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Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 4 a.m.

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Forty-two years after Paul Schrader\'s American Gigolo pioneered the sex-worker neo-noir micro-genre, Showtime\'s limited series of the same name is trying it again -- and returning guest Sarah Baker joins us to talk about tone problems; weird directing choices; pervasive misogyny that\'s even more tiresome than usual; MVP Rosie O\'Donnell; and whether Jon Bernthal should have gotten better writing to work with. We went Around The Dial with Monarch, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Animal Kingdom, Cobra Kai, Severance, Big Brother, and Rings Of Power before Baker screwed up her courage and asked the Canon to PEN15\'s first-season episode, "Dance." Lee Jung-jae won, Dick Wolf lost (while John Oliver won), and a non-regulation Game Time about TV sex work was NOT considered especially heinous. Slow that disco standard way down for extra poignancy; it\'s an all-new Extra Hot Great.

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GUESTS

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\\U0001f464 Sarah Baker

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TOPICS

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Lead Topic: \\U0001f57a American Gigolo

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f451 Monarch

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f4bc The Dick Van Dyke Show

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f452 The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f437 Animal Kingdom

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f40d Cobra Kai

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I Am Not A Crackpot: \\U0001f355 Cobra Kai Locations

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Around The Dial: \\U0001f48d The Rings Of Power

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The Canon: \\U0001f346 PEN15 S01.E10: Dance

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Winner & Loser: \\U0001f44d Lee Jung-jae

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Winner & Loser: \\U0001f44e Dick Wolf

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Game Time: \\u260e\\ufe0f Call Them

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NOTES

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\\U0001f5d2 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 424 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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\\U0001f399 Tara\'s Rosie O\'Donnell interview at Vanity Fair

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\\U0001f440 Watch Sarah Baker in The Kominsky Method on Netflix

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\\U0001f39e Kominsky\'s third-season trailer

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\\U0001f9ed The Great North on Hulu

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\\U0001f333 Central Park on AppleTV+

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\\U0001faab Tara\'s Mark Proksch interview at VF

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\\u274c Tara\'s Decider piece about current primetime soaps, ALL of which ended up getting cancelled

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\\U0001f930 Tara\'s The Handmaid\'s Tale S05 review at VF

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\\U0001f3b6 The #LilithFair40 season finale on MASTAS

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\\U0001f484 Listen To Sassy

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\\U0001f4f7 Photo: Warrick Page / Showtime

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