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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

410: Playing With The Boys

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.7 โ€ข 624 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 8 June 2022

โฑ๏ธ 87 minutes

๐Ÿงพ๏ธ Download transcript

Summary

The Boys are back in town for a third season of extremely bloody mayhem, and Will Hines has returned to talk to us about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Real World (NOT Homecoming) New Orleans; The Expanse; and the Houston season of Top Chef. Skylar pitches "Part 8" of Twin Peaks's Showtime season for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time full of finales. Grab yourself a Lean Lady Frozen Dinner by Vought and join us!

GUESTS

๐Ÿ‘ค Will Hines

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿป The Boys

Around The Dial: ๐Ÿคฎ The Real World: New Orleans

Around The Dial: ๐Ÿช The Expanse

Around The Dial: ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿณ Top Chef

The Canon: ๐Ÿฅง Twin Peaks S03.E08: Part 8

Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘ Fargo

Winner & Loser: ๐Ÿ‘Ž American Gigolo

Game Time: ๐Ÿง  All Good Things

NOTES

๐Ÿ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 410 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

๐Ÿ“ธ Will Hines on Instagram

๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿป Tara's review of The Boys Season 3 at VanityFair.com

๐Ÿ’„ The Listen To Sassy Club at Patreon

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Will's podcast You Can't Handle The Sleuths at CBB World

๐Ÿ“š Sarah's interview with Sarah Weinman at the Exhibit B. Books blog

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have concerns.

0:05.0

You do?

0:05.8

Oh, okay.

0:06.8

Well, what are they?

0:12.8

This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 410 for the week of June 6, 2020.

0:25.5

I am exploding heads of plenty, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Second Ashley, Sarah

0:31.3

D. Bunting. Sorry, Ashley. Chimp champion Tar Ariana. They don't cry. And this episode's L.A. train Will Hines.

0:40.3

Uh, curating, two.

0:45.3

Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us.

0:52.6

He is an actor, comic, improviser, podcast host. You've heard him on this show before. It's Will Hines. Hello, Will.

0:58.7

Will. Welcome. Greetings. Hello, everybody. So that's my pleasure to be here. Will is here to talk with us about the boys. And this Amazon Prime video show has been our lead topic for both of its first two seasons.

1:11.6

So you probably remember what it's about from when we talked about it those times.

1:15.9

In a world where superheroes are real and work for a giant consumer goods, energy, and media

1:21.0

company called Vought, which, as we learned last season, was founded during World War II by Hitler's

1:26.5

favorite Nazi doctor.

1:28.2

Some of those marquee superheroes in what they call the seven are fine too enthusiastic about VOT's not-so-secret fascist agenda.

1:37.3

Others are double agents working to destroy the company from within in concert with the titular boys who are CIA-affiliated agents of chaos. And here's a useful new

1:46.3

weapon in the boys arsenal for season three, V-24, an injectable drug that gives the user

1:51.5

temporary superpowers. The first three episodes dropped on Friday. I have watched the whole season

1:57.6

Breg because I reviewed it for Vanity Fair, which we will link in the show notes, but I'm going to do my best not to talk about events from later in the season, because

2:04.4

Amazon's do not reveal lists for each episode are intense. Yeah, we have to give away,

2:10.1

we have to give back all our stuff if we talk about season. Including the dogs. Yeah. Everything. They're like everything on your wish list. Got to come back.

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