454: Chewing Over Beef

454: Chewing Over Beef

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV April 12, 2023 Duration: 1:26:53
Netflix's latest sensational new series is Beef, in which a blood feud breaks out between Angelenos after a road rage incident; Will Leitch is back to dig in on it! Around The Dial takes us through Jury Duty, a new season of baseball, and the doc Reggie. P.A. believes they are not a crackpot for believing all cameos should be four minutes nineteen seconds or less. Will makes the case for the Chernobyl finale "Vichnaya Pamyat" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's right on key. Safely pull over to the shoulder and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥩 Beef

Around The Dial: ⚖️ Jury Duty

Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball

Around The Dial: 🏟️ Reggie

Announcement: 📢 Exciting Patreon Update!

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Cameos

The Canon: ☢️ Chernobyl S01.E05: Vichnaya Pamyat

Winner & Loser: 👍 MetalocalypseSlow Horses

Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden

Game Time: 🎸 Tube Tuners

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 454 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter

🥩 "Why 'Beef' Doesn't Focus On Race: 'These Characters Happen To Be Asian American, But There's So Much More To Them" at Variety

👩‍⚖️ Tara's post on Jury Duty at Cracked

📚 Will's new novel, The Time Has Come, at HarperCollins

📰 Will's newsletter

🎞️ Grierson & Leitch

🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast

🛹 Kari's Hey Remember The 80s podcast

📻 Kari's radio station Charlie's 80s Attic

📷 Photo: Andrew Cooper / Netflix


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