284: Sinking Our Teeth Into Dracula

284: Sinking Our Teeth Into Dracula

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV January 8, 2020 Duration: 1:31:23

The BBC rolled out Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula on New Year's Day; we Yanks endured it over the weekend, and Nick and the panel agree that this grimly joyless take on a careworn narrative needs SOMETHING. A modern-day setting, maybe? Mini bottle eps on every famous personage the Count has eaten? But it just seems like the creators didn't really want to be there...and as a result, we didn't either. Going Around The Dial is more fun, with looks at Dare Me, You, Magic For Humans, Spinning Out, and Dave's tips for pepping up a Frasier rewatch. Then Nick returns us to the cemetery with his Nonac presentation on Buffy's fifth-season premiere. Killing Eve won, Witcher what-about-ers lost, and Steal Meals were flyin' in a very meta Game Time. Stake your claim to 2020's first all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2013)

Around The Dial: 😝 Dare Me

Around The Dial: 🫵 You

Around The Dial: 🪄 Magic For Humans

Around The Dial: 😵‍💫 Spinning Out

Around The Dial: 📻 Frasier

The Nonac: 🤮 Buffy The Vampire Slayer S05.E01: Buffy vs. Dracula

Winner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Witcher

Game Time: 🧠 Televisual Pursuit

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 284 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧛‍♂️ Did British viewers stick around after Night 1 of Dracula?

📝 Tara's top 10 eps of the decade on Culturally Relevant

📄 Sarah on why to watch Surviving R Kelly Pt. 2: The Reckoning

🎭 Nick Rheinwald-Jones's Safehouse '82

📍 Nick's The Pod


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