162: Plowing Through Snowfall

162: Plowing Through Snowfall

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV July 12, 2017 Duration: 1:11:29

FX fills Fargo's time slot with Snowfall, John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and definitely NOT because he is a crackhead. Sarah explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking cable networks should just leave swear words in movies. Around The Dial takes us through Lifetime's movie Tiny House Of Terror, Younger, GLOW, and Prime Suspect - Tennison. Hannah makes her case for our inducting the series premiere of Catastrophe into The Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a poetic Game Time. Light it up!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ❄️ Snowfall

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Basic cable needs to start leaving the swears in movies

Around The Dial: 📚 Younger

Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW

Around The Dial: 🚨 Prime Suspect 1973

Around The Dial: 👶 Catastrophe

Winner & Loser: 👍 Donal Logue

Winner & Loser: 👎 Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Game Time: 🧠 Haiku TV

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 162 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter


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