575: Should You Plot A Course For Alien: Earth?

575: Should You Plot A Course For Alien: Earth?

Author: Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV August 13, 2025 Duration: 1:10:38
The Alien-verse has landed on TV with Noah Hawley's re-imagining (or pre-imagining) of the xenomorphic worlds of the film series -- and Andrew Cunningham has landed back in the guest chair to talk about telepathic blackmail, when hearing is scarier than seeing, and acting choices that don't make sense. Is this essential viewing, or should you jump in a shuttle and bail? Later, we went Around The Dial with War Of The Worlds 2025, The Gilded Age, It's Always Sunny, and American Prince: JFK Jr. before the panel stared into the abyss of Sarah's Sopranos Canon pitch. The Yellowstone-verse won, the Sussexes lost, and we kicked off a new Game Time season with a real facehugger. Skip that cryo-nap and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great instead!

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👤 Andrew Cunningham

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 👽 Alien: Earth
Around The Dial: 🌎 War Of The Worlds
Around The Dial: 🚂 The Gilded Age
Around The Dial: 😎 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Around The Dial: 🤴 American Prince: JFK Jr.
The Canon: 👠 The Sopranos S02.E07: D-Girl
Winner & Loser: 🐮 Y: Marshals
Winner & Loser: 👑 Harry and Meghan
Game Time: 🫦 They Mostly Come At Night

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky
📚 Andrew's book pod with Craig Getting, Overdue
👨🏻‍💻 Andrew at Ars Technica
🌍 Tara's War Of The Worlds review at Cracked
👵🏻 "Oldies but goodies" on sale at Exhibit B. Books
📷 Photo: Patrick Brown / FX

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