588: Are We Of One Mind About Pluribus?

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Vince Gilligan returns to the prestige airwaves with Pluribus, an apocalyptic Rhea Seehorn vehicle that's getting uniformly great reviews -- and Jeff Drake returns to the podcast to talk about why WE aren't all on the same page with its world-building, self-consciously beautiful shot compositions, and more (though we all DO agree that Seehorn is the President of Acting). We went Around The Dial with Stumble, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, and Who Hired The Hitman? before Jeff went nuts with a Canon pitch from The Dick Van Dyke Show. All's Fair won, Kim Kardashian's bar-exam support team lost, and we reeled in the years with a historical-TV Game Time. Polish off that rosé and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 📡 Pluribus
Around The Dial: 🩼 Stumble
Around The Dial: 📔 The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling
Around The Dial: 🔫 Who Hired The Hitman?
The Canon: 🥜 The Dick Van Dyke Show S02.E20: It May Look Like a Walnut
Winner & Loser: ⚖️ All's Fair
Winner & Loser: 😩 Kim Kardashian
Game Time: 📅 Which Came First?

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Jeff Drake on Bluesky
🚧 Jeff's podcast about "9 Chickweed Lane"
💌 Paul F. Tompkins on the Taskmaster podcast
🤔 Get those Would You Rather? prompts to Tara
💵 Sarah's Who Hired The Hitman? review
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0:00.0	Attention, lovers of speculative historical romance literature.
0:09.8	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 58 for the week of November 10, 2025.
0:22.5	I am vending machine with real products inside David T. Cole, and I'm here with
0:27.2	big fan of mindless crap, Serity Bunting.
0:29.9	Can we talk later?
0:30.9	Carol at first sight is on.
0:32.4	Undersecretary for agriculture for farm production and conservation tariana.
0:37.5	No one is in charge or everyone is in charge.
0:39.9	And mizzen mass misinsplainer Jeff Drake.
0:42.6	How long is the wait in this ER?
0:44.3	Hello?
0:47.5	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week joining us.
0:52.2	He's a writer you've heard with us many times before. It's Jeff Drake. Welcome, Jeff.
0:57.6	Yes. Hello. We are here to talk about Pluribus. Carol Sturka, Rea Seahorn, is a successful
1:05.3	Romantici novelist whose feelings of constriction in her genre have apparently led to some
1:10.0	problem drinking. But none of her old complaints in her genre have apparently led to some problem drinking.
1:16.0	But none of her old complaints in life seem that serious after her partner, Helen, Miriam Shore,
1:20.0	and every other person in her hometown of Albuquerque, and in fact,
1:26.3	every other person in the world other than Carol and 12 other individuals, undergo a radical mood shift.
1:32.0	Is the right choice for Carol to become as happy as they are or to fight like hell to remain miserable?
1:33.8	The show was created by Vince Gilligan, formerly of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
1:38.1	Only two episodes dropped so far on Apple TV last Thursday night and promptly crashed
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