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292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere

292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere

FromExtra Hot Great: This Week In TV


292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere

FromExtra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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Length:
124 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind, The Outsider, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, A French Village, and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!SHOW TOPICSDispatches From ElsewhereATD: Love Is BlindATD: The OutsiderATD: Teen Mom: Young & PregnantATD: A French VillageATD: TV in East AfricaI Am Not A Crackpot: Transparent Computer ScreensThe Canon: Succession S01.E10: "Nobody Is Ever Missing"Winner and Loser of the WeekGame Time: They Get AroundSHOW NOTESDave Chen on TwitterCulturally Relevant with David ChenDecoding WestworldTara on Party Of Five at PrimetimerSarah on The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez at PrimetimerThe Sweet Smell of SuccessionPhoto: Zach Dilgard / AMCDISCUSSIONTalk about this episode on its dedicated page on ExtraHotGreat.comTweet at us @ExtraHotPodcast on TwitterWe are @ExtraHotGreat on InstagramSUPPORT 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
Released:
Mar 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Join David T. Cole, Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.