Pedro Pascal has been a vocal supporter of trans right on social media, so of course, The Mandalorian star is being nothing short of a loving brother as he shares the news that his sister Lux has come out as a trans woman. In a new Instagram post, Pascal shared the latest cover of Ya, a Spanish-language magazine, that features his sister Lux sharing her coming out story with the world. In the caption, Pascal wrote, “Mi hermana, mi corazón, nuestra Lux,” which translates to “my sister, my heart, our Lux.” In the cover interview, Lux reveals that her family has been nothing but supportive, and she credits Pascal with helping her find her identity. Via People:
“My transition has been something that’s very natural for everyone in my family,” Lux said in the feature, translated from her native Spanish. “It’s almost something that they expected to happen.”
As for her famous brother, Lux said Pascal “has been an important part of this. He’s also an artist and has served as a guide for me. He was one of the first people to gift me the tools that started shaping my identity.”
You can see Pascal’s Instagram post below:
The news of Pascal’s sister coming out as trans adds some interesting context to the controversy surrounding Gina Carano that started back in September 2020. Carano found herself in hot water after making transphobic remarks about people putting pronouns in their Twitter handles. During the dust-up, Carano revealed that Pascal personally reached out to her and explained why the pronouns are a supportive gesture to the trans community, which Carano seemed to acknowledge and respect until she doubled down and added “beep/bop/boop” to her handle.
So, Gina Carano spoke to Pedro Pascal who explained pronouns and why people have them in their names and Gina decided to mock that. She really is trash. pic.twitter.com/giQ9agx8Oq
After that incident led to calls for Lucasfilm to fire her from The Mandalorian, Carano claimed that she was simply mocking the mob mentality and not being transphobic.
Beep/bop/boop has zero to do with mocking trans people & to do with exposing the bullying mentality of the mob that has taken over the voices of many genuine causes.
While the Cara Dune actress steered clear of the pronoun issue, she would later ignite another controversy with a series of anti-mask tweets and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Not everyone can be as pure as Pedro.
Last week, Maria Bakalova received a well deserved Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Borat’s daughter Tutar in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. That’s on top of her Critics’ Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, making her a genuine Oscar contender. Remember: the original Borat, which is a fun collection of words, was up for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Sacha Baron Cohen won the Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. But even if Bakalova is unfairly snubbed (the Academy Awards track record with comedies is not great), at least her career is thriving: the actress has been cast in Judd Apatow’s new comedy for Netflix.
The Bubble “follows a group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel attempting to complete a film,” according to Deadline. The comedy will also star Karen Gillian, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal, and Peter Serafinowicz. Apatow, who will write and direct, must have yelled “want to be in my new movie?” from the living room to get Mann to sign up.
Once Netflix boarded the project, it quickly was fast-tracked with a plan to start shooting at the top of 2021. The plan also always has been to deliver a cast that rivals previous A-list ensembles like those for The Disaster Artist and Knives Out, and Apatow looks to have delivered that here.
Bakalova. Gillan. Pascal. It’s a great cast, no doubt, but there’s someone missing…
Our journey to find the best bourbon whiskey at every price point has landed us squarely in “the good stuff” zone. The bourbons in the $50 to $60 range tend to be unique across the board, while also still feeling like accessible expressions — in both price and shelf availability. We’re not getting into ridiculous age statements or hard-core craft bourbons just yet.
The ten bottles of bourbon whiskey below span solid blends, barrels from dead distilleries, craft gems, and higher end expressions from some big names. It’s a wide net we’re casting here in the $50-$60 range.
Hopefully, you’ll be able to find most of these bottles at our quoted prices. Still, some of these bourbons will be markedly more expensive, especially the craft stuff, depending on how far you happen to be from the source. Others might be a little cheaper if you live near where they’re made. It really all depends on state taxes and liquor store markups.
Smooth Ambler is a great example of how smaller craft operations get up and running. This expression is a blend of sourced high-rye bourbon that’s aged for nine years with their own-make, a wheated bourbon that’s aged for two years. The sourced bourbon is MGP of Indiana, giving the blenders a quality foundation to build their bourbon off of.
Tasting Notes:
Classic notes of bourbon vanilla and oak mingle with spicy stewed cherries beckoning you in on the nose. The palate holds onto that sweet fruit and spice, as notes of worn leather and soft cedar arrive with a hint of grain. The end is long-ish with the spice, oak, and cherry lasting the longest.
Bottom Line:
This is a great bottle to dispel the myth that “sourced” whiskey is somehow inherently a bad thing. Try this one with a little water to let it open up. Then experiment with it in a few bourbon cocktails.
This grain-to-glass craft whiskey from outside of Chicago is quickly becoming a craft classic. The grains in the high-rye mash bill are all sourced within 100 miles of the distillery. The juice is then aged for just under four years in small format Minnesota oak before it’s small-batched, proofed, and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a richness that’s welcoming — with oily vanilla, rich caramel, Christmas spices, and a hint of cherry. Those spices really amp up and get chewy on the palate, as buttery toffee with a hint of almond arrives with oak. The end is medium-length and brings more oak and spice with a hint of those local grains popping in.
Bottom Line:
This is a solid workhorse craft whiskey. While it’s perfectly sippable on the rocks, it really shines brightest as a cocktail or highball base.
This Texas whiskey is planning on being fully-and-truly from Texas ASAP. For now, the juice is primarily sourced from MGP of Indiana. Oak & Eden ships those barrels down to Texas where they blend their whiskey and then add the oak spire to recreate a sort of double-barrel finish in the bottle.
The result is one of the more unique bottles on the shelf today.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a Red Hots cinnamon-sweet opening, with plenty of oak, hints of caramel, and a slight touch of vanilla. The oak creates a dry mouthfeel with a continued spicy/sweet edge that’s welcoming. The end is fairly short, dry, oaky, and resurfaces the Red Hots note.
Bottom Line:
This is an interesting dram. There are no rough edges, thanks to the well-blended nature of the juice. Is the oak spire in the bottle really adding anything besides a conversation point? We’re not sure (logically, it makes sense) but we’re more than happy to keep trying this one out to find out.
Woodinville Bourbon Whiskey Finished In Port Casks
This award-winning bourbon from Seattle is hard not to love. The craft bourbon focuses on local grain-to-glass modes to create the whiskey. That juice spends around five years aging before it’s transferred to port wine casks for a final six to 12 months of maturation.
Tasting Notes:
Bourbon vanilla draws you in with a sense of candied nuts and dried fruit that sneaks towards Christmas cake. The palate indulges fully in that cake, with plenty of dark Christmas spices next to orange oils and stewed plums with a slight tobacco chew.
The end is slow, ultra-svelte, and full of all those plummy and Christmas cake notes.
Bottom Line:
This was our favorite bourbon of 2020. It’s a great sipper with a little water or a great cocktail base.
This is a classic bourbon from a classic distillery. Rare Breed is comprised of hand-selected barrels that hit just the right marks, according to master distillers Jimmy and Eddie Russell. The barrels are then married and bottled as is, allowing the beauty of the barrel to shine through in every sip.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a deeply nuanced nose, with hints of crème brûlée spiked with Christmas spices next to mild tobacco, orange zest, and a touch of fresh mint. The palate holds onto all of that while adding a pine resin dankness that softens to cedar. The end is long, warming, and holds onto the spice and cedar while creating a well-rounded mouthfeel — pure silk.
Bottom Line:
This might just be the best expression of Wild Turkey on the shelf right now. It’s amazingly deeply flavored while remaining smooth. It’s also a workhorse and shines as brightly in a cocktail as it does neat or on the rocks.
This is a fascinating and unique bottle from Diageo. The core of this whiskey is orphan barrels from Diageo’s Stitzel-Weller distillery (which is brewing up Bulleit now). Those last barrels from the iconic distillery — that once made Pappy — are blended with sourced whiskeys from unnamed distilleries. The blend is then proofed and bottled with no age statement.
Tasting Notes:
This is a nuanced bourbon with hints of dried apricot, cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, and a slight whisper of banana pulling you in. The palate veers more towards the dried stone fruits and raisins, as a counterpoint of juicy pear lead towards hints of soft oak next to touches of grain. The end leans into the warming spices with a Christmas edge, with the oak and fruits fading out slowly.
Bottom Line:
This is a very easy drinking bourbon that feels like a classic from the first sip. Add it to some rocks to let it open up or use it in your favorite bourbon cocktails.
This small-batch whiskey is blended at Limestone Branch Distillery (formerly owned by Luxco but now by MGP of Indiana) by the Beam brothers. The juice is a blend of four and seven-year-old bourbons, which means it’s still sourced juice (for now) while the distillery ages their own-make.
Tasting Notes:
A soft rye spice comes through on the nose with a dose of cherries (very Beam) and a hint of worn leather next to a tobacco note. The palate leans into the chewier mouthfeel while adding a salted caramel sweetness with a hint of smoked cherries as a counterpoint. The end embraces the caramel, oak, and cherry while adding a touch of bitterness to the slow fade, ending at another wisp of smoke.
Bottom Line:
This really is a subtle yet tasty dram that stands out (that smoky nature cannot be denied). It’s a nice sipper with water for sure but really works well in a cocktail, too.
This expression amps up the already masterfully-crafted Woodford Reserve bourbon. The juice is triple distilled and aged for six to seven years in deeply charred oak. Then the bourbon goes into a second barrel that has been double toasted but only slightly charred.
After nine months of finishing, the bourbon is proofed and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
This is an interesting one — hints of marzipan and rose water hit the nose next to dark berries and honey-toffee with just a bit of dry firewood. The palate draws those flavors out as the berries dry out, the marzipan becomes nuttier and less sweet, the woodiness becomes more like a soft and almost like wet cedar. There’s a touch of apple and caramel with a slightly spiced edge near the end with a rich honeyed tobacco chew next to a whisper of vanilla.
Bottom Line:
This is a fantastic whiskey to have on hand. It’s a great sipper with a little water or a rock. It also works as a killer base for a Manhattan.
This is a solid example of a distillery that used to source all their juice and has now switched over to using their own-make from their Colorado distillery. The whiskey in this case is a three-year-old bourbon that’s small batched and finished in port wine casks for four to six months.
Finally, the whiskey is proofed with mountain spring water from the Rockies and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
Dried fruits, cellar must, and hints of vanilla greet you. The palate has a matrix of spicy stewed dried fruits next to touches of butterscotch and vanilla. There’s a plummy vinous note as the fade starts walking back through the spice and dried fruits, leaving you with more of that cellar mustiness.
Bottom Line:
This is probably the biggest outlier on the list when it comes to taste. Add a little water to really let it open up.
This is an interesting dram from Bulleit. The juice is the same as the standard bourbon that’s aged for around six years before blending and proofing at Stitzel-Weller in Louisville. This expression skips that last step, however. Instead, the master blenders at Bulleit go through all their barrels to find the ones that’ll shine the brightest without the proofing.
Tasting Notes:
The high-rye nature of Bulleit really comes through with a nose of black pepper sharpness next to a softened vanilla bean. The taste allows the peppery nature to mellow to a Christmas spice vibe while notes of peach and oak step up. The finish is predictably long — with hints of that oak, spice, peach, and vanilla dominating next to subtler hints of tobacco, caramel corn, and cedar.
Bottom Line:
This is a really big dram when it comes to spice and ABVs. While it’s perfectly suited to sipping on the rocks, it really stuns in a cocktail.
At 1:30 am on Monday morning an AMBER Alert went out in southern Louisiana about a missing 10-year-old girl from New Iberia. It was believed she had been kidnapped and driven away in a 2012 silver Nissan Altima.
A few hours later at 7 am, Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine, sanitation workers for Pelican Waste, were on their daily route when they noticed a vehicle that fit the description in the alert.
The sanitation workers thought it was suspicious that a silver sedan was parked alone in a field in St. Martin Parish.
“Something told me, like just look, I said what is that car doing in that field like that? What the car doing? Guess what, that’s the dude with the little girl,” Merrick said in a Facebook Live video. “That’s God.”
The video has been seen over 1.5 million times since it was posted on Monday morning.
To prevent the possible kidnapper from escaping, they parked the large sanitation truck the wrong way on the highway to “Make sure they couldn’t get out,” Merrick said. Then, they called 911.
When police arrived they arrested Michael R. Sereal, the man whose car was mentioned in the AMBER Alert. The police were also able to safely recover the girl who appeared unharmed. She was later taken to the hospital to be evaluated by medical personnel.
The Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Department’s online sex offender registry has a Michael Roy Sereal but authorities wouldn’t confirm it’s the same man.
The young girls’ family got in touch with the two men who saved her and have shown amazing gratitude. “I’m just so happy and blessed that I have actually seen the car and we actually responded like we were supposed to respond,” Merrick told KHOU.
Merrick hopes that his actions will inspire others to be proactive as well. “Don’t be scared if you see something. If you know something is wrong, report it,” Merrick said. “Call authorities because it could save someone’s life.”
via Office of the Louisiana Attorney general
The two men were applauded by the St. John Parish’s Sheriff, who offered to buy them lunch.
“I was just doing my job man. I was just doing my job and actually came across somebody who needed help,” Merrick said. “Got me tearing up.”
The AMBER Alert system was created in 1996 after nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted and murdered while riding her bike in Texas. Since its inception, nearly seven in 10 AMBER alert cases have resulted in children being successfully reunited with their parents.
In 17% of the cases, the child’s recovery is a direct result of the alert.
As of December 2020, 1,029 children rescued specifically because of the system.
When Eminem released his B-Side deluxe version of Music To Be Murdered By late last year, fans were somewhat shocked to hear the Detroit rapper take potshots at rap godfather Snoop Dogg on the album track “Zeus.” He later explained that he did so because he was hurt by Snoop’s Breakfast Club interview leaving Eminem out of his top 10 rappers. And though Snoop seemed more than game for a back-and-forth between the two rappers, cooler heads prevailed — no thanks to Em’s overzealous fans, according to Method Man.
The Wu-Tang rapper said as much during a recent appearance on battle rapper Math Hoffa’s podcast, saying that Em’s fans have created such a coddled environment that anything less than profuse praise of even his worst material is deemed an insult. “There’s such Eminem Stans, the n**** could say the wackest bar and they’d be like ‘Oh my god, did you hear what Eminem just said?’” Meth observed. “I’m pretty sure Em heard verses from Snoop where he was like ‘that shit was garbage.’ He could tell Snoop that, but Em is the type of person who would only tell Snoop that in a safe space because he understands the ramifications of making that public.”
Meth compared the situation to having inside jokes between friends that don’t play as well in the public eye. “I can sit here and tell my best friend Joey, ‘Shut the f*ck up, Joey,’” he explained. “When it’s just me and him, he won’t take it no type of way. But when we in a room full of motherf*ckers, now it takes on a whole other light.” This is what Meth feels happened with Eminem and Snoop, largely because Snoop’s platform is so massive and he understands the implications of opinions at that level. “Snoop, on the other hand, he’s not even a rapper no more,” he said. “He’s beyond superstar. Everything he does is public forum, you gotta take it with a grain of salt. One time I said Snoop was the worst rapper/actor I ever seen. Next time I seen Snoop, it wasn’t nothing! The n**** could have given two f*cks cause he got the check already!”
Considering Meth and Snoop have both been in the game a full decade longer than Eminem has, maybe their experience has led to greater wisdom as well. Check out Method Man’s full discussion with Math Hoffa above.
Much like his mentor Doc Rivers, Tom Thibodeau is a loyal guy, and his nepotistic tendencies often result in reunions with former players along the different stops of his NBA journey. On Monday, we got another one when news emerged that Derrick Rose would once again play for Thibs in New York.
Thibs was the coach who oversaw Derrick Rose’s stratospheric rise when he first came into the league, a franchise-altering trajectory that made him the youngest-ever MVP and transformed the Bulls into perennial playoff contenders in the Eastern Conference in the early 2010s.
Now, Rose will reunite with his old coach on the Knicks, which will also mark his second go-round with the organization after a brief stint during the 2016-2017 season. That news prompted one of his former Bulls teammates to joyously joke that Thibs is recreating the roster they had during their heyday in Chicago.
Jimmy Butler reacts to Knicks getting Derrick Rose: Thibs getting the band back together pic.twitter.com/3gyXWEtIuj
And it isn’t just Rose. He’ll also join Bulls retread Taj Gibson in New York. Butler went on to say that they’re still missing a couple of pieces to complete the reassembly, but it’s safe to say Butler won’t be departing South Beach for New York anytime soon. The Knicks still have plenty of work to do to get where they want to be, but through the early part of the season, they’ve shown noticeable progress and have finally given fans a reason for optimism.
Last year, Machine Gun Kelly made a highly-publicized pivot from rap to pop-punk with his album Tickets To My Downfall. The sonic shift was successful as it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Now, it seems as though Trippie Redd may be following in Kelly’s footsteps as he’s just unveiled the tracklist to his rock-inspired album.
Kelly is actually featured on Trippie Redd’s upcoming LP Neon Shark Vs. Pegasus, which was produced with the help of Blink-182 legend Travis Barker. Along with Kelly, Redd’s album will see contributions from Blackbear and Deftones’ Chino Moreno, among others.
While Redd is gearing up for his own project, the rapper has been featured on a handful of tracks from other musicians in recent months. He lent a verse on Rico Nasty’s album Nightmare Vacation, played wedding crasher in the video to Murda Beatz and Shordie Shordie’s “Love,” and was animated alongside Juice WRLD in the visual to their Internet Money collaboration “Blast Off.”
Check out Trippie Redd’s Neon Shark cover art and tracklist below.
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Fifty Grand is the latest to take the Uproxx stage, performing his song “Reasons” for UPROXX Sessions. In a bit of a departure from the last few weeks up high-energy performances from DDG, Trippie Redd and Drakeo The Ruler, “Reasons” is a much more solemn-sounding song with ambiguous meaning and menacing undertones.
Fifty Grand first rose to prominence on the early underground wave of SoundCloud rebels like Bones and SeshHollowWaterBoys. Inspired by artists like Phantogram, Fifty molded his voice around those he most admired and began working with TeamSesh, eventually breaking off to form his own like-minded collective, Red Mirror.
The singer explained the meaning behind “Reasons” in a 2018 interview, saying: “It’s a song about revenge. Some of these songs that I write, I don’t know where they’re coming from. I just kind of let it happen and I go back and dissect later, connect the dots. It always seems to be connected to the horrors of bodily existence. This video, in particular, was about taking revenge on the world for being born into life without asking for it.”
Watch Fifty Grand perform “Reasons” above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross,UPROXX Sessionsis a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Nearly a third of the way through this truncated 2020-21 NBA season, we still are in a holding pattern in terms of evaluating a number of teams. The Lakers, for example, appear to be sleep-walking most nights, testing the limits of how little effort can be given while still winning games (ex: see back-to-back overtime wins over the lowly Pistons and Thunder). The Clippers, Bucks, Sixers, and Jazz, meanwhile, exist in a state of constant “prove it in the playoffs,” where skepticism will remain almost no matter what they do during the regular season.
As such, the NBA regular season is often about finding the pleasant surprises and simply enjoying the teams that are fun to watch. This season, that means the suddenly red-hot Sacramento Kings, the Denver Nuggets whenever Nikola Jokic is on the floor, and, before the Larry Nance injury, the young and energetic Cleveland Cavaliers. No team has been as consistently fun to watch this season, however, more than the Charlotte Hornets.
Entering this season, expectations were low for the Hornets on a national scale. They gave Gordon Hayward a monster contract that raised eyebrows and led to a lot of ink spilled on what an overpay it was for a player who wasn’t likely to raise their overall profile all that much. There were questions of how Terry Rozier and DeVonte’ Graham would mesh in the backcourt with LaMelo Ball, the hopeful future of the franchise as the third overall pick in the 2020 Draft, and whether Rozier would become trade bait before the deadline. The rest of the roster have yet to show much in the way of consistency and don’t have much name recognition with the average NBA fan.
And yet, every night the Hornets play, I seem to find myself gravitating to this 12-13 team like a moth to the flame. Hayward is having a career year, quieting contract debates with his early performance by providing a steady hand to a team that is otherwise bursting with energy. Any concerns their backcourt couldn’t work together has been quieted by the play of all three, as Rozier is enjoying the best shooting season of his career, embracing more of an off-ball role and often letting his young teammates initiate the offense. Graham, currently out with a groin injury, hasn’t been as efficient as his breakout season a year ago, but is a tremendous creator and has cut his turnovers in half.
While the Hornets are solid no matter the combination in the backcourt, it is, to steal Clyde Frazier’s favorite term, the precocious neophyte Ball who makes them must-see TV. The rookie guard is averaging 14.2 points, 6.2 assists, and 5.9 rebounds in just under 27 minutes per game, and since entering the starting lineup five games ago after Rozier was out with injury, has taken his play to another level.
In those five games as a starter, Ball is averaging 22.6 points, 6.6 assists, and six rebounds in 34.2 minutes a night, and at this point, it would seem impossible for the Hornets to ever go back to bringing him off of the bench. His shooting, long the chief question for his offensive game, has been tremendous in the last five, hitting at least three three-pointers in each game, headlined by a 7-for-12 night from distance in Monday’s win over the Rockets.
Whether he’s hitting shots or not, Ball has injected so much life into this Charlotte team with his pace and vision that everyone on the floor is engaged in what’s happening all the time. He’s an elite rebounding guard and when he grabs a board the entire Hornets team takes off in hopes that they might be the one to get his outlet pass for an easy basket. Just look at the highlights from the win over Houston, namely how many times he is pushing the tempo and bringing his teammates with him.
He has unlocked the best in teammates like Miles Bridges, who has teamed with Ball to form one of the league’s best lob tandems. Ball is willing to throw it up from just about anywhere, confident Bridges will haul it in and throw it down.
Bridges is enjoying his most efficient start to a season of his career, hitting 37 percent of his three-point attempts as his shooting stroke was obviously a focal point for him during Charlotte’s long offseason. On top of what appears to be a more comfortable shot form, the way the ball is moving on the Hornets this season is keeping those shooters and secondary creators more engaged. When that happens, shots tend to go in more often because they’re more ready for the ball to come their way. That is evidenced by their overall team three-point percentage, which at 37.8 is ninth in the NBA, a significant improvement from their 19th ranked 35.2 percent mark from a year ago, per Basketball-Reference. The biggest changes have been the addition of Hayward, an excellent spot-up shooter, and Ball, but as important as new personnel is the style of play they have embraced, which is to the credit of coach James Borrego.
Charlotte is first in assists per game at 28.1, as Ball, Graham, Hayward, and Rozier are all doing a great job initiating the offense. Their bigs are also getting involved as P.J. Washington, Cody Zeller, and Bridges all top two assists per game. It is a style of basketball that is extremely enjoyable to watch, as the ball rarely stagnates and they take advantage of the various playmakers on the floor, all of whom are happy to share the limelight with their teammates. Add in one of the most entertaining broadcast teams in Eric Collins and Dell Curry, who match the team’s energy on the floor in the booth, and you have a recipe for one of the NBA’s true League Pass gems.
There are better teams in the NBA, of that there is no doubt, but you’d be hard pressed to find one that is more enjoyable on a nightly basis. The Hornets seem likely to at least make the play-in tournament in the East. Because they sit in sixth place, they have a shot at an outright playoff berth, although they’ll have to hold off teams like Toronto, Miami, and Atlanta, all of whom figure to get healthier and better. There’s plenty of time to be concerned about their playoff prospects later, though, because right now they’re simply a joy to watch, and in a long regular season where the stakes of each game are relatively low, that is something to cherish.
This season is one Hornets fans (and NBA fans as a whole) should embrace, because you only get one real season freed from the burden of expectations. Once you’ve become the pleasant surprise of the league, you’re expected to take the next step, which doesn’t always come and usually isn’t quite as fun. But this year is something truly joyful, a young team playing a tremendous brand of basketball with some quality veterans holding it all together while their star rookie is free to explore all of his talents and put them on display each and every night, regardless of the outcome.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I enjoy it when actors from television shows I like are in a movie together. Happily, a dark comedy about a long-time couple that learns their friends are resentful of their love (also, there’s a corpse), stars Community‘s Joel McHale and Halt and Catch Fire‘s Kerry Bishé. We’re off to a great start, even if I’m angry about Bishé not winning an Emmy for her performance on the AMC series all over again.
The Happily cast also includes Stephen Root (Barry, King of the Hill, every good show and movie ever), Paul Scheer (The League), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Good Place), Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Jon Daly (Kroll Show), Natalie Zea (Justified), and Natalie Morales (Parks and Recreation). This is one “Jake Johnson and Lamorne Morris reprising their roles as Nick and Winston” announcement away from being my dream cast.
Here’s more:
Happily centers on a married couple (Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé) that have been together for 14 years. Their honeymoon phase never ended and they are still strongly in love with each other. When they discover that all their friends are resentful of their constant public displays of affection, they begin to question the loyalty of everyone around them. Then, a visit from a mysterious stranger thrusts them into an existential crisis, leading to a dead body, a lot of questions and a very tense couples’ vacation with a group of friends who may not actually be friends at all.
Happily, which was written and directed by BenDavid Grabinski and co-produced by Jack Black, comes out on digital on March 19.
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via Office of the Louisiana Attorney general
