Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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632: High Value Target Misses The Mark

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 anal

Sep 16
1 h 05 min

631: Ferrying You To Widow's Bay

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

Sep 9
1 h 01 min

630: The Extra Hot Great Fall 2026 TV Preview

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

Sep 2
1 h 15 min

629: Putting Heads Together On Blood Sacrifice

Five-part Swedish serial-killer cop show Blood Sacrifice just hit Netflix, and Sarah Baker is back to talk about scratching the Scandi-noir itch, mapping overseas procedu

Aug 26
1 h 12 min

628: Lanterns Has A Nice Ring To It

HBO’s getting in the superhero game with Lanterns, a take on a DC Comics superhero with theories about aliens, and lore expert Kate Sánchez returns to walk us through why

Aug 19
1 h 02 min

627: Should Anna Pigeon Take A Hike?

In Anna Pigeon, the USA Network’s new Canadian import, the titular character is a cop whose beat is Glacier National Park. Did it make us want to abandon our TVs for the

Aug 12
1 h 16 min

626: Coming Of Age At Sterling Point

Extra Extra Hot Great music-on-TV correspondent Kari Race is back to discuss Sterling Point, in which Manhattan rich kids head to a wifi-free island in Canada to uncover

Aug 5
1 h 17 min

625: Did We Go Mad For Furious?

New Girl creator and The Dropout adapter Elizabeth Meriwether is back on TV with Furious, VERY loosely adapted from the 1987 erotic thriller Black Widow. Were we mad abou

Jul 29
1 h 30 min

624: Teed Off At The Hawk

Will Leitch is back for a very sportsy episode, as we contemplate Will Ferrell’s new golf sitcom, The Hawk — as well as when Ferrell got in a rut and how he could get out

Jul 22
1 h 20 min

623: Are We Ready To Homestead At The New Little House On The Prairie?

Little House On The Prairie has been one in a series of historical memoirs and a TV series that premiered in 1974, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more adaptat

Jul 15
1 h 20 min

622: Commercial Pitchman Draft II

Though it’s never been easier to avoid commercials if that’s what you prefer, some do deserve applause. That’s why we’ve assembled to choose our favorite TV commercial ch

Jul 8
1 h 17 min

621: Is Deep Space Nine's Baseball Episode A Home Run?

Larra submitted a late-season DS9 about baseball — in which bunting figures heavily! — for this month’s Forcening, so we stepped up to the plate for Worf homers, MLB nepo

Jul 1
1 h 29 min

620: Cashing Out Of Million Dollar Nannies

Who better than EEHG’s Green Screen correspondent Stephanie Early Green to discuss Freeform’s new reality show about the super-rich Snugli set — Million Dollar Nannies. S

Jun 24
1 h 17 min

619: Making The Grade With Never Change!

A whole passel of alt-comedy superstars got together to make a comedy feature for Hulu about the class of 2008 having to redo the last two weeks of their senior year. Sho

Jun 17
1 h 08 min

618: Interview With The Vampire Rocks Out

Interview With The Vampire returns with a tonally shifted, maximalist third season — and Caroline Framke also returns to talk about the show’s new POV character, in-unive

Jun 10
1 h 30 min

617: In Soviet Russia Star City Space Shows You

While the counter-history of For All Mankind was going on, what counter-historical events were occurring in parallel in the U.S.S.R.? The spinoff Star City is here to dra

Jun 3
1 h 19 min

616: Issuing A Silver Alert For The Boroughs

The Stranger Things team (among others) is back with a similar “a community of X bands together against a supernatural force” story in The Boroughs, which features an all

May 27
1 h 08 min

615: Having Fun Out Of The Sun For The Summer TV Preview

The last of the Emmy-begging shows are nearly behind us, which means it’s time to look ahead to what has historically been TV’s silliest season: summer! Alan Sepinwall an

May 20
1 h 38 min

614: Listener Game Time Returns

You hear us play Game Time, but only the bravest few dare attempt it themselves. Laura, Mike, and Rob face off in a trio of Game Times, one written by each co-host. Liste

May 13
51 min

613: Lake Diving, Squid Battling, And Avocado Peeling

Two past and future EHG guests and one listener are showcased in this special episode. First, the good: Mlle. Caroline's pitch for the fourth episode of BBC's 1995 Pride

May 6
1 h 05 min

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i listened to EHG nonstop during my graduate school days nearly a decade ago. at some point life got busy, new podcasts filled up my feed, and i fell off. seeking comfort in the last few months, i came back here. hearing tara, sarah, and david again was like reuniting with old friends. but unlike how some of those interactions go, it’s nice to see the team has grown in a similar trajectory to me. the tv insight is always great, but i also appreciate their regular focus on uplifting mutual aid groups , reproductive justice funds, and more, and not shying away from acknowledging the political hellscape we live in while still proving a welcome distraction. thanks for being solid people, even when our tv opinions differ (not often).

ir_plays · Feb 2025

Very long time fan, forgot to review - worth every minute of listening and listening again. Subscribe to the Patreon for even more wonderful conversation and hilariously rewarding content

sschessler · Dec 2024

I have listened to again with this 90210 edition more times than I dare admit. I thought about starting extra hot great a few times over the years but I never really gave it a chance because I thought it would spoil shows I haven’t seen. Now that I can recite lines from the 90210 podcast like I can recite song lyrics, and because the state of the world means I can’t listen to the political podcasts I used to have playing constantly, I tried this one in earnest and I’m really mad at myself for not listening to this sooner. Now I can’t stop listening to this one and I haven’t heard a spoiler yet. Thank you so so much Sara, Tara, and Dave.

FengLida · Nov 2022

The show is consistently entertaining. I totally agree with some of the stuff they say, and totally reject other things, but the discussion is always enlightening and fun. The hosts are uniformly excellent. It’s just fun, if you’re a person who really enjoys a Viva Laughlin joke, or wants to talk about nuances of Debra Messing’s messiness this century.

GuyIsDelightful · Nov 2021

I appreciate everything Dave does behind the scenes (and for game time) but I don’t think he should be on the main show. Tara and Sarah are excellent hosts because they have a long career in television journalism and commentary so when they talk about TV they analyze its components, the mechanics behind the components, and its context in TV history. To me, this elevates the podcast from a simple “I did/did not like it” review show. When Dave talks about tv, it’s almost always in terms of his likes and dislikes. This drags the discussion back down to “I do/do not like it”. It noticeably breaks up the conversational flow and does not add anything. Again, Dave is an instrumental part of making the show happen but I don’t know if the best use of his talents is during the main segments.

r3viewer9876 · Apr 2025

I really want to like this podcast more than I do. A certain level of self-importance is to be expected from media review podcasts, but EHG’s hyper-critical-and-above-it-all vibe can still get irritating, as do the odd grudges some of the hosts have against random performers (usually women). I vacillate between cautiously downloading and listening to an episode (because occasionally this podcast is genuinely funny) and getting overwhelmed with frustration and deleting it from my feed. The hyper-critical and over-it tone is grating, but it’s Tara’s garbage political takes are what usually send me over the edge. Blaming the Obamas for not doing enough to stop Trump? Really? I hate to break it to her, but that line in The Good Fight asking where the Obamas were in the Trump era was intended to make fun of the people who hold the Obamas to an impossible (and racist) standard. But it clearly went over her head. Sometimes she’s like a right-wing caricature of a leftist who has plenty of criticism to dish out but doesn’t actually have any idea what she’s taking about. The games are also a self-indulgent waste of time that’ve been consistently skippable since Rob Hartman stopped designing them. I’m giving it two stars instead of one because at least it introduced me to I Hate It But I Love It and This Had Oscar Buzz.

Audreyista · Aug 2020

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