585: Did Boston Blue Knock Our Sox Off?

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Blue Bloods is dead, but its spirit lives on (along with however many actors don't have anything better to do) in Boston Blue, CBS's new Beantown-set spinoff. How authentic is it to the Boston a Bostonian would know? Boston's own Margaret H. Willison returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Downey Wrote That, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Love Is Blind, and Task. Never Not Mike pitches the Mad Men episode "The Suitcase" for induction into The Canon -- because no, it wasn't in there already, and we were surprised about that too. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that only has a little bit to say. Park yourself at the Green Monster and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Margaret H. Willison

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🦞 Boston Blue
Around The Dial: ✍🏻 Downey Wrote That
Around The Dial: 😇 The Good Wife
Around The Dial: 👨‍🦯 Love Is Blind
Around The Dial: 🛩️ Task
The Canon: 🧳 Mad Men S04.E07: The Suitcase
Winner & Loser: 🏛️ Michael Fassbender
Winner & Loser: 😷 Rockmond Dunbar
Game Time: 😶 Get Margaret There

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram
🦋 Margaret on Bluesky
🌴 Again With Again With This
✈️ EEHG 372 [in which we talked about Task]
🕵🏻‍♀️ Best Evidence
👀 Game Time answers: Streaming, Westeros, Neilsen, Pivot, Showrunner, Dharma, Crossover, Wednesday, Chyron, Maggie
📷 Photo: John Medland / CBS

Transcript

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:32.6	Oh, kid.
0:37.9	Kept going on about how great this stupid city is.
0:41.6	To tell you, I've been there a minute and I don't see it.
0:54.8	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 585 for the week of October 20th, 2025.
1:03.5	I am detective who never learns that suspects run away David T. Cole.
1:06.3	And I'm here with bean eater, Sarah D. Funding.
1:09.5	I'm of the Pianaspoat beaniness.
1:12.8	Defense attorney in a police procedural, Tara Ariana.
1:13.5	Oh, don't worry.
1:14.1	I'm just sitting here.
1:14.9	I'm not going to say anything.
1:20.4	And expository dialogue, expositing the same thing for the third time, Margaret H. Willison.
1:21.5	That's right.
1:22.4	I'm white.
1:24.1	She's black and we're sisters.
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