Month: November 2022

Just as Morpheus returns every 100 years to The Tavern of the White Horse, Sandman will return to Netflix for a second season (and it won’t take a century to see it). This is truly joyful news, especially after a bogus Twitter account claimed that the show had been cancelled just a few days ago.

It’s probably hard to fool the guy who knows whether his show is coming back or not. For good measure, DC Comics tweeted about the show coming back only to delete the tweet, sending some mixed messages. This announcement brings fans out of the hellscape of uncertainty and into the hellscape where Gwendoline Christie rules.

With the Tom Sturridge-starring series coming back, there are two natural directions to go. The first is to cover the events of “The Doll’s House,” which is its own epic, potentially season-long arc. The second is to keep pushing on the intrigue of “the prodigal” — another sibling of the endless who has abandoned their post.

There’s no word yet on which direction they’ll go, but it’s an easy guess that Vivienne Acheampong and Patton Oswalt should return as Lucienne and Matthew the Raven respectively. Fingers are crossed as tightly as possible for Kirby Howell-Baptiste to come back as Death, and, if we’re all good little boys and girls, maybe they’ll even have room for a Johanna Constantine spin-off special episode starring Jenna Coleman.

For now? PHEW. Time to rewatch the first season again.

(via Deadline)

Jeff Jarrett has had quite the 2022, guest refereeing WWE SummerSlam, partnering with Jay Lethal in defeat to Ric Flair and his son-in-law, Andrade El Idolo, at the Ric Flair’s Last Match event, and now joining AEW.

On Wednesday night Dynamite, Lethal settled the score with Darby Allin thanks to some help from Sonjay Dutt, Satnam Singh, and a new colleague, Cole Karter. Dressed up as Sting, Karter hit Allin in the ribs with a bat, setting him up for Lethal Injection and the win for Lethal. After the match, while Sting’s music played, Jarrett hit the ring from behind, turned Allin and snapped a guitar shot to the head, busting him open in the process.

After the guitar shot, Jarret chastised Allin, telling him he just got a lesson from the last outlaw and whatever you worship becomes your weakness.

Jarrett proceeded to call out the locker room, the announce team, the production team and the AEW fan base, talking up his family’s participation in the pro wrestling business for over 75 years. Jarrett ended his debut to a chorus of “You still suck” chants while telling the audience before he’s done in AEW, there’s going to be full body bags.

Selena Gomez’s My Mind & Me Apple TV+ documentary premieres Friday (November 4), and a new Vulture profile dives into the doc’s intimate and excruciatingly vulnerable subject matter — a lupus diagnosis, a kidney transplant, a McLean Hospital stay that led to a bipolar diagnosis, the crushing weight of celebrity on her mental health, and even more. At the end of the thought-provoking interview with Gomez and My Mind & Me director Alek Keshishian, one question still needed to be asked.

“I also wanted to ask — that recent photo released of you and Hailey Bieber felt full circle. What was the story behind it? I thought it was powerful of you guys to publicly be like, ‘We’re moving on,’” writer Rachel Handler asked.

Gomez didn’t mince words: “Yeah, it’s not a big deal. It’s not even a thing.”

The photo in question was taken last month at the 2nd Annual Academy Of Motion Pictures Gala in Los Angeles. Photographer Tyrell Hampton captioned it, “plot twist.”

Bieber and Gomez’s photo came on the heels of Bieber opening up on the September 27 episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast about the public’s misconceptions over the timeline of her relationship with her husband of four years, Justin Bieber, and his involvement with Gomez. The model and Rhode founder was asked if she and Gomez had “ever [been] with Justin romantically at the same time.” Bieber said, “No, not one time,” and went on to set the record straight about what happened (and didn’t happen) in 2018 when she reconnected with Bieber and swiftly got engaged. (Bieber had been linked to Gomez earlier in the year.)

“The timeline also that I think sometimes is in question of us getting back together and getting engaged and him having been spending time with his ex before that … I understand, again, how it looks from the outside, and there’s a lot of perception there, but that was a situation where I know for a fact that it was the right thing for them to close that door,” Bieber told Cooper. “They were not in a relationship at that time. But of course, there’s a very long history there. It’s not my relationship. It has nothing to do with me, so I respect that a lot, but I know that it closed a chapter. I think it was the best thing that could have happened for him to move on and be engaged and get married and move on with his life in that way.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Bieber discussed the online harassment she faces because of her high-profile relationship, Gomez’s fans taunting her at this year’s Met Gala, and she expressed an utmost respect for Gomez. “[Gomez] doesn’t owe me anything. Neither of us owe anybody anything, except respect. I respect her a lot,” she said. Bieber also noted that she has communicated in some way with Gomez since her 2018 marriage, and “that’s why I’m like, it’s all respect. It’s all love. That’s also why I feel like, well, if everybody on our side knows what happened and we’re good and we could walk away from it with clarity and respect, then that’s fine.”

Watch the My Mind & Me trailer above, and read Gomez’s full interview with Vulture here.

In the lamest entertainment news of the day, the visionary Tuca & Bertie has once again been canceled. After finding a new life at Adult Swim following its cancellation from Netflix, it turns out that the crown jewel of offbeat animation struggled to find an audience for the bodacious adventures of the avian odd couple voiced by Tiffany Hadish and Ali Wong.

Creator Lisa Hanawalt addressed the cancelation with grace and diplomacy, thanking Adult Swim for smart guidance and imploring fans to pay attention to the names of everyone who made the show possible in the credits. She closed her message saying, “I still have a beautiful and weird ending to T&B in mind, hopefully someday we’ll get a chance to finish this story. . . I’ve witnessed so many people connecting with this show on a profound level, and I intend to keep telling stories like this, no matter what.”

Here’s a thought: someone else needs to pick this ball up and run with it. Hanawalt has put out the creator’s distress signal, and hopefully someone smart enough will reach out with a second life preserver so that, at the very least, the story can come to a truly satisfying (and weird!) conclusion. If Community can eke it out…

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

If you’re looking to assemble a coven, Aubrey Plaza is probably one of your first calls. Right after a good wormwood dealer. That’s clutch.

Naturally, Disney+ and the Marvel team have made the call to Plaza for the upcoming Agatha: Coven of Chaos. According to Variety, that is the full extent of all the information known at this time about her involvement with the project which sees Kathryn Hahn reprise her role as the delightfully villainous Salem-surviving witch who tormented Wanda in WandaVision.

This comes on the heels of the series hiring rising Heartstopper star Joe Locke in a role that’s also carefully guarded by the Marvel spoiler police, although we also know that Emma Caulfield Ford is returning for the spin-off in her WandaVision role of social maven Dottie. After waking from the spell, Dottie (aka Sarah Proctor) was choked by Scarlet Witch, so she may very well be out for revenge.

Since we’re left to rampantly speculate, it’s my personal hope that Plaza is playing a gender-bent Nicholas Scratch so she can study under Agatha and wield the Satan Staff.

Whatever role she’s playing, Agatha: Coven of Chaos offers Plaza the opportunity to work with Parks and Rec teammate Hahn again and, potentially, have an Ingrid Goes West reunion with Elizabeth Olsen if Scarlet Witch makes an appearance.

The series is set for release some time in 2023.

(via Variety)

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2022 is coming up. The special event is taking place this Saturday, November 5, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, with this year’s inductees in the Performers category featuring Carly Simon, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, and Pat Benatar.

Fortunately, the ceremony will be televised. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a bit. It will air on HBO on Saturday, November 19, at 8 p.m. EST. You can also watch the red carpet event, which will be livestreamed on the Rock Hall’s YouTube channel.

In a recent interview, the one and only Dolly Parton revealed she’s unsure if she’s going to attend the induction ceremony this year. “I don’t know. If I do, I’m going to sing the hardest style rock ‘n’ roll song I could ever muster up just to show that I can do it.” She added, “I don’t know what I’ll do. […] But I’ll do something to make it fun and to be forgiven for my mistake. To earn my title.” This follows her rejection of her nomination and then her change of mind: Well, I’ll accept gracefully. I would just say thanks and I would accept it because the fans vote,” she concluded.

Few people have made their mark on topical political comedy quite like Jordan Klepper, the Daily Show correspondent who dips his toe into Trump rallies so we don’t have to. After years of success with his “Fingers The Pulse” segments on the show, he’s converting the flyby quips into longform conversations for a limited edition podcast.

Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy will hit all the podcast-y apps via IHeartRadio on November 9th, boasting explorations of the looniest nonsense the internet has proliferated through all those totally free (for now) social sites all the youths seem so fond of. Here’s the official synopsis from the fine folks at Comedy Central:

“In his adventures into MAGA country, Jordan Klepper encounters some of the more imaginative, conspiratorial minds America has to offer. In Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy, a new, six-episode limited podcast series, Jordan steps off the trail to dig deep into some of the wildest theories he’s heard and trace their origins with journalists, experts, and anyone who might have a lead on when JFK Jr. is coming back. The podcast offers an opportunity to better understand some of the most extravagant stories Americans tell themselves.”

Well, good. Of course, the natural danger here in the era of increased right-wing violence and a permission structure from leaders who laugh at old men getting attacked by hammers (by conspiracy theorists!) is to shine a spotlight on the toilet while explaining thoroughly why the toilet isn’t clean to drink from.

It’s annoying to get a cut on your knuckles, because they’re a hard place to put a Band-Aid. If you put it on too tight, you can’t move your finger and if you put it on too loose, it easily slips off. Of course, you can buy Band-Aids made to go over knuckles, but unless you have a MacGyver-level first-aid kit, you probably only have basic strips.

A new video shared by everyone’s “mom hack bestie” Autumn Grace, aka HonestlyAutumnb, on Instagram shows an easy way to transform a run-of-the-mill strip Band-Aid into a fully-functional knuckle bandage. “This is one of the best band aid life hacks!” she captioned the video.

To transform a strip bandage into a knuckle Band-Aid, you must make two cuts with scissors, and voila! “The hack I never thought I needed to know until today!” VermillionChicago commented on the post.

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Some people left the obvious comment that “you can just buy butterfly bandages,” but the point of the hack is to make do with what you have so you don’t have to run to the store while you’re bleeding. This is one of those hacks that seems obvious, but in five decades on this planet, it never occurred to me to cut the bandage. That’s probably why HonestlyAutumnb has more than 440,000 subscribers on Instagram.

Next time you cut yourself cooking and don’t want to wear a cumbersome strip bandage on your knuckle, now you know how to modify one so you can cook without bleeding on the brisket.

It is time for Joanna Hogg superfans (Hoggheads) to rejoice, because the trailer for the delicately, aggressively haunting The Eternal Daughter is a stunner that promises a hellacious film. It stars Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton as a middle-aged daughter and elderly mother returning to the former family home that’s now a hotel filled more with dusty stories of regret than customers. The only thing disappointing about this trailer is that it says “Coming Soon” at the end instead of giving us a date we can circle in red on the calendar.

The trailer for the A24 film looks gorgeous and moody, taking place in a mansion that apparently never sees daylight. Plus, the concept of visiting your home as a stranger, a visitor, is its own kind of existential terror even without the antique spooky vibes. The film has scored major praises after runs on the festival circuit both for Hogg’s writing and Swinton’s double dose of acting prowess. Is it possible for the same actor to be double Oscar nommed for the same movie? Let’s make that happen!

Also, if you were wondering about the man absolutely nailing that centerpiece monologue — it’s Shakespearean stage star and frequent-murder-mystery-show-character actor Joseph Mydell.

The Eternal Daughter hits theaters…soon. Some time! Hopefully very soon. Inject it right into our veins, A24.

The Brooklyn Nets are having a pretty dreadful start to the season on and off the court, as they’ve stumbled out to a 2-6 record that saw them fire coach Steve Nash on Tuesday (and then lose to the Bulls later that night).

Their next head coach will reportedly be Ime Udoka, a former Brooklyn assistant who was most recently the Celtics head coach before he was suspended for a year for having an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer (among other things). Hiring Udoka less than two months after he was suspended by the Celtics brings additional scrutiny to the organization that is already trying to put out the fire of Kyrie Irving posting a link to an anti-semitic movie and then getting defensive when pressed about it in a postgame presser over the weekend.

Irving did not speak after the last two games to the media, with GM Sean Marks explaining that the organization was working with the Anti-Defamation League to work on the next steps for both the team and Kyrie. On Wednesday night, we got the result of that in the form of a release from the team featuring a statement from Irving and the announcement that both he and the Nets would be donating $500,000 each to various organizations and causes that aim to “eradicate hate and intolerance in our communities.”

Irving’s written statement here stands in stark contrast to his defiant press conference, noting that he’s aware of the negative impact his post had on the Jewish community and takes responsibility for that. That said, while he says he doesn’t believe “everything said in the documentary is true” there’s a fair question of what things he does agree with. While the Nets and Irving will certainly hope this allows them to move forward, the work has to continue to be done to show there’s been something actually learned from this situation and hopefully the $1 million in donations from the team and Irving can go towards some genuine good.