HBO has imported Sky Atlantic's miniseries Catherine The Great -- starring seasoned queen portrayer Helen Mirren -- and first-time guest Karen Geier is Russian (sorry) to join us for a discussion all about it! Around The Dial takes us through Living With Yourself, Modern Love, The Politician, Buzz, Survivor, the latest in Ken Burns, and HBO's highly anticipated take on Watchmen! Karen presents the "Interlude" episode of The Righteous Gemstones for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a non-regulation Game Time that's the mother you never had and the sister everybody would want...or that's just about guest stars playing characters' relatives on TV. Saddle up your sturdiest steed and join us!SHOW TOPICSCatherine The GreatATD: Living With YourselfATD: Modern LoveATD: The PoliticianATD: SurvivorATD: Ken Burns's Country MusicATD: BuzzATD: WatchmenThe Canon: The Righteous Gemstones S01.E05: InterludeWinner and Loser of the WeekGame Time: It's All RelativeSHOW NOTESKaren Geier on TwitterThe On Belief podcastOn Belief on PatreonThe On Grief podcastOn Grief on PatreonKarenGeier.comMaureen Ryan's Modern Love review at NYTimes.comAgain With This podcastAgain With This on PatreonTickets for MASTAS LiveMASTAS on PatreonJames Poniewozik's Watchmen reviewPhoto: Hal Shinnie / HBODISCUSSIONTalk about this episode on its dedicated page on ExtraHotGreat.comSUPPORT EHG ON PATREONThe EHG gang have been recording this podcast for almost a decade now. In podcasting terms, that makes us positively Methuselahian. Since the start of EHG, our listeners have asked if we had a tip jar or donation system and we'd look at each other and say surely that is a joke, people don't pay other people to do podcasts. We'd email them back "Ha ha ha, good one, Chet" and go about our business. Now we are told this is a real thing that real nice people do. Value for value? In today's topsy turvy world? It's madness but that good kind of madness, like when you wake up a 3:15am and clean your house. Or something. In all seriousness, we are humbled by your continued prodding to get a Patreon page up for EHG and here it is! Extra Hot Great on Patreon For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy