Month: November 2023

This year, Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival staged Foo Fighters, Kendrick Lamar, and Odesza as headliners in Manchester, Tennessee, and the annual festival will return to The Farm from June 13 to June 16, 2024. On Thursday morning, November 9, Bonnaroo confirmed its presale will begin on Thursday, November 16, at 10 a.m. CST, and future attendees can sign up for the presale here. The natural follow-up question is, what artists are festival-goers signing up to see perform? Below is all of the information we have (so far) about Bonnaroo 2024.

When Does The Bonnaroo 2024 Lineup Come Out?

As of this writing, Bonnaroo’s organizers have not announced any lineup news. But for reference, the Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival 2023 lineup was revealed on January 10, 2023, so keep your eyes peeled at the top of the new year.

How Much Are Bonnaroo 2024 Tickets?

Tickets to the 2023 festival ranged from $299 to $1,250 (as noted by Consequence at the time), but there is an increase for the 2024 tickets slate. As per the festival’s website, 4-Day General Admission tickets start at $355, 4-Day GA+ tickets start at $695, 4-Day VIP tickets start at $900, and 4-Day Platinum tickets start at $4,155. The good news? No hidden fees. On Wednesday, November 8, Bonnaroo explained the price hike. Read the festival’s full statement below:

“Bonnaroo is incredibly important to each and every one of us who works to make it happen each year, and we know how special this experience is to you. We are proud of this community that we have built together. In the spirit of the Roo community and communication, we wanted to give you a heads up as we prepare for the annual presale.

Ticket prices are going to look different this year, and here’s why:

When you purchase your presale tickets, you’ll see a new price that includes all fees upfront — the only additions at checkout will be your chosen shipping option and your locally applicable sales tax.

For the first time in more than a decade, we’re also making a notable base price increase. This increase will still be far less than inflation over that time. The cost of producing this magical world has increased and our goal is to be as transparent with you as possible. To continue to deliver the quality experience you have to come to love and appreciate, prices need to go up just slightly.

The Farm is truly the most magical place on Earth and 2024 is going to be an incredible year. We can’t wait to see you next summer!”

Where Can I Buy Tickets?

All of the answers reside on Bonnaroo’s official website. There, you’ll find a prompt to sign up for texts (for US carries only) or emails regarding the November 16 presale. Additionally, there is the option get ahead and book your hotel here.

What do you get when you combine one of the most beloved food reviewers on TikTok, Keith Lee, with a burgeoning restaurant scene that is famous for its fresh takes on southern food made by talented young chefs? Chaos apparently. Things got a little wild after Keith Lee rolled through ATL, Georgia, and had a less-than-stellar experience at a number of restaurants. Lee has made a career out of reviewing food spots primarily in Las Vegas, where he’s based, but since he continues to grow a following (currently he has nearly 15 million followers on TikTok) he’s started to branch out to other cities including New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, and New York.

Generally, Keith Lee coming to your city is good for business — once Lee runs through and highlights a restaurant, his fans follow, resulting in an explosion of business. But after a few negative experiences at Atlanta hotspots like the Atlanta Breakfast Club and The Real Milk and Honey, the city of Atlanta, Lee’s fans, Lee himself, and random people across the internet are up in arms about Atlanta’s dining culture.

Here is what happened.

What Happened When Keith Lee Visited Atlanta?

As is typical of Lee, he talked about each establishment he visited exuding good vibes — even when he wasn’t a fan of the customer service. Lee’s journey through Atlanta began at the Atlanta Breakfast Club, where the reviewer was first introduced to the “unique” rules of the Atlanta dining scene.

“The customer service was interesting,” begins Lee, “while the people were nice the rules that they had set were very unique to me.” Those rules included needing the entire party to be sitting (two people from Lee’s party had stepped out) before any orders could be placed, including receiving water, and only one single order for the whole table could be placed at one time, meaning if the party decided at a later time to add anything additional it literally couldn’t be done.

Lee was also charged $1 for butter, which got many in the comments talking.

“I understand that those are their rules. Unique to me, but it is what it is,” says Lee.

For the most part, Lee’s review of the Atlanta Breakfast Club leans positive and at that point, he seemed genuinely excited to explore what else Atlanta had to offer. By the time Lee had visited another Atlanta hotspot, The Real Milk & Honey, the real drama started to develop.

To keep himself anonymous, Lee sometimes sends his family to a restaurant to pick up an order for him, but at The Real Milk & Honey, his family was turned away at the door by the restaurant citing “deep cleaning” as a reason for closing early, despite several diners still being inside and picking up food.

After Lee himself walked in, The Real Milk & Honey recognized him and offered to feed him and his family, to which Lee “respectfully declined.”

“I’m a normal person. I pay for my food like everybody else, I walk in spots like everybody else. We are all normal people. Respectfully if you not going to do it then, don’t do it now, god bless you,” says Lee in his review.

As you might imagine, this led to a flood of negative reviews on The Real Milk & Honey’s Yelp page, presumably from Lee fans who took it upon themselves to criticize the restaurant they had never been to. To be fair, this wasn’t Lee’s intention, and in the video itself, he states:

I am going to make this very clear… I do no support, condone, or agree with tearing down these businesses. While we personally may not have the best customer service experience, that does not mean you will have the same experience. That also does not mean go on Twitter and tear these businesses down… The only reason I’m even making this is to share my authentic and real experience like I always do, I don’t mean no harm, I don’t have no malicious intent, but I always say I’m going to be 100% honest and that comes with the good and the not so good.

Later, Lee attempted to eat at Kandi Burruss’ Old Lady Gang restaurant.

Again, Lee sent his family in to order food only for them to be told the wait time would be over an hour. A few minutes later when Lee entered the restaurant, he was greeted and told they could sit him in five minutes. Once again, Lee respectfully declined. This once again led to a flood of negative reviews.

Eventually, all this negativity came back around to Lee and his family, who began receiving death threats in response to the bad press some of these Atlanta restaurants were receiving, with some accusing Lee of trying to tear down businesses. This led to a response video from Lee:

“Me and my family will postpone touring in other cities if it’s going to be like this. Every review not going to be the best, I’m going to be 100% honest. If you want me to come, please understand I will be honest,” says Lee, noting that the positive experiences he had in Atlanta were greatly overshadowed by all the negativity.

One of the voices accusing Lee of bringing negativity to Atlanta came from former wide receiver Chad Johnson, aka Chad OchoCinco, on his popular sports podcast “Nightcap with Unc & Ocho.”

In a debate over Lee’s visit with Shannon Sharpe, Ocho remarked “I don’t like the fact of what he’s doing… you know how hard it is for us to even get in the food industry and to have our own restaurants? … It’s hard enough for us as it is.” And remarked that he himself had never experienced bad service in Atlanta.

This led to a detailed response video from Lee, where the reviewer defended his brand.

“You said I should only give positive reviews. The reason I don’t believe that will work is because it would be inauthentic… If I was to be inauthentic and you waited in a three-hour wait time and you got to the front and the food was trash, who were you gonna be mad at?” Concluding with “This is my last time speaking on anything that has to do with Atlanta. I want to get back to the fun, get back to eating, get back to touring, get back to going to good restaurants.”

What This Means For The Atlanta Dining Scene

Lee’s experience had many people pointing to the faults of the Atlanta food scene. From regular diners:

To celebrities like Cardi B, who took to her Instagram Live to talk about the event:

“I feel like Atlanta restaurants, they don’t like to make money… I feel bad for Atlanta residents. Thank you, Jesus, I’m famous, but even me being famous, it’s like a hassle.”

Still, Lee’s presence in Atlanta has some restaurants rethinking the way they do business, with The Real Milk & Honey posting an update to their rules on their personal Instagram account.

While it seems like Lee’s presence in Atlanta was unfortunately negative for everyone involved, it’ll be interesting to see if things in the Atlanta dining scene change.

Daneshevskaya, the project of songwriter Anna Beckerman, writes music that feels like a comforting hug. Much of her songs pay homage to her family, so it’s understandable why her music can be soft and soothing. While writing her latest project, Long Is The Tunnel (which is out Friday on Winspear), Beckerman found herself revisiting letters from her grandmother, who sadly passed away before she could finish the writing process.

Like her, Berckerman’s grandmother was a poet and worked with children, which is why the songs on her 7-track project are infused with childlike curiosity. Offerings like “Somewhere In The Middle” and “Roy G Biv” provide confessional snapshots and wistful instrumentals that fit in nicely with Beckerman’s equally dreamy vocals.

Ahead of the release of Long Is The Tunnel, Daneshevskaya sits down with Uproxx to talk Frank Ocean, working with pre-schoolers, and staying curious in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Curious, close, imaginative, old.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

Honest/genuine.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work?

My family.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Hunters stew in Poland.

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

I went to a JUSTICE show when I was in high school.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

“Solo” by Frank Ocean.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

When is Hanukkah 2023?

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

I’ve only ever been on tour once but I would say the weirdest place we crashed was a comfort inn and suites in Whitby, Canada. There were so many barefoot children.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

I would love to go to Europe one day! We really liked Lawrence, Kansas.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Spend more time with your grandparents.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

I can memorize limericks pretty easily.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

District 75 programs. I work with a lot of pre-school aged children who go on to D75 programs in NYC. I would love to know that they will be able to get their needs met as they get older.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

I’m curious. I try not to be scared of things I don’t understand. If it takes my place I think that’s ok.

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you.

Elliott Smith, Billie Holiday, Nick Drake, Patsy Cline, Elizabeth Cotten.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

@Sagestudioatx on Instagram.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

My best friend’s initials.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Push-ups.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Moses from Prince of Egypt.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

Would go with my brothers somewhere! I think anywhere would be fun with them.

What is your biggest fear?

Being inside of a building when it collapses.

Long Is The Tunnel is out 11/10 via Winspear. Find more information here.

Going into the highly anticipated Invincible Season 2, fans began wildly speculating that Mark (Steven Yeun) would turn evil after a trailer showed him making an announcement to the people of Earth that he and his father Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) would be taking over the planet together. It was a stunning reveal considering Mark just spent the Season 1 finale getting brutally pummeled after refusing to join his dad in enslaving the planet for the Viltrumite empire.

Heading into the Season 2 premiere, Reddit theories were flying that Mark/Invincible would ultimately turn evil, but only after trying to resist becoming his father. Mark’s violent tendencies have been on full display, so the seeds are there for a heel turn.

However, when the premiere arrived, the episode threw a twist at fans. The announcement was from an alternate universe where Mark didn’t resist Omni-Man after he revealed the truth about his mission on Earth. Instead, Mark joined his father and fans began speculating that Invincible could become an even far worse threat than his all-powerful dad.

“I feel like evil variations of Mark are a far more sinister level of evil than even Omni-Man,” a Reddit user wrote. “I say this because Mark grew up human, with Earth being his world. Omni-Man grew up doing what he does and it being normal. Even his wife is a pet to him. Mark paralyzing Eve and ‘practicing on protesters’ is just another level because he’s not far removed from humanity at all but is still the way he is. It’s dark.”

As of this writing, the real Mark is still a good guy. He’s working with Cecil (Walton Goggins) again and determined to prove he’s a hero who’s not like his dad. However, the Season 2 villain Angstrom Levy (Sterling K. Brown) revealed an interesting truth during the premiere. In every other reality, Mark joined his father and enslaved the Earth. Only in the show’s current reality did Mark resist, but for how long?

Invincible Season 2 streams new episodes Thursday night on Prime Video.

Honeyland Festival is returning to Sugar Land, Texas this weekend, with performances being held on November 11 and 12. The lineup also has some pretty cool acts not to miss. Each day, the doors will open at noon, with welcoming sets starting at the same time. For those who are going or even just considering, here’s what to know about the 2023 set times.

On Saturday, Dende will play from 2:10-2:40 p.m. on the Beats Stage, followed by Spinall at 4:10-4:40, Uproxx cover star Chlöe at 5:10-55, Tobe Nwigwe at 6:35-7:20, Summer Walker at 8:00-9:00, and Miguel closing things out on that stage from 9:40-10:55. There will also be unique experiences, including over at the Pepsi Park @ Honeyland, where attendees can play games like Stacked Uno at 7 p.m. or Spades from 9:00-11:00 at night.

Then, for the second day on Sunday, the Beats Stage keeps things going with an equally strong lineup. Tay Powers kicks things off at 1:00 p.m.. From there, Lenora will play from 2:10-2:40, Coco Jones from 3:20-3:50, Lucky Day from 4:30-5:15, Tems from 5:55-6:40, Houston All-Stars from 7:25-8:25, and finally, Mary J. Blige playing from 9:05-10:20. For those interested in checking out the games, the closing night one is something called Grown Folks Recess — which runs from 9:00-11:00 again.

Check out the complete Honeyland Festival set times for 2023 below. More information can also be found here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

ASAP Rocky went to court yesterday for a preliminary hearing in the shooting case against him. There, ASAP Relli, the former ASAP Mob member who accused Rocky of shooting him in the hand in 2021, testified that Rocky told him, “I’ll kill you right now,” before opening fire four times.

Rocky had already pled not guilty to two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm after being arrested in April 2022 at LAX while returning from Barbados on a trip with his girlfriend (rumored wife) Rihanna.

Police also raided Rocky’s home in Los Angeles, reportedly finding a gun, but not the one used in the alleged shooting. Police also said they secured footage of the shooting, providing enough evidence to officially charge the rapper for assault.

Relli later sued Rocky and his lawyer Joe Tacopina for defamation, arguing that statements Tacopina made about Relli “trying to get money from Rocky” constituted slander.

According to TMZ, Tacopina cross-examined Relli, trying to expose inconsistencies in his story and questioning why he delayed going to law enforcement. Relli insisted that he only waited to report the alleged attack for fear of retaliation. He also denied that the report was a money play, while detailing how exactly the ASAP Mob members fell out.

We here at Uproxx have had our eyes (and ears) on Hovvdy since 2018 — and increasingly so with the releases of the Austin, Texas-based duo’s 2021 True Love album and 2022 Billboard For My Feelings EP. This morning, November 9, Hovvdy offered “Jean,” a chipper yet lovesick single that represents their first music since Billboard For My Feelings.

“‘Jean’ is a song about doing well for those you love,” Hovvdy’s Will Taylor said in a statement. “It’s tangled in self doubt and uncertainty yet meant to embrace both the joy and the complications of life.”

Taylor and Charlie Martin produced “Jean” alongside Andrew Sarlo and Ben Littlejohn. The single comes as Hovvdy is preparing to stage headlining tour dates in December before supporting Cold War Kids in February 2024.

Watch the “Jean” lyric video above, and check out all of Hovvdy’s upcoming tour dates below.

12/06 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid +
12/12 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall +
12/14 — Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room +
12/15 — Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records +
1/31/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore *
2/01/2024 — Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom *
2/02/2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Vogue *
2/03/2024 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre *
2/05/2024 — Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory *
2/06/2024 — Bozeman, MT @ The Elm *
2/08/2024 — Aspen, CO @ Belly Up *
2/09/2024 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater *
2/10/2024 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater *
2/13/2024 — Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom *
2/15/2024 — Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues *
2/16/2024 — Houston, TX @ House Of Blues *
2/17/2024 — Austin, TX @ Stubbs *

+ duo tour
* supporting Cold War Kids

Nicki Minaj is on the new Vogue cover for December 2023, where she discussed various aspects of her career and personal life. One of these moments was about a time when Minaj had been living in Atlanta to work on her career. After experiencing menstrual cramps, she was prescribed Percocet — but the way she was taking it soon went beyond using it for the standard pain.

“No one told me that this was a narcotic and this was addictive,” Minaj said. “Luckily I was able to ground myself. But — once an addict, always an addict. I feel like if you’ve ever experienced addiction to anything, which I have, you always have to think twice and three times about the choices that you make.”

Minaj pointed out that many big stars struggled with self-medication as a way of escapism. She also reflected on the history of addiction in her own family, as her late father struggled with hard substance abuse — and that her mom didn’t really understand it.

“I think about watching my father go back and forth, and I just wish that at the time I understood that he wasn’t doing it because he wanted to,” she said. “I thought that he was making a conscious effort to be addicted to a drug that would have him steal his children’s video games and sell them for money. Think about that — who would make a conscious effort to do that? Now I realize, those people weren’t making those choices because they wanted to hurt their family. Addiction took over their bodies and their lives. They were victims too.”

The time has come for Dua Lipa to introduce her first full-fledged era since Future Nostalgia, her chart-topping 2020 album. Well, almost. Lipa is set to release “Houdini” at 11 p.m. GMT on Thursday, November 9, which converts to 3 p.m. PST and 6 p.m. EST. (Pop Crave did the math for us and handled all global time conversions for the “Houdini” release.) Still, US listeners won’t be able to stream “Houdini” on Apple Music until 9 p.m. PST and midnight EST. The same rules apply for Spotify users.

“Houdini” and its release date were confirmed on Wednesday, November 1 — weeks after Lipa went full Mysterious Barbie and wiped her social media accounts, and then shared an up-close photo of her smiling with a key lodged in her teeth to Instagram alongside the caption, “catch me or I go…”

In what is surely not a coincidence at all, Lipa billed her “three surprise launch events for ‘Houdini‘” as “Catch Me Or I go…” The events are scheduled for London (on November 9), Los Angeles (November 14), and Tokyo (November 20).

All signs point toward “Houdini” being the lead single for Lipa’s hotly anticipated third studio album, which she very vaguely teased with Kurt Soller for The New York Times’ T Magazine in August.

“The next record will still be pop, she says, lest her ‘fans have a meltdown,’” Soller wrote. “She doesn’t want to ‘alienate’ them, although she’s developing a new sound that may be informed less by the house and disco beats beneath songs like ‘Physical’ and ‘Hallucinate’ than by 1970s-era psychedelia. She’s working with a smaller group of songwriting collaborators, supposedly including Kevin Parker of the Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala, a rumor she all but confirms by denying: ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ she says, then looks away and laughs a little.”

Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

It brings me great pleasure to report that Fargo returns for a fifth installment on November 21. It’s been three full years since our last go-round with the show, which is probably too long, especially since the fourth installment… left something to be desired. It was fine, mostly, and better than most shows that aren’t named Fargo, but it didn’t quite live up to the high standards set in the first three. Again, it was fine. Again, I was looking for something more.

This new installment has the show back, though, at least through the first few episodes that I’ve seen. We are having some fun. And murdering people. Jon Hamm has a cowboy hat. It’s a really good time. Let’s get into it all.

PART I: We have another murderous little mystery on our hands

Let’s just go ahead and drop in the official description of the action from FX, for the sake of efficiency.

After an unexpected series of events lands “Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon” (Juno Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.

North Dakota Sheriff “Roy Tillman” (Jon Hamm) has been searching for Dot for a long time. A rancher, preacher and a constitutional lawman, Roy believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law. At his side is his loyal but feckless son, “Gator” (Joe Keery), who is desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father. Too bad he’s hopeless. So, when it comes to hunting Dot, Roy enlists “Ole Munch” (Sam Spruell), a shadowy drifter of mysterious origin.

With her deepest secrets beginning to unravel, Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her doting, well-meaning husband “Wayne” (David Rysdahl) keeps running to his mother, “Lorraine Lyon” (Jennifer Jason Leigh), for help. CEO of the largest Debt Collection Agency in the country, the “Queen of Debt” is unimpressed with her son’s choice in a wife and spares no opportunity to voice her disapproval. However, when Dot’s unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy “Indira Olmstead” (Richa Moorjani) and North Dakota Deputy “Witt Farr” (Lamorne Morris), Lorraine appoints her in-house counsel and primary advisor, “Danish Graves” (Dave Foley) to aid her daughter-in-law. Afterall, family is family. But Dot has an uncanny knack for survival. And with her back to the wall, she’s about to show why one should never provoke a mother Lyon.

Look at what we have here:

• A Midwestern housewife thrust into an old life that requires a knack for survival
• A sheriff who believes he is above the law and has a feckless son named Gator
• Shadowy drifters named Ole Munch
• The Queen of Debt
• A lawyer named Danish Graves who, spoiler alert, wears an eyepatch

This is the good stuff, people. Please savor it.

PART II: Juno Temple is having a blast

I suspect many of you are mostly familiar with Juno Temple from her work on Ted Lasso as Keeley, a glamour model and girlfriend of a cranky soccer star. That’s cool. She’s great in that role, bringing a humanity and comic timing to a character that probably reads as less than that on paper. This is not that Juno Temple. I mean, it is, to some degree, especially as it relates to the comic timing, but there’s something much darker here. And she’s losing the British accent for a Midwestern one. She seems to be enjoying it a lot.

Please watch her in that short clip up there, in which she has her home littered with weapons and booby traps like she’s Kevin McAllister in Home Alone. I really cannot stress in strong enough terms that Juno Temple rules very hard in the early parts of the season that I’ve seen. Some of that might get lost in the Jon Hamm of it all for reasons I will discuss in Part II, but it’s important to note. So this is me doing that.

PART III: Hey, have you missed Menacing Jon Hamm?

Jon Hamm has been crushing it lately. We’ve discussed this. He’s been popping up in dozens of shows for the last few years, often in silly little roles, sometimes playing, “What if Elon Musk was devastatingly handsome?” alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, almost always looking like he has things figured out in a way most of us should be envious of. But it’s been a while since we’ve seen him be a little menacing. Since we saw him give that icy stare and full portrayal of confidence he became famous for on Mad Men. Since he responded to someone saying they feel bad for him by staring straight ahead and replying “I don’t think about you at all.” Since… any of that.

This is not exactly that Jon Hamm. This one is a little darker. Sheriff Roy takes the law into his own hands in a way that is maybe not admirable or even moral. But dammit if he isn’t magnetic to watch. There’s a scene in the second episode where the FBI shows up to question him while he’s relaxing in an outdoor bathtub with a cigar in his mouth and some very surprising jewelry on his body that really sets the tone for his character in a way only someone like Jon Hamm can pull off.

It’s nice to see him like this again. I love a goofy Jon Hamm. I’m on record saying that in many places. But it’s nice to be a little scared of him, too. This is very good business here.

PART IV: It’s just really nice to have Fargo back

It is. There are so many little twists and quirks in this show that make it unlike anything else on television. The accent work remains delightful, with lots of Midwesternisms that don’t often end up on the screen elsewhere, and yes, I am referring here specifically to the thing where Juno Temple makes pancakes but calls it “makin’ Bisquick.” Jennifer Jason Leigh is great, too, with a thick Ivy League accent that turns words like what and why into “hhhhhhhwhat” and “hhhhhwhy.” Her character is lovely and terrifying. Joe Keery from Stranger Things plays a puffed-chest failson named Gator, which is just a lot of fun to type out, which is the main reason I did it, just ahead of informing you all that Joe Keery from Stranger Things plays a puffed-chest failson named Gator. Look at that. I did it again.

There’s also the, uh, violence. Just a whole bunch of it. Homemade flamethrowers, baseball bats with nails sticking out of them, people getting body parts chopped off, all of it. It’s such a strange show, with the silliest stuff you’ve ever seen interspersed with the most graphically violent, and yet, when it works, it just really, really works. It’s nice to have something so relentlessly original on television like this. I’m so happy it’s back. I have no idea of how things will land after the opening few episodes I saw so far, but at the very least I am excited to find out. That’s really all you can ask for from a start to a show.

That and Jon Hamm in a cowboy hat.

PART V: I am very excited for everyone to hear Juno Temple say “hoosegow” in a Minnesota accent

You won’t have to wait long, either. Until then, please watch the trailer again and get a little pumped up. One of our best shows is on its way, just in time for the long and dark winter. Bundle up.