286: Visiting Little America

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Apple TV+'s Little America premiered last week, and Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returned to talk about the heartwarming, but not treacly, anthology series about "the lives of immigrants in the United States." We talked about the casting, our favorite episodes, and why it reminded Sarah of High Maintenance before going Around The Dial with Avenue 5, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Sex Education, and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. Alan tried to get a second-season episode of The Americans' passport stamped at the border of the Canon; then Peacock won (CHUNG CHUNG) and a bunch of dead shows lost before we all got sick with a slash-fiction-based Game Time. Admire the sprinkler system on an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Alan Sepinwall

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 Little America

Around The Dial: 🛰 Avenue 5

Around The Dial: 🚑 9-1-1: Lone Star

Around The Dial: 🍑 Sex Education

Around The Dial: 👸 Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens

The Canon: 🏆 The Americans S02.E09: Martial Eagle

Winner & Loser: 👍 Peacock

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dead shows

Game Time: 🧠 Slash Fiction

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 286 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🪨 Alan's review of Little America for Rolling Stone

🇺🇸 The Little America creative team talks about there being no politics in Season 2

📒 The Original Little America series at Epic Magazine

🚑 Tara on 9-1-1: Lone Star and Medical Police-esque spoof shows for Primetimer

🪨 Alan's review of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens

Transcript

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0:00.0	So, are you having a good cruise or what?
0:05.0	No.
0:07.0	It's sad.
0:09.0	Everyone here is said.
0:13.0	Yeah, but that's everywhere, isn't it?
0:17.0	I mean, at least here, they can give you all you can eat shrimp.
0:20.0	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm at least here. They can give you all you can eat shrimp.
0:33.3	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 286 for the week of January 20, 2020. I am Head Cookie, David T. Cole, and I'm here with activist Speller Sarah G. Bunting.
0:44.7	H.I. Hi.
0:47.8	Squash Jaguar Tariano.
0:50.6	And Nigerian cowboy Alan Steppenwall.
0:54.2	I have a lot of thoughts about hamburgers.
1:00.8	Welcome to Extra Hot Great.
1:03.0	Returning is our friend Rolling Stones chief TV critic Alan Sepenwal.
1:08.0	Hello, Alan.
1:08.8	Hello.
1:09.6	Hey, guys.
1:14.7	Yay! Alan's back to join us in talking about Little America, which he reviewed a couple weeks ago. We'll link it in the show notes. Little America
1:19.1	is the newest show from Apple TV Plus. It comes from Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani,
1:24.9	and Alan Yang, among others. And it's an anthology show that tells
1:30.3	different stories about immigrants that are basically TV-inized from their format where they
1:37.3	originally appeared in Epic Magazine. Generally positive little half-hour stories of people that came to
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