567: Telling The Truth About We Were Liars

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

And that truth is: none of us thinks you should bother, including returning guest Will Leitch, who agrees that We Were Liars moves too slowly; shows AND tells too fart-sniffily; wastes the talents of an impressive cast, including Mamie Gummer and David Morse; and is based on a property whose author sounds fake. We went Around The Dial with the very real The Chicken Sisters, Untold, and The Mortician before Tara's Canon pitch reunited us with Party Down's third-season premiere. General Hospital won, Doctor Odyssey (maybe??) lost, and Dan Cassino got us all a volume discount on long-running shows in Game Time. Cannonball verrrrrry sloooowwwly into our all-new episode now!

GUESTS
👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🤥 We Were Liars
Around The Dial: 🐔 The Chicken Sisters
Around The Dial: 🏟️ Untold
Around The Dial: 🪦 The Mortician
Around The Dial: 👺 The Devil's Plan
The Canon: 🎉 Party Down S03.E01: Kyle Bradway Is Nitromancer
Winner & Loser: 🏥 General Hospital
Winner & Loser: 🚢 Doctor Odyssey
Game Time: 📺 Intermittent FASTing

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🎶 Will Leitch on the Rick Astley/popularity conundrum
🏙️ Will at NYMag
📰 Will at WaPo
📚 Buy Will's books
🎉 EHG 448 on the return of Party Down
😝 Tara runs down the best non-Daily Show comedic performances by TDS cast on Cracked
💀 Sarah reviews The Mortician
📖 Exhibit B.'s paperback sale
📷 Photo: Amazon Content Services LLC

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0:00.0	Oh, Kerry, that's fantastic.
0:04.0	That, right there. What is that?
0:05.5	What?
0:10.3	Party boat? Sick.
0:13.3	Substructing the view.
0:14.7	That looks awesome.
0:16.1	It's gauche.
0:30.4	This is the extra hot great podcast, episode 567 for the week of June 16th, 2025.
0:40.6	I am Cowboy of the Sea, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Meteor Shower, Serity Bunting.
0:42.8	I'm a metaphor, but also watch your head.
0:45.1	Dan D. Salter, Tarayriano.
0:46.0	Mm, briny.
0:50.0	And actual normal human speed water splasher will teach.
0:50.8	Wee.
1:00.6	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week joining us.
1:03.2	He is a journalist, podcaster, critic, and novelist.
1:05.0	You've heard him with us many times before.
1:05.7	It's Willie.
1:06.6	Welcome back, Will.
1:07.8	Welcome back, Willie.
1:13.8	Just so you know, I still fall asleep, even if I'm not listening to the show, to the theme music in my head.
1:14.9	Great.
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