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Bob Saget died one year ago today. On the anniversary of his passing, the Full House star’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, tweeted at Twitter CEO Elon Musk with a request. “Hi @elonmusk — today on the 1 year anniversary of Bob’s (@bobsaget) passing, I saw he’s no longer verified? My husband truly loved Twitter. Out of respect for his legacy, can something be done? Thank you kindly (friends, please help),” she wrote.

In a follow up, Rizzo added, “And the only reason I’m addressing this at all is because I know Bob would be very bummed about this. He’d say “hey, if someone goes to see my page and all the jokes I’ve tweeted over the years, how will they know it’s for sure me!?”

It’s not only Saget’s jokes that need to be verified. It’s his love of Fetty Wap.

And Rihanna.

And Yo Gotti.

“6 months without my best friend, my travel buddy, my loving husband. 6 months without your silliness, laughter, music, cuteness, caretaking, sharp wit, thoughtfulness, cuddling, and warmth,” Rizzo wrote on the six-month anniversary of Saget’s passing. “But it’s also been 6 months of looking for silver linings, learning how to brave the world without you, 6 months of care and compassion from so many who love you, 6 months of getting even closer to your magical daughters and trying to all be strong together.”

After an entire week of voting that lasted late into Friday night and almost resulted in a fist fight on the House floor, Kevin McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker of the House in a fraught process that could fall apart any moment thanks to the large number of concessions he made it to Matt Gaetz and a handful of Republican holdouts. However, one of those holdouts was not Marjorie Taylor Greene who continued to back McCarthy throughout the entire process and is now facing fire from the more fringe elements of the GOP that, normally, she’d be in lockstep with.

Case in point, Greene appeared on Charlie Kirk’s show on Monday where she defended her vote for McCarthy, but also made it a point that she was doing exactly what Donald Trump told her to do, so everyone should maybe back off.

Via Raw Story:

“I just also need to remind everyone, while people are mad at me, President Trump endorsed and supported Kevin McCarthy,” Greene said. “Jim Jordan endorsed, supported, voted for and nominated Kevin McCarthy.”

“So, people that are overly mad at me, I shouldn’t be your punching bag,” she added. “Be very clear-eyed about what this is and I’ll continue to prove exactly who I am through my actions and not my words and emails, social media posts and interviews on television.”

In Greene’s defense (from the crazies who don’t think she’s crazy enough), she’s already embroiled in another controversy. The congresswoman posted a video of herself triumphantly walking around Congress as “Still D.R.E.” plays in the background. “It’s time to begin… and they can’t stop what’s coming,” Greene captioned the video.

There’s just one small problem. She never cleared the song’s use with Dr. Dre who wanted nothing to do with her.

“I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,” Dre told TMZ. Shortly after, the video was pulled from Twitter for a copyright violation. That’s the ol’ Marj we know and love.

(Via Raw Story)

Following the recent controversy of throwing a fan’s phone, Bad Bunny appears to be taking a step back. Today (January 9), the Puerto Rican superstar shared the cryptic message: “You’re going to miss me.”

Bad Bunny started off 2023 in a storm of controversy. Last week, a video went viral of the singer tossing a fan’s phone after they were in his face trying to take selfies with him. Bad Bunny responded to the backlash from the incident by calling the fan’s behavior “a lack of respect.”

Now Bad Bunny’s actions on social media appear to be hinting at taking a break. He set his Instagram account that boasts over 44.9 million followers to private. Over on Twitter, Bad Bunny deleted his statement about tossing the fan’s phone. He changed his bio to read: “Me van a extrañar,” which translates to “You’re going to miss me” in English. Bad Bunny also changed his profile photo on Twitter to a picture of Bart Simpson.

After his record-breaking year thanks to the success of his Un Verano Sin Ti album, Bad Bunny previously said that he would be taking a break in 2023. Maybe the mysterious moves on social media could be leading up to the announcement of his rumored headlining spot at Coachella this year. Hits Daily Double released a report that named Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean as headliners for the upcoming festival.

Vladimir Putin recently (and finally) admitted that he’s failed to provide vital supplies, including ammo and medical gear, to his troops. He made this sheepish statement at about the same time that he handed out fancy “rings of power” to his remaining allies. No matter what image that he’d like to project, however, it’s clear that his plan of invading Ukraine wasn’t well planned out at all. The war’s been ongoing for nearly a year with enormous loss of life for Russia and replacement soldiers being not so easy to recruit and train in an effective manner.

In fact, Putin called up 300,000 more troops after Russia struggled to woo volunteer replacements. Fast forward a few more months, and it seems like that wasn’t enough sacrifice for the autocrat. As Business Insider relays by way of a German news site, it sure sounds like Putin’s feeling desperate enough to begin a new (and larger) draft:

Speaking to the German news site T-Online, Andriy Chernyak, a Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service representative, said that they believe the mobilization will be announced on January 15, after the Orthodox Christian Christmas.

Chernyak estimated 500,000 people would be mobilized, with those living in cities such as Moscow and St Petersburg to be most impacted.

This, of course, not only would add up to half a million soldiers but also half a million families whose lives would be irreparably disrupted, not to mention the business-related fallout. Putin is still in it to win it, and reports have already indicated that he fears for his very life (and continued autocratic rule), should Russia continue to spiral toward full loss in Ukraine. It’s no wonder that reports have also indicated that he’s hatched a plan to flee Russia if his imperialistic war continues to go downhill.

(Via Business Insider)

The theme of 2023 seems to be “women dancing in pink in order to rebel against societal expectations” and so far, things are looking up! The latest girl-power moment will be Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies, a new series on Paramount+.

Rise Of The Pink Ladies will follow the “original girl gang” aka The Pink Ladies at Rydell High, made famous in the hit john Travolta musical Grease. The series is expected to show how the notorious Pink Ladies began their reign in a 1950s high school when everyone was all about hair combs, skin-tight leather pants, and hanging out in an automotive shop and fixing cars at the ripe age of 16. This was the fifties, after all.

The series will be led by Marisa Davila as Jane, the leader of the group, who just wants everyone to feel included and wear a snazzy pink jacket. She is joined by Shanel Bailey as Hazel, Madison Thompson as Susan, Johnathan Nieves as Richie, Jason Schmidt as Buddy, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Wally, and Jackie Hoffman as Asst. Principal McGee. The show will also feature 31 (!!) original songs for all of your karaoke needs.

Davila recently told Entertainment Weekly that despite being a prequel of an existing universe, the cast is well aware of how much pressure there is to please all of those diehard Grease fans (they exist, they’re just old) while also shuffling in a new, young audience. “It’s a really big responsibility bringing something this iconic back,” says Davila. “Getting to be in the same colorful universe was the way we connected to them and honoring what they were able to do.”

Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies will begin streaming on Paramount+ on April 6th.

Wiz Khalifa claimed during a recent trip to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that he learned Michael Phelps has “better lungs than Aquaman” after smoking with the all-time Olympic great. Could Wiz beat Phelps in a swimming race? Most likely not. But we have proof that he can at least handle his nine-year-old son, Sebastian, in basketball.

A video shared by HipHopDX shows Wiz, who reportedly stands at at least 6’2″, easily scoring on Sebastian and another one boy. At one point, one of the boys complains, “You’re cherrypicking!” But Wiz isn’t here for the excuses.

Wiz gave fans a window into his training methods this morning, January 9. “Don’t matter if you sore from last week still get yo ass in the gym this week,” he tweeted. Of course, two weed-centric tweets preceded it:

A lighthearted game of backyard basketball was probably the perfect antidote for Wiz after he “tripped and fell in the pool in my 10 thousand dollar suit” on New Year’s Day.

The multiplatinum-certified rapper performed his breakthrough “Black And Yellow” and last year’s “Memory Lane” for the Los Angeles hub of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which also featured performances by Halle Bailey, Finneas, Dove Cameron, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and more.

Watch Wiz’s performances below.

Wiz Khalifa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Chris Harrison has made his first public comments since exiting The Bachelor back in 2021 following a tense situation involving his apparent defense of a contestant’s racist past. Harrison had voluntarily stepped down as host after attempting to downplay unearthed photos of Rachel Kirkconnell attending an antebellum-themed party, which did not go well for him. Harrison made the poor choice of defending Kirkconnell from Extra‘s first Black lead anchor, Rachel Lindsay, which only added fuel to the controversy.

While there were behind-the-scenes attempts to reinstate Harrison, those plans were squashed after another disastrous interview with Michael Strahan, who was not thrilled with Harrison’s apology nor the network’s attempt to rehabilitate him so he could return to The Bachelor. That interview ended Harrison’s shot at coming back and sparked a contentious negotiation over his severance pay as he allegedly threatened to spill secrets.

However, Harrison is back with a new podcast, and he opened up for the first episode by addressing the elephant in the room. Via The Wrap:

“For my part in this, I was sick to my stomach. I lost 20 pounds. I didn’t sleep. I didn’t eat. I was scared to death not of my job but of my family – my fiancé, my kids. I’m a bit of an empath and I am very loyal to a fault and I am a team player,” Harrison said on his new podcast “The Most Dramatic Podcast … Ever.” “When this happened, while I was sick to my stomach and so disappointed that the interview went that way and it was on me because I controlled what I had to say. And while the point I was trying to get across I stand by, the way I did it was messy and disappointing and it’s just not me.”

Harrison admits that he was “being sloppy, wrong, inappropriate in that moment,” and that the “timing” of the whole thing didn’t help. That timing being the recent George Floyd protest. While Harrison seems to genuinely understand what he did wrong, he still stands by his defense of Kirkconnell and his overall point that “we must have grace and patience for people or else you’re just getting nonsensical, reactive emotion.”

Harrison also blasted pundits on both the right and left for using him for their “political purposes.”

(Via The Wrap)

Kaleidoscope is a pretty cool idea on paper. You’ve got a heist show fronted by Giancarlo Esposito. He’s doing one last job and he’s putting together a team. He’s got guys who can get things and guys who crack safes and guys who drive. There are FBI agents with grudges and mushrooms being grown in prisons and lots of people in wigs and sunglasses and trenchcoats and, again, really just everything you could ask for out of a heist show. On paper.

It’s also got a gimmick that seems kind of interesting, where you can watch every episode except the last one in any order you want, kind of like a game of Choose Your Own Adventure with television, with the theory being that your experience of the show can change depending on the order you consume it. One character’s motivations might play out differently if you watch things one way, another backstory might hold more weight if you have a different set of facts in place when you uncover it, and so on. The only rule in the first season is that you watch the final episode — the actual heist — last, because, in theory, you’ll have all the information you need by then, however you went about acquiring it.

This is also really cool on paper. We can and should screw around with the form of these things sometimes. We have a slew of new and different delivery systems for television shows now — weekly shows on television, binge releases online, weekly releases online, these hybrid “three at once then once a week things” that sneak in there, the thing where sometimes Steven Soderbergh or whoever will be like “I shot 10 12-minutes episodes on a flip phone and you need to solve a Rubik’s Cube to watch them” — and it’s fun to explore the boundaries of that space a little. Get weird. Have fun. Break stuff a little and see if you can put it back together. I support all of this.

The trick when you’re doing this, though, is that it has to… work. The thing you’re doing has to be worth the gimmick. I don’t think Kaleidoscope got there, at least not for me. I think it could have worked. I think if it had been presented in a linear fashion — or at least semi-linear with flashbacks and a little structured timeline-hopping — I could have ended up digging it, the way I’m inclined to dig almost any heist-adjacent television series or movie. I watched multiple seasons of Leverage on TNT about a decade ago. It was fine. It was fine! I promise my complaints here are not about me being a snob. Kaleidoscope could have just been a basic cable Giancarlo Esposito heist show and I would have been a happy man.

The gimmick kind of took away from it all, though. Part of it was the thing where I tried to figure out the best order to watch it before I started and part of it was the thing where it was all just good enough to enjoy once through but not mind-melting enough to merit multiple rewatches in different orders to see how things changed as you presented the story differently. It felt like a show that is designed to be Googled more than enjoyed, which is maybe what some people are looking for in the meteorological goo of January, but not something that appealed to me in the moment. I came away from it thinking that it didn’t matter at all what order I watched the episodes in, and not in the fun puzzle-box way I think they intended.

But again — and I promise I do not intend this as a snide little pat on the head — good for them for trying something. Trying things is good! If we never tried anything then every show on television would be a workplace sitcom with a laugh track or a police procedural about a loose-cannon detective solving murders at the beach. (Which, to be clear, are also fine!) Trying stuff is how we got the whole Peak TV revolution, with The Sopranos and Community and a slew of other shows that were deeply weird and original and tilted the whole world of television about 40 degrees to the side. I still don’t think we’ve all fully processed that three of the best shows in history aired on AMC, a network that was previously best known for running Tombstone on weekday afternoons.

There’s something to be said for screwing with the form, too, as I alluded to upfront. The CYOA of Kaleidoscope didn’t work for me because it didn’t hook me enough to make me explore the alternatives, but something like The Afterparty did work for me. A lot. Did you watch The Afterparty? God, that was a fun show. A murder mystery comedy that structured each episode from a different character’s perspective and presented them all as entirely different genres of storytelling. There was a rom-com episode and an action movie episode and a psychological thriller and so on. Motivations changed, facts changed, and things revealed themselves in different manners… it pretty much did what Kaleidoscope set out to do, but it guided the viewer through things in a designed order. Also, there was one scene where two characters had an intense showdown at a urinal to see who could pee longest. This, to me, is television.

What are our takeaways from all of this? There are a few, as far as I can tell. The first one is that, if we’re going to have a zillion outlets for television shows that we can watch on screens of varying sizes, it’s nice to take a big swing on stuff here and there, just to see if something connects. It won’t all the time, or even most of the time, but I’d rather we do that than bury ourselves in cookie-cutter content from now until the sun swallows the Earth. The second one is that, if you’re going to structure your whole thing around a gimmicky premise, you really need to go ahead and make it all worth it because, like, while a show like Burn Notice is nice every now and then, the thing that’s nice about it is not having to do a bunch of research before, during, and after each episode. The juice has to be worth the squeeze or else what are any of us doing, you know?

And the third thing, which is probably the most important in all of this, is that we should probably make more shows where Giancarlo Esposito puts together a team to steal something. Or many things. For all my quibbles with Kaleidoscope and my hopes that it could have been more, that part was still pretty cool. Let Giancarlo steal things. Chronologically. Get Pierce Brosnan and maybe Ludacris in there, too. Again, there are no rules here. Give them lasers or something. Let’s keep throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks.

If there’s a group who knows how to be more extra in an already extra situation, it’s SEVENTEEN. If we want to get more specific, it’s SEVENTEEN’s sub-unit, BSS, or BooSeokSoon.

Known as SEVENTEEN’s gag trio who tends to always bring in the laughs and good times amongst the 13-member K-pop ensemble, members Seungkwan, DK, and Hoshi are set to reunite for a single-album after five years.

The news comes after the group’s social media accounts uploaded a teaser image yesterday (January 8) featuring a track and field with text that reads “Ladies and gentlemen, they call us BSS.” Rather than using an image containing a red carpet to announce the cordial comeback, the trio takes the humorous route.

The self-titled singe-album is set to release next month on February 6 and will mark the sub-unit’s first single-album ever.

Five years ago, Seungkwan, DK, and Hoshi released their first pop rock single “Just Do it” as BSS. According to the description under YouTube channel 1theK, who housed the music video, BSS is best described as “the bubbly energy of three guys with unexpected charms who target your heart without hesitation.”

Though no further information in regards to more teasers and track list have been provided, Carats (SEVENTEEN’s official fan club name) have flooded social media platforms to share their excitement for BSS’ return.

If you’re still brainstorming resolutions for the new year, may we suggest adding “Watch More TV” to the list? Why? Because 2023’s streaming and network line-up is filled with some must-see originals and returning award-winners that just can’t be missed. (Well, obviously, you can miss them. No one’s tying you to a chair, peeling your eyes open with some Scotch tape, and forcing you to watch these shows. But if you don’t, what will you talk about with your friends and family this year?)

Our team of critics voted on the most anticipated series dropping throughout 2023 — from Marvel follow-ups to Rian Johnson weekly whodunnits, prestige crime dramas, and a long-awaited video game adaptation that just might be HBO’s next Game of Thrones. Here’s what to keep on your streaming radar this year.

Honorable mentions/others receiving votes: BMF, Bridgerton, Bel-Air, Hello Tomorrow!, Buffalo

8. (tie) Loki

In a time when films and shows only get more exhausting and increasingly similar, Loki, which premiered its first season in 2021, was fresh and singular. The series feels more like Mad Men with time cops than a Marvel Cinematic Universe project. Even with a buoyant but well-played cameo from Jonathan Majors as the supervillain Kang, the show is grounded: a television show rather than filler in between movies. Tom Hiddleston has chemistry with everyone who breathes the same air as him and over a decade into playing Loki, manages to add new layers to the mischief god, proving his journey is far from over even though the character has, technically, been dead for years. In season two, we can expect Loki (and all the other Lokis) to get even more emotional. Hopefully, Alligator Loki will return. — Carrie Wittmer

8. (tie) Futurama

Futurama is going for a record that even The Simpsons, the longest-running primetime scripted show in the U.S. ever (among many other longevity achievements), won’t break: the TV show with the most series finales. Futurama has been brought back from cryogenic freeze yet again — not that we mind, especially since John DiMaggio is back as the voice of Bender. There are still plenty of stories left to tell in the year 3000-something. — Josh Kurp

8. (tie) Power Book II: Ghost

Power Book II: Ghost, the first of three spins-off in the Power universe, is probably the most beloved series out of the three. For some, it’s because of the nostalgia that it has for the original Power series. For others, Tariq’s growth as a character to despise to a character to root for has been a rollercoaster journey that keeps us wanting more. Then there’s the rest who really enjoy watching Method Man and Mary J. Blige in their roles. Regardless of what keeps you coming back for more, the third season of Power Book II: Ghost is set to take all of that and more to greater heights. New drug operations, new enemies, new obstacles, new (and old) relationships, and more all while running from the past are just the start of what we’ll see for season three of Power Book II: Ghost. — Wongo Okon

7. (tie) Snowfall

This is it for Snowfall. The show is entering its sixth and final season with plenty of unanswered questions. Is Alton alive? If not, did Teddy kill him? What repercussions, if any, will there be for Franklin’s epic revenge spree against Jerome and Louie? That’s just the half of it, but what we do know is that season six will be a war on many fronts. Franklin will continue his search and fight against Teddy, presumably all while fending off Jerome, Louie, the feds, and anyone else who looks to take him down. There’s Cissy’s intel who will surely throw a wrench in Franklin’s plans for the future and much more. For its final season, Snowfall will hopefully answer one question above all others: Does Franklin Saint walk out on top, or do the powers that be knock him off his throne? — Wongo Okon

7. (tie) Mrs. Davis

Before we get started here, let’s remember that few people found the idea of a Watchmen TV series to be necessary, even from a showrunner and writer of Damon Lindelof’s caliber, and even after he made a lot of Lost finale detractors shush by delivering The Leftovers. Yet with HBO’s Watchmen, he not only blew the Zack Snyder movie out of the water but also (arguably) the Alan Moore graphic novel, too. That show ended up being a masterpiece that recontextualized the source material, informed millions about the Tulsa Race Massacre, and added a Lube Man, who somehow made more sense than anyone would have believed from his description alone.

What I’m saying is this: Lindelof can make anything work if he sees a project worthy of exploring. So even if you aren’t immediately excited about the idea of a nun who fights a possibly demonic Algorithm, then hang tight and give this one a shot. Lindelof co-writes this upcoming Peacock drama series (showrunning duties go to Tara Hernandez of The Big Bang Theory), so you know that he’s going to give us an intricately layered ditty that includes an exploration of humanity and lack thereof. There will be much more on tap beyond the bare-bones description is what I’m saying, and I look forward to the unspooling of the Lindelof web. The fierce nun is portrayed by Betty Gilpin (so good at going ridiculously hard as Liberty Belle in GLOW), who we already know can be both ferocious and funny (when the moment is right), so we are in for a treat. — Kimberly Ricci

6. White House Plumbers

David Mandel, executive producer and showrunner of Veep, directing an HBO series about Watergate goons E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who will be played by Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux. Yes, this will work. That’s all you really need to know to start getting excited. There’s more, though, if you want it, like the thing where the rest of the cast features Domhnall Gleason and Kiernan Shipka and Kathleen Turner and freaking Judy Greer. Watch this show. It looks fun. And it kind of counts as education because it’s about an important historical event. Blammo. Two birds with one stone. — Brian Grubb

5. Poker Face

What we have here is Natasha Lyonne starring in a television series from Rian Johnson where her character solves a new mystery each episode, kind of like we all finally decided to up and recreate Columbo in 2023 and put the star of Russian Doll and the creator of Knives Out in charge of the whole thing. That sentence was probably too long and maybe not grammatically perfect but it is still one of the best collections of words you are going to see. Good for them. Good for everyone involved in making this happen. But good for us, mostly, because we’re the ones who get to watch it. — Brian Grubb

4. The Last of Us

It seems like every week, there’s a new TV show based on a video game. Some are good, the majority are bad, but few are based on one of the most acclaimed video game series of all time. The Last of Us is HBO’s first attempt at turning a video game into prestige TV; the zombie series is overseen by Craig Mazin, the Emmy winner behind Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, who created the source material. The ensemble is led by Pedro Pascal, who plays Joel, and Bella Ramsey, who was cast as Ellie, as well as Nick Offerman, Gabriel Luna, Melanie Lynskey, and Murray Bartlett. The Last of Us has all the makings of a Game of Thrones-sized hit, as long as viewers can stomach looking at Clickers every week. — Josh Kurp

3. (tie) Barry

The brilliance of Barry’s third season isn’t, merely, in the slow destruction of its main character’s sloppily constructed alternate life, it’s in the way it splintered its primary supporting characters from main while still cementing them as some of TVs most compelling. We know where Barry is going to be situated (though how he reacts to that will be incredibly interesting), but what of Sally now that she’s left LA? Gene now that he’s reformed his reputation and exacted revenge? Hank now that he’s gone full commando in the name of love? We’ve said it many times, Barry writers seemingly love writing themselves into a corner, but it seems like they’ve got multiple escape routes mapped out going into this pivotal fourth season. — Jason Tabrys

3. (tie) Justified: City Primeval

When Timothy Olyphant reads a script featuring a marshal with a weird name who wears a hat, it’s an automatic yes. The actor leaves Tatooine and returns to the United States for his most iconic role (sorry Cobb Vanth) as U.S. marshal Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval. FX’s Justified, which ran from 2010-2015, is an underrated gem, combining serialized storytelling with procedural elements. In this continuation of Raylan’s story inspired by Elmore Leonard’s novel “City Primeval: High Too in Detroit,” Raylan and his cowboy hat find themselves in Detroit, pursuing a criminal known as The Oklahoma Wildman. There is still no indication that Walton Goggins will return as Boyd Crowder, but I will wait patiently (that’s a lie I am very impatient about this). — Carrie Wittmer

2. Yellowjackets

In 2021, Showtime gave fans an unexpected treat, a survivalist drama of the Lindelof-ian tradition that blended 90s nostalgia, teenage angst, occult symbolism, fake book clubs, and just a hint of cannibalism. With some stroke-of-genius casting, a riveting central mystery, and a weekly release schedule that kept fans salivating over hidden clues, Yellowjackets became more than just a breakout hit, it turned into a damned pop culture phenomenon. In season two, the series dives even deeper into its own mythology, promising answers to some confounding questions – Who is the Antler Queen? What happened to Javi? Who kidnapped Natalie? Where is Shauna’s baby? – while threatening to pose even more maddening ones in the process. Get ready Citizen Detectives, because Yellowjackets is about to take over your lives again. — Jessica Toomer

1. Succession

TV’s most satisfying watch just keeps getting better and more daring, closing last season with such flair that it might render you speechless for the artistry of its final knife twists and its masterful performances. An empowered Tom, a soulless Greg, entitled adult nepo babies in a state of collapse, and the hubris of Logan Roy, cutting off their wings and continuing to act like he’s going to huff and puff forever. The clamor for the shifting allegiances, fresh power plays, and delicious revenge is off the charts. The most exciting question posed by the coming season is how can they possibly top themselves. — Jason Tabrys