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The Kings are back on network TV with Cupertino, which basically transplants the signature qualities of the Good Wife-verse to Silicon Valley — and Margaret H. Willison is back to talk about whether that’s a good choice, the cameos we’re looking forward to, and how the show can loop other storylines into a tech-forward plot brief. We went Around The Dial with Below, Love Is Blind‘s Boston season, GBBO‘s audience episode, and Kill. Bury. Print., and Margaret hoped we’d crown an episode of the original King show, The Good Wife, for the Canon. Nicolas Cage won, Kelly Clarkson lost, and we tried to guess which hosts had the most (acting experience) in Game Time. Build yourself a hallway to the EHG conference room and join us! GUESTS👤 Margaret H. Willison TOPICSLead Topic: 💻 Cupertino Around The Dial: 🦑 Below Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 😉 Southern Charm Around The Dial: 🪦 Kill. Bury. Print. Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off The Canon: 🎸 The Good Wife S05.E11: Goliath & DavidWinner & Loser: 🦅 Nicolas CageWinner & Loser: 🐤 Kelly ClarksonGame Time: 🎙️ The Host With The Most SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📰 Sign up for Margaret H. Willison's newsletter👩🏻‍💻 Check Tara's author page at GQ for her review of The Social Reckoning🪶 Jackson McHenry's "Jack Lowden: Why Are You Darcy?" piece for Vulture🔪 Sarah's review of Kill. Bury. Print at Best Evidence🫆 The Crime Seen podcast📷 Elizabeth Fisher / CBS

Mike Flanagan of The Haunting Of Hill House has brought classic horror IP Carrie into the 21st century, and we're talking about whether it works (menstrual strat aside). We answered your Ask EHG questions about the cars that would eulogize us and shows we watch for the settings, and Dave gave us a tight five as his Tiny Funeral Canon pitch. We named our Not Quite Winners And Losers, and your fellow listeners competed for TV-trivia glory in Listener Game Time. Sew yourself up a chic sheet outfit and join us. EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-433/

The newest co-production from HBO and Sky finds a tech billionaire and a “Hollywood actress” battling over the end of their marriage, abetted by teams of high-priced lawyers; with Sarah out for the day, both Richard Lawson and Katey Rich return to discuss the fictional dissolution. Around The Dial takes us through The Great British Bake Off S17, Taskmaster S22, Kill Jackie, and Mile End Kicks. Katey pitches the S04 finale of The Traitors (US) for induction into The Canon. Then, after we name the week’s Winner and Loser, we close up with a Non-Regulation Game Time for which we really have to thank the Academy. No need for you to put down a retainer — just join us! GUESTS👤 Richard Lawson👤 Katey Rich TOPICSLead Topic: 💔 War Around The Dial: 🎂 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Around The Dial: 💀 Kill Jackie Around The Dial: 🦵 Mile End Kicks The Canon: 🗡️ The Traitors S04.E11: Leap Of FaithWinner & Loser: 🦜 Lanterns Winner & Loser: 🤖 Kelly ClarksonGame Time: 🏆 Winner Winner TV Dinner SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Richard Lawson on Bluesky🦋 Katey Rich on Bluesky💔 Richard’s review of War (2026) at Premiere Party🎊 The Premiere Party newsletter🎞️ The Critical Darlings podcast on Apple🍿 The Ankler🎧 The Prestige Junkie podcast🥊 The Fighting In The War Room podcast📷 Justin Downing / Sky / HBO CLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Dave In Seattle Forcened us to watch the Halloween Is Grinch Night, a sequel to How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and what better time to do it than October? Dave In Seattle has made it part of his Halloween tradition; listen to find out if we’re planning to do the same. Ask EHG has us sharing what makes us return to shows we’ve abandoned, our most and least favorite spices, and more. Margaret pitches a viral This Morning clip featuring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Alison Hammond for the Tiny Press Junket Canon. We name the week’s Not Quite Winners And Losers. Then, for the first time in EEHG: we close up with Listener Game time! Join Elenore, Kim and Sarah C. as they try to figure out Who's The Boss. Secure your Wuzzy Woozoo however you see fit and join us! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-432/

We were counting on The Hollywood Reporter’s chief television critic Dan Fienberg to help us diagnose the issues with the thirteenth season of American Horror Story, and luckily he came through in a discussion that covered excessive fan service, when the “ew” and the “…huh” don’t balance each other, and the sin of wasting John Waters. We went Around The Dial with the new A Different World, My Brilliant Career, and American Hostage before Seth served up a Canon pitch for Hannibal‘s second-season finale. Mary Poppins won, Brandi Glanville lost, and we didn’t wait ’til the middle of the night to step on a Lego-based Game Time. Grab a handful of swabs and have a listen! GUESTS👤 Daniel Fienberg TOPICSAnnouncement: 🔥 Club Stickers!Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 American Horror Story Around The Dial: 🌎 A Different World Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Women In Horror TVAround The Dial: 👔 My Brilliant Career Around The Dial: 😓 American Hostage The Canon: 🍱 Hannibal S02.E13: MizumonoWinner & Loser: ☂️ Mary Poppins Winner & Loser: 💥 Brandi GlanvilleGame Time: 🧱 Lego My Game Time SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📊 EHG Club Sticker Poll📰 Subscribe to Dan's THR newsletter, Now See This🦋 Dan Fienberg on Bluesky🤩 And at The Hollywood Reporter...🔫 ...including his review of American Hostage🇺🇸 Sarah's review of American Hostage for Best Evidence🔥 Extra Hot Great Club🏦 Ask Sarah about the Mutual Aid Vault🪓 Angie Han's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story review at The Hollywood Reporter🌴 Again With Again With This📷 Photo: Eric Liebowitz / FX CLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord

The latest stars to play “themselves” in a TV comedy are Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, riffing on (among other things) the rumor that the two have the same biological father. Listen to find out whether it made us want to kick them in the family jewels. Ask EHG set us to pondering how we would party like it’s Space: 1999 and how swapping Aaron Sorkin and Aaron Spelling would change The West Wing and Beverly Hills, 90210. Tara pitches Tracy correcting Toofer’s English usage on 30 Rock for the Tiny Comeback Canon. We name the week’s Not Quite Winners and Losers. Kim tells us whether Little House On The Prairie S04.E20 really is “A Most Precious Gift.” Finally, we slide into that old time rock ’n roll for Dave’s Risky Business-inspired Extra Credit. Put on your bull-riding helmet and join us! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-431/

We’re thrilled Santiago Melli-Huber could return to discuss the inter-agency copaganda — and, to be fair, the realistic sibling interactions — of Line Of Fire, a puzzle-box-ish network procedural full of cop tropes, unrealistic travel times, and actors we had trouble reconciling with relatively likable characters. We went Around The Dial with Best Of The Best, Dropout content, and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story before Sarah bellied up to the Canon with a pitch for Drunk History. The Savant won, Taylor Frankie Paul lost, and Game Time was so on-brand with its acting-through-the-generations concept that it took nearly a generation to complete. Pocket an origami swan and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS👤 Santiago Melli-Huber TOPICSLead Topic: 🔫 Line Of Fire Around The Dial: 🕺 Best Of The Best Around The Dial: 👵🏻 Matlock (2024) Around The Dial: 🍚 Game Changer Around The Dial: 🪓 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story The Canon: 🥴 Drunk History S05.E07: Drunk MysteryWinner & Loser: 🪦 The Savant Winner & Loser: 🤦‍♀️ Taylor Frankie PaulGame Time: 🍼 Return Of The TV Nepo Babies SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📱 Ridiculous large iPhone text🦋 Follow Santiago Melli-Huber on Bluesky🎙️ Mari Cohn and Dolly Parton Tribute Night at The Edge💄 The Listen To Sassy Club🪓 Sarah's Monster: Lizzie review at Best Evidence🏦 Make a withdrawal from (or deposit in!) the EHG Mutual Aid Vault📷 Photo: Spencer Pazer / NBC

For the supporter perk series “Three Of These” for 2026, we’re looking at three different British Sci-fi TV shows of the 1970s. Our series wraps up for the year with Space: 1999 and its (and TV history's) spoogiest episode called "Space Brain". Marvel at Martin Landau keeping his moon base staff safe from the scourge of space-based semen! React in horror as people are turned into silly string-festooned grey potatoes! Stare in wonder and awe at sci-fi’s most baffling sleeve! It's all here and it's coming for you! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-430/

Adult Swim’s new 12-minute live-action sketch show The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza puts its titular star in such situations as “sentenced for manslaughter by a very strange judge” and “marooned at a weird co-worker’s dinner party”; we tell you if it’s scary good or just scary good. After delivering judgment on the last TWO episodes’ Ask Ask EHG questions, we tackle your latest Qs for us, like which skills we could contribute to a very useless emergency response team and what a show called Only Creatures In The Building would be about. Sarah pitches a memorable Degrassi slogan to the Tiny Catchphrase Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Not Quite Winners and Losers, we’re imagining how various TV relatives would fare on Family Feud. Sit down with your Asian wife and enjoy our latest episode together! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-429/

The great Josh Gondelman returns to discuss the not-so-great High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam, a tiresome limited series on TNT starring Joel Kinnaman as a CIA analyst/non-credible nerd and Tom Berenger as his crusty veteran dad. We’re talking about who it’s for (crusty veteran dads, lbr), why you wouldn’t just read John Nixon’s book, and whether other series have unpacked this era’s baggage more efficiently. We went Around The Dial with Coin From Accounts, Reggie Dinkins, and OJ Unseen before Dave wondered if the first-thought ring recharging on Lanterns is Worse Than Jazz?, and we contemplated a meta game-changer episode of Game Game Changer for the Canon. Point Break won, Entourage lost, and we sharpened our No. 2 pencils for an analogy-forward Game Time from Seth. We’re not in Kansas anymore either — it’s an all-new EHG! GUESTS👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICSLead Topic: 🎯 High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam Around The Dial: 🦮 Colin From Accounts Around The Dial: 🏈 The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Dinkins Around The Dial: 🍊 OJ Unseen: Exploitation Of Evil Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 💍 The Lantern From LanternsThe Canon: 🏰 Game Changer S07.E11: SamalamadingdongWinner & Loser: 🏄‍♂️ Point Break Winner & Loser: 😡 Entourage creator Doug EllinLead Topic: 🧠 All About The D SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🗓️ More from Josh Gondelman, including his tour schedule📰 Josh's newsletter, That's Marvelous🕵🏻‍♂️ "Not My Job: We Quiz A Retired CIA Analyst On Briefs (The Underwear)" from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me🌴 Again With This Club🍊 Sarah's review of OJ Unseen at Best Evidence📷 Photo: TNT CLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord

After Dr. Calhoun stumbled across the Canadian game show Anything You Can Do one random night, naturally he had to know what we would think of it, which is how we came to the October 7, 1971 episode: listen to find out how the guys’ team fared against the ladies’ team in contests of football uniform donning, backpack filling, and more. Ask EHG suggests switching Christophers from Gilmore Girls and The Sopranos, asks our favorite birds, and more. Dan Cassino pitches the paternoster lift from Babylon Berlin for induction into the Tiny Production Design Canon. We bring three game show-themed Not Quite Top 11 Lists to the table. Stephanie puts Back To The Frontier up on the Green Screen. Finally, we close out with an Extra Credit Non-Regulation Game Time that tests our panelsts’ talent for guessing which TV episode titles belong to Grey’s Anatomy, All Creatures Great And Small (1978-1990), or both. Put on your Adidas and listen! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-428/

We are off this week for Labor Day but present an episode from inside the Club vault. AppleTV’s newest dramedy pairs The Heat screenwriter Katie Dippold with Matthew Rhys as the beleaguered mayor of a dying island town; we tell you whether you should book your stay at the creepy local inn. Ask EHG invites us to share, among other things, which current show desperately needs a zombie apocalypse and the words we find aesthetically pleasing. Sarah pitches Omar Little’s first rendition of “The Farmer In The Dell” from The Wire for the Tiny Whistling Canon. We name the week’s Not Quite Winners And Losers. Finally, we end on our picks for the Sky Mall gifts our favorite TV characters most need to receive. Settle in to your table at The Salty Whale and join us! TOPICSAnnouncement: 📢 Ask & Answer Ask EHG Without DiscordLead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ Widow's Bay Ask EHG: 🇨🇦 Canadian GladiatorsTiny Canon: 😗 The Wire S01.E05: The PagerWinner & Loser: 👶 Nick OffermanWinner & Loser: ✍️ Friends writersWinner & Loser: 🩳 Michael BeachWinner & Loser: 🐻‍❄️ Lost producersWinner & Loser: 👦🏻 Adolescence Winner & Loser: 😤 Aimee Lou WoodExtra Credit: ✈️ SkyMalledMini: 😚 Whistling (Oct 2011) SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🎺 "What's Jazz Doing In A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms?" on YouTube😙 "Omar Comin'" on YouTube🙊 "Lost Actor Harold Perrineau Says Former Co-Star Still Won't Talk To Him" at IGN [subscription required]✈️ SkyMall📷 Photo: Apple

Are we on the same wavelength as Apple's new movie Mayday, which sees Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh defector-thrillering across late-'80s "Russia"? If you're stuck in a remote cabin this long weekend, you could do worse! You Asked EHG about Dairy Queen treats and ten-dollar tats before Hayden Haymaker staked her hopes on a Buffy Tiny Canon pitch. We offered our Not Quite Winners and Losers of this week, and David T. Cole wondered if a game-show house is really a home in the Extra Credit. Submerge yourself in a barrel of beet booze and join us! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-427/

Labor Day is nearly here, and with it the unofficial start of fall. With dozens of new shows premiering or returning, which are we actually planning to watch…and planning even harder to avoid? Eve Batey returns so that we can all share our picks and P.U.s. Eve presents the Widow’s Bay episode “Your Baggage” for induction into The Canon. Then, after we name the week’s Winner and Loser, we close with a Ted-y bear of a Non-Regulation Game Time. Take a break from burning your dead leaves to listen! GUESTS👤 Eve Batey TOPICSLead Topic: 🍂 Fall TV PreviewThe Canon: ⛽️ Widow's Bay S01.E08: Your BaggageWinner & Loser: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 📡 CNNGame Time: 🔪 Ted Like Me SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Eve Batey on Bluesky‼️ “The Cozy-Looking Sweaters In ‘Reds,’ Ranked” at Defector📰 The Vanity Fair Daily newsletter🌁 Eve’s piece on Under Story at the San Francisco Chronicle [subscription required]👶 Sarah’s review of Baby Doe at Best Evidence [subscription required]🖼️ “CNN Apologizes For Mistakenly Airing Photo Of Dolly Parton Impersonator In Report On Late Singer” at Variety

HGTV's latest shameless nostalgia play is Totally '90s House, in which six former stars of the decade tackle a home-renovation competition to update McMansions…and possibly score their own shows afterwards? We answered your questions about favorite legumes and pumpkin-spice strat, and Dave felt good about his pitch for the Tiny Misplaced Confidence Canon. We named our Not Quite Winners And Losers Of The Week before Kim set a course for adventure with commentary on a ninth-season Love Boat episode, and Seth wondered about EHG Canon pitches we'll never submit. Grab a Sports Walkman and listen! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-426/