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Our Official Fall Cocktail Is The Great Pumpkin — Here’s The Recipe

Fall has arrived in all its glory. Leaves are turning, the mornings are getting crisp, and pumpkins are everywhere. To celebrate fall’s arrival, we’re calling out our official fall 2023 cocktail — The Great Pumpkin!

While last year, I went with the iconic Rob Roy with its smoky Manhattan vibes. This year, I’m going even harder on the big fall energy. The Great Pumpkin is a modern classic that reaches back to the earliest days of mixing drinks. The drink is a fall-inspired “flip”. What’s a “flip” you ask? It’s a cocktail that dates all the way back to the 1600s at least (it’s been around for a very long time is the key point) — a mix of ale, egg, rum, and molasses. Over the centuries, the flip was revived and renewed with every generation, including our own.

Back in the early aughts, cocktail legend Jim Meehan devised The Great Pumpkin Flip at PDT in New York, and here we are. The drink mixes pumpkin ale, egg, and maple syrup with a good dose of apple brandy and rye whiskey (both bottled-in-bond proof) to make a boozy and ultra-silky concoction that’s perfect for fall sipping and mixing. The best part is that you’ll have a great pumpkin-spiced cocktail in your arsenal all season while also learning one of the oldest techniques in the history of cocktail culture.

Also Read: The Top Five Cocktail Recipes of the Last Six Months

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Ingredients:

  • 2 oz. pumpkin ale
  • 1 oz. bottled in bond apple brandy
  • 1 oz. bottled in bond rye whiskey
  • 0.5 oz. real maple syrup
  • 1 medium egg
  • Nutmeg
  • Ice

The original recipe calls for Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy and Old Overholt Bonded Rye. Those are both perfectly fine. I’m using Starlight Distillery Bottled-in-Bond Apple Brandy and their Bottled-in-Bond Indiana Rye Whiskey instead. Mostly because it’s a working farm with award-winning apple brandy and bourbon and goes hard on the fall vibes.

Lastly, there’s the pumpkin ale. I’m going with a true classic from the craft beer game out in Seattle — Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale. There are few better pumpkin ales out there.

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What You’ll Need:

  • Coupe or Nick and Nora glass (pre-chilled)
  • Cocktail shaker
  • Cocktail strainer
  • Jigger
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Method:

  • Add the ale, apple brandy, rye, maple syrup, and whole egg to a cocktail shaker. Affix the lid without ice and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds, making sure to hold the lid (no ice means no vacuum and is libel to pop off).
  • Remove the lid and add a handful of ice to the shaker. Re-affix the lid and shake vigorously for about 30 seconds to get extra frothy.
  • Strain the cocktail in the prechilled glass and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg. Serve.

Bottom Line on The Great Pumpkin Cocktail:

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This is a lush fall dream in a glass. The mouthfeel/texture of this is so creamy and silky that it draws you in instantly.

The lovingly spiced rye whiskey and apple brandy add a great depth of boozy fall spice to the savory pumpkin ale, creating a light pumpkin pie vibe in the glass. The egg creates a heft that makes this feel literally like a piece of pie in a glass (without trying to be clever in a dumb way with crushed crushed on the rim or something). The nutmeg brightens everything and truly elevates the overall experience to pro vibes.

This is one that I’m going to make a lot of this fall. You should too. It’s delicious, luxurious, and filling.

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‘Reservation Dogs’ Was Just A Really, Really Special Television Show

Reservation Dogs has always been a tough show to describe. I know this because I have tried, many times, once as recently as yesterday when I was explaining how excited and sad I was to be watching the season three finale this week, which also served as the show’s series finale. Someone said “Oh, what’s it about?” and I bumbled through an answer that went something like this…

“Okay, it’s this show about indigenous teenagers growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma. And it’s… it’s like a coming-of-age thing, but also they steal stuff a lot and cope with death and sometimes spirits show up to cuss at them. It’s weird. But, like… good weird. Sometimes it’s extremely funny in the stupidest way you can think of. Sometimes it’ll be so real and heartfelt that it’ll open you up and yank your heart out. Sometimes a school bus explodes or Ethan Hawke shows up. It’s so good. It’s… it’s just so good. You gotta watch it. It’s good. Trust me.”

Which, I mean, sure. All of that is true. It was all of those things, especially in the third and final season, which I will gladly put up against the final run of episodes of any other show made in the entire history of television. Everything I mentioned in that rambling description happened in there at some point. We had spirits showing up to talk to characters, some dressed as ancient warriors who cuss and talk like your average aging millennial, some named Deer Lady who have hooves for feet and murder people who — as we had just learned through a series of deeply upsetting flashbacks — were responsible for a lot of very real historical abuse the indigenous community faced over the years. A school bus did explode. Ethan Hawke did show up as a stoner house painter and deadbeat father. One guy did acid and saw aliens and it ended up tying the whole season together in a way I never saw coming. It was a wild run, man.

But even while that is true, it doesn’t capture what made the show so great. Even with the aliens and explosions and conversations with spirits, the show was also just extremely real. Very few entire shows can run you through the series of emotions Reservation Dogs ran you through in a single 27-minute episode. There was one this season where this happened…

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… and then, maybe 10 minutes later, the same group of guys was sitting around a campfire crying about a close friend they had lost touch with. And I was crying, too. The episode ended and it took all I had not to send texts to all of my friends that just said, “Dude I love you” out of nowhere at like 11 p.m. Maybe I should have. Maybe I should do it now. Maybe you should, too.

I guess my point here is that Reservation Dogs was a really special show, both on the micro level — crying, emotions, etc. — and the macro level. It was a show that dropped a majority of viewers into a world they might not have been familiar with — life on a reservation, indigenous culture in general — and then went on to prove that there are things that everyone can relate to despite our different backgrounds. A big theme of the show was death. The main teenage characters lost a friend right from the jump and had to learn how to deal with it. The adults had to deal with getting older and saying goodbye. The elders had to deal with staring their own mortality in the face. And again, there were a slew of very silly jokes sprinkled throughout. Please remember this was a comedy first, even if things did get pretty real at times.

The show’s creator, Sterlin Harjo, explained this all very well in a postmortem with Rolling Stone’s Alan Sepinwall that dropped after the finale.

Season One, the kids lost their friend, and they are mourning that death and trying to get better. And then, by the time we get to Season Three, it’s like they get to take their lessons that they learned in Season One and Two, and they get to apply them in a real way to their community. And also reach out, and help their elders with what they’ve learned. There’s no way in my culture to represent that than how people come together [when someone dies].

This is true. Death is one of those things that is both universal and deeply personal. I will be thinking about this line for a long, long time, from a scene in the final season where the adults give one last sendoff to a friend they lost years ago. It represents everything I could ever want anyone to say about me when it’s my time to go.

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See what I mean? It’s not easy to deal with this kind of heavy stuff while also staying committed to being extremely silly whenever possible. I can’t stress this last part strongly enough. One of the characters spent half an episode scrubbing a wall to clean off a graffiti drawing — that she made — of an ejaculating penis that had both a face and large breasts. This show contained multitudes.

I feel like I’m not doing it justice here. I feel like I’m not hitting the nail on the head squarely. I think I’m doing better than I did in the explanation I tried giving my friend yesterday, but still. It’s hard. It’s hard to put into words what this show did on an episode-to-episode basis, the way it made the world smaller and larger at the same time, the way it showed how “coming-of-age” doesn’t stop when you turn 18, how adults don’t always have the answers, how it’s important to keep looking for them, and how sometimes you need to learn to be okay with — to paraphrase another special show that blended the silliest possible jokes with profound stories about death and loss — letting the mystery be.

I’m going to miss it a lot. But I’m also glad it ended the way it did. It was about as close to a perfect three-season run of television as I’ve ever seen. Part of me hopes I forget enough of it over time that I can dive back in from the beginning and revisit it with relatively fresh eyes. Part of me hopes that some of the show stays with me forever. Most of me hopes that what I’ve written here did justice to just how great this show really was, both for people who watched it and felt the same and for people who were on the fence about checking it out and needed a little shove.

I’ll give the final word here to the show itself, via another set of screencaps.

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Reservation Dogs was just a really, really special television show.

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Noted ‘Kid From Milwaukee’ Tyler Herro Is Excited To Buy A Damian Lillard Bucks Jersey

Tyler Herro is still a member of the Miami Heat. After being the hypothetical player around whom the team would build its offer to the Portland Trail Blazers in a Damian Lillard trade, Herro will go into this season with the team that drafted him after Portland opted to trade Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks.

It’s a bit of a weird spot for Herro, who was very publicly put in trade rumors for months by the team for which he’s going to play this year. And on Thursday, he decided to have some fun with the whole thing, saying that he’s basically prepared to find himself in the same spot next year.

After cracking this joke, Herro decided to be a little more serious while discussing the Lillard trade. Herro is originally from Milwaukee County, and he couldn’t help but express that he’s excited to get his hands on a Bucks uniform with their newest player on the back.

In a bit of good news for Herro (and anyone else who would like to get their hands on one of these), the Bucks apparently already have Lillard jerseys in stock at their team store, according to Marc J. Spears of ESPN.

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SNX: This Week’s Best Sneaker Drops, Feat. The MSCHF Reebok Omni Zone IX, Air Jordan 8 Playoffs & More

Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week is a weird one. Not bad weird but sneaker releases tend to reflect the season we are in and these… don’t. In summer we get all sorts of vibrant colors, in fall things get more muted, the holidays get tacky and garish, and here we are in the first full week of fall and we’ve got all sorts of bright and funky color combinations — as if its spring or something!

The silhouettes are also feeling bit random to me, sure you’ve got your standard stuff like Air Maxes, Dunks, and Jordans, but we’re also seeing an Air Pegasus, and a strange multi-pump equipped Reebok MSCHF collaboration. It’s a real grab bag of styles and colorways. So if you’re looking for something a little out of the norm, this is your week!

Let’s dive in to the best sneakers of the week.

Nike Air Max 1 x Familia Pinksicle and Stadium Green

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Price: $140

Released in the heart of Hispanic Heritage Month, this link up between Nike and the skatewear brand Familia delivers vibrant colors and a slightly altered design. Rather than the typical leather build, this Air Max sports layers of textiles, giving this sneaker a lot more depth and three-dimensionality.

The colorway features red, pink, beige, green and yellow tones throughout with a multicolored outsole.

The Nike Air Max 1 x Familiar Pinksicle is out now for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

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Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 40 x Familia Pinksicle and Stadium Green

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Price: $130

It’s not quite as dope as the Air Max 1 version but we have to shout out Nike’s other collaboration with Familia for utilizing a much less hyped silhouette. This is one for the real Nike heads!

The Zoom Pegasus features the same layered textile design as the Air Max 1 but goes much heavier on the pink. Over the pink base are some splashes of color on the Swoosh, piping, and eyelets. It’s a lot less busy than the Air Max, but still bright and vibrant.

The Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 40 x Familiar Pinksicle and Stadium Green is out now for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

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New Balance 2002R Protection Pack Dark Moss/ Ripstop Eclipse

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Price: $160 (Dark Moss/ Ripstop Eclipse)

The New Balance 2002R Protection Pack is here! Of all the releases this week, this is the only one that reflects this seasons color palette with two muted color variations, the Dark Moss and Ripstop Eclipse.

Both sneakers feature a Nylon ripstop upper with sloppy suede overlays over the toe, side panels and heel with a perforated suede heel counter, leather overlays on the tongue all riding atop a NERGY foam midsole.

The sneakers look like you just walked straight out of a spooky forest or a swampy horror movie — you know, in a good way.

The New Balance 2002R Protection Pack in Dark Moss and Ripstop Eclipse is set to drop on September 28th for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair at Social Status, A Ma Maniere or aftermarket sites like GOAT or Flight Club.

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Born X Raised x Nike SB Dunk Low

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Price: $130

This Born X Raised Nike SB Dunk has been highly anticipated for a minute, but the untimely death of Born X Raised founder Chris “Spanto” Printup earlier this summer put the sneakers on hiatus. So as psyched as we are that this sneaker is finally coming out, we can’t help but feel bittersweet about it.

The sneaker features special embroidered details, a thee-dimensional slightly holographic swoosh’s and custom perforated details on the toe box, and a mix of suede and leather. “In Loving Memory” is printed across the laces and the insoles feature an image of the Venice Pavilion, a shoutout to the neighborhood Spanto grew up in.

The Born X Raised x Nike SB Dunk Low is set to drop on September 28th for a retail price of $130. Pick up a pair at Born X Raised or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

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Nike Air Jordan 8 Playoffs

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Price: $210

Jordan fans are getting a refresh of the legendary Jordan 8 Playoffs. The stealthy black design features a premium unbuckle upper with embroidered details, and a contrasting red and white mudguard that recalls the artwork of Piet Mondrian.

The Jordan 8 frankly doesn’t get enough love so we’re happy to see this legendary pair get a retro refresh.

The Nike Air Jordan 8 Playoffs are set to drop on September 30th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $210. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

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MSCHF Reebok Omni Zone IX OG/Sunbleached

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Price: $250

We’re going to go ahead and call it here — MSCHF is the best sneaker brand of the year. The art collective has a history of producing interesting sneakers, but this year in particular they’ve been on a roll, launching the Big Red and Yellow Boot, the Super Normal 2 and the BWD, just to name a few, and now this week they’ve linked up with Reebok for the pump-crazy Omni Zone IX.

Equipped with what MSCHF is calling “state-of-the-art BoingBoing” technology, this sneaker is equipped with nine functional pumps for a ‘tailored fit’ and drops in two colorways, a white and sky blue iteration and a washed out sunbleached version. The pumps are a gimmick sure, but the sneaker still manages to look pretty dope and we’re sure it’ll make an appearance at this year’s ComplexCon on the feet of whoever was lucky enough to score a pair.

The MSCHF Reebok Omni Zone IX OG/Sunbleached is set to drop on September 27th for a retail price of $250. Join the raffle to pick up a pair via MSCHF right now.

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Martin Scorsese Had Some Very Nice Things To Say About His ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Star Leonardo DiCaprio

Killers of the Flower Moon is Leonardo DiCaprio‘s sixth movie with Martin Scorsese. It’s a frequent enough occurrence that the collaboration has its own Wikipedia page (sample fact: “Scorsese heard about DiCaprio from Robert De Niro, who worked with then 18-year-old DiCaprio in This Boy’s Life“).

At the New York premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon on Wednesday, Scorsese praised DiCaprio for his growth as an actor. “He has range, and he keeps growing. He also has a lot of courage, and I know he’ll go to places that other people might pull back from,” the Oscar-winning director told ET Online. “Working with him over the years, he’s been growing as a person — he’s maturing from a young kid to a young man. As he changes in life, he’s changing on film.” Leo has even “settled down” (with a 25-year-old model).

DiCaprio is getting lots of “best performance yet” raves for Killers of the Moon. He didn’t win an Oscar the last time he worked with Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street — my pick for his best, and funniest, performance). Maybe this time?

Killers of the Flower Moon, which also stars Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, and De Niro, comes out on October 20th.

(Via ET Online)

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‘Clean Cookin” Dives Into Fall Flavors And Ends Up With An Incredible Apple Crisp (And A Clean Kitchen)

Fall flavors have arrived! Pumpkin spice lattes are back, jugs of freshly pressed apple cider are weighing down shelves nationwide, and fall-inspired desserts are the order of the day. Clean Cookin’ is back too, with a brand-new episode – powered by Ecolab Science Certified, that leans into those fall flavors with a delicious apple cherry crisp recipe — alongside some important steps that help keep restaurants cleaner and safer, giving you peace of mind thanks to the Ecolab Science Certified™ program Nashville country artist Mickey Guyton and celebrity Chef Jamika Pessoa are back in the kitchen and breaking down two things — Guyton’s mom’s apple crisp recipe and how to maintain cleanliness in the kitchen from start to finish.

Chef Pessoa holds true to the number one rule in cooking and baking — start with a clean kitchen, clean hands, and clean produce for a Scientific CleanTM you can count on. Chef Pessoa coaches Guyton through the process of rolling with the punches while fixing mistakes with calm and ease and of course the golden rule of the kitchen — “clean as you go!”

While having a clean cooking area is of the utmost importance, so is making tasty food. Chef Pessoa adds some cherries to the classic apple crisp and has Guyton make some vanilla-laced whipped cream for the topping and it looks incredible! Most importantly, the two chefs ended with a kitchen that was cleaner than when they started. Check out the whole episode above and snag that great apple cherry crisp recipe to make at home this fall!

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The ‘Big Mouth’ Gang Finally Graduate Middle School In The Season Seven Trailer

All good things must come to an end, and this includes middle school, even if your middle school experience isn’t classified as “good.” The seventh and almost-final season of Netflix’s raunchy animated series Big Mouth will debut next month, and we finally get to see those horny teens head to a better place: high school!

The trailer for the upcoming season shows that these 8th graders are still doing what they do best: masturbating and causing drama, all while still making time to attend second-period gym class. As announced earlier this year, Big Mouth will end with its upcoming eighth season sometime in 2024.

Season seven brings back regular players Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, and Ayo Edibiri as the misfit group of kids who are just trying to survive adolescence while being tormented by various hormone monsters (voiced by Maya Rudolph). Some new additions this year include Megan Thee Stallion as her own hormone monster, Lupita Nyong’o, Stephanie Beatriz, Zazie Beetz, Zach Galifianakis, Randall Park, Chloe Fineman, Beck Bennett, Zach Woods, and Mark Duplass. It’s like one big high school reunion of funny people. As per the official description:

Season seven of Big Mouth follows the now teenage students of Bridgeton middle school as they make their way to high school. Change is the only constant as each character is faced with a new school, new friends, new adversaries, and new Hormone Monsters.

The penultimate season of Big Mouth premieres on October 20th. Check out the trailer above.

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Lauren Boebert Is Being Roasted Over A Self-Congratulatory Rant About Her Former ‘Government Dependency’ For Money And ‘Work Ethic’

Rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert’s origin story includes receiving her GED mere months before being elected to Congress. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with holding a GED, but the MAGA congresswoman has used her subsequent platform to tear down those with a similar background as her own. Boebert has previously discussed how she was born into a “Democrat household on welfare,” and she doesn’t seem to care that she probably wouldn’t have had food on the table without this assistance. Instead, she looks down upon the practice and is now bragging about her “work ethic.”

This move follows Boebert’s movement back into anti-trans remarks while proposing an amendment to reduce Shawn Skelly’s salary to $1 and accusing him of ruining the military with “wokeism.” This, of course, might be a desperate attempt for Boebert to make everyone stop thinking about her groping scandal or as it is more colloquially known, “Grabbing the hog.”

“I lived under government dependency,” Boebert declared on the House floor in the below clip. “[A]nd I’m thankful that I have broke free of that cycle given my life experiences and developing work ethic”

Does Boebert realize that she is paid from the wallets of taxpayers and is still technically accepting money (a lot of it) and cushy benefits from the government? She also seems to believe that tweeting, missing important votes (and lying about why), and delivering angry tirades on the House floor counts as a work ethic.

The “old razzle dazzle” won’t make that groping scandal go away, but Boebert is sure trying.

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Britney Spears’ Knife-Dancing Video Reportedly Prompted The LAPD To Do A Welfare Check On Her

Britney Spears caused some concern with her online activities earlier this week, when she shared a video of herself dancing on Instagram. She does that almost daily, but the catch this time is that she was holding large knives while busting out her moves. She insisted the knives weren’t real, but she appeared to have cuts and injuries in a video shared after the knife clip.

As for the deal with the video, Spears later explained, “Lighten up about the knives I’m copying Shakira !!!,” referring to Shakira’s recent performance at the 2023 Video Music Awards, during which Shakira danced while holding knives. Either way, some were still worried about Spears, to the point that TMZ reports the Los Angeles Police Department did a welfare check on Spears yesterday (September 27).

The publication notes the initial call for the check was made by the LAPD’s Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team (SMART). While Spears fans have called for welfare checks in the past, this time, the call was apparently made by somebody who “actually had some knowledge of Britney.”

When officers arrived, they were assured Spears was OK by her security, then left. Spears’ attorney called LAPD later in the day to ask about the visit and was assured the officers “only made the visit because the call was made by someone who knew Britney … they don’t make the welfare checks for fan calls.”

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What To Watch: Our Picks For The TV Shows And Movies We Think You Should Stream This Week

Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.

20. Adventure Time: Fiona and Cake (Max)

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Fionna and Cake were introduced in a season three episode of the wonderful animated series Adventure Time, and became instant fan favorites. Now, the pair have their own spinoff show, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, which finds them on a multiverse-hopping journey towards self-discovery. It looks just as funny, existential, and clever as the original, just with a cat (Cake) instead of a dog (Jake). Whether that’s an improvement is up to you.

Watch it on Max

19. The Changeling (Apple TV Plus)

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LaKeith Stanfield heads into the horror realm in this adaptation of Victor LaValle’s acclaimed novel. The show promises to be a grown-up fairytale begins in a New York City library and heads into a version of the Big Apple that usually remains closed from human eyes. It’s also a parenthood fable, and yes, it truly feels like the scariest horror stories often revolve around kids, whether they happen to be good or evil. Given Stanfield’s ability to showcase the surreal in various other projects, one can bet that this quality adds to the spooks in this series.

Watch it on Apple TV Plus

18. Solar Opposites (Hulu)

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Solar Opposites is, in a sense, two shows for the price of one. What a deal! One show is the alien adventures of Korvo (now voiced by Dan Stevens), Terry, Jesse, Yumyulack, and the Pupa, the cutest lil’ guy on television. The other show takes place in The Wall, where humans have been shrunk down and held hostage inside a terrarium. Both are very funny, very weird, and very good. Solar Opposites doesn’t get as much attention as Rick and Morty, but it should.

Watch it on Hulu

17. Star Wars: Ahsoka (Disney Plus)

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Rosario Dawson is back as Ahsoka in this spinoff of The Mandalorian, with all the face paint and prosthetics to go along with it. The biggest question here, though, is whether everyone’s favorite little green guy will show up at some point to steal a few scenes and hearts. Fingers crossed.

Watch it on Disney Plus

16. Invasion (Apple TV Plus)

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This intense story, set over several continents, brings us crop circles galore and civilization’s collapse while humanity struggles to pull it together during (as the title suggests) an alien invasion. Naturally, there is a sheriff who gets pulled back from the verge of retirement as soldiers, mission controllers, and civilians everywhere lend their perspectives in this series from Simon Kinberg (several X-Men movies) and David Weil (Citadel, Hunters). The show is back for a second season while the world still struggles to figure what, exactly, is happening in real-time.

Watch it on Apple TV Plus

15. Archer (Hulu)

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The world has been trying to leave Sterling Archer behind for years and years with hilarious results as the spy and his associates have navigated land, sea, and air (and space), often stumbling into calamity while chasing adventure. But now, in its 14th season, the series, with all its ambition and wit, has reached its climax (yes, we are still doing phrasing) and we are here for it, specifically, the final bows of one of the greatest voice casts ever assembled. How will it all end? We can’t wait to find out, but regardless, Archer’s place as one of the best comedies of this century is assured.

Watch it on Hulu

14. Harley Quinn (Max)

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Even though there’s been a lot of upheaval at HBO Max/Max and even more so for films and TV shows starring DC characters, at least one supervillainess is safe. Miss Harley (who does not need the Joker for success) was almost pointedly renewed as a clattering of show cancellations and removals swirled. Heck, Kaley Cuoco’s voice even gave us the only Valentine’s Day special worth watching this year. Soon, we might find out whether Bane is still making love to a skyscraper as Harley attempts to get in good with the Bat Family. Quite a contrast there.

Watch it on Max

13. Love at First Sight (Netflix)

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The official description of this movie reads as follows: “Two strangers connect on a flight to London, only to be separated by a twist of fate. A reunion seems improbable — but love has a way of defying the odds.” Is this the most original story ever committed to film? Well, no. Should this movie have been titled Love at First Flight? Probably. But could you do a love worst than a sweet little meet-cute starring Haley Lu Richardson from The White Lotus? Definitely. Lots to consider here.

Watch it on Netflix

12. American Horror Story: Delicate (Hulu)

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Ryan Murphy’s sick, twisted horror anthology has been a bit of a mixed bag over the years but if there’s anything that can unite the binge-watching masses this Fall it’s Kim Kardashian – first-time actor, lifelong lover of the arts. Kris Jenner’s prodigy is playing a supporting role in this season’s storyline, which can be best summed up as the millennial version of Rosemary’s Baby, while Emma Roberts plays an actress who becomes pregnant and begins to fear that someone (or something) is after her. Demonic symbolism, “hysterical” women, and off-putting wigs – everything you’d expect from a Murphy fright night production is here, it’s just all that much more surreal with Kardashian in the mix.

Watch it on Hulu

11. The Continental (Peacock)

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Sadly, this three-part series will not feature a Keanu Reeves cameo as suggested years ago. This story takes place in the 1970s, long before Wick’s most pivotal pup was even born. As such, this spinoff will focus on the earlier days of the franchise’s assassin-welcoming hotel, where Colin Woodell portrays Winston, who’s attempting to do his day job and also navigate the hellish underbelly of the era’s New York City. If you’re not into the Mel Gibson aspect of this prequel, then perhaps Katie McGrath can sway you to watch as The Adjudicator.

Watch it on Peacock

10. The Golden Bachelor (Hulu)

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What we have on our hands here is a Bachelor spinoff about an older gentleman looking for love from a group of similarly aged ladies. Which is… honestly kind of adorable. Good for them. And good for us, too, especially if one of the episodes features a date where they eat dinner at a diner at 4:45 and then go watch an episode of Columbo in matching recliners. This was written as a joke but honestly sounds kind of wonderful. That’s true love right there, people.

Watch it on Hulu

9. One Piece (Netflix)

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What we have here is a live-action adaptation of a legendary Japanese manga series about a young pirate and his friends out on the open seas in search of some treasure. It’s been burning up the Netflix charts since its release, and it’s been touted as a feel-good celebration of the innocence of childhood adventure, which, all things considered, does not sound like the worst way to spend a weekend binge. Get in there now before the second season drops.

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8. The Other Black Girl (Hulu)

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Seriously, watch this trailer. This is not a fluffy little comedy. Rashida Jones executive produces this adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ NYT best-selling novel about an editorial assistant is who is overjoyed to no longer be the “only Black girl” at her work place. However, the novelty of newcomer Hazel quickly fades when it becomes apparent that sinister vibes are going down. Spooooky.

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7. The Morning Show (Apple TV Plus)

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Is The Morning Show the best drama on TV in a world absent Better Call Saul and Succession? It might be in the running, but it’s definitely the dramaest drama on TV, leaning on its star power to cut through moments that might be eye-roll-inducing if you weren’t so captivated by the screen presence of Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, and Jon Hamm, who joins this season as a handsome version of Elon Musk. Backstabbing, front-stabbing, walk and talks, politics, high tension, and ripped-from-the-headlines storylines all come together, yet again, with our news and media power players moving more fully toward the game of mergers, acquisitions, and boardroom battles where the real prizes can be found.

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6. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC Plus)

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The only “solo” spinoff of AMC’s post-apocalyptic world is upon us. Daryl is most entertaining character to send to France, and he’s also the least religious of the bunch, which makes it awfully funny to see him hanging with a bunch of nuns after waking up in France like “WTF?” Most of all, though, Daryl earns his “Big Ass Kicker” nickname and we also get a lovely character study of the most loyal and industrious survivor of Rick’s old bunch. The action also delivers, so get ready for crossbows and total chaos at Parisian landmarks. Pssst, we also chose the most essential to watch before this spinoff.

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5. Naked Attraction (Max)

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Naked Attraction is a lot like every other dating show. Except for the part where the contestants barely meet each other. And the part where someone chooses a mate based almost entirely on comparing their nude body to a bunch of other also-nude bodies. And the part where there are just a ton of exposed dongs. So… maybe it’s not like the other dating shows you’ve seen. But it sure does exist. Go there now and look if you don’t believe us.

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4. Krapopolis (Hulu)

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Dan Harmon’s long-gestating cartoon take on Ancient Greece is here. He’s had big success in the world of animation before with both Solar Opposites and Rick and Morty, so there’s reason for optimism even if the reviews of the first few episodes are a little dicey. You have time. Don’t pretend like you don’t. You’re not fooling anyone, Derek. (This works better if your name is Derek.)

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3. Sex Education (Netflix)

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The horniest kids in Britain are back and ready to go out with a bang – a lot of banging, actually. The fourth season of this Netflix comedy is set to be its last, but before the goodbyes Otis, Eric, Maeve, Aimee, and the rest of the students from Moordale have some growing up to do. While Maeva studies under an eccentric author in America (hello Dan Levy), Otis and Eric struggle to climb the social hierarchy of their new school – one that’s so progressive, they’ve already filled his position of “student sex therapist.”

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2. Gen V (Amazon Prime)

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Come for the dong jokes, and stay for the dong jokes. Much like The Boys, this spinoff does not skim on the raunch, and it also gives us a whole new roster of Supes who might feel differently about Vought International’s motives. This series seemingly pulls off the impossible by managing to be as appealing as the flagship series without the presence of its most shining and degraded beacon, Homelander. This franchise shows no sign of wearing out or fatiguing its audience as both the MCU and DCU have managed to do, which might be the most heroic feat of all in the present entertainment realm.

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1. No One Will Save You (Hulu)

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Kaitlyn Dever has been killing it since her Justified days (Team Loretta), and her Dopesick, Unbelievable, and Booksmart performances sealed the deal. Here, she stays nearly silent — much harder than it sounds, once you see what she goes through — in this story that puts an extraterrestrial twist on home-invasion horror. Before you watch, be sure to pull those blinds and double lock those doors because you’re in for a hell of a good-scary time

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