341: The Equalizer Racks Up The "Fine"s

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Fametracker's own Adam Sternbergh (oh, also the New York Times's but whatever)(hee) is back to discuss The Equalizer, the perfectly acceptable re-imagining of the '80s classic. Whom on the panel did the new verzh win over with casting coups, origami tradecraft, and similarities to Leverage and Blindspot? Who called it the three-camera sitcom of cop shows? And is anyone setting their DVR to watch more of it? We went Around The Dial with Framing Britney Spears, Married At First Sight, GBBO, Big Family Cooking Showdown, and Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel before finding ways to Defund The Police Shows in an Extra Credit from Francoise. Succession tried to ascend to the Canon throne; comedy both won AND lost; and we may have flunked out of electoral college during Game Time. Settle down in front of your only-on-TV massive monitor bank for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚖️ The Equalizer

Around The Dial: 🖼 The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off

Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown

Around The Dial: 🫥 Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel

Extra Credit: 🚔 Defund The Police Shows

The Canon: 🦺 Succession S02.E04: Safe Room

Winner & Loser: 🤣 Impractical Jokers

Winner & Loser: 🦚 NBC

Game Time: 🧠 Hail To The Chiefs

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 341 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

⚖️ Tara's review of The Equalizer for Primetimer

🔮 "The Oracle of Britney Spears" in Vanity Fair

👴🏼 "How The Elderly Lose Their Rights" in the New Yorker

🌅 Tara (and John Ramos!) on the Postcards From The Edge ep of Quaid In Full

💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

📷 Photo: CBS / Barbara Nitke

Transcript

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0:00.0	Maybe you should mind your own business.
0:07.5	You know, I'll tell you, I've tried.
0:11.6	But it turns out I'm really bad at it.
0:18.9	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 341 for the week of February 8th, 2021.
0:31.1	I am Magic Steakout Camera, David T. Cole, and I'm here with convenient crazy wall Sarah
0:37.2	debunting. Even the string is evil.
0:39.7	Dead hacker Tara Arellano. As far as the government knows. And evil tech Titan, Adam Sternberg.
0:46.3	I wear blazers with sneakers.
1:00.2	Welcome to Extra Hot Great, joining us once again, our old friend, Adam Sternberg.
1:01.0	Hello, Adam.
1:02.1	Hello.
1:04.7	Thank you for having me.
1:13.0	We're so happy to have you for this very important conversation about CBS's remake of the Equalizer, distinct from the film franchise of The Equalizer that stars Denzel Washington, which Dave and I have seen both of them,
1:18.1	because we like trash.
1:20.4	So of I.
1:21.5	So of I.
1:22.9	The new show premiered Sunday after The Big Game, as I think legally we are required to call it.
1:28.8	As in the original, the titular character is a retired intelligence agent who's now a righteous vigilante on behalf of the downtrodden and hopeless of New York City with the assistance of her old contacts and their various useful skills and laissez-faire attitude toward the law.
1:44.1	But whereas the original series in the 80s starred Edward Woodward, a white-haired British guy,
1:48.8	as Robert McCall, this time our protagonist is played by the comparatively youthful and vivacious
1:53.9	Queen Latifah, and she is Robin McCall, a lady.
1:58.8	That's right.
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