250: Melting Down Over Chernobyl

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

HBO has gone back to the 1980s for a miniseries take on the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; to discuss whether the show is as big a catastrophe as the event, we've invited Adam Sternbergh to join us! Around The Dial clicks through Tuca & Bertie, Dead To Me, Money Heist, Atlanta, and Hulu's upcoming Catch-22. Sean and Tim use their Extra Credit to challenge us to rank the caregivers of Call The Midwife before Adam presents the first Barry episode to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we each try not to be the last holding the Hot Potato during Game Time. Put on your hazmat suit and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ☢️ Chernobyl

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Tuca & Bertie

Around The Dial: 😵 Dead To Me

Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist

Around The Dial: 📼 Atlanta

Around The Dial: 🫴 Catch-22

Extra Credit: 🤑 Rank A Midwife

The Canon: 🏆 Barry S01.E07: Chapter Seven: Loud, Fast, And Keep Going

Winner & Loser: 👍 Elizabeth Banks

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Game Of Thrones set dec who left a takeout coffee cup in a shot, and the HBO PR team that tried to be cute about it

Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 250 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

🏦 Tara on Good Girls for Primetimer

😷 Sarah on The Act for Primetimer

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0:00.0	How does a nuclear reactor work?
0:03.0	What?
0:04.0	It's a simple question.
0:06.0	It's hardly a simple answer.
0:09.0	Of course.
0:10.0	You presume I'm too stupid to understand.
0:13.0	So I'll restate.
0:15.0	Tell me how a nuclear reactor works
0:17.0	so I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter.
0:20.0	... to work so I'll have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter.
0:31.9	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 250 for the week of May 6, 2019.
0:42.9	I am Graphite Palmer, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Refuse Nick, Sarah D. Bunting.
0:45.1	Your mom can check the court, comrade.
0:47.8	Iodine, pill hoarder, Tarayriano.
0:49.8	I don't have it to spare.
0:52.9	An inexpensive dosimeter, Adam Sternberg.
0:56.7	See, the thing is, I only go up to three points that's Ronken.
1:04.9	Welcome to episode 250.
1:07.4	Good Lord of Extra Hot Great.
1:11.9	Joining us is our dear friend, Adam Sternberg. Hello, Adam. Hello. Hello.
1:12.6	Yay! Adam, I saw you tweet this yesterday that this was one of the best things that you've seen on TV. Give us your high-level observations. What is it about Chernobyl that you think makes it so special?
1:25.2	Well, I really loved it, and I went into it with a sort of strange trepidation because the guy who
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