Appointment Television and Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham returns to talk about the return of Frasier , and whether it was necessary. Should the creators have taken a hint from the universe (and David Hyde Pierce)? Could the re-imagining of the beloved original have worked with a few conceptual tweaks? Would we advise you to watch it, or take Eddie for a walk instead? Later, we went Around The Dial with Shining Vale 's second season, Home Movies , AHS: Roanoke , and updates on Devil's Plan and...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 493
The latest screen adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial was directed by the late William Friedkin and premiered on Paramount+ With Showtime, which means we can claim it as TV and we have; certified film critic Tim Grierson returns to discuss it! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death S02, comedy specials from John Mulaney and (separately) Taylor Tomlinson, The Restaurant , and The Devil's Plan . Bezoar Laura presents the Scrubs episode "My Screw Up" for induction into The C...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 480
Amazon Prime takes us back to the Vought cinematic universe with Gen V , a The Boys spinoff of sorts about up-and-coming college "supes" -- and we're glad Nick Rheinwald-Jones could join us to talk about whether it's a TV campus worth visiting, plus the pleasures of thorough world-building, CGI peens, and putting the grodiest deaths out of frame. We went Around The Dial with Starstruck , Only Connect , and the first season of Feud , then headed out to Neptune, CA for Sarah's Canon presentation o...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 479
Love Is Blind is back with a whole new crop of singles willing to try their luck at finding love sight unseen; Tara's fellow Coelenologist Brittany Luse returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Story , Still Up , and the AppleTV+ documentary feature Still . Theresa pitches the third episode of Normal People for the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that feels really connected to you already. Grab your gold goblet and j...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 478
Al Lowe Huff drags in a portable smelter -- and Dave gets high off the fumes -- for The Gold , a six-part scripted story about the 1983 Brink's Mat robbery in the UK. We're talking about proportions of process-iness, the class struggle in South London, and how much BAFTA-bait monologuing is too much, before we go Around The Dial with The Other Black Girl , Harry Wild , Whitstable Pearl , and Cagney & Lacey . (And Sean Connery. Don't ask.) Then Laura unfurled HER list of reasons we should con...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 477
AppleTV+'s latest sci-fi series is the "modern fairy tale" The Changeling ; Dan Cassino returns to discuss what, if anything, we'd have liked to see change. Around The Dial takes us through BS High , Season 2 of Wheel Of Time , the original Japanese Iron Chef , and Murder, She Wrote . Eleanor pitches the Project Runway episode "A Suitable Twist" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's time for us to stagger into a Non-Regulation Game Time, hoping our br...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 476
To mark another Labor Day, we're turning our attention to TV bosses -- specifically, putting them all in a geodesic dome in a radiation-ravaged Australian Outback, and determining which of them would survive mortal combat with one another. We can say for certain that the ultimate victor will surprise you...but they surprised us! Listen for all the bloody speculation. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👔 TV Boss Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and ...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 475
Stephanie Green is back to talk about a too-long, badly structured true-crime series from AppleTV+, and the many opportunities Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn wastes to tell a good story. Sarah thought it had nonfiction The Morning Show vibes, a characterization Tara resented; listen to our correct-length, non-backloaded conversation and see if you agree! We went Around The Dial with The Ultimatum , Sister Wives , 90 Day UK , and Project Greenlight , and Tara was NOT a crackpot about DIY hair...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 474
To celebrate the 10th (!!!) anniversary of EHG Mark II, we're flashing back to the week of August 17-23 in historical TV listings. Our time travel takes us back to 2003 for the fourth-season finale of The Amazing Race ; to 2012, for a trip to the Hamptons with Royal Pains ; and to the very day of our first episode to watch Lance Reddick's visit to NTSF: SD: SUV:: . Join us as we revisit Augusts past! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌎 The Amazing Race S04.E13: It's Like Adam Building His First House! Lead To...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 473
HBO's newest true crime docu-series, Telemarketers , a look at a New Jersey phone scam; Robert Krut returns to discuss it, and brings personal stories to share! Around The Dial takes us through Winning Time , Poker Face , and Painkiller . Bobby pitches the Atlanta episode "Woods" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us, and our bidding acumen, back to the Garden State. Hang up on that Likely Scam and listen! GUESTS 👤 Robe...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 472
Only Murders In The Building is back for a third season of death, mayhem, and...theatre? New guest David Wiebe joins us to discuss all the players new and old. Around The Dial takes us through Physical , Letterman Originals on YouTube, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown , and Star Trek 's Paramount+ branding. Julie pitches The Bear 's Season 1 episode "Dogs" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a highly questionable Game Time. Grab your Beats and l...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 471
Reservation Dogs is back on FX/Hulu this week, and Variety's Alison Herman is back on EHG to talk about the show's final season: realistic teenage-character arcs, spiritual cousins to Atlanta , and the meanings of "home." We went Around The Dial with This Fool , Minx 's second season, and Hunted , aka "the darkest Amazing Race " (which we completely forgot we covered the American version of in a long-ago episode) before Tara took the solo on a Girls5Eva Canon pitch. The Glovers' future won, the ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 470
Ex- SNL head writer Anna Drezen teamed up with King Of The Hill co-creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge on Praise Petey , the story of a New York girl boss taking over her late father's doomsday cult; we tell you whether it's...well, doomed. Around The Dial takes us through the re-re-revived Futurama , the spinoff XO, Kitty , and the true crime miniseries Myth Of The Zodiac Killer . Mlle. Caroline presents the Abbott Elementary episode "Candy Zombies" for induction into The Canon. Then, after na...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 469
Justified is back, and so is Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about it: vibes versus process, when you can't replace Walton Goggins, what great villains know about themselves, and whether (...sigh) Kentucky was a character in the original. Then we went Around The Dial with The Real Housewives Of Jenna Ly-- er, New York , Project Greenlight , Dennis Quaid's Full Circle coif, and Hack My Home before Tara made the case for a second-season Detroiters episode as a Canon gem. Streaming shows won, Zaslav lo...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 468
The Horror Of Dolores Roach has evolved from a one-person Broadway play to a podcast to a Prime Video series; Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence.com joins us to discuss the story's final (?) form. Around The Dial takes us through Couples Therapy , My Adventures With Superman , and Last Call . Erica pitches the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Terminal Provocations" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a cryptic, puzzling Game Time. Grab an empana...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 467
For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall ; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy ; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot . We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-pound portable TV, but you should do it anyway! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛗 Pitfall Lead Topic: 😜 Acting C...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 466
Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley is back with a delightful Marxist fairy-tale dramedy (...right? Let's just go with it) on Amazon Prime, and Dan D'Addario is back in the guest chair for the first time since EHG Mark 1 to talk about it: how much overt Marxism it gets away with given where we're watching it, the care of the world-building, Jharrel Jerome's storytelling superpowers, and more. We went Around The Dial with Judge Steve Harvey , And Just Like That... , and McEnroe , and Mlle. Ca...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 465
Black Mirror has returned for Season 6 with five new episodes of (as usual) varying quality; Brandi Brown has also returned to discuss and rank them! Around The Dial takes us through The Righteous Gemstones ; Ovation as a background cable channel; Season 2 of The Cleaner on BritBox; and an important line reading from a Camp LeJeune-related class-action legal solicitation commercial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Avatar" to be inducted into The Canon....
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 464
More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever , I, Tina , The Real Housewives of New Jersey , and Star Trek: Strange New Wo...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 463
Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch , an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love , Fear The Walking Dead , and 30 For 30 . Julie presents the thirtysomething episode "Mr. Right" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on ...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 462
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back on Netflix for Season 3, and actor/comedian/media mogul Will Hines is also back to talk about the season's best sketches, unique sketch-show rhythms, and whether Robinson is still TV's best screamer. We went Around The Dial with Platonic , The Night Agent , and Primo , and then relaxed by the pool with Chris's Lodge 49 Canon submission. Kenan Thompson won, Andy Cohen lost, and we rolled the dice in TV real estate during Game Time. Hop off the zi...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 461
Way way back in the early aughties, we all adored Clone High , an animated satire of Dawson's Creek and its ilk that featured wall-to-wall gags and catchphrases your regular panelists -- and esteemed guest John -- still use to this day. Naturally, we welcomed news of a decades-later second season...but does the show still have the same deranged energy, or is it too careful? We talked about how long it dwells on cancel culture (...sigh), who's the best new clone (and who's our most beloved return...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 460
The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly upon us, and there's only one thing on all our minds: what shows are we going to be watching? The New Republic 's TV critic Phillip Maciak joins us for the first time as we all share our picks for the shows we're into; the shows we SHOULD be into, but aren't; and the shows we feel NO ONE should be into. Philip makes the case for the pilot of The Americans to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Ga...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 459
Not content to have bummed us all out with Extrapolations earlier this spring, AppleTV+ is back with yet another grim vision of our environmentally devastated future: Silo ! Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through the new third season of The Other Two , Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network oeuvre, Secrets Of The Dead , and Star Wars: Visions . Richard makes the case for inducting Australian Survivor S10.E07 into The Canon. Then after n...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 458
When we invited listeners to program this Forcening episode on the theme "Spring Fling," people went wild. Did these selections have us feeling as bright and cheerful as a field of wildflowers, or leave us screaming "MAYDAY"? Listen and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦴 Bones S02.E13: The Girl In The Gator Lead Topic: 🍷 Vanderpump Rules S02.E11: The Ultimatum Lead Topic: 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Sho...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 457
Prime Video has reimagined David Cronenberg's classic body horror film Dead Ringers as a series, starring two Rachels Weisz where two Jeremies Irons once were; Vulture's Roxana Hadadi returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind , Seinfeld , and Top Chef World All Stars . We consider a Canon pitch on the Monk episode "Mr. Monk And The Garbage Strike." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that will have you seeing double....
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 456
Esther Zuckerman returns to talk about the early going of the final season of Barry , including how we felt about Sally's parents, self-indulgent directing, entertainment-reporter scavenger hunts, and our panel's predictions for how the show ends. Later, we went Around The Dial with Single Drunk Female , Perry Mason , and Somebody Somewhere before putting our (bare) feet up to listen to Esther's The Other Two Canon submission. Brooke Shields won, Netflix's tech problems lost, and musician TV cam...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 455
Netflix's latest sensational new series is Beef , in which a blood feud breaks out between Angelenos after a road rage incident; Will Leitch is back to dig in on it! Around The Dial takes us through Jury Duty , a new season of baseball, and the doc Reggie . P.A. believes they are not a crackpot for believing all cameos should be four minutes nineteen seconds or less. Will makes the case for the Chernobyl finale "Vichnaya Pamyat" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 454
Monty returns to talk about Apple+'s rights-clearance/Cold-War espionage tale, Tetris , and how it stacks up against the actual game. Spoiler: most of the panel would have preferred playing to watching, but we did like some of the performances, and Sarah didn't mind a certain true-crime trifecta. Next, we went Around The Dial with Unstable , The Exhibit , Yellowjackets tasting notes from our esteemed colleague Eve Batey, and a Perry Mason credits game before Monty asked "will they or won't they"...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 453
It's time to reconnect with the Wiskayok Yellowjackets in a whole new season of Showtime's runaway hit drama, and Pamela Ribon is back -- with a sober Dave, for a change -- to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us on a real journey through Succession , Be Melodramatic , and Waco: American Apocalypse . Pam takes a big swing by pitching the Girls episode "Japan" for The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time sequel that really sings. (Or, in some cases, fore...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 452
