Donald Trump has confirmed that he will be arrested in Georgia on Thursday. Anticipation is high to see the former president’s mugshot, and of course, Trump is playing the whole thing up like a primetime event.
In a new Truth Social post, Trump not only confirms his arrest time, but he makes sure to promote his interview with Tucker Carlson, which took place during the first GOP debate. Trump didn’t feel the need to attend the event because he’s already the frontrunner, but there’s also been chatter that he’s afraid of facing off with Chris Christie.
Trump also used the arrest announcement to insult Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and we’re guessing his legal team is just loving that.
231,000,000 Views, and still counting. The Biggest Video on Social Media, EVER, more than double the Super Bowl! But please excuse me, I have to start getting ready to head down to Atlanta, Georgia, where Murder and other Violent Crimes have reached levels never seen before, to get ARRESTED by a Radical Left, Lowlife District Attorney, Fani Willis, for A PERFECT PHONE CALL, and having the audacity to challenge a RIGGED & STOLEN ELECTION. THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTABLE! ARREST TIME: 7:30 P.M.
Despite his all-caps bravado in public, Trump is reportedly “nervous” behind the scenes. The former president is concerned that the numerous defendants in the Georgia indictment are going to “make deals and flip on him.”
“He’s not so confident anymore,” a source told Page Six. “He’s not acting so cocky anymore. He’s not lashing out so much. The arrogance is gone.”
Princess Diana was the most beloved member of the royal family, so a lot of attention will be paid on how The Crown covers her death next season. She was the people’s princess, after all. But the Netflix show’s producers want viewers to know it will be handled with “enormous sensitivity.”
While speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, executive producer Suzanne Mackie said, “The show might be big and noisy, but we’re not. We’re thoughtful people and we’re sensitive people. There were very careful, long conversations about how we were going to do it. The audience will judge it in the end, but I think it’s been delicately, thoughtfully recreated. Elizabeth Debicki is an extraordinary actress and she was so thoughtful and considerate. She loved Diana. There’s a huge amount of respect from us all, I hope that’s evident.”
The death will feature in the early episodes of the final season of The Crown. The scenes were shot over a two-week period last October, with Deadline reporting that there was anxiety behind the scenes. There was a flurry of press interest in the filming of the episode, with Princes William and Harry having both previously recalled the trauma of that period in their lives. Prince Harry has admitted to watching The Crown.
The sixth and final season of The Crown is expected to premiere later this year.
Part of what makes international basketball so great is getting the chance to watch players who may not be known for being among the NBA’s elite elevate their game when national pride is on the line. Group E at the 2023 FIBA World Cup possesses a number of dudes for whom that can apply, and as a result, there’s a real chance that all six group play games can be competitive and compelling.
The favorites in the group are the Australians, although they are going to face a very, very difficult test in their hopes to top the group via the Germans. (The Aussies, it must be said, have the fourth-best odds in the entire tournament to win the World Cup.) Finland and Japan round out the group as sizable underdogs to advance. Here’s how the odds in this group break down (via DraftKings).
Australia -175
Germany +175
Finland +1800
Japan +3500
Below, we’ll look at most notable players to watch, the biggest game, and the entire schedule for this group.
Players to Watch
Josh Giddey (Australia): International basketball happens so fast that being able to process things quickly is crucial. Fortunately for Australia, Giddey thinks through the game as well as anyone, and has more than enough size to be able to hold up against physical defenses. He helped the Boomers beat France in a pre-World Cup exhibition, and is primed to make a huge splash in his first major international tournament with the team.
Patty Mills (Australia): On the other side of the age spectrum for Australia is Mills, who has been one of the faces in Australian basketball for years and finally helped the team get over the hump and pick up a medal in Tokyo. Mills has always elevated his game for the Aussies whenever he’s taken the floor for them, and even though he’s in the final years of his NBA career, his ability to provide a spark on offense and leadership/toughness have been crucial for the national team.
Lauri Markkanen (Finland): It’s not exactly a stretch to say that Finland’s basketball program lacks the firepower of Australia and Germany. Any chance they do have of navigating a very tricky group revolves around Markkanen, the All-Star center for the Utah Jazz whose presence changes everything for the Fins. Here’s some proof: The team played a pair of hard-fought exhibition games before the World Cup against Lithuania and split a pair of close games where Markkanen had 24 points in one game and 32 in the other. Then, he rested against a Kristaps Porzingis-less Latvia team and watched as Finland lost, 94-57.
Franz Wagner (Germany): Wagner has turned into one of NBA Twitter’s favorite players, as the heady forward for the Orlando Magic is arguably the main reason where there’s optimism surrounding the team long-term. Despite that, the Magic’s struggles during his time in Orlando have meant that he hasn’t really broken through, but his ability to contribute to winning and his comfort as both a primary option and a supporting man should translate very well to the international game. When the going gets tough for a German team that medaled at EuroBasket this year, look for Wagner and the next guy on this list to take over games.
Dennis Schroder (Germany): Schroder’s had a very, very interesting NBA career. One thing he’s usually been pretty good at, however, is finding that extra gear and embracing his role as the top option for Germany’s national side. He was an all-tournament selection at EuroBasket last year and was legitimately excellent as he led Germany to a bronze, its first international medal since the EuroBasket in 2005. Now, he’ll look to do the same thing for the Germans as they look to medal at the World Cup for the first time since 2002.
Schedule/TV Info (all times EST)
Aug. 25
Finland vs. Australia, 4:00 a.m., ESPN+
Germany vs. Japan, 8:00 a.m., ESPN+
Aug. 27
Australia vs. Germany, 4:30 a.m., ESPN+
Japan vs. Finland, 8:00 a.m., ESPN+
Aug. 29
Germany vs. Finland, 3:30 a.m., ESPN+
Australia vs. Japan, 7:00 a.m., ESPN+
Game to Watch
Australia vs. Germany: Despite being in a golden age of its basketball program for some time, Australia had never medaled in the Olympics or the World Cup until the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. As such, they’re the favorites to make it out of this group, but they’re going to have to get past a German squad that has a ton of NBA talent, came in eighth in Tokyo, and gave the Americans all they could handle in a pre-World Cup tune-up before Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton took the game over. This very easily can be the game that determines which team ends up winning the group, but even beyond that, this should just be a really fun basketball game to watch, one loaded with NBA talent. Just maybe catch the replay if you’re in the U.S., as it starts quite early.
Allow her to reintroduce herself. LA-based, Boston-bred singer/songwriter/rapper TeaMarrr has been building her buzz working behind the scenes and appearing on soundtracks like the one for Rap Sh!. But for her latest UPROXX Sessions performance, the Issa Rae-approved artist wanted to make a statement — and what better way to do that than hijack a ’90s classic for your own freestyle?
That’s exactly what TeaMarrr does with “Teacup Commandments,” repurposing The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1997 Life After Death standout “Ten Crack Commandments” to declare her rules for life, love, and friendship. An example: “Rule number two, never let them pour for you / Don’t you know bad boys move in silence? They’ll try it.” It’s a departure from what longtime listeners might be used to from the mellow R&B star, but it might just be the perfect way to capture new fans’ attention.
Watch TeaMarrr’s return to the UPROXX Sessions stage above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
TeaMarrr is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Polo G‘s Los Angeles home was raided by police on Wednesday (August 23) for a search in connection to a robbery. The rapper’s lawyer Bradford Cohen later shared a statement saying the search was only conducted to “verify” that Polo G isn’t a convicted felon. Now, though, the story continues.
XXL reported today (August 24) that last night, Polo G and his brother, rapper Trench Baby, were arrested for kidnapping, robbery, and assault charges. He was taken into custody and booked by the Burbank, California Police Department.
A spokesperson for the Burbank Police Department told the publication, “Last night, Mr. Taurus Bartlett (Polo G) and his brother, Mr. Taurean Bartlett (Trench Baby), were arrested and booked on kidnapping, robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon charges. The charges stem from a report filed in April of this year in which Taurus and Taurean Bartlett were listed as suspects.”
The statement continued, “Once Mr. Taurus and Taurean Bartlett were released from LAPD’s custody on unrelated charges, Burbank PD investigators were standing by to take them into custody on the Burbank case. They were taken into custody without incident and have since been released on $100,000 bail. Formal charges are pending review by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.”
The double IPA, referred to seemingly interchangeably as the imperial IPA, is a reasonably new style (only existing since the early 1990s) and its true definition is still a bit murky. In the most basic terms, a double IPA is an IPA with more alcohol and hop and malt aromas and flavors than your average IPA. So… an IPA with more IPA-ness. Obviously, that leaves a lot up to the brewer — as a result, if you were to pick two random double IPAs, crack them open, and pour them into pint glasses, you might end up with two totally different beers.
Generally speaking, “double IPA” and “imperial IPA” are used for almost any IPA landing between 8 and 10% ABV. Many are dry-hopped (but some aren’t). The label encompasses West Coast IPAs, New England-style IPAs, and pretty much every other IPA style, as long as they are higher in alcohol and have a ton of malt and lupulin-fueled hop flavor and bitterness. A tad confusing, right? Well, that’s what happens when you slap a term on a beer without many clear rules.
Not surprisingly, there are countless IPAs that carry the “double” moniker on the market. Some are great and others…not so much. To help you, we picked eight of our favorite double IPAs and decided to rank them on balance and overall flavor. Keep scrolling to see where your favorite beer landed on our list.
This highly-rated double IPA is brewed with a combination of Chinook, Centennial, and Magnum hops. It’s known for its subtle malt backbone and dank, resinous piney, bitter flavor profile. It’s an intense IPA for the biggest West Coast IPA fans.
Tasting Notes:
The nose begins with sweet malts and moves into citrus peels and dank pine. It’s definitely a welcoming start. The palate is filled with light caramel malts, but dominated by citrus zest and resinous, chewy, dank pine. The finish is bitter in the best way possible.
Bottom Line:
If you enjoy West Coast IPAs because of their flavor profile, the aptly named Ruination ramps up each and every flavor.
Florida Man is a true legend. He’s the main character in countless headlines from Miami to Jacksonville and Cigar City decided to pay tribute to him with this double IPA brewed with Azacca, Citra, El Dorado, and Mandarinia Bavarian hops. It gets added flavor from the use of its Double IPA yeast and Canadian honey malt.
Tasting Notes:
For a double IPA, the nose is surprisingly fruity. There’s pineapple, grapefruit, orange peel, and a ton of dank, floral pine. Sipping it reveals lightly sweet malts, candied orange peel, grapefruit, and more pine. The finish is bitter and hoppy and leaves you wanting more.
Bottom Line:
This is a great example of a Double IPA done right. It’s bitter and piney and filled with citrus but has just enough sweet malt backbone to temper it.
This double IPA gets its unique name because the hops included contain a large amount of myrcene, one of the essential oils found in the hop flower that is known for its sweet, spicy aroma and flavor. The beer itself is known for its mix of tropical fruit flavor, light spicy, and piney hops.
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. There are aromas of grapefruit, caramelized pineapple, tangerine, and a ton of herbal, floral, pine. Drinking it brings forth notes of passionfruit, pineapple, tangerine, sweet malts, grapefruit, and bitter, piney hops. The finish is dry, resinous, and memorable.
Bottom Line:
This is a double IPA for fans of slightly spicy, fruity hops. It’s a complex, dry, bitter IPA you won’t soon forget.
With a name like DirtWolf, you better believe you’re in for a ferocious, hoppy IPA. Brewed with Pilsner and Pale Crystal malts as well as Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, and Chinook hops, it’s a dry-hopped citrus, and malt-filled favorite.
Tasting Notes:
The aromas are classic IPA. There’s a nice mix of caramel malts, citrus, grass, and floral, piney hops. The palate is centered on tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, sweet malts, light spices, and pine. The finish is a mix of malt sweetness and bitter pine.
Bottom Line:
This is a big, bold double IPA bursting with hop aroma and flavor. But it still manages to have a nice malt backbone to add a decent amount of sweetness to the lingering hop bitterness.
4) Firestone Walker Double Hopnosis
Firestone Walker
ABV: 8.3%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
To say that Firestone Walker Double Hopnosis is a complicated beer is an understatement. It’s brewed with 2-row malt, white wheat, and Munich malt, but that’s just the start of it. It’s kettle hopped with Callista, Simcoe, and Mosaic Cryo hops. It’s then dry-hopped with Mosaic Cryo, Chinook, Citra, Vic Secret, and Columbus/CTZ hops.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of honey malts, grapefruit, tangerine, lemongrass, and floral, piney hops greet you before your first sip. The palate is surprisingly balanced with a nice kick of caramel malts and honey as well as grapefruit, orange peel, grass, and dank pine. The finish is pleasantly bitter and filled with pine needles.
Bottom Line:
Caramel malt, floral, citrus, and dank pine, this beer has everything West Coast IPA fans crave. If you spot this brew in the wild, don’t hesitate to buy it.
If you’re a fan of New England-style IPAs, there’s a decent chance you’ve tried Fiddlehead IPA. If you haven’t tried the double IPA version, you’re really missing out. This citrus, pine, and tropical fruit-filled beer is “massively” dry-hopped with Simcoe hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find orange peels, pineapple, mangos, and resinous, herbal, floral hops. The palate is very tropical with pineapple, mango, tangerine, peach, caramel malt, and bright pine. The finish is a nice mix of tropical fruit sweetness and bitter, dank pine.
Bottom Line:
This is an IPA for New England-style IPA fans who want their beer to have a little extra. It’s bigger in every way. Alcohol, flavor, and aroma.
This award-winning, year-round favorite from Ohio’s Columbus Brewing is known for its mix of tropical fruits, citrus, and piney hops. It’s brewed with Citra, Azacca, and Idaho 7 hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a symphony of passionfruit, mango, guava, caramelized pineapple, citrus peels, and floral pine. The palate continues this trend with more mango, passionfruit, and pineapple, as well as grapefruit, bready malts, tangerine, and dank pine. The finish is dry with a lingering bitter bite.
Bottom Line:
This double IPA is difficult to beat. It ticks all the IPA boxes, and everything is in such unison that you don’t even realize it’s over 8% ABV.
This year-round, hazy, double IPA is brewed with Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, and Columbus hops. The result is a banger loaded with citrus, pine, and lupulin-laden aromas and flavors. It’s definitely a can’t-miss double IPA.
Tasting Notes:
There are a ton of fresh-squeezed aromas on this beer’s nose. Tangerine, grapefruit, and lemon are big. There are also scents of caramel malts and herbal, floral pine. One sip and you’ll be immersed in a world of grapefruit, tangerine, lemongrass, sweet, caramel malts, and a ton of resinous, dank, herbal pine. The finish is crisp, dry, and pleasantly bitter.
Bottom Line:
Another well-balanced IPA, this is one for citrus fans as it’s bursting with fresh-squeezed grapefruit, tangerine, and other breakfast juices. A true gem in a sea of double IPAs.
Last month, Illuminati Hotties returned with the dreamy song “Truck.” “If mortality is a jolting, jagged highway exit, then heaven is a truck as it rumbles through the unknown,” Sarah Tudzin, who also co-produced the forthcoming Speedy Ortiz album Rabbit Rabbit, said. “‘Truck’ is a gentle affirmation that the dream can change at no deficit of dignity. For Tim.”
The beloved indie rock act is back, this time with “Igyah Kah” for the pilot of Ahsoka, the new Star Wars series on Disney+. Tudzin told Pitchfork how it came about: “Star Wars composer Deana Kiner has been a friend and collaborator for years, and when she reached out about grabbing some vocals for a TOP SECRET Star Wars project she composed the score for, I was game! I was of course excited to help, but when I knew the cue was all about going full-gremlin mode, I knew I could crush it for her! Honored to be a part of such a special universe.”
“Igyah Kah” is reminiscent of 2020’s unhinged Free I.H: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For, emanating the anthemic punk atmosphere that energized that album. Hear it in a clip of the scene below, beginning around 1:20.
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.
What we have here is a spinoff of one show (Star Trek: Discovery) that was itself a prequel to another show (the original Star Trek), now in its second season. We are deep into the lore here. But that’s okay. It’s a fun little ride, good for both diehard fans of the franchise and newbies trying to dip their toes in a little. You could use a little galactic escape sometimes. We all can.
We are gloriously awash in Timothy Olyphant. Not only is Justified: City Primeval here, but he also plays an apparently hatless role in this crime drama series from Steven Soderbergh. Olyphant and Clare Danes portray the parents of a kidnapped child, so yes, this might not be the kind of “tense drama” that you’re craving, but the talent is stacked into the stratosphere. Zazie Beetz plays the lead investigator on the case, and naturally, do not expect a cut-and-dried story from Mr. Soderbergh. Yes, there are secrets afoot here.
They don’t make movies like They Cloned Tyrone anymore. Pulled from a Black List script from first-time director Juel Taylor, this slick, riotous crime caper is an amalgam of genres – one part mind-bending sci-fi, one part Blaxploitation homage, mixed with 70s era funk, infused with Nancy Drew references, and propped up by stellar comedic performances from Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris. John Boyega’s in here too, playing a reluctant hero tasked with saving his block from a secret government conspiracy that’s somehow twisted up in fried chicken recipes and grape drink offerings and hair relaxer. If we could have more of this, that’d be great.
The Afterparty was a ton of fun in its first season. It was a little whodunnit mystery with a cast full of your comedy favorites — Sam Richardson! Tiffany Haddish! Ben Schwartz! And so on! — and a fun hook where each episode focused on a different character and was presented using a different style of storytelling. Well, it’s back for a second season now, with a new murder and some new genres and a similar crew of characters. There is very little to complain about here.
Gal Gadot is following up Red Notice (which was the only movie that mattered at one moment) with a new yarn, in which she stars as Rachel Stone (yes, that’s right), who is an MI6 elite agent who happens to also be a secret member of a secret organization that none of her colleagues know about. Jamie Dornan plays the boss agent of Rachel, whose lives begin to collide, of course. This sounds like an action-filled-yet-glossy watch for when the movie schedule gets derailed by the ongoing strikes.
The story of Painkiller may seem familiar. It is, after all, a different way into the story told in the acclaimed Michael Keaton-starring Dopesick about the greed and devastation at the core of the opioid epidemic, but while the volume of the performances and tone may differ, this is, by the weight of its subject matter alone, a story worth re-experiencing. From the writers behind the Mister Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Painkiller stars Matthew Broderick as pharma CEO Richard Sackler, Uzo Aduba as a dogged government investigator, Taylor Kitsch as an oxy addict in spiral, and West Duchovny as a pharma salesperson/so-called “oxycontin kitten” and “drug dealer with a ponytail.”
The only thing that could make Vacation Friends – the wild, raunchy comedy about a pair of mismatched couples whose good times while on holiday follow them back home – better the second time around is Steve Buscemi and a baby. Somehow, Hulu got both. John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, and Meredith Hagner return for another tropical trip filled with job-threatening hijinks, silly disasters, and yes, more cocaine. But with Buscemi entering the mix as Kyla’s (Hagner) estranged dad fresh from prison and ready to ruin their fun and relaxation with guns, gangsters, and a bag of blow that ends up being Kyla’s mom’s ashes, the comedy gets dialed up a notch. If that’s even possible.
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.
The continuing saga of the Showtime-era of the NBA and the LA Lakers, well, continues, injecting a lot more Larry Bird into the mix while also seeing the impact of fame and failure on the principal characters of the era, inspiring strong performances from Jason Segel, Adrien Brody, Solomon Hughes, and Quincy Isaiah. Off-the-court and out of the trainer’s room, the complex family dynamic between the members of Buss family proves volatile, giving us Succession vibes. Damn, Succession in the mid-80s, what a dream. For now, though, Winning Time is a worthy substitute and more than worth your time.
11. You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (Netflix)
HULU
A coming-of-age comedy from the Sandman (Adam Sandler) and company, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah glimpses that time in life when everything is the most important thing that could ever happen with dire social consequences for every micro-embarrassment and misstep. A bat mitzvah (the religious right of passage for Jewish girls) absent Dua Lipa and a mojito bar? World ending. Your best friend moving in on your crush? Even worse. Sandler is in a clear supporting dad role (with Idina Menzel co-starring as his wife) while the kids take center stage, but this one feels like it can go on the shelf next to some of the more heartful films he’s produced.
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.
Body-swaps. Pride parades. Mall outings. The best comedy on TV is officially back, baby. WWDITS’ latest season introduces our favorite group of undead idiots to even more 21st century hijinks proving that this show – unlike its immortal characters – only gets better with age. Guillermo’s struggling with an identity crisis of supernatural proportions, Nadja’s been hexed, Colin Robinson is thriving in the service industry, and Nandor and Laszlo are knee-deep in a centuries-old feud. The house is in chaos, which is just how we like it.
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.
Whaddya know, Damian Lewis’ Bobby Axelrod is somehow back for one last *cough* job. Whether that job involves leaning deep into betrayal remains unknown for the moment, but expect alliances to fall and old wounds to fester. Enemies and friends find their lines blurred, and man, do enough people give Maggie Siff credit for being one of the most magnetic presences within any ensemble cast? I think not, but sure, Corey Still and Paul Giamatti are cool, too. Once this show takes the final lap, Showtime will somehow launch four spinoffs, and Maggie should appear in all of them.
Everyone’s favorite extralegal lawman is swaggering back into our hearts, long after he made it out of Harlan alive. Can he make it out of Detroit alive, too? We’ll see, and Raylan Givens’ daughter, Willa, is also onboard to give the hat a hard time because someone needs to do it. We’ve already pinpointed the one Justified episode, “Long In The Tooth,” that makes an ideal essential rewatch before this spinoff, and Raylan should have a swell time hunting bad guys in Motor City. At the top of his list: The so-called “Oklahoma Wildman,” portrayed by Boyd Holbrook and his tighty-whiteys.
Hey, remember Beanie Babies, those adorable and colorful collectible plush toys that looked so cute on a shelf while also sparking a fervor among collectors and investors? Of course, you do! You or someone you love probably had at least one. Remember the in-fighting and largesse behind the scenes? Eh, probably not, but luckily directors Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash Jr. are here to flip the nostalgia switch and illuminate the chaos in the process with this film starring Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, and Sarah Snook as Beanie Baby insiders.
Twisted Metal is one of the more unlikely video game-to-TV show adaptations, but the Peacock series has put together quite the crew for this post-apocalyptic joyride. The action-comedy stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, Mike Mitchell (of Doughboys fame), and wrestler Samoa Joe as Sweet Tooth (Will Arnett provides the voice of the evil clown). The Last of Us was great, but did it have a clown driving an ice cream truck? Exactly.
Heartstopper is really just a lovely little show. The first season introduced us all to Charlie and Nick, two teenage boys who became friends and then discovered that friendship might actually be… something… more than friendship. Season two takes things even further. It’s funny and sweet and charming and gay as all hell, which is… yeah, really just lovely.
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.
The thing about Reservation Dogs is that it is a good show. It has been for a few seasons now. And it still is in its third and final season, which is airing right now. Funny and heartfelt and everything you could possibly want out of a television show about some teens figuring stuff out. There’s a lot of weird stuff going on out there in the world. Some of it is kind of scary. Maybe you should chill out and watch Reservation Dogs. You could absolutely do much, much worse.
Patty Lin wrote for one season of the NBC sitcom. In her memoir End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood, she shared that the stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, “seemed unhappy to be chained to a tired old show when they could be branching out.” (Schwimmer couldn’t even blame the monkey.)
Lin accused the cast of “deliberately” sabotaging jokes. “They all knew how to get a laugh, but if they didn’t like a joke, they seemed to deliberately tank it, knowing we’d rewrite it. Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out just because one of them had mumbled the line through a mouthful of bacon,” she wrote. “Seeing themselves as guardians of their characters, they often argued that they would never do or say such-and-such. That was occasionally helpful, but overall, these sessions had a dire, aggressive quality that lacked all the levity you’d expect from the making of a sitcom.”
Lin also wrote about being the only person of color on the writing staff for Friends, a famously white show. “In all of my fears about the new job, I never predicted one of the challenges I would face was that the Friends writing staff was cliquey, more so than at any other show I would work on,” she said. “They reminded me of the preppy rich kids in my high school who shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch and drove brand-new convertibles.”
The Justified: City Primeval Roundup is a weekly recap feature where we take the various people, places, and things from the new limited series and score them on a scale from one to five cowboy hats. We play fast and loose with the rules here, similar to the way Raylan Givens handles an investigation. A real loose cannon situation over here.
EPISODE SEVEN — “THE SMOKING GUN”
UPROXX
Getting double-crossed
FX
Tough week for Raylan and murder weapons. He got his hands on the gun that killed Judge Guy and had a slew of great plans to either use it to get Mansell through legit means or trick him into putting his prints on it through various threats of gunplay at various airport bars, and everything went sideways on him thanks to various women in his life playing fast and loose on him. First, it was the redhead lady cop who went and tried to pin the whole thing on some poor PCP aficionado, either because she wanted an easy win or because she was in Judge Guy’s crime book or both. Then, it was Carolyn setting the Albanian mob on him during his big standoff with Mansell, all of which resulted in the gun getting dumped in a Detroit river, which, I mean, it’s rarely a good thing when you have to use the phrase “getting dumped in a Detroit river” to describe any part of your day.
The end result here is probably the one we were always headed toward anyway, the one where Raylan and Mansell end up staring each other down with pistols in hand and menace in their eyes, but I do have to give Raylan some credit for at least trying to do things the right way. Kind of. There is growth here, is my point, even if he is getting thwarted by all the women in his life.
Getting murdered by a man who is wearing your kimono
FX
Tough week for Del the High Roller, too, who walked into his apartment to the following things:
The boyfriend of the woman who had been playing him for a chump lounging around his home
Said boyfriend wearing his kimono over a pair of tighty-whities
Said boyfriend murdering him in said apartment while wearing said kimono
Really just bad times for Del.
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Carolyn
FX
We learned a lot about Carolyn this week, mostly tied to her relationship with Sweety, the closest thing to a father she ever knew, all of which we learned with flashbacks involving cussing children and boxing lessons and all kinds of neat little foundational information. It was fun. I think we like Carolyn. The problem is that she makes a lot of dicey decisions, between her associations with the underworld — Mansell, the Albanian mob, etc. — and little things like “sleeping with lawmen who are investigating and/or trying to frame one of her clients for some murders he very much did.” Lot going on with Carolyn.
Bad guys who eat milk and cookies
FX
There’s something so ominous about bad guys doing wholesome things like this. I’m still not entirely sold on Clement Mansell as a fitting Big Bad for this show — not entirely his fault, as every Raylan standoff gets shoved through a “Wouldn’t it be cooler if he were talking to Boyd Crowder?” filter, which is just a ridiculously unfair scale to judge any character on television — but I will say that if I come home later today and see someone helping themselves to milk and cookies at my dinner table, I will be very upset. Partially because of the creepiness of it all and partially because, like… those are my cookies. Please do not steal my cookies. Thank you.
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Raylan
FX
ON ONE HAND:
Not his most triumphant week for reasons laid out above involving disappearing murder weapons and every woman in Detroit playing him for a chump.
ON THE OTHER HAND:
There are not a lot of people capable of looking this cool in a denim jacket.
It’s nice to have him on my television. We should just start dropping him into other shows, too. Get him in an episode of … And Just Like That next.
Crooked Radisson waitresses
FX
I didn’t catch it right away but I did enjoy the Albanian mob dudes slipping her some cash on their way out. I’m just going to go ahead and pretend that all waitresses at all airport-adjacent bars are a little mobbed-up from now on. A fun little treat for me.
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Stanley Garlick
FX
Two notes here:
It’s kind of funny how like 90 percent of the action this season is tied to crooked judges with criminal ledgers that implicate most of Detroit but then also there’s this running subplot about a painting people just like a lot
I think I’m going to start dropping “it’s a Stanley Garlick” into conversations sometimes just to see if people catch on
Moving on.
The Albanian mob
FX
Kind of love these guys?
I don’t know.
It’s weird.
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Sandy
FX
ON ONE HAND:
Everyone she gets involved with ends up dead or mangled in a hospital room
ON THE OTHER HAND:
All she wants to do is get some money together and flee to the Caribbean, which is actually pretty relatable
I don’t know. I shouldn’t like her this much. I feel like even just typing this out is going to result in me getting heaved off of a balcony. But here we are.
Norbert the cop
FX
I already liked this guy on account of him sneaking the gun back to Raylan out of a weird sense of justice and honor, but then I did some googling and discovered the character is named Norbert Bryl and the actor who plays him is named Norbert Leo Butz. Now he is my favorite character on all of television. There are not enough Norberts these days. I have always said this.
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