333: Is Tiny Pretty Things On Point?

333: Is Tiny Pretty Things On Point?

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV December 16, 2020 Duration: 1:17:35

First-time guest Kamille joins us for a conversation about Tiny Pretty Things, Netflix's new Center Stage-with-teens ballet thriller (?), and while she watched the whole thing, neither she nor the fulltime panel thinks it's good. But aside from the wretched VO, suspect acting, unwelcome parallels to 13 Reasons Why and decided un-Frenchness of cartoon villain Lauren Holly, is TPT a good time-waster? Not to worry: we found you some definite time-wasters when we went Around The Dial with The Wilds and 12 Dates Of Christmas, panned Deliciousness, and helped you cut down that HBO-documentary backlog with a watch-skip index of recent prestige true crime. We couldn't help but wonder if Sex & The City's fourth-season premiere was the Canon's soulmate. Boots Riley and Jharrel Jerome won (for now), Ellen and Ellen lost (again), and Suley wassailed us with a TV/Christmas song Game Time. Don't let the dorm mother catch you listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Kamille Washington

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🩰 Tiny Pretty Things

Around The Dial: 🏝 The Wilds

Around The Dial: 🍕 Deliciousness

Around The Dial: 💕 12 Dates Of Christmas

Around The Dial: 🔪 HBO true-crime documentaries

The Canon: 🏙 Sex And The City

Winner & Loser: 👍 Amazon orders a series from Boots Riley

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 333 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Kamille Washington on Twitter

🇬🇧 Tara's post on Pennyworth at Decider

📚 Sarah and Tara on the People Still Read Books podcast

🎄 Sarah and Tara discussion Northpole on the Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean podcast

🎧 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast

💸 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon


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