The Kansas City Chiefs will face the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game on Sunday afternoon in a matchup of two of the NFL’s best defenses and two of the league’s best quarterbacks in Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson.
As has been the case all season, a prevailing storyline coming into Sunday’s game in Baltimore is the Chiefs wide receiving corps and whether they can hold onto the football when Mahomes throws to them while dealing with the Ravens stout defense. Kansas City led the league in drops this year, with one of the main culprits being Kadarius Toney, who has been public enemy number one for Chiefs fans at various points this season — both for drops and lining up offsides to ruin one of the plays of the year.
Toney hasn’t played since December 17, and this week, Toney will be out once again as he deals with what the team calls a hip injury and was also absent for the birth of his daughter earlier in the week.
We have activated Practice Squad players NT Mike Pennel and CB Keith Taylor via Standard Elevation.
WR Kadarius Toney is now OUT for tomorrow’s game (personal/hip).
On Sunday morning, three hours before kickoff, Toney went on Instagram Live and claimed the Chiefs are lying about his injury status to keep him off of the field, saying he’s not hurt and they’ve been changing what has been injured on the report to keep him from playing.
Kadarius Toney on Instagram Live just a few moments ago says “I’m not hurt” and implies that the Chiefs have been lying about his injury status. Toney has been designated “out” for the AFC championship game for hip/personal. The personal being his daughter being born. pic.twitter.com/mBdYSSi9Rz
It wouldn’t be a surprise if the Chiefs were doing this, as it seemed Toney had finally lost the trust of Mahomes and the Chiefs offense, and putting him on the injury report is a bit of a nicer way to bench him than outright removing him from the lineup. That’s what makes Toney’s video here a bit confusing because I’m not sure why you’d want to “expose” a team for lying about you being hurt when the real reason they don’t want you playing is that you’ve been actively detrimental to their chances of winning games.
On Saturday Dakota Johnson returned to SNL. It was her second time as host, and the last time, back in 2015, the Madame Web actress caused a bit of a kerfuffle. In a pre-taped sketch, she played a young woman who appeared to be bidding adieu to her dad as she decamped for college. The punchline was that she was actually joining ISIS. Was the jihadist group too dark for late night network comedy? Some thought so. (We didn’t.) But nearly a decade later it’s at least okay to joke about that joke.
As caught by Deadline, the notorious joke appeared to get referenced in one of the night’s live sketches. In it, Johnson plays a woman returning from a trip but having trouble with a lost bag. Luckily, an airport employee played by Devon Walker has located it. Unluckily, he doesn’t believe it’s really hers.
“Respectfully, for all I know, this could be an ISIS bag,” he tells Johnson’s character.
“You think I’m in ISIS?” she responds.
Alas, the crowd didn’t appear to get the apparent reference, with no audible laughter arriving after the joke. But Deadline caught it, and so did we, and that’s what really matters.
The rest of the sketch finds Walker’s employee, later joined by his dad (played by Kenan Thompson), continuing to humiliate her, even demanding she reveal personal details from her diary, as well as prescription meant to treat extreme diarrhea.
You can watch the sketch in the video above, and you can watch the old ISIS sketch in the video below.
There’s a more than good chance, somehow, that there could be a repeat of the Trump administration. Mind you, it won’t be more of the same. It will be worse, as the president has vowed revenge, even promised to be a dictator. (But just for one day! Yeah, that’ll happen.) That’s apparently what Republican voters want, a return of the guy whose brain is currently melting. Still, his first administration was pretty nuts, too, with a new report claiming that working for the big guy was a great way to get drugs.
Per The Washington Post, a new report by Defense Department’s inspector general claims that the White House Medical Unit under the magnets understander “provided a wide range of health care and pharmaceutical services to ineligible White House staff in violation of Federal law and regulation and DoD policy.”
Among the pharmaceutical services provided to ineligible staffers were “prescription medications, including controlled substances.” Among those controlled substances were fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, and oxycodone. Oh, but there’s more:
For example, controlled medications, including sleeping pill Ambien and stimulant Provigil, were dispensed “without verifying the patient’s identity.” A witness told investigators “Dr. [X] asked if I could hook up this person with some Provigil as a parting gift for leaving the White House … in the unit, it was authorized for us to do that kind of stuff.
The report also sheds new light on older claims from 2018, in which Trump’s then-doctor, current Texas representative Ronny Jackson, was accused by almost two dozen staffers of passing around drugs. He even earned the name “Candyman.” Jackson denied the allegations.
If you were a Trump White House staffer you could also receive “clandestine surgery”:
Aliases were used “to provide free specialty care and surgery to ineligible White House staff members at military medical treatment facilities,” according to the report. Former staffers told the inspectors that an ineligible White House employee received free elective surgery and that “the unit altered practices to cater to high ranking officials.” One staffer said “we bent the rules to meet this very weird, strange culture that was there, and I think it was really to just impress people.
If the first Trump administration was a “very weird, strange culture,” with everyone so high they could taste time, just imagine how out-there the White House will get if he unaccountably gets his old job back.
Donald Trump had a rough one last week. He handily won the New Hampshire primary, but somehow that only made him angrier. There was that second defamation trial involving writer E. Jean Carroll, which ended with him ordered to pay her $83.3 million. If that weren’t bad enough, his mind continued to melt. The former president has been saying saying one inexplicable thing after another, including one brain fart that caught the attention of SNL Weekend Update.
On Saturday’s installment, co-anchor Colin Jost addressed a clip of Trump talking about reining in banks, which would be a genuinely decent thing to do if only he hadn’t worryingly made up a non-existent term.
“But we’re also going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to de-bank you,” Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire last week. “They wanna de-bank you and we’re going to de-bank.”
“I don’t know what the hell de-bank means,” Jost cracked, “but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor.”
Trump spouting made-up terms like “de-bank” is part of a worrying trend — so worrying that his last remaining GOP rival has even pointed it out.
“After the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley attacked Donald Trump and called out his ‘senior moments,’” said co-anchor Michael Che. “Which made Trump so angry he almost ripped off the safety rails on his toilet.”
Trump’s lawsuit also came up, with Jost arguing that $83.3 million shouldn’t be a big deal for him. “Trump is a billionaire, so obviously he immediately hit up your grandma for five bucks,” he told the crowd.
Jost also pointed out that that sum shows “how unlikeable he is,” adding for “perspective” that “O.J. Simpson only had to pay $33 million for double murder.”
Interjected Che, “He didn’t even do it.”
You can watch the latest Weekend Update in the video above and below.
Slow Horses, Reacher, and Jack Ryan have recently proven that audiences still adore watching current-or-ex government operatives living the espionage-infused life that they are destined to continue, no matter what they would actually be preferring to do. Fortunately, there’s more Dad TV where that came from with the second season of The Old Man coming from FX and its streaming home, Hulu.
Clearly, much of The Old Man‘s audience must also be attracted to Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone-tangential shows that are twists on Western-esque crime dramas. Bridges does come by that vibe honestly after the Sheridan-penned Hell or High Water and the Coen Brothers’ True Grit. He’s also picked up the Liam Neeson baton to portray the specific type of old hat who still has It when pursuers are dumb enough to come calling. Let’s talk about what’s to come for this show.
Plot
In The Old Man, Jeff Bridges stars in an intricate spin on the never-grows-old action trope of a former CIA agent who gets dragged back into the danger zone. The story’s based upon Thomas Perry’s 2017 novel, and John Lithgow portrays the ex-colleague whose role in a giant mess goes much deeper than initially imagined.
As viewers recall, Bridge’s Dan Chase is a Vietnam veteran and ex-CIA operative who went rogue. He was also living off the grid for decades while evading an Afghanistan warlord, Faraz Hamzad. Yet former operatives are never allowed to live the peaceful forever-life in TV and film, so the action resumed. A John Wick-esque attack puts him right back in the saddle, and John Lithgow’s Harold Harper is the FBI agent also in pursuit of Dan, with whom his shared past adds infinite wrinkles of complications. Meanwhile, Amy Brenneman portrays the unlucky landlord, Zoe, who becomes embroiled in Dan’s life while putting her own survival skills to the test. Also! Alia Shawkat picks up the role of Dan’s daughter, Emily, who has been operating under an alias (Angela) on Harper’s team.
In the midst of all of this personal and professional drama, those worlds grew impossibly intertwined. This is no straightforward cat-and-mouse game, and the first season finale not only ends with both Dan and Harper now running together, but Hamzad has apparently been pulling plenty of strings, and he’s not done yet. Furthermore, Dan’s relationship with Emily/Angela has revealed new wrinkles, and she has now ended up in Hamzad’s clutches, for worse or possibly (for her) better.
From there, the show leaves the view of Dan’s past actions in a morally grey place, which doesn’t simply represent the struggle of these specific characters but could impact and reflect the global stage at large. This put an interesting twist on what viewers learned about Dan’s past opportunity to take Hamzad out and his decision that put decades of consequences into motion for all parties involved. The motivations of multiple other players also remain unclear, including what Angela’s true goal was while she embedded inside the FBI under a false identity. And then there’s Bote, the ex-CIA honcho who has been calling many malignant shots, including the attempt on Dan’s life.
That leaves a lot of chaos that will flow right into the second season, but perhaps most tantalizingly, the season finale continues to twist the meaning of the show’s title into a mirror of several characters’ actions throughout the show thus far. “The Old Man” refuses to be defined thus far, and that intrigue will carry over into the second season. Most compellingly, the second season will ideally tell us exactly what Angela means to do now that she’s with her “true”/bio dad, and whether that blood tie means anything to her or if she will finish the job that Dan was meant to do.
Hopefully, motives will soon become clearer, so that momentum can continue to build after the fairly slow burn that piloted much of the initial story. And god only knows if Dan and Harper can stick together in the near future.
Cast
Jeff Bridges, of course, embodies the title role of Dan Chase with Bill Heck picking up the younger version. John Lithgow portrays Harold Harper, and the supporting cast includes Alia Shawkat, Amy Brenneman, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Hiam Abbass, Navid Negahban, Jessica Harper, Pej Vahdat, Joel Grey, Kenneth Mitchel, and Rowena King.
Release Date
The first season of this Dad TV series arrived in June of 2022, so hopefully, Bridges and Lithgow will be back on FX together in 2024. Officially, however, FX has stayed quiet on the release plan, but dads everywhere (and the people who love them) wouldn’t mind an update.
Trailer
We aren’t lucky enough to have seen a trailer yet, but hang tight. The Dude will eventually abide.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
This adaptation is everything that you expect: silly, profane as hell, and has the voice of Seth MacFarlane coming from inside a teddy bear. Enough people still wanted to watch this show to qualify it for the highest premiere record of any Peacock original series. It’s a prequel to the films starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Amanda Seyfried; and Max Burkholder portrays a younger version of the John Bennett character picked up by Marky Mark in the future.
TIE: 10. Night Swim (Universal Pictures film on VOD & Netflix series)
This Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Universal Pictures film is no M3GAN, but nonetheless, the tidal wave of WTF cannot be ignored. Wyatt Russell (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) detoured into this would-have-been-better-as-camp story about a haunted swimming pool. Even when Blumhouse misses, though, he still managed to make a movie that’s as wet as Aquaman 2 but actually turned a profit.
Harlan Coban already found streaming success over the past year with Amazon’s Shelter adaptation, but Coban’s readers do not mind the abundance of his material on TV. The binging is ongoing for a show where a nanny-cam changes everything and might be connected two murder cases. The first puzzler involves a woman who believes that her husband was killed, but somehow, he appears on her home’s camera, and there are many disturbing truths that will come to the forefront during this twisting tale.
8. The Boys in the Boat (Amazon MGM Studios film streaming on VOD and Amazon)
Director George Clooney stepped off the conga line to adapt the 2013 novel about the real-life U.S. rowing team that went to the 1936 Olympics in Germany ahead of World War II. Callum Turner also stars in the currently-launching Masters of the Air, so he is one busy dude when it comes to shows about this particular era in American history.
7. The Holdovers (Focus Features film streaming on Peacock)
Paul Giamatti could damn well become Oscar winner Paul Giamatti due to his performance in this film with a curmudgeonly type of holiday setup that somehow turns into a life-affirming journey. He was last nominated for his role in Ron Howard’s 2006 film, Cinderella Man, and since then, he’s been in Billions of TV shows and films. Yes, that’s a fun little exaggeration, but Giamatti deserves award recognition, for which he is now “flabbergasted” but also describes as “lovely.”
This film has been riding Netflix’s global lists for weeks (and could eventually land on the streamer’s all-time film list) and also popped up in this year’s Oscars nominations, where it will compete with Zone Of Interest for Best International Film. The plot is chilling in multiple ways, revolving around the frozen plight of 1972 Andes Mountains crash survivors, who resort to the most desperate of measures to stay alive despite the odds.
Big Man devotees, I’ve got some good news for you. The third season source material has been revealed by Amazon, and filming has been well underway for months. So, we really shouldn’t have to wait that long for more details that matter, and hey, Neagley will be back for the Maine-set adventure, too. Still, if you want to get a fix, then our own Brian Grubb has penned an essential adventure that I will bet that you will have no trouble envisioning as an actual Reacher episode.
Yikes. The real nightmare experienced by the couple in this series did not end following the crime. Instead, the case was painted by police as a Gone Girl knockoff, and this is an essential watch for true crime junkies, who will likely feel infuriated while watching, too. It’s no wonder that victims feel hesitant to report crimes, and if you still feel a hankering for that theme, then Unbelievable (starring Kaitlyn Dever) is similar Netflix show worth absorbing.
Those who remember Rust Cohle’s ramblings will have spotted a connection to the first season and this fourth installment starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. In other words, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson do not appear onscreen in this installment, but they are very much present in spirit and as executive producers. Additionally, this season might take place a whole continent away from its former Louisiana stomping grounds, but similar preteraturally-soaked elements will feel similarly unsettling here.
Here’s a stellar Band Of Brothers followup from Steven Spielberg (Amblin Television) in conjunction with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (Playtone). This new series is based upon Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name about the 100th Bomb Group, who risked everything they had to conduct bombing raids upon Nazi Germany. Austin Butler dropped his Elvis voice to portray a U.S. major alongside Callum Turner. There’s a “Buck” and a “Bucky” in the character list, and there’s also the ever-present Barry Keoghan joining in the camaraderie while the U.S. carries out perilous missions to take down Hitler’s Third Reich. It’s an adventure-filled yet harrowing viewing experience but fully worth the ride, and Nate Mann is a standout among the massive cast.
It’s ladies’ night in the cocaine trade. Original Narcos co-creator Doug Miro and Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman team up to tell the story of Colombian drug cartel leader Griselda Blanco, the prolific cocaine trafficker as portrayed by Sofia Vergara. Griselda reigned in Miami in the 1970-’80s, and her tour of terror included operating under 20 aliases, moving hundreds of kilos per month, and ordering dozens of murders. Do not sleep on the details about the investigator who pushed the hardest to not only apprehend Griselda but credit her (cursed) trailblazing, too.
Ahead of the premiere of her upcoming movie, Madame Web, Dakota Johnson appeared on last night’s (January 27) Saturday Night Live as the episode’s host. This marked Johnson’s second time hosting SNL, her first time taking place “right after the SNL 40th [anniversary special],” as she noted in her opening monologue.
She then recalled the anniversary special, and how she was seated among an interesting group of people. She displayed a photo from the event onto a screen — said photo including Sarah Palin, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. And shockingly, one infamous former U.S. president.
“Look who’s sitting right behind me,” said Johnson, before the screen zoomed in on Donald Trump. Johnson continued, noting that she never would’ve imagined how certain things would’ve panned out.
“It’s just crazy to be standing so close to someone who would become the most powerful person in America,” she said.
Though, Johnson wasn’t actually referring to Trump. After sharing this note, the screen then closed up on Taylor Swift.
Elsewhere during the monologue, Timberlake made a brief appearance, during which, he made a NSFW joke about one of his biggest hits. Former SNL Jimmy Fallon later arrived to the stage, dressed as Barry Gibb, hinting at what was to come later in the night.
When Bobby Wesson posted a love letter to his wife on Facebook under a beautiful photo of her sleeping next to their son, he must have known she would love it.
What he couldn’t have known was that it would go completely viral, and now more than 680,000 other people love it, too.
In Wesson’s touching letter, he applauds his wife’s dedication to her work as a nurse and all the love and sacrifice she puts into that difficult job every day. His final line perfectly sums up his feelings: “My wife is a nurse. My wife is a hero.”
Check out the beautiful photo and complete letter below:
This is my wife taking a nap. In an hour she will wake up, put on her scrubs and get ready for work.
The tools and items she needs to perform her job will be gathered and checked meticulously—her hair and makeup will be done quickly. She will complain that she looks awful. I will disagree, emphatically, and get her a cup of coffee.
She will sit on the couch with her legs crossed under her and try to drink it while happily playing with the toddler that’s crawling all over her.
She will occasionally stare off blankly as we talk; silently steeling herself for the coming shift. She thinks I don’t notice.
She will kiss the baby, she will kiss me and she will leave to go take care of people that are having the worst day of their entire lives. Car wrecks, gunshot wounds, explosions, burns and breaks – professionals, poor, pastors, addicts and prostitutes—mothers, fathers, sons, daughters and families—it doesn’t matter who you are or what happened to you.
She will take care of you.
She will come home 14 hours later and remove shoes that have walked through blood, bile, tears and fire from aching feet and leave them outside.
Sometimes she will not want to talk about it. Sometimes she can’t wait to talk about it. Sometimes she will laugh until she cries and sometimes she will just cry – but regardless of those sometimes she will be on time for her next shift.
While Justin Timberlake may have solely been the musical guest in last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, he certainly was not going to miss out on appearing in a sketch. The singer reunited with former SNL actor Jimmy Fallon for a second edition of The Barry Gibb Talk Show, a talk show in which Fallon plays BeeGee member Barry Gibb, and Timberlake plays Robin Gibb. The first edition was first performed over a decade ago
This episode of The Barry Gibb Talk Show was a special election-themed edition, featuring Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Elie Mystal (Kenan Thompson), and Joanne Carducci (Dakota Johnson). While an election year is always daunting, Barry shared that he fears nothing, and revealed that he went as far as watching Saltburn with his family, even though he knew about the famous bathtub scene.”
In unison, Barry and Robin recalled some of the polarizing scenes by way of an iconic BeeGees song.
“Hump, hump, hump, hump, lickin’ a drain, humpin’ a grave,” sang Barry and Robin, to the tune of “Stayin’ Alive.”
Elsewhere in the clip, Barry asks Carducci a question, but when she answers, Barry quickly responds “How dare you interrupt me! I do not play! I am legend!”
In his second performance of the night, Justin Timberlake continued to roll out his upcoming sixth album, Everything I Thought It Was. Timberlake performed his latest single, “Selfish” on the Saturday Night Live stage.
Standing far away from his backing band on the stage, Timberlake mirrored the feeling of intimacy he captures within the song. Throughout the performance, the stage literally lit up with stellar lighting effects, as he continued to electrify with his vocals.
Timberlake’s upcoming album marks his first in six years. In an interview with Apple Music 1, Timberlake teased that the album will be his “best work” and that he recorded over 100 songs during the sessions.
“I was able, on some of the songs, to look back at the past and have a real, not a refracted perspective of what it was because they always say … you always hear that thing about, well, there’s never any truth, there’s just everybody’s perspective of what happened,” he said. “But to really look at it and be able to metabolize and verbalize my perspective on it, I don’t think I’ve ever really done that before.”
You can watch a clip of the performance of “Selfish” above.
Everything I Thought It Was is out 3/15 via RCA. Find more information here.
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