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374: Sinking Into La Brea
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Length:
108 minutes
Released:
Sep 29, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea, NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost" mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears, The Big Leap, Being James Bond, Tea With The Dames, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant, and Squid Game, and in related news, Dave was not a crackpot about flashbacks to events in the same episode. David Ellis Dickerson challenged us to pick a show bible a la the Star Trek: TOS episode "A Piece of the Action," and base an entire future society on it, and then Nick challenged our conceptions about second episodes of series when he pitched Episode 02 of Succession for the Canon. Bergeron won, Messing lost, and the Game Time season came down to a single letter. Take a nip off that flask and tell the government about your visions: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!Show TopicsLa BreaATD: Controlling Britney SpearsATD: The Big LeapATD: Being James BondATD: Tea With The DamesATD: Teen Mom: Young & PregnantATD: Squid GameI Am Not A CrackpotExtra Credit: Show BibleThe Canon: Succession S01.E02: Shit Show At The Fuck FactoryWinner and Loser of the WeekGame Time: One Letter OffShow NotesFollow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on TwitterNick's immersive-theater project, Spy BrunchTara's Holey Moley piece at DefectorThe Best Evidence newsletterPhoto: Sarah Enticknap / NBCDiscussionTweet 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 at 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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Sep 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
1: Summer TV: The EHG Mark 1 crew is joined by Previously.TV East Coast Editor/new podcast anchor Sarah D. Bunting to share picks for the best and worst of summer 2013 TV. Sarah presents the "College" episode of The Sopranos for submission into The Canon. ... by Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV