561: Should You Try To Weather The Four Seasons?

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Did Alan Alda vehicle The Four Seasons need an eight-part dramedy reboot? The panel -- joined by Alyson Lewis of Cracked -- doesn't think so, although one of us enjoyed returning to a version of a property that aired constantly on HBO in the mid-eighties. But did the story need this many episodes, or this downbeat a tone? Do we enjoy this iteration of a Tina Fey character? And why is a certain actor almost certain to get killed in prestige programs like this? Later, we went Around The Dial with Taskmaster's 19th season, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Clubhouse, and Tara hoped Mary (and "That Woman") would make it into the Canon. Kali Reis won, Disney lost, and we synchronized our schedules for a timely Non-Regulation Game Time. Boot up your favorite second-screen farm game and have a listen!

GUESTS
👤 Alyson Lewis

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🍂 The Four Seasons
Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster
Around The Dial: 😺 The Mary Tyler Moore Show S05.E04: Lou And That Woman
Around The Dial: 🧦 The Clubhouse: A Year With The Boston Red Sox
Around The Dial: 🚀 Andor
Winner & Loser: 🏦 12 12 12
Winner & Loser: 🏹 Disney
Game Time: 📆 Let Me Check My Calendar

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
😵‍💫 More from Alyson Lewis at Yes I Was High When I Wrote This
🌷 Tara's review of The Four Seasons at Cracked
🔪 Tara's Jason Mantzoukas interview at Cracked
🐈 Cookie the foster cat needs a forever home
📷 Photo: Jon Pack / Netflix

Transcript

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0:00.0	Let's do it.
0:00.9	Yes, yes, yes.
0:01.3	Come on.
0:01.7	You guys, go ahead.
0:02.4	I'm going to grab my blanket and I'll watch you from here.
0:07.8	You're going, honey.
0:10.7	Oh.
0:15.0	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 561 for the week of May 5th, 2025.
0:28.7	I am symbolic kiln, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Deluxe Arch, Sarah Debunting.
0:35.0	This is going to be so special.
0:36.8	No spring chicken, Tar Ariana.
0:39.0	And my feathers are ruffled.
0:40.5	And Chica Phresa, Alison Lewis.
0:43.1	Is it ethical to sleep with your surf instructor?
0:51.5	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week. Joining us for the first time. She is my colleague, get cracked. She is my one-time hotel roommate. It's Allison Lewis.
1:03.0	Hi. Thank you. Thank you for having me. We're thrilled to have you here to talk about the four seasons, the TV edition, in which three middle-aged couple friends and the vice of viewer along on vacations that are, guess what, seasonal.
1:17.7	We first meet them in the spring when they all gather at a country house owned by Nick, played by Steve Carell, and Anne, Carrie Kenny.
1:24.9	Kate, Tina Faye, is concerned that her college friend Danny,
1:28.1	Coleman Domingo, is being cavalier about a planned cardiac procedure.
1:32.4	Kate's husband Jack, Will Forte, runs interference for her with Danny's exuberant husband,
1:37.6	Claude, Marco Calvani.
1:39.3	But whatever else, everyone thought was going to happen that weekend gets derailed when Nick
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