The thing I miss the most about FX’s Fargo, which last aired in late 2020? It’s not the darkly-funny, Coen Brothers-inspired narratives, or the character names, although those are both good. No, the thing I miss the most is hearing respected performers like Martin Freeman, Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Jessie Buckley trying — and occasionally failing — to do a “don’t cha know” accent. Next up: Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple, who debuts her Fargo voice (and a stun gun and baseball bat covered in nails) in the first teaser for season five. You can watch it above.
“Juno was definitely at the top of that group right away because she really embodies so much of what this character needs,” casting director Rachel Tenner told Entertainment Weekly about hiring Temple. “Like all of Fargo, she’s so amazing at comedy, but she also can navigate the dark waters that Fargo explores every season. She was someone that was a pretty easy go-to when we started talking about it.”
Fargo season five, which is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in 2019, follows Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Temple), a “typical Midwestern housewife” who is “plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind,” the plot description reads. The cast also includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lamorne Morris, Joe Keery, Richa Moorjani, and Jon Hamm, who will crush the Fargo accent.
Fargo returns to FX and FX on Hulu on November 21st.
There was an X (formerly Twitter) account named @Mattyfrnglomg that seemed to belong to The 1975’s singer: According to fans on Reddit, Healy has shared tweets from the X account on his verified Instagram account, leading some to believe the X account was a genuine Healy endeavor. The account recently tweeted, “I told Lucy Dacus that ‘Boygenius’ had inspired me and George to start a new band called ‘Girlr*tard’. I don’t really hear from her that often.”
Boygenius member Lucy Dacus didn’t seem to care for that, as she shared the tweet and added, “you don’t hear from me at all.” At some point after Dacus shared the tweet, the @Mattyfrnglomg account was deleted; Trying to access it now yields the message, “This account doesn’t exist.”
Back in July, Healy addressed some past controversies, saying on stage, “I was always, like, trying stuff. And some stuff I got right and some stuff I got wrong. But do you know what? There’s a lot of things I’ve said, jokes that I’ve made, you know what, there’s probably a couple of f*cking songs I’d take back if I had the chance. What I mean is that I really am only doing this because I want to make you guys laugh and feel good. That’s what my favorite art does, and that’s what I’m trying to do. I get a bit excited. And, you know what, I’m f*cking proud of myself.”
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Fionna and Cake were introduced in a season three episode of the wonderful animated series Adventure Time, and became instant fan favorites. Now, the pair have their own spinoff show, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, which finds them on a multiverse-hopping journey towards self-discovery. It looks just as funny, existential, and clever as the original, just with a cat (Cake) instead of a dog (Jake). Whether that’s an improvement is up to you.
LaKeith Stanfield heads into the horror realm in this adaptation of Victor LaValle’s acclaimed novel. The show promises to be a grown-up fairytale begins in a New York City library and heads into a version of the Big Apple that usually remains closed from human eyes. It’s also a parenthood fable, and yes, it truly feels like the scariest horror stories often revolve around kids, whether they happen to be good or evil. Given Stanfield’s ability to showcase the surreal in various other projects, one can bet that this quality adds to the spooks in this series.
Solar Opposites is, in a sense, two shows for the price of one. What a deal! One show is the alien adventures of Korvo (now voiced by Dan Stevens), Terry, Jesse, Yumyulack, and the Pupa, the cutest lil’ guy on television. The other show takes place in The Wall, where humans have been shrunk down and held hostage inside a terrarium. Both are very funny, very weird, and very good. Solar Opposites doesn’t get as much attention as Rick and Morty, but it should.
Rosario Dawson is back as Ahsoka in this spinoff of The Mandalorian, with all the face paint and prosthetics to go along with it. The biggest question here, though, is whether everyone’s favorite little green guy will show up at some point to steal a few scenes and hearts. Fingers crossed.
It’s so easy to feel safe and secure with our place in the food chain (at least until AI turns our microwaves against us), but the reality is we wouldn’t fare very well out in the wilderness, shuffling around with true predators who use teeth, claws, brutal strength, and their understanding of the elements to wage daily wars on their rivals and competing species. The Tom Hardy-narrated Netflix docuseries, Predators, amplifies that truth with humbling clarity, spanning the globe to show stunning and startling footage of predators in their habitat and at their most territorial and fierce. It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, it’s nature.
This intense story, set over several continents, brings us crop circles galore and civilization’s collapse while humanity struggles to pull it together during (as the title suggests) an alien invasion. Naturally, there is a sheriff who gets pulled back from the verge of retirement as soldiers, mission controllers, and civilians everywhere lend their perspectives in this series from Simon Kinberg (several X-Men movies) and David Weil (Citadel, Hunters). The show is back for a second season while the world still struggles to figure what, exactly, is happening in real-time.
FX’s sweet, celebrity-glazed sports docuseries about the historic soccer (sorry football) club that could is back and making a case for why it could be the comfort-binge of the Fall. All of the ingredients that made its first installment so damn charming are still there: a hopeful Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are still fretting over their investment in a slightly-less-doomed Wrexham FC, the club’s manager is still tossing out F-bombs a mile a minute, the humble, dedicated township are cautiously optimistic about their side’s brightening future, and a player named Paul Mullin is scoring more goals than once believed humanly possible. But when you add in royal visits and heartbreaking rejections, million-pound renovations, and unbelievable overtime comebacks it raises the stakes yet again, making us and the fans believe that anything — even a coveted promotion in the English League — is possible. Ted Lasso, eat your heart out.
Heartstopper is really just a lovely little show. The first season introduced us all to Charlie and Nick, two teenage boys who became friends and then discovered that friendship might actually be… something… more than friendship. Season two takes things even further. It’s funny and sweet and charming and gay as all hell, which is… yeah, really just lovely.
The world has been trying to leave Sterling Archer behind for years and years with hilarious results as the spy and his associates have navigated land, sea, and air (and space), often stumbling into calamity while chasing adventure. But now, in its 14th season, the series, with all its ambition and wit, has reached its climax (yes, we are still doing phrasing) and we are here for it, specifically, the final bows of one of the greatest voice casts ever assembled. How will it all end? We can’t wait to find out, but regardless, Archer’s place as one of the best comedies of this century is assured.
Even though there’s been a lot of upheaval at HBO Max/Max and even more so for films and TV shows starring DC characters, at least one supervillainess is safe. Miss Harley (who does not need the Joker for success) was almost pointedly renewed as a clattering of show cancellations and removals swirled. Heck, Kaley Cuoco’s voice even gave us the only Valentine’s Day special worth watching this year. Soon, we might find out whether Bane is still making love to a skyscraper as Harley attempts to get in good with the Bat Family. Quite a contrast there.
The official description of this movie reads as follows: “Two strangers connect on a flight to London, only to be separated by a twist of fate. A reunion seems improbable — but love has a way of defying the odds.” Is this the most original story ever committed to film? Well, no. Should this movie have been titled Love at First Flight? Probably. But could you do a love worst than a sweet little meet-cute starring Haley Lu Richardson from The White Lotus? Definitely. Lots to consider here.
The only “solo” spinoff of AMC’s post-apocalyptic world is upon us. Daryl is most entertaining character to send to France, and he’s also the least religious of the bunch, which makes it awfully funny to see him hanging with a bunch of nuns after waking up in France like “WTF?” Most of all, though, Daryl earns his “Big Ass Kicker” nickname and we also get a lovely character study of the most loyal and industrious survivor of Rick’s old bunch. The action also delivers, so get ready for crossbows and total chaos at Parisian landmarks. Pssst, we also chose the most essential to watch before this spinoff.
Ryan Murphy’s sick, twisted horror anthology has been a bit of a mixed bag over the years but if there’s anything that can unite the binge-watching masses this Fall it’s Kim Kardashian – first-time actor, lifelong lover of the arts. Kris Jenner’s prodigy is playing a supporting role in this season’s storyline, which can be best summed up as the millennial version of Rosemary’s Baby, while Emma Roberts plays an actress who becomes pregnant and begins to fear that someone (or something) is after her. Demonic symbolism, “hysterical” women, and off-putting wigs – everything you’d expect from a Murphy fright night production is here, it’s just all that much more surreal with Kardashian in the mix.
Sadly, this three-part series will not feature a Keanu Reeves cameo as suggested years ago. This story takes place in the 1970s, long before Wick’s most pivotal pup was even born. As such, this spinoff will focus on the earlier days of the franchise’s assassin-welcoming hotel, where Colin Woodell portrays Winston, who’s attempting to do his day job and also navigate the hellish underbelly of the era’s New York City. If you’re not into the Mel Gibson aspect of this prequel, then perhaps Katie McGrath can sway you to watch as The Adjudicator.
What we have here is a live-action adaptation of a legendary Japanese manga series about a young pirate and his friends out on the open seas in search of some treasure. It’s been burning up the Netflix charts since its release, and it’s been touted as a feel-good celebration of the innocence of childhood adventure, which, all things considered, does not sound like the worst way to spend a weekend binge. Get in there now before the second season drops.
Seriously, watch this trailer. This is not a fluffy little comedy. Rashida Jones executive produces this adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ NYT best-selling novel about an editorial assistant is who is overjoyed to no longer be the “only Black girl” at her work place. However, the novelty of newcomer Hazel quickly fades when it becomes apparent that sinister vibes are going down. Spooooky.
Dan Harmon’s long-gestating cartoon take on Ancient Greece is here. He’s had big success in the world of animation before with both Solar Opposites and Rick and Morty, so there’s reason for optimism even if the reviews of the first few episodes are a little dicey. You have time. Don’t pretend like you don’t. You’re not fooling anyone, Derek. (This works better if your name is Derek.)
The horniest kids in Britain are back and ready to go out with a bang – a lot of banging, actually. The fourth season of this Netflix comedy is set to be its last, but before the goodbyes Otis, Eric, Maeve, Aimee, and the rest of the students from Moordale have some growing up to do. While Maeva studies under an eccentric author in America (hello Dan Levy), Otis and Eric struggle to climb the social hierarchy of their new school – one that’s so progressive, they’ve already filled his position of “student sex therapist.”
Is The Morning Show the best drama on TV in a world absent Better Call Saul and Succession? It might be in the running, but it’s definitely the dramaest drama on TV, leaning on its star power to cut through moments that might be eye-roll-inducing if you weren’t so captivated by the screen presence of Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, and Jon Hamm, who joins this season as a handsome version of Elon Musk. Backstabbing, front-stabbing, walk and talks, politics, high tension, and ripped-from-the-headlines storylines all come together, yet again, with our news and media power players moving more fully toward the game of mergers, acquisitions, and boardroom battles where the real prizes can be found.
The thing about Reservation Dogs is that it is a good show. It has been for a few seasons now. And it still is in its third and final season, which wraps up for good on September 27 Funny and heartfelt and everything you could possibly want out of a television show about some teens figuring stuff out. There’s a lot of weird stuff going on out there in the world. Some of it is kind of scary. Maybe you should chill out and watch Reservation Dogs. You could absolutely do much, much worse.
Long before Shonda Rhimes was out here creating her own empire with Grey’s Anatomy and its adjacent properties, she penned a movie for a world-renowned pop star back before Shondaland was even on the map. Crossroads was Britney Spears‘ first (and only) starring role, and it became a teen road trip with the most random cast and musical numbers to ever exist.
The movie starred Spears as Lucy, a small-town girl, and her best friends, played by Taryn Manning and then-unknown Zoe Saldana who go on a road trip right before graduating from high school. They laugh, they cry, and they hang out with a suspected murderer. It’s all about the journey, right? Well, if you didn’t get a chance to check it out in theaters over 20 years ago, now is the time! This way, you’ll be able to really appreciate the stacked cast, which also includes Justin Long as a love interest(!), as well as Kim Cattrall (!), and Dan Aykroyd (!) as Britney’s parents (?!?!). It also sounds like a great Sex and the City episode concept.
Crossroads will get a limited release this October in order to tie in with Spears’ upcoming memoir The Woman In Me. The movie will be shown at 875 locations across the country and will include a bonus sing-along of two Spears songs for your own little movie theater concert. Those are huge these days! The movie will hit theaters on October 23rd and 25th… so you can do an Eras Tour/Crossroads event if you choose to do so.
Flyana Boss returns to UPROXX Sessions for the second week in a row to rock a rollicking performance of their song “Nu Nu.” While “You Wish” is still their calling card, the Dallas and Detroit-bred dynamic duo is back to prove they are far from a one-hit wonder.
“Nu Nu,” funnily enough, actually precedes “You Wish” by a couple of months. It was released as part of a two-song single called Boffum alongside “Really Really.” It features a hard-hitting hit beat and confident, cutthroat lyrics that find Folayan and Bobbi boasting that they’re leveling up — another clever bit of manifestation from the crew that promised they’d be swimming in brand deals and found themselves sprinting through the offices of Google, TikTok, and Atlantic Records while recording jingles for Pizza Hut.
Watch Flyana Boss perform “Nu Nu” above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Flyana Boss is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
“Into Your Room” serves as the second track on the album, and it’s a breezy, infectious love song. “I will run / After your moving car / And I will follow you / You’re my northern star,” she sings passionately. The sound is jovial and hopeful, though the lyrics are tinged with melancholy: “You don’t know how much I need you,” she sings. It certainly builds the anticipation for Paint My Bedroom Black.
“This album is an exploration of the two sides of myself that coexist,” Humberstone previously said in a statement. “One side, the introvert who wants to board the windows up and shut the world out, writing about wanting to escape my surroundings and the confusion of life on the road last year. The other side of me, the extrovert, writing about a budding relationship, deep connections and love.”
Watch her perform “Into Your Room” on her Amazon Curved session above.
Paint My Bedroom Black is out 10/13 via Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor Records. Find out more information here.
If there’s one demographic you never, ever want to be on the wrong side of, it’s dog lovers. Unfortunately for Ron DeSantis, he was dropped directly in the crosshairs thanks to a new book that claims the Florida governor “kicked” Tucker Carlson’s dog during a visit to the former Fox News anchor’s home.
The passage accusing DeSantis of the pooch punt comes from Michael Wolff’s new book, The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty where he details the disastrous visit. However, DeSantis may have just caught a lucky break. Carlson has denied that the governor kicked his dog in a text message to Insider.
“This is absurd,” Carlson wrote. “He never touched my dog, obviously.”
While Carlson denied the dog-kicking anecdote, he did not refute the depiction of DeSantis not making the best impression on his wife.
For two hours, Ron DeSantis sat at her table talking in an outdoor voice indoors, failing to observe any basics of conversational ritual or propriety, reeling off an unself-conscious list of his programs and initiatives and political accomplishments. Impersonal, cold, uninterested in anything outside of himself.
According to the excerpt, DeSantis allegedly pushed if not “kicked” one of the Carlson’s beloved cocker spaniels under the table during his loud ranting. That was reportedly the last straw for Carlson’s wife and DeSantis’ chances of being president.
“She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again,” Wolff wrote. “Her husband agreed. DeSantis, in Carlson’s view, was a ‘fascist.’ Forget Ron DeSantis.”
NYSNC’s “It’s Gonna Be Me” from their 2000 No Strings Attached album experiences renewed relevance every May. Fans (and Justin Timberlake himself) have remained very attached to Timberlake’s pronunciation of “me” in the hook. As the guests for the Hot Ones Season 22 premiere on Thursday morning, September 21, the iconic (and recently reunited) boy band finally explained it.
Around the eight-minute mark, host Sean Evans begins to ask Lance Bass a true-or-false question when Bass jokingly interrupted, “Yes, I’m gay. […] Waited 23 years to be able to say that.” After a combustion of laughter and Bass’ reflection on nearly traveling to outer space, Evans’ next fact-or-fiction question was whether Timberlake delivered “me” as “may” because a producer instructed him to say it “meaner.”
Timberlake responded, “I don’t remember if the specifics were a ‘meaner me,’ but I sang, ‘It’s gonna be me,’ and he was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no.’ He was like, ‘It’s may.” JC Chasez jumped in, adding, “You also remember their Swedish accents? And they had done a demo of it, and they were like, ‘It’s like this!’”
Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Timberlake nodded along in agreement, and Timberlake continued, “You know what’s funny? Specifically to Max Martin, the parts of their English that were broken actually made them catchier songwriters because they would put words [in] a way that almost didn’t make sense. But when you sang them, they were more memorable, right? And yes, it was a specific note that I got, and I was just like, ‘This guy is crazy.’”
The credited writers on “It’s Gonna Be Me” are Martin, Andreas Carlsson, and Rami. Earlier this week, Timberlake joked about the “It’s Gonna Be Me” pronunciation in a TikTok.
In the days afterward, “Better Place,” NSYNC’s first single in 20-plus years was teased as part of the upcoming film, Trolls Band Together. Timberlake also shared a behind-the-scenes video from the studio ahead of the song’s release on September 29.
Billboard‘s Dave Brooks reported on September 15 that there “are no such plans” for an NSYNC reunion tour.
Brooks relayed, “It turns out that NSYNC star Justin Timberlake has touring plans of his own for 2024. Billboard has confirmed that Timberlake has holds on dates at arenas in North America for a major run, with sources saying the trek will be accompanied by a new album from the singer. As they say in the business, Timberlake is going back into cycle, which means there won’t be any full-fledged NSYNC tour any time soon.”
In other words, just enjoy NSYNC on Hot Ones above.
Howard Stern and Bill Maher are “no longer friends” again. During a recent episode of his radio show, Stern revealed that he’s done talking to Maher after the Real Time host took a “big shot” at Stern on his podcast.
“He was actually dumping on me,” Stern said before playing the Maher clip. “Basically, he says, ‘Howard Stern always gets on the radio and says he loves his wife.’ I’ve never been criticized for this. He goes, ‘Haven’t we had enough of that? What about his first wife? I feel really bad for her.’”
The shock jock was not having it and immediately tried to get a hold of Maher to hash things out. Via Entertainment Weekly:
“I wrote in an email, I said, ‘Why don’t you give me a phone call? Why don’t you tell me what you think about my life and my marriage?’ But of course he never wrote me back,” he said. “I just wanted to see how brave he was. If he was brave enough to call me and actually get on the phone with me, and zero response.”
According to Stern, the two had repaired their relationship after the two spent “years” not talking to each other. They seemingly buried the hatchet when Stern agreed to appear on Real Time, but now, Stern is back to being done with Maher.
“I think I’m no longer friends with him,” Stern said. “I went out of my way to do that show. I don’t like doing TV shows.”
Keanu Reeves is not in the John Wick prequel series, The Continental. That fact has unfortunately cloaked some disappointment around the Peacock three-part event. Still, Wick completists will be interested in checking out the early days of the assassin-focused hotel, which will feature some familiar characters. Also, the series co-stars Mel Gibson as a character that we haven’t seem in the later-set films. That doesn’t bode well for his longevity, of course.
Mel portrays Cormac, who is a criminal kingpin and the hotel owner before Winston (played by Colin Woodell in the Peacock series and Ian McShane in the movies) took over. Gibson remains, of course, a controversial figure, and series director Albert Hughes believes that this reputation works in the character’s favor. In an interview, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Brian Davids expressed his take, which is that Gibson’s reputation is “a non-issue because he plays such a repulsive character.” Here’s how Hughes responded:
“Well, I call him an egalitarian. He treats everybody equally, and I’ve heard that for 40 years. He was cast because he fit what we needed. I can’t get into his personal stuff, but I had a great time with that character, let’s say. And as you’re alluding to, when people watch the show, they’ll understand.”
It doesn’t take much reading between the lines to conclude that Gibson’s character is not the most likable person, so perhaps that’s why his casting does work, and we’ll see how the public receives this series. From the synopsis:
The three-part event will explore the origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins centerpiece of the John Wick universe through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he’s dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970’s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.
The first of Peacock’s The Continental‘s three parts debuts on Sept. 22.
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