524: Getting To Know The Anonymous

524: Getting To Know The Anonymous

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV August 21, 2024 Duration: 1:17:18
The USA Network is apparently making original shows...that should be streaming shows, like The Anonymous, which throws The Traitors, Big Brother, and a number of other alliance-based reality shows into a blender. Kari Race is back to discuss whether it's a concoction worth drinking, given all the AI dad jokes, dead air, and inappropriate cliffhangers in the first three episodes. Then we went Around The Dial with Taskmaster NZ, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, and Homicide: LOTS. Mr. Throwback won (a timeslot), Teresa Giudice lost (again), and Tube Tunes got stuck in our heads again during Non-Regulation Game Time. Take a break from screaming at a pizza slice and have a listen!

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TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🫥 The Anonymous

Lead Topic: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand

Lead Topic: 🔤 Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee

Lead Topic: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street

Lead Topic: 🤥 Would I Lie To You S17.E09

Lead Topic: 👍 Mr. Throwback

Lead Topic: 👎 Teresa Giudice

Lead Topic: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIV

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

📻 Listen to more Kari Race at Charlie's '80s Attic

💄 Listen To Sassy

🔫 Alan Sepinwall's Homicide episode recs at Rolling Stone

🏆 EHG 207's Homicide Canon

📈 EEHG 163's post-Homicide power rankings

🏀 EEHG 310 on Mr. Throwback

🌴 Again With Again With This

📷 Photo: Rico Torres / USA Network


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