Rick Grimes looks awful in the above teaser for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, his joint spinoff with Michonne. Granted, Andrew Lincoln’s survivor should look like hell after all that time with the CRM, and at least he looks better than the last time we saw him ride a horse. AMC dropped this nugget (timed to New York Comic Con) to show off how Rick is doing, and it’s no surprise to see that Danai Gurira’s machete-wielding badass is looking much better. Surely, Rick will snap out of it once the initial shock of a reunion passes.
The Rick And Michonne Show also received a release window of February 2024. Additionally, here’s the show’s synopsis:
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Also! Ahead of this week’s season finale for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, AMC revealed that Season 2 has a subtitle: The Book Of Carol. So, Melissa McBride will be onscreen and not merely a disembodied voice, and she and Norman Reedus will officially reunite. The Caryl devotees will love to see it, and Clémence Poésy is also confirmed to return, hopefully meaning that badass nun Isabelle will fight alongside the show’s iconic duo.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon‘s season finale airs on October 15 on AMC.
It’s been a relatively strong start to our 2023 NFL picks in this space. We’re winning more than we lose and, considering the difficulty of the NFL market, that is basically all you can ask for. However, the losses have been hysterically dire in recent days. We had the Packers and Giants in Week 4. We had the Patriots (lol) and Cowboys (lol) in Week 5. It’s really quite something.
Baltimore Ravens (-4) over Tennessee Titans — Widely Available
We won against Baltimore last week with Mike Tomlin home voodoo. That was fun, to be sure, but the Ravens are now undervalued after that high-profile loss. The Ravens dropped myriad passes and largely collapsed but, from a true talent standpoint, I have Baltimore rated considerably better than Tennessee. This is an international game, so keep that in mind, but the Ravens at a flat 4 are a play.
Cincinnati Bengals (-2.5) over Seattle Seahawks — Widely Available
I’m buying back in on the Bengals. It may be too early — and there are definitely some injury concerns with Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins — but this is a short number for me. That isn’t to say that Seattle is a bad team, because I don’t believe that to be true, but I have this Bengals -3.5 or 4. I’ll gladly lay less than a field goal.
TEASER: Washington Commanders (+8.5) over Atlanta Falcons and Los Angeles Chargers (+8.5) over Dallas Cowboys — Widely Available
Atlanta’s offense isn’t exactly the most high-powered bunch, and we like Washington moving through both keys from 2.5 to 8.5 this week. On Monday, the Chargers are getting 2.5 at home against a Cowboys team that should be up after a bad loss. With that said, Los Angeles hasn’t played a game (win or lose) that has been decided by more than a touchdown this season. The Chargers can’t stop playing close games and, if we need to get in the backdoor, Justin Herbert can take us there.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+3.5) over Detroit Lions — BetRivers
The whole league is buzzing about the Lions but this is a tricky spot. Tampa Bay is coming off a bye at home, and Detroit is priced like an upper-tier team in this spot. That might be true in the end, but I think this should be 3 at the absolute most. If you can nab 3.5 like we did, I like it.
New York Giants (+14.5) over Buffalo Bills — Widely Available
Lord help me. At the time of this post, we don’t know who New York’s quarterback will be. We don’t know if Saquon Barkley will play. I get why no one wants to be backing the G Men. I will say that Tyrod Taylor is a competent backup and, with the way Danny Jones and company are playing on offense, that isn’t a big downgrade for me. From there, Buffalo is obviously much, much better than New York, but more than two touchdowns is a bit extreme for me. That is particularly true given all of the defensive injuries for Buffalo and a total in the mid-40’s. Hold your nose.
Thanks to his iconic performance as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and his fan-favorite portrayal of Eddie Brock in the Venom movies, Tom Hardy has tackled the worlds of both DC and Marvel, respectively. Now, he’s getting ready to create his own comic book world alongside industry veteran Scott Snyder.
Hardy will serve as the creative collaborator for Arcbound, an ambitious new comic book universe that will lean heavily on Hardy’s imagination as he works on character development for the expansive world. The actor will be at New York Comic-Con to sign special edition issues of the series, and he’s clearly excited at the prospect of crafting his own epic adventure.
“I’ve always been drawn to the creative process in all aspects of storytelling – and with comics, I find it’s a fascinating playground to explore. A place where as long as you have a great creative team and the ability to illustrate, write, and discuss – you can build epic worlds together. Worlds you have the distinct freedom to shape, modify, redefine, dismantle and rebuild without the constraints of limited budgets and resources,” Hardy told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.
Snyder, who spent the early 2010s writing DC Comics flagship Batman title, is thrilled at the chance to work with Hardy on the series that will hit comic stores in March 2024.
“Tom has been responsible for bringing some of my favorite characters to life on the screen – he’s a true creative force,” Snyder said in a statement. “It’s hugely exciting. Because Arcbound is not just a comic; it’s a narrative expression reflecting our times.”
SKIMS might not be a company for everyone, but they sure do know how to pick brand ambassadors. The ladies of White Lotus, various US Olympians, and even Ice Spice are just a few examples of how Kim Kardashian’s clothing brand has become less about clothes and more about looking like a cool It Girl on the internet. The latest It Girl is the NYC queen herself Kim Cattrall, who doesn’t have time to appear on set but does have time to hang out with SKIMS and let us know where her priorities lie.
When Cattrall first dropped her SKIMS photos on Instagram, many people were comparing the ads to her iconic Sex and the City character, Samantha Jones. This doesn’t bother the actress, who says she treats the comparison as a compliment. She told The Hollywood Reporter, “I was just being myself,” she explained, adding, “I think for the rest of my life there will always be that association, and I take it as a fantastic compliment. She was such a wonderful character, but she’s part of me. I created her. It’s not Samantha, it’s me.”
Cattrall also admitted that she loves keeping her fans on her toes by referencing past characters. “Sometimes it’s fun to do a little wink and a nod for the fans, and not just for the fans from that series but my fans from Mannequin and Big Trouble in Little China and so on. These characters follow you because they’ve touched people or they’ve expanded their imagination about what a character like that could be. I don’t consciously conjure up anybody or think, I know what I’m going to do here. I just try to be as open as possible and get a feeling for what the director, the producer or the designer wants. If it adds a little spice, then that’s a lovely thing.”
When it comes to SKIMS, Cattrall says that she has nothing but admiration for Kim Kardashian. “Of course, I knew of her, and I knew that she’s done a really great job with this company. One of the things that has so surprised me is how affordable this product is. I mean, she’s a very smart woman. But I’ve never met her or her mom, or any member of the family. But she’s done something really terrific for women. It’s not run with an elitist attitude, which I think some people would be surprised at. This is for every woman, and that’s a powerful thing about the campaign.”
Even though Cattrall has been absent from the Sex and the City-verse, she is still regularly making callbacks to her character on socials, so maybe there is hope that ONE day, Samantha will reappear in the universe. Even if it’s just in an ad for SKIMS.
Quick, what is one of the most delicious things you can eat from a fast food drive-thru? Something that’ll make your eyes widen, your mouth water, and your tastebuds vibrate with glee. The answer, dear friend, is the fast food bacon cheeseburger.
How can something this delicious take less than 15 minutes to prepare? We’re eating this well out of a drive-thru? Is it all a dream?!
The bacon cheeseburger is fast food’s greatest — yes, greatest — gift to us (eat your heart out chicken sandwich) — a simple creation consisting of a buttery toasted bun, bacon, beef patty or patties, and multiple slices of cheese, maybe some onions, definitely some ketchup, mustard, mayo or burger sauce, all working together to produce something greater than the sum of its parts. An umami bomb of delicious proportions.
The bacon cheeseburger is the type of dish that you abandon all dietary rules for. We know, it’s bad for us. We know, it’s too much salt. But no food from a drive-thru can match the experience of biting into a juicy decadent bacon cheeseburger. So who makes the best?
We found out by ranking all of our favorite fast food bacon cheeseburgers. Let’s eat!
Also Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Food Rankings From The Last Month
Grilled onions massively dominate the flavor here with a hint of pungent and spicy garlic and smokey notes from the bacon rounding out a strong-savory finish. This burger has a lot going for it, but unfortunately, Sonic’s weak point is the quality of the meat.
The beef patty here is pretty standard stuff, it has a pepper-forward flavor but doesn’t cut through the more interesting accouterments. The bacon is fine but lacks crunch and doesn’t look nearly as impressive in person as the photo would suggest.
The Bottom Line:
In a tough field, someone has to rank last. Because quality of meat alone, this is that burger.
At first bite, you’re greeted with a burnt meat flavor with a gravely, moisture-less texture. If you like juicy burgers, this is the opposite of that. It’s a shame because the bacon is good, it’s smokey and slightly sweet and the sauce (ketchup and mayo) emphasizes that sweetness and adds a hint of tang to the aftertaste.
But the burger is so dry it’s nearly inedible. Who cares if something is flame-grilled if it tastes bad?
The Bottom Line:
Once again, Burger King’s lack of quality control has come to hurt the brand. BK keeps adding things to its menu but what it really needs to do is reformulate its core product, the burger.
A mix of tang, sweet, and earthy flavors combine for an interesting-tasting burger that, like Sonic, separates itself from the competition. Unfortunately, interesting isn’t always good, and just like Sonic, this burger is lacking where it matters: the bacon and beef.
The beef is underseasoned, have you ever cooked a burger at home and forgot to season it? Apparently, that’s what Jack in the Box does. The bacon is too thin for its smokey flavor to cut through. All the flavor from this burger comes from the double dose of American and Swiss Cheese, and the ketchup, mustard, and mayo.
The Bottom Line:
Not enough flavor from the meat, where it really matters.
Good flavors, but soggy as hell. The sweet tang of barbecue sauce is the strongest flavor note with a lot of crunch and some savory qualities coming from the deep-fried onions. The beef has a decent charred flavor to it but the bacon is too thin and gets completely lost in the barbecue sauce soup.
As a result, the bacon comes across more as a texture than a flavor.
The Bottom Line:
A delicious cheeseburger perhaps, but not a great bacon cheeseburger.
Surprisingly simple and direct. The flavor of this burger is beefy, salty, and sweet with a crisp spice to it from the onions that pair nicely with the earthy brine of the pickles. The bacon is clearly not this burger’s strong suit, it’s not that it’s bad it’s just that it’s too sparingly used and, as with a lot of the burgers on this list, a bit too thin to really be enjoyable.
This is an easy way to elevate McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but it doesn’t exactly scratch the itch that a great bacon burger does.
The Bottom Line:
Way better than you’d expect, but not as decadent and satisfying as a bacon cheeseburger should be.
Now we’re talking, Rally’s BaconZilla is piled with four strips of bacon atop two patties of beef, two slices of American cheese, and ketchup and mayo. The build is simple but delivers. It’s beefy, smokey, slightly sweet, and super salty with a meaty flavor that cuts through the sauce and is elevated by it, rather than masked.
It’s clear that the BaconZilla is inspired by Wendy’s Baconator and while it doesn’t quite reach that level, it’s the second-best cheeseburger you’re going to get from a drive-thru. The majority of the rest of our choices are from more fast-casual-feeling food spots, which means they are much pricier than the humble BaconZilla.
The Bottom Line:
Simple but delivers on that meaty decadence you want from a bacon cheeseburger.
This was a tough one to rank. Without a doubt, Shake Shack has one of the best, if not the best, hamburger patties in the game. It’s deep and rich in flavor, juicy, expertly cooked and seasoned. Based on the burger patty alone, this ranks highly, but the bacon is holding it back.
It’s so thin that it’s almost offensive. It barely registers as having any flavor at all, which is a shame because the burger build is great. Chopped cherry peppers add some bright vegetal qualities and a mild building spide, and the shake sauce is savory, tangy, and rich, emphasizing the complex flavors of the beef patty. But you’ll never feel more ripped off at Shake Shack than ordering a bacon cheeseburger and getting… this.
The Bottom Line:
A fantastic burger that is marred by its pathetic bacon.
I love Five Guys, but the bacon cheeseburger is pretty weak. Sure you can load up your burger with grilled mushrooms, jalapenos, pickles, relish, A1, hot sauce, or whatever you want, but the flavors never come together into a harmonious whole and the bacon ends up sticking out in all the worst ways.
Five Guys’ bacon is too overcooked, it’s all crisp, with no flavor. That results in a wonderful audible crunch, but the sweeter notes of bacon are gone, replaced instead with a smokey and sometimes straight-up burnt flavor.
You can make it work by adding barbecue sauce, which brings back some of the sweetness, but there are probably more inventive builds you can get here that don’t require bacon at all and, as a result, will cost you less money. Bacon is the only Five Guys addition that raises the prices.
The Bottom Line:
The right build will get you a great burger, but it’ll probably taste better without the overcooked bacon. If you like your bacon super crispy though, this just might be what you’re looking for.
This was another hard one. I’d say it was neck and neck with our number one choice and what kept it from getting the top spot was that there wasn’t quite as much bacon as I wanted.
The beef is delicious here, juicy, and beefy with a mix of seasonings that make it incredibly addictive bite after bite. It’s a smash patty so it has that mallard crust that adds a bit of texture to it. The cheese brings in some salty flavors which pair nicely with the smokey sweet flavor of the bacon. This is some high-quality bacon, too — it’s smokey, crispy, sweet, and a bit fatty, but not to the point of being chewy. The bun is also delicious, it’s buttery, a bit flaky, and not so bready that it masks any flavors.
The tomato, lettuce, and mayo are quality too (the mayo isn’t great and doesn’t add much).
The Bottom Line:
A fantastic high-quality bacon cheeseburger with a great flavor. This could easily be your favorite… it’s just not mine.
Super juicy and meaty with a strong emphasis on the bacon flavor. A true 50-50 split between beefy and smokey. The bacon here tastes as good as the best greasy spoon breakfast spot — it’s crispy and oily, smokey, and slightly sweet on the backend. The beef is rich in flavor and when paired with the ketchup and mayo, creates a rich umami finish that comes across as decadent and deep.
I know it might be hard to believe that Wendy’s can beat out a fast-casual restaurant, but the Baconator is the best bacon burger in all of fast food. It truly delivers in a way that puts the spotlight on the bacon. Its strength is in its simplicity.
One hack I’ll suggest is requesting a slice of Asiago cheese on the burger, this adds a nutty and creamy component to the burger that pairs nicely with the salty meaty flavor.
The Bottom Line:
What every fast food bacon cheeseburger should strive to be. The overall flavor here is as much about the bacon as it is about the beef making it easily the best burger on the entire Wendy’s menu.
‘This the season of memoirs. That’s not exactly true, but memoirs are getting a lot of press these days with actors off the promotional circuit due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Julia Fox is one who is seizing upon that vacuum, and good for her. Also, good for her on admitting that the Kanye West “relationship” was all for show, and she didn’t allow him to buy her a boob job.
Fox is also working on a movie that is apparently a cross betweenWeekend At Bernies’ and Spring Breakers, but the memoir is an entertaining interlude from cinematic pursuits. She discusses her difficult days as a drug addict, but she’s much more celebratory while discussing her past turn as a dominatrix. As she told The View co-hosts, she really enjoyed wearing latex during gigs, and there’s a trick to making it look good:
“In the beginning, it was a little harder to pull it on [without powder], but now I can just do it. But the trick to latex is actually lube. I see a lot of girls wearing latex and they don’t lube up their latex, and then it doesn’t have the shine!”
Joy Behar was amused and declared, “These are the kind of tips you only get on The View.” As well, Fox admitted that the experience of being a domme was helpful in terms of learning to role play and act. The job also helped her self esteem and gave her “a metric on which I could really measure my worth.” She did, at the time, make $85 per hour, which is actually nothing to sniff at, but surely, she had to invest money in costuming. Each client would want something different, and that included “a neglectful mother” and “a nun.” Yep, that requires range, alright.
Julia Fox’s memoir, Down The Drain, arrives in bookstores on October 17.
Domino’s is giving away free pizza for the days when it feels like nothing is going right for you. Did your car break down? Is the internet busted? Or are you just straight up having a sh*t day? Dominos wants you to rely on what it’s calling the “Emergency Pizza” in these situations, a medium two-topping pizza that is totally free of charge.
So what’s the catch? Because nothing in life is ever truly free right?
Well, to score this deal you’ll have to place a delivery or carry-out order online via the Domino’s app totaling $7.99 or more between now and February 11th, 2024, and then join the Domino’s Rewards within seven days of your original order to claim your free Emergency Pizza. Once you place a qualifying order, Dominos will send the Emergency Pizza to the “My Deals & Rewards” section of the app where it can be redeemed one time within a 30-day window.
If you’re already a regular Domino’s eater, that’s a pretty great and very free way to score a free medium pizza. If you’re looking to build the best order possible, hit up our ranking of every Domino’s crust on the market here. Spoiler: The best is Brooklyn-style.
Humaning is a strange thing. Like, if aliens really were to come down and ask us to explain some of our everyday activities, they would probably shake their heads in disbelief. All seven of them.
If there’s any doubt to this, just take a look at comedianSophie Craig’s hilarious video making the rounds on social media, where she brilliantly points out the utter absurdity of things humanity considered completely ‘normal’…all by candidly narrating the bizarre thought process behind them.
No mundane activity is spared—from lighting candles (aka starting “lots of little fires around my house because that will make it look very pretty”) to watching television (otherwise known as “that time of the day again where we watch the big square thing in our living room and watch people pretending to be other people”).
Nothing is spared, from beauty rituals to parties, home decor, pets, social media, even singing. Suddenly, it becomes glaringly obvious how so much of what we do in society is completely arbitrary. And if you look at this closely, definitely NOT normal.
Plus, the comedy is heightened ten fold by Craig’s charming accent and unending smile.
Watch:
100 percent accurate, right? And funny to boot.
Craig’s video has been viewed a whopping 7.4 million times, with literally thousands of comments from folks who couldn’t’ help but agree that many normal human things actually make zero sense.
Many even chimed in with their own examples:
“I’m just going to press this little heart here to show that I liked this video, and also a comment saying the same thing.”
“When doing makeup: ‘I’m just going to use this liquid that vaguely looks like my skin colour to cover up any natural redness in my cheeks so I can then put red powder over the top of the liquid so it looks like my cheeks are red.’”
“I’m going to plant green plants known as grass, but then I don’t want it to grow too tall so I’ll cut it every week, but also water it to help it grow because it must be bright green, not brown and definitely not yellow. I will apply fertilizer if is not growing well, but also still cut it every week. And of course, it must be only plants I’ve decided to call grass…not other very similar plants that I’ve chosen to call weeds, even if they are bright green.”
Moral of the story: existence is absurd. And maybe the best thing we can do as a society is to remind ourselves of that once in a while. Or have funny people do it for us.
One of the defining features of Pat McAfee’s daily show is his ability to get sit downs with some pretty big names in the worlds of sports and entertainment. A new piece by Andrew Marchand of the New York Post dives into two of McAfee’s long-standing weekly guests, Aaron Rodgers and Nick Saban, both of whom get compensated for appearing on the show.
Rodgers makes appearances on the show that draw attention and, on occasion, scrutiny, especially when it comes to his thoughts on COVID vaccines. He used his most recent appearance to challenge Travis Kelce and former NIAID director Anthony Fauci to a debate over vaccines against himself and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And thanks to Marchand — who received confirmation from McAfee — we learned that the future Hall of Fame quarterback has made at least seven figures from this arrangement.
Rodgers is receiving more than seven figures per year to come on the show each week, according to sources, while Saban is in that vaunted neighborhood.
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“Aaron has made over $1,000,000 with us, for sure,” McAfee told The Post over direct message.
Per Marchand, this happens in part because McAfee dips into the lucrative, $85 million deal he signed when he joined ESPN. It’s worth mentioning that these are essentially appearance fees, and as Marchand notes, individuals being paid by outlets for exclusive interviews is not a new thing. And on the most recent episode of his show, McAfee addressed (and confirmed) the report directly, saying that he is simply compensating those who appear on his show and have helped him become successful.
“If somebody is gonna make money for us,” McAfee said, “that person is gonna reap the benefit from it.
“I am completely ok with everything that was said,” McAfee continued. “And I am completely ok being known as the guy that appreciates people’s time, effort, and things that happen for us.”
Still, even beyond the fact that Rodgers is getting compensated for appearances on an ESPN platform in which he spread anti-vaxx rhetoric, this does highlight the uniqueness of McAfee’s arrangement with the Worldwide Leader. The company has a gigantic journalism arm and a colleague of those folks pays for face-to-face time with the individuals they cover. Plus in the specific cases of Rodgers and Saban, the network has a financial stake in both the NFL and college football (particularly SEC football), and prominent individuals in both leagues whose words drive the discourse around them are getting paid to come on the network and say whatever they want, thereby playing a major role in shaping how ESPN covers those sports.
One of the defining features of Pat McAfee’s daily show is his ability to get sit downs with some pretty big names in the worlds of sports and entertainment. A new piece by Andrew Marchand of the New York Post dives into two of McAfee’s long-standing weekly guests, Aaron Rodgers and Nick Saban, both of whom get compensated for appearing on the show.
Rodgers makes appearances on the show that draw attention and, on occasion, scrutiny, especially when it comes to his thoughts on COVID vaccines. He used his most recent appearance to challenge Travis Kelce and former NIAID director Anthony Fauci to a debate over vaccines against himself and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And thanks to Marchand — who received confirmation from McAfee — we learned that the future Hall of Fame quarterback has made at least seven figures from this arrangement.
Rodgers is receiving more than seven figures per year to come on the show each week, according to sources, while Saban is in that vaunted neighborhood.
…
“Aaron has made over $1,000,000 with us, for sure,” McAfee told The Post over direct message.
Per Marchand, this happens in part because McAfee dips into the lucrative, $85 million deal he signed when he joined ESPN. It’s worth mentioning that these are essentially appearance fees, and as Marchand notes, individuals being paid by outlets for exclusive interviews is not a new thing. And on the most recent episode of his show, McAfee addressed (and confirmed) the report directly, saying that he is simply compensating those who appear on his show and have helped him become successful.
“If somebody is gonna make money for us,” McAfee said, “that person is gonna reap the benefit from it.
“I am completely ok with everything that was said,” McAfee continued. “And I am completely ok being known as the guy that appreciates people’s time, effort, and things that happen for us.”
Still, even beyond the fact that Rodgers is getting compensated for appearances on an ESPN platform in which he spread anti-vaxx rhetoric, this does highlight the uniqueness of McAfee’s arrangement with the Worldwide Leader. The company has a gigantic journalism arm and a colleague of those folks pays for face-to-face time with the individuals they cover. Plus in the specific cases of Rodgers and Saban, the network has a financial stake in both the NFL and college football (particularly SEC football), and prominent individuals in both leagues whose words drive the discourse around them are getting paid to come on the network and say whatever they want, thereby playing a major role in shaping how ESPN covers those sports.
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