We Couldn't Help But Wonder About And Just Like That
Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just Like That. And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to relate to here? Does the show, as it used to, still do a couple of things extremely well while being exhausting the rest of the time? And couldn't they just have given Samantha COVID? Later, Dan Cassino was NOT a crackpot for suggesting that many Netflix properties would benefit from a faster watch speed, and then we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience, The Big Leap, The Monkees, and Call My Agent!. Listener Laura hoped there wouldn't be "Bad Blood" between her and the panel when she submitted yet another X-Files ep for the Canon. Yellowstone won, wasting the c...
Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just Like That. And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to relate to here? Does the show, as it used to, still do a couple of things extremely well while being exhausting the rest of the time? And couldn't they just have given Samantha COVID?
Later, Dan Cassino was NOT a crackpot for suggesting that many Netflix properties would benefit from a faster watch speed, and then we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience, The Big Leap, The Monkees, and Call My Agent!.
Listener Laura hoped there wouldn't be "Bad Blood" between her and the panel when she submitted yet another X-Files ep for the Canon. Yellowstone won, wasting the court's time lost, and we contemplated the legendary hookups of the Big Apple in a non-regulation Game Time.
Grab a sad fascinator and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great!
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TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🌆 And Just Like That
Around The Dial: 💝 Love Life
Around The Dial: 😂 Live In Front Of A Studio Audience
Around The Dial: 🎭 The Big Leap
Around The Dial: 🐒 The Monkees
Around The Dial: ☎️ Call My Agent!
I Am Not A Crackpot: ⏩ Speed Watching TV
The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S05.E12: Bad Blood
Winner & Loser: 👍 1883
Winner & Loser: 👎 Jussie Smollett
Game Time: 🧠 The Sexinest City
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 385 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
📚 Heather and Jessica on Bookshop
💝 The For Colored Nerds podcast on S02 of Love Life
🐒 The Monkees S02.E22 ("the Paris episode")
👩🏽⚕️ Tara's Doogie Kamealoha, MD post at Decider
✍️ Tara's author page at Decider
🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
📷 Photo: HBO Max