It's yet another expensive-looking and ambitious limited series from Apple TV+ -- this time, Franklin, starring Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas as the flatulence-forward inventor of electricity. Is this limited series focused on the wrong thing?

Telling The Truth About Ripley

8 days ago 1h 37m

Tom Ripley, a Talented character we already saw on screen in his namesake movie in 1999, is back, now in a limited series on Netflix; Dan Rogge joins us to discuss how this version compares to Anthony Minghella's film, what we thought of its us

Should You Let Parish Take The Wheel?

16 days ago 1h 32m

AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish, features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anyth

Punching Up At Road House

23 days ago 1h 32m

Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memorie

Extra Credit Bonanza

30 days ago 44m 37s

Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very specia

Getting Rough With The Gentlemen

Mar 13th, 2024 1h 13m

Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control, The Curse, and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial.

Should You Make Elsbeth Your Co-Counsel?

Mar 6th, 2024 1h 39m

The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the cha

Buying Our Tickets To The Shōgun Show

Feb 28th, 2024 59m 48s

James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shōgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV

Slowing Down Game Time For The Listeners

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 12m

When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear

On The Scent Of Tracker

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 27m

This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher. Around The Dia

Playing House With Mr. And Mrs. Smith

Feb 7th, 2024 1h 28m

Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks

Does Masters Of The Air Take Flight?

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 21m

With Masters Of The Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us th

Dry January Forcenings

Jan 24th, 2024 50m 58s

We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive.EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild OneRemember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was tha

Monsieur Spade Is A Mixed Baguette

Jan 17th, 2024 1h 14m

Mon dieu: Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not lo

Recording Our Thoughts On Criminal Record

Jan 10th, 2024 1h 23m

AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record, is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial ta

Merging, Cycling, And Offending Absolutely Everyone

Jan 3rd, 2024 1h 2m

Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica d

New Year, New Thunderdome

Dec 27th, 2023 1h 8m

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in

Extra Hot Great Christmas Cheer

Dec 20th, 2023 53m 32s

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault.EEHG 212: ChristmastalgiaSequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we'r

2023 Guest Thought Experiments

Dec 13th, 2023 50m 9s

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode!TOPICSLead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought ExperimentsSUPPO

Professor Nick's TV SATs

Dec 6th, 2023 50m 56s

Do you know what time it is? It's Non-Regulation Game Time, courtesy of our friend Nick Rheinwald-Jones! Get out your No. 2 pencils, because Nick found a vacant high school gym, sat your co-hosts down, and administered The TV SATs. Whose scores

COOP! There He Is

Nov 29th, 2023 50m 40s

For years, you've heard us sing the D.B. Cooper song; now you're going to hear us talk about him. Just because no one knows what actually happened to Dan Cooper after he jumped out of that plane with a bag full of cash doesn't mean TV writers c

Hanging Up The Crown

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h 31m

The Crown is back with the first half (or so) of its final season; as it sends off Princess Diana, Heather Cocks joins us to discuss whether the season had to happen at all. Around The Dial takes us through The Real Housewives Of New York, Kil

Going Down Under (Navally) With NCIS: Sydney

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 11m

Our esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall is back, mate(y)! An Australian spin-off of an already banal cop-show franchise is maybe not the best use of his time, but we talked about NCIS-franchise stock characters, unmemorable TV for aging parents,

Sharing Arrr Views On The Buccaneers

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 27m

AppleTV+'s new dramedy is a series adaptation of the famously unfinished Edith Wharton novel The Buccaneers; Margaret H. Willison joins us to discuss how it compares to the many other current and recently past entires into the thriving genre of

Planning A Stay With Fellow Travelers

Nov 1st, 2023 1h 29m

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers, takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less tha