Dua Lipa has had an aggressive and lengthy promotional campaign surrounding her latest album, Future Nostalgia. Lead single “Don’t Start Now” came out back in October 2019, the album was released in March, the Club Future Nostalgia remix album dropped in August, and she just released a new single, “Fever.” Between “Don’t Start Now” and today, Lipa has released singles and videos, been on TV, and otherwise made Future Nostalgia inescapable.
For fans who can’t get enough of the album, this has been great news, of which there is now even more. As Pop Crave notes, over the weekend, Lipa revealed that she plans to release a collection of Future Nostalgia B-sides at some point in 2021, as she noted in a YouTube chat, “B sideeeee next year [heart emoji].”
In an interview from earlier this year, Lipa explained how a social media break helped her make Future Nostalgia, saying, “In all honesty, I don’t think I could have done my second record if I hadn’t taken a step back from social media. When you first start, when I first started putting new music out, everything was super positive and I had lots of nice messages. I think the more stuff you do, then there is criticism and comments and it all comes in thick and fast, and for a while it was really getting to me. I just felt like people had nothing but mean things to say or I was being picked on. It did upset me, it made me feel I didn’t deserve to do certain things.”
Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
A tired nation woke up from an eventful weekend to the headline: “Pfizer’s Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective.” The pharmaceutical company has been working with German drugmaker BioNTech on a vaccine for COVID-19 that the New York Timesdescribes as “robustly effective.” If the 90 percent figure holds, that “would put it on par with highly effective childhood vaccines for diseases such as measles. No serious safety concerns have been observed.” Pfizer will ask the Food and Drug Administration for “emergency authorization” of the vaccine this month; if it’s successful, “it will have manufactured enough doses to immunize 15 to 20 million people.”
Now there’s still a long way to go before concert venues are at capacity again (as the Timesnotes, “It is not conclusive evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, and the initial finding of more than 90 percent efficacy could change as the trial goes on”), and god only knows how much the vaccine is going to cost. But it’s still a promising update on a potential return to normalcy. When alerted about the news, Joe Biden, who officially won the U.S. presidential election over the weekend, said, “Last night, my public health advisors were informed of this excellent news. I congratulate the brilliant women and men who helped produce this breakthrough and to give us such cause for hope.”
NEW: @JoeBiden says he was informed of Pfizer vaccine development last night. “I congratulate the brilliant women and men who helped produce this breakthrough and to give us such cause for hope.”
At the same time, it is also important to understand that the end of the battle against COVID-19 is still months away. This news follows a previously announced timeline by industry officials that forecast vaccine approval by late November. Even if that is achieved, and some Americans are vaccinated later this year, it will be many more months before there is widespread vaccination in this country.
This is why the head of the CDC warned this fall that for the foreseeable future, a mask remains a more potent weapon against the virus than the vaccine. Today’s news does not change this urgent reality. Americans will have to rely on masking, distancing, contact tracing, hand washing, and other measures to keep themselves safe well into next year. Today’s news is great news, but it doesn’t change that fact.
America is still losing over 1,000 people a day from COVID-19, and that number is rising — and will continue to get worse unless we make progress on masking and other immediate actions. That is the reality for now, and for the next few months. Today’s announcement promises the chance to change that next year, but the tasks before us now remain the same.
Here’s how Donald Trump responded, not with concern but about the stock market:
STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!
If Biden’s statement makes him “sleepy,” well, sign us up for a four-year nap.
VP Pence credits President Trump’s efforts but Pfizer was not a part of Operation Warp Speed.
Pfizer senior VP & head of vaccine development Dr. Kathrin Jansen told NYT: “We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the US government, or from anyone” https://t.co/9i5w261irH
Everyone knew that John Oliver, who grew misty-eyed while voting for the first time as a U.S. citizen, would be thrilled over President Trump’s election loss. And yes, he was happy to put an “absolute year of a week” into the past. “He lost,” the host elaborated. “All that bullsh*t, which we’ve grown accustomed to seeing work, did not work this time.”
Oh, partying definitely happened. Oliver, who realizes that there’s much work and worrying still to be done to heal the U.S. (most acutely regarding the pandemic), granted himself 30 seconds to party hard in a socially distanced way. Granted, everyone’s got a different definition of partying, and Oliver’s favorite way to get down is to run footage of people dancing in the streets while he shouted octopus trivia, including “if octopuses take ecstasy, they’ll hang out and party with other octopuses.” (It’s true and surreal.)
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Oliver did not shy away from metaphors while describing Saturday in New York City, which he said felt like a “reverse 9/11” for a few reasons, including the presence of “complete euphoria, an abiding disgust for Rudy Giuliani, and this time, people were actually dancing on the rooftops in New Jersey.” He also turned to Trump’s recent “nightmarish” and lie-filled attack on voting, and in doing so, Oliver shouted out one of the week’s leading voices of sanity, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, for having the “best response” to Trump’s election lies.
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While dubbing Fetterman as “Lt. Gov. Stone Cold,” Oliver dug his comparison of the Trump campaign standing on a street corner and claiming to have won the state as being “like a bad House of Cards episode.” To that, Oliver remarked, “This is like House of Cards in that it’s full of political intrigue, there’s a sexual predator pretending to be president at the very heart of it, and it’s gone at least four seasons too long.”
The episode ended as it should: with a montage of news personalities talking about “dumps” of votes. Never change, John Oliver. Granted, we didn’t get to see this next visual happen again, but the sentiment still stands.
Lil Nas X fans have spent the past few months watching the rapper teasing new music and charting the progress of a new album. Nas offered quantitative updates about how complete his album is with percentages, and last month, he declared that November would be “Nasvember.” Now, a few months into Nasvember, Nas is about to deliver, as he has dropped a teaser for his next single, “Holiday.”
The 48-second teaser video is a clear continuation of the “Old Town Road” cinematic universe. It begins with Nas, on horseback, entering the frame through some sort of portal. He finds himself in an Old West-style town, where a drunk Santa Claus is kicked out of a saloon. The jolly man collapses on the ground, and Lil Nas X takes his hat, which, like the movie The Santa Clause, reveals that he is the new Santa. Suddenly, his horse is transformed into a reindeer and he becomes more Santa-like himself. In another cinematic homage, he and a team of reindeer take off into another portal, at which point Back To The Future star Michael J. Fox to say, “Whatever you do, Nas, don’t go to 2020.”
The song comes out on Friday, so ahead of then, watch the “Holiday” teaser above.
On the surface, a story involving Brad Pitt, Courteney Cox, and Jon Lovitz doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense — in what world would you hear those three names together — until you remember that Jon Lovitz’s best friend growing up with Lisa Kudrow’s brother. Also, Jon Lovitz encouraged Lisa Kudrow to get into comedy, and she ended up on Friends with Courteney Cox (who shared the famous “tartlet” scene with Lovitz) and Jennifer Aniston, who was married to Brad Pitt during her Friends years.
As it turns out, Jon Lovitz also knew Brad Pitt before he was famous, because they shared a manager, whose name is Cynthia Pett-Dant. She introduced the two over the phone years ago, and they became acquainted. Their mutual manager also had a beach house next to Jon Lovitz’s beach house, and Brad Pitt would occasionally stay there.
In one such instance — as Lovitz tells it on this week’s episode of Literally! with Rob Lowe — Pitt was staying in Cynthia’s beach house, and he was walking Cynthia’s nine dogs. Unfortunately, one of the dogs got loose, ran into Jon Lovitz’s house, and killed his cat. The cat meant a lot to Lovitz because he’d gotten the cat after his Dad died to help him feel better about the loss.
Lovitz was obviously distraught over the “murder” of his cat. That night, he went to Courteney Cox’s house — they had been friends since starring the two starred together in a movie called Mr. Destiny. Lovitz has described Cox in the past as someone he basically regarded as his little sister. Anyway, when he got to Courteney Cox’s house, she was with Cynthia and several other women. They were all crying, and Jon asked, “What’s going on?” and Cox said, “We just feel so bad for Cynthia!”
“You feel bad for Cynthia?” Lovitz asked. “My cat was killed! Murdered! Most foul! In my bedroom.”
“And Courteney goes, ‘Well, food chain!’”
“And I said, ‘What? Excuse me! Food chain?’”
“Yes, well, cats kill dogs,” Cox told him.
“My cat was in my bedroom, minding its own business. And the dog came in and murdered my cat!”
Lovitz did not soon forget about the incident. “Five years later,” Lovitz told Rob Lowe, “Someone says to me, ‘Courteney Cox’s grandmother died,’ and I say, ‘Whoa! Tell her I said, ‘food chain!’”
“Three years later,” Lovitz continues, “I see her at a Dodger game, and she says, ‘You’re still mad about that?’ And I say, ‘I hear your grandmother died. FOOD CHAIN!’”
“Just say you’re sorry, Courteney!”
“And she says, ‘OK, fine, [I’m sorry].”
When someone slams me, Lovitz tells Lowe, “I hold a grudge x 10. It’s called, ‘Being Jewish.’”
It’s a surprisingly fun interview, where Lovitz also tells Rob Lowe that Jerry Bruckheimer had originally considered casting him and Dana Carvey for the lead roles in Bad Boys before hiring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, and he also tells a story about Chris Farley being in that same beach house while fires were raging all around it.
We write about bourbon so often that it’s hard to keep in mind that late fall and winter are much more “bourbon season” than spring or summer. Those sweet corn, rich vanilla, baking spice, and charred oak flavors neat, on the rocks, or mixed into cocktails make a hell of a lot of sense with the holidays coming on. It’s also getting chilly and the famed “Kentucky hug” — the warming finish so common with good bourbons — is a welcome houseguest.
We’re never shy about shouting out affordable bottles of bourbon. It’s a category where you can get a hell of a lot of quality for around $30. At $50, you get into some quality sippers. But if you’re willing, able, and interested enough to splurge, you can have a truly distinct experience.
Today, we’re looking at bourbons in the $100-300 range. Yes, we know that’s a lot. But we also know there are also far more frivolous things that people spend far more money on. Obviously, we recognize these bottles aren’t going to be an everyday purchase for most folks, but if you decide to drop the coin these picks will help amplify your next special occasion in a big way. We all deserve those sorts of treats from time to time.
Check out our picks for eight expensive bourbons that are worth the price tag, below. Note that many of them started in the $50-80 range and the prices were driven up by the aftermarket — so part of what you’re paying for is the ability to say, “I tasted that!”
Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond 9-Year
ABV: 50%
The Story:
If you’re a fan of whiskey, there’s a pretty good chance you like to make the most out of your money by drinking a high proof whiskey. Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond is 100 proof and even comes in a decanter bottle that’s inspired by the original 1950’s diamond decanter.
Tasting Notes:
The first nosing brings forth hints of charred oak, subtle cinnamon, and brown sugar. The first sip carries those notes forward along with mellow wheat and rich, sweet corn flavors. The finish is long, warming, and ends with a pleasing hint of cinnamon.
Bottom Line:
A whiskey this balanced and flavorful is most suited for slow sipping over a single ice cube.
Weller is known for its high wheat bourbons. Named after William Larue Weller, the addition of a large amount of wheat makes all of Weller’s whiskeys (including Antique 107) mellow, sweet, smooth, and… soft on the palate. That’s a recipe for easy sipping.
This offering is bottled at 107 proof, but you wouldn’t know it as it carries none of the harsh, alcohol heat you’d expect from such a high proof whiskey. Antique 107 is full of flavor, sublimely mellow, and well-balanced.
Tasting Notes:
After a nosing, you’ll be met with spicy cinnamon, toasted oak, and sweet cream. The first sip draws out hints of dried fruits, charred oak, and brown sugar. The finish is long, warming, and filled with a nice combination of cinnamon, oak, and caramel.
Bottom Line:
Weller Antique 107 works well in a cocktail due to its high alcohol content, but (for that price) deserves to be enjoyed neat or on the rocks.
Elmer T. Lee was a master distiller at Buffalo Trace. He’s most well-known for launching Blanton’s, back in the early ’80s. This bourbon was made to honor the iconic figure. It’s made from hand-selected barrels, is well-balanced, and has won some huge awards — which is what turned this bottle from $50 value pick to $300 splurge.
Tasting Notes:
Nosing brings scents of spice, clover honey, leather, and vanilla. The first delivers sweet cream, Christmas baking spices, toasted oak, bright orange, and rich caramel. That oak, orange, and leather is present on the dry finish, too.
Bottom Line:
Pay tribute to Elmer T. Lee by drinking his bourbon surrounded by friends, neat or on the rocks.
Over the past decade, Michter’s has made a name for itself in the whiskey world. This award-winning, highly lauded bourbon is aged for ten years in fire-charred American oak casks. The result is 94.4 proof bourbon that’s won countless awards for quality and continues to get rave reviews today.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of toffee, brown sugar, and cloves fill your nostrils on the nosing. The first sip delivers cinnamon-sugar, maple syrup, creamy caramel, and rich vanilla. The finish is medium in length, pleasingly warm, and ends with a nice hint of velvety, slightly smoky, caramelized sugar.
Bottom Line:
Michter’s 10 should be enjoyed on the rocks and savored slowly — to let it open up throughout the experience.
If you’ve never heard of Old Bones, you’re missing out. Distilled by the well-known MGP distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana before being bottled in Bardstown, Kentucky, this high-rye bourbon is made using a mash bill of 55% corn, 40% rye, and 5% barley before being aged for ten years in new, charred oak barrels.
Tasting Notes:
This whiskey deserves a good nosing before taking a sip. Expect to be met with hints of smoked wood, dried fruits, and winter baking spices. The first sip is filled with subtle pepper, sweet caramel, and brown sugar. The finish is long, intensely warm, and ends with a final kick of spice.
Bottom Line
A smooth sipping whiskey, Old Bones Reserve is well-suited as a chilly fall evening warmer.
If you can find a bottle of ‘The Vaults’ you’re in for a truly unique flavor experience. This is a blend of bourbons in which the youngest is 14 years. The barrels used to age this whiskey were air seasoned in the elements for 8 years before the bourbon was added to it.
Tasting Notes:
You’ll be pleased that you nosed this bourbon before drinking it. The aromas is of the barrelhouse itself. It’s sweet, dusty, and warm — with hints of vanilla, dried cherries, and cinnamon. The first sip brings strong mint, charred oak, sweet cream, dark chocolate, and sweet vanilla flavors. The finish is medium-length, warm, and ends with a final kiss of sweet toffee.
Bottom Line:
If you pay for a bottle of this truly special whiskey, you’re going to want to save it for a special occasion and sip it with friends and family.
Booker’s isn’t crazy expensive. But it’s also not cheap. This unfiltered and uncut bourbon that’s part of Jim Beam’s Small Batch Collection can easily be found in the $100 range. It’s well worth the price — with its surprisingly smooth, very warming aspects.
Tasting Notes:
You might assume that whiskey with such a high proof would be harsh, but this one isn’t. The first aromas are those of charred oak, dried fruits, and cooking spices. The first sip yields sweet vanilla, cocoa, leather, and brown sugar flavors. It’s that vanilla that powers the mellow finish, with wisps of honey, to boot.
Bottom Line:
In this list of expensive bourbons, Booker’s is a true bargain at around $100 ($70 if you’re rally lucky). Buy a bottle or two and sip it to warm up as the fall nights grow ever colder. This one might even be affordable enough to mix a strong cocktail with.
When Jefferson’s Ocean Aged Bourbon first showed up on the market, the whole “aging barrels at sea”-thing seemed like a gimmick. Well, I’m here to say, “there’s something to it.” Especially at cask strength. Even without the fact that this whiskey was fully matured and then loaded on a ship to sail around the world, crossing the equator four times, and stopping on five different continents, it’s just a well-rounded whiskey.
Tasting Notes:
The first aromas you’ll notice are those of caramelized sugar, subtle spice, and ocean brine. The first sip delivers hints of salted caramel, sweet cream, toasted wood, brown sugar, and subtle toffee. The finish is long, warming, and ends with a pleasing hit of sea brine mingling with caramel.
Bottom Line:
It’s well suited for sipping neat or on the rocks while you overlook a large body of water… or even a backyard pond.
The New Orleans Saints went to Tampa Bay on Sunday night to face off with the division rival Bucs in what most expected to be a very competitive game between two of the all-time great quarterbacks in Tom Brady and Drew Brees. Instead, we were treated to one of the most one-sided games of the season, as Brees and company dominated from the opening kick en route to a 38-3 drubbing to take the lead in the NFC South.
Brees was terrific, going 26-of-32 for 222 yards and four touchdowns, picking apart the Bucs secondary with short and intermediate throws with nearly no resistance. Brady, however, had a disastrous night as he tossed three interceptions, going 22-of-38 through the air for 209 yards and no touchdowns. Late in the game, Tampa’s former starter, Jameis Winston, entered the game for the Saints final drive as Brees’ new backup got the chance to put the game on ice with one last drive and knees.
After the game, while Brees did his postgame interview with Michele Tafoya, Winston celebrated his new team’s win over his old team by breaking out his infamous “eat a W” move that he first broke out prior to a loss in New Orleans while with the Bucs.
It’s a pretty hilarious move by Winston, who was clearly thrilled to pick up such a dominant win over his former squad, as he turned the thing he’s been mocked for for years into a trolling celebration.
The main series, however, did add two new characters this week, Percy (Ted Sutherland) and Tony, played by Scott Adsit, who should be familiar to many of you from 30 Rock. He’s a great addition; unfortunately, I suspect he will not live long. Percy and Tony, as it turns out, are post-apocalyptic grifters. Percy cons Hope and Iris’ group into believing that two men stole his truck. Working vehicles are apparently in short supply a decade into the apocalypse.
Hope and Iris rally around Percy, and they plan a heist to retrieve the truck. However, when they find it, the passenger is dead, but there are no keys to be found. Iris (stupidly) follows Percy into a building to retrieve the keys, which is where Percy hoodwinks Iris into believing that he’s been shot by the third man. In the past, when Percy played this con on others, they ran away when they heard the gunshot, and Percy and his partner, Tony, absconded with all of their stuff. Iris, however, turns back to help Percy, which is when she spots him running away with their stuff with Tony driving the truck. Tony was only pretending to be dead. He was in on the scam the whole time.
In her efforts to retrieve their stuff back from Percy, Iris falls into a dumpster filled with zombies. When the lives of herself and those of her friends are endangered, however, Percy and Tony return and help them out. Percy reasons that, because Iris is the first person they ever conned who actually came back to help him, he owes it to Iris to help them out. They all become friends and bond over a shadow puppet show together.
For purposes of the slowly moving storyline, Percy and Tony also agree to drive the sixsome to their destination, so I suspect Hope, Iris, and the gang will make it to CRM in New York by the season finale and set up a season two that will be more CRM-focused. In the more immediate future, Tony asks Felix if the CRM symbol on his jacket will get them out of a jam when they try to steal gas from CRM to operate the truck. That is what’s in store next week.
In the meantime, there was another post-credits sequence, as The World Beyond starts to fill in some gaps. Recall that, two weeks ago, we learned that CRM is experimenting on people in order to find a cure. It’s just as sociopathic as when Troy was doing it on Fear the Walking Dead, but the doctors and lab coats give it the illusion of respectability here.
As we learned two weeks ago, they’re experimenting on “A’s”, and this week, we see Dr. Lyla Bellshaw continue to work on these experiments. From a photo on her desk, it also appears that she may be dating Leopold Bennett, the father of Hope and Iris.
However, we also learn that CRM is expecting the arrival of Hope and Iris — in fact, Elizabeth appeared to orchestrate their escape from Campus Colony before CRM slaughtered everyone, so Dr. Bellshaw is anticipating Hope and Iris’s arrival. Before they arrive, however, Dr. Bellshaw has to arrange something with Dr. Bennett. She either has to kill him in advance or inform him that Hope and Iris are going to become part of their experiments.
What’s unclear is why Elizabeth wanted Hope and Iris to travel across the country instead of just bringing them to CRM, but I suspect it’s because she’s testing them. Are they A’s (and will therefore be experimented on)? Or are they Bs (like Rick Grimes) and will thus become useful to the CRM community? I suspect that Dr. Bennett doesn’t want them to have anything to do with the CRM, which is why I think Elizabeth also sent them the messages they believed were from their father in the opening episode in order to manipulate them into traveling across the country.
This storyline is developing slowly, but it’s easily the best thing going for The World Beyond right now.
Two weeks ago, Sherry and Dwight reunited on Fear the Walking Dead for the first time since season 7 of The Walking Dead, giving us a reunion years in the making. It is maybe no surprise then that, in this week’s episode, the past would catch up with them.
The last time Sherry and Dwight saw each other, recall, is when Sherry escaped Negan, who was essentially her abusive captor. Negan tortured Sherry, and would sometimes pit Sherry and Dwight against each other. Dwight transformed into a different person when he was a henchman for Negan, someone Sherry could barely recognize. Dwight, however, has spent that last several years reforming himself so that, when he finds Sherry again, he can return to her as the man with whom she fell in love.
What no one considered — and I applaud Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss for this — is that Sherry would change while she was away. Of course, she would, and she is still scarred by her own history with Negan. So while Sherry and Dwight get to enjoy a brief honeymoon, it doesn’t take long before they’re brought back down to Earth. As it turns out, Sherry belongs to a rebel group of mask-wearing people who have escaped Virginia. One of those men is Rollie, a man that kidnapped Dwight last season, but when Dwight turned the tables on Rollie and had him dead to rights, he let him go. Rollie remembers that kindness (and it may have saved Dwight’s life).
Rollie and Sherry have been working together with the rebel faction to kill Virginia because Sherry has put all of her resentment and hatred of Negan onto Virginia, and it has warped her personality, too. She and Rollie are determined to steal back Althea’s MRAP from Ginny, and with Dwight’s help, they manage to do so. At this point, Morgan also joins the group, and he insists that Sherry not kill Ginny because an attempt to do so would endanger all the people they still have under Ginny’s control, including Grace, with whom Morgan is determined to reunite.
Sherry and Rollie not only reject Morgan’s plea, but lock Althea and Morgan away so that they can’t interfere with the plan to kill Ginny. Dwight, meanwhile, attempts to lure Ginny out so that Sherry can use the MRAP to kill her, which Dwight doesn’t particularly appreciate, either. He doesn’t like who Sherry has become. Sherry senses as much, and once Dwight makes the call to have Ginny meet him, she locks her own husband up so that he can’t stop her, either.
In the end, however, Ginny doesn’t make an appearance, and Dwight escapes in time to convince Sherry not to use the MRAP to kill a boatload of rangers. She listens, begrudgingly and tearfully, but after the rangers leave, Sherry and her faction decide to split off from Dwight and Co. again, because Sherry is determined to kill Ginny. She has become what Dwight once was: Driven by her animosities.
Negan did a number on Sherry, and the way he treated her still lingers, just as it lingered for so long within Dwight. Last time, Sherry left Dwight because he’d changed. This time, Sherry leaves Dwight because she has changed. All Dwight can do is hope that she finds herself and comes back to him again.
Meanwhile, Dwight followed through on the plan to fake his and Althea’s deaths so that Ginny doesn’t continue following them. Meanwhile, they join forces with Morgan and go back, grab the folks they met in the office building with the bubonic plague, and embark on a journey to the community behind the dam that Morgan hopes to build. Dwight, however, leaves behind an infinity symbol and a marker for Sherry so that she will know where to find him when she’s ready.
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Additional Notes
— There were a few clever and very self-aware lines in the episode. Calling back to The Walking Dead, Sherry made fun of Morgan for his “every life is precious” bullsh*t. Morgan also referred to the “too-long” All-Out War on The Walking Dead, which actually only lasted a few weeks in real-time. It was “too long” because it lasted two and a half seasons on the show, which is to say: I think that was a little dig at the parent show.
— The writing on this show continues to be so much better than it has been the last couple of seasons, while a lot of the characteristics of the bad Fear writing are now showing up on The World Beyond. Scott Gimple seemed to be very focused on Fear in the fourth and fifth seasons before turning his focus over to The World Beyond. That’s all I’m saying.
— There were a couple of moments that seemed to call back to The Walking Dead. Using music to torture someone is exactly what Negan and Dwight did to Daryl on The Walking Dead. Meanwhile, Dwight’s decision to let the dog go at the end of the episode echoed Sherry’s decision to let Darryl go on The Walking Dead. Someone (specifically writer Ashley Cardiff) did their homework.
The L.A. Chargers have an incredible knack for playing in one-score games that come down to the wire, and, unfortunately for them, a propensity for losing those games in gut-wrenching fashion. Last week, it was seeing a fourth quarter lead evaporate to the Denver Broncos of all teams, as Drew Lock marched Denver to a touchdown on the final play of the game to beat L.A. by one point.
This Sunday, it was the Chargers turn to have a shot at a game-winning touchdown in the final seconds, with Justin Herbert orchestrating a drive down the field that put L.A. on the one yard line with six seconds to play and no timeouts. The first play they ran was a fade route to Mike Williams, who nearly hauled in a great pass from Herbert but had it broken up as he slammed to the ground, hitting his head and getting knocked out of the game.
The next play was another fade, this time to third-string tight end Donald Parham Jr. The play was initially called a touchdown, but review showed the ball clearly bounce off the turf as he went to the ground for an incomplete pass to give the Raiders the win and move the Chargers to 2-6 on the season.
The Chargers have now lost six games by a combined 24 points, which is rather incredible as this team just cannot find a way to get over the hump in the fourth quarter, whether on offense or on defense. They’ll be back at it again against the Dolphins next Sunday to see if they can find a new way to lose in crushing fashion, or if Justin Herbert can pick up his second win of his young career.
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