The recent episode with Pedro Pascal was fantastic. Josh Brolin's one is up there too as well as Charlize Theron's. I'd agree with their reasoning behind the steady success. They're consistent in timing and pretty consistent in quality. At the end of it, I like seeing these big names appear decidedly human, in a good way. They swear, they sweat, they get runny noses and cry. They laugh with a full mouth of food and at the end of the line-up, they'll answer pretty much any fuckin' question thrown at them.
And the questions are well researched and well thought out. So many of life’s great moments and conversations occur informally over food and drinks. I think that Hot Ones captures that in a slightly silly way, and capitalizes on it to create a much better interview format than most of what’s out there.