563: Checking The Perimeter With Murderbot

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk is back to talk about Apple TV+'s Murderbot, and whether the books do a better job of exploring questions of gender and essential humanity without Alexander Skarsgard's Ken-doll crotch confusing matters. Should YOU give it a watch? We went Around The Dial with Overcompensating, Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, and Leverage: Redemption's third season before Anne offered another variation on the Utahn theme with a Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City Canon Presentation. Kelli Giddish won, Tom Hardy lost, and we all tried to survive the process of Venn-diagramming premiere and finale casting in Game Time. Hack into your governor modules and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Kathryn VanArendonk

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🤖 Murderbot
Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Overcompensating
Around The Dial: ⏳ Kids Right Now Shows
Around The Dial: 🎭 The Rehearsal
Around The Dial: 🤫 The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives
Around The Dial: 🥷 Leverage: Redemption
The Canon: 🧂 The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City S04.E16: Mysteries, Revealed?
Winner & Loser: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Winner & Loser: 🦴 Tom Hardy
Game Time: 🛟 Survivor Round II

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NOTES
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🦤 Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture
🦋 Kathryn on Bluesky
🌮 The ATX Festival
🤖 Kathryn's Murderbot review at Vulture
🏋️‍♀️ Tara's Overcompensating review at Cracked
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0:00.0	This is murder, but?
0:07.0	Mother bot.
0:10.0	All right.
0:12.0	Let the adventure begin.
0:16.0	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 563 for the week of May 19, 2025.
0:34.9	I am Cold Comfort bot David T. Cole, and I'm here with corporate garbage, Serity Bunting.
0:41.0	I'm a feature, not a bug.
0:42.5	Filthy human body, Tarayriano.
0:44.8	I'm supposed to brush my teeth every day.
0:46.8	And Sanctuary Moon Superfan, Catherine Van Aerondark.
0:50.7	Did the comfort bot sabotage the ship?
0:56.2	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
0:59.9	Joining us, she is a writer and critic at Vulture and a co-host of the podcast appointment
1:04.5	television.
1:05.2	You've heard her with us many times before.
1:07.4	It's Catherine Van Aeron, Dawn.
1:09.1	Yeah.
1:10.1	Welcome.
1:11.4	Oh, hello. Hello. Welcome. Oh, hello.
1:12.7	Hello. We are here to talk about murder bot, in which in the future, the corporation
1:19.1	mandates the use of security units, partly organic engineered cyborgs, on operations
1:25.0	undertaken throughout the parts of the galaxy said corporation controls,
	...

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