374: Sinking Into La Brea

374: Sinking Into La Brea

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV September 29, 2021 Duration: 1:47:53

We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea, NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost" mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears, The Big Leap, Being James Bond, Tea With The Dames, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant, and Squid Game, and in related news, Dave was not a crackpot about flashbacks to events in the same episode. David Ellis Dickerson challenged us to pick a show bible a la the Star Trek: TOS episode "A Piece of the Action," and base an entire future society on it, and then Nick challenged our conceptions about second episodes of series when he pitched Episode 02 of Succession for the Canon. Bergeron won, Messing lost, and the Game Time season came down to a single letter. Take a nip off that flask and tell the government about your visions: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦕 La Brea

Around The Dial: 🕹 Controlling Britney Spears

Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ The Big Leap

Around The Dial: 🔫 Being James Bond

Around The Dial: 🫖 Tea With The Dames

Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant

Around The Dial: 🦑 Squid Game

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪

Extra Credit: 📖 Show Bible

The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E02: Shit Show At The Fuck Factory

Winner & Loser: 👍 Tic-Tac-Dough

Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing

Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 374 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Follow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🕵🏼‍♂️ Nick's immersive-theater project, Spy Brunch

⛳️ Tara's Holey Moley piece at Defector

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC


Ever find yourself finishing a show and immediately wanting to dissect every detail with friends who get it? That’s the feeling you’ll find each week with Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV. This isn’t just a recap service; it’s a lively, thoughtful, and often hilarious conversation that picks up right where the credits roll. The hosts dive deep into the latest episodes, standout performances, and those baffling plot twists that dominated the cultural conversation, treating television with the serious analysis and genuine passion it deserves. You’ll hear sharp reviews that go beyond simple thumbs-up or down, exploring what worked, what didn’t, and why. The discussion naturally spans the spectrum from buzzy new series to enduring film influences, reflecting a broad and discerning taste. Tuning into this podcast feels like grabbing a seat at the table with the most insightful TV enthusiasts you know, where the talk is as engaging as the shows themselves. It’s a consistent source for smart, entertaining commentary that celebrates and critiques the world of screens, big and small.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 502

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Podcast Episodes
589: Did We Find The Beauty In The Beast In Me? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:32
A Manhattan real estate scion is believed to have killed his first wife in The Beast In Me, the new entirely fictional Netflix thriller series that is NOT about Robert Durst. Durst you watch it? Stephanie Early Green ret…
588: Are We Of One Mind About Pluribus? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:49
Vince Gilligan returns to the prestige airwaves with Pluribus, an apocalyptic Rhea Seehorn vehicle that's getting uniformly great reviews -- and Jeff Drake returns to the podcast to talk about why WE aren't all on the sa…
587: Did We Love I Love LA? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:27
Bottoms star and co-writer Rachel Sennott has created a new sitcom star vehicle, I Love L.A., for HBO, all about the world of Zoomer influencers. How much could we take? L.A.'s own Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk a…
586: Clowning Around With It: Welcome To Derry [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:27
TV returns to the King-verse with HBO's It: Welcome To Derry, a prequel (or side...show?) of sorts for various characters from Stephen King's It -- and Josh Gondelman also returns to accept our apologies before talking a…
585: Did Boston Blue Knock Our Sox Off? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:15
Blue Bloods is dead, but its spirit lives on (along with however many actors don't have anything better to do) in Boston Blue, CBS's new Beantown-set spinoff. How authentic is it to the Boston a Bostonian would know? Bos…
584: Breaking Down The Chair Company [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:26:17
Tim Robinson is back with The Chair Company, a cringe-com with a mystery (or is it??) at its center, and Variety's Alison Herman is also back to talk about it: the little self-flagellating moments the show gets right, wh…
583: Having A Grave Discussion About Monster: The Ed Gein Story [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:25
The fourth season of Monster, Netflix's true crime anthology, concerns itself with Wisconsin serial killer (or was he? (he probably was)) Ed Gein, played by former Queer As Folk cutie Charlie Hunnam. Did it get under our…
582: Is Chad Powers A Winner? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:00
Pretend we made a witty "third and taking-too-long" pun, because that's what we -- and guest Kim "Best Thing" Reed -- thought about Glen Powell vehicle Chad Powers. It isn't bad, but between the first-drafty jokes and ge…
581: Giving You The Lowdown On The Lowdown [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:09
Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has reunited with his S03 guest star Ethan Hawke for The Lowdown, a shaggy Tulsa neo-noir. Should you put it high on your list of priorities? We discuss. (Spoiler: yes.) Around The…
580: Is It Time To Hit Snooze On The Morning Show? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:01
The Morning Show is back to bring us its version of 2024. Can any of us possibly be ready to go back there? Maybe not, but we don't have the strength to resist gorging on The Morning Show's baloney, either. Morning Show-…