Judy Justice (IMDb TV) — You know all about Judge Judy Sheindlin, and here’s her brand new show, in which she returns to the bench for the reality-court drill. She’s got plenty of support (and more wit) coming from retired LA probation officer and bailiff Kevin Rasco, along with stenographer Whitney Kumar and Sarah Rose, who’s not only a law clerk but Judy’s granddaughter. Together, they’ll tell it like it is.
The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland (Hulu film) — GMA anchor George Stephanopoulos tells the story of a real-life would-be homegrown terror attack and the journey (by FBI agents and other players) to take the plot down. Expect plenty of undercover videos and audio recordings along the way.
The Claus Family (Netflix film) — Yep, Halloween is over, so that means one thing: it’s time for Christmas movies to begin. Young Jules Claus feels like he’s done with holiday cheer, and so he hangs in grandpa’s toy shop simply for the toys. However, he realizes that grandpa is the true Santa Claus, which means that it’s time for magic and reindeer and all that jazz.
Ordinary Joe (NBC, 10:00pm) — It’s like Sliding Doors but with TV Prince James Wolk (Watchmen, Mad Men, Political Animals, Zoo) and no Gwyneth Paltrow. If that’s not enough to make you climb aboard, consider that Wolk not only plays a rock star (!) but two other Joes in parallel timelines. This week, it’s time for an origin story on how the Joes’ paths diverged in the first place.
We’re Here (HBO, 9:00pm) — Nope, you’re not looking at a photo of Beyoncé. This ^^ would be the fabulous Shangela (of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame), who’s back with the rest of the Queens (including Bob and Eureka) in Spartanburg, South Carolina and Temecula, California after COVID interrupted the first round. In Season 2, the trio will continue to recruit small-town residents (in this case, that would be Noah, Faith, and Olin) and train them for onstage moments that they never dreamed possible. This week, the Queens head to Selma, Alabama.
All-American (CW, 8:00pm) — Olivia and Spencer grow closer, although the rift with Billy hampers too much progress, all while a birthday celebration goes down.
4400 (CW, 9:00pm) — The entire group isn’t pleased with their accommodations and all of the rules that they must follow. Meanwhile, Claudette’s newfound ability tests its limits.
Wakefield (Showtime, 9:00pm) — This miniseries follows a beloved and brilliant psychiatric nurse who’s caring for patients int he Blue Mountains of Australia. Her array of patients will also entertain as well as endear.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Kumail Nanjiani, Liza Koshy, Blxst Ft. Ty Dolla $Ign
Late Night With Seth Meyers — Tracy Morgan, Colin Quinn, Roy Mayorg
In case you missed these weekend picks:
Swagger: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series) — Get ready, sports-drama fans. This show’s inspired by Kevin Durant’s pre-NBA experiences, and more specifically, it examines early ambition and dreams and the fine line between those two things, along with the comparable delineation between opportunism and corruption on the grown-up side. The cast includes Isaiah Hill, O’Shea Jackson Jr., and Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis, all of whom are bringing some truths on the experience of coming in age in America.
Love Life: Season 2 (HBO Max series) — Love Life ended up being the HBO Max original show to launch the service, and Season 2 is upon us with Anna Kendrick’s Darby passing the baton to a new unlucky-in-love protagonist, Marcus, who will be portrayed by William Jackson Harper. He did the whole sunk-cost investment thing, apparently, and now, he’s finding himself in the hell hole known as the dating world. Godspeed, Marcus.
America has a serious opioid problem so one would think that news of the seizure of massive amounts of Fentanyl at the border would be welcome. And, it probably is, by everyone except Senator Chuck Grassley apparently.
The 88-year-old Iowa statesman tweeted some truly bizarre thoughts on the recent revelation that, under the Biden administration, 10,000 pounds of Fentanyl has been seized at the border this fiscal year. That feels like a bit of a victory in terms of curbing an opioid crisis that continues to wreak havoc on younger generations of Americans. Like, all of the words put together in that specific order sound like Border Patrol agents are actually doing their jobs (instead of rounding up kids and putting them into cages).
But, the way Grassley tweeted it, we can’t help but wonder: does the GOP senator want drugs crossing our borders? Here’s the original tweet for reference:
Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so far this fiscal yr which is enough to kill over 2 billion ppl or more than 1/4 of the world’s population
Again, seizing means to confiscate so we’d assume that confiscating enough drugs capable of killing 2 billion people would be a big win for any government figure. That means those drugs aren’t crossing state lines into Iowa and hurting your constituents, your economy, etc. So why does it sound like Grassley is angry that we caught the drug smugglers before they could smuggle the drugs?
We really don’t know, but Twitter was happy to drag Grassley for his confused posting anyway:
Of all the things to criticize Biden over, I’m not sure “seized a lot of fentanyl” is at the top of the list https://t.co/mJSKDfWGdw
As far as Henry Winkler knows, there are only seven of Fonzie’s jackets from Happy Days left in the world. One is in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; one was stolen; one was destroyed to perform the “jump the shark” scene; two were in the possession of late Happy Days creator Garry Marshall; and he owns the other two.
Soon, he’ll only own one, as the other is being auctioned off.
Winkler is selling items from his personal memorabilia collection as part of the “26-lot Henry Winkler Collection” on December 8 at Bonhams Los Angeles. “During the pandemic, I had the urge for spring cleaning except that it lasted for a year and a half. I found 27 boxes and those boxes were filled with memorabilia from Happy Days to The Waterboy to Scream,” the Barry actor told the Hollywood Reporter.
Those boxes contained everything from T-shirt and hat collections to “the book that I held on the sidelines in The Waterboy for making plays,” he says, plus “two masks from Scream that I cut onscreen and the prop people gave me them because they weren’t going to be used again.” Winkler, who appeared as Principal Himbry in the 1996 film, is selling one of the Scream Ghostface masks; it has an estimate of $20,000 to $30,000.
The auction (part of the proceeds go towards This Is About Humanity) is heavy on Happy Days items and you can also buy his boots from 1974’s The Lords of Flatbush, but if I could own any piece of Winkler merch, I would want the photo of balls.
Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl scandal has become the subject of a new documentary coming soon to Hulu and FX, according to Deadline. After the success of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears, the streamer is taking on the backlash against Jackson in Malfunction: The Dressing Down Of Janet Jackson, launching on November 19 (incidentally, both docs prominently feature Justin Timberlake for his role in both women’s respective downfalls. I don’t know what it says about JT that he was so closely involved in both but it feels a little like he’s gone through his own version of what they went through over the last few years, falling out of public favor as social media became more prevalent.).
For those who don’t remember, during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Janet Jackson joined Justin Timberlake on stage during a performance of his song “Rock Your Body,” ending with Timberlake pulling part of Jackson’s costume off, baring her breast and touching off a national controversy that led to Janet essentially being blackballed by the entertainment industry. The incident coined the infamous term “wardrobe malfunction” and a content crackdown by government and network regulators.
According to Deadline, the film will “examine the racial and cultural currents that collided on the Super Bowl stage, and explores how the incident impacted one of the most successful pop musicians in history.” It will include interviews with some of the producers of the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, as well as “music industry insiders,” cultural critics, and members of Janet’s famous family.
Josh Hawley is wading into the culture wars, once again, and this time he’s calling out feminism for allegedly pushing men towards a life of porn and video games. According to The Guardian, the Missouri Senator recently spoke at the National Conservatism Conference where he echoed right-wing talking points often used by groups like the Proud Boys, who bemoan a lack of masculinity in modern society, or whatever.
“Can we be surprised that after years of being told that they are the problem, that their manhood is the problem, more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and pornography and video games?” Hawley said.
“While the left may celebrate this decline of men, I for one cannot join them. No one should.”
Naturally, Hawley provided zero sources or references for his claim, which is dubious considering porn has been around for centuries and people have been enjoying video games for over four decades now. But, obviously, Hawley’s speech wasn’t so much about an academic study as it was about pandering to the right-wing crowd who hate hearing that “toxic masculinity” is a problem that needs to be addressed.
“They want to define the traditional masculine virtues – things like courage, and independence, and assertiveness – as a danger to society,” Hawley told the crowd.
After Hawley’s comments started making the round, the GOP senator was roundly mocked on social media like a common Ted Cruz:
Josh Hawley said more men are watching porn and playing video games because their “masculinity has been criticized.”
Maybe women just don’t want to touch Republicans because they are literally diseased?
Josh Hawley’s insistence that porn and video games are linked to men’s masculinity being criticized sounds like his alibi for when his wife busted him playing a porn video game.
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY (Q-MO.) on “strong and healthy manhood in America:
“We need men who will shoulder responsibility, men who will start and provide for families, men who will enter the covenant of marriage and then honor it.”
Fans have now had a few days to sit with the latest album from The War On Drugs, I Don’t Live Here Anymore. Now, Adam Granduciel and company have already given devotees a new way to enjoy some of the album’s songs, as they’ve presented them in a new light for an NPR Tiny Desk concert.
In their Burbank, California studio, the band came together to perform “I Don’t Live Here Anymore,” “I Don’t Wanna Wait,” “Old Skin,” and “Change,” all from the new album. As for the band’s mandatory tiny desk, they presented it in a funny way. Between songs, Granduciel asked around for a capo before a truly tiny desk with a capo on it was lowered from the ceiling.
Granduciel recently spoke with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and explained the new album’s title, saying, “I was working on that title track. We had just actually had our baby. So he was maybe like two months old and I had been strumming that song. He went to bed that night and I went down to my little basement studio to put this idea down. At that stage, I usually do a free association thing where I’m just singing and playing guitar. And I was on verse 11 or verse 12 or something and that line just came to me, ‘I don’t live here anymore.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool.’ And so I was like, ‘That’s a sweet little hook.’ And then the song developed. Over the course of the record, I realized that that was probably just going to be title of the record. It just felt like kind of an affirmation of knowing where it is don’t want to be in some way.”
Check out the band’s performance above.
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Until today, the only semi-official recording of Radiohead’s “Follow Me Around” that existed was in the 1998 documentary, Meeting People Is Easy. The film followed the hallowed British band on the OK Computer tour and captured leader Thom Yorke playing a hypnotic acoustic guitar and singing the song during an unassuming sound-check. “Follow Me Around” became fodder for super-fan forums and bootleg enthusiasts, who even went as far as building an ephemeral website (followmearound.com) that demanded the song’s release following a performance of it at a Toronto show in 2000. The band relished in this mystique, posting lyrics to this rare song on the band website and in a hidden booklet that came with early editions of Kid A.
Now those folks can rest easy, as the band has officially put out “Follow Me Around.” They shared it ahead of the November 5th release of Kid A Mnesia, a 21st anniversary reissue of Kid A, Amnesia and a bonus third disc of unreleased/unearthed material from the early sessions of each of the two albums. Today’s release comes along with an often-hilarious music video starring Mare Of Easttown and Memento actor Guy Pearce running away from in-your-face surveillance. It plays into Radiohead’s signature feeling of paranoia in a frenetic-yet-tongue-in-cheek manner.
Relish in the long-awaited glory of “Follow Me Around” in the video above.
Kid A Mnesia is out 11/5 via XL Records. Pre-order it here.
Halloween is behind us, meaning it’s officially the holiday season (yes, you can legally play Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” starting today — but please don’t overdo it). Wintry craft beer releases, many of which have already been dropping since September, are out in full. And while mid-October perhaps felt a little early to dip into the wintry hazy IPAs, winter lagers, spiced wheat beers, and syrupy imperial stouts, November does feel like the right time.
Hopefully, the eight beers we’re giving love to this month will pique your interest and inspire you to explore exciting brews made near you or sold at your closest bottle shop. The picks below are regional craft beer releases from breweries that we vouch for along with seasonal bottles we’ve been looking forward to tasting again.
Alaskan’s White is a Belgian witbier (white wheat beer). Basically, this is the original hazy ale. The wheat adds a spicy dankness to the brew that leaves the hoppiness far in the background while amping up citrus and spice.
Tasting Notes:
The beer opens with notes of citrus (orange and grapefruit), fresh coriander, and peppery spice. Orange peel arrives with sweet cracker malt leading to a dry-ish finish. There’s a crisp depth at play as the spicy, gingery, orange-y body of this beer really lets the malts shine with a light sweetness that keeps you going back for more.
Bottom Line:
This is a pretty easy beer to drink right now. It’s not overdone with its flavor profile or ABVs, meaning you can actually drink this during a weekend session or at a holiday party without getting too far gone (or blowing out your palate).
SOUTHWEST DROP: Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop IPA
This is both a classic winter craft brew and a classic IPA. The beer is brewed with fresh hops from the beginning of the harvest to really rev up the West Coast dankness of the body while also clearing way for the wintry aspects of a winter ale. It’s a bit of magic in a bottle.
Tasting Notes:
Toasted malts and dank pine-resin hops beckon you in. The malts become sweeter as the sip progresses and the hops bloom with citrus. The end is a matrix of dankness, citrus, and caramel malts with hints of spice that just works.
Bottom Line:
You don’t have to love IPAs to love this beer. It’s just so damn easy to drink, so bright, and so full of wintry vibes. Plus, this year’s drop tastes even better yet again … or maybe I was just too excited to see it on the shelf and got a little carried away with getting to drink it again.
The beauty of this winter ale is its divergence from the darker, strong ales that usually dominate the scene this time of year. The brewers at New Belgium decided to go the wheat beer route with their winter ale but kept the ABVs fairly elevated. That addition of smooth wheat malts brings accessibility to the brew that makes this a very easy-sipper.
Tasting Notes:
The hoppiness of the nose draws you in by touching on glowing citrus, sweet tropical fruits, and an almost spicy/resinous hop edge rounding it out. That taste delivers on that hoppiness, with a mild counterbalance of sweet/spicy malts underneath it all. The finish is fairly dry but has a juicy depth thanks to all that wintry tropical fruit.
Bottom Line:
This is another easy pick, especially as the weather turns. A six-pack of this, a slow-braised piece of meat in the oven, some spicy and sweet cookies waiting and you’ve got an evening planned!
Nashville’s Smith & Lentz’s lagers came highly recommended and, wow, did they deliver. Their helles lager, Mariachi Static, hit some very high marks as a classic German lager with clear American craft vibes.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is all about those Germanic malts and hops with equal measures of malted cakes with a note of green grass hops. Those malts pop on the palate with a hint of very thin caramel next to unsalted shortbread as the hops gently flutter in the background with mild hints at grassy fields, light straw, and a touch of florals.
Bottom Line:
This just hit the spot. With the rain pitter-pattering outside, this clean yet distinct beer delivers on what it promises. If you do make it to Smith & Lentz, make sure to try the Pizza Palace Pils for a little hoppier lager.
Toppling Goliath is dominating a lot of craft beer conversations right now. The micro-brewery’s Term-Oil line is one of the main reasons. Their “Fluffernutter” is a blend of imperial stouts which were aged in ex-bourbon barrels. That base liquid was then amped up with the addition of dry roasted peanuts, peanut butter, marshmallow, and vanilla beans into the beer as it matured.
Tasting Notes:
This was way less sweet than expected with the savoriness of the peanut shining through. The vanilla creates a velvety texture as the marshmallow sweetness remains almost hidden behind the big imperial stout notes (alcohol, malts, bitter syrups). The finish lasts a while and you’re left with a nice balance of peanut depth, vanilla smoothness, and just the right amount of sweetness to counter all those ABVs.
Bottom Line:
This is a sharing beer for sure, which makes it perfect for pairing with big meals with family and friends. If you are drinking this on your own, keep it to one — otherwise, you’ll be stumbling pretty quick.
This is probably the easiest-to-find beer on the list this month. The new(ish) version of Winter Lager takes the goodness of Samuel Adam’s classic lager and moves it into bock territory (a lager with longer storage times) with the addition of cinnamon, ginger, and orange peel in the beer.
Tasting Notes:
Toffee malts greet you with a clear sense of those spices up top. The beer delivers on what it promises, with plenty of those sweet malts balanced with orange citrus, spices, and a hint of ginger. The hops are present but take a backseat to the malts and spices on this very easy-drinking brew.
Bottom Line:
This is a solid yet light winter beer. The ABVs are almost low enough to make this a sessionable beer while the added spices will 100 percent help you ring in the season.
Texas’ Rahr & Sons Winter Warmer is a stone-cold classic winter ale. The beer leans into the big, malty, Christmasy, fruity flavors with no hesitation whatsoever. The strong ABVs combined with the strong flavors suit what drinking feels like right now.
Tasting Notes:
You really get a sense of the deeply roasted malts with dark cacao next to a bit of spiced hops. The beer embraces the malts with plenty of caramel, creamy dark chocolate, and a holiday cake full of dried fruit. This is wintertime in a can.
Bottom Line:
This hits that sweet spot of having higher ABVs but it’s not a “knock you out” ABVs. It’s also clearly a winter ale with no pretense at being an IPA or lager or anything else. This beer is straight winter vibes from top to bottom, and we’re glad it’s back on shelves.
Nothing says winter more than a .75l bottle of N’ice Choufee in the fridge. The beer kicks ten percent ABVs worth of winter spice into every single bottle with a deep Belgian tradition of craftsmanship and deliciousness.
Tasting Notes:
This dark Belgian winter sipper has a mild hop bitterness with hints of fresh thyme, wheat spice, and curaçao. The spiciness really shines with notes of cloves, allspice, ginger, cinnamon, and a dash of nutmeg. There’s a slight dried plum fattiness with a sweet edge to cut through all those spices. A mild acidic — almost tart — edge brings about a dry, rich finish.
Bottom Line:
This is one of three winter brews I keep stocked this time of year. It’s the perfect end-of-week pour if you really need to let loose a little. It’s also the perfect bottle to pour when you’re with friends, either having a big meal or just a long beer session. In short, this is the ultimate winter crusher.
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Still not ready to head back to the movie theaters?
Then you’ll want to check out the roster of original movies Netflix has drafted this month. Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors duking it out in a stylish new Western, Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson starring in a black-and-white drama, and Lin-Manuel Miranda directing Andrew Garfield in a moving musical biopic — really, there’s something for everyone on the movie side of things this month.
Here are five of the best Netflix original films streaming this November.
The Harder They Fall (streaming 11/3)
Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz, and LaKeith Stanfield star in this slick, stylish Western from relative newcomer Jeymes Samuel. Majors plays a vengeful outlaw who decides to track down his longtime enemy (Elba) when he learns he’s been busted out of prison. The two men assemble their respective gangs for a dusty, lawless cat-and-mouse game set to a soundtrack from Jay-Z.
Passing (streaming 11/10)
Rebecca Hall serves as write and director on this moving black-and-white adaptation of a Nella Larsen novel. Tessa Thompson plays Irene, a young biracial woman living in Harlem in the 1920s. She reunites with her childhood friend Claire (Ruth Negga), also a biracial woman who has been “passing” as a white woman for years. The two strike up a complicated relationship as both are fascinated by the life the other lives.
Red Notice (streaming 11/12)
Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson team up for this action-packed crime caper that’s purported to be the most expensive movie Netflix has ever made. Reynolds plays a snarky con-man, Johnson a no-nonsense Interpol agent. The pair must work together to track down the world’s greatest art thief (a deliciously bad Gal Gadot) who has her eye on a new mark.
tick, tick … BOOM! (streaming 11/19)
Lin-Manuel Miranda directs this musical drama starring Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson, the iconic Broadway mastermind behind Rent. The film recounts Larson’s humble beginnings and his long, troubled process as he created one of the most recognized stage works of all time.
Bruised (streaming 11/24)
Halle Berry directs and stars in this sports drama that’s got some major Rocky vibes. Berry plays a once-great MMA fighter whose career has seen better days. After her young son comes to live with her, she mounts an epic comeback in the ring, fighting against her own demons as well as her opponents to cement her legacy and achieve a better life for her family.
When Adele shared her single “Easy On Me,” it was actually a few hours before midnight on a Friday, meaning that its first week of eligibility on the Billboard chart was only a few hours long. So, understandably, it didn’t debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, although it shot up to the top spot the next week. Now, Adele’s reign continues, as “Easy On Me” is No. 1 for a second week. Now, all of Adele’s No. 1 singles have held the top spot for multiple weeks.
Meanwhile, new to the top 10 this week is Doja Cat’s “Need To Know,” which rose from No. 11 to No. 9 to become her fourth top-10 hit, following “Say So,” Ariana Grande’s “34+35,” and “Kiss Me More.”
Elsewhere on other Billboard charts, Halloween music understandably performed well. “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers re-entered the Digital Song Sales chart at No. 16. Also appearing on the chart are Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters,” and Danny Elfman’s The Nightmare Before Christmas favorite “This Is Halloween.”
As for Adele, she recently announced a pair of shows at London’s Hyde Park, which will be her first public live performances in five years. Fans were so excited for the July 1 and 2, 2022 shows that minutes after the gigs were announced, fans flooded Adele’s website and crashed it.
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(@snowmanomics) 
(@bobclendenin) 
I don’t know which one is more pathetic, Josh Hawley talking about manhood, or Josh Hawley talking about democracy. 
(@EarlOfEnough) 
