386: Coming Home To Being The Ricardos

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Being The Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation MacGruber; Insecure; How To With John Wilson; Dead Asleep; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. John Potts asks us to choose a TV getaway for our next imaginary holiday. Ilan brings us back to the TV-to-movie pipeline with a Canon presentation on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie." Then we name the week's Winner and Loser before closing out with a Game Time that really decks the halls. No need to arrange a multi-cam setup: this podcast is for your ears only!

GUESTS

👤 Tim Grierson

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos

Around The Dial: 🕺 Finding Magic Mike

Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber

Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure

Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson

Around The Dial: 🛌 Dead Asleep

Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways

The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie

Winner & Loser: 👍 Texas Monthly

Winner & Loser: 👎 Peloton

Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter

🙃 "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter

🤥 "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos"

🗣 Tara's interview with Gloria Calderón Kellett at Decider

🎞 Tim at Screen International

🍈 Tim at Mel

📚 Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie, at The Last Bookshop

🛌 Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence

Transcript

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0:00.0	Can I make a suggestion?
0:03.9	Radio.
0:06.1	The hell did you just say to me?
0:12.7	This is the Extra Hot Right podcast, episode 386 for the week of December 20th, 2021.
0:25.0	I am Rapid Chocolate Eater, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Taylor Reed Boozer.
0:30.1	Serity Bunting.
0:31.3	It's 10.15 somewhere.
0:33.0	Giver of a female perspective from another generation, Tarayriano.
0:36.5	Actually.
0:37.7	And Walker and talker, Tim Gerson.
0:40.8	I just hope this hallway is long enough for all the quips I have to deliver.
0:47.7	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, our last regular episode of 2021. And joining us for this very special episode,
0:57.5	he's a film critic you've read at Mel Magazine and Screen Daily. You've heard him on the
1:02.3	Grierson and Leach podcast. It's Tim Gruisen.
1:05.0	Tim! Welcome to Tim. I'm the, I'm the Christmas treat. This is very nice. Thank you for having me.
1:13.0	We are here to talk about being the Ricardo's. It's 1952 and married stars slash producers
1:21.8	Lucille Ball, Nicole Kidman, and Desi Arnaz, Javier Bardam, are in the second season of their
1:27.1	sitcom, I Love Lucy, going into production on an episode in whichz, Javier Bardam, are in the second season of their sitcom I Love Lucy,
1:28.3	going into production on an episode in which Fred, William Frawley, played by J.K. Simmons, and
1:33.0	Ethel, Vivian Vance, played by Nina Arianda, have a big fight. But three events are converging
1:38.5	to make this workweek exceptionally difficult. Walter Winchell has reported that Lucy is a registered
1:43.3	communist, a tabloid has just run a story about Desi cheatingell has reported that Lucy is a registered communist. A tabloid has just
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