316: Booking A Trip To Lovecraft Country
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
TV Guide senior editor Malcolm Venable is here to talk about Lovecraft Country, HBO's series imagining of Matt Ruff's novel -- and why everything from the show's look and feel to the acting to Jonathan Majors's believable charisma drew us in. Then we drove our woody wagon Around The Dial with stops at Ted Lasso, Little Voice, and The Great Heist before Rebecca's Extra Credit tasked us with casting reality-competition shows with our favorite TV characters. Sarah then filed a Canon motion on behalf of a latter-season Law & Order Mothership episode. The British Empire won, the DC Universe lost, and we mashed up actor names and fictional reboots in Game Time. Grab a wooden bat and an illustrated map: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🛣 Lovecraft Country
Around The Dial: ⚽️ Ted Lasso
Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice
Around The Dial: 💸 The Great Heist
Extra Credit: 🤑 Be Our Host
The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order S15.E13: Ain't No Love
Winner & Loser: 👍 The Crown Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth Debicki
Winner & Loser: 👎 DC Universe
Game Time: 🧠 Name Above The Title
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 316 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
👓 "How Lovecraft Country Reappropriates H.P. Lovecraft's Notoriously Racist Creations" at Slate
🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast
🏆 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
🎶 "2 Are Charged In Killing Of Jam Master Jay, Hip-Hop Pioneer" at NYTimes.com
📖 Rap On Trial at TheNewPress.com
👮♂️ "Cops Are Always the Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You all ready to go? |
| 0:04.1 | Wait, you coming with us? |
| 0:05.6 | Part way. |
| 0:10.2 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 316 for the week of August 17, 2020. |
| 0:24.0 | I am Silver Import, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Flahery Ring, Sarah D. Bunting. |
| 0:31.0 | Get him in the headlights. |
| 0:33.1 | Goth, Shagoth, Tar Ariana. |
| 0:35.5 | Wait, I'm putting on my eyeliner. |
| 0:37.5 | And Jonathan Major's boyfriend, Malcolm Venable. |
| 0:40.9 | Let's wash that blood off of you, Jonathan. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to Extra Hot Grade. |
| 0:51.0 | Joining us after a world-class intro clip is our guest, TV TVGide.com senior editor Malcolm Venable. Hello, Malcolm. |
| 1:00.4 | Hello, hello, everybody. Thanks for having me. Yay! Just a note, up top, Malcolm has a real job and therefore limited time to dick around with the rest of us. |
| 1:11.0 | Triflers. |
| 1:11.8 | So there will be a few segments where you don't hear him because he has ducked out to go |
| 1:16.1 | and do work. |
| 1:16.7 | But while we have him, we are going to be talking about Lovecraft Country, the new show |
| 1:23.0 | that just premiered on HBO. |
| 1:24.6 | So the premise, sometime in the 1950s, soldier Tick Freeman, played by Malcolm's |
| 1:30.7 | boyfriend, Jonathan Majors, has returned to Chicago from returning in Korea after receiving an |
| 1:35.8 | alarming letter from his father, Montrose. He's tracked down Tick's mother's family and wants Tick |
| 1:41.4 | to travel with him to find them. They seem to be from |
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