We Couldn't Help But Wonder About And Just Like That

Episode 385,   Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 AM

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!

GUESTS

👤 Heather Cocks

👤 Jessica Morgan

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

💃 Go Fug Yourself

🐦 GFY on Twitter

📸 GFY on Instagram

📚 Heather and Jessica on Bookshop

💝 The For Colored Nerds podcast on S02 of Love Life

🎭 Vulture on The Big Leap

🐒 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