123: Rebooting Mr. Robot

123: Rebooting Mr. Robot

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV July 19, 2016 Duration: 1:56:32

As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around The Dial spins to the series premiere of HBO's Vice Principals, TNT's Animal Kingdom, last week's Emmy nominations, the pleasingly scaled-back Intervention, and Netflix's throwback suspense series Stranger Things. Tara offers up the Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we move on to a Game Time about humble beginnings. Log on and join us!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤖 Mr. Robot

Around The Dial: 🚌 Vice Principals

Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom

Around The Dial: 🏆 The Emmys

Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention

Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things

The Canon: 🌲 Gravity Falls

Winner & Loser: 👍 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Kim Kardashian

Winner & Loser: 👎 Scott Baio

Game Time: 🧠 Before They Were Famous

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 123 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

🌴 The Again With This podcast

🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast


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