Country music fans’ boots are on the Empire Polo Club grounds for Stagecoach 2025. The three-day outdoor festival’s offering was filled with the genre’s biggest names and rising stars. This was the main takeaway from headliner Zach Bryan’s set.
Instead of bringing out one of his superstar collaborators, the “Blue Jean Baby” singer brought out a longtime supporter for a surprise duet–Willow Avalon.
Back in 2023, Avalon covered his song “I Remember Everything” with Kacey Musgraves. Given supporters’ past reaction to the clip, the pair decided to give fans an official live rendition (viewable here).
“A cold shoulder at closing time / You were begging me to stay ’til the sun rose / Strange words come on out / Of a grown man’s mouth when his mind’s broke,” sang Zach.
He invited the crowd in to belt the line: “Pictures and passin’ time / You only smile like that when you’re drinking.”
Zach took back control, singing: “I wish I didn’t, but I do / Remember every moment on the nights with you.”
Willow Avalon chimed in, harmonizing: “You’re drinkin’ everything to ease your mind / But when the hell are you gonna ease mine? / You’re like concrete feet in the summer heat / That burns like hell when two soles meet.”
The duo’s duet earned raved reviews from folks at the festival and users online. But for Avalon the moment meant so much more. She took to Instagram thanking Zach Bryan for inviting her to share the stage with him
“I covered this song two years ago, and last night Zach Bryan and I sang it together to close out stagecoach,” she wrote. “What a dream, life isn’t real y’all.”
Today (April 27) is the final day of Stagecoach 2025. Find more information about the festival’s livestream here.
“I kissed Morgan Wallen / I guess kissing me kind of went to his head / If you want my secret to success/I suggest don’t go ATVing with him when you’re out west,” she sang.
The onstage confession took festivalgoers for a loop. But she insisted that details of their seemingly brief entanglement would remain between them. “This is the last time I’m ever going to say this line,” she continued.
However, based on the previous working title of her next project (The Right Person Will Stay) and her concluding line, Lana and Morgan’s fling was not filled with good memories
“Now I got a man, he really loves me… A fan of mine,” said Lana seemingly referring to her husband Jeremy Dufrene in the crowd.
Morgan Wallen has not issued a response to Lana’s lyric. Now, fans are camped out in his social media pages’ comment section begging for him to address the matter.
Whelp, the wait is almost officially over. To give fans one final teaser bang before her set, today (April 27), Beyoncé shared a birds-eye view of the Cowboy Carter Tour production setup. In the video posted on Instagram (viewable here), a camera makes its way through Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium. Although the clip is filtered in grayscale, the various hues of black seem to suggest a vibrant set design.
“She coming,” Beyoncé captioned the visual.
As crew transports pieces across the ground floor, it is clear Buckin’ Honey Pit, Sweet Honey Pit, and Club Ho-Down ticket holders are in for a good ‘ole foot stomping time.
But the clip shows that even those in the upper levels are guaranteed a direct sight line to the shindig. Limited tickets are still available for the Cowboy Carter Tour‘s first four nights, all of which are at SoFi Stadium (4/28, 5/1, 5/4, and 5/7). View the complete performance schedule for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tourhere.
Good news, Dexter aficionados: the franchise is officially out of control.
Eight seasons of the original series were survived by Dexter: New Blood, which was supposedly the end, but Dexter Morgan somehow survived again to cameo his way into Dexter: Original Sin, which introduced the younger serial killer during the formation of his Code. That wasn’t enough.
Dexter: Resurrection is currently filming with Michael C. Hall and a bevy of original cast members, including James Remar (as Harry), David Zayas (as Angel Batista), and John Lithgow (as Arthur Mitchell, the Trinity Killer). What? Yes, Arthur will not only be back in that sequel, but he is going to receive his own prequel spin off. Let’s look at the evidence on what to expect.
Plot
Specific plot details are under wraps, and we can guess that the vibe will be similar to Original Sin but focused primarily on the Trinity Killer’s earlier crimes. As his nickname suggests, he killed in threes and amassed hundreds of victims throughout the U.S., so there should be no shortage of material for at least a season. The prequel will also presumably bounce off whatever transpires with Arthur Mitchell’s appearance in Dexter: Resurrection. Notably, Lithgow has revealed the Trinity Killer, a fourth-season antagonist whose arc reverberated beyond his physical appearance, did not die despite Dexter apparently bludgeoning the life out of him with a hammer.
Sure, that doesn’t seem possible, but Lithgow informed Variety, “I just went back to do a day,” and “it turns out he didn’t die after all. I come back sort of as a phantom, as he gradually comes to life on a hospital bed.” Oh, just roll with it. That will also happen in a cast that includes Krysten Ritter, David Dastmalchian, Peter Dinklage, and Uma Thurman, in addition to Michael C. Hall and the returning cast members mentioned above.
Maybe in Resurrection, Dexter can get the job done this time on killing Arthur Mitchell, and then, it’s back to his origin story with the next prequel series, which is already scripted. Last December, universe architect Clyde Phillips revealed (as reported by Deadline) that Lithgow will lend his voice:
“We wrote the entire Trinity Killer series. At the moment, it is on the back burner. John Lithgow has agreed to be the voice of his younger self the way Michael Hall is doing for [Original Sin]. There’s that and we’re doing another show with Michael C. Hall, [Resurrection]… We were writing that while shooting Original Sin, so that’s fairly busy. We begin shooting [Resurrection] in January and it will air in June 2025.”
Lithgow, however, dodged the question on whether he’ll narrate while speaking with Screenrant. He did offer a suggestion to the mystery actor filling Trinity’s younger shoes: “Just be on his side. [Laughs] Not an easy thing to do, with the Trinity Killer, but be on his side.”
Cast
Showtime hasn’t yet revealed who will portray the younger Arthur Mitchell, and surely, Lithgow will monologue, although no word has surfaced on whether he will cameo like Michael C. Hall did for Original Sin.
Release Date
Dexter: Resurrection will be out this summer, and Trinity should not be too far behind once filming begins since Original Sin came together pretty darn fast. 2026? Maybe.
Trailer
No trailer exists yet, but hey, here’s a clip of Dexter apparently not doing a good enough job of killing Arthur Mitchell.
Much has been made about the lack of studio movies that get released in theaters anymore. So you have to treasure the ones that do, like the delightful One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, and the upcoming Good Fortune, with Keanu Reeves, Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh, and, well, Keke Palmer. She’s the charismatic queen of theatrical comedy!
Speaking of, one of Palmer’s upcoming projects is starring in an adaptation of The ‘Burbs, Joe Dante’s 1989 dark-comedy film with Tom Hanks. Will you be watching the Peacock series? The answer better not be “nope.”
Here’s everything we know about The ‘Burbs.
Plot
In the original horror-tinged comedy from Gremlins genius Joe Dante), Tom Hanks plays a suburbanite who begins to suspect his new neighbors of… MURDER. The Peacock adaptation tweaks the premise by following a couple, seemingly played by Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall, who move into the husband’s childhood home. As per the logline, “What starts as a typical suburban life quickly unravels as new neighbors arrive with explosive secrets.”
Peacock’s The ‘Burbs (as I’ll call it from now on to avoid confusion) is being written by Celeste Hughley, while Seth MacFarlane and Brian Grazer are attached as executive producers. Dante does not appear to be involved, but Dana Olsen, who wrote the original screenplay, is a co-executive producer.
In a 35th anniversary retrospective with Paste about The ‘Burbs, Dante discussed the film underperforming at the box office before becoming a cult classic. “It does seem to have quite a following, and it was apparent even at the time,” he said. “I’d go to the dentist and they’d say ‘Oh, you made The ‘Burbs? I love that picture!’ But in the meantime, you’re sort of feeling that you’re in movie jail because the reviews are so bad.”
As for MacFarlane, besides his admittedly light involvement with Family Guy and American Dad, he’s also producing another reimagining of a classic comedy: Naked Gun.
Cast
Besides Tom Hanks, The ‘Burbs also starred Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, and Gale Gordon, of Lucy: A Tribute fame. The cast of Peacock’s The ‘Burbs includes Keke Palmer, Jack Whitehall, Julia Duffy, the always-hilarious Paula Pell, Kapil Talwalkar, and Mark Proksch (Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows), who, come to think of it, would make a good Mr. Mooney in the inevitable I Love Lucy reboot.
Release Date
Stay tuned for a premiere date.
Trailer
There’s no footage from Peacock’s The Burbs yet, but you can watch the trailer for The Burbs: the movie below.
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.
10. Conclave – Focus Features film streaming on Peacock
Have you ever dreamed of spying on how the papal conclave selects a new pope? Well, you’re not alone. Searches for the Best Picture nominee spiked following Pope Francis’ death, and viewers are drinking in the Ralph Fiennes-starring film, which revolves around a dramatized version of the infighting between the Catholic Church’s leaders as they locked themselves in the Vatican for the process. The film took home the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but let’s be honest, it’s a soap-opera of a movie, too.
9. Companion – New Line Cinema film streaming on Max
The Final Girl has taken a turn in this dark comedy that sees a “companion” robot hack into her own programming, and Sophie Thatcher really goes for it while giving Jack Quaid much more than he bargained for in this twisted romance story. That much has been predictable from the movie’s promotional tour, but this film still delivers enough curveballs to make the ride worth taking. Both stars are on fire with Thatcher recently surviving the third Yellowjackets season and starring opposite the dastardly Hugh Grant in Heretic. Quaid, meanwhile, starred in Novocaine and will soon assist buddy-comedy duo John Cena and Idris Elba in Heads Of State.
8. G20 – Amazon MGM Studios movie streaming on Prime Video
Antony Starr isn’t simply Homelander, guys. He previously starred in the excellent Banshee, and currently within his Amazon stomping grounds, he’s getting his tush kicked by Viola Davis. She portrays the U.S. president who is targeted at the G20 summit, and you can guess that she doesn’t exactly need rescuing by security. For his part, Starr was thrilled to be defeated, as he revealed on Instagram: “The signs were there all along…. I was gonna get my ass whupped. I’m glad it was you.” Homie goes down.
Apple TV+ was so confident in this series that they renewed for a second season before debut. That’s generally a move that doesn’t go wrong, and it doesn’t hurt that Jon Hamm departed the Landman set to portray a contemporary Don Draper type who starts robbing his wealthy neighbors after his hedge-funder lifestyle and marriage both crumbled. Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn co-star, and James Marsden will bring his affable ways to the show’s future.
The Testaments sequel series is currently in the works (also with Bruce Miller as showrunner) to extend Margaret Atwood’s tales of Gilead, but before that happens, we can consider why, exactly, anybody would choose to come back from Canada after escaping the show’s hellscape. Also, what the hell is Serena Joy plotting, if anything at all? Elisabeth Moss previously hinted that the relationship between June and Selena would be a large part of this season, and ideally, both Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia will receive massive comeuppance before all is said and done.
Get ready to get awkward again with Nathan Fielder. The overlord troll is back for a second season of helping people “rehearse” for significant moments within his own simulations. In doing so, he began this year’s masterful display of discomfort by devoting resources “toward an issue that affects us all,” according to Max’s spoiler-free description. This week, Fielder “draws from his past,” and the less you know going into these episodes, the better.
Tom Hardy’s fixer, Harry, sat in a potentially difficult place last week as one of only a few people who knew where the bodies were buried, but that’s also inherently the life of a fixer. Pierce Brosnan’s mob head knows this much as well, and Guy Ritchie’s series is currently one of the most popular shows on Paramount. It’s safe to say that a second season will soon be in the works, and Hardy has already been out there, teasing up a storm about potential international destinations to be tackled by Guy Ritchie. MobLand co-stars Helen Mirren, who has recently been everywhere including Taylor Sheridan’s universe, and Paddy Considine, who damn well should be everywhere, too.
Charlie Brooker’s satirical anthology series, which frequently highlights a technological hellscape not too far off base from reality, will soon return with what Brooker promises is “back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way.” In doing so, you can expect a followup to the notorious “USS Callister” episode, but don’t expect to see Jesse Plemons because, well, you know.
Will Tom Hardy be in the Peaky Blinders movie? Look at his face and realize that this is not an important question right now. Instead, this is the moment where The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans’ long-gestating action movie has finally arrived. Hardy is in the driver’s seat as a jaded detective who is tangling with underworld baddies, including Timothy Olyphant, after a drug deal gone wrong. On the way toward rescuing an entire city, Hardy will pick up a flamethrower. Will he use the Venom voice while doing so? We’ll never tell.
Well, Pedro Pascal’s Joel is down for the saddest count, which is fine because the dude also needs to film about 10 other projects, including Avengers: Doomsday, and Bella Ramsey will keep carrying the torch as Ellie. Meanwhile, Pascal has been doing his best to keep any toxic fans from piling onto Kaitlyn Dever (who portrays Abby), but he might have broken a few hearts as well with a post-mortem shoutout on Instagram while writing, “Thank you, scene partner. You little miracle.” And also, showrunner Craig Mazin has confirmed, “This is not the last we will see of Joel.” So there.
Earlier this month, Travis promised a new project from his Cactus Jack crew in addition to a solo project this year. “Right now, I’m super into producing, making the beats again, and getting the sound back,” he told Complex. “I’m making beats and music for other people, and even for myself… I’m excited for Jackboys, and my new album, and Sheck [Wes]’s new album.”
Today, we got our first update on the Jackboys album: It’s made Travis sick. Well, maybe not literally. But the album is presumably finished, as the Houston native noted on Twitter, “Jackboys album brazy. I just threw up. Certified.”
It’s impressive that he’s had time to finish up one project, let alone multiple. In recent months, a lot of his time seems to have been dedicated to a much different kind of feud than the one his past collaborators Kendrick Lamar and Drake spent the last year engaged in. He’s been embroiled in a wrestling ring back-and-forth with WWE star Cody Rhodes, helping The Rock and John Cena give The American Nightmare bad dreams of his own.
The last album from the collective Cactus Jack posse, Jackboys, was released December 27, 2019, and carries the distinction of being the first No. 1 album of 2020.
With a new album on the way, Lana Del Rey gave fans at Stagecoach Festival a preview of what she has in store during her headlining set on Friday night, performing three songs from the upcoming project. According to Rolling Stone, the three songs were called “Husband Of Mine,” “Quiet In The South,” and “57.5.”
“57.5” drew particular attention from concertgoers and observers online for a line in which she shades country star Morgan Wallen — after confessing she kissed him on an off-roading date. “I kissed Morgan Wallen / I guess kissing me kind of went to his head / If you want my secret to success / I suggest don’t go ATVing with him when you’re out west.”
Of course, she noted to the crowd that this was before she met and married her current husband, Jeremy Dufrene, and said it was “the last time I’m ever going to say this line.”
“57.5,” and the other songs Lana performed on Friday, are expected to appear on the singer’s tenth studio album, The Right Person Will Stay. The album has a release date of May 21, and features production from Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, and Luke Roberts. As suggested by her second appearance at Stagecoach in as many years, it’ll feature heavy flavor from Americana — which she says isn’t that much of a departure for her.
You can check out video of the “57.5” performance here.
Anya Taylor-Joy’s poker-chess face performed so righteously in The Queen’s Gambit that second-season cravings are only natural. Still, there has been no hint from Netflix or anybody involved that more could happen, and the existing season is perfect as-is while still sitting on streaming service’s All-Time Top 10 TV Shows list. It’s time to let that dream go, y’all.
The good news, however, is that The Queen’s Gambit writer/director Scott Frank has another original TV series coming to Netflix. Let’s move the game pieces around and determine what to expect from Dept. Q
Plot
Scott Frank’s limited-series prowess is strong, both with The Queen’s Gambit and Godless, so odds are strong that Dept. Q will take the same route. That label hasn’t been made official yet, so for now, this new series has been announced for an initial nine-episode season based upon Danish novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen’s same-named books.
Dept. Q is also officially labelled as a thriller series, and although this will not be as high-octane as The Night Agent, certain similarities are impossible to ignore. That includes a protagonist who is relegated to a basement department, and you know that isn’t going to last. Matthew Goode will portray incorrigible top-cop, Carl, who doesn’t get along so well with colleagues, and following an officer-involved shooting that severely injured his partner, Carol is reassigned to (for PR reasons and probably because it’s convenient to have the abrasive colleague stored elsewhere) concentrate on cold cases.
A guilt-ridden Carl will embrace f*cking off at first but soon grow bored and build his own group of unofficial colleagues, both from “misfits and mavericks” within the police team, according to Variety, but also from the streets (via Netflix’s synopsis) after Carl does get back out there on cold cases.
In the process, Carl will clash with a rising prosecutor and find support from an assistant (and former Syrian police force member) who has more skills than previously imagined. Additionally, Carl’s therapist will have a hell of a time sorting through his trauma, but look for them to “develop a deeper connection across the series.” Hmm. Here’s more from the aforementioned synopsis:
[D]epartment [Q] is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best – rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer.
Cast
Matthew Goode stars alongside Kelly Macdonald, Leah Byrne, Chloe Pirrie, and Alexej Manvelov.
Release Date
Dept. Q streams all nine episodes on May 29.
Trailer
Netflix hasn’t released a Dept. Q trailer yet, but you could always revisit The Queen’s Gambit while you wait.
Is it the fun premise? The guest stars? Natasha Lyonne‘s voice?
More likely, it’s a combination of all three things — as well as the behind-the-scenes work of creator and director Rian Johnson and the talented writing staff — that made Poker Face one of the best television shows of 2023.
Thankfully, the Peacock series will be back for more mysteries soon. And that’s the truth.
Created by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), Poker Face stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cox, a former casino employee who has an ability to determine when someone is lying — a skill that she uses to solve various murders across the country.
Following the events of the season 1 finale, in which Charlie pisses off a powerful crime syndicate, she’s back on the road in season 2. “We’ve taken her journey to the next level one murder mystery at a time,” Johnson and Lyonne teased in a co-statement. “From minor league baseball to big box retail, from funeral homes to alligator farms, and even a grade school talent show, Charlie navigates her crime solving existential road-trip with deadpan wit, human empathy, and her signature uncanny lie-detecting ability.”
They continued:
To bring Season 2 to life, we pulled visual inspiration from American ’70s cinema, all the stuff we love like Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich. But the backbone of this show is TV – the kind of TV we grew up watching, episodic case of the week gems like Columbo and The Rockford Files and Quantum Leap. Each episode is a mini movie, existing in its own world with a unique tone and vibe, featuring an eccentric lot of characters played by a truly gonzo parade of guest stars.
Seriously, the list of guest stars is insane (check it out below).
Lyonne believes that Poker Face is both a character study about a woman on the run and “a fun hangout show,” she told Parade. “Poker Face is so beautiful because it’s an adult concept of: we lose interest in ourselves and gain interest in our fellows. In a way, she’s sort of on the case of anybody but herself.”
You are simply not ready for the amount of guest stars joining Natasha Lyonne this season. Here’s a mere sampling:
-Alia Shawkat
-Awkwafina
-Carol Kane
-Cliff “Method Man” Smith
-Cynthia Erivo
-David Alan Grier
-David Krumholtz
-Ego Nwodim
-Geraldine Viswanathan
-Giancarlo Esposito
-Haley Joel Osment
-Jason Ritter
-John Cho
-John Mulaney
-Justin Theroux
-Katie Holmes
-Kumail Nanjiani
-Lauren Tom
-Lili Taylor
-Margo Martindale
-Melanie Lynskey
-Natasha Leggero
-Patti Harrison
-Rhea Perlman
-Richard Kind
-Sam Richardson
-Simon Helberg
-Simon Rex
-Taylor Schilling
Poker Face is basically the modern-day The Muppet Show.
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Release Date
The first three episodes of Poker Face season 2 premiere on Peacock on May 8, followed by a new episode on subsequent Thursdays.
Trailer
Check out the trailer for Poker Face season 2 below.
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