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Succession returned with a bang last night — or at least a rummage in the pants. We’ll have a full recap later today, but for now, let’s talk about the Disgusting Brothers. It’s Tom and Greg‘s nicknames for themselves, now that Tom is separated from Shiv (poor Mondale) and Greg is New York City’s most eligible California Pizza Kitchen-loving bachelor.

Greg brings his suspicious date — the owner of a “ludicrously capacious” handbag — to Logan’s birthday party, even though “we’re in the middle of a very hotly contested election, your uncle’s on the brink of a very large sale, and scoping out a very sensitive acquisition,” as Kerry scolds him.

It’s a birthday party, not a “pre-fuck party,” but Greg and Bridget Random-F*ck sneak away to put their hands down each’s other pants. After rummaging to fruition, Greg proudly goes up to his fellow Disgusting Bro, the least sexy name for a sex pact since the Pussy Posse, to tell him all about it. An aghast Tom informs (f*cks with) Greg that he accidentally made a sex tape for Logan, who has cameras “up the wazoo,” and that he needs to confess what happened.

“So how did it go?” Tom asks later in the episode. “He says he finds me disgusting and despicable,” Greg recaps about Logan’s reaction, “but he kind of smiled.” Another victory (?) for the Disgusting Brothers.

“Season four is big for Greg, I would say in that department,” Nicholas Braun told Deadline when asked what to expect from the Beautiful Ichabod Crane Fuck in the final season. “Greg is tested and Greg puts himself forward as a different kind of guy at times this season and he’s more bold than we’ve ever seen him, and strategic. I mean, he’s always been a guy who’s tried to play whatever sides are available to him and he really leans into that this season.”

(Via Deadline)

Who among us (Succession viewers, that is) hasn’t seen (although we may not have wanted to acknowledge it) the split of Shiv and Tom coming? That’s been the case for me since this ^^ Season 2 beach discussion, in which Tom divulged the miserable state of their marriage for him. Heck, I probably should have seen the writing on the wall even before their marriage, or at the latest, upon their vows, when Shiv proposed an open marriage to a less-than-enthused Tom (and that blow stuck with him). Yet the final nails didn’t begin to land in the coffin until the Season 3 finale with Tom’s betrayal of Shiv.

And there is no reconciliation is to be had. The way I see it is this: as with most things involving Shiv, this relationship had always been about how it benefits Shiv, and once it ceased to satisfy that goal, she was pretty much out other than formalities. For sure, the Naomi Pierce and Disgusting Brothers stuff did not help matters. Yet at the end of it all, Tom still wanted to have a real discussion, and some actual emotion from her, but Shiv wouldn’t (and maybe even couldn’t) indulge that desire. She also seemed to expect Tom to keep pushing for her, yet finally, Tom had had enough as well.

The scene where Tom and Shiv held hands and declared that they “gave it a go” may have been too much for some viewers, who still couldn’t help being sad to see this coupling (finally) end.

Will we see Single Shiv hit the dating pool now? I feel like she’s got too much else going on to deal with dating, but I could be wrong!

HBO’s Succession airs on Sunday nights.

Grimes and Elon Musk have a couple of children together, and both of them have atypical names. Their son is called X AE A-XII Musk and their daughter is Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. It appears now, though, that Exa may actually have a different name.

On March 23, Grimes shared a pair of photos on Twitter: One of Exa with green hair in a red onesie, and another of Grimes rocking a similar look. In a follow-up tweet, Grimes added, “(Normally we post her for her privacy but she’s fairly unrecognizable here since shes channeling Goku or smthn).”

In response to a fan tweet, Grimes noted, “She’s Y now, or ‘Why?’ or just ‘?’ (But the government won’t recognize that). curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such.”

When the baby was revealed back in 2022, Grimes had already been calling her “Y” as a nickname, but based on her new tweet, it appears she and Musk have made “Y” the baby’s legal name. A Vanity Fair profile at the time noted, “Grimes is prepared for Y to dislike her name or get tired of it — Grimes got tired of Claire a long time ago — and if she ever decides to change it, her mother will be first in line to help her choose a new one. She’s already got dozens of ideas. She might even change it herself before this article comes out. In addition to Y, she and Musk occasionally call her Sailor Mars, a nod to the Sailor Moon manga series.”

Yellowjackets has returned to Showtime for Season 2, which is even darker than the first round of episodes. That includes picking back up with Tawny Cypress‘ character, Taissa, who should be properly celebrating her political victory during this second season premiere. As with everything else on this show, however, there are wrinkles to be had, and those complicating factors have to do with the occult happenings that could have been lurking in the woods and sticking with the crash survivors for life.

Lottie, obviously, embraced her so-called “Antler Queen” status, and in this premiere, we find out that she’s been leading a cult. Taissa’s situation, on the other hand, is a bit more nebulous, and she begins the premiere in a discombobulated place for a few reasons. For one thing, the core four recently attended their high school reunion after the dismantling of Shauna’s lover’s body. For another, the audience learned that Taissa has a shrine, complete with the head of the family dog. Granted, we’re not totally sure if Taissa realizes everything that she does, but she did go shopping for a new dog, which she then showed off like it was no big thing. Will this new dog meet the same fate as the last one?

This question had viewers feeling apprehensive as hell: “TAISSA GET AWAY FROM THAT DOG SGSKDHDKDHJ” was only the beginning.

Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ airs on Sunday nights.

Drake’s international Lollapalooza sets aren’t going so well. Earlier this month, he cut his Lollapalooza Argentina set short, and this past weekend, he didn’t show up to his Lollapalooza Brasil performance at all.

On the morning of Sunday, March 26 (the day Drake was supposed to perform), a message shared on social media by Lollapalooza Brasil read (as translated via Google Translate), “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Drake is without members of his sound and production team, essential to the realization of the Lollapalooza show in São Paulo. Drake was excited to perform for his fans in Brazil. Unfortunately, this is beyond his control. Sorry.”

The festival tapped Skrillex to headline in Drake’s place and offered refunds if festivalgoers chose not to attend the final day. CNN Brasil notes that Willow, Dominic Fike, Blink-182, Omar Apollo, and 100 Gecs also pulled out of this year’s festival.

Per another CNN Brasil report, a video shared on social media shows Drake at a 50 Cent-led event at Miami’s Booby Trap On The River strip club, happily chatting with 50. This apparently happened hours before Drake canceled on Lollapalooza Brasil; The 50 Cent event was on Saturday night and the festival announced Drake would no longer be performing on Sunday morning. Some on social media also noticed that the jet Drake was set to take to Brazil deviated from its planned route before landing in Miami.

It’s not currently known if Drake’s presence at the party led to his Lolla cancellation, or if he decided to attend the event after it had already been determined he would not be able to perform at the festival.

The wildest show on TV is back.

The second season of Yellowjackets ramps up the mysticism and mystery as it follows the dual timelines of a team of high school soccer stars who accidentally crash-land in the Canadian wilderness. In this next installment, the unforgiving winter means resources are scarce and tensions are high, pushing the teens to resort to drastic measures with consequences that haunt their future selves.

There’s something for everyone in season two. Murder. Starvation. Kidnappings. Hallucinations. Weird Symbols. And New Age cults styled in bohemian rags practicing the kind of forest rituals that would leave a Goop writer salivating. But we’re keeping track of it all in a way that feels fitting given the nature of the unhinged players in this dark and twisted survival game.

Welcome to our Yellowjackets Sting Meter. We’ll measure the erratic, unexplainable behavior of the show’s main lineup, ranking them according to how dangerous, deadly, and certifiably insane they appear in each episode. Who’s just a whacky worker bee and who gets crowned Mad Queen of episode one’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”? Let’s find out.

Queen Bee – Lottie Matthews

As far as cult leaders go, Lottie Matthews has certainly earned the right to be worshipped at the altar of her own making. At the end of season one, she brought down a wild bear with just a switchblade and a bit of spunk, sacrificing the animal’s heart to a lone stump in the woods and naming herself the conduit between this sentient wilderness and the group of hungry, terrified teenagers trapped in the thick of it. Scoring a shed’s-worth of meat for your hormonal peers means they’re more willing to drink your bloody herbal teas and trust your psychic premonitions — but Lottie’s no one-trick-pony.

In the present, she’s found a way to mold the minds of the weak and suffering without the aid of starvation. She’s had her brain fried thanks to a years-long stay at a Swedish institution, and she’s emerged from her insanity cocoon as a backwoods self-help guru in flowing kimonos with a blowout to match. She’s having visions, hearing voices, and forcing grown men to expose their flaccid penises while being buried alive by disciples donning animal masks. She is an icon. She is the moment. She is … absolutely f*cking terrifying.

Van

Van is the kind of ride-or-die who happily camps out in a haunted attic and suffers nightly rope burns and lip munchings to keep her partner from wandering the woods in a sleepwalking haze. Get you a girlfriend like Van.

Coach Ben

Yes, Coach Ben is technically the only “adult” in this situation and he should be taking a more active role in leading the girls away from occult sacrifices and cannibalistic ideation. But he’s tired. He just lost a leg. Let him make his little maps and sleep on his rusty cot and dream about the gay life he could’ve led, okay?

Travis

Travis is just a teenage boy and as such, he will never reach Queen Bee status. In fact, I’d be surprised if he graduates to two stings over the course of this season. His panic attacks and hunting prowess make him a liability, but not a threat. Yet. If he insists on having these delusional hallucinations of his (most likely dead) brother Javi though, we’ll have to re-evaluate.

Misty

Teen Misty is still paying her dues for that whole shroom-poisoning-orgy debacle last season so as annoying as her culinary input is at the moment — of course the stew needs more herb girl! It could also use more meat if Shauna would just wrap up her kiki with that human popsicle — she’s fairly tame in this episode. Her adult counterpart is slightly more unhinged — who sends guests home with a plastic container of punch? — and her cookie decorating skills leave something to be desired. But, you know how it goes. Misty’s gonna Misty.

Jeff

Jeff just had to help his wife destroy an apartment full of her nudes painted by her dead ex-lover. Let Jeff get sweaty raging out to Papa Roach in his minivan and accidentally set a tiny tree or two on fire, okay? The world’s burning anyway.

Nat

Nat’s a good person with a solid head on her shoulders who’s being peer pressured into drinking blood and giving her boyfriend false hope that his missing brother isn’t buried under feet of snow. She’s also a recovering addict who recently attempted suicide and is now a hostage of Lottie’s cult. I’d say an errant fork lodged in the meaty bit of her captor’s hand is the least violent thing she could’ve done but blood was spilled so fine … two stings for Nat.

Taissa

Taissa’s sleepwalking episodes are getting dangerous and deadlier — in the past and in the present. Her dead-eyed alter-ego is taking out her night terrors on poor Van in the past while Tai refuses to seek help from Lottie in her waking hours. In the present, she’s slowly cracking under the pressure of an impending divorce and her recent election win. She’s beheaded one dog and adopted another – someone rescue Steve before it’s too late! — and her estranged wife is threatening to go to the press about it all. This woman needs the number of a good therapist, stat.

Shauna

It’s always a joy to watch Melanie Lynskey go completely off the rails but, while adult Shauna has a comedically hard time prepping for a police interrogation and scrubbing any trace of herself from her dismembered paramour’s art studio, it’s Sophie Nelisse who gets to chow down on the scenery — and a wayward ear — this episode. Shauna’s gone full Norman Bates, playing MASH with her dead friend’s frozen corpse and pocketing the bits of her that break off when an imaginary argument gets a little too heated. Eventually, she decides to snack on that lonely appendage and it’s hard to tell whether she dipped her toe into the depth of cannibalism because she misses her best friend or, you know, pregnancy cravings.

Citizen Detectives Thread

• Is it just us or does the weird symbol in the woods look a bit like the scar on Van’s face?
• Why didn’t Simone confront Tai about the family dog sacrifice before the fiasco in the school pickup line?
• How did Lottie know where to find Nat? More importantly, how did she know when to find her?
• What’s the significance of the burial therapy experiment that Lottie’s cult performs?
• Why didn’t Shauna laugh at Jeff’s nugget factory joke? It was funny.

By and large, the ladies of Yellowjackets are a fierce bunch. That’s only to be expected, given everything that they went through in the woods. And well, things are a lot less fierce for one character who didn’t endure that plane crash. That would be Jeff (Warren Cole), the husband to Shauna (Melanie Lynskey). Jeff recently found out that Shauna cheated on him, and due to complications, that lover is now dead. Shauna and three of her teammates got rid of the body during the first season finale, and now, the show embarks upon the second season premiere, and Jeff is not doing totally great.

During the course of this episode, Jeff and Shauna make a trip to the studio of her lover, who practically plastered the place with sensual portraits of her. They set about destroying that evidence, and after Shauna confesses her fantasies about Jeff cheating on her, they get it on in the studio. It’s intense. It’s probably humiliating for Jeff, too. He’s got a lot going on inside, and that’s what brings us to the perfect song selected for Jeff’s post-coital mindset.

That would be “Last Resort” by Papa Roach. You know the tune, no doubt.

“Cut my life into pieces / This is my last resort.”

Yes, it’s the “Driving Off Listening To Papa Roach” song once written about at length by our own Vince Mancini, who reminded the world of the spoofed “news” about ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan. Vince also detailed a similar situation to what Jeff is going through with these results:

Perhaps the “Last Resort” joke, at least in driving-off-listening-to-it form, sounds like a cuck’s lament precisely because it came from a cuckoldry story. How about that for cosmic symmetry? Cuck my life into pieces…

Where poor, cucked Jeff is concerned, he actually chose this tune. It made for a virtual record-scratch of an interlude, and he got his frustrations out while rocking out. Furiously so. He even got all “sweaty,” and this left people “snorting” and “screaming” on Twitter. One even wrote, “NOT LAST RESORT IM FUCKIGNSCRWAMINGGGJRJ.” A meme is reborn:

Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ airs on Sunday nights.

The Final Four will have a distinctly South Florida flair this year, as a day after Florida Atlantic punched its ticket to Houston by beating Kansas State in a thriller, the Miami Hurricanes did the same in a rather stunning comeback win over 2-seed Texas.

Texas took control of the game late in the first half, extending their lead to eight at the break, and quickly pushed that out to 13 early in the second half. The Longhorns were lighting it up from the three-point line, while Miami couldn’t buy one from distance, but as the second half wore on, Texas’ hot shooting started to dry up and the Hurricanes started to absolutely dominate getting downhill, steadily chipping away at the lead.

Jordan Miller was the unquestioned star for the Hurricanes on Sunday evening, scoring 27 points on perfect shooting — 7-of-7 from the field and 13-of-13 from the free throw line — as he took over offensively, with Texas having no answers for him when he attacked, with or without the ball.

Miami would take their first lead of the second half with 5:26 to play on a lob to Norchad Omier, who converted the and-1 opportunity to put Miami up 73-72.

From there, the two teams would trade blows, with Marcus Carr doing his best to keep the Longhorns close as he led Texas with 17 points on the evening.

Unfortunately for Texas, their offense would go cold at the wrong time, scoring just two points in the final 1:31 of the game as Miami pulled away at the free throw line where they made eight consecutive free throws (and 9 of 10) in the final minute of the game to earn their first trip to the Final Four in school history with an 88-81 win.

For Jim Larranaga, it’s his second stunning run to the Final Four, as he punches his ticket with the Hurricanes 17 years to the day after his George Mason squad likewise won their Elite Eight game in 2006 on their legendary Final Four run. Miami will meet UConn in the late game of Saturday’s national semifinal doubleheader, tipping off at 8:49 p.m. ET, pending how long FAU-San Diego State goes in the early game, which tips at 6:09 p.m. ET in Houston, with both games on CBS.

Miley Cyrus may be celebrating her endless summer vacation, but Waukesha elementary students aren’t even looking forward to their spring concert. After the student began rehearsals for their annual spring concert, parents were shocked to learn that despite the school approving the song list for the event, the Waukesha County school board has issued a banned on a few songs from the program. Unfortunately, one of those songs banned was Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton’s song “Rainbowland.”

The Wisconsin administrators stated that the duet “could be perceived as controversial.” Initially released in 2017 via Cyrus’ Younger Now album, the track’s lyrics, like the stanza, “Where we’re free to be exactly who we are / Let’s all dig down deep inside / Brush the judgment and fear aside / Make wrong things right /And end the fight,” is about love and acceptance.

However, the Waukesha County school board didn’t feel comfortable including the piece in one of their elementary school’s spring concerts.

Social media users fired off, stating that the administrators’ actions were the exact reason why a song like “Rainbowland” should be included in the program.

Across the country, similar bans have been placed, including Florida’s erasure of African-American studies and Tennessee’s drag ban.

Watch the full newscast below.

LeBron James made his return to the Lakers on Sunday in a 118-108 loss to the Bulls in Los Angeles and will have two full days to recover before they play the Bulls again in Chicago on Wednesday.

With the Lakers fighting for a play-in berth, now in ninth a half-game behind Minnesota and New Orleans, each of their last seven games will be critical. After missing a month due to his foot injury, James’ return is a welcome addition for their postseason push, but Sunday proved his presence alone won’t guarantee them wins down the stretch. As for how close the Lakers came to losing their star for the season, James explained after Sunday’s loss that multiple doctors advised him to have surgery to repair what he says was a torn tendon in his foot — he was listed out with a right foot tendon injury.

How did he avoid surgery? Apparently he found a doctor he calls “the LeBron James of feet” who advised him he could recover without surgery with the right rehab plan.

It’s an incredible soundbite from James, and also one that naturally led to an awful lot of replies to the video either wondering why he sought out the second-best foot doctor or why he didn’t find the Michael Jordan of feet. In any case, James has managed to battle through what was apparently a much more serious issue than even the Lakers had initially let on. The question, of course, is how much that will continue to linger and what impact that will have on James and the Lakers in their quest for the playoffs — particularly as they embark on a five-game road trip where he’ll have to recover after games away from home.