Month: October 2022

We’ve made it to Halloween weekend, and that means costume parties, stealing candy from your friend’s house that is intended for children (possibly theirs), and waking up hungover on Monday morning, only to dodge calls from your friends when they realize you ate all the Starbursts from the variety pack and now their kids are crying. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

As we hit the weekend you’re probably going to want to be geared up with all the best vices, rolling up to the party with great whiskey, good beer, and of course, some delicious high potency herb. Some sticky stinky herb is going to make you everyone’s favorite party favor and ensure that all the candy you steal will be well worth the crime.

To that end, we’re shouting out our favorite high-potency strains of the moment. In keeping with the spirit of the holiday, we’re not just shouting out high-THC strains, we’ll also be focusing on strains that pack a lot of sweet aroma and flavor. From sweet and milky to tropical and fruity, here are the strong and tasty cannabis strains for a lit Halloween weekend.

Houseplant — Pancake Ice

Price: $60

THC: 33%

Tasting Notes:

Seth Rogen’s Houseplant consistently produces some of the best-tasting and prettiest strains out of California. But what really gets us are the names. “Pancake Ice” just sounds f*cking incredible! Sure, it doesn’t make any sense when you break it down, like what the hell is pancake ice? Cold pancakes? The freezer burn that comes off of a frozen microwaveable pancake? Who knows, and in fact, this strain tastes nothing like pancakes, but that isn’t to say it doesn’t taste great.

Pancake Ice is sweet and citrusy on the nose with an herbal clove flavor that finishes with some earthy spice. It’s a sativa-dominant hybrid that provides a subtle body buzz and a heavily euphoric high that lives mostly in the head.

The Bottom Line:

Sweet and spicy with a strong cerebral high.

CBX — Thicc Mint Cookies

Price: $50

THC: 28%-32%

Tasting Notes:

Thicc Mint Cookies is California cannabis brand Cannabiotix’s spin on the legendary Girl Scout Cookies strain. It’s a Cannabis Cup award-winning hybrid flower that sports beautiful crystal-covered dark green and purple buds. It is every bit as sweet as its name implies, with strong minty notes on the nose and a sweet herbal flavor with a cool and refreshing finish.

This is definitely the sort of strain you’re going to want to smoke out of a low-temperature setting vaporizer or a bong so you can really enjoy the flavors. Thanks to the dominant terpenes of caryophyllene, limonene, and myrcene, Thicc Mint provides a strong relaxing body high that’ll melt stress upon the first hit.

The Bottom Line:

An herbal, minty, and refreshing blend of flavors that provide a feel-good high that’ll make you more social and less introverted.

WonderBrett — Blueberry Purp

Price: $63

THC: 24%

Tasting Notes:

If you love the berry-forward flavors of Blue Dream but want a strain that’s geared more towards end-of-the-night relaxation, look no further than Wonderbrett’s Blueberry Purp. This strain is a cross between Grand Daddy Purple, OZ Kush Cookies & Cream, and Wonderbrett’s own Beyond Blueberry v1 and features a fragrant floral scent with an almost suspiciously sweet flavor with notes of lavender and a grape juice-esque finish. Weed shouldn’t taste this good.

The dominant terpenes in this strain include limonene, caryophyllene, myrcene, and linalool providing a powerfully relaxing high that will knock you on your ass, so don’t attempt to smoke this strain before the party, unless you want to sleep through the whole thing.

The Bottom Line:

Intensely sweet and powerful enough to knock you out after a couple of hits. This is the perfect nightcap for after-party chilling.

22Red — Angry Apple 2.2

Price: $55

THC: 26%

Tasting Notes:

System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian knows his weed. Each strain out of his 22Red brand is potent and flavorful, with beautiful dense buds caked in shimmering trichomes. Best of all, it’s top-shelf quality weed at a much more affordable price.

Right now we can’t get enough of the Indica-dominant hybrid strain Angry Apple 2.2. The smell of this strain is just incredible, it’s so sweet and tangy that even a sniff out of the jar is strong enough for you to taste.

It’s sweet and tart on the nose but takes on a rich and creamy flavor once burned that provides a strong heavy body high that transitions to the head within the first hour, leaving you with a giddy sense of joy. If the Halloween party is giving you a lot of stress, take some time to yourself, light up a bowl, and soon enough you’ll be relaxed and chill without feeling weighed down and sluggish.

The Bottom Line:

The smell is so sweet and intoxicating that even your weed-smell-hating friends won’t be able to deny its deliciousness.

A Golden State — Garlic Blossom

Price: $55

THC: 36%

Tasting Notes:

Sometimes there just isn’t enough time or the right opportunity to get a smoke session in, so if you’re looking for a strain that’ll get you blitzed after just one hit, A Golden State’s Garlic Blossom is for you.

Garlic Blossom admittedly sounds less like something you’d want to smoke and more like an appetizer from an Outback Steakhouse but don’t let its stinky name fool you. This strain tastes incredible. It has a strong citrus-forward flavor that is lemony sweet and tart with an earthy finish that mixes together a bit of pepper and almond.

Although it has an incredibly high THC content, one hit is the perfect amount to produce a euphoric cerebral high that’ll last throughout the night, whether you’re a heavy user or a lightweight. But if you’re a lightweight, under no circumstances should you attempt to smoke an entire bowl unless you’re planning on being so high that you won’t remember the party.

The Bottom Line:

An incredibly strong cerebral high with a tart lemon-forward flavor.

Insane — Julia

Price: $50

THC: 29%

Tasting Notes:

A cross between Orange Cookies, Gelato 33, and Kush Mints, Insane’s Julia strain comes from a ridiculously strong genetic family of herb that produces plump and sticky buds that provide a stunningly potent high.

This hybrid strain has a nice balance of sweet cookie notes and orange citrus zest that burns sweet and tastes even sweeter. After a few hits of this stuff I felt dumb and weighed down, not in a couch-look way, but it gave me the sort of high that made following through on thoughts difficult.

That doesn’t sound like great party material, but if you’re bored by your surroundings this is a quick and easy vacation with a nice body buzz to go along with its mind-numbing qualities.

The Bottom Line:

It’s the sort of strain that supports the absent-minded stoner stereotype. Which is… sometimes what you want.

Letting go is hard, but Tegan And Sara make it look so easy! The indie pop duo stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to let their inner child out with a performance of the recent single “I Can’t Grow Up.” The single — released late last month to rollout their tenth studio album, Crybaby — is flooded with equal parts synths and raw emotion.

Pulling in their TV production experience, the set is strategically filled with flashing fluorescent lights perfectly timed with the track’s instrumentation. Standing behind their re-imagined album cover art, Tegan And Sara, along with their band, do what they do best, rock out.

Despite having a career spanning over a decade, the Canadian siblings still manage to keep their musical perspectives fresh. That’s partly out of necessity, as the genre’s turnover rate continues to increase due in part to social media platforms like TikTok. But, their evergreen approach can primarily be credited to their superlative songwriting abilities.

When discussing the album on Twitter, the group touched on this, writing, “the songs on Crybaby capture the tumultuous times of the pandemic, the professional trails, and tribulations we went through the last few years.” They added in the same post, “we went to the edge and we made it back with Crybaby.”

If Tegan And Sara’s music is the new poster child for the foundation of youth, we want in.

Watch their full performance above.

Crybaby is out now via Mom + Pop. Order it here.

Piers Morgan has made his disapproval clear over Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir. This week, he also couldn’t resist dragging the book’s title, Spare, which is certainly a reference to how William and Harry are referred to as “the heir and the spare,” respectively. Piers also expressed suspicion that the memoir’s release date, January 10, was timed to steal thunder from King Charles III’s coronation in May 2023. That seems like adequate enough spacing between events, honestly? Yet Piers is passionate on the subject as a staunch supporter of the Royal Fam, and he’s been upset about “Harry’s silence” over The Crown with pointed mention that Netflix is also Harry’s “employer,” given the multi-project deal forged by Netflix and the Sussexes.

As well, Piers has been known to complain about Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle. The former Good Morning Britain co-host famously stormed off a set and then thanked his haters after he continued to rail against Meghan when she alleged to Oprah Winfrey that she endured racist remarks from the royals. Of course, Piers’ irritation with Harry and Meghan might have something to do with his revelation that she “ghosted” him after one date, so there’s that to consider.

This week, Piers publicly called Harry a “d*ckhead,” and he’s been doubling down with an accusation that Harry’s book cover was “copied,” and Harry “didn’t just hire same ghost-writer who did Andre Agassi’s book.” Piers added, “[O]ne had a world class talent for sport, the other a world class talent for whining.”

And here comes Piers tweeting a Daily Mail cover with a headline about the Royals “dreading” the arrival of Harry’s “raw and unflinching” book. Piers also alludes to Meghan Markle while suggesting that Harry was “[u]rged on by your wife who has already disowned her own family?” And he suggested that Harry’s a hypocrite by engaging in “humanitarian” efforts.

It’s messy, and when Piers rants like this, people tend to tweet, “All this just because she wouldn’t shag you.” With this latest outburst, people are suggesting that Piers sounds like a “[w]hining child,” and it’s a bit ironic.

One user also wondered why Piers has “chosen not to reinstate your birth name O’Meara and continued to use you adopted name ?” The user also suggests that “[s]ome might say that you are trying to disassociate yourself from your Irish roots and others might judge you as choosing to throw you late father’s legacy under the bus.”

Spare arrives in bookstores (and online) on January 10, 2023.

Porters don’t get enough respect. These dark, sweeter, slightly roasty cousins of the more popular stout are a perfect choice for cool fall days and colder evenings. Like stouts, porters have been around for a long time, with their genesis sometime in the 1700s. Which is to say: it’s high time the porter got its due.

Based on appearances alone, stouts and porters are quite similar. The main difference is in the flavor — specifically in the barley used to brew them. While stouts are frequently made with roasted, unmalted barley, porters are made with malted barley that’s (usually) not roasted. This is why stouts tend to have a drier, roasted flavor, while porters tend to be sweet, maltier, and sometimes creamy in flavor.

Hopefully we’ve established that fall 2022 is a great time to get to know the classic porter. In order to help get you started, I decided the best thing to do was to blindly taste and rank some of the best porters available on the market. I chose eight great beers, some from big-name breweries and some from smaller breweries, and nosed, tasted, and ranked them.

Today’s Lineup:

• Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
• Green Man Porter
• Wynwood Pop’s Porter
• Deschutes Black Butte
• Founders Porter
• Reuben’s Robust Porter
• Maui Brewing Coconut Hiwa Porter
• Anchor Porter

Part 1: The Taste

Taste 1

Tasting Notes:

A muted nose of roasted malts, slight smoke, and toffee greeted me before my first sip. The palate was a little more exciting with notes of lightly roasted malts, bitter chocolate, mild coffee, and some slightly bitter hops. Overall though, this is a fairly unexciting porter.

Taste 2

Tasting Notes:

The nose is a symphony of vanilla beans, dark chocolate, caramel, and light wintry spices. The palate is loaded with milk and dark chocolate flavors as well as licorice, dried fruits, roasted malts, lightly piney hops, and a kiss of gentle smoke. This is a sublimely well-balanced porter.

Taste 3

Tasting Notes:

The nose is surprisingly dull with some roasted malt flavor and bitter chocolate, but not much else. While smooth and creamy, the flavor is a bit lacking as well. There are more malts and chocolate, but really nothing else discernible. Overall, this is a pretty boring beer.

Taste 4

Tasting Notes:

The aroma is fairly mild, but there are notes of freshly brewed coffee, dark chocolate, and toffee. The palate follows suit with more caramel malts, espresso beans, roasted malts, bitter chocolate, and just a hint of smoke. It’s sweet, creamy, indulgent, and highly complex.

Taste 5

Tasting Notes:

Aromas of coffee, dried fruits, and some chocolate are noticeable on the nose. Drinking it revealed a little more, with roasted malts, bitter chocolate, more fruit, and even some coffee. The finish is roasty and sweet. A decent take on the style, but not overly exciting.

Taste 6

Tasting Notes:

Complex aromas of cocoa nibs, fresh brewed coffee, sticky toffee, roasted malts, and slight vanilla are highlighted on the nose. The taste follows accordingly with more toasted caramel, roasted malts, coffee beans, and decadent, dark chocolate. The finish is dry, sweet, and memorable.

Taste 7

Tasting Notes:

The nose is centered on the aromas of coffee, chocolate, and maybe some toffee. That’s all, but still fairly inviting. The palate is all coffee, chocolate, and some slightly bitter hops at the finish. The flavors aren’t bold enough and the ending is a little more bitter than I’d prefer.

Taste 8

Tasting Notes:

Notes of barley, bitter chocolate, coffee, and some floral hops are prevalent on the nose. The welcoming nose is only made better by the bold palate of toasted caramel, dark chocolate, espresso, toffee, and bready malts. The finish is a nice mix of bitterness and sweetness.

Part 2: The Rankings

8) Maui Brewing Coconut Hiwa Porter (Taste 3)

ABV: 6%

Average Price: $10.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

When I think of Maui, I don’t think much about dark, robust beers. But since I’m not in charge of the beer brewed there, the folks at Maui Brewing make a fairly popular Coconut Hiwa Porter. Almost pitch black in color, this is a sweet, rich beer with toasted coconut and mocha.

Bottom Line:

For something that listed toasted coconut as one of its main ingredients, I didn’t taste any. Maybe I need to sample it again. Or perhaps just drink something else instead.

7) Founders Porter (Taste 1)

ABV: 6.5%

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Founders is well-known for its prowess in crafting delicious, delectable dark beers. This is the case with its line of Breakfast Stouts as well as its sweet, warming Porter. This 6.5% ABV year-round offering is known for its creamy, sweet, chocolate flavor.

Bottom Line:

Honestly, I expected a little more from Founders. I’ve always been a big fan of their Kentucky Breakfast Stout. But this beer, while not remotely bad, was just fairly muted and didn’t excite my palate.

6) Anchor Porter (Taste 7)

ABV: 5.6%

Average Price: $10.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

Anchor has been crafting this porter since 1972. In that time, they’ve gotten pretty good at it. Brewed with roasted pale, caramel, chocolate, and black malts, as well as top-fermenting yeast, it’s known for its smooth chocolate and coffee flavor.

Bottom Line:

Anchor Brewing does a lot of things well. I’m not going to say their porter isn’t one of them. It’s just a little too bitter for my liking.

5) Green Man Porter (Taste 5)

ABV: 6%

Average Price: $12.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

If awards are a way to sway you to try a new beer, you might want to look into Green Man Porter. This 6% ABV, British-style porter won gold at the 2021 Great American Beer Festival. It’s known for its complex, smooth, robust flavor of chocolate and malts.

Bottom Line:

For an award-winning porter, I would have expected Green Man Porter to fall a little higher on the list. For me, it was lacking in complexity.

4) Wynwood Pop’s Porter (Taste 4)

ABV: 6.2%

Average Price: $10.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This award-winning porter is named for Wynwood co-founder Luis “Pops” Brignoni Sr. It was created because “Pops” wanted a beer to drink while grilling. The result is a bold, robust, rich porter with notes of caramel malts and bitter chocolate.

Bottom Line:

Pops was right about this beer. Pop’s Porter is loaded with roasty, sweet, rich flavors, but it’s also surprisingly smooth and drinkable. Great for a cool fall evening.

3) Reuben’s Robust Porter (Taste 8)

ABV: 5.9%

Average Price: $10.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

This 5.9% “Robust” porter is brewed with eight malts including Caramel, ESB, Carapils, Pale Chocolate, Black, Munich, and Marris Otter as well as Cascade hops. This results in a well-balanced, chocolate, coffee, and caramel-filled porter.

Bottom Line:

This is a complex, well-balanced beer that deserves a place in your fridge this fall. It’s a great balanced of sweetness and bitterness.

2) Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald (Taste 6)

ABV: 5.8%

Average Price: $10.99 for a six-pack

The Beer:

If you aren’t a fan of Gordon Lightfoot or you’re not up to date on your Great Lakes shipwrecks, you might not have ever heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. That’s okay: you can still enjoy this roasted barley and chocolate-centric porter.

Bottom Line:

This chocolate, coffee, caramel-filled porter is balanced and dry. The perfect beer to sip while you crank up Gordon Lightfoot’s classic “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

1) Deschutes Black Butte (Taste 2)

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $11.99 for s six-pack

The Beer:

There are few American porters more well-known and acclaimed than Deschutes Black Butte Porter. It’s brewed with two-row, Chocolate, Crystal, and Carapils malts, as well as wheat and Cascade and Tettnang, hops.

Bottom Line:

There’s a reason Deschutes Black Butte is so widely beloved. It’s complex, bold, well-balanced, slightly hoppy, and finishes pleasantly dry.

Part 3: Final Thoughts

After looking over the beers that fared best in this tasting and ranking, one term stands out to me: balance. The porters that I enjoyed most weren’t overly sweet, overly bitter, or overly dry. They all had a little bit from each column. Balanced, sweet, smooth, and dry. These are the makings of a great porter.

Reunions have been a popular theme this year and Sheffield-based legends Pulp are joining in on the fun. The band will be playing their first shows in 11 years in 2023 after frontman Jarvis Cocker mentioned a comeback in a Guardian interview in July and then hinted at it with cryptic posts on Instagram, both of which excited fans and made them have to wait for more news about plans.

The tour will kick off in Bridlington, England in May and end in Suffolk, England in July. It’s a short run that doesn’t leave Europe and barely strays outside of England, but hopefully, more dates are on the horizon. Along with these performances, Cocker shared in a statement in the press release:

Three months ago, we asked, What exactly do you do for an encore?”

Well…

An encore happens when the crowd makes enough noise to bring the band back to the stage

So…

We are playing in the UK & Ireland in 2023

Therefore…

Come along & make some noise

See you there

Check out the Pulp tour dates below.

05/26 — Bridlington, England @ Bridlington Spa
05/05 — Warrington, England @ Neighbourhood Weekender
06/09 — Dublin, Ireland @ St Anne’s Park
07/01 — London, England @ Finsbury Park
07/07 — Glasgow, Scotland @ Trnsmt Festival
07/09 — Scarborough, England @ Open Air Theatre
07/12 — Cardiff, Wales @ International Arena
07/14 — Sheffield, England @ Utilita Arena
07/15 — Sheffield, England @ Utilita Arena
07/21 — Suffolk, England @ Latitude Festival

We’re less than 24 hours into Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, and the social media platform is already faced with a fascinating conundrum: O.J. Simpson wants a blue check. On Friday morning, Simpson posted a video to his unverified Twitter account where he congratulated Musk on acquiring the platform. But it was clear that The Juice had an ulterior motive as he immediately pivoted to asking for his account to be “authenticated.” Turns out, Simpson keeps being accused of things he claims he didn’t do, which you’d think he’d be used to by now.

Via O.J. Simpson on Twitter:

Let me start off the day by congratulating Elon Musk taking over Twitter. Maybe I can get authenticated. Maybe I can get a blue check. I’ve tried for years to get that blue check because there are so many fake O.J. Simpson accounts. One of them is “TheRealOJSimpson.” Instead of an “O” they have a zero. In any event, there’s been a bunch of them and from time to time people would say, “Why did you say this?” And I say, “I didn’t say it. That was one of those fake accounts.”

Will Musk’s Twitter actually verify Simpson’s account? Honestly, who the hell knows? Musk is a well-known troll who just dropped billion of dollars to own a platform that has routinely mocked him despite his repeated efforts to convince people (and Nathan Fielder) that he’s funny. Verifying O.J. Simpson is entirely in Musk’s wheelhouse. It’s something we can easily see him doing for attention. Frankly, we’re surprised it hasn’t happened already.

(Via O.J. Simpson on Twitter)

Rauw Alejandro dances through New York City in his new music video for “Dime Quién???” that was released today (October 28). The Puerto Rican superstar also revealed the release date for his upcoming album Saturno.

Alejandro started teasing Saturno back in July with the lead single “Lokera.” His collaboration with Lyanno and Brray has amassed over 135 million streams on Spotify. Last month, he followed that up with “Punto 40 Año 2077” featuring Puerto Rican reggaeton pioneer Baby Rasta. Now Alejandro is eschewing reggaeton for synth-pop in “Dime Quién???”

Alejandro co-produced “Dime Quién???” with hit-maker Tainy. Proving that his success extends beyond the reggaeton genre, Alejandro embraces frenetic synth-pop beats while leaning into the futuristic sound of his Saturno album. He sings about letting an ex know that their new lover can’t put it down quite like him.

The “Dime Quién???” video was directed by Martin Seipel. Alejandro wanders the streets of New York City while reflecting on old memories with his ex. By the end of the video, he seemingly transforms into a fox. One of Alejandro’s nicknames is “El Zorro,” which translates to “The Fox” in English. Also, the Saturno album release date is revealed to be November 11.

Alejandro will be performing at the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards on November 17. He is up for eight nominations. Alejandro is tied with his girlfriend, Spanish pop star Rosalía, who also received eight nominations.

Steve Lacy might already be an industry veteran at just 24 years old, but he’s still new to all the attention having a viral hit can bring. Unfortunately, his newfound fame hasn’t been kind to him at all, as his Give You The World North American tour has been more eventful than he probably planned, to say the least.

After a video of fans at one tour stop not knowing the words to his biggest hit, “Bad Habit,” went viral, his New Orleans concert was cut short when a fan threw a disposable camera at him, just seconds after he asked the concertgoers to stop throwing things on stage. A video of him smashing that camera also went viral, but he didn’t think he needed to apologize for it.

And now, in another instance of historically bad luck, yet another video has emerged of something going wrong for him. This time, in the middle of a singalong for his 2017 track “Some,” an overenthusiastic smoke machine sent him into a coughing fit as he semi-joked, “They trying to kill me, y’all!” As one fan who shared the video quipped, “Steve Lacy should just cancel his tour at this point.”

While I’m sure no one really wants him to do that, let’s just hope that all the toughest breaks of his tour are behind him, so he can just focus on putting on a good show and enjoying all his recent success.

Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer, a 10-part crime drama that recounts the life and death of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, could end up being the biggest hit Netflix has ever produced thus far. Though millions of people are watching it, the limited series is also drowning in controversy, with critics claiming that we don’t need yet another retelling of Dahmer’s story, while friends and family members of the real-life victims have complained that bringing Dahmer back into the spotlight has re-traumatized them all over again.

In addition, as several of Dahmer’s victims were men of color, many contend that systemic racism is partly what allowed Dahmer to operate for so long without being detected. Nor did it help the series when Netflix classified it under LGBTQ content. But now, Murphy — who co-created the series with Ian Brennan — has spoken out to set the record straight.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Murphy discussed the research process that he and his team went through over the course of nearly four years in order to bring Dahmer to the screen. And says that one part of that was attempting to speak with those closest to some of Dahmer’s victims, in order to create a show that could tell the story partly through their eyes. On Thursday, during an event for the series at Los Angeles’ DGA Theatre, Murphy explained:

It’s something that we researched for a very long time. And we — over the course of the three, three and a half years when we were really writing it, working on it — we reached out to 20, around 20, of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people. And not a single person responded to us in that process. So we relied very, very heavily on our incredible group of researchers who… I don’t even know how they found a lot of this stuff. But it was just like a night and day effort to us trying to uncover the truth of these people.

Murphy also stated that part of their purpose in making the series was to address the many isms that allowed Dahmer to get away with his crimes for so long: “Something that we talked a lot in the making of it is we weren’t so much interested in Jeffrey Dahmer, the person, but what made him the monster that he became,” Murphy said. “We talked a lot about that… and we talked about it all the time. It’s really about white privilege. It’s about systemic racism. It’s about homophobia.”

“We really want it to be about celebrating these victims,” added Paris Barclay, who co-directed two episodes of the series with Murphy.. “When Tony writes ‘I won’t disappear’ on that last card, that’s what this show is about. It’s about making sure these people are not erased by history and that they have a place and that they’re recognized and that they were important and that they lived full lives. And they came from all sorts of different places, but they were real people. They weren’t just numbers. They weren’t just pictures on billboards and telephone poles. They were real people with loving families, breathing, living, hoping. That’s what we wanted it to be about.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

In typical Marvel fashion, a fan-favorite actor has been added to the latest MCU movie, though nobody knows who (or what) they will be. We’ve seen it with John Krasinski, and it’s currently unfolding with Adam Scott. Those comic book fans really love surprises…except when they don’t. It’s hard to keep up.

William Jackson Harper, the breakout star of The Good Place, has been added to the upcoming Ant-Man installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The sequel already has an impressive cast that includes Paul Rudd, of course, plus Jonathan Majors as the uber-villain Kang, who is expected to be the next main bad guy of the Avengers universe ever since Thanos got the boot (or…gauntlet).

Harper’s role has yet to be disclosed, but considering that this movie is in its final stages of production, it’s not out of the question to assume he will be filming some post-credits sequence. Fans on Twitter seem to believe this is Marvel’s way of slowly introducing the new Fantastic Four cast before that movie begins filming next year. Or maybe he’s just going to play a regular guy. Who knows!

After earning an Emmy nom and finishing up on The Good Place in 2020, Harper has since starred with Cristin Milioti in Peacock’s little-known gem The Resort, which everybody should totally be watching.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is set to hit theaters on Feb. 17, 2023.