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

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📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC


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