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The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – Shogun rules

It feels like everyone has been looking for “the next Game of Thrones” forever. Television executives, yes, of course, because any of them would run over a bunny rabbit with their BMW for the kind of career-making hit that carries a network for a decade. But also, like, everyone. It’s fun to have a show that breaks out of its little niche bubble to become a thing that permeates the culture. It’s been a while since we had one of those. Succession got most of the way there but it’s over now. The Walking Dead is on about its eighth spinoff. The Stranger Things kids are old enough to rent cars. Yellowstone has the ratings but does not have the juice. It’s been weird. You can talk about TV with 10 different people and realize none of you watch a single show in common. It makes it all more isolating and lonely than something this fun should be.

I think that’s why so many people are so excited about Shogun. The new series debuted on FX and Hulu this week to a slew of stellar reviews that had a bunch of those Game of Thrones comparisons. Which are fair. There are no dragons or mystical elements (fine by me) but a lot of the other boxes are checked. Big sweeping historical epic? Check. Huge cast and crew full of interesting characters? Whipass action scenes? Buddyyyy check.

Mostly, though, the biggie is that there was a bunch of money and effort thrown at this sucker that is all right there on the screen. It looks incredible, in addition to being compelling. We’re a little over two hours in and there are already characters I love and despise and one of them almost died in a shipwreck during a storm with waves as big as an apartment complex. This is the good stuff, people. I’ve already created a screencap folder. This was the first one in there.

I think the biggest hurdle here is just the scope. The original novel by James Clavell came out 50 years ago. There are a number of warring factions and rivalries in Japan in addition to some Catholic vs. Protestant tension that swept over from Europe. It can be a little daunting at the outset to figure out who’s who and who is doing what. Google is helpful here. As is the guide FX created as a companion. I knew nothing about any of this and I was caught up in about 15 minutes. I took a break to make this screencap, too.

So, yeah. I hope that this sucker takes off. Some of that is because it would make my life easier as someone who writes about television shows for a living, but most of it is that it would just be fun to have a big communal experience around a fun show that kicks ass. Let’s all get way into samurais this spring. Maybe I’ll buy a sword. Maybe we all should?

I don’t know. Could go a lot of ways here.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – Please leave the Saltburn people alone

This one is tricky for me. Usually, when there’s a story about a fandom or group of little goblins getting carried away and being too weird about something, my advice is “go outside.” Which I stand by. I truly believe about 10-20 percent of the world’s problems could be solved by people just going and sitting on a bench somewhere for like an hour a day. Pet a dog. Feed some ducks. Look at some birds. This will be my platform if I ever run for political office, which I absolutely will not ever do under any circumstances.

There is a problem with this philosophy, though. A few problems, actually, if you count wind and rain and freezing temperatures. But the big one is this: Sometimes people are weird outside, too. And then it all becomes everyone else’s problem. Like, for example, the way it’s become a problem for the people who own the scenic estate that served as the setting for Saltburn. Fans of the movie have been showing up at his house a lot lately. Too much. It does not seem fun.

Here, look.

The estate’s real-life aristocratic owner, Charles Stopford Sackville, has expressed regrets to The Mail on Sunday about letting the cameras into his Grade I-listed country pile – and reveals that he’s had to lay on security patrols to keep tabs on the unwanted visitors.

‘I never envisaged the amount of interest there would be. It’s quite weird,’ he said. ‘I don’t take it as flattering.’

There’s a temptation here to be callous about it all and say “oh boo hoo poor millionaire with his beautiful house that people want pictures of,” which, like, yes. I get that. But think about this next part a bit.

‘How would you feel if people were taking pictures outside your house? I’d prefer the interest to blow over but I can’t make it blow over.’

Imagine you’re going outside to bring the trash to the curb and there’s a crew of people standing on the sidewalk taking pictures of you and the house you live in. That would be weird, right? Yes, sure, he did sign the release and get paid for it all but I do not think he could have possibly foreseen some creepy little movie becoming this kind of worldwide obsession. He signed up for some of this, but not… all of it. Especially when you consider this.

As part of the deal to allow shooting, no member of the production team was allowed to mention the real location in interviews, but fans were quick to sniff it out, particularly after Saltburn was released on Amazon Prime Video in December.

There are two takeaways here, both equally important:

• Please think long and hard before you allow your family home to be used in a movie that might make a bunch of little freaks online want to snap pictures of your front door for clout
• Please do not make me look stupid by ruining my ideas

Thank you.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – Bring me the head of whoever was mean to Rebecca Ferguson

Okay, here’s what happened: Rebecca Ferguson went on a podcast this week and told a story about a terrible experience on a film set with a big-deal actor who behaved like an ass. Which sucks, in part because you should not treat people like crap, in general, but also because Rebecca Ferguson is cool. We talked about this the other week when she was fascinated by the Dune bucket. We can talk about it again another time. For now, though, we need to focus on this.

“This human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she said. Ferguson said that when she felt “vulnerable and comfortable” enough to say something about the behavior, she was “screamed” at. “But because this person was number one on the call sheet, there was no safety net for me,” she added.

Once she realized that no one on set was going to stand up for her—“No one had my back,” she said—she started to cry, after which she was berated further, according to her retelling of the incident. “This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say ‘You call yourself an actor? This is what I have to work with? What the fuck is this?’ And I stood there just breaking.”

What eventually happened was that Rebecca Ferguson stood up for herself and shouted a little and has never worked with this person again. What also happened is that tons of people went back through her filmography and tried to guess which one of her co-stars she was talking about. Lord Almighty, did people ever have guesses. I do not have a guess, though, and Rebecca Ferguson seems pretty okay with leaving it at this and moving on, so I am okay with doing that, too. If I ever find out, though, there will be hell to pay.

I don’t think the guilty party has to worry too much about me in all of this, though. He has more pressing concerns. Like, for one, the thing where The Rock replied to the tweet I posted at the top of this section with, well, this.

I would pay like $8 for a four-minute video where The Rock yells at some guy who was mean to Rebecca Ferguson. I would prefer it to be the guy in the story she told, but I’ll settle for any other guilty goon, too.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Dominic Toretto is going to drive a car into the sun

The Fast & Furious franchise has been madness for many years now so it’s almost fitting that it appears to be ending with its upcoming 11th movie. Eleven. Think about how weird that is. Not nine, which could be billed as three trilogies. Not 10, a lovely round number. Not even 12, which could be sold as a dozen. Eleven. It’s so stupid and random and kind of perfect for a franchise that ended its 10th movie on a cliffhanger that involved its main character fleeing from a wall of water set loose by the son of the man he robbed in the fifth movie who blew up a dam moments after John Cena committed suicide with rocket car and freaking Reacher double-crossed everyone and shot a rocket launcher at an airplane carrying Ludacris and Tyrese, who had just been to outer space in the previous movie. We don’t even need to get into Gal Gadot bursting out of a glacier in a nuclear submarine despite the fact that her character died on a runway many films earlier. Reasonable arguments can be made that they shouldn’t have gotten into it either.

Anyway, Vin Diesel took to Instagram to give a little update on it all — his first since the allegations made against him — and he seems set on wrapping everything up soon, too.

While everyone was heading into the weekend amped and excited, I thought of you all… reminded of the countless moments when your enthusiasm and passion became the driving force behind our creative journey. Your commitment to our saga has had a unique impact on its success and evolution… as my youngest daughter would say, it’s profound.

Thank you for being the backbone of this global saga that because of you, transcends the screen.

This grand finale is not just an ending; it’s a celebration of the incredible family we’ve built together.

A few notes:

• I cannot begin to imagine where one goes for a grand finale after all of the things that have happened already
• My working theory is that Vin Diesel is going to drive a muscle car into the sun for a series of unspecified reasons that will result in humanity being saved
• I guarantee someone is going to try to reboot this franchise by 2030

You watch.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Kevin Bacon is doing great

Here is Kevin Bacon singing Beyoncé’s new chart-topping country single “Texas Hold ‘Em” to some of the animals he keeps on the farm he owns with his wife, star of TNT’s The Closer Kyra Sedgwick. That was a fun sentence to type out. And a true one. You can click play on the video up there if you don’t believe me. I don’t know why you wouldn’t believe me, though. It would be a hell of a thing to just lie about something like 2000 words into this sucker.

Anyway, if you read that paragraph and came away thinking “I feel like this isn’t the first time we heard about weird stuff going on at Kevin Bacon’s farm,” first of all, I am very proud of you, but second of all you are correct. It was just a few months ago that he told Rob Lowe that his farm might be haunted. Or at least the previous owner thought it was.

Look.

“One of the pieces [of land] that we bought had an old house in it and he didn’t want me to own the house. It was an abandoned house that he had grown up in,” he continued. “And we kind of went back and forth on it for a while and then eventually I said, ‘Listen, you can’t sell me a piece of land but not sell me the house that’s on it.’ “

Kevin Bacon drives a tough but fair bargain when purchasing farmland. That’s something I bet you never knew but probably suspected.

“We finally came to an agreement in the contract that I had to destroy it within, I don’t know, a month or something like that,” he told Lowe, who then asked the actor if he ever spent a night in the ghost-infested house.
Bacon said he did not.

I said the same thing in this column a few weeks ago when we all learned that Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart play pranks on each other at their ranch, but it applies here, too: The people who truly deserve a reality show are almost never the kind of people who would want one. Which is a shame. I would gladly binge-watch a season of Kevin Bacon buying haunted farms and serenading goats some long weekend when I’m laid up with the flu. You would, too.

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From Pete:

Should we be getting worried about Elmo? He’s having a crazy year so far. Everyone on Twitter dumped all their fears and anxieties on him and then he got assaulted by Larry David on a morning show and now he’s posting unsettling pictures of himself with frog legs. This seems like a cry for help. Am I overthinking this? I might be. But I worry. And I feel, for some reason, like you might understand this.

Pete, here’s the thing: I was having this exact conversation with someone about 45 minutes before you sent this email. Context will help. I apologize in advance for posting this.

I… do not like this. I kind of hate it. I hope this is just a phase Elmo is going through. I don’t think I could handle it if he starts wearing black and vaping and listening to techno goth music like the evil vampires in the Blade movies. I will drive Elmo to therapy myself if I have to. We must protect our sweet innocent prince.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

Back to England!

A wildlife park’s high-risk approach to tackling its parrots’ swearing problem appears to be working.

What we have here is an update on the cussing parrots. You remember the cussing parrots, yes? We talked about them a few weeks ago at the bottom of the column where I spoiled the entire plot of The Beekeeper. The short version goes like this: A zoo in England got some new parrots but the parrots had been taught a bunch of supremely filthy language and it was becoming a whole thing. I loved these birds very much.

The zoo had a plan to curb the cussing, though. They would introduce the new parrots into the larger parrot population in the hopes it would teach them better language. There was a risk it would go the other way, though. Where these obscene parrots taught all the other ones the bad words and the zoo had hundreds of parrots hurling profanity at the paying customers. I wanted this to happen more than any of you can possibly imagine.

Well, unfortunately, it looks like their stupid plan worked.

However, after two weeks of the reintegration plan, keepers said they had not heard any colourful language.

Mr Nichols said: “It’s early days still but it’s been a good start. We haven’t heard any of the really crude language.

Goddammit.

“Of course people are still walking up to the enclosure and swearing in front of the parrots, hoping they will copy the words.”

GOOD

Mr Nichols said while the parrots may have dropped their swearing, a new problem appears to be brewing.

“One of them has taken to singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas over and over again,” he said. “Fine in December, not so fine in February.”

Honestly, I’m glad they have to put up with this now. They ruined one of the only pure things we had in this cruel world. I hope they feel terrible about it.

I’m so upset.

I don’t want to talk about it anymore.

BYE.

Millie Bobby Brown stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday to promote her epic new fantasy film Damsel. Unfortunately for Netflix, everyone’s attention immediately gravitated to one thing and one thing only: Brown’s accent.

While talking to Fallon, fans couldn’t help but notice that Brown’s English accent was either completely missing or dropping in and out. Social media began filling up with comments asking what the heck happened to her voice, and British users were particularly distressed to hear Brown seemingly assimilate into an American accent.

Here’s what some of the comments are saying:

Her accent is basically gone

Her accent is such a mix of British and American she like tunes in and out of both

Her accent is going in and out

She sounds so American now

However, Brown had some defenders in the comments, who noted that her accent change is not uncommon.

“I know most people don’t realize this, but oftentimes actors who are using a different language for a film, forget how to speak their natural accent. Gary Oldman is a perfect example. He had to go to language therapy to get it back. She is also currently filming, so the American accent is naturally coming out.”

As for what Brown is filming, just a little show called Stranger Things 5.

“For everyone saying that she doesn’t have her British accent anymore, bear in mind that she is currently filming ST5 so she has been using her American accent more recently.”

You can see more reactions from Twitter below:

Damsel starts streaming March 28 on Netflix.

(Via The Tonight Show on Instagram)

Empress Of’s forthcoming studio album, For Your Consideration, is mere weeks ago. So far, fans of the bi-lingual singer have gotten three tastings of the project by way of singles “Kiss Me” featuring Rina Sawayama, “Femenine,” and “What’s Love” by featuring Uproxx cover star Muna.

Today (March 1), Empress Of found herself in a giving mood, offering up another record to the public. Her latest song, “Preciosa,” produced by Nick León, is her most sensual track to date. One language couldn’t encapsulate her feelings, so Empress Of shifts between English and Spanish to get her love letter out.

In the opening verse, Empress Of sings (roughly translated to English), “Got me worked up, if you touch me like that / I’m in your cup, you’ve been thirsty for me / Go carefully if we leave from here / I want to be precious, I want to be your thing / Like a summer in LA without heat / I wear the skirt very short, Dior / Tell me to come, and I’ll be at your door / I want to be precious, I want to be your thing.”

On Instagram, Empress Of promised that there would be more recordings like this to come. “Two years in the making of some of the most beautiful music I have ever made,” she captioned the announcement for “Preciosa.”

Listen to “Preciosa” above.

For Your Consideration is out 3/22 via Major Arcana. Find more information here.

Winter will draw to a close in March, but there’s still no time like now to cozy up with a blanket in front of the TV. After you’re done with the cynically and sincerely romantic shows of February, it’s time to finally see more of Amazon’s domination of the comic book genre. Seriously, who would have thought that Marvel and DC would both stumble while The Boys and Invincible (the latter of which returns this month) continue soaring into the stratosphere? Well, the makers of Compound V aren’t surprised.

Additionally, Kate Winslet is collaborating with HBO, and as a team, they haven’t missed yet. Netflix has rescued another beloved series, the Game of Thrones guys are preparing to release their newest project, and an actor who frequently gets spooky will take a more subtle turn as Abe Lincoln. Here are the must-see shows for March.

BMF: Season 3 (Starz series streaming 3/1)

If you’re unsure of where to start with 50 Cent’s ever-expanding TV empire, we have you covered here. At the moment, however, it’s time to revisit Meech and Terry in the early 1990s. The pair is still working on achieving that illusive American Dream halfway across the country from each other, and you can look forward to most of the ensemble cast staying intact, although Snoop Dogg will also appear as a pastor. C’mon, you cannot resist that lure.

The Regime: Season 1 (HBO series streaming on Max 3/3)

Kate Winslet and HBO hope to make their streak last following Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown. Sadly, there will probably not be any canned cheese on this series about a messy authoritarian ruler (of an unspecified European country) who goes even more off the rails under the influence of a new and unlikely confidant, Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts), who might send her dying regime into extinction even sooner than it was bound to happen. Co-stars include Martha Plimpton, Hugh Grant, and ice-bath zooming.

Girls5eva (Peacock to Netflix series streaming 3/14)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fans, if you didn’t check out this series while it was on Peacock for two seasons, be sure to hit up all three seasons on Netflix, which picked up the series in time for the show’s late ’90s girl group to go on tour. Surely, all will go smoothly despite the ladies having no tour manager or dates or venues or anything but a van and their own enthusiasm to relive their glory days. Netflix’s synopsis wonders, “Or will the road destroy them?” If that’s the case, then it sure will be fun to watch.

3 Body Problem (Netflix series streaming 3/21)

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss hopped on over to Netflix following their run as Game of Thrones creators and showrunners, and hopefully, the audience will grant them a clean slate after, you know, that final season. However, it is 2024, and the pair has moved onto their sci-fi era to adapt Liu Cixin’s bestselling novel trilogy. The show spans time and continents and space and sanity while bending genres and overall following what happens when Earth discovers aliens. The title refers to three stars orbiting each other, and expect things to get existential.

The Gentlemen (Netflix series streaming 3/7)

Remember that Guy Ritchie movie with Matthew McConaughey starring as a weed kingpin? Well, this is Guy Ritchie’s continuation (yes, he really likes the “gentleman” names) starring Theo James, hot off his semi-sociopathic run on The White Lotus. James’ character, Eddie, is lucratively connected to that same weed empire. Don’t expect this show to be a sequel or a remake of the film, but instead, a story that rolls forth from the same world.

Invincible: Season 2 Part 2 (Amazon series streaming 3/14)

Robert Kirkman’s other most popular comic returns to the scene of the Viltrumite empire takeover after Mark received a hint from Omni-Man on where to find the means to stop the madness. Since he cannot hide under the cloaks of anonymity any longer, Mark/Invincible must get crafty, and of course, Debbie is still attempting to sort out the reality of only being Nolan’s “pet,” while he has already create a life on Thraxa with a new family. Those are only a few of the loose ends left dangling during the mid-season hiatus, but never fear because there’s much more of this series while Amazon’s other superhero-skewering franchise, The Boys, is between installments.

Manhunt: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 3/15)

Hamish Linklater might be the most underappreciated actor on TV these days, especially following his ungodly turn in Mike Flanagan and Netflix’s Midnight Mass. He stars as Abraham Lincoln in an adaptation of James L. Swanson’ non-fiction book, which is adapted into a true crime thriller about the infamous assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The story follows the aftermath of that devastating deed, and Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air) portrays the fugitive murderer. The limited series also co-stars Tobias Menzies, Patton Oswalt, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Brandon Flynn, Damian O’Hare, and Matt Walsh.

[Trailer will appear here when available through official channels.]

A Gentleman in Moscow: Season 1 (Showtime series streaming on Paramount+ 3/29)

Ewan McGregor leads an ensemble cast while starring as a Russian aristocrat, Count Alexander Rostov, in this adaptation of Amor Towles’ same-named novel. Rostov finds himself sequestered in a hotel in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, which has deemed him an outlaw. However, he is not immediately executed but, instead, imprisoned within the attic of a luxurious hotel. If Rostov leaves, then he will pay the price with his life.

Parish: Season 1 (AMC series streaming on AMC+ 3/31)

If you enjoyed Giancarlo Esposito’s dirty deeds in the Breaking Bad franchise, then you will want to bookmark this series, in which he portrays Gray Perish, a criminal-turned-family man who returns to his old habits after suffering a horrific tragedy. Soon enough, he’s right back in the (driver’s) saddle again, and as the trailer reveals, things get more than bloody.

A few months ago, it seemed like Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker) was toying with the idea of changing his performing name. Now, he has gone ahead and done it.

As E! News notes, as of February 29, the artist’s profiles on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and YouTube all now say “mgk,” stylized in lower-case letters, and not “Machine Gun Kelly.” His social media handles on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram are still @machinegunkelly at the moment, but his X name has been changed to “mgk,” while his Instagram name is currently “colson xx blonde don.”

Kelly hasn’t publicly explained the reason behind the name change. As aforementioned, though, the seed seems to have been planted a few months ago. In November 2023, MGK gave an interview at an F1 race and asked photographers to refer to him as just “Machine,” saying, “Instead of Machine Gun, can you just hit me with Machine next time?”

This follows comedians Chad & JT attending one of MGK’s concerts wielding a sign asking the performer to change his name, a stunt that caught MGK’s attention. The pair then explained (jokingly) that they felt his name encouraged machine guns.

At this point, though, we don’t know much about the reason behind MGK’s name change. That said, it’s a natural shift, since “MGK” was already a widely used nickname for him.

Here’s the thing: you should be watching Hacks. It’s one of the best things on Max. But if Jean Smart wielding a chainsaw didn’t convince you to give the show a shot, maybe Christiana Hendricks — a.k.a. Joan from Mad Men — playing a “gay Republican oil heiress” who makes out with Hannah Einbinder will do the trick?

You can watch that — and Jean Smart in her fashion icon era — in the season three teaser above.

The logline for season three reads: “A year after parting, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles.” But don’t worry, there will still be plenty of scenes with the two of them together.

“We try to bring them together in a way that deepens their relationship,” co-creator Lucia Aniello told Vanity Fair. “It’s a truce, you could say. They’ve made up in a way that becomes another yarn in the tapestry of their relationship.” Fellow creator Paul W. Downs (who also plays Jimmy) added, “We’re trying to keep the audience surprised and also give them the thing that they like about the show, which is that back-and-forth between these two women.”

Hacks returns with two episodes on May 2 on Max, followed by two more episodes every week until the season finale on May 30.

The Night Agent had all the ingredients for a Netflix hit. An everyday-sort-of-government agent was doing the most boring FBI job, only to be thrust into adrenaline-tinged, shadowy intrigue that built to a cliffhanger season finale. Attractive spies also do usually turn heads, and leading man Gabriel Basso fit that bill alongside foremost lady Luciane Buchanan. Additionally, the show also landed in the “dad TV” realm that helped to ensure that the show squeezed into the Netflix all-time charts before 2023’s end, and for that reason, Netflix departed from its recent hesitation to grant early renewals.

Yep, The Night Agent proved to be an exception in this newfound age of cautious streaming networks. After only two weeks of audience binging, Netflix made that announcement, and since that time, the show has been in the thick of production when Hollywood wasn’t striking. Despite those works stoppages, filming is humming right along with the streamer providing sneak peeks, and since this show is character driven and not terribly effects heavy, turnaround should prove to be speedier than many streaming series. Here’s what we can expect for a second season.

Plot

Netflix is not messing around when it comes to fast-and-furious production of this show. The streamer and Gabriel Basso took to Instagram to signal the start of the sixth episode’s filming for this season. If they’re moving strictly in chronological order, that’s a promising detail. Additionally, Basso is shown taking flight in a helicopter above towering skyscrapers in a video clip.

Basso also posted some behind-the-scenes looks at Peter in action.

The series began as an adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s bestselling, same-named book, but since Quirk didn’t follow up on the story, the Netflix show is moving past its source material after Peter Sutherland has formally moved on from basement guy to the Night Action Program. As a result, the show will move past its original (mostly) D.C. confines into New York City, where Peter will begin to learn the ropes of truly being part of the off-the-books subagency of the FBI, rather than simply being the phone dude.

Additionally, Deadline reported that the show would partially film in Thailand. At least that suggests some fun (?) admit the new job duties after Peter and Rose found themselves with a host of obstacles, including White House Chief of Staff Farr (Hong Chau) and U.S. Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer). Peter had halted an intricate terrorist/assassination scheme and received his new job title by the end of the first season, but do not expect this to be an easy transition for him. Gabriel Basso hinted to Collider that Peter will find himself in an entirely new mission with unfamiliar circumstances throwing up challenges for a second round of episodes:

“[H]is MO would almost shift completely because he’d now be a Night Agent. I’d have to talk to Shawn [Ryan] about what that mission would be. I’m sure it all depends on the context of where you’d see him next, but I’m sure his training would shift from, “I’m an FBI agent,” to killing people. Whatever he’s being asked to do, I’m sure the emphasis would shift and the goal would shift, significantly. He’d probably feel a little out of his depth again.

Netflix is being fairly secretive about what Peter’s second-season mission shall be, but Farr still lurks as a threat, and Rose will be a key part of the second season. Buchanan told Netflix that she hopes her character receives both a renewed focus and therapy (after losing family members and the aftermath) and also refocuses upon her tech dreams:

For her part, Buchanan believed Rose would love to pursue her tech goals again. “I really hope that she continues on her journey,” said Buchanan. “[The ending] leaves it really open-ended… I also want closure for her. I’m like, ‘This girl needs a lot of therapy after everything she’s been through.’”

Cast

Basso and Buchanan will return as Peter and Rose, respectively, and we might see more of Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei, Enrique Murciano, D. B. Woodside, Hong Chau, Fola Evans-Akingbola, and Sarah Desjardins.

Since the show will head into different venues, expect to see plenty of new faces, too. That includes Brittany Snow as Peter’s new partner in Night Action; Louis Hertham as Jacob Monroe, the ever-powerful boss of Salmon, a fixer portrayed by Power Book II: Ghost‘s Berto Colon. Additionally, Teddy Sears portrays a Night Action investigation subject, Warren, and Arienne Mandi has been cast as Noor, a U.N. aid with top-secret access that comes in handy for more than it should do.

Release Date

2024 will happen, according to Netflix. They are fast-tracking this series to capitalize upon overnight enthusiasm, so between this and Keri Russell’s The Diplomat, more intrigue will be coming this year. That’s not too shabby after several months of actors and crews being on strike.

Trailer

The Night Agent received a very quick blip as part of Netflix’s recently released 2024 sizzle reel.

Relationships can end for a number of reasons. Maybe the two daters don’t agree about the future. Maybe a red flag has emerged and the other person can’t handle it. Or maybe you have a dream about Christian Bale. The latter point applies to one of Billie Eilish’s break-ups, she revealed.

In a chat with Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg (alongside Finneas) for the Oscars, the conversation found its way to superheroes and their attractiveness, with Eilish saying she doesn’t “really know much about” them. This led to Eilish’s The Dark Knight-related story: “A couple years ago, I had a dream about Christian Bale, and it was in a little cafe in the sunlight, and it made me realize I had to break up with my boyfriend at the time. No, like, genuinely. I woke up and I was like [gasps] and I came to my senses.

If we take Eilish’s “a couple years ago” literally, two years ago, in March 2022, she was reportedly near the end of her relationship with Matthew Tyler Vorce. Months later, she was involved with Jesse Rutherford.

Meanwhile, Eilish also had some passionate thoughts about the rules of Uno, so check out the full interview above.

[This post contains spoilers for Dune: Part Two]

Remember when people were mad about the lack of Zendaya in Dune and director Denis Villeneuve was like “just wait for the second movie”? Well, there was a lot more Zendaya in Dune: Part Two; she’s arguably the second lead, after Timothée Chalamet. But does Chani make it out of the sequel alive?

Spoiler alert, but: yes, Chani doesn’t die. But at the end of the film, she’s mighty pissed at Paul. With good reason. Power (and spice) has gone to Paul’s head. He declares himself the Lisan al-Gaib, kickstarts a holy war, threatens to nuke the spice supplies on Arrakis, and takes Princess Irulan (played by Florence Pugh) as his bride, catching everyone, especially Chani, off guard. The last we see of her, she’s riding a sandworm off into in the desert.

“It is by far one of the most challenging scenes I have designed in my life,” Villeneuve told Uproxx about the sandworm sequences. “I mean, first of all, to create the technique of the Fremen? That was not really described in the book. I had to come up with a strategy. How to approach a beast like that. How do you approach a sandworm without being crushed by it? How do you jump on a sandworm? What was the Fremen approach to master the beast? And how will we see Paul? Having some intuitive skills, but still being a bit clumsy because this is the first time? How to see the power, and create something edgy.”

Dune: Part Two is out in theaters now. It rules.

Karol G got on a plane yesterday (February 29) and the flight turned into a scary situation via a mid-air emergency.

As ABC7 Los Angeles reports, Karol’s private jet took off from the Burbank airport last night with 16 people on board. The airplane was heading east, but when it reached Cajon Pass, it turned around after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. Fortunately, the plane was able to make a safe emergency landing in Van Nuys at around 9 p.m. PT, and everybody appeared to be OK. A video from ABC7 shows Karol exiting the plane, shaking the pilot’s hand, and giving people hugs, seemingly out of relief.

Karol has yet to publicly say anything about the incident. She has a Mañana Será Bonito tour date in Guatemala scheduled for tonight, and it’s not yet clear if the emergency situation will have an effect on the show’s schedule.

Meanwhile, Karol was recently revealed as one of the featured artists on Shakira’s upcoming album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, which also features Cardi B, Rauw Alejandro, Bizarrap, Ozuna, Grupo Frontera, and other recognizable names.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.