enough fresh story? Why couldn't the show be about Arturo Castro's character? And can we look forward to a Debra Wingeraissance? We went Around The Dial with First Wives Club 's second season, FBoy Island ...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 367
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 with the late-'70s satire Soap . Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle ,...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 366
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 show, Sexy Beasts ! Around The Dial takes us through the new season of Married At First Sight , The Real Housewives Of Potomac , Married To Medicine , and Search Party . Last week's guest Sean Pflueger returns...via an Extra Credit question about actors whose range we underestimated. Will presents the RuPau...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 365
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 they can cross the bridge home. Did we true-love it, or did we feel trapped? New guest Sean Pflueger joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Stories , Never Have I Ever , High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , Love, Victor , and Dr. Death . Don (on behalf of the @EHGAssist crew...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 364
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 from the suspense surrounding Gossip Girl's identity? And will we keep watching even if Tavi Gevinson's acting doesn't improve? After Gordon Lightfoot Cole dropped in to make a request, we went Around The Dial with White Lotus , Monsters At Work , We Are Lady Parts , Heist , and This Is Pop before listener Lauren pitch...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 363
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 obliging one another to watch shows with "America" in the title, and Tara's first up, forcing Sarah to watch 2000's short-lived, extremely derivative, stupidly enjoyable Young Americans , a Dawson's Creek spin-off featuring references to Stephen King, Dead Poets Society , The Skulls , and kindling. ...Wait, that...
Jul 07, 2021•58 min•Ep. 362
