352: Zooming In On The Reality Show Exposure

Jessica Liese is here to talk about a brand-new, brand-content competition reality show from Hulu -- Exposure, in which professional photographers compete in irrelevant-to-their-strengths "influencer" challenges while rookie hosts Cole Walliser and Cat Jimenez make terrible photo puns. The problem isn't so much the Samsung-fluffing; it's that the show isn't process-y enough, isn't transparent about how the challenges work, and isn't made by the same people who make Bake Off and could figure out how to turn an hour-long commercial for phone cameras into something informative with clear stakes. We were relieved to FOCUS (...sorry) on other topics in Around The Dial, including MAFS: Unmatchables, a ranking of MAFS: Mothership couples, Offspring, Top Chef, and 9-1-1: Lone Star. Listener Michaela pitched an un-Harmon-ious episode of Community for the Nonac before boats won, SNL lost, and we got bookish for Game Time. Take a break from dyeing your brows and hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Jessica Liese

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📸 Exposure

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 👶 Offspring

Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef

Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star

The Nonac: ✳️ Community S04.E03: Conventions of Space and Time

Winner & Loser: 👍 "...Navally"

Winner & Loser: 👎 Saturday Night Live

Game Time: 🧠 Books We've Watched

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 352 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Follow Jessica Liese on Twitter

🧟 Listen to Jessica's Fear The Walking Dead podcast

💅🏽 And to her Tough As Nails pod on the Rob Has A Podcast network

🍵 Tara's Unmatchables review at Primetimer

🥋 Tara talks Mortal Kombat on the Slashfilmcast

🔎 Sarah's true-crime rec newsletter, Best Evidence

📷 Photo: Christian / Unsplash