326: Unpacking The Undoing or Too Many Butterflies
What if Big Little Lies, but in New York City and with no point? That's kind of how Emily and the regulars all felt about The Undoing, the latest Nicole Kidman-David E. Kelley collaboration for HBO; we admired the workmanship, while not really understanding what sets it apart from BLL (besides the quality of the wigs), or buying Kidman and Hugh Grant's chemistry. Will any of us be successfully cliff-hung into watching all six episodes? Later, we investigated Around The Dial with stops at Archer, the new Supermarket Sweep, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Morning Show, City So Real, and The Queen's Gambit, before location-scouting "Domestic Survivor" for Don's Extra Credit. Emily hoped the signal-to-noise ratio of a fourth-season Halt And Catch Fire episode would be good enough to connect it to the Canon. Stath Lets Flats won, Quibi lost, and Game Time proved a severe insult to the brain (and other things). Quick, look hunted! It's an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🔪 The Undoing
Around The Dial: 🏹 Archer
Around The Dial: 🛒 Supermarket Sweep
Around The Dial: 👧 Revolutionary Girl Utena
Around The Dial: 🌞 The Morning Show
Around The Dial: 🏙 City So Real
Extra Credit: 🤑 Domestic Survivor
The Canon: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire
Winner & Loser: 👍 Stath Lets Flats
Winner & Loser: 👎 Quibi
Game Time: 🧠 A Game For Hoopleheads
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 326 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
👓 Emily's Hugh Grant profile from when he was shooting The Undoing
🧺 Tara on the premiere of The Conners vs. other quarantine-era shows, at Primetimer
