The career of rapper turned country star Jelly Roll has been the definition of a “glow up.” The Tennessee native saw his public fame increase dramatically just a few years ago after he released the song “Son Of A Sinner” in 2021. Since then, he’s been hotly demanded in the country music space, performing at this year’s Stagecoach Festival and winning a bunch of trophies at the 2024 CMT Awards. But for all those achievements, there’s still one thing he hasn’t been able to do: perform overseas.
With his Beautifully Broken Tour launching late this summer, Jelly Roll explained his international touring dilemma to an astonished Jon Bon Jovi in Interview magazine. When Bon Jovi asked, “Have you taken it overseas yet?” Jelly Roll confessed, “Not yet. I’m so excited. We’re figuring out the final pieces of some legal puzzles for me to get overseas.”
He expressed optimism that it’d work out, explaining, “America has finally agreed to let me leave and give me a passport, but some countries won’t let me come because of my felonies. We’re working on that. I think it’s going to work in my favor.” The Tennessean has spent time in jail for armed robbery and possession of marijuana; many countries have rules that deny visas to felons.
He’s not the first hip-hop artist to go through issues getting a visa. 21 Savage notably could not leave the country due to his ongoing efforts to secure citizenship, only recently acquiring his green card with the help of Drake, of all people. Hopefully, Jelly Roll’s past won’t hold him back too long from his bright future.
June 4th was National Cognac Day! And… we missed it (cognac hangover work as an excuse?). Anyyyyyway, The distilled grape spirit, which originated in the Charente region of Southwest France, has a history dating back to the 16th century. The mother of invention — necessity — gave birth to the nascent category with some help from Dutch traders at the time. Those tradespeople developed a taste for French wine but began distilling it to preserve the liquid on their journey home. After a little tinkering courtesy of the French locals, it was discovered that double-distilling the wine made for a more refined product and what we know today as brandy was born.
Later, in the 17th century, French distillers created the Charentaise distillation process and helped standardize the specifications we still utilize today for designating Cognac. Some of the most important things to know about cognac are the following:
Cognac must be made from grapes in one of the 6 designated growth areas, or “crus”, in Cognac: Bois Ordinaires, Bon Bois, Borderies, Fins Bois, Grande Champagne, and Petite Champagne.
Cognac’s regulatory board, known as the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac, protects the category and enforces the rules surrounding the spirit.
Cognac must be made from a specific selection of grapes, with Collombard, Folle Blanche, and Ugni Blanc comprising at least 90% of the blend. The final 10% includes Blanc Rame, Folignon, Jurancon blanc, Montils, and Semillon.
There are several distinct designations in Cognac, such as Grand Champagne and Petite Champagne as well as a distinct system for categorizing the spirit based on its time spent in a cask. With regards to age, it begins at V.S. which is aged for a minimum of two years, all the way up to XXO which has spent at least 14 years maturing.
While most people are familiar with the world’s largest Cognac house, Hennessy, which makes a plethora of quality products throughout their lineup, the other big houses like Rémy Martin and Courvoisier, along with smaller producers, are truly expanding the category and sparking a greater interest in new consumers. Simply put, these last days of spring are as great a time as any to explore cognac. Maybe you’ve been enjoying premium Cognac for decades, or perhaps you’re just now discovering the delights it offers. In any case, who doesn’t enjoy an excuse to both drink and learn more?
So, to help you celebrate properly we’ve put together this list of 5 Cognacs that deserve your attention and will help you to gain a new appreciation for the category. Grab your nearest snifter and have a seat, these are the best Cognacs to enjoy on National Cognac Day and beyond.
Martingale, named after the French word for doubling down, comes to us from the Thomas family which has been making Cognac for over a century and previously sold their eaux-de-vie to undisclosed prestigious houses. Now, proudly producing Cognac for themselves, this inaugural release from the brand was first released in 2023.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Sugary, with golden raisins and crisp apple notes jumping from the glass at the outset. Honeycomb sweetness begins to emerge along with a slightly vegetal note. That vegetal aspect, reminiscent of celery seed, is fleeting but it adds nuance.
Palate: Notes of sugary golden raisins lead the way, with specks of celery seed and black pepper adding intrigue, before it turns honey-like which persists through the finish with a touch of lemon zest.
Finish: As mentioned the finish is bursting with light and refreshing notes like honey and citrus fruit and it concludes succinctly but not abruptly, allowing the mellow sweet notes to gently fade away, awaiting you to beckon your next sip.
Bottom Line: With a sweet, light, and overall approachable flavor profile Martingale Cognac would make a great highball, but it also does very well on its own making it an excellent entry-level option into the category.
This Fine Champagne Cognac (made with at least 50% of its grapes from Grand Champagne and the remainder from Petite Champagne) comes from the House of Hine. Hine, founded in 1763, is most notable for being the exclusive Cognac supplier to Queen Elizabeth II.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The aromas of warm fig newtons, lemon zest, and custard begin emanating out of the glass at first. From there, notes of undercooked apple pie begin to blossom with the doughiness alternating in prominence with the sweet aroma of semi-cooked apples.
Palate: Lots of brown sugar and fig inform the palate as it immediately comes across as deep without displaying an overwhelming depth. Make no mistake, this is a good thing. The complexity is restrained but the notes of dark sweetness — think chocolate chunks accented by allspice and earthiness — are impressively refined, making this an ideal treat for neat sipping.
Finish: The finish adds a bit of oak and toffee, again well-refined. These complementary notes push the richness to a new degree, and their moderate length allows plenty of leeway for you to enjoy those flavors.
Bottom Line: This straightforward but sumptuous Cognac from the House of Hine does a bang-up job of representing the entire category. Hine Rare is well-developed without veering into decadence and showcases a wonderful melange of prototypical Cognac notes. Consider enjoying this pour on its own, on the rocks, or in a Fine à l’eau to appreciate how the rich flavors it contains can evolve with the introduction of water.
A. de Fussigny has been produced since 1814 but they were long missing on U.S. liquor store shelves. As a Grand Champagne, this expression is made exclusively with grapes grown in the Grand Champagne cru and as a VSOP (Very Superior Old Pale) it is aged for at least four years.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The aroma of dates and dark chocolate effuses out of the glass to greet the senses along with a surprisingly bright pop of nectarines and clementine. After allowing it some space to settle, there are notes of caramel and clove that develop on the nose in addition to some significant allspice.
Palate: The flavor of dates leads the way on the palate, it then blossoms. Beautifully introducing dark chocolate, a slightly floral note, coconut, and even a bit of caramel. The texture of the Cognac is slick, it delightfully coats your palate which allows you to pick up further tertiary notes like lime zest and vanilla pod.
Finish: The finish is oak-laden, but the flavor of date syrup persists along with some sticky toffee providing balance. Sufficiently lengthy, the finish on this Cognac serves to enhance the experience by offering new notes and furthering the overall complexity of this nuanced pour.
Bottom Line: The layers of complexity found in A. de Fussigny’s Grande Champagne are an absolute pleasure to unpack. This Grande Champagne Cognac from A. de Fussigny has a dense texture that does an admirable job of laying a foundation for the well-refined flavors to truly reach their potential. Whether you’re an experienced appreciator of Cognac or a newcomer to the category, this is an expression you will want to savor on its own.
Rémy Martin La Coupe Cognac 300th Anniversary Limited Edition
To mark the occasion of their historic 300th anniversary, the House of Rémy Martin released La Coupe, which is comprised of eaux-de-vie exclusively from the Grande Champagne appellation. The bespoke glass is coupled with its bespoke wooden case, a numbered certificate of authenticity, and a unique QR code that offers access to exclusive digital content.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Stewed peaches, star anise, and dark chocolate waft out of the glass. The first impression of this pour can be summed up as singularly decadent. With allspice and wood varnish soon joining the party along with glacé grapes and sugared pie crust, the senses are appropriately primed to acknowledge that this will be an involute imbibing experience.
Palate: A flavorful burst of lush, golden raisins and stewed peaches opens the door for butterscotch, cedar, allspice, and nectarines. Take a beat and compute it all after your first sip. As you return for a second sip, you’ll notice that each of the aforementioned notes is refined and they’re soon accented by chocolate mousse, white pepper, and glacé blueberries. Its chimeric complexity can be found in each sip.
Finish: The finish is slightly burdened by oak, as it becomes dry, but that doesn’t curtail the evolution of flavors with stewed stone fruits continuing to shift and morph alongside the flavor of aged oak, toasted almonds, and coconut.
Bottom Line:
There is so much to unpack in this rich, multilayered experience that it beckons for return visits and repeat sips. Savor it slowly, absent of any ice or other obstructions like less-than-ideal company, and you’ll reap the fullest benefits without bankrupting both yourself and your bottle. Rémy Martin La Coupe Cognac 300th Anniversary Limited Edition is a masterpiece.
Grand Marnier Grande Cuvée Révélation Cognac Liqueur
Part of the Grand Marnier Exceptional Range, Cuvée Révélation is an attempt to elevate the brand’s award-winning blend by using 68 XXO Cognac (the most premium age bracket) eaux-de-vie along with a dash of orange essence. Housed in an elegant and unique bottle, this expression is the most Cognac-forward in Grand Marnier’s lineup.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Robust candied orange peel provides a deeper sweetness while a brighter orange oil note adds nuance to the nose. Caramel, tobacco leaf, oak, and vanilla extract further bolster this decadent bouquet of aromas which are well-served by the XXO Cognac at its base.
Palate: On the palate the orange notes are a multi-layered experience unto themselves but they’re buoyed by vanilla extract and a wealth of sugary sweetness. Most impressive is the mouthfeel as the different orange accents light up different parts of the palate — at times offering a dark sweetness that’s almost syrupy, and in other places offering a piquancy bordering on tartness that prods your palate urging you to explore more.
Finish: The finish is undeniably full of gentle oak tones, vanilla, and candied orange sweetness but it fades away gently leaving a mellow impression after all the pizazz upfront. Think of it as a big, blowout party that someone else is cleaning up afterward — you can enjoy it all guilt-free.
Bottom Line: While most folks are familiar with garden variety Grand Marnier, this Révélation expression lives up to its name by leaning heavily into well-aged Cognac as its base spirit. The richness found in this expression makes it an incredible liqueur to experience by sipping neat, as the layers of complexity wrought by its XXO cognac blend will leave a lasting impression. For the ne plus ultra digestif experience, Grand Marnier’s Révélation is the way to go.
Spirit award competitions aren’t perfect… but they are a great resource when it comes to being pointed in the direction of some truly delicious booze. Now that we’re hitting the summertime, the results from some of our favorite annual spirits are beginning to pour out. Just last month the TAG Global Spirits Awards dropped its list of the top bottles across all of the major booze categories, and our eyes took us straight toward the tequila results, where five bottles snagged TAG’s coveted Best In Show award.
We’ve tried four of the five bottles on the Best In Show list and from what we’ve tried we can cosign the TAG results, these are great bottles that deserve your liquor shelf real estate. Before we get into the results (plus our personal tasting notes where applicable) let’s talk about how exactly the TAG judging process works, because it’s pretty thorough.
Each spirit at the TAG awards goes through three rounds of judging with an international panel of experts, including a blind taste test portion, a super panel where experts for each respective spirit taste the best of the best and determine whether a bottle should be considered for the Best In Show category, and a final round where the TAG judges come together to evaluate which deserve the Best In Show designation.
On top of all the judging, each pour is served in a special glass made in partnership between TAG and renowned crystalline glassware manufacturer RONA, which is constructed to be the ideal serving glass for all spirits, from Whiskey, to rum, to tequila. Everything is considered in the construction of the glass, from the bowl diameter to the height, to the foot and stem. That’s the kind of nerdy attention-to-detail that we love here at Uproxx, whether it is actually the ideal glass for every spirit remains to be seen (send us one please TAG, or better yet, invite us next time!)
That’s enough talking about it, let’s get straight to the best bottles of tequila according to the 2024 TAG Global Spirits Awards.
AMNA’s Tequila Cristalino is the only bottle to receive Best In Show that we haven’t tried personally and the only Cristalino to make the list. Cristalinos have a mixed reception amongst tequila fans, so we’re surprised a bottle was able to snag TAG’s highest award. We look forward to trying it one day!
Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of information out there about AMNA’s production process, which is concerning. What we do know is that the tequila is produced at NOM 1545, Hacienda Capellania, home to nearly 20 brands, and overseen by master distiller Hector Dávalos.
The cristalino is made from añejo tequila aged in American oak and French oak barrels for 14 months and is filtered through activated carbon and plate filtration.
Tasting Notes (According To TAG Global Spirits Awards)
Bright, light amber color. The aromatics are very intense, giving scents of agave, baking spices, and oak with supporting notes of citrus, vanilla bean, and quince. The palate echoes the nose delivering an agave-driven core with flavors reminiscent of citrus, gingerbread, and nutmeg. The finish is long and lingering. Medium-bodied and ideally balanced with a juicy texture.
The Bottom Line:
Given its high honors, AMNA probably serves as a good introduction to the Cristalino category of tequila. We look forward to trying this bottle.
Cabo Wabo, a relatively inexpensive brand made with additives making TAG’s Best In Show is proof that when you put tequila to a blind taste test, the supposed valley between additive vs. additive-free tequila narrows (though you’ll find the higher-ranked bottles are additive-free).
Cabo Wabo is produced at NOM 1440, Campari Mexico, and is made from tequila cooked in a low-pressure autoclave and roller mill extracted. It is then fermented in Stainless steel tanks, and twice distilled through a stainless pot with a copper coil.
To reach the repo state, Cabo Wabo is aged for two months in American Oak barrels.
Our Tasting:
Nose: It tickles the nose with a mix of zesty citrus notes and crushed black pepper.
Palate: Sweet and buttery with a strong roasted agave character, more of that black pepper from the nose, a bit of vanilla, and butterscotch candies. Strangely, all of that citrus zest on the nose is missing on the palate.
Finish: There is an oily quality to the finish with a slight kiss of oak.
The Bottom Line:
Truly surprised to see Cabo Wabo make this list. It’s a fine tequila but lacks a deep and rich character that you could fall in love with. I can’t see this being anyone’s favorite.
Siete Leguas getting Best In Show is something I can get behind! This additive-free añejo is produced at NOM 1120, Tequila Siete Leguas. A distillery that shares its name with the product is usually a good sign. The agave here is cooked low and slow in stone ovens before being crushed by a tahona, made with natural spring water, and open-air fermented in stainless steel tanks before being twice distilled in a copper pot.
The tequila is then aged in American white oak barrels for 24 months.
Our Tasting Notes:
Nose: A really delicate, gently spice nose. I’m getting a gentle waft of cinnamon, caramel, and oak, all hovering over a rich roasted agave base.
Palate: Surprisingly fruity with tones of rich plum, juicy ripened citrus, a bit of coffee bitterness, and a bright white peach vibe.
Finish: The barrel comes out on the finish, I’m tasting oak, more of that cinnamon from the nose, and a slight hint of grassiness.
The Bottom Line:
A showcase for what makes additive-free tequila so great. There are so many flavors to latch onto and get lost in.
Siete Leguas’s D’Antaño is one of the brand’s premium products. The preparation process is the same, it’s produced at NOM 1120, stone cooked, tahona extracted, and is still made with no additives, but it’s aged for a long five years in American white oak barrels.
That extra barrel time brings forth a lot of fruity and sweet characteristics, with a long silky finish that makes this a true joy to sip.
Our Tasting Notes:
Nose: Right off the bat, you’re going to get a lot of oak here. In addition to the wood, I’m getting green apple skin, dark cherries, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Palate: A mix of vanilla, caramel, and cinnamon hit the palate first before shifting into fruity territory.
Finish: A wonderful bouquet of cinnamon, roasted agave, oak, and maple syrup. A single sip seeps into your tastebuds, allowing you to savor the flavor. A little goes a long way here.
The Bottom Line:
A premium top-shelf tequila from one of the best brands in the game. Having said that, as much as I love the luxury on display here, I think Siete Leguas’ stock añejo covers a lot of the same ground here.
We’re giving our full co-sign to TAG naming Tequila Ocho Plata one of its Best In Show. This is one of our favorite tequilas right now, and a bottle of this stuff has a permanent spot on my bar cart. This tequila is made from agave that is hand-harvested between 7-10 years of maturity and is slow cooked in brick ovens for 48 hours, rested for 24, and then crushed by a roller mill. The juice is then fermented in wood vats and twice distilled.
It is completely additive-free and has a palpable silky and luxurious quality that tastes like it should cost more.
Our Tasting Notes:
Nose: Fresh-peeled orange rind and roasted agave dance on the nose in equal parts.
Palate: Zesty and earthy, I’m getting cracked black pepper and a rush of fresh herbal flavors. It’s almost cilantro-like, which is something to consider if you find the herb off-putting.
Finish: Mint and pepper with a gentle spice that builds on the aftertaste.
The Bottom Line:
You’ll find a lot of natural sweetness and fruity character here, much more than you’d expect for its price point. This is simply one of the greatest unaged tequilas on the market right now. Pick up a bottle if you haven’t already.
It’s hard to not be excited about the NBA Finals this year. On one hand, we have a team that got corronated as the best team in their conference at the beginning of the season, and after sweeping the Indiana Pacers, the Boston Celtics were able to get to the place many expected them to end up. On the other, we have a team that needed to pivot on the fly and retool its team around a pair of stars, and as a result, the Dallas Mavericks have returned to the Finals for the first time since their magical run that ended in a title back in 2011.
Now, we have a matchup between two teams with rosters filled with stars and important role players. And today, we decided to look at 20 players who will take the floor in the NBA Finals and rank them based on how important they’re going to be to their team’s quest to lift the Larry O’Brien trophy.
Reserves who have played a little this postseason
20. Dante Exum
19. Tim Hardaway Jr.
18. Jaden Hardy
17. Sam Hauser
16. Josh Green
15. Xavier Tillman/Luke Kornet
14. Payton Pritchard
You’ll sometimes get a game where one guy from this general category gives his team, like, 18 good minutes that helps them pick up a win. While those first five guys are all nice players — Exum’s renaissance this season has been great, Hardy is able to provide a little juice off the bench, Hardaway can get hot, Hauser can get really hot, Green’s athleticism and shooting are assets — keep an eye on the last three. Dallas’ size and physicality (along with the potential that Kristaps Porzingis isn’t 100 percent or gets hurt again) would mean Tillman or Kornet (the more likely option of the two if he’s fully healthy) could suddenly be thrust into an important role behind Al Horford, and they’ve generally rewarded Joe Mazzulla’s faith when they’ve had to do a lot. Pritchard, meanwhile, can provide an instant injection of scoring off the bench if Boston needs a change of pace and someone to add a little life to the offense if it gets bogged down.
Impactful big men
13. Maxi Kleber
12. Al Horford
11. Daniel Gafford
10. Dereck Lively II
Kleber’s switchability and shooting have made him a trusted option for years, and while he is just coming back from an injury, he was able to shake off a little rust at the end of the Timberwolves series. Whether he plays as a 4 alongside Gafford or Lively, or whether he’s thrown in as a smallball 5 to give Dallas a different look, Kleber provides something different that can be valuable against a Celtics team that will hunt switches and try to win the math battle by getting up a ton of threes.
There’s really nothing to say about Horford at this point. The man is a rock, and even at 38 years old, he can get dropped into the team’s starting lineup and battle, whether that means checking other bigs, stretching the floor, or giving the Celtics someone else who just knows how to play within their system and with all of their core pieces. Kristaps Porzingis is expected to be back after missing the last two rounds, but whether he’s starting or coming off the bench, you can basically set your watch to Horford giving the team good minutes, although watching him against two hyper-athletic bigs like Gafford and Lively will be fascinating.
As for Gafford and Lively: The former starts while the latter comes off the bench, despite the fact that Dallas’ numbers tend to be better when the rookie out of Duke is on the floor. Regardless, both of them are big, long, and athletic, and are major reasons why the Mavs have been getting tons of extra possessions off of offensive rebounds this postseason, while they’re two of the league’s premier lob threats playing alongside the league’s premier lob thrower in Luka Doncic. Their ability to guard on the perimeter is going to be tested this series, and if they can, that would be a huge boost for Dallas. They’ll have to be forces on the defensive glass, as well, because if you give the Celtics extra possessions off of offensive boards, you’re going to lose.
Critical role players
9. Jrue Holiday
8. Derrick Jones Jr.
7. PJ Washington
Holiday is the best player of the bunch here, but gets knocked down a bit because his success or failure won’t be nearly as critical to his team’s chances as it is for the other two dudes. Still, Holiday has been a perfect fit for the Celtics this year, and he’ll almost certainly get tasked with defending Kyrie Irving for long stretches during the Finals. There have been playoff games in the past where he gets a little overeager to try and get himself going as a scorer, and as long as that doesn’t happen in the Finals, it’s hard to see him having a bad series.
Jones and Washington are two nice players who will have to be excellent on both sides of the floor. The duo are almost certainly going to draw the Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum assignments on defense, and while shutting either guy’s water off completely won’t happen, just slowing them down enough so that their stars can take over games would be a gigantic boost (and also is very, very difficult to do). And regardless of whether the Celtics are able to successfully get hot from three, these two absolutely have to knock down the looks from behind the arc Irving and Luka Doncic generate. We saw during the Oklahoma City series how far one of them getting hot can go, as they do not beat the Thunder in six if not for Washington hitting 47 percent of his attempts from three.
The ceiling raisers
6. Derrick White
5. Kristaps Porzingis
Two things have happened this year that turned Boston into the best team in the NBA. One is that White has turned into a legitimate star guard — those who called him an All-Star earlier this year were probably a bit too optimistic, but the fact he even got into those conversations is probably more than the Celtics could’ve dreamed of when they acquired him. His ability to score, his comfort initiating the offense or acting as a connecting piece, and his defensive tenacity are all perfect fits in Boston’s starting five.
As for Porzingis, he could not have fit any more perfectly into this Celtics team. He’s embraced being a secondary or tertiary option in a way he didn’t during his time in Dallas, and while an injury has held him out the last two rounds, his ability to stretch the floor and provide elite rim protection have been exactly what Boston needed out of its center as Al Horford aged out of a starting job. And when the team needs him to get in the low post, he’s turned into an elite scorer, which, uh, hasn’t always been the case.
When both of their guys bring their A-games — hell, when one of them brings their A-game and the other just has a nice night — Boston can survive a game where Brown and/or Tatum are a just a hair off. It’s an incredible luxury. And when Brown and Tatum are cooking, both of these guys can slide into roles where they focus entirely on the stuff they’re great at, which makes them equally dangerous. How Dallas deals with these two in addition to Boston’s pair of All-Stars is maybe the single most important thing to watch in this series.
The superstar running mates
4. Kyrie Irving
3. Jaylen Brown
Irving has been weird this postseason. He’ll go through stretches where he just doesn’t really impact the game on offense at all and he has, like, five points in a half — his defense, to be fair, has consistently been respectable (and sometimes great). And then, the switch flips, and all of a sudden he turns into the killer on the offensive end that helps Luka Doncic carry the Mavs to wins. Dallas basically needs him to be at his best whenever he is on the floor against Boston, which is going to be difficult due to the fact that he’s constantly going to be hounded by Jrue Holiday and Derrick White. He has it in him to put up numbers despite that, though. And on defense, he is almost certainly going to be the guy the Celtics want to hunt. How he holds his own against Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum when they get him on a switch will go a long way in deciding this series.
Hey, speaking of Brown: Boy, he’s good at basketball, isn’t he? Brown has played the best ball of his career as Boston has gone on a run to the Finals, with a number of the criticisms about his game — namely that he really struggles with turnovers when he has to break down opponents in 1-on-1 situations — essentially evaporating. He’s been able to score efficiently even when his jumper isn’t falling from deep, and he’s been locked in on the defensive end. In this series, he’ll likely spend time guarding both Doncic and Irving, but the big thing is going to be his ability to attack guys like Derrick Jones Jr. and PJ Washington and get to spots on the floor where Dallas’ defense is put in conflict, particularly if/when Kristaps Porzingis is on the floor and the Celtics able to pull guys like Dereck Lively and Daniel Gafford away from the rim. The more Brown finds himself making the right play in those situations, the more likely it is Boston comes out on top.
The faces of the franchises
2. Jayson Tatum
1. Luka Doncic
Tatum has not been at his very best during the playoffs. That, of course, has meant that he’s only averaging 26 points, 10.4 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 1.1 steals a game on a team that made the NBA Finals. He’s quite good! Tatum’s a special player because he finds ways to impact games when his shot isn’t falling … but having said that, finding his shot (his numbers started to tick up against the Pacers in the conference finals) is going to be important, because the Celtics need him to be able to shoulder a heavy load when Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic take over games. He’ll still do all the other stuff that makes him great — the passing, the defense, the rebounding — but Tatum has gotten to this stage before and couldn’t carry Boston’s offense. That’s happens in a star’s first NBA Finals appearance all the time. Now, he has a chance to show how he’s grown since then against a Mavs team that is going to throw anything and everything it can at him. It’s a chance for him to emphatically end any questions about whether his name deserves to be thrown around in the conversations for the best basketball player in the world (see: here), particularly because in order for the Celtics to win, he’s going to have to hold his own against arguably the best player in the world right now for stretches in this series.
Doncic’s career — from winning everything in Europe as a member of Real Madrid to the number of times we’ve seen him rip an opponent’s heart out in the NBA — has basically happened in anticipation of the day he finally got a team to the Finals. Now 25 and on a team with a running mate in Irving who helps take some of the burden off of him, Doncic has spearheaded the Mavs’ offense in the playoffs as it got through the teams ranked first, fourth, and eighth in defensive rating during the regular season. His efficiency numbers have been a little worse than you realize as a result (43.8/34.3/80.6 shooting splits in the playoffs), and unfortunately, he now has to deal with a tenacious Boston defense that can throw a number of great-to-elite perimeter defenders at him. It’s a bit reductive to say this, but if Doncic isn’t at his best, the Mavs don’t have much of a chance in this series — it’s the big difference between him and Tatum, as there’s a path for Boston to win that involves Tatum not being the best player on the floor in the Finals. Dallas isn’t really afforded that luxury, and if Doncic is anything other than the star of the series, Boston is going to win a championship. The good news for the Mavs is that betting on Luka Doncic to be the best player in a given series has gotten them to this point, and continuing to do that very well could lead to them winning the second title in franchise history.
Each week our staff of film and television 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.
Fallout is an adaptation of Bethesda’s behemoth franchise, a story set within the retro-futuristic world that’s captivated console users for years and years. Yes, there are delightful little nods to in-game storylines – Pip-Boys and Nuka-Cola and Radaway, but they either serve a larger purpose or don’t linger for too long, ensuring that the show stands on its own two feet. Long-time gamers should have little to gripe about while those craving better genre fare amidst the streaming glut should come away satisfied. Whether you know its history or not, Fallout is a f*cking blast of a sci-fi show that defies expectations in the most unconventional of ways (and turned Walton Goggins into a sex symbol).
Doctor Who is separated into two eras: the original run from 1963 to 1989 and the current relaunch, which began in 2005. The new season is the 14th since it was revived, but it’s officially referred to as “Doctor Who Season One.” Got all that? If you’re a Doctor Who fan, of course you do. But to everyone else who is probably very confused, it’s never been easier to watch the iconic British series now that it’s on Disney Plus with Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Millie Gibson as his companion, the wonderfully-named Ruby Sunday. Is it too soon to dream of a TARDIS at Disney World? (It’s not!)
Season 1 of Outer Range careened down an illogical hill with abandon, but it did so gracefully. It’s such a delicate balance that I wondered if a second season could maintain that same feat. Fortunately, my worries were unfounded. Outer Range is still kind-of a mess and sometimes feels like a full-on identity crisis, but the package is skillfully combined. It also considers enormous questions about human existence but doesn’t take itself seriously by claiming to have every answer (you can our full review here).
Lady Gaga’s The Chromatica Ball tour was only 20 shows long (compared to over 150 for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour), so if you weren’t able to experience Mother Monster sing the hell out of “Born This Way” in person, Max has you covered. Gaga Chromatica Ball is a filmed performance of one of Gaga’s sold-out Dodger Stadium concerts from 2022. She performed many of her greatest hits, including “Shallow,” “Bad Romance,” and “Rain on Me.” There’s no “Hair” (my personal favorite Gaga song; please do not ask me to defend why, it just is), but I won’t hold that against the future Harley Quinn.
Evil does not exist – or at least the show Evil won’t after this season. This is the final season of the Robert and Michelle King-created series, which made the successful leap from CBS to Paramount Plus. Evil is frequently called the “best show you’re not watching,” and it’s got a The X-Files-ish premise to back that up: “A skeptical female psychologist joins a priest-in-training and a contractor as they investigate the Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and hauntings. Is there a logical explanation, or is something truly supernatural at work?”
Following a near-death experience, Jeremy Renner is back for season 3 of Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown. When the town of Kingstown, Michigan, is overrun by a Russian mobster and drugs, it’s up to Mike McLusky (Renner) to keep things under control, but “things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor’s attempts to keep the peace among all factions.” That’s nothing compared to what Renner went through in real life.
Let Dune: Part Two lead you to paradise. The highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far makes its streaming debut on Max, where you can watch Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya ride sandworms as many times as you want. The Denis Villeneuve-directed sequel takes everything great about 2021’s Dune and makes it, well, just as great. But now with more Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux (although sadly less Oscar Isaac and Stephen McKinley Henderson). In short: Dune: Part Two rules.
It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to watch Jim Henson: Idea Man tonight (well, May 31 when it premieres on Disney Plus). The documentary explores the life and career of the Muppets creator, including “never-before-seen personal archival home movies, photographs, sketches, and Henson’s personal diaries, as well as interviews with those who knew him best.” Prepare to cry.
“Oh great, another unnecessary horror prequel,” right? Wrong! Directed by Arkasha Stevenson, The First Omen is one of the most visually striking horror movies in recent memory. Nell Tiger Free (Myrcella Baratheon from Game of Thrones) gives a stellar lead performance as an American who gets sent to Rome to work with the church. But once she arrives, “she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.” Hate it when that happens. But you won’t hate watching The First Omen.
Comedian Tig Notaro’s directorial debut Am I OK? premiered to strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2022. The film stars Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno (who’s having a big month with House of the Dragon dropping next week) as Lucy and Jane, two best friends who think they know everything there is to know about each other until Lucy drops a secret: she’s a lesbian. “As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos,” the synopsis reads. Am I OK? I will be after watching Am I OK?
The American Godzilla movies like Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire are fun, but the recent Japanese Godzilla movies are masterpieces. 2016’s Shin Godzilla was the best entry in the franchise since the 1954 original, while Godzilla Minus One was a sensation. The Takashi Yamazaki-directed film grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office and won an Oscar, both firsts for a Godzilla movie released by Toho Studios. If you missed out, Godzilla Minus One is now streaming on Netflix.
We Are Lady Parts is the kind of show that makes a streaming service worth the cost of subscription. If you don’t have Peacock, you should sign up for creator Nida Manzoor’s rowdy, Peabody Award-winning comedy about an all-female Muslim punk band in the UK. The cast — led by Lady Parts members Anjana Vasan (guitarist Amina), Sarah Kameela Impey (singer Saira), Juliette Motamed (drummer Ayesha), and Faith Omole (bassist Bisma) — is great, and the soundtrack rips. Have a taste with “Bashir With the Good Beard.”
To paraphrase Lou Reed: Oh, it’s such a perfect day / I’m glad I spent it with Perfect Days. The latest film from Paris, Texas director Wim Wenders follows Hirayama (played by Koji Yakusho), a man living by himself who cleans public bathrooms in Tokyo for a living. When he’s not working, he’s listening to music, reading, and taking photos of trees. Perfect Days doesn’t have the most exciting plot, but it’s an incredible, Oscar-nominated film about what it means to be human. After all, what is life if not finding pride in your work and the minor distractions that keep you going?
Yes, it’s another Star Wars show. But The Acolyte has a lot going for it. For one thing, there’s a Wookiee Jedi. All my 10-year-old Star Wars dreams are coming true. Also, the series is created by Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland and the cast, including Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Charlie Barnett, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Manny Jacinto (Jason from The Good Place!), is solid. The Acolyte takes place long before the prequels, so there will be no stops on Tatooine or mentions of the name “Skywalker.” That alone makes it worth a watch.
Hit Man is funny, sexy, thrilling, charming, and a crowd pleaser. So why did it barely get a theatrical release? “I don’t know,” director Richard Linklater told Decider about the lack of studio interest in his film. “Everybody’s scared. [The movie] was not one thing. It’s not a hit man movie.” Maybe if Hit Man — which stars the impossibly hot duo of Glen Powell and Adria Arjona — becomes a big enough, well, hit on Netflix, we’ll get a sequel that plays in 4,000 screens. Or better yet, sequels.
Taylor Sheridan does not know the meaning of moderation. He has about 80 shows (which is only a slight exaggeration) currently running or in the works, some of which film at his various ranches. And yet, Sheridan still doesn’t have enough shows to call it good because he’s headed the espionage realm with an upcoming project and an Oscar winner in the lead role.
Of course, this isn’t Sheridan’s first rodeo in the spy realm, where he previously tangled with Special Ops: Lioness, starring not only Nicole Kidman but also Zoe Saldaña as a CIA operative named Joe who mentored and molded recruits. That series has been renewed by Paramount+ for a second season, but Sheridan is stretching his spy-thriller-assassin-show legs by putting a new spin on existing source material. With The Day of the Jackal, Sheridan will further adapt Frederick Forsyth’s same-named novel that was already the basis of a 1973 movie. Let’s discuss how the show might differ.
Plot
Sheridan is planning to tackle The Day of the Jackal as a 10-episode action-thriller series, which hasn’t yet been formally declared a limited series, so we shall see where that loose end goes. Eddie Redmayne will portray the titular Jackal, a lone-wolf who assassin who is being hunted by an MI6 agent (Latasha Lynch). The Yellowstone creator is making the series for SkyShowtime (it will stream elsewhere in the U.S.), and of course, the Jackal isn’t truly by his lonesome.
According to Hollywood Reporter, a character named Nuria (Ursula Corberó) will surface as “someone at the heart of The Jackal’s personal life, entirely unaware of who he truly is.” Also, Sheridan is certainly not planning to simply rehash and lengthen the feature film’s take on the subject matter:
The Day of the Jackal is being billed by the producers as a “bold, modern reimagining of the beloved and respected novel and film.” While staying true to the DNA of the original story, which was set in 1962 and based on attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle, this contemporary drama will delve deeper into the chameleon like “antihero” at the heart of the story in a “high octane, cinematic, globetrotting ‘cat and mouse’ thriller,” set amidst the turbulent geo-political landscape of our time.
Sky Studios is aiming for the sky with this series, which CEO and chief content officer Cécile Frot-Coutaz has called “probably one of the most ambitious or large-scale production that we’ve mounted.”
Cast
Eddie Redmayne headlines as the Jackal with Latasha Lynch as Bianca. The series co-stars Sule Rimi, Chukwudi Iwuji, Stuart Whelan, Christy Mayer, Florisa Kamara, Ben Hall, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, and Martin McDougall.
Release Date
The series will stream on SkyShowtime across the pond and presumably Peacock in the U.S., although that final detail hasn’t been confirmed yet. That would be departure from most of Sheridan’s shows, which stream on Paramount+, although Yellowstone proper is a Peacock outlier.
Trailer
Since no trailer has surfaced yet for Sheridan’s project, here’s the 1973 film’s trailer for the heck of it, and if you are so inclined, the film is available to rent on Prime Video (Amazon).
Yesterday marked one month since hip-hop fans received the last entry in Kendrick Lamar and Drake’srapid fire rap beef that took a turn for chaos starting at the end of April. That last entry was Drake’s “The Heart Part 6,” which references Kendrick’s long-running freestyle series. Since that diss was released, fans and critics alike crowned Kendrick Lamar as the winner of the rap as he also went on hit No. 1 with “Not Like Us.” It remains to be seen if either rapper will toss out another diss, but it seems likely that it won’t be Drake after he removed all his Kendrick Lamar disses from his Instagram page.
Fans noticed that Drake quietly removed the diss songs, which include “Push Ups,” “Family Matters,” and “The Heart Part 6,” from his Instagram page on Wednesday. The move also came with a new post and cryptic message. “The only yes man around me is my Rolex dealer,” Drake wrote under pictures of himself in his Toronto mansion. It’s not the first time that Drake deleted a song during his beef with Kendrick. Back in April, Drake was forced to remove his “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which featured AI rap verse from Tupac and Snoop Dogg, after the former’s estate issued a cease & desist letter that threatened to sue Drake for using Tupac’s voice without permission.
Coincidentally (or maybe not), Drake deleted the Instagram posts the same day that Kendrick Lamar announced “The Pop Out — Ken & Friends” concert with pgLang and Free Lunch at LA’s Kia Forum on June 19, aka Juneteenth. That performance could add another page to Kendrick Lamar-Drake rap beef story.
Chris Fowler has been one of the leading voices in college football for decades, but this July will mark his debut as the voice of video game college football. The lead play-by-play man for ESPN will join his colleague Kirk Herbstreit on the call for the biggest games in EA Sports College Football 25, and as Fowler explains, it’s a moment that’s been a long time coming.
Fowler has been calling college football games for 36 years at ESPN, but when the NCAA Football franchise was around, he was conspicuously missing. His partner, Kirk Herbstreit was in the game, but the play-by-play in those games was former ESPN broadcaster Brad Nessler, who’s currently with CBS. As Fowler detailed in Orlando during a launch event at EA Sports campus, that was because ESPN wouldn’t let him be part of the game.
“It’s so cool for me being involved in this game, because I wasn’t allowed to be involved in the previous version of this college football game by my employer,” Fowler said. “ESPN blocked me from doing it. I was a staff employee, they could do that back then. Kirk and others could be involved, I couldn’t be. The rationale was ESPN was going to get into the football video game business and this would compete with that.”
This time around, ESPN no longer has dreams of getting in the gaming space and instead lent much of their team to EA Sports College Football 25. Fowler couldn’t have been more excited, and saw firsthand how excited people are for the return when he started posting videos of himself recording lines from his home studio.
“Well, I was aware of how it resonates when I wasn’t involved in it. I mean, it bothered me a lot. And I don’t really live with regrets, but I mean, not being able to do that, I thought was really unfair and it just bothered me,” Fowler explained. “And here’s Kirk involved in it, Nessler, and other guys that I knew or [were] friends. So I was aware from the start when they brought this game back that it was going to be really well received and that I wasn’t going to take no for an answer and wanted to be involved in it. But I get it. As it unfolds, and it gets closer and closer and little tidbits are released, and also once I saw the quality of it. Again, I’m not saying I was shocked, but I just had no idea that there was going to be that kind of commitment by everybody. Every single person who played any role in creating this wanted to do their part as well as they could and that comes out on the screen.”
While Fowler is a veteran of voiceover work, lending his voice to a video game was an entirely new experience, and one that forced him to really think about how he calls games. They don’t play clips for you when you’re recording your lines, but you have to figure out how to match your intensity with the moment in the game without seeing what you’re calling at all. That required an adjustment period and, as he explained, he had to learn to visualize the moment and try to imagine himself in an actual broadcast booth in a stadium to try and deliver a call that mirrors what fans would hear on TV.
“It wasn’t instant because it’s so different than most of the voiceover work you do — you know, you do documentary films that it’s very quiet and very slow, and you do commercials and you’re doing what they want and it changes,” Fowler said. “But like I said, it’s not alien to me. You have to imagine yourself in a booth, but if you’ve ever seen anybody in a studio or in a booth, when you listen at home, the energy is here. When you see it live, it’s there. The whole process is filtered by the time it gets through a TV screen or to a gaming console. So you have to be even bigger here to get the level you want there. The routine plays are not that big of a deal, but the touchdown calls are what people remember in a game or a video game, so you want to get that part right. And like I said, it was a process. I felt like I was trying, but I wasn’t doing a good enough job at simulating a first-play or a game-winning touchdown. So you go back and listen to some of those calls, and then you have to try to get to that level.”
Fowler said he requested to re-do some lines once they finally sent him clips, because he felt he didn’t bring the right energy to the call to meet the moment. One example he noted was they sent him a gameplay clip of someone scoring a first-play touchdown in Ohio State-Michigan, and, having literally been in that situation before — he brought up Xavier Worthy’s touchdown to open Red River in 2021 — he realized the excitement and energy level just wasn’t where it needed to be.
“It was a 75-yard pass play touchdown on the first play of the game, with the commentary I’d laid down. If you don’t know how it’s done, a touchdown call is stitched together from five or six pieces of information — you can’t call every single touchdown situation,” he said. “So it’s stitched together in that way, but I didn’t like what I heard. Ohio State scores from 75 yards out on the first play against Michigan? I mean, that energy level in real life is as big as any game-winning touchdown. In a rivalry game, in that environment, if you score on the first play, that’s as much as winning a championship on the last play. And I didn’t think that I brought it. So I really asked to re-record some of the stuff.”
Part of the challenge of getting that energy level right was learning how to pace the recording sessions. They recorded him shouting “TOUCHDOWN [insert school]” 134 times in a session, but had to break that up with some “run for three yards” calls to help him from blowing out his voice and having the energy and sound taper off later down the alphabet.
“You have to learn over time how to program those sessions so that you’re not blowing yourself up because it’s just not like a real game. You have a lot of small plays and quiet calls mixed into the touchdowns,” Fowler recalled. “We were doing a bunch of those stuff together. So it took a while, but not that long. And then there’s just a ton of plays there, where it’s not scripted. I think people have to understand, when you’re saying, “Out of bounds at the 49,” and going all the way down to the one, and the different inflection you need as you get closer to the goal line.
“It’s subtle stuff like that that you want to bring, and they did a great job in helping remind me or direct me in that, but sort of just putting yourself in that position. Like okay, now they’re out of bounds at the four. That shouldn’t sound the same way as out of bounds at the 30, right? So just subtly bringing up the energy, and it requires a lot of focus to do that. I think we started at four hours [per session] and then moved it down to three. Kirk did two-hour sessions. It’s trying to make sure you have the right energy because nobody cares when they’re playing the game. ‘Hey, he probably called about 100 touchdowns before that, so I understand why he didn’t really bring it on that one.’ It doesn’t matter. There’s no context for that. You want to be great.”
Fowler said he did 115 hours of recordings across more than two years getting ready for the game, with about 10 hours of sessions with Herbstreit to create a natural conversation feel in the game. As Herbstreit told him, the amount of detail in the commentary was way more than when he was part of the old NCAA Football franchise, and as such, the hours piled up as they found more things they needed lines for.
“He did inform me, ‘Let me tell you something, this is way different.’ It’s way denser, because every aspect of this game is much denser and richer than it was before,” Fowler said. “So yeah, he let me know that the commitment and the kinds of things he was being asked to talk about. It’s just so much. And that’s the thing, you know better than I do that people get frustrated when every call sounds the same, right? And there’s a generic nature to it. There should be nothing generic about a football game, or a video game about football, right? I mean, I don’t know what it was. Probably 100 times richer than that, than what he first did.”
We’ll find out exactly how successful they were in delivering on their promise of depth and detail, but it was clear how excited Fowler was to be a part of it and how much respect he had for the folks at EA Sports for the amount of effort and work that went into the game. As they explained in the presentation they gave the assembled media in Orlando, they wanted fans of every team to feel like they were cared for in the same way, whether they’re a big program like Alabama or a smaller one like Kennesaw State. They put a ton into the presentation, from stadium builds to getting band and cheerleader formations exact for player runouts, but the broadcast commentary is vital to the game feeling real and feeling fresh. They hope all those hours put in the studio will pay dividends.
For Fowler, it was a long time coming to finally get his voice in the game, and while “demanding,” he cited it as one of the “one of the coolest experiences I’ve had” in his nearly four decades as a broadcaster.
Uproxx was invited on a hosted trip by EA Sports for reporting on this piece. They did not review or approve this story. You can find out more about our policy on press trips/hostings here.
Pat Sajak is in “they can’t fire me, I already retired” mode.
During Wednesday’s episode of Wheel of Fortune, contestant Allison made it all the way to the bonus round, but she struggled with the puzzle. “___TS _AND __G_RES,” the board read. She tried to talk it out, guessing “COATS AND HANGERS,” but after she was unable to come up with the right answer (“FACTS AND FIGURES”), Sajak zinged, “Ooooh, you were so not close.”
He basically pulled a Borat-level “… NOT.” You can watch it above.
Sajak has been the host of Wheel of Fortune for over 40 years, but this Friday, June 7, is his final episode. “This was announced a long time ago, almost a year ago. So I’ve had time to sort of get used to it. And it’s been a little bit wistful and all that, but I’m enjoying it and taking it all in and reflecting on the great run,” he told his daughter Maggie during a recent interview. Sajak added, “Somewhere along the line, we became more than a popular show. We became part of the popular culture. And more importantly, we became part of people’s lives. And, that’s been awfully gratifying.”
Sajak will be replaced by Ryan Seacrest. Co-host Vanna White is sticking around after a long-overdue salary bump.
For several days, all indications have pointed to ESPN analyst JJ Redick as the overwhelming favorite to become the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Redick, who is set to call the NBA Finals beginning on Thursday, recently side-stepped the topic by indicating saying it “will be addressed once the season’s over,” and that only added fuel to the fire. With that said, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski delivered a curve ball in the early hours of Thursday morning, reporting that the Lakers are set to present a “massive, long-term contract offer” to UConn head coach Dan Hurley.
BREAKING: The Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Connecticut’s Dan Hurley to become the franchise’s next coach and are preparing a massive, long-term contract offer to bring the back-to-back national champion to the NBA, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/6WPrigPvAW
In his piece for ESPN, Wojnarowski notes that “the Lakers have had preliminary contact with Hurley and the sides are planning to escalate discussions in the coming days.” Hurley was also reportedly the apple of Kentucky’s eye during their 2024 coaching search, though Hurley quickly made it clear that was not in his plans.
Hurley is the architect of the two-time reigning national champions of men’s college basketball, and he is renowned for his tactical abilities at the college level. Though the college-to-pro jump has been less in vogue in recent years, Hurley is highly respected and, as ESPN writes, “LeBron James has been impressed with Hurley’s sophisticated offensive actions.”
He’s so DAMN GOOD!!! Along with his staff. Super creative with their O! Love it
It remains to be seen as to whether Hurley will sign on the dotted line. For one, the presence of a high-profile, high-dollar offer is appetizing, but nowhere in the reporting is it stated that he is likely to join the Lakers and it would be a substantial risk for him to leave the incredible situation he constructed at UConn for (far) less job security at the NBA level. However, it would also be fair to suggest that the chance to coach the Lakers, and presumably LeBron James, would present a different calculus than a more run-of-the-mill NBA opportunity.
The Lakers have certainly been interviewing other candidates, ranging from Redick to Sam Cassell and James Borrego, and one of the reasons for the building assumption of Redick as the leader is the reality of his ESPN’s commitment and the length of this coaching search. However, Hurley as a leading candidate is the kind of high-profile factor that complicates matters in considerable fashion, and the next steps on all sides will be incredibly interesting.
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