When faced with difficulty, Ed Sheeran does what he does best — write songs. Grief is a recurring theme on Sheeran’s upcoming fifth studio album, – (aka Subtract). In tandem with the album, Sheeran will drop a new documentary on Disney+ called The Sum Of It All.
According to a report from Metro, Sheeran and his wife, consultant Cherry Seaborn, get candid in the documentary, particularly about Seaborn’s cancer diagnosis and how the two coped.
Last year, Seaborn was diagnosed with a tumor while she was expecting her and Sheeran’s second child. At the time, Seaborn would have to wait until after the baby was born in order to get the medical procedure she need.
“We had the diagnosis of the tumor and the next day, Ed went down into the basement and wrote seven songs in four hours,” said Seaborn.
She continued, saying, “Some people write a diary and get their emotions out through the pen and for Ed, if something really intense happens, he’ll go and write a song.”
The documentary will be available to stream on Disney+ this Wednesday, May 3, just two days before the arrival of -.
– is out 5/5 via Asylum/Atlantic. Find more information here.
Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Succession Report Card is a weekly recap feature where we attempt to assign grades to the important people, things, and themes from each episode of Succession. The grades are entirely subjective and the criteria for scoring will change from week to week and occasionally mid-week. Someone might get detention. It’ll probably be Roman.
SEASON 4, EPISODE 6 – “Living+”
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Roman
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Roman is:
Firing assorted high-ranking women at the company he just became co-CEO of, neither time with anyone from the legal department present, both for the grave sin of pointing out he might be in over his head a little bit, which is correct
Kind of melting down in the car over doctored videos of his father saying mean things about him that he actually believes on a deeper core level in a way that would take 600 therapists 500,000 years to begin to unpack
Not doing great professionally and personally, which you could have deduced from the first two bullets in this list
It has long been my position that Roman is the most human and sensitive of the Roy children, and maybe the most competent, but it’s always good to remember that this is a sliding scale.
GRADE: F
MUST IMPROVE: Decision making
Matsson
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It’s always hard to assign Matsson a grade in these, for a slew of reasons that range from “maybe he’s playing a long game” to “well, it’s not like anyone else is doing that great either.” He’s an enigma, this one, walking barefoot across tarmacs and FaceTiming people with his hair all mushy-mashy and just generally being maybe the weirdest dude on this show, which is really saying something.
That said, I do feel comfortable giving him an F this week, if only because you can be out there running around doing Nazi-adjacent tweets while you are trying to close a nine-figure business deal. Or, like, at all. No Nazi-adjacent tweets. That’s a pretty good policy to have for anyone.
GRADE: F
MUST IMPROVE: I think Matsson would be in a better place in a lot of ways if he had one person in his life with the power to just take his phone away from him for a little while.
Being dead, generally
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When I die (if I die, depending on the various advances set forth in Living+), please do not take video footage of me and alter it digitally to make me say all kinds of wild stuff. I feel like I should not have to say this, but you can’t be too careful, as Logan learned from beyond the grave this week.
GRADE: F
MUST IMPROVE: Being around to defend yourself
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Gerri
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Gerri may or may not be fired, depending on whether you think any of that business with Roman actually sticks. It was pretty mean (and accurate) to counter “it’s what my dad would have done” with “well, you’re not your dad” to a man whose entire life has been trying to balance those two issues between sending pictures of his privates to people he should not be sending pictures of himself to.
It’s also good to remember two things here: One, the Roy children are grieving, of course, but this is a weird time for everyone right now, including the people Logan worked with for decades, who may have, in many ways, been closer to the man than his own family; two, Gerri is going to get paid so much money if the firing is real, mostly on account of her, again, being in possession of unsolicited pictures of the penis belonging to the sad little boy who fired her. Gerri is going to be okay in any situation here.
GRADE: D
MUST IMPROVE: Remaining employed, if that’s something she really even wants
Living+
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This is… weird, right? Like a cross between nursing homes and cruises where a slew of celebrities are forced via contract to zoom around and greet you in between your appointments with privately-funded doctors who are trying to keep your broken corpse alive in defiance of the laws of nature and good sense? All helmed by a company that does news and a man who is in the middle of a public-facing manic episode after the death of his father? That seems weird.
Please imagine one of your parents calling you up and telling you they want to move to the Fox News island where various chemicals will help them live forever. That would not be a fun conversation.
GRADE: D
MUST IMPROVE: More like Living Minus
Joy from the studio
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Joy:
Pushed backed a little on the conglomerate she works for pushing a right-wing lunatic for president, which, even if you don’t have an issue with that from a political perspective, will make her job much harder, at least from a “wrangling various liberal celebrities in Los Angeles for various high-profile roles both on- and off-screen” perspective
Has to try to explain a god-awful robot movie to a bunch of idiot man-babies who just lost their father, who was also your boss
Is maybe fired?
Not great times for Joy.
GRADE: D+
MUST IMPROVE: I don’t know if she needs to improve on it because we haven’t seen much of it in action, but I do feel that Joy needs to start lawyering up in a pretty big way
Pete
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Poor Pete.
GRADE: D
MUST IMPROVE: I think “looking a little less like Jeff Van Gundy” is somehow insulting to both men here but not entirely inaccurate
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Shiv
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Shiv is:
Trying to play nice-nice with an eccentric billionaire who is maybe hitting on her in his own weirdo way and is definitely trying to drive a wedge between her and her doofus brothers
Failing at all of this pretty spectacularly
Scheduling time to cry alone in a conference room
Holding a lot of glasses with liquor in them for a woman who is pushing her fifth month of pregnancy
Please take a few minutes and picture Shiv and Tom raising a teenager, either together or via a custody arrangement.
GRADE: C
MUST IMPROVE: Shiv, more than any of the Roy children, would be in a much better place if she could just take the money from the sale and go try to do her own thing, which she will also fail at, but still
Tom
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Two important Tom Moments this week…
ONE: That game of Bitey with Shiv, a very nice and accurate metaphor for the thing where, even in the best of times, their relationship is built on a wobbly foundation of trying to hurt and one-up each other.
TWO: The little monologue about money and what it means to both of them, vis a vis their relationship and deep-seated personal issues. That might have been the most honest anyone on this television show, at least to each other, in person.
I go back and forth on Tom. Sometimes I want him to pull through all of this and come out of it more powerful than any of the Roy children. Other times I want to see him fall down a little flight of stairs in front of the whole company.
Also, I don’t believe it would be fun to hop on stage and attempt to follow “we are building a crime-free utopia where immortality is possible and maybe you get to meet Tom Cruise or someone. I don’t think I would like it, at least.
GRADE: C
MUST IMPROVE: Timing, security, a lot of stuff
Cousin Greg
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It was kind of cute in an awful way to watch him try to cosplay as an actual Roy and bully the editor into poorly dubbing Logan’s speech to juice up some numbers. Greg has no idea what he’s doing right now and is blowing around in the breeze like a kite a child lost to the skies and just desperately wants to ensure that he keeps getting money for whatever it is he does and keeps getting invited to fancy events where he can eat little finger foods.
I hate him so much now. I did not see this coming when the season started. Really just a lot to process for me.
GRADE: C
MUST IMPROVE: [deep, long sigh that rumbles the ground around me and makes my cup of coffee teeter toward the edge of my desk]
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Various Karls, Franks, and Karolinas
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I was so proud of Karl when he chewed out Kendall in the bowels of that arena. I could have watched it for an hour. I might watch it for an hour after this publishes. It’s easy to forget because we mostly see Karl doing yes-man things and being a good soldier but he is so much more experienced at dealing with any of this. He’s watching a lil cokehead run around trying to poke holes in his precious golden parachute and he’s not doing too great about it. I root for Karl, weirdly, even if everything he stands for lines pretty much against everything I stand for. It’s complicated.
GRADE: B
MUST IMPROVE: Squealing
Golf carts
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Notes of golf carts:
A great mode of transportation on a movie lot or any other large outdoor area where full-size cars are not practical
Maybe not the most powerful thing to get chauffeured around in, as we saw from Roman sitting on the back of one in an awkward position on his way to meet with Joy
One time as a teenager I got a golf cart stuck in a bunker, which I feel like I’ve mentioned before but is still worth noting here if only for the visual of someone — a teenage dipshit version of me or even a fully-grown version of Roman Roy — trying to figure out how to get a golf cart out of a bunker, with the wheels spinning furiously and digging deeper into the sand with each attempt.
I ended up having to call the grounds crew guys and have them literally lift the cart out of there with their big strong bare hands and carry it onto the grass, which was embarrassingly but also a pretty decent metaphor for what Roman is going to have to do going forward right now.
GRADE: B
MUST IMPROVE: I know it’s dangerous and not something I should be advocating for a few sentences removed from me telling you I got one stuck in a hole filled with sand one time, but I feel like golf carts should go faster
Nice things
HBO
Nice things are great but too many nice things can make you spoiled and soft. You need, like, a medium amount of nice thighs. Just enough to keep you honest. A nice amount of nice things. That would be nice.
GRADE: B+
MUST IMPROVE: You can always give me some of your nice things if you worry you have too many
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Kendall, somehow
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ON ONE HAND: He… crushed it? A little bit? Against odds that were truly staggering given who he is and everything we have seen him do over the course of three seasons and also the thing where he kept saying stuff like “go go rocket ship” and “to the moon” and all sorts of other space-type things that are extra funny when you remember Roman’s face when he watched that actual rocket ship explode on his photo way back in season one. I still haven’t decided if his presentation was “good” or if everyone was just impressed given the… let’s stick with “spaceship explosion” here… that everyone thought it was going to be, especially after his ping-ponging brain wanted a house and clouds on the stage in the last 30 seconds before showtime like he was doing a community theater production of Wizard of Oz. The whole thing was probably a C+ on its merits but an A+ given the circumstances. We can grade on a curve here.
ON THE OTHER HAND: He, uh… let’s do bullet points again…
Goosed the numbers in a pretty unreachable way
Used CGI to make his dad say the things he always wanted his dad to say, which is both unethical from a business sense and unhealthy from a personal one
Kind of promised immortality a little bit in the first public appearance he made as CEO, which… I mean, there’s setting the bar high and then there’s standing on a stage and shouting “WE ARE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER, DUDES”
But hey… good for him, mostly. The scene at the end was pretty powerful after all of this. There was the thing where he was floating face-up in the ocean after the thing where he was floating face-down in the pool last season, and even the larger thing where he was swimming out into the vast and powerful abyss to battle against the relentless pounding sea and then found peace bobbing up and down with the waves instead of fighting them, which feels a little on the nose as far as imagery goes but…
Yeah. Good for him, man. Kid needed a win.
GRADE: A
MUST IMPROVE: Maybe dial it down 25-30 percent here, guy
Jess Jordan
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The thing about Jess Jordan is that every time I see her on the screen I start wondering about what she’s up to when she’s not on the screen. I have joked about it before but I’m starting to really talk myself into the idea of this show doing a full-on Jess Jordan episode with one of its last four. Show me Jess Jordan meeting with publishers for a tell-all book. Or out at happy hour with friends from college doing the whole three-drinks gossip thing about work. Or on vacation at a ski lodge where we discover she is a champion snowboarder who just missed winning a bronze at the X-Games when she was in college. Or all three. I can be flexible here.
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Jack Harlow coming through with a surprise and Coi Leray confidently asserting herself. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Latto name-dropped Leray in a song recently, and while the latter rapper was initially upset about the reference to her body, she later admitted she may have blown the situation out of proportion. Her figure was back in focus last week on “My Body,” and Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes that on the track, “Leray takes ownership of her sexuality, paying no mind to what any sex shamers have to say.”
Rico Nasty — “Turn It Up”
Following 2022’s Las Ruinas, Rico Nasty has kept busy in 2023. She dropped “Turn It Up” last week and it’s an aggressive, in-your-face tune that oozes confidence (and comes with an entertaining video).
The National — “The Alcott” Feat. Taylor Swift
The overlap in the Venn diagram of the Taylor Swift and The National universes has expanded significantly over the past few years. Both Aaron Dessner and the band more broadly have collaborated with the pop star, and now Swift returns the favor on the latest from The National, “The Alcott.” The new track is a slow-burning duet on which Matt Berninger’s deeper voice and Swift’s lighter vocals are beautifully complementary.
Thundercat and Tame Impala — “No More Lies”
Thundercat popped up on Gorillaz’s single “Cracker Island” last year and now he’s back with a new collaboration. This time, he’s teamed up with Tame Impala on “No More Lies.” Predictably given who’s involved, it’s a properly psychedelic tune with a strong groove.
Beach House — “Become”
On last month’s Record Store Day, Beach House dropped Become, a vinyl-only EP featuring a handful of outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions. Fans without a turntable can now listen, too, as the band ended the project’s vinyl exclusivity and brought the project to streaming.
Labrinth and Zendaya — “The Feels”
Zendaya is very much acting-focused these days, but she got back in the music saddle last week. She linked up with Labrinth on “The Feels,” an entrancing and enveloping duet that’ll have fans wanting her to get back in the studio more often.
Lil Baby — “Go Hard”
Potential Kardashian kurse be damned, Lil Baby came through with some quality last week with “Go Hard.” Uproxx’s Aaron Williams analyzes, “The new track is vintage Lil Baby, with a string of breathless verses in which he insists he ‘Need a Nike deal how I’m runnin’ sh*t’ and that he’s ‘savin’ the ghetto,’ framed by yet another relentless hook asserting he’s ‘back goin’ hard again”'(a running theme in his music).”
Indigo De Souza — “All Of This Will End”
In a recent interview, De Souza told Uproxx about her new album All Of This Will End, “In some way the songs feel intense to me, but they also feel very confident and very certain and clear. I feel as I get older and older I get clearer and clearer in my mind. Because I have a lot of mental health issues, that is something that I’m very proud to say at this point, now I’m growing and getting a lot better. And I’m able to hear my thoughts and understand them and I have tools to navigate them in a way that I didn’t have before. And I think the music reflects that. It feels a lot less muddled to me and more straight and to the point.”
Lola Brooke — “Just Relax”
That bass line from Black Sheep’s 1991 favorite “The Choice Is Yours” never gets old, as Lola Brooke proved by sampling it on last week’s “Just Relax.” Brooks plays off the song’s original vocal rhythm with her verses and hooks, too, making her take a fun modernization of a classic.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
John Oliver took a brief diversion from his usual political fare to react to Matthew McConaughey entering the world of motivational speaking. Last week, the actor hosted a five-hour virtual seminar titled “The Art of Livin’” (no g’s on the end of verbs allowed) and, as advertised, the event was very “intimate” alright.
During the seminar, McConaughey described one of his dreams, and Oliver was not prepared for the places that he went as he played a clip for the Last Week Tonight audience.
In the clip, McConaughey shares a personal story: “In 1999, I’d just had a dream that I was floating down a river naked, wrapped up in anaconda sharks, piranhas and crocodiles. And lined along the ridge of the river, there were thousands of African tribesmen each holding a shield and a spear. And it wasn’t a nightmare. Actually, it was a wet dream.”
“Wow!” Oliver said. “What a twist at the end there.” Except Matthew McConaughey wasn’t finished and proceeded to make things even weirder and kinda racist.
“I know my dream might have contained some pretty dicey racial imagery there,” McConaughey said. “But would it help to know that at the end of it, I ejaculated.”
Oliver genuinely had no idea what to do with this information: “I’m not sure what lesson you’re supposed to learn from it other than if you try to do drugs with Matthew McConaughey, you will die,” he quipped.
This may come as a surprise but there are such things as [whispers] adult websites. I’m sorry if your monocole just popped out, but it’s true. It was certainly a surprise to marijuana zombie-inspector Marjorie Taylor Greene, who only learned about the online smut thanks to Hunter Biden. She, herself, would never dare to look at a naked body, unless it was a mural of Adam and Eve (or a “polyamorous tantric sex guru”) inside a CrossFit gym.
“Here’s what I found out this week,” she said at the Putnam County Republican Party’s Lincoln Reagan Dinner over the weekend, via Raw Story. “There is a website, you may or may not have heard about it, called Pornhub. It is a disgusting porn website. As a matter of fact, it should be illegal. I can’t even… I don’t even know why it exists.” Here comes the turn toward Hunter:
“But Hunter Biden used to have multiple accounts on this Pornhub pornography sex website.”
What’s your favorite “pornography sex website”? Mine’s probably Netflix.
She continued, “And these aren’t accounts where he can go watch pornography. These are accounts where he posted his sex videos like the ones that are on the Hunter Biden laptop. This week, I found out, you wanna know what? He still has an account on Pornhub where his videos are posted. It’s still live and active. This is the son of the president of the United States.”
Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in May. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, May 5
gvia 79.5 — 79.5 (Razor-N-Tape
gvia 7ebra — Bird Hour (PNKSLM Recordings
gvia Aime Simone — Oh Glory (Because Music
gvia The Album Leaf — Future Falling (Nettwerk
gvia Ana Popovic — Power (ArtisteXclusive Records
gvia Armani White — Road to CASABLANCO EP (Def Jam Recordings
gvia Artemis — In Real Time (Blue Note Records
gvia Atmosphere — So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously (Rhymesayers Entertainment
gvia Avishai Cohen and Abraham Rodriguez Jr. — Iroko (Blue Note Records
gvia BAILEN — Tired Hearts (Fantasy Records
gvia Bill Pritchard — Sings Poems By Patrick Woodcock (Tapete Records
gvia billy woods and Kenny Segal — Maps (Backwoodz Studioz
gvia The Bomboras — Songs From Beyond! (Zombie a Go-Go
gvia The Bollweevils — Essential (Red Scare Industries
gvia Claire Rosinkranz — Just Because (Republic Records
gvia The Connells — Set the Stage (TVT
gvia Conway the Machine — Won’t He Do It (Drumwork
gvia Dave Lombardo — Rites of Percussion (Ipecac Recordings
gvia David Wax Museum — You Must Change Your Life (Nine Mile Records
gvia Destroy Lonely — If Looks Could Kill (Interscope Opium
gvia Durand Jones — Wait Til I Get Over (Dead Oceans
gvia Ed Sheeran — – (Subtract) (Asylum/Atlantic
gvia Emily King — Special Occasion (ATO Records
gvia felicita — Spalarkle (PC Music
gvia Five Fingers of Funk — Portland Say It Again (Kill Rock Stars
gvia Flasher — In My Myth EP (Domino Records
gvia Freya Ridings — Blood Orange (Good Soldier Records
gvia Gaby Moreno — X Mí (Vol. 1) (Cosmica Artists
gvia Gord Downie and Bob Rock — Lustre Parfait (Arts & Crafts
gvia Greg Mendez — Greg Mendez (Forged Artifacts
gvia Guadalupe Plata — Guadalupe Plata (Second Storm Records
gvia IDK — F65 (Warner/Clue
gvia JELEEL! — REAL RAW! (10K Projects
gvia Jenny Owen Youngs — from the forest floor (Offair Records
gvia Jidenna — Me You & God (Wondaland Records
gvia The Jonas Brothers — The Album (Republic Records
gvia Justin Moore — Stray Dog (The Valory Music Co.
gvia LA Priest — False Luna (Domino
gvia The Lemon Twigs — Everything Harmony (Captured Tracks
gvia Mareux — Lovers From the Past (Revolution/Warner Records
gvia Megan Moroney — LUCKY (Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records
gvia Nanna — How to Start a Garden (Republic Records
gvia NxxxxxS — Short Term Agreement (Mad Decent
gvia OhGeesy — Geezyworld 2 (Atlantic
gvia Olivia Jean — Raving Ghost (Third Man Records
gvia Peter One — Come Back to Me (Verve Forecast
gvia Q — Soul,PRESENT (Columbia Records
gvia Rodney Crowell — The Chicago Sessions (New West Records
gvia Ryan Oakes — Wake Up (Position Music
gvia Sad Boys Club — Lullabies From The Lightning Tree (Blood Records
gvia SBTRKT — The Rat Road (XL
gvia The Smashing Pumpkins — ATUM — Act 3 (Napalm Records
gvia SQÜRL — Silver Haze (Sacred Bones
gvia Tom Meighan — The Reckoning (Destruct Records
gvia yMusic — YMUSIC (StorySound Records
gvia Westerman — An Inbuilt Fault (Partisan
gvia Winger — Seven (Frontiers Music Srl.
Friday, May 12
gvia The Acacia Strain — Failure Will Follow (Rise Records
gvia The Acacia Strain — Step Into the Light (Rise Records
gvia Alfie Firmin — Absentee (Bobo Integral
gvia Alison Goldfrapp — The Love Invention (Skint
gvia The Amity Affliction — Not Without My Ghosts (Pure Noise Records
gvia ARIZONA — ARIZONA (Atlantic
gvia Bailey Zimmerman — Religiously. The Album. (Elektra Records
gvia BC Camplight — The Last Rotation of Earth (Bella Union
gvia Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain Feat. Rakesh Chaurasia — As We Speak (Thirty Tigers
gvia Belinda Carlisle — Kismet EP (BMG
gvia Bohannons — Night Construction (Cornelius Chapel
gvia Bruce Cockburn — O Sun O Moon (True North Records
gvia Charlie Hall — Invisible Ink (El Triángulo Records
gvia Charlotte Cornfield — Could Have Done Anything (Double Double Whammy
gvia Chloe Gallardo — Defamator (Taxi Gauche Records
gvia Chuck Strangers — Boys & Girls EP (Lex Records
gvia The Courettes — Boom! Dynamite (An Introduction To The Fabulous Courettes) (Damaged Goods Records
gvia Dropkick Murphys — Okemah Rising (Dummy Luck Music
As USA Today reports, Adidas shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming they knew about the risks of working with West years before ending their professional relationship with him. The suit alleges that “Adidas was aware of Ye’s problematic behavior and failed to take precautionary measures to limit financial losses if the partnership were to end.”
A 2018 annual report apparently “ignored serious issues” regarding possible risk to share holders by “generally alluding” to the risks “rather than stating that the company had actually considered ending the partnership as a result of West’s personal behavior.”
In an email yesterday (April 30), Claudia Lange, vice president of external communication at Adidas, wrote, “We outright reject these unfounded claims and will take all necessary measures to vigorously defend ourselves against them.”
Worth noting is that West himself is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
May is somehow upon us, and if you need to hide inside and avoid allergies, TV is here for you. The world still awaits the conclusion of Succession and more of Mrs. Davis‘ badass nun, but the streaming services and cable networks will forge ahead with even more new offerings.
This translates into more from the Bridgerton, The Walking Dead, and Sons Of Anarchy universes. As well, a global pop star will give fans a glimpse into his world, and Pete Davidson will sort-of do the same because his life is an endless font of comedic inspiration. Absurdism will also be the name of the game from Tim Robinson’s return and a Watergate-based turn from Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux. Get ready to park your butt in front of your TV and streaming devices. Here are the must see shows for May 2023.
White House Plumbers: Limited Series (HBO series streaming on HBO Max 5/1)
The Veep guys bring us the Watergate story that you never knew that you’d enjoy watching. Justin Theroux delivers a knockout performance in this David Mandel-directed adaptation of Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh’s book, Integrity. In doing so, the team puts a satiric spin upon the experiences of Egil (played by Rich Sommer) during and after his time leading the Special Investigations Unit that was tasked with plugging information leaks. Yep, that’s where the “plumbers” comes from, and this show is fun and tragic but, fortunately, mostly fun.
Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All: Season 1 (Disney+ series streaming 5/3)
Ed Sheeran stars in his own documentary series that promises to be “searingly” candid while also shedding light on his musical inspirations. In doing so, Ed grants access to his private life while getting real about his own hardships, triumphs, and challenges. The global musical juggernaut will also learn of a life-altering development while the cameras roll.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix series streaming 5/4)
The corset-filled, 19th century soap opera returns for more of what Shondaland already delivered. The principal series will bring us third and fourth seasons, but for the time being, viewers can tuck into Charlotte’s origin story, on both historical and personal levels. Expect to see some familiar faces from the original show with younger Charlotte portrayed by India Amarteifio and Golda Rosheuvel as her present-day incarnation. Fingers crossed for a lot of Snorting Habit details, but the main thread will follow Charlotte’s arranged marriage to King George. She’s not thrilled at first, but the trailer suggests that she warms up to the idea.
Bupkis: Season 1 (Peacock series streaming 5/4)
Pete Davidson is once again mining his own life for comedic inspiration in this half-hour series that will present a wealth of guest stars within a fictionalized version of what it’s like to be Pete Davidson. For some reason, Sebastian Stan punches him, and I’m not sure what that’s all about, but this show promises to take both a grounded approach to storytelling while adding in elements of the absurd. The jury is still out on which category can count Pete’s pretend parents — Joe Pesci and Edie Falco — will belong to, but expect this to be bizarre.
Silo: Season 1 (Apple TV+ series streaming 5/5)
Justified creator Graham Yost helms this show that builds a 100+ story underground silo to house what remains of humanity. The story adapts Hugh Howey’s first book, Wool, in which the world has been left in desolation due after a toxic apocalypse. Rebecca Ferguson plays the engineer who keeps the joint running, but she’s beginning to have suspicions about the silo’s secrets. The series also stars Rashida Jones, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Common, Chinaza Uche, and Avi Nash.
The Great: Season 3 (Hulu series streaming 5/12)
God only knows how Elle Fanning’s Catherine the Great and Nicholas Hoult’s Emperor Peter III haven’t killed each other yet. Their arranged marriage has slid deeper into misery, but they must get their sh*t together to stay in power. History tells us that Catherine was Russia’s longest reigning female empress and that she overthrew her husband, but god only knows where this show will actually go. Conventional history went out the door a long time ago.
Fear the Walking Dead: Season 8 (AMC series streaming on AMC+ 5/14)
My gut feeling says this final season will set up the return of Rick Grimes because Morgan will head back Georgia, where he first met Rick in The Walking Dead‘s first season. This spinoff will soon conclude, not too long after it finally hit its stride with effective villains around Season 6. This final season begins with Morgan and Co. dealing with the rule of PADRE, and hopefully, loose ends shall be tied up before the franchise moves onto The Walking Dead: Dead City spinoff (which will premiere on Mother’s Day), along with shows revolving around Daryl Dixon in Paris and the Rick and Michonne reunion party.
The Family Stallone Season 1 (Paramount+ series streaming 5/17)
Sylvester Stallone climbed on the reality-show train, and it’s difficult to imagine ignoring this series. Sly will groom a kitty, perhaps? His wife, Jennifer Flavin, will appear alongside their three daughters, and it sure seems like the man who played Rocky Balboa is overpowered by all the feminine energy in the house. This should be an interesting watch and hopefully not as awkward as watching Ozzy rant about doggy poop in The Osbournes.
Platonic (Apple TV+ series streaming 5/24)
From the outside, you may think that you know where this series is going, but the show promises to be even more chaotic than you expect. Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen play old friends who reunite after people grow apart (as they do), and it soon grows apparent that he shakes up her little world. Fortunately, she does appear to be happily married, and her husband approves of (and, in fact, encourages) this rekindled friendship — at least, until the horse tranquilizers come into play. Happens.
Mayans M.C.: Season 5 (FX series premiering 5/24)
Things are not looking great for the club in Santo Padre. That much was evident when E.Z. Reyes turned into a power-hungry autocrat in the fourth season finale, and now, the Mayans are officially in full-out war against the Sons of Anarchy. Heck, I think that E.Z.’s fate was sealed when he killed Gabby, and we all know that Jax Teller met the Reaper when he lost his own humanity in much the same way. This won’t end well, and at this point, I’m simply holding out hope that Angel will get his nut farm, and hopefully, Danny Pino will step into the director’s seat again for this final season.
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 5/30)
The Emmy-winning leading man of this sketch comedy series is back with even more absurdist comedy sketches, will make his legions of fans throw all the memes onto Twitter for years to come. If Twitter lasts that long, that is. If you haven’t taken a gander at this series yet, do consider it if you’re fan of Nathan Fielder’s painfully awkward brand of humor. This show’s variety of chaos isn’t for everyone, but the people who love it… really love it.
On April 1, a Yellowstone ruckus surfaced after angry fans lashed out due to spending $100+ on Paleyfest tickets, only to have none of the advertised parties attend the Los Angeles event. Taylor Sheridan, Kevin Costner, Wes Bentley, and Kelly Reilly were all listed on the event’s website to be in attendance, and then at the last minute, both journalists and fans found out that they actually weren’t going to be attending (as reported by Variety) “due to scheduling conflicts.”
No one knew who was to blame for the mishap or crossed wires, but fans were understandably steamed and demanding refunds, and some of them traveled great distances as well. It also didn’t help matters that the show had already been subject to rumors of a rift between Sheridan and Costner, along with reports that Costner could be departing the franchise. Additionally, no updates have surfaced this far on filming for the back half of Season 5, which hadn’t started as of April 1 (this was confirmed by the attending Paleyfest panel), but now, one star has spoken out about why she didn’t attend.
On Instagram (you can see the post here), Kelly Reilly (who portrays one half of Beth and Rip, a favorite couple of Jennifer Lopez) shared a photo of herself and Succession star Brian Cox, her “legend” co-star for Little Wing, a film for Paramount+. In response to a questions on her April 1 whereabouts, Reilly wrote, “I was filming in the UK at the time, and let them know in January I wouldn’t be able to attend. I was sorry to hear my name was still on the list of attendees, as it is unfair to our fans.”
In response, the fan claimed to have spoken “to Paleys 2 days ago, and they said they were blindsided at the very last minute.” As well, the fan revealed that they’d spent a lot more than $100 for this event: “I had paid $1000 for a membership so that I could join the cast at the reception afterwards,” but at least they were able to secure a refund.
Alls well that ends well for this fan, although most parties have been oddly quiet on this matter. Perhaps we’ll hear more down the line from Costner or Sheridan (the continued silence has not quelled the aforementioned rumors of drama between them), but for now, at least one absence has been explained.
This past weekend marked the 10-year anniversary of Chance The Rapper‘s second mixtape, Acid Rap. The mixtape marked a breakthrough for Chance and is often attributed to pioneering a brand of Midwest hip-hop that is still influential today.
2013 was a fruitful year for hip-hop, but Acid Rap was unlike anything else from that year. In a recent interview with Complex, Chance compared the album to Drake’s Nothing Was The Same, Kanye West’s Yeezus, J. Cole’s Born Sinner, and Mac Miller’s Watching Movies With The Sound Off, all of which were also released in 2013.
“In terms of rap, like, there was not another album that had a song like ‘Chain Smoker’ on it or another album that had a song like ‘Everybody’s Something’ on it,” Chance said. “It was its own thing.”
He continued, saying that the mixtape’s style and sound still hold up today, even among some of the newer artists.
“I think it’s the blueprint for that Midwest sound that you still hear to this day,” Chance said. “I think you’d be hard-pressed to find somebody that’s a year or two younger than me that wasn’t influenced by Acid Rap, even if they weren’t from the Midwest. Jack Harlow, Uzi Vert. People that are from opposite coasts and from other places still tell me, like, what the album meant to them at that time.”
Jack Harlow and Lil Uzi Vert are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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