People love The Watcher. It scratches the true crime itch, the Ryan Murphy weirdo itch, and the LOST confusion itch all at the same time, and it turns out it was the perfect show for our uneasy October. According to Deadline, the Netflix mystery series starring Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Coolidge and Mia Farrow scored huge on the streaming ratings with Nielsen-confirmed 2.355 billion minutes of viewing. That’s wild! Not only was it enough to make it the #1 streaming show during the week of October 10th to 16th. It was also the second big hit for Murphy, who was fresh off the controversial/addicting Dahmer, which earned both massive popularity and backlash for its depiction of the serial killer’s violence against his victims.
It also stayed on streaming charts that week, clocking in at third place with 1.108 billion minutes of viewing.
Representing the blockbuster fantasy genre, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power hit the number two spot with 1.137 billion minutes, bookended by the lo-fi thrillers that cost a fraction of the glossy epic. HBO Max’s House of the Dragon was in a similar position, hitting the fourth spot with 960 million minutes, mostly for Matt Smith’s flowing white locks. Appropriate for October, Halloween Ends was the lone movie on the top of the charts, landing in 8th place with 717 million minutes (in addition to its theatrical box office).
Nearly two decades after its Oscar love, George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck is potentially headed for a prestige AMC makeover as a series. The film, which explored broadcast journalism’s infancy through the lens of Edward R. Murrow’s righteous takedown of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunt for communists, was directed by Clooney from a script by producing partner Grant Heslov. According to IndieWire, Heslov is set to direct the first episode with Successionwriter Jonathan Glatzer acting as showrunner.
Currently in development, if greenlighted by AMC, the series will go straight to series with six episodes in its first season. This version focuses on a fictional cameraman for Murrow’s news and opinion show who is torn between Murrow’s ideals and the potential for career advancement in an anti-commie CBS.
“As a massive fan of the movie, I didn’t want to copy it, or just do a facsimile of it,” Glatzer told IndieWire. “So, we’ve expanded the world to show how the division and hysteria of the times seeped into every aspect of daily life. I suppose it’s more of an origin story of where we are today.”
Making a series about journalism in an era of preening politicians and anti-commie scare tactics would have to work hard not to feel like a commentary on our current situation. Clooney’s movie was a straight arrow, buttoned all the way up to the top, but it feels right that someone from the wild jungles of Succession is the one to craft an update.
Justin Timberlake‘s solo debut album, Justified turned 20 last Saturday (November 5), and Tyler The Creator has taken to Twitter to celebrate the album’s anniversary. Today (November 10), he shared a tweet noting that the album is one of his all-time favorites, noting its strong songwriting and production.
“started a long write up about it but didnt finish it,” said Tyler. “JUSTIFIED turned 20 this year. a favorite album of mine. SEÑORITA bridge, the structure of NOTHING ELSE, the last minute of LAST NIGHT. very special album. christmas 2002 was one of the greatest moments of my life. 20!
started a long write up about it but didnt finish it. JUSTIFIED turned 20 this year. a favorite album of mine. SEÑORITA bridge, the structure of NOTHING ELSE, the last minute of LAST NIGHT. very special album. christmas 2002 was one of the greatest moments of my life. 20!
This isn’t the first time Tyler has shown Justified love. Back in March of 2016, Timberlake posted an image of himself in the studio with Pharrell. Pharrell produced the bulk of Justified, alongside Chad Hugo, so this image led fans to believe that Timberlake was revisiting the sounds of his debut.
When Tyler saw the picture of Timberlake and Pharrell, he couldn’t contain his excitement.
“OH MY F*CKING GOD YES F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK,” he said in a tweet.
Perhaps we may hear those vintage Timberlake sounds soon. On the album’s anniversary, Timberlake recalled working on the album with Pharrell, Hugo, and Timbaland. He ended his post saying, “Can’t wait for you to hear what we’re all working on now.”
In his video for “Love Myself,” a cut from his latest album, It’s Not Me, It’s You, DDG finds comfort on his own. Teaming up with Kevin Gates, the two are seen dancing throughout a luxury home, surrounded by beautiful women, as they confront the consequences of their non-committal ways.
“Dealin’ with past traumas, hedonistic in nature / Healin’ to break the cycle / Been a bit commitment-shy, but / I’m willin’ to make you my love,” raps Gates on his verse.
DDG swoops in on the second verse, lamenting a lost love.
“Reminiscing on the times, I wish we could do it again / I f*cked around and had you blocked, but I’m on the burner again / Lurkin’ on your page twice, I even be checkin’ your friends / Started questionin’ myself, like, this sh*t ain’t never gon’ end,” raps DDG.
While he may be lamenting a past relationship on the track, DDG is currently dating Halle Bailey and recently opened up about their relationship in an interview with The Breakfast Club.
“I’ve never been with nobody that’s like really motivated me like she do,” he said. “I’m seeing different sh*t. I ain’t really been around this type of sh*t before, so it’s like, she’s bringing me around sh*t that I ain’t really—you know what I’m saying?”
Check out the “Love Myself” video above.
Kevin Gates is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Taylor Swift has dropped not one, not two, but four remixes of her Midnights lead single “Anti-Hero” this week. After dropping two versions, a Kungs Remix and a Jayda G Remix, earlier this afternoon, Swift had another surprise in store — in the form of a new acoustic version. This also follows up the previously-released remix that featured Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers on the second verse, as well as a Roosevelt Remix, which, according to Swift, “makes me feel hyped enough for an imaginary funeral brawl.”
While these four new versions, including the acoustic latest addition, aren’t currently on streaming services, fans can purchase them from Swift’s website with a downloadable link to listen.
The original version of Swift’s “Anti-Hero” has spent its second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Not only that, but during the album’s opening week, she became the first artist to occupy the entire Top 10 songs.
In addition, last week, Swift also shared the instrumental versions of other Midnights tracks like “Bejeweled” and “Question…?” through her website. “Can I ask you a question… did you ever wonder who was responsible for those immaculate crowd vocals?” she posted, tagging both Jack Antonoff and his sister Rachel, her brother, Austin Swift, and actor Dylan O’Brien as the answer.
Can I ask you a question… did you ever wonder who was responsible for those immaculate crowd vocals?
Lizzo is dropping a new documentary, Love, Lizzo, later this month on HBO Max — and she just released the first trailer for it. Love, Lizzo will detail how Lizzo’s life and early career days shaped her into the massively talented flute-playing pop star she is today.
“No matter what part of my story you come in at, I’m always chasing the music. Y’all have no idea how close I was to this not being a thing,” Lizzo says in the trailer. “Nobody was trying to sign a fat, black girl that rapped, sang and played the flute.”
“Now, when people see me on stage, they see themselves,” she continued. “Music gave me the opportunity to be who I am.”
The teaser opens with Lizzo playing to massive crowds and posing for chic photoshoots. Then, she gives fans a snapshot behind-the-scenes, with archival photos and video footage of her younger self, who was shy but writing pop songs in her childhood home.
According to the press release, “this is the journey of a trailblazing superstar who has become the movement the world desperately needed just by being herself” and “shares the inspirational story behind her humble beginnings to her meteoric rise with an intimate look into the moments that shaped her hard-earned rise to fame, success, love and international stardom.”
Lizzo’s Love, Lizzo documentary is out 11/24 on HBO Max. Watch the trailer above.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Ahead of their upcoming tour, Manchester Orchestra has shared a new song, “No Rule.”
Their latest cut features the band’s Andy Hull singing over soft, lush guitars, as the instrumental builds up with heavier drum patterns, creating a feeling of triumph. The song then gradually slows down, as Hull delivers powerful, captivating vocals.
“Talked to the Angel of Death / Kept my sins in a separate compartment / Watching you bend as you wept / Let’s destroy the limousine /Now that I’ve emptied my head / I am chasing you,” Hull sings.
In a statement, the band revealed that they originally wrote the song during the sessions for their 2021 album, The Million Masks Of God, however, they weren’t satisfied with the initial song, and therefore, did not include it on the album’s final tracklist.
“We are very proud to release our new song ‘No Rule’ into the world,” said Hull in a statement. “Written and worked on during the Million Masks sessions, this brave soul took a little longer to cook than the rest. We hope you enjoy. All Love. M.O.”
Check out “No Rule” above, and Manchester Orchestra’s tour dates below.
11/11 — Memphis, TN @ Soundstage at Graceland
11/12 — New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
11/13 — Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
11/15 — Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine
11/16 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
11/17 — Columbia, SC @ The Senate
11/18 — Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Andor, the Disney+ Star Wars series about Cassian Andor, the rebel intelligence officer played by Diego Luna who was introduced (and died) in 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Storydoesn’t have to be as good as it is. Until Andor, the Star Wars show offerings were in an unpromising flop era. The Mandalorian season two betrayed what we thought it was (a Star Wars show free of Skywalkers) by bringing in… Luke Skywalker.The Book of Boba Fett was basically The Mandalorian: Skywalker Saga, andwhile Obi-Wan Kenobi had its moments (more specifically, it had Ewan McGregor’s beard) it ultimately flopped harder than a belly on water as the result of a bad dive by trying way too hard to be what it thinks people want to see from a Star Wars show.
Andor, from creator Tony Gilroy (you’ve probably heard of his excellent thriller Michael Clayton) is everything a Star Wars show should be: it is completely detached from the Skywalker Saga we’ve followed for decades but it simultaneously adds more depth and value to it. It’s both inconsequential and essential, an example of a creative using the franchise as a playground, not allowing it to betray their aesthetic. Andor is filled with Gilroy’s sharp, intelligent, quick dialogue and the political intrigue that would be very boring if anyone else was behind it.
Andor tells the story of the early days of the Rebel Alliance before it even had a name, and documents the brutality of the sprawling, militant Empire and their fight against the growing rebellion. The rebellion is very small and struggling to get funding and to recruit trustworthy, loyal members. The Empire is shown primarily through ISB (the Imperial Security Bureau) and in doing so is completely absent of its overlords. Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine are still terrifying figures but in their absence, the Empire is even more terrifying.
Stripped of the icons we already know, the series focuses on normal civilians of the empire on both sides: business owners and Imperial employees who don’t know or care about the Force or Jedis. Andor depicts people who are just trying to get by under a fascist regime that’s oppressing them more and more each day, and it portrays the Empire as a violent corporate nightmare. Star Wars films and shows including The Phantom Menace and The Mandalorianhave tried to depict the lives of normal people in the galaxy before, but the impact gets lost in the shadow of a Jedi or a Skywalker who inevitably swoops into the narrative.
On Andor, there are no Jedis keeping anyone safe and therefore no Skywalkers who show up on a ship to save the heroes in their most desperate hour. The stakes are higher than ever because the Empire is at the peak of its oppressive, abusive power. Through the lens of Andor, Senator Mon Mothma, their friends, and their Imperial enemies, there’s a deeper, richer understanding of how awful the Empire really is to the galaxy, which enriches the entire franchise. Knowing about Narkina 5, the horrifying Outer Rim prison/factory Andor is in later in the season, the Empire’s torture methods, and the rebellion’s early days, the sacrifices the rebels we already know such as Princess Leia make more sense. Andor makes the Empire way, way worse than the wrinkly old man in a cloak and the helmeted guy with a creepy voice, a choking kink, and a red lightsaber. Mon Mothma, the only character intrinsically connected to the original films, is secretly leading the beginning of a rebellion, but rather than giving the character the iconic moments Disney might think people want, a majority of her storyline is dedicated to her strained relationship with her teenage daughter and her fraught marriage to her Empire-loving dirtbag husband.
Andor is a show about discovering who you really are. Cassian Andor, once a thief who only cared about himself and those he cares about, is, slowly but surely, radicalized the more he learns about the Empire’s oppressive influence throughout the galaxy. Mon Mothma is already radicalized but learns along the way that she’ll have to get even more radical if this rebellion is going to get anywhere. ISB officer Dedra Meero gets even more radicalized by the Empire’s brutality.
Andor is an adventure, a political thriller, a family drama, and a showcase for the best actors the little United Kingdom and Ireland have to offer, plus a Skarsgård and Diego Luna’s incomparable brooding. It is both not a Star Wars show at all and one of the most essential entries in the franchise. Andor isn’t trying to be Star Wars, which is what makes it so Star Wars.
The big takeaway from the Warner Bros. Discovery town hall was a promise to do the thing that everyone already knew they were going to do. Newly-minted chiefs of DC Studios James Gunn and Peter Safran proclaimed that everything will be interconnected.
“This was such a unique opportunity to tell one great overarching story,” Safran said. “One beautiful big story across film, television, gaming, live-action, and animation.”
No real surprise there. According to The Wrap, Gunn also shared his love for Batman and Superman as well as his appreciation that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav also loves those characters. Nice that they had to get that on the record. In a follow-up, Gunn also made his first post on Mastadon an image of Lobo (tease!) and then clarified that every DC film will be under this new DC Studios banner in response to a fan question about the future Matt Reeves Batman projects. That still doesn’t really tell us anything, but the Nolan Batman movies existing in a separate universe made for a confusing foundation when Warners tried this all before.
The only curious thing about Safran’s comment was the inclusion of gaming in that list. Obviously it makes sense to mention it as another vector for entertainment creation, but it evokes the idea that video games will now be a part of filmic continuity. There’s something exciting there, allowing games to be more than tie-ins, but something directly related to the ongoing “beautiful big story” they’re trying to tell.
We often talk about darker, maltier, bolder beers when fall rolls around. We wax poetic on how stouts, porters, and dark lagers are all perfectly warming autumn sippers. But sometimes drinkers don’t want to drink a beer that fits into a seasonal box. They simply want a beer with a little kick. A beer with slightly (or extremely) higher alcohol content.
The kind of beer where you only need to drink one or two and you’re toasty and snug from the inside out.
To find these higher-ABV gems we turned to professionals. We asked a few well-known brewers and craft beer experts to tell us the one high-alcohol, warming beer that they’ll be imbibing this season. And even though it’s fall, the answers we got back included double IPAs, triple IPAs, black IPAs, Belgian ales, and other *seemingly* lighter beers. If you’re on the lookout for a warming, high-octane fall beer that doesn’t necessarily fit the mold of what a fall beer should be (although, to be fair, some do!), this is the list for you.
Keep scrolling to see all of their potent picks!
To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts
To Øl
Jody Valenta, co-president and COO of Roadhouse Brewing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts is my pick. This imperial black India Pale Ale with coffee added is so complex, but still somehow balanced, and each sip is worth the conscious exercise of allowing yourself to truly experience it.
Because of the couple of times I’ve been able to have it, Pliny the Elder. The combination of Amarillo, Simcoe, and Simcoe is so piney and grapefruity. It’s delicious and potent, yet drinkable 8% ABV. Sure to give you a warm feeling this fall.
More Brewing Tri-Clamp & Gasket
More Brewing
Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
ABV: 10%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Stout isn’t the only style to warm the body. As of late, I’ve been reaching for Triple IPAs for the higher-octane nights. More Brewing’s Tri-Clamp & Gasket is a 10% hazy triple IPA that does just the job. Rather than robust chocolate and roasty notes of normal higher ABV beers, this IPA wows you with complexity of Amarillo, Citra, Strata, and Idaho 7 hops.
St. Bernardus Abt 12
St. Bernardus
Daniel Gadala-Maria, brewer at Finback Brewery in Glendale, New York
Drier examples of Belgian dark strong ale, like Rochefort 10 or St. Bernardus Abt 12, are not only my favorite warming, higher ABV beers; they’re my favorite beers overall. Specifically, St. Bernardus Abt 12 with Flavors of toast, nuts, and dried fruits (e.g., raisins and figs) define this yeast-and-malt-driven style. Paired with some cocoa-dusted almonds, there’s nothing better.
Duvel from Duvel Moortgat. This is The One. Seriously. Like Neo in the Matrix. This is pretty much one of my favorite beers of all-time. The flavors and aromas of fruity pear-like esters, and herbal and floral hop character, coupled with the mild phenolic and perfumy alcohol characteristics is a concoction from heaven itself. I especially love the highly carbonated and extremely dry finish of this beer.
It has such great drinkability but will warm you up quickly so slow-your-roll with this gem.
Samuel Adams Utopias
Samuel Adams
Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing in Rochester, NY
Samuel Adams Utopias is a great warming fall beer. Every year it’s a little bit different, but some things remain the same. This includes the ridiculously high alcohol content and flavors. The consistent dark fruit, maple, and vanilla come through in all releases.
Mott the Lesser, a Russian imperial stout from Tributary Brewing. This beer is always special, and I try to have a bottle or two stashed away for when I am craving something boozy and cozy. Rich chocolate flavors, roasted malts, warmth from ABV, and barrel-aging (*see Batch 12 (Fall 2019): Apple Brandy, port, Madeira, Jamaican rum barrels), this beer is one of my favorites.
When the temperatures start to fall outside, one of my go-to styles to drink is Belgian Tripels. One of my favorite Tripels is La Fin Du Monde from Unibroue. Amazing yeast-driven aroma and flavor of spice and ripe banana all packed in a remarkably light and easy-drinking beer. And at 9% ABV, it’ll warm you from the inside out.
Monday Night Bourbon Barrel-Aged Drafty Kilt
Monday Night
Ian Brown, head brewer at Biggerstaff Brewing in Atlanta
I always really liked Monday Night’s BBA Drafty Kilt Scotch Sle. Not sure if they still make it but it was so full of flavor without being too much barrel. The right amount of chocolate and booze. Miss it.
If I’m pulling for a higher ABV beer in the fall, I end up turning my attention to a classic like Dogfish 120 Minute IPA. It’s not a beer I can drink all that often, but when the time is right this beer hits perfectly. The hop balance with sweetness and warming booze is perfect for when the sun has set on a crisp fall day.
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