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‘I Will Not Suffer This Harlot’: The ‘Stop The Steal’ Organizer Is Threatening To Release Evidence That Marjorie Taylor Greene Committed A Crime If She Doesn’t Abandon McCarthy

Marjorie Taylor Greene may very well have been one of the architects of the January 6th insurrection, but Ali Alexander — a notorious far-right activist and key organizer of the Stop the Steal rally — has officially turned his back on the Georgia congresswoman and hater of sleeves.

Alexander’s anti-Marge crusade all seems to have started when Greene dared to actually disagree with her longtime contrarian cohorts Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert and declare that she would support Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. When that political divide led to some minor histrionics and name-calling, Alexander was NOT OK with that, and referred to Greene as “a trailer park hoodrat.” Now, Raw Story reports that Alexander is taking his anti-MTG hate to the next level.

As House Republicans continue their circle-jerk process of nominating a speaker, Greene (kind of amazingly) has not wavered in her support of McCarthy (most likely because he’s actually promised to give her something to do). So Alexander is now claiming that he’s got some dirt on Marge, and he’s not afraid to use it. According to Raw Story, here’s what Alexander had to say:

I will not suffer this harlot. I will not be taught vows and loyalty, commitment from a whore! You have got me mistaken for some damn fool, and a fool, Ali Alexander has never been called.

In the coming days I’m going to reveal that Marjorie Taylor Greene, in my summation and the summation of lawyers, committed a crime. That crime is going to be handed to the state of Georgia, and the state of Georgia will decide whether they adjudicate that crime or not. The House Ethics Committee and House Rules [Committee] must expel Marjorie Taylor Greene when this evidence comes to light.

While it’s likely that Alexander has been called a “fool” and much worse many times, his threat is kind of poetic. And he didn’t even end it there:

Ho, go home! I am done with you. You are lukewarm, I am spitting you out of my mouth. You played me, and no more. Everyone will know about your drunken night, because the consultants who have drunk with you will have to choose whether they fear me or whether they fear you, and they fear me, Marge. They fear me a lot more than they fear you.

This is one more political quagmire we’re ready to witness multiple rounds of.

(Via Raw Story)

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These Photos Make CRSSD’s NYE Extravaganza Look Absolutely Envy Inducing

At every kickback, I always run into this one friend who’s become the official mascot of San Diego. The food is amazing! The clubs are popping! It’s super affordable! The beach is right there! And when the Padres conquered my Dodgers a few months ago, I woke up to a text message novella on how this was a sign to move to “SD.”

It’s true there’s a ton going on in San Diego. Over the New Years’ weekend, thousands of lively festival lovers congregated on the grass of a sold-out Petco Park (The Padres’ home stadium) to end 2022 in style. Across three stages, the largest-ever edition of CRRSD took the city by storm for a two-day NYE and NYD event. And wow, it looked like an amazing time.

Featuring scintillating sets by Tech x House virtuosos Azzecca, Chris Lake, Dombresky, Jamie Jone, Mary Droppinz, Eli Brown, and many more, music lovers were truly spoiled. VIP access offered after-hour events, bars, great food, and mingling with interesting personnel. However, right smack in the heart of Downtown, there were countless clubs and after-hour events to seamlessly migrate towards for everyone wanting their own VIP experience.

Fingers crossed I won’t be caving into my friend’s San Diego seduction any time soon, but after looking at these photos, I’ll definitely make a visit.

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The 25 Best Shows On Peacock Right Now (January 2023)

NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service only launched a few years ago with The Office being the obvious flagship series, but the situation has changed a lot. Much like Netflix is becoming a stand-up comedy standout, no streaming service is currently better at serving up classic TV series with fresh additions.

Here are the best shows you can watch on Peacock now.

1. SNL

Year: 1975-Present
Cast: Various
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 48 seasons
Created by: Lorne Michaels
Trailer: Watch here

Saturday Night Live is four decades into its run for a reason: the sketch comedy follows a classic formula that is uninterrupted by a rapidly changing world. While everyone has their favorite era of SNL (it usually depends on when you grew up) and it can be hit or miss, it’s reliable entertainment that introduced the entertainment business and the world to some of the greatest comedians including (but certainly not limited to) Martin Short, Will Ferrell, Bill Hader, and Kate McKinnon.

Watch it on Peacock

2. Cheers

Year: 1982-1993
Cast: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 11 seasons, 275 episodes
Created by: Glen and Les Charles, James Burrows
Trailer: Watch here

The heart-warming but sharp comedy series is as comforting as it is clever. The series, which dominated NBC primetime throughout the ’80s, follows a group of eccentric regulars at a Boston bar and its equally eccentric employees. A lot of sitcoms feel of their time, with pop culture references you have to Google to understand if you weren’t alive, too young, or simply don’t remember. Cheers looks a lot like the ’80s with its costumes and hairstyles, but the jokes feel just as fresh as they did when they originally aired.

Watch it on Peacock

3. Parks And Rec

Year: 2009-2015
Cast: Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Offerman
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Seven seasons, 125 episodes
Created by: Greg Daniels and Michael Schur
Trailer: Watch here

What started as a riff on The Office but with a lady boss became, by its second season, one of the best network comedies of all time. The series explores the mundanities of working at city hall in the small, strange town of Pawnee, Indiana.

Watch it on Peacock

4. Friday Night Lights

Year: 2006-2011
Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Michael B. Jordan
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Five seasons, 76 episodes
Created by: Peter Berg
Trailer: Watch here

A television show about a football team had no right to become one of the best television shows of the Golden Age and one of the best of all time. Among a group of prestige programming including The Sopranos and Mad Men, this little football show kept up in terms of quality, because it was always more about people and relationships than it was about the sport. It will make you cry buckets, and you won’t even be mad about it.

Watch it on Peacock

5. Bel-Air

Year: 2022-Present
Cast: Jabrai Banks, Cassandra Freeman, Jimmy Akingbola
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA tk
Runtime: One season, ten episodes
Created by: Morgan Cooper, Malcolm Spellman, TJ Brady, and Rasheed Newson
Trailer: Watch here

Bel-Air is the most Peak TV show to ever Peak TV (in a good way). The series started off as a short film that reimagined The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sitcom as a serious drama. Lo and behold, the edit is now a dramatic television series that dives into class and race, and makes Will’s culture shock upon moving from West Philly to Bel-Air more dramatic than comedic.

Watch it on Peacock

6. The Office

Year: 2005-2013
Cast: Steve Carrell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Nine seasons, 201 episodes
Created by: Greg Daniels
Trailer: Watch here

Gen Z’s favorite comedy is a favorite for a reason. The sitcom that launched the single-cam revolution features one of the greatest performances ever from Steve Carrell as the horrible but somehow sweet boss Michael Scott, with a sprawling cast of comic geniuses that worked like comedy magic together.

Watch it on Peacock

7. Law and Order: SVU

Year: 1999-Present
Cast: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 24 seasons, 525 episodes
Created by: Dick Wolf
Trailer: Watch here

Even if you’ve never seen SVU, you probably know about Benson and Stabler. The crime procedural following cases in a Special Victims Unit in New York City is ideal for every kind of viewing: one episode at a time, a massive binge, while you’re working, or when you just want to sit down and pay attention to something.

Watch it on Peacock

8. That ’70s Show

Year: 1998-2006
Cast: Topher Grace, Larua Pripon, Mila Kunis, Wilder Vadleramma
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Eight seasons, 200 episodes
Created by: Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Mark Brazill
Trailer: Watch here

This Fox-period sitcom is about a group of teenagers in the 1970s who spend the majority of their time hanging out in Eric Forman’s basement. It’s getting a ’90s reboot over at Netflix featuring some of the O.G. cast, so it’s the perfect time to catch up or revisit.

Watch it on Peacock

9. Columbo

Year: 1968-2003
Cast: Peter Falk
Genre: Mystery
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 69 episodes
Created by: Richard Levinson and William Link
Trailer: Watch here

Ahhh, Columbo. As soon as you see that long beige coat, his thick cigar and hear him saw, “just one more thing” you will feel relief. On this sort of procedural, Detective Columbo catches killers by, for lack of better words, annoying the sh*t out of them. The series spans decades, and the first pilot, “Murder by the Book,” was directed by none other than the master, Stephen Spielberg.

Watch it on Peacock

10. Yellowstone

Year: 2018-Present
Cast: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley
Genre: Drama, Western
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Five seasons, 47 episodes
Created by: Taylor Sheridan and John Linson
Trailer: Watch here

Everyone (a.k.a., everyone’s dad) is talking about Yellowstone for a reason: it’s like a contemporary western Game of Thrones. The neo-western starring Kevin Costner, which follows the dysfunctional Dutton family who has owned the Yellowstone Ranch (the largest ranch in Montana) for generations is filled with water-cooler talk-worthy moments of bloodshed and betrayal, if only there were water coolers anymore. I suppose group chats are the new water coolers?

Watch it on Peacock

11. Girls5Eva

Year: 2021-Present
Cast: Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell, Renée Elise Goldsberry
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Two seasons, 16 episodes
Created by: Meredith Scardino
Trailer: Watch here
The comedy from executive producer Tina Fey about 40-something women who reunite their late 1990s/2000s girl group after decades apart gets bolder and weirder as it goes along. Although the girl group Girls5Rva is fake, the show, which calls back to the strange period of time that was Y2K, feels weirdly nostalgic. The original songs are better than most of the songs that win Oscars.

Watch it on Peacock

12. A Friend Of The Family

Year: 2022
Cast: Jacke Lacy, Colin Hanks, Anna Paquin
Genre: Drama, Crime
Runtime: One season, 9 episodes
Created by: Nick Antosca
Trailer: Watch here

In this limited series based on a true story, the Broeberg family lives an idyllic American life until their daughter is kidnapped twice over a two-year period. Continuing his turn into darker characters after The White Lotus season one, Jake Lacy stars as the next door neighbor Robert Berchtold, who happens to be her captor.

Watch it on Peacock

13. 30 Rock

Year: 2006-2013
Cast: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Seven seasons, 138 episodes
Created by: Tina Fey
Trailer: Watch here

Former SNL writer Tina Fey’s meta NBC comedy about writing a late-night sketch comedy for NBC is a classic, known for its idiosyncratic characters and rapid pace: there are jokes almost every single second, maybe even more than that, but we won’t do the math. The series was the perfect satire for the strange time that was the late aughts/early 2010s, blending political commentary with pop culture commentary, all wrapped up in an NBC show that very frequently made fun of NBC and capitalism.

Watch it on Peacock

14. We Are Lady Parts

Year: 2021
Cast: Anjana Vasan, Sarah Kameela, Juliette Motamed
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, 6 episodes
Created by: Nida Manzoor
Trailer: Watch here

This subversive, rowdy British comedy featuring great music and quick jokes (30 Rock style) follows a punk band called Lady Parts. Every member of the band is a Muslim woman. As the band seeks commercial success, they also face challenges both personal and cultural.

Watch it on Peacock

15. Rutherford Falls

Year: 2021-2022
Cast: Ed Helms, Jana Schmieding, Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Leigh
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Two seasons, 18 episodes
Created by: Ed Helms, Michael Schur, and Sierra Teller Ornealas
Trailer: Watch here

This comedy explores the lives of Indigenous people in a small town and the challenges they face living in modern America and manages to remain hilarious despite approaching serious material. The writers’ room featured one of the largest Indigenous writing staff on American television. Sadly, the series was not picked up for a third season.

Watch it on Peacock

16. Dr. Death

Year: 2021-Present
Cast: Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin
Genre: Drama, Crime
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, 8 episodes
Created by: Patrick Macmanus
Trailer: Watch here

Based on a podcast based on a true story, teen heartthrob Joshua Jackson of Dawson’s Creek delivers an unsettling performance as a doctor who purposely botches his patients, and ends up killing two in the process. The anthology series will return for a second season starring Mandy Moore and Édgar Ramirez.

Watch it on Peacock

17. The Thing About Pam

Year: 2022
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Judy Greer, Josh Duhamel
Genre: Crime, Dark Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, six episodes
Created by: Jenny Klein
Trailer: Watch here

Renée Zellweger is having an absolute blast playing Pam Hupp, who gets caught in a scheme to murder her best friend. The show is shockingly comedic in tone for a series about a murder based on a true story, which may not work for everyone.

Watch it on Peacock

18. Angelyne

Year: 2022
Cast: Emmy Rossom, Hamish Linklater, Alex Karpovsky
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, five episodes
Created by: Allison Miller
Trailer: Watch here

In the mid-’80s, Los Angeles billboards experienced a takeover. The blonde bombshell Angelyne covered nearly them all. This series starring Emmy Rossum tells Angelyne’s story and implies that she invented being famous for the sake of being famous. Kim Kardashian owes a debt.

Watch it on Peacock

19. The Amber Ruffin Show

Year: 2020-Present
Cast: Amber Ruffin
Genre: Comedy, Late night
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Three seasons, 57 episodes
Created by: Amber Ruffin
Trailer: Watch here

Amber Ruffin’s appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers were so good that she got her own show. The show follows the classic format of a late-night show with monologues, sketches, and interviews with incredible guests including Wanda Sykes and John Oliver. Ruffin suits the host role naturally and her sweet but cunning persona makes the show unique.

Watch it on Peacock

20. Saved By The Bell

Year: 2022-2021
Cast: Haskiri Velazquez, Mitchell Hoog, Mario Lopez, Mark Paul-Gosslear
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: Two seasons, 20 episodes
Created by: Tracey Wigfield
Trailer: Watch here

Revivals and reboots premiere every day, but none of them were as charming as Saved by the Bell. California governor Zach Morris gets criticized for closing low-income schools in the state. His response? Bringing those students into better performing schools in higher-income areas including his alma mater, Bayside High. The newcomers of a new generation bring their own style and tone to the show, which dips into nostalgia but is not reliant upon it.

Watch it on Peacock

21. One Of Us Is Lying

Year: 2021-Present
Cast: Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Two seasons, 16 episodes
Created by: Erica Saleh
Trailer: Watch here

In this teen drama/murder mystery based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, five teens go to detention, but only one comes out alive. All four survivors claim innocence, but all of them have their own motivations to kill the deceased.

Watch it on Peacock

22. Baking It

Year: 2021-Present
Cast: Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler
Genre: Reality, Food
Rating: TV-1 4
Runtime: Two seasons, 10 episodes
Created by:
Trailer: Watch here

This baking competition series featuring duos competing for a cash prize is hosted by SNL legends Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph and judged by the people who know baking best: grandmas, known within the show as the Judging Grannies.

Watch it on Peacock

23. Vampire Academy

Year: 2022
Cast: Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore
Genre: Drama, Supernatural
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, ten episodes
Created by: Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre
Trailer: Watch here

The Vampire Academy is not just like any other boarding school. It’s a boarding school for vampires. It’s campy but deep, packed with story and good fun that will satisfy your insatiable thirst for vampire content.

Watch it on Peacock

24. Suits

Year: 2011-2019
Cast: Patrick J. Adams, Gabriel Macht, Meghan Markle, Rick Hoffman
Genre: Drama, Legal
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Nine seasons, 134 episodes
Created by: Aaron Korsh
Trailer: Watch here

Come for a pre-royal Meghan Markle, stay for the dramatic but never too serious law firm drama. Suits is smart, fun, occasionally (enjoyably) dumb, and calls back to USA’s “characters welcome” era, which is sorely missed.

Watch it on Peacock

25. Wolf Like Me

Year: 2022-Present
Cast: Isla Fisher, Josh Gad
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: One season, 6 episodes
Created by: Abe Forsythe
Trailer: Watch here

The title largely gives the show’s premise away, but let’s just say that there’s a secret from one of the main characters that will finally surface in the first season finale. On the story’s face, Josh Gad plays a widower who begins to date a delightful woman played by Isla Fisher. Both have major baggage, so this relationship just might work.

Watch it on Peacock

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The 25 Best Shows On Amazon Prime Right Now (January 2023)

You’re likely already an Amazon Prime subscriber, so why aren’t you taking advantage of all of the insanely good television hiding on the streaming platform? From award-winning comedy series to big-budget fantasy epics, Amazon Prime Video is one of the few platforms taking risks and delivering show-stopping TV right now, and its catalog is only growing.

To help whittle down the best binge-watches, we’ve carefully curated a list that has something for everyone — think bloody superhero brawls, paranormal comedies, hardboiled legal dramas, dusty Westerns, and more. So really, there’s no excuse not to start tuning in.

1. Fleabag

Year: 2016
Cast: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 2 seasons: 12 episodes
Created By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Trailer: Watch here

Raunchy, riotous, and revolutionary. When Phoebe Waller-Bridge turned her one-woman stage production into a fourth-wall-breaking comedic masterpiece on Amazon Prime a few years ago, TV shows everywhere took notice. Many have tried to replicate, but none have captured the dry-witted humor and brutally insightful poignancy of the mold they’re homaging. Bridge plays a 30-something Brit only identified as the titular Fleabag, a woman with emotional baggage that takes increasingly bizarre, problematic, and frankly, hilarious forms — a Guinea Pig Cafe, sexual trysts with Bus Rodents, familial squabbles, blasphemous confessional hook-ups with the Hot Priest, and a suicide attempt. This eventually becomes a love story, one more fixated on the kind of self-love Fleabag so desperately needs, but Andrew Scott’s foul-mouthed Father does inspire more than a bit of swooning in season two.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

2. The Boys

Year: 2019
Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons: 24 episodes
Created By: Eric Kripke
Trailer: Watch here

A wild, vulgar, berserker of a comic book adaptation, The Boys takes swing after swing at the very superhero verse its characters belong to. Created by Eric Kripke based on a Garth Ennis series, this show pulls absolutely no punches, delivering stomach-churning, awe-inspiring action sequences that are so gory, so nasty, you can’t possibly turn away. The premise follows a group of unexceptional vigilantes who recognize the superpowered gods among them have amassed too much, well, power. Karl Urban’s wise-cracking Billy Butcher has a personal axe to grind with Antony Starr’s deliciously evil, over-the-top Homelander (basically Superman if he had even bigger daddy issues), so he teams up with Jack Quaid’s Hughie to form a group of outcasts who just might be able to bring these corrupt Supes down a peg. Of course, they’ll have to sacrifice some marine mammals in the process.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

3. Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

Year: 2022
Cast: Morfydd Clark, Charlie Vickers, Ismael Cruz Cordova
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season: 9 episodes
Created By: Patrick McKay, John D. Payne
Trailer: Watch here

Adapting Tolkien is a tall order. Adapting an unfinished Tolkien work on the heels of Peter Jackson’s uber-successful film series is a near-impossible task. But somehow, this “prequel” does it, delivering epic storytelling and breathtaking visuals but pairing them with the kind of world-building and character-driven storytelling LOTR fans love so much. Spanning the rarely written about Second Age, the show follows new and familiar faces as they meet a new evil threatening Middle Earth. The cast is diverse, the action exciting, and the fantasy vibes are off the charts. Plus, this is one of the few newcomers to not only stick its season finale landing but use to it shake up the chessboard and keep fans guessing into season two.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

4. The English

Year: 2022
Cast: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer
Genre: Western, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 6 episodes
Created By: Hugo Blick
Trailer: Watch here

Sure, this Emily Blunt-starring mini-series delivers the exact amount of saloon shootouts and dust-ridden standoffs you’d expect from a show set in the Wild West of the 1800s. It even follows some tried-and-true tropes of the genre with its hero (heroine here) out for revenge on the wild open plains. But there’s something undeniably fresh and original about showrunner Hugo Blick’s tale, which sees Blunt’s Cornelia Locke partnering with an ex-calvary scout from the Pawnee Nation named Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer) to hunt down the men responsible for the death of her son. The two have a push-and-pull that eventually reveals harsh truths, not only about themselves but the way of the world, and those epiphanies land harder because Blick makes room for quieter, character-driven moments amidst all the violence and bloodshed endemic of the times.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

5. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Year: 2015
Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 4 seasons: 35 episodes
Created By: Amy Sherman-Palladino
Trailer: Watch here

Amy Sherman-Palladino follows up her Gilmore Girls success with another fast-talking, dry-witted dramedy, this time starring Rachel Brosnahan as a 1950s housewife with a hidden talent for stand-up comedy. Brosnahan plays Midge Masel, a young Jewish woman living an upper-crust New York City life when her marriage suddenly falls apart, and her natural affinity for comedy becomes the vehicle she uses to strike out on her own. Alex Borstein plays Susie, a club promoter who sees Midge’s potential and eventually becomes her manager while Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle play her parents Abe and Rose Wiessman. Brosnahan is undeniably the star here but it’s Midge’s friendship with Susie and their shared determination to make it in a man’s world that will keep you watching.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

6. Good Omens

Year: 2019
Cast: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Frances McDormand, Jon Hamm
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Rating: TV_MA
Runtime: 1 season: 6 episodes
Created By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Trailer: Watch here

David Tennant and Michael Sheen star in this hellishly fun adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s beloved work of fantasy. Tennant plays Crowley, a demon who’s spent the past 6,000 years living life as a kind of rockstar on Earth. Sheen plays his angelic counterpart, Aziraphale, a bumbling seraph who also calls Earth home and has a reluctant friendship with his immortal enemy. The two must band together to prevent the Anti-Christ — a kid in Oxfordshire — from rising to power, destroying the world, and, most importantly, Crowley’s best of Queen mixtape.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

7. Invincible

Year: 2021
Cast: Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons
Genre: Animation, Action
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cory Walker
Trailer: Watch here

Robert Kirkman builds on his track record of turning comic book favorites into worthwhile TV shows with this animated adaptation that stars his Walking Dead buddy Steven Yeun and a host of other A-list talents. Yeun voices a teenager named Mark Grayson, whose dad is an all-powerful being known as Omni-Man (JK Simmons). Grayson has abilities of his own, and he’s trying to walk in his father’s footsteps but some bloody storytelling twists elevate the show’s premise to something infinitely more exciting than its Marvel-esque beginnings. If anything, this show continues the tradition of investigating our habit of superhero worship that The Boys does so well, albeit in cartoon form.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

8. Jack Ryan

Year: 2018
Cast: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly
Genre: Action, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons: 24 episodes
Created By: Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland
Trailer: Watch here

John Krasinski’s return to television marks a dramatic departure from his Office days. Here, he plays famed CIA analyst Jack Ryan in a series that explores the character’s beginnings as an up-and-coming agent whose confidence in his abilities often lead to him clashing with higher-ups like his boss, James Greer (a fantastic Wendell Pierce). In its latest installment, Ryan finds himself on the wrong side of the law when a hunch that Russia is resurrecting a Cold War plan to destablize Europe puts him at odds with his own government. There’s enough spy-thriller action to keep fans on the edge of their seat and Krasinski delivers a well-rounded action hero who’s easy to root for.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

9. ZeroZeroZero

Year: 2019
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Gabriel Byrne
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: Leonardo Fasoli, Mauricio Katz, Stefano Sollima
Trailer: Watch here

This Italian crime drama is a unique blend of three separate stories, all thrilling in their own right but, when combined, make for an epic, action-packed adventure. One thread follows a pair of Mexican druglords helped in their business pursuits by a corrupt military. Another focuses on a Mafia-like crime syndicate in Italy thrown into chaos when its boss is challenged by a rival family member. The final storyline unites these two, centering on an American family whose shipping business transports large amounts of cocaine between the Mexican and Italian sides. When one such shipment is diverted, disaster strikes, forcing everyone to get a bit more cutthroat in order to come out on top.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

10. Outer Range

Year: 2022
Cast: Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Will Patton, Lewis Pullman
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: Brian Watkins
Trailer: Watch here

Think Yellowstone meets The Twilight Zone, and you’ll come close to grasping the sci-fi sky-country vibes of this Josh Brolin-starring series. There are the normal soap opera elements that make for juicy drama — feuding families, rival ranches, etc. — but they’re all elevated by a central mystery that incorporates some mind-bending genre tropes to great effect. Brolin plays Royal Abbott, a quiet rancher fighting to save his family after tragedy strikes. When he discovers a black void hidden in one of his pastures, he’s forced to question where he comes from and the nature of more abstract concepts like time, space, and the meaning behind it all. It’s weird, it’s eerie, and it makes for a riveting binge-watch.

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11. LuLaRich

Year: 2021
Cast: DeAnne Stidham, Mark Stidham
Genre: Documentary
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season: 4 episodes
Created By: Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason
Trailer: Watch here

Multi-level marketing scams are a true crime goldmine but even the wildest pyramid scheme put to camera has nothing on this story of a stretchy legging empire run by brightly patterned, highly-caffeinated Mormon overlords. What begins as an empowering tale of entrepreneurship (a housewife selling maxi skirts from her trunk to make ends meet) snowballs into a weird, prosperity gospel garbage fire filled with Tijuana Skinnies group chat members, fart-smelling leggings, weaponized oral sex acts, and hellish company cruises. It’s the “Fyre Festival” of online retail, and you won’t be able to look away.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

12. The Underground Railroad

Year: 2021
Cast: Thuso Mbedu, Joel Edgerton, William Jackson Harper
Genre: History, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 10 episodes
Created By: Barry Jenkins
Trailer: Watch here

Barry Jenkins gives audiences a beautiful, moving portrait of the Black experience with this fantastical adaptation of a 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead. The series tells the story of a runaway slave named Cora (a sublime Thuso Mbedu) who is hunted by a dogged and dangerous catcher named Arnold Ridgeway (a menacing Joel Edgerton). As in the book, the show imagines the Underground Railroad not as a series of safe houses slaves used to escape the South, by as an actual, working entity with conductors, railworker, and underground tunnels that ferry fugitives across state lines. It’s magical realism done with careful thought for character development and storytelling and it’s one of the most thrilling, emotional, and inspiring POVs of the time period we’ve seen thus far.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

13. Bosch

Year: 2014
Cast: Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 7 seasons: 68 episodes
Created By: Eric Ellis Overmyer
Trailer: Watch here

Bosch takes an often-done police procedural trope, turns the dial up to 11, and lets lead Titus Welliver have unseemly amounts of fun playing a rogue detective charged with solving increasingly grisly crimes each season. Harry Bosch is a bit of a formulaic character — a former military man, a rule-follower, and truth-searcher, but Welliver gives him the right amount of sass to make his case-load — which includes everything from corrupt cops and conspiracies to solving his own mother’s murder — that much more interesting.

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14. Hanna

Year: 2019
Cast: Esme Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman
Genre: Action, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 3 seasons: 22 episodes
Created By: David Farr
Trailer: Watch here

Based on the 2011 film of the same name, this action-adventure series only gets better with each season, building a mythology around its titular character that its feature-length counterpart just didn’t have time for. Esme Creed-Miles plays Hanna, a young girl living an isolated life in the Polish wilderness with her father Erik (Joel Kinnaman). Erik was once part of a government program that recruited pregnant women to experiment on their unborn children, essentially creating super soldiers. Hanna is one-such child, but Erik rescued her after falling in love with her mother. He teaches her to become expert assassin, training that comes in handy when the program hunts down its lost property, thrusting them both into a global conspiracy that puts their relationship to the ultimate test.

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15. Flack

Year: 2019
Cast: Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Rebecca Benson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 2 seasons: 12 episodes
Created By: Oliver Lansley
Trailer: Watch here

Anna Paquin plays an out-of-control fixer in this quick-burn British comedy series that’s a surprisingly addictive watch. Paquin’s Robyn is an American PR exec living in London with her loving boyfriend and sister. She’s tasked with making the problems of her very messy, very high-profile clients quietly disappear in whatever ways she deems fit. The problem: her personal life is just as chaotic as her professional one and when they start to mix, Robyn’s method of “fixing” grows increasingly problematic — and hilarious.

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16. The Legend of Vox Machina

Year: 2022
Cast: Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jefferson, Ashley Johnson
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 12 episodes
Created By: Chris Prynoski
Trailer: Watch here

If you’re a fan of Dungeons & Dragons style RPGs, then you likely already know of this beautifully animated Amazon Prime series (which just got renewed for a third season). But even if massive video-game epics aren’t your thing, there’s something whimsical, thrilling, and addictive about this show that’s set prior to its web series counterpart, Critical Role. It follows a seven-member Vox Machina team on their first real mission which takes them across the continent of Tal’Dorei and sees them avenging murders and rescuing entire towns in need.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

17. Hunters

Year: 2020
Cast: Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, Lena Olin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 10 episodes
Created By: David Weil
Trailer: Watch here

Al Pacino leads a group of Nazi hunters in this thrilling crime drama set in late ’70s New York. Pacino’s Meyer Offerman is a Holocaust survivor and philanthropist who runs a secret group trying to prevent numerous escaped Nazis from enacting their plan to establish the Fourth Reicht. Each Hunter has a specific skill set that comes in handy for certain missions, with Logan Lerman’s brilliant mathematician student being the newest addition to the group. The show’s central question, “Would you do bad things for the good of humankind?” is an intriguing one that hasn’t really been asked like this before.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

18. The Kids In The Hall

Year: 2022
Cast: David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald
Trailer: Watch here

If the successful revival of this Canadian series 27 years after its original run doesn’t convince you that sketch comedy is alive and well, we don’t know what will. The ’80s troupe is back from the broadcast dead, finding new life on Amazon Prime’s streaming platform. The main players return, as does their signature brand of hilarious hijink-ery but a few things look different too which means the guys aren’t just rehashing old jokes but pushing their comedy in inventive ways that fans should appreciate.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

19. Tell Me Your Secrets

Year: 2021
Cast: Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Amy Brenneman
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season: 10 episodes
Created By: Harriet Warner
Trailer: Watch here

This series starring Lily Rabe and Amy Brenneman investigates the fine line between victim and perpetrator by way of three separate stories that have surprising connections through guilt and grief. Brenneman plays Mary, a mother whose daughter is believed to have been murdered by a convicted serial killer. Rabe plays Emma, the girlfriend of said serial killer, recently released from jail for aiding in his crimes and trying to start a new life in Louisianna. Hamish Linklater’s John is the third player in this story, a serial rapist looking for redemption. Each try to move past their sins, to evolve into functioning members of society, and each are eventually forced to reckon with their true natures because of that.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

20. Reacher

Year: 2022
Cast: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald
Genre: Action, Crime
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season, 8 episodes
Created By: Nick Santora
Trailer: Watch here

No offense to Tom Cruise, but this is the Jack Reacher adaptation that fans deserved. Based on the book series by Lee Child, this show introduces the drifter and ex-military man to audiences by way of actor Alan Ritchson, whose bulk and stony demeanor feel bit more faithful to the source material. Reacher visit a rural Georgia town in the show’s first season and finds himself arrested for a murder he didn’t commit. When law enforcement wises up to his innocence, he decides to track down the killer himself, a hunt that leads him into the thick of a conspiracy filled with corrupt cops, shady businessman, and cutthroat politicians.

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21. Goliath

Year: 2016
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Ariande, Tania Raymonde
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 4 seasons: 32 episodes
Created By: David E. Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro
Trailer: Watch here

This gritty legal drama starring Billy Bob Thornton as a washed up alcoholic lawyer is the kind of all meat, no-fat storytelling you’d expect from David E. Kelley (the guy who gave us Boston Legal and Ally McBeal). Thornton plays Billy McBride, a prodigious attorney who walks away from his firm after a case gone horribly wrong. He’s pulled back into the legal drama when an investigation into a big tech firm falls into his lap. The courtroom theatrics are dialed down a notch here in favor of showing McBride’s troubled personal life and the increasingly problematic ways he manages his guilt — all to say, it’s the perfect kind of show for Thornton, who excels at playing the gruff, silent, burdened anti-hero.

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22. Truth Seekers

Year: 2020
Cast: Nick Frost, Samson Kayo, Emma D’Arcy, Simon Pegg
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Nat Saunders
Trailer: Watch here

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg re-team for another paranormal comedy, this time in small-screen form. Frost plays Gus, an engineer with an Internet Service Provider who does a bit of ghost hunting on the side. Pegg plays his boss who saddles him with a new partner, Elton John (Samson Kayo). The two become unlikely friends and unlikely paranormal investigators, eventually added by Emma D’Arcy’s Astrid, a woman haunted by ghosts to the point that she’ll do anything — even working with these two idiots — to shut them up.

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23. Paper Girls

Year: 2022
Cast: Camryn Jones, Sofia Rosinsky, Riley Lai Nelet
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 1 season: 8 episodes
Created By: Stephany Folsom
Trailer: Watch here

Based on a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughn, this ’80s Sci-Fi adventure series continues on the tradition of kids saving the world from monstrous threats that Stranger Things has made so popular. Here, four young girls just trying to finish their paper route on the night of Halloween get pulled into a war between two sets of time-travelling factions that could decide the fate of mankind. It’s funny and mind-bending and filled with cozy nostalgia.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

24. The Expanse

Year: 2015
Cast: Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 6 seasons: 62 episodes
Created By: Mark Fergus, Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck
Trailer: Watch here

This Sci-Fi space epic based off a series of beloved books found new life on Amazon for its fourth season after being canceled by Syfy in 2018 which was good news for fans who wanted more adventures for the show’s rag-tag band of anti-heroes. Set in the future when humanity has colonized the Solar System, The Expanse follows a trio of leads: United Nations Security Council member Chrisjen Avasarala, police detective Josephus Miller, and ship’s officer James Holden as they unravel a conspiracy that could break the uneasy peace. It’s full of action and thriller-like twists, but it’s the memorable, well-rounded character work that makes this a must-see.

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25. The Wheel Of Time

Year: 2021
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Madeleine Madden
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 season, 10 episodes
Created By:
Trailer: Watch here

Based on a best-selling series of books, this high-fantasy adaptation charts a lot of ground in its first season. Set in a world where magic exists but only a select few can access it, the show follows a powerful woman named Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), who must guide five young men and women on a dangerous journey to save their world. It’s a less-complicated follow-along than something like The Rings of Power with a fantastic magical system and plenty of action to keep things interesting.

Watch it on Amazon Prime

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Some House Republicans Were Reportedly ‘Cursing Out’ Matt Gaetz Over His Shenanigans As The Speaker Fiasco Drags On

Matt Gaetz is reportedly testing the patience of his fellow Republicans. Following the 12th vote for Speaker of the House, which once again saw Kevin McCarthy fail to clinch the coveted position, Gaetz was greeted with a not so friendly reception after he nominated Jim Jordan ahead of the vote. Jordan, for his part, has continued to nominate and vote for McCarthy.

According to CBS News reporter Robert Costa, Republican House members reportedly lost their cool with Gaetz as the speaker debacle continued to show no end in sight. It presumably didn’t help that a 13th vote came and went with McCarthy still short of the necessary threshold.

“Some House Republicans just walked off the floor in disgust with Gaetz,” Costa tweeted from the scene. “I’m in speaker’s lobby and some members are cursing out Gaetz as they leave the floor. ‘I’m not listening to this —-!’ one House R says… others fuming and going outside to balcony to cool off.”

Getting chewed out by his own party is becoming routine for Gaetz as he, somehow, continues to hold sway over enough GOP members to derail the House vote. During a Thursday evening appearance on Fox News, Gaetz was grilled by Laura Ingraham who blasted Gaetz for demanding concessions from McCarthy while still vowing that he’ll never vote for him.

“You can’t have it both ways,” Ingraham yelled at Gaetz. “You can’t say ‘I’m a man of principle and I believe in X, Y and Z. But if he gives me X, Y and Z, I’m not gonna vote for him.’ What? How does that make sense?”

(Via Robert Costa on Twitter)

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50 Cent Confirmed An ‘8 Mile’ Series About Eminem’s Life And Legacy Is Underway And It’s ‘Gonna Be Big’

As his breakout television shows BMF starring and Power Book II: Ghost return for new seasons this month, rapper 50 Cent stopped by REAL 92.3 FM’s show Big Boy’s Neighborhood to discuss each show (which he serves as an executive producer) on and more. As he chatted with host Big Boy, 50 revealed that he would be adding yet another television series to his lengthy production resume.

As the pair talked about 50’s relationship with fellow rapper Eminem and their performance at Super Bowl LVI in 2022, 50 declared a television series version of Eminem’s biopic 8 Mile was underway.

“I wanna bring… I’m gonna bring 8 Mile to television,” 50 said. The mogul confirmed that his dear friend was aware of his plans before continuing, “We in motion. It’s gonna be big. I’m working. I ain’t got no duds.” This news served as a surprise to the host as just days ago actor Mekhi Phifer shot down the idea of a sequel as the film’s anniversary approached.

When asked about the potential for a remake of the film, Phifer replied, “Sometimes it’s just best to leave it alone. Once you make it a classic, no reason to fool around with it,” he said. Phifer ended with, “It could be interesting, but I wouldn’t be in it, and I’m sure Eminem wouldn’t be in it either.”

But 50 Cent creatively disagrees telling Big Boy, “I think it should be there for [Eminem’s] legacy because it’s important to me that they understand it.”

Watch the full interview above.

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Gloria Trevi Said She’s Being ‘Unfairly Accused Of Crimes I Did Not Commit’ In Response To The Sex Ring Lawsuit Filed Against Her

Gloria Trevi responded to a lawsuit that resurfaced claims that she groomed and exploited young women for her ex-producer Sergio Andrade in the ’90s. Today (January 6), the Mexican pop star released a statement where she maintained her innocence against the allegations of her involvement in a cult-like sex ring.

Earlier this week, Rolling Stone revealed that a lawsuit was filed in LA on December 30 against Trevi and Andrade by two Jane Doe’s. The Doe’s claimed they were 13 and 15 years old when Trevi lured them into Andrade’s alleged sex ring with the promise of making them into stars. In the lawsuit, they accused Trevi of grooming them to become sex slaves for Andrade. The Doe’s are described as “survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, assault, molestation, and abuse” in the filing.

Trevi opened her statement by mentioning that she was a victim of sexual abuse as well. At the 2018 Latin American Music Awards, she gave a speech where she implied that Andrade took advantage of her without directly naming him.

“My words are directed to everyone who may have seen recent allegations about me but do not know the background and my story,” Trevi said in her statement. “Being a victim of physical and sexual abuse is one of the worst things that can happen to a human being. I say it, and I know it, because I am a survivor. And, my thoughts go out to anyone who, like me, has ever been the victim of any kind of abuse.”

Trevi then called the claims against her in the lawsuit “false” while adding that she acquitted of the sex ring charges in Mexico in 2004. After serving four years in pre-trial detention in Chihuahua, a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to support the rape, kidnapping, and corruption of minors charges that she faced in Mexico.

“But I will not remain silent while I am unfairly accused of crimes I did not commit,” Trevi said. “These false accusations, which were first made against me 25 years ago, have been tried in various courts and, in all instances, I have been completely and totally acquitted. For these old, disproven claims to resurface now is tremendously painful for me and for all my family. The accusations were false when they were made and remain false today.”

In addition to denying the claims, Trevi added that she filed a lawsuit in the US to “expose and hold all those who are trying to defame me accountable.” She ended her statement with confidence that she will be able to clear her name in court: “I will continue to move forward and work to get justice in this case — and I will do so knowing that the truth is on my side.”

Trevi closed out 2022 as the second highest-grossing female Latin touring artist in North America. In terms of ticket sales, her La Isla Divina Tour finished in second place behind Karol G’s Strip Love Tour. Last year, Trevi also released her La Isla Divina album that featured artists like Guaynaa, Mónica Naranjo, and Timo Nuñez.

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Empowerment Coach Garrain Jones Gives Us Absolutely Fire Advice For A Great 2023

Just over a decade ago, Garrain Jones found himself living out of a car, wondering where it had all gone wrong. “I had all of these negative ideas in my head and I was in a really dark place,” says Jones. “I was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, my girlfriend had broken up with me, my daughter had disowned me, I had spent two years in prison, and my mother was sick in the hospital. I had lost all direction.”

That all changed in one fateful moment two years later, when Jones screamed out to the universe for help. One week after begging for change into the cosmos, a stranger gave him a phrase that would set him on a new path. “This homeless guy came up to me to ask for money and I told him that I had even less than him,” says Jones. “That man said, ‘Change your mind and change your life.’ I started to come to the realization that I had ended up where I did because I was following the wrong train of thought.”

This started a chain of positive choices that took Jones from destitute to destined for greatness. Flash forward to the present day, Jones has become one of the most respected transformation coaches in the world, leading people of all kinds into a more empowered existence. Uproxx was able to spend some enlightening time with Jones, he shared some advice for anyone looking to make meaningful changes this year.

FIND YOUR INNER CHILD

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“There are a lot of people who have plenty of material things but still aren’t happy, and one reason is they have been ignoring that little kid inside of them. The one who wants to sing, dance, or run, who didn’t even know about half the things they’ve bought over a lifetime. One way I put it is this. Imagine yourself as a little child coming up to you and saying, “Mom!” or “Dad!” And you are flat out ignored by your older self for a few decades. How do you think that relationship is going to feel? Not great.

“One way to reconnect with that inner self is to do those things that we loved to do as a child like singing, dancing, running, or reading. I met a lady who hadn’t danced in 20 years, and I made her sign up for a dance glass. One year later, she had found a man, her intimacy was better, her finances, everything was better because she was looking to fulfill what was inside before the outside.”

FIND YOUR TRIBE

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“I love the phrase: ‘flowers grow together faster than they do by themselves.’ Being part of a community, where you can immerse yourself in a better culture, does more for you than pretty much any work that you can do alone. For example, you could either take five minutes a week with an app trying to learn French while sitting in a Coffee Bean, or you could go to a French cafe and immerse yourself in that community. Even if you aren’t able to travel, there are groups all over social media platforms like Facebook where people will get together. Maybe something like ‘healthy moms in Austin’ or ‘sports dads in Cincinnati.’ Those can work too.

“Don’t wait for those opportunities to come to you, or those people to stumble into your life, seek them out. Find people who are thinking like you want to think and doing what you want to do, even if that’s not the way you are in that moment. Back when I was homeless, trying to find my way out of living in a car I worked to find a community that was living the life that I wanted to live. Instead of going out to drink or party, I would go to free self-help seminars where I could use my brain instead of waste it.

“This principle also guided me through my weight loss journey. Growing up I was fed nothing but fatty foods, and I knew nothing about a healthy or active lifestyle. Pretty much everyone in my family was overweight or obese, and I was 40 pounds overweight. Then when I was 32 I started that change by seeking out people around me who were leading a healthy lifestyle. They were speaking in a way I had never heard, saying words I had never heard, doing things I had never seen, and eating foods I hadn’t eaten before.

“From leaning on those people, and doing what they did, I lost 35 pounds of fat and put on 19 pounds of muscle. I took my body fat percent from 16 percent to 6 percent. Those practices became habits, and now I have been able to keep that up for a decade.”

BREAK THE TECHNOLOGY TETHER

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“One of the best steps I took was to turn off the television and started putting down my phone more often. I took all of the energy that I used to use scrolling or watching mindless shows, and I put all of that energy into reading or listening to books. I read The Power Of Positive Thinking by Doctor Norman Vincent Peale over 300 times. Good things just kept happening while I was reading those pages. I read Grow Rich! With Peace Of Mind by Napoleon Hill and The Power by Rhonda Byrne.

“I wasn’t reading those books for memory, I was reading those books for mastery. I relate it to listening to a song over and over again. Before long your subconscious mind is going to have a hold of it, and think of it. That is what these books were to me. Once they were in there, I couldn’t get those books or good ideas out of my head. The lyrics from their books were abundance, kindness, love, forgiveness, and letting go of resentment. That was the song in my head. That is the song that I was singing to others as well. Before I started reading and listening to all of these great minds, my brain was filled with negativity and random thoughts that had nothing to do with my life moving forward. You can’t just pick up oil out of a cup. But if you pour in enough water, the oil will be flushed out of the cup. My brain was that cup.”

SET YOUR INTENTIONS

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“Intention plants the seed for the results that you want to create. If you are working without intention, then you are throwing pasta at a wall and hoping that a spaghetti dinner ends up on the table. One of the exercises that I have adopted to stay on track is writing a letter to myself in the future every year congratulating for hitting the milestones I want. I find that by staying within the bounds of 365 days it is easier to focus on attainable goals and those critical steps that will lead to massive change.

“Start by putting today’s date at the top, and address yourself saying how proud you are for accomplishing all of the goals that you want to see achieved. Try to get details in the text, because seeing is believing and this can bring you that much closer. For example, if you wanted to lose 40 pounds, say how proud you are of yourself you are for finding a gym, a trainer, a partner that helps you, eating better, going every other day, finding a healthier community, or whatever else you think will get you there.

“Put that letter in the post to yourself, and don’t open it until a year later. You might be surprised at where you are when you read that letter again.”

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These are just a few pieces of advice from Jones to get you started. For those interested in getting more of his teaching or engaging with him more you can find him on social media or on his website. Don’t get discouraged if you have missteps, but if you begin the process of transformation in a strong way with these fundamentals you could find yourself well on the way to a better life. “The funny thing is when you dig really deep into it — if you have the fundamentals, and you make them a part of everything that you do, that’s when you are doing that high-level work,” encourages Jones. “Even the masters have to do the basics.”

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Ridley Scott Has Allegedly Recruited Paul Mescal To Lead The ‘Gladiator’ Sequel

With all of the various sequels that have been popping up lately, it’s hard to decide which ones will be good, and which ones might fall very, very flat. Of course, when the original director is on board, this could change things, which just might be the case for the upcoming Gladiator sequel.

Deadline reports that Ridley Scott is itching to get back to that colosseum for some good old-fashioned violence, this time with the internet’s current golden boy Paul Mescal as the one in all of that snazzy armor. Costume designer Janty Yates is also slated to return, along with production designer Arthur Max. The original flick starred Russel Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, and Oliver reed.

Mescal won’t be replacing Crowe, because that is an unattainable goal for anyone, but he will instead portray Lucius, the son of Nielsen’s Lucilla from the first film, who has now grown enough to be his own main character. This will be the latest of many fan-favorite projects for Mescal, who has been earning some Oscar buzz for his performance in Aftersun.

Scott, who most recently directed a different type of violent Italian-adjacent drama film (House Of Gucci) will return to lead the project after announcing that he was working on a script for the sequel in 2021, over two decades since the original film was released. Scott recently wrapped filming on the Apple TV film Napoleon, where he reunited with Phoenix, which is expected to be released this year.

(Via Deadline)

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‘M3GAN’ Is Fun, Medium-Brow Horror Far Better Than You’d Expect For January

A horror movie doesn’t necessarily need redolent, relevant subtext, or some grand unifying metaphor to tie it all together, but it does help. That’s especially true in the case of M3GAN, opening this week from director Gerard Johnstone and writers Akela Cooper and James Wan, which, absent social commentary, is basically just a scary doll movie. We’ve seen those (in multiple, still-running franchises); even the lowest-brow popcorn head naturally expects this one to have some satire.

M3GAN is indeed a scary doll, but her powers are robotic, not strictly supernatural, and the subtext of this riff on killer AI is that it’s dangerous to let technology raise our kids. M3GAN (you can annoy your friends by stubbornly referring to it as “muh-THREE-gan”) opens with a family on their way to a ski trip. Mom and dad are bickering, and daughter, Cady (Violet McGraw) is occupied playing with a weird doll designed to poop itself. The doll was a gift from Cady’s aunt, Gemma (Allison Williams) and both parents think it’s weird, and that Cady probably shouldn’t be playing with it. Yet, as dad points out, what’s the alternative? Cady whining and bugging them the whole drive? Easier to let Cady play with her weird new tech, even if it might be warping her brain. Her whole generation is going to have warped brains anyway, wouldn’t want her to be left out.

It’s a version of a dilemma every parent has faced these days. Whether to let your kid disappear into their tablet to look at God knows what, because it’s easy and we’re too overworked or lazy, or to try to do the “right” thing and force them into the real world, at great personal cost and the risk of possibly becoming the modern version of the kids we remember whose parents wouldn’t let them watch TV and thus missed out on every playground reference to the Simpsons.

Because M3GAN is a horror movie, Cady quickly becomes orphaned via snowplow (get well soon, Jeremy Renner) and sent to live with her aforementioned aunt Gemma, a curiously attractive AI toy designer in Seattle. Gemma is a robotics whiz, but her boss, David (Ronnie Chieng) keeps pressuring her to design toys that can be manufactured cheaply (hence the shitting Furby she gifted Cady). Cady turns Gemma’s life upside down, but also inspires her. To defy her boss yet again and create M3GAN, short for Model 3 Generative Android, a lifelike android companion, and the opposite of a cheap toy. M3GAN is so impressive that the only question is, will she cost less than a Tesla? The plan is for her to be a status toy.

This, of course, puts Cady, as the M3GAN prototype’s primary user, in the metaphorical backseat of a Tesla on full self-drive beta mode. Hopefully, the fancy tech will get her to school safely, but there’s always the risk that it mows down a few pedestrians along the way or ejects her into an abandoned quarry.

M3GAN is a pretty pitch-perfect satire, of both parenting in the age of predatory technology, and of the tech industry itself. Both of which tend to pit convenience and luxury against mental health and a right to privacy.

It’s also better at comedy than it is at horror. M3GAN is strong on color — Gemma’s obnoxious neighbor, Celia, and the other moms at the free-range alternative school Gemma sends Cady to are all lovingly sketched and imbued with memorable detail — but a little light on logistics in a mildly disappointing way. The kills are reasonably delicious (a must in this kind of movie), but they’d probably be more delicious if Johnstone had taken more time to plot and stage them in a way that made spatial and practical sense for a four-foot silicone doll. Art thrives on limitation and all that, but M3GAN seems like it’s kind of in a hurry. And so the doll just kind of defies physics whenever the story requires. It doesn’t ruin the movie, but it does feel like this could’ve been so much more fun with just a little more care and creativity in the staging. Subtext is great, but don’t sell out the text for it.

The upside is that the doll (supposedly some combination of practical effects, CGI, and a child actor in a costume) is delightfully weird, breaking into song on occasion, and the kind of proper boss bitch it’s easy to cheer for. That dead-eyed stare, those inscrutable facial expressions and bitchy comebacks — she’s the ultimate real housewife, in miniature.

Mostly, M3GAN is fun: kinda smart, kinda stupid, and in either case punching way above its weight for a horror movie released in January (traditionally the studio dumping ground for schlocky turds). If this is the new bar for mass-market horror, the industry is in good shape.

‘M3GAN’ is available now in theaters everywhere. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can read more of his reviews here.