532: Should You Give Disclaimer* A Close Read?

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Apple TV's latest prestige limited series -- starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, directed and written by Alfonso Cuarón, and maaaaybe a little too fond of its own shot compositions. Is the hinted-at conclusion worth sticking around for -- or are we mostly seeing it through for Kline's cardigan acting? Next, we went Around The Dial with Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Happy's Place, Shrinking, and the Platonic (not) ideal of "this should have been a feature" docuserieses, before Tara nominated a third-season Harley Quinn episode for the Canon. An Office reboot won, Succession lost, and a new scoring wrinkle scared the hell out of us in Game Time. Throw your drawers out the train window and have a listen!

GUESTS

👤 Alan Sepinwall

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📜 Disclaimer

Around The Dial: 💍 Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Around The Dial: 🙂 Happy's Place

Around The Dial: 🛋️ Shrinking

Around The Dial: 🦎 The Hunt For The Chameleon Killer

The Canon: 🃏 Harley Quinn S03.E03: The 83rd Annual Villy Awards

Winner & Loser: 👍 The new Office series

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Strong

Game Time: 🎃 Halloween Spooktacular

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

✍🏻 Alan Sepinwall's review of Disclaimer* for Rolling Stone

⚖️ Alan's Better Call Saul book, Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul

💊 Tara's Untitled: A Bad Teen Novel

👱🏻‍♂️ The Billy Crystal wig under scrutiny

🌃 Tara's piece on Saturday Night Not Ready For Primetime Players verisimilitude for Cracked

🦎 Sarah's The Hunt For The Chameleon Killer review at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: Apple

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0:00.0	More than anything else, I was tired of enduring devious behavior from spoiled and titled brats.
0:12.7	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 532 for the week of October 14, 2004.
0:29.8	I am hilarious Leaning Tower of Pisa Photo Off, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Knickers of Farewell, Sarah D. Bunting.
0:32.5	Wanker.
0:33.3	Cat that has the fucking run of the place, apparently, Tara Ariano.
0:36.7	Yeah.
0:37.6	And ratty pink cardigan, Alan Sepenwald.
0:40.8	I think it looks good on me.
0:47.6	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us.
0:51.6	He is the chief TV critic at Rolling Stone and most recently the author
0:55.3	of Welcome to the O.C. It's Alan seven-one. Welcome back, Alan. Hey, guys. I'm so glad to be back.
1:02.7	We're thrilled to have you to talk about disclaimer in which Catherine Ravenscroft,
1:08.1	it's a bookass name. Kate Blanchett is a documentary and successful enough to be
1:12.2	fated at an award banquet with an introduction by Christian Amunpur. Stephen Briggsstock, Kevin
1:18.3	Klein, is a dissatisfied teacher and widower. Jonathan, Louis Partridge, is Stephen's son, or rather
1:24.4	he was because he's dead now, as is Stephen's wife, Nancy, Leslie
1:28.1	Manville. But as Stephen discovers when he finally clears out Nancy's things, there is a way in
1:33.1	which both she and Jonathan live on. How do all these lives intersect and what does a self-published
1:39.2	novel called The Perfect Stranger have to do with them? Hmm. Alfonso Quaron adapted Renee Knight's novel of the same name, writing all the scripts and
1:49.3	directing all seven episodes.
1:50.8	Only two have dropped so far on Apple TV Plus.
1:53.2	We did get access to the whole season.
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