Month: March 2021

When PGA Tour 2K21 came out a year ago, there was a lot of excitement about the return of a major golf video game franchise, the first since EA Sports pulled the plug on Rory McIlroy PGA Tour back in 2015. That McIlroy game was the pivot from the long-standing and wildly successful Tiger Woods PGA Tour game and only got one year before EA gave up on the franchise.

2K’s version of a PGA Tour video game tabbed HB Studios, the creators of The Golf Club, to effectively expand their golf gaming universe into a PGA franchise, and the first edition was a success, even if not a game on the scale of those old Tiger Woods games. Part of that was by design, as they put things together quickly and the lengthy course scanning process limited how many real courses they could get into the game. However, one would expect a rather large expansion for their next edition, particularly following the news that the franchise has inked an exclusive partnership deal with Woods — a deal that was agreed upon prior to his scary car accident.

“I am looking forward to making my return to the video game landscape, and with 2K and HB Studios, I’ve found the right partners to make it happen,” said Tiger Woods in January. “I’m honored to take part in this opportunity and look forward to sharing my expertise and insights as we build the future of golf video games together.”

2K is also acquiring HB Studios, rather than simply partnering with them, which hopefully means more resources and the ability to really expand the game, particularly on the PGA career mode side, to bring in additional courses, golfers, and, most importantly, customization and swings. The initial game had just one swing and didn’t scan in any players beyond their faces, making for a pretty stock experience. Given the 2K games will always be compared to the old Tiger games, it was in the career mode where it fell short the most, with a very lackluster rivals mode and sponsorships.

With Woods on board, one would expect a lot more investment into that area, as well as an easier sell to get other partnerships into the game — particularly with licensing major championships, which weren’t in 2K21, and getting even more players and courses on board. We’ll see what all that means in the coming months, but for now, Tiger Woods is back in video game golf and that’s a good thing.

Following Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah where the Duchess of Sussex discussed the racism she faced from the royal family, a resurfaced clip of John Oliver on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert went viral. In it, the Last Week Tonight host expressed concern for Markle. “I don’t think you need to have just seen the pilot episode of The Crown to get a basic sense of, she might be marrying into a family that could cause her some emotional complications.” His prediction, unfortunately, came true.

On Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, Oliver was asked for his thoughts on Meghan and Harry’s interview by host Jimmy Fallon. “I didn’t find any of it surprising. That is kind of what I felt like, sadly, her experience was going to be going in,” he said. “I know the royal family from a distance and they seem like flawed people. That’s literally the kindest way I could possibly put it.” Oliver was “shocked” by one revelation, though.

“The only thing that shocked me after was that Oprah, the next day, saying, ‘Harry wants to make clear it wasn’t Prince Philip being racist.’ Which made me think, ‘Really? OK, that is actually surprising.’ I think it was assumed and I guess people just didn’t hear him,” he said. Oliver later joked that “the one person who I think has been really happy about all this has been Prince Andrew,” who had numerous links with Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m guessing that he has been nudging the royal family. ‘Can you believe what Meghan did, huh? Can you believe it? Dragging this family’s name into disrepute, shaming us… She has ruined our reputation, she has, right guys?’” You can watch the clip above.

Mike Milosh, a Canadian musician best known for his work as Rhye, has been accused of sexual assault, physical abuse, grooming, and financial manipulation by his ex-wife, actress Alexa Nikolas.

Nikolas made the allegations in a series of Instagram posts titled “Groomed By The Groom,” which began, “This is an open letter about an older male ephebophile musician that groomed a teenager for a green card, success, and sex. Before I begin, I would like to take a bow to each and every human being that stood up to tell their story, even with the fear of judgement and/or persecution. I take a bow to every human being that has had to stay silent for whatever reason they felt had outweighed speaking up. Each of us heal in our own ways. We have the right to do so. As a mother I could not let my story go unheard any longer.”

She said she initiated contact with Milos in 2008 after taking LSD in an Iowa cornfield while working on the TV movie Children Of The Corn, at which point she was 16 years old. She wrote, “After my acid trip, or actually during it, I looked Milosh up and decided to send him a message. The message read ‘Hi my name is Alexa. I like your music. If you’re ever in Los Angeles, I’d love to see you play.’ Two minutes later he responds ‘what’s your phone number’ and within a minute of responding I get a call from him.”

A relationship bloomed from there and Nikolas went on to discuss a time Milosh allegedly raped her while she visited him in Germany. She wrote, “My first sexual experience with Milosh was the first night I arrived in Berlin. I was 18 years old and he was 35 years old. I took a shower and was on my period, which I remember feeling good about because I didn’t want to sleep with him right away. I wanted to postpone sleeping together so we could get to know one another.” Milosh apparently asked her to take off her clothes. “I told him no, I’m on my period, and I don’t feel comfortable,” Nikolas wrote. “He responded saying he doesn’t care about having sex while a girl is on her period. He also said he likes the taste of blood. I remember feeling very uncomfortable but I was attracted to him and I did not want our first sexual experience to be spoiled. I did not respect my no and neither did he.”

After sharing other stories about her relationship with Milosh and its eventual end, she concluded, “To this day I think he was grooming me since I was 16 years old and I think he got everything he wanted out of that situation, he got financial support as a struggling artist, a green card to continue his career, notoriety, and sex. To this day I still suffer PTSD from that relationship, even doubting my own sanity on some days. Creating this open letter has shown me that I’m not insane. My wish to Milosh is for him to experience a profound metanoia and renounce all of his disturbing ways.”

Find Nikolas’s posts below.

Charm La’Donna is a woman of many talents and she’s ready to let them all unleash. She’s an all-in-one creative outfit who can write a good song and a choreographed routine to go with it. Looking for visual creative direction? Charm can handle that too.

In fact, some of the biggest names in the industry have put their faith in her abilities such as Selena Gomez, Rosalía, Madonna, and even once opened up for fellow Compton native Kendrick Lamar. The greatness only gets greater, though. More recently, Charm choreographed Dua Lipa’s electrifying Grammy performance with DaBaby and she also was the woman behind The Weeknd’s prodigious half-time performance at this year’s Super Bowl.

In between all of that, somehow she also has found time to create for herself in the midst of the pandemic. Her track “So & So” is one of the first songs she’s released and the video features cameos from some of her closest friends including Selena Gomez (of course), Meghan Trainor, and Fulani, among others, lip-syncing the words to the catchy number.

Following the release of her track “Queen” and its captivating video, Charm talks to Uproxx about her barrier-breaking music career and what it was like once being a dancer during a Super Bowl half-time show with Black Eyed Peas to choreographing The Weeknd’s for this year’s performance.

Tell me about the single and the creativity behind your video for “Queen.”

“Queen” stems from me wanting to have a song that felt empowering, that embodied strength and everything of where I’m from. The visuals as well. It’s literally being taken a journey through all of my endeavors, everything that I love. I threw it all in “Queen.” The culture, my culture, where I’m from, how I feel now, how I felt growing up, it’s all in there.

What are some things to you that maybe you included in the video that represents being a queen? What’s a queen to you?

A queen is someone who is powerful in their own right, who is strong, who is also vulnerable, who exudes greatness and follows whatever that is for themselves. One thing for me, I could even say in the video, I love gold. I’ve always loved gold and I love bamboo. So I decided to do something and play with that in the visual and the video. It’s how I rock my bamboos in a way. You see the gold on the dresses and the bamboo and how I rock them and just me being in a swap meet top type of situation. It shows where I’m from and how I grew up, to how I live now. Also, getting my hair braided is very important.

How would you say a queen moves in life and in this industry?

A queen… It’s about being yourself. Being yourself and not compromising your morale and who you are and going after everything you want. Going out to everything you want and people say wearing many hats, I just say wearing many crowns.

That’s kind of my next question because you do so many things. I know you did the Super Bowl choreography for The Weeknd. You’ve done choreography for so many people. You’ve opened up for Kendrick Lamar and all of that. I noticed this industry is dominated by men. It’s so much testosterone. How do you maintain your crown in a room full of men?

Myself, knowing where I come from, knowing who I am as a woman and not compromising that and believing that I can do anything that anyone else can do.

Do you ever feel intimidated or were there ever times where you did feel intimidated and had to make yourself come out of that or evolve out of that?

I don’t think I’ve ever felt intimidated. I felt more-so nervous. When you embark on something new or you try something that people are not known, they don’t know you for trying. You get a sense of maybe nervousness. There was never any form of intimidation though because I come through. I feel like I’m a strong woman and I’m raised by a bunch of women. I don’t think I’ve ever felt intimidated.

How involved are you with your visuals and the creative?

I’m heavily involved in my business. I do my creative. I do my choreography. I’m hands-on with styling. I’m hands-on.

How do you find time? How do you balance it all?

Oh, with a great team. Very great. To be honest, as I am now putting out music I’m still choreographing, I’m still creative directing for different artists as well as myself. It’s just balance; it’s just balance and structure in the best way, but my team has been amazing in helping me do that.

Now, how many more singles do you have coming before you drop a full-length project?

I think I have one more single coming and then I’m going to drop a project.

During this journey of you creating your project, creating the visuals for it, and also in between doing choreography for other people, how has that been while making it a priority because I’m pretty sure you have had to do some readjusting, right?

It organically happened for me in the past year. Due to staying at home and with COVID, I kind of took a pause with the world as well. Then when I took that fall, I had my music. It was a time for me to continue being creative and put my stuff out. To not be nervous, not be afraid, even in a time of the unsure, put my stuff out. That was the beginning of the push. As of right now, I have a great balance. I’m able to help others when I can, and there hasn’t been any controversy or any stipulations with it. It’s been cool.

What artists did you grow up listening to that inspire you?

My inspiration of course are a lot of the artists I work with and I’ve been able to collaborate with. I also find inspiration like my mom and my family, friends. I’m inspired… It sounds super cliche to say but I’m inspired by literally just… I intake a lot of energy from different places. I’m inspired by multiple things.

You said that you were raised by mostly women. Who were those women?

My mom, my god-mom my aunt, my grandma, women, all my past teachers, my mentor Fatima Robinson. All these women have played a role in my life.

What could you say is something that… In what way do they support you? Maybe when you need encouragement or if you need somebody to talk to. In what way and how do they support you?

My mom has encouraged me always to follow and follow my dreams. Hard work, push yourself and you’ll be able to conquer whatever it is that you want. Each woman, I think, played a different role. I’ve learned in the industry from Fatima Robinson. My aunt has always been there to encourage me to continue on because I’ve missed growing up, so many family things.

They never made me feel as if though one thing was more important than the other. They were always supportive of me and my dreams and what I wanted. I think that’s important because my grandma is just always been my rock, always been my rock. Even hearing stories of how she grew up and my grandmother’s 95. Those stories have also inspired me and pushed me to be the best I can be.

Is anybody in your family into music, that you looked up to as well?

My brother, he was a writer and a rapper back in the day. That’s where I kind of got my music. That’s where I got the itch to start rapping and getting in the studio with him when I was younger.

What was that like? Were you like little sister following big brother around or just watching him?

Yeah, it really was. Exactly. He would pick me up from school because my mom was working and I would go to the studio with him before dance class or after dance class until it was time for me to go home. It started off just me doing my homework in the studio and then me getting in the booth and rapping. Now here we are.

I did kind of want to talk about just Super Bowl a little bit, because that’s huge. You choreographed The Weeknd’s half-time performance.

Well, that, from that experience, if you want me to be honest, what I don’t think people know is that we did this literally in the middle of the pandemic. I don’t think people know that. So I say this to say, it’s like the journey, and what it took for us to get this was beyond. I was having Zoom rehearsals because safety is always a priority. I’m trying to keep people away for as long as possible, but the overall experience, I wouldn’t change for anything. I got to choreograph the Super Bowl with amazing people.

It’s crazy, because for me, I danced at a Super Bowl. Fatima choreographed it and I was a dancer, so then you fast forward now I’m choreographing.

Wow, that’s huge. Which Super Bowl was that?

I danced with the Black Eyed Peas at their Super Bowl. I danced at that Super Bowl and then I choreographed this one. It was just a surreal situation. Even with everything going on, all the preparation we had to do. It still is an amazing accomplishment, I think for everybody. I think we delivered a great show in the time and the space that we were allowed to.

Then also I want to talk about the “So & So” video. I thought it was so cute. I know you had some of your friends in there. Tell me how you put that video together.

I dropped something, actually on my birthday last year and at the beginning of a pandemic. They’re trying to figure out what was going on. What I did was I’m calling all my friends asking can you guys sing some of the lyrics to my song, I want to put it in a video. I thought about doing it with my friends because of the songs, a lot of them… actually everybody in the video had already heard it and they loved it anyway.

It was such a girl-empowering kind of a song. It just made sense. Everyone was still everywhere and was trying to adjust to what’s happening in the world. I was very grateful that they, still came through and did it for me because it just was such a difficult time for everyone.

What is it that you love the most about being a music artist?

I think what I love the most is the different form of expression. Me being able to tell my story with words. Me being able to create visuals to go along with my story. Me being… I basically perform this music. I think that’s what means the most to me.

In 2020, Long Beach, California native KXNG CROOKED — aka Crooked I — added to his impressive collection of collaborations with appearances on both Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By and fellow former Slaughterhouse member Royce Da 5’9′”s The Allegory, as well as appearing on New Jersey newcomer Russ’s Chomp EP and collaborating on a joint project with another erstwhile Slaughterhouse partner, Joell Ortiz. In 2021, he shows no sign of stopping, delivering a lyrical assist and his weighty cosign to up-and-coming Houston rapper RANNA ROYCE on their song “WORDPLAY.”

The IZZY-directed video, which they’re premiering exclusively on Uproxx after spending the last two months promoting it on social media, finds the two motormouthed MCs literally playing with words, opening on a shot of children’s letter blocks and flashing the lyrics across the scene as they rip through their energetic performances. RANNA kicks the track off with a cascading flow, letting Crook bring it home with a barreling barrage of boastful bars.

Crook shared high praise for his latest collaborator, saying, “I like working with RANNA because she is very passionate about her art. That’s very important to me. I believe she’s more than a star; she’s a true artist in every sense of the word. It’s rare to find a talented lyricist who is hands-on with every aspect of creating music, videos, and the message behind branding. I expect big things from her in the near future. Now go watch our video for ‘WORDPLAY’ and tell me I’m wrong!”

Watch RANNA’s “WORDPLAY” video featuring KXNG CROOKED above.

Lisa Byington is one of those talented people who throughout her career has piled up firsts. She will add another this week when she becomes the first woman to call men’s NCAA Tournament games as a play-by-play announcer, joining former NBA and Michigan State star Steve Smith in the booth, starting when Baylor takes on Hartford on Friday afternoon in Indianapolis (3:30 p.m. on TruTV).

After earning a gig as a sideline reporter for the tourney in 2017 and calling everything from Big Ten football and basketball to the Women’s World Cup in 2019 as a play-by-play announcer, Byington quietly had her eye on doing play-by-play for the men’s tournament, which she calls her “Super Bowl.” When Turner and CBS offered her the job in February, she earnestly accepted. And the timing was ultimately fortuitous, as this year’s tournament is flooded with strong Big Ten squads, including Michigan, Iowa and Byington’s pick, the Fighting Illini.

Byington spoke one-on-one with Dime this week to break down her path to the announcer’s table and what this year’s Madness might look like.

What excites you about getting to do that for the men’s tournament this year as opposed to your previous roles or even as opposed to your previous play-by-play opportunities in the past?

I call it my Super Bowl, because it was my favorite event as a kid. It was something that I always watched. When I was growing up, there weren’t a lot of women’s basketball games on TV, so I always gravitated toward watching men’s basketball and watching this tournament. Because of that, those are long roots to be planted with an event like this. That in and of itself has a little bit of sentimental value to me.

But just in terms of doing the job, it’s still a basketball game. I’m still going to be sitting there with a great analyst in Steve Smith and a wonderful crew and our producer and director … so that’s what you have to remind yourself. I had to remind myself of that when I was doing sideline reporting. When it comes down to it, you’re just talking about a basketball game, and you don’t have to make it extra fancy, you don’t have to make it anything that you’re not, you just have to be yourself and do your job.

What are your expectations of what the Bubble setup for the tournament and the unique nature of this year’s festivities will bring?

It’s hard to say. We’ve had some conversations within Turner and CBS just to prepare us for what we’ll expect. Most of us are going to be on Zoom calls with coaches and players, which is a huge change. One of my favorite days covering the tournament in the past is the practice days. We would get to meet with all eight teams for our four games, meet with the Sports Information Directors, and get a chance to talk to the players and the head coaches. Now, that’s really going to be limited.

We might have some access to watch a couple practices if the schools OK us to, but we won’t have any direct contact to the coaches or the players unless we set up Zooms and phone calls. And so it’s a little bit disconnected in that way. I will say this: 80 to 90 percent of what I’ve done this year on the basketball side of things has been off of a monitor, so it will be nice to consistently be on site. Quite frankly, a lot of the time if I was on site, there weren’t many fans at all. So just the fact that the NCAA is allowing some fans, I’m gonna tell you what, even if it’s just 2,000 fans making noise, to me it’s gonna feel like a full house because we’re so used to empty arenas right now.

Hearing you talk about how the timing of things played out and the importance of this event for you, I’m curious if doing play-by-play for the men’s tournament was a goal you had prior to this year?

Everyone has goals of doing the best of the best, right? When I was getting closer to the whole event, when I started working it, I was also doing play-by-play (for other games). So I had the opportunity, and maybe my situation is a little different, because I had the opportunity to work the tournament and get a feel for what the tournament is, but also watch some of the great (broadcasters) call it. So I could kind of make mental notes, and while I watched them, of course I’m thinking, ‘if I ever sat in that chair, it’s interesting to take note of blank, or I might do it this way.’

I felt like I got a back-door glimpse at how to do the job without really having the pressure of doing the job. So I got introduced in that way. But everyone has hopes and dreams of calling the biggest of the big events, and obviously this has always been my Super Bowl, so why not? Why not have that thought or that goal?

But honestly for the last two years, I’ve stayed present and I’ve enjoyed all of the assignments that I’ve gotten. It wasn’t a longing, it was just an appreciation when it was finally offered to me.

What does it mean to you to be the first female play-by-play announcer to do this? I wanted to ask you about everything leading to this point first, but I do want to hear what that part of this moment means for you when you think about it.

Obviously this is progress, and it’s one step closer to getting where a lot of us want to go. It’s empowering to know that I’m not the story of this, this is the story of so many women who are part of the process — and men — to help generate this opportunity now. It’s also a story and a part of the process for what’s going to happen in the future, what this can do to open up opportunities in the future. I like to say that I’m just one part of the process, and one step to this part of the story.

Who are some of the play-by-play announcers that you think are the best or who you’ve taken notes from as you’ve come up in the business?

I’ll tell you this, the people who have really helped me and the mentors that I have, they already know who they are and that they’ve helped me immensely. I tell people all the time when you get into broadcasting, it can be hard to find people who will be honest with you and give you great, sincere, sometimes critical feedback. But if you can find people like that, you need to hang onto them tightly because it’s few and far between. I’m blessed that I have a lot of great mentors, I’m blessed that I had a lot of people reach out to me (after the announcement) and give advice.

We’re now a week into the Madness and Selection Sunday is behind us. Who’s a team you like, who fans should be keeping an eye on?

I do a lot of Big Ten basketball, which I’d say measures up as the best conference this year. I’ve always been a big fan of Illinois, and I’m not just saying that because they just won the Big Ten tournament, but I just think they’re a really fun team to watch. During the game yesterday, Bill Raftery said they’re a “charming group” and I think that’s a great adjective to describe them, only because they’re talented but they’re also fun and they have unbelievable chemistry with each other, and that is electrifying to watch.

They are everything that this tournament is about. A team that is gelling together, working together, playing well together at the right time. I would love to see Illinois go up against Gonzaga. That would be my dream pick for a national championship game because I’ve also covered Mark Few in the last couple NCAA Tournaments and I love the way they go about things, love the way they play.

So I have my eye in particular on those two. I know it’s not going out on a limb because they’re seeded very high, but I don’t only just like their seeds, I like the way they play and the way they go about things.

While King Von‘s posthumous appearance on the new video for “Jump” is an obvious highlight, the clip also displays the chemistry that runs throughout Lil Durk‘s OTF crew. Fellow Only The Family members Booka600 and Memo600 set things off with a give-and-go verse showing off their complementary mindsets, then Von and Durk bat cleanup. In the video, Booka and Memo hold down a gangsta house party, while Von and Durk’s half of the song soundtracks an apparent midnight meeting between two twitchy gangs.

“Jump” is the latest posthumous appearance of the late King Von, who was killed in Atlanta after being shot in a nightclub parking lot during a fistfight. While Durk has put forth a heroic effort to keep his friend’s music at the forefront of pop culture, releasing the “Still Trappin” video as one of the singles from his album The Voice, Von verses became a hot commodity shortly after his death even without Durk. Fivio Foreign and PNB Rock both included appearances from Von on recent releases, while Von’s album Welcome To O-Block spawned the posthumous single “Armed & Dangerous.”

“Jump” also constitutes one of Von’s three appearances on the new OTF compilation, Loyal Bros, which was released earlier this month. The project also features cameos from some of rap’s biggest names, including Lil Uzi Vert, Tee Grizzley, and rising star Foogiano. You can listen to it here. ‘

Watch the “Jump” video above.

After shutting down back in February 2019 following a series of problems that ranged from a feud with AMC Theaters to abruptly suspending its app for a week after burning through too much venture capital that it could no longer afford the way too-good-to-be-true deal it was offering subscribers, MoviePass has updated its website with a countdown that ends on Monday, March 22 and a message that simply says, “The movie is about to start.”

It’s an odd development given MoviePass’ infamous crash and burn is still fresh in people’s minds, and the fact that theaters are in complete disarray after a full year of shutdowns from the pandemic. Perhaps that’s the perfect time for MoviePass to return as the entire industry reevaluates its business model, or perhaps the movie ticket app raised enough cash to attempt its wild, loss-leading operations all over again. Either way, people don’t how to react. Some are excited at the prospect of walking back into theaters with a pocket full of cheap passes while others remember how the MoviePass debacle went down the last time.

And, of course, there are concerns about the rush to reopen theaters while the pandemic is still very much not over.

For a brief while, MoviePass was a movie lover’s dream come true. For roughly $10 a month, users could plow through a list of screenings at their local theater. It was a cinematic buffet, but it was also completely untenable, which is why it wasn’t a total surprise when the app finally folded.

Via The Verge:

Customers complained about not being able to receive refunds, while others said MoviePass was opting them into new subscription plans after canceling their accounts, and even charging their credit cards without notice. The unlimited plan disappeared, then came back with severe restrictions. The stock was tanking, and the company kept hemorrhaging cash. Investors sued Helios and Matheson. Customers began congregating on Reddit to discuss suing MoviePass, too, over the company’s mercurial terms of service. Some users filed a suit, and another group filed a second one a few months later.

However, MoviePass said that it would seek new funding and eventually return. Apparently, that time is now, so it’ll be interesting to see what part MoviePass plays in the reopening of cinemas across the country.

(Via MoviePass)

This past weekend, The Strokes finally picked up the first Grammy victory of their esteemed career, as The New Abnormal took home the trophy for Best Rock Album. That got the band talking about rock music in general, with Julian Casablancas declaring that while rock isn’t dead, he wouldn’t be too bothered if blues rock died.

After getting the news about their win (and giving a slightly awkward acceptance speech marred by technical issues), the band spoke with some media and was asked if rock music is dead. Julian Casablancas replied (via Rolling Stone):

“I think people who say things are ‘dead,’ I feel like it means their imagination possibly has died. There’s room for so many genres of music; not necessarily blues rock, please no more of that. All kinds of genres of music can blend in so many ways. Keys themselves, or singing styles or different bending of notes. You can sing an Arabic song with a country twang or vice versa, there’s so much room for stuff. Anything that’s been beaten to death, obviously trend dictates those things will be extinct, and you evolve from those things. But what that means, what it’ll be called, who knows what it’ll be called. Rock and roll should definitely stop the way it was done [before], we don’t need more of that.”

Watch the band’s acceptance speech above and find the full list of this year’s Grammy winners here.

And in the end, it wasn’t Villanelle that killed the Eve.

The network announced on Tuesday that Killing Eve, the Emmy-winning dark comedy-thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, will end after next season, the show’s fourth. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the show wasn’t canceled and had nothing to do with original showrunner and executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s lucrative Amazon deal; the decision to end the series was “based on the show’s creative.”

“Killing Eve has been one of my greatest experiences and I look forward to diving back into Eve’s remarkable mind soon,” Oh said in a statement. “I’m so grateful for all cast and crew who have brought our story to life and to the fans who have joined us and will be back for our exciting and unpredictable fourth and final season.” Comer added, “Killing Eve has been the most extraordinary journey and one that I will be forever grateful for. Thank you to all the fans who’ve supported us throughout and come along for the ride. Although all good things come to an end, it’s not over yet. We aim to make this one to remember!” Season Three ended with Eve and Villanelle agreeing to go their separate ways… before turning around to look at each other.

Killing Eve might be ending, but it’s not the end of the Eve-verse:

AMC Networks is working closely with Killing Eve producers Sid Gentle Films to develop potential spinoff ideas that will explore the larger world of the show outside of Eve (Oh) and Villanelle (Comer).

One of the spinoffs should follow the trash can baby. Anyway, Killing Eve ending after four seasons is a smart creative decision, but that doesn’t I won’t miss Villanelle’s wild outfits. But not the pig mask. Never the pig mask.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)