609: Studying The Testaments
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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
With its series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale a major awards success for Hulu, the logical next step is an adaptation of its sequel novel, The Testaments, revolving around the privileged young women of Gilead being prepared for their lives as Commanders' Wives; Alison Herman returns to discuss the latest project on Chase Infiniti's extremely prestigious CV. Around The Dial takes us through Hacks S05, DTF St. Louis, and The Truth And Tragedy Of Moriah Wilson. Mary pitches the Heated Rivalry episode "I'll Believe In Anything" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that has a lot of love to give. Make yourself some cinnamon toast and listen!
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👤 Alison Herman
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ✝️ The Testaments
Around The Dial: 🤣 Hacks
Around The Dial: 📱 DTF St. Louis
Around The Dial: 📹 The Truth And Tragedy Of Moriah Wilson
The Canon: 🏒 Heated Rivalry S01.E05: I'll Believe In Anything
Winner & Loser: ❤️🔥 David E. Kelley
Winner & Loser: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race
Game Time: 💋 Lip Mashers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Daisy, Crayed. Where do you hail from? |
| 0:05.0 | Toronto. Canada. |
| 0:08.0 | I imagine Canada is very different from Gilead. |
| 0:12.0 | Toronto has been forsaken by God and defiled by Satan. |
| 0:17.0 | It is suffocating in sin. |
| 0:20.0 | So do you miss it? |
| 0:26.5 | I pray it will be swallowed whole by the earth |
| 0:33.1 | May he hear your prayer |
| 0:40.3 | Go Jace. |
| 0:43.1 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 609 for the week of April 6, 2026. |
| 1:01.8 | I am one-armed masturbator David T. Cole, and I'm here with Unsubled Dollhouse metaphor, Sarah DeBunting. |
| 1:03.9 | Raise the roof. Raise it. |
| 1:06.0 | Fiber arts dropout Tara Arellano. |
| 1:07.3 | More like Nodal Point. |
| 1:09.3 | And Pearl Girl Allison Herman. |
| 1:11.8 | Foraken by God. |
| 1:22.5 | Welcome Heathens to another extra hot great joining us. |
| 1:26.6 | She is a TV critic, a variety you have heard with us many times before. |
| 1:28.1 | It's Alison Herman. Welcome back, Allison. We're delighted to have you back for The Testaments, the spinoff of the Handmaid's Tale. |
| 1:36.5 | And in that show, we got to know and hate the oppressive Gilead regime through the perspective |
| 1:41.1 | of June Osborne, a woman conscripted to bear children for a commander |
| 1:45.4 | in the government and his wife. But what is life in Gilead like for commander's daughters who are |
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