575: Should You Plot A Course For Alien: Earth?

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Alien-verse has landed on TV with Noah Hawley's re-imagining (or pre-imagining) of the xenomorphic worlds of the film series -- and Andrew Cunningham has landed back in the guest chair to talk about telepathic blackmail, when hearing is scarier than seeing, and acting choices that don't make sense. Is this essential viewing, or should you jump in a shuttle and bail? Later, we went Around The Dial with War Of The Worlds 2025, The Gilded Age, It's Always Sunny, and American Prince: JFK Jr. before the panel stared into the abyss of Sarah's Sopranos Canon pitch. The Yellowstone-verse won, the Sussexes lost, and we kicked off a new Game Time season with a real facehugger. Skip that cryo-nap and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great instead!

GUESTS
👤 Andrew Cunningham

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 👽 Alien: Earth
Around The Dial: 🌎 War Of The Worlds
Around The Dial: 🚂 The Gilded Age
Around The Dial: 😎 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Around The Dial: 🤴 American Prince: JFK Jr.
The Canon: 👠 The Sopranos S02.E07: D-Girl
Winner & Loser: 🐮 Y: Marshals
Winner & Loser: 👑 Harry and Meghan
Game Time: 🫦 They Mostly Come At Night

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky
📚 Andrew's book pod with Craig Getting, Overdue
👨🏻‍💻 Andrew at Ars Technica
🌍 Tara's War Of The Worlds review at Cracked
👵🏻 "Oldies but goodies" on sale at Exhibit B. Books
📷 Photo: Patrick Brown / FX

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0:00.0	I said we can do it.
0:05.1	Sir, we're fast, we're strong.
0:07.2	We don't break.
0:08.8	We can do it.
0:15.9	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 575 for the week of August 11th, 2025.
0:27.7	I am half a dandy, David T. Cole, and I'm here with feline redshirt, Severity Bunting.
0:34.2	Wow!
0:35.5	The girl genius, Tara Ariano.
0:37.7	Mushy-mooshy.
0:38.6	And eyeball squid, Andrew Cunningham.
0:41.2	Hold on.
0:41.8	I'm just going to stick my face next to this giant egg.
0:47.8	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
0:53.0	Joining us, he is an editor at Ars Technica and the co-host of the podcast's overdue and appointment television.
0:59.4	You have heard him with us many times before.
1:01.7	It's Andrew Cunningham.
1:02.9	Welcome back, Andrew.
1:03.6	Thank you.
1:05.4	So glad to be here to talk about something that's not Frazier or Star Trek.
1:09.7	But it combines the best of those into one.
1:12.3	I was just going to say it's somehow right in between.
1:15.6	Yes, we are here to talk about alien colon Earth in the year 2120, two years before the events of the
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