368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels

368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV August 18, 2021 Duration: 1:46:54

With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW, Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of Michael Waldron's Heels; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs, The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island, Big Brother, Animal Kingdom, and What If...?. David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the talents of both January Jones and David Duchovny to the fullest advantage. Joe presents the Girls5Eva episode "Cease And Desist" for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and head straight into a Game Time that gets a little romantic. Get into your spangliest leggings and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ Heels

Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs

Around The Dial: 🧘 The White Lotus

Around The Dial: 🏝 Fantasy Island (2021)

Around The Dial: 👨‍👦 Big Brother

Around The Dial: 🦌 Animal Kingdom

Around The Dial: 🤔 What If

Extra Credit: 🚁 Rigid Air Vehicles

The Canon: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And Desist

Winner & Loser: 👍 Corn

Winner & Loser: 👎 Men behaving badly

Game Time: 🧠 Double Date

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 368 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

👡 Joe's Heels review at Primetimer

🤼‍♂️ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider

👠 LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste

🌺 Mitchell Kuga at Vox on The White Lotus's portrayal of Native Hawaiian characters

🧘‍♂️ Tara discussing The White Lotus with Dave Chen on his Patreon podcast

✍️ Joe's author page on Primetimer

🏆 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast on Twitter

🦊 Sarah's Primetimer post about Season 4 of Animal Kingdom

📚 Exhibit B. Books

📷 January Jones on Instagram

⚖️ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism


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