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This probably isn’t breaking news for you, dear reader, but no two people are exactly the same, even if they share similar backgrounds. That’s why it’s doubly important to tell different kinds of stories, ensuring that people aren’t being treated like a monolith. And that’s very very true when it comes to telling Black stories. You have to use the whole board, and the move toward opening up new genres through which to tell these stories is absolutely leading to a lot of fantastic and thought-provoking results.

As our Obsessed hosts, Britt Ellis and Taylour Chanel, point out, it can be refreshing to see Black people adventuring in space, fighting in the Old West, or even being terrified in a horror film. They even cite The Foundation, The Harder They Fall, and Jordan Peele’s films.

After this reflection on Black genre storytelling, the pair welcome actress Jasmin Savoy Brown, who plays Taissa in Showtime’s breakout genre hit Yellowjackets. The on-the-rise actress talks about what it means to portray a queer, Black woman in media. Brown speaks on the safety of working on shows with a large female presence and the importance of her characters being allowed to do things like wrapping their hair before bed.

Check out the video above for more.

For years, you have been squinting, licking your fingers, or doing whatever you can do get a really tiny end of a thread into an even tinier hole, and thinking, [infomercial host voice] “THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!” Well, kids, there is, and you’re about to feel both relieved and dumb.

Twitter user John Bick shared a video from a crafting site that went viral for being extremely helpful.

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People couldn’t believe it. Instead of threading the needle through the hole, shake it down and go from there.

Good grief. After 50 years of going cross-eyed 😢

— Dàibhidh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Saor Alba (@Bell32796) April 3, 2018

What type of sorcery is this? https://t.co/uI2jQJAv5l

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) April 4, 2018

This is what social media should be about. People sharing helpful ideas about what they actually know.

— Atlassheepdog (@atlassheepdog) April 4, 2018

Even GEORGE COSTANZA himself is amazed by this innovation.

Dammit, I need hours of my life back now. #mulligan https://t.co/z2qZTsgfIm

— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) April 4, 2018

(Spoilers from Netflix’s Ozark will be found below.)

The first half of the fourth (and final) Ozark season recently dropped on Netflix. These seven episodes, of course, satisfied the masses (multiple seasons continue to land in Netflix’s Top 10 charts each week), but it already feels like it’s been a long time since January 21. When will the final seven episodes (technically referred to as Season 4, Part II), including the finale, arrive?

Well, the Byrde family’s money laundering ways will eventually come to an end. No one knows who will make it out alive (especially after that major car wreck) or if it’s even possible for them to go back to their Chicago social circle. Let’s just say that getting in deep with drug lords does not bode well for anyone’s wellbeing. And we need to find out what happens when Ruth goes after Javi (because, despite Marty’s warnings, that’s almost certainly what she will do) to avenge Wyatt’s death.

As for the “when” of things, Netflix has kept quiet on a firm date, but they’re beginning to reveal their pattern for two-part season release formats. After Masters of the Universe: Revelation launched on July 23, 2021 with a second part on November 23, 2021, and Unsolved Mysteries debuted on July 1, 2021 with a second half on October 19, 2021, we can guess that Ozark will followup within four to six months.

So, hopefully this means that we’ll see what happens with explosive Ruth and the harrowing-looking car wreck by summer. And given Netflix’s usual release format, people should be able to start binging at 12:00am PST on release date. So… it could be finale time by 7:00am PST? The most dedicated viewers might be on it by early morning.

‘Ozark’ is currently streaming (through Season 4, Part 1) on Netflix.

Like a good handful of her music peers, Megan Thee Stallion is giving acting a shot: Variety reports today that she has been cast in F*cking Identical Twins, alongside Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Saturday Night Live‘s Bowen Yang.

The A24 film is an R-rated musical comedy from comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who are adapting it from their two-man stage show, which they premiered at Manhattan’s Upright Citizens Brigade in 2014. They’re writing the script as well as playing the two lead roles.

This one has been in the works for a while, as 20th Century originally acquired the rights to adapt the stage musical in 2016. Larry Charles, director of Borat and a Seinfeld staff writer, is directing the movie, which is currently in production.

Variety notes of the movie, “F*cking Identical Twins takes inspiration from Hallie and Annie’s mischievous exploits in The Parent Trap and follows two business adversaries who realize they’re identical twin brothers. They decide to switch places in order to reunite their divorced parents and become a family again.”

Meg has a bit of acting experience, as she popped up in a 2020 episode of Good Girls.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Busy day in the world of television. Two powerhouse series, Atlanta and Stranger Things, have both confirmed that after airing new episodes this year, their next season will be their last. In fact, in Atlanta‘s case, the show is already wrapped. The show’s third and fourth season were shot back-to-back and will both air this year starting with the March premeire of Season 3, according to FX chairman John Landgraf.

“After a four year absence, we’re graced with the return of Atlanta. Donald Glover and his team have shot the final two seasons of the series,” Landgraf said in a statement to Deadline. “The fourth and final season is slated to debut in the same manner in the fall. The new season is everything you’d expect from Atlanta – which is to say expect the unexpected. Sit back and enjoy the trip.”

As for Stranger Things, the Netflix series’ fourth season will be split into two installments that will drop this summer. After that, the fifth season will be its last. Via The Hollywood Reporter:

“Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,” creators Matt and Ross Duffer wrote in an open letter to fans. “At the time, we predicted the story would last four to five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four but — as you’ll see for yourselves — we are now hurtling toward our finale.”

However, while the main series is coming to an end, the Duffer Brothers all but confirmed talks of a Stranger Things expanded universe.

“There are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things: new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes,” The Duffer Brothers wrote. “But first, we hope that you stay with us as we finish this tale of a powerful girl named Eleven and her brave friends.”

(Via Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter)

Go ahead and file Too Short’s Tiny Desk Concert as one of the most unexpected entries in NPR’s series, but the Oakland rapper totally owns it. Literally sitting on a makeshift desk made to look like an 808 drum machine and backed by a full band, he delivered a slew of classics new and old in a unique fashion.

The set opened with “The Ghetto” featuring backing R&B singer Maurice Smith humming the chorus. “Yo waddup? It’s ya boy Too Short in the house,” he said introducing the details of the set. “Yeah, we doin’ it like this: We’re gonna run through some Too Short classics. Basically, I’mma play you a Too Short song from the past five decades. The ’80s, the ’90s, the 2000s, the 2010s, and the 2020s. How many artist you know that got relevant records in five decades? That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Classic man, legendary, Too Short. Representin’ East Oakland, California. Biiiiitch, yea!”

That’s exactly what he and the band did, playing a jazzy R&B version of “Gettin It,” with a saxophone bellowing and silky keys guiding the track. Then a string-section sample paints the canvas for an expansive rock and roll version of “Blow The Whistle” that culminates with a guitar solo. The instrumental hook of “Big Subwoofer,” by the Mount Westmore rap supergroup of Too Short, E-40, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube, brought things to a close as Short said, “The new thang is Mount Westmore….We been doing this sh*t since the ’80s and we ain’t gonna stop any time soon! Short dawg in the house! Biiiiitch!”

Too Short has indeed been a prolific force in West Coast rap since the 80s and this performance flashes unprecedented range. Give the man his flowers. He’s earned them.

Watch Too Short’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert above.

Lizzo is on the lookout for new dancers to join her tour and what better way to find them than a reality TV competition? That’s the premise of Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, coming to Amazon Prime Video on March 25. In the show, Lizzo recruits 10 women for a dance boot camp at the Big Grrrls House, as they compete for a spot on Lizzo’s tour team.

Throughout her career, Lizzo has been very vocal and earnest about her experiences maneuvering in the entertainment industry as a plus-sized woman, and she makes it clear in the trailer above that she wants to use her power as a superstar to extend more opportunities to women like herself. “Girls that look like me don’t get representation,” she says. “It’s time to pull up my sleeves and find them myself.”

Despite her struggles, Lizzo has been extremely body-positive through the years, and very successful whether you believe it’s because or despite her appearance. She’s unafraid to strip down to promote her music and even enthusiastically reached out to Cardi B for a potential Playboy pictorial. Meanwhile, her music has appeared in countless avenues, from television and film to the Grammys to Barack Obama’s list of favorite songs. It seems almost certain that her show will have the same impact.

Watch the trailer for Lizzo’s Amazon series, Watch Out For The Big Grrrls above.

It’s only guest host Lauren Wright‘s second day on The View, and already, the panel is basically comparing her to Meghan McCain. On Thursday morning’s episode, Wright, who’s a guest lecturer on Princeton and a conservative commentator, battled with the co-hosts over masks and claimed they didn’t work, which did not go over well with Joy Behar.

“Oh god, if I hear that again,” Behar audibly muttered as Wright went on her rant that, naturally, included barbs at Dr. Fauci and the CDC.

After Wright called mask messaging “inconsistent.” Whoopi Goldberg entered the fray, and while she didn’t use McCain’s name, it was pretty clear who she was talking about. Via Primetimer:

“We had somebody here who used to get very upset with people who said you should be wearing a different kind of mask, or you shouldn’t be wearing a mask. They didn’t know! So I can give them that.”

After Wright advocated for eliminating federal mandates — “We can be smart, capable adults about this,” she said — she did exactly what Whoopi just cautioned her not to do. “This whole thing started, by the way, with Dr. Fauci saying, ‘Masks don’t really work, we don’t really need them,” said Wright, as the entire table protested.

If Wright was hoping her arguments would earn her attention, it worked. Her anti-mask rant quickly started trending on Twitter where people absolutely loved Behar shutting her down and giving her side-eye the whole time. Whoops.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via The View on Twitter)

One of the surest ways to get sweet, sweet engagement on social media is to post a map of the United States with the most popular [insert literally anything here] for each state.

Whether it’s favorite candies, Thanksgiving sides, most searched celebrities, or most sold items, people love to yell about how the maps, which are almost always based on some questionable metrics, are wrong and laugh at the ridiculous preferences of certain states. On Thursday, the NBA world got their version of this when Lids released maps of its top selling jerseys, both by player and team. The player selections weren’t terribly surprising, with a lot of LeBron James across the country and stars dominating their own home markets, but there were a few bizarre choices.

Vince Carter’s popularity in West Virginia and Maine is odd, as is Steve Smith in Idaho, but the strangest one has to be Mike Bibby leading the way in jersey sales for the state of Alabama. The former Kings and Hawks guard has not played has not played since 2011, which means for some reason the people of Alabama are clamoring for a decade-old jersey of a solid starting guard, but one who was never an All-Star. Given this is just sales at Lids, there’s a very good chance this was a few people buying Bibby jerseys at an Alabama mall swinging this number, as I can’t imagine it’s a hotbed of NBA jersey sales overall. It’s funnier to imagine there is just a rabid Mike Bibby fan base in Tuscaloosa that just can’t get enough of Bibby merch, though.

The star-studded cast of Showtime’s upcoming The First Lady was revealed in the trailer for the historical drama, which debuts on April 17th.

Featuring Oscar winner Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, the show is a retelling of America’s most impactful political moments, though the eyes of the first ladies themselves. Weaving together past and present, the show promises to tell some monumental stories, with some political drama thrown in for good measure, because that’s what makes good TV.

According to the official synopsis, “The series will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of three unique, enigmatic women and their families, tracing their journeys to Washington, dipping into their pasts and following them beyond the White House into their greatest moments. Through interweaving storylines so intimate it’s as if the White House walls are talking, season one focuses on the enlightening lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt.”

In addition to the A-list ladies, the cast also includes Jack Bauer himself, Kiefer Sutherland, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will no doubt get into it with former Detective Dana Scully Gillian Anderson, who plays his wife. Also starring is Dakota Fanning, Aaron Eckhart, Regina Taylor, O-T Fagbenle, Judy Greer, Ellen Burstyn, among others.

Check out the trailer above.