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YG Leads A Lowrider Caravan In His Sunny ‘Sign Language’ Video

YG is back with a new G-Funk banger to take advantage of the unseasonably warm weather in California. “Sign Language” is exactly what its title suggests: A gangbanging anthem encouraging listeners to talk with their hands, whether throwing up their sets or throwing punches at foes. With a drop-top-worthy beat from Realmind and Terrace Martin, YG leads a caravan of lowriders through the streets of LA, shows off some tricky footwork in a parking lot, and posts up at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro to soak up some sun at the picturesque basketball court.

“Sign Language” is YG’s first solo single of the year, but far from his only output so far in 2021. He’s actually had quite the prolific 2021, releasing a pair of projects including Gang Affiliated, a compilation showcase for his 4Hunnid label’s new signees Day Sulan and D3Szn; and Kommunity Service, YG’s joint mixtape with Sacramento rapper Mozzy which featured a string of breakout singles including “Perfect Timing” with Blxst, “Vibe With You” featuring Ty Dolla Sign, and “Dangerous” with Chicago rapper G Herbo. YG also appeared on OhGeesy’s solo single “Big Bad Wolf” and is booked to perform at Snoop Dogg’s Once Upon A Time In LA Festival. Could all this activity mean a follow-up to My Life 4Hunnid is coming soon?

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Michael C. Hall Has Opened Up About What ‘Dexter’ Has (And Hasn’t) Been Doing For All These Years

Dexter Morgan, who’s arguably TV’s most beloved serial killer of all time (sorry, Hannibal fans), will soon return in Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood season. The really good news is this: the limited series is a bloody good time and works hard to erase the sins of the lumberjack past. Star and executive producer Michael C. Hall is more than well aware of the fan backlash to his character’s previous anticlimactic ending (after sailing into a damn hurricane and somehow surviving), and he is hoping that this new show avoids previous mistakes and redeems the original series.

To that end, he’s greasing the gears in a new interview with ET Online. Hall discussed how he was surprised that Dexter’s “was still very available to me, which was reassuring and creepy.” Given that it’s been somewhere at least eight years since we caught up with the man and his Dark Passenger, Hall gave an update on what Dexter’s been doing (besides chopping wood), but more importantly, he spoke about what Dexter hasn’t been doing. In other words, he’s been “sober” from his addiction (i.e., that “thing” he has with blood) and living the clean life:

“I think the biggest difference was the fundamental differences that in these eight years or near decade since we left him, he hasn’t killed anybody. He has been abstinent. He’s been dedicated to this sober life and has managed it in this very isolated way. He’s a guy who is dead to himself as far as he is concerned, but as you can imagine, the cameras are turning back on probably because he is going to come back to life.”

Yep, on that last note… the “probably because he is going to come back to life” part? That provides a big hint there. Dexter hasn’t been doing anything worth watching for eight years, and now, there’s going to be something to gawk at. Also, Showtime already revealed that not only will Harrison be back, but Debra as well. So, there’s a lot of outside forces at work, and it’s going to be a trip to see how Dexter can survive having to tend to something else beyond his inner war. That’s the real hurricane, and it’s a much more compelling storm.

Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood premieres on November 7.

(Via ET Online)

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Big Sean Is No Longer On GOOD Music

For nearly the entire time the world at large has known Big Sean, the Detroit rapper has released his music under Kanye West’s GOOD Music imprint as one of Kanye’s earliest and arguably most important signees. However, over the years, the GOOD Music roster has seen its fair share of changes as some of its mainstays moved on, leaving Sean as one of the last original members of the GOOD Music family still on the label. That is, until this Friday, when he and Hit-Boy released their joint EP, What You Expect — which they apparently did under Sean’s own label imprint distributed by Def Jam, according to Sean.

“By the way this the first project where I’m on my own label as well,” he shared via Twitter. “No more lil dawg sh*t!!!! I bossed up!”

Sean explained the change when fans questioned why he was no longer on GOOD Music. “That’s a forever brotherhood, but business-wise, I had to start getting a bigger cut!” he elaborated. “I worked my way out that deal.”

Sean had previously reflected on the “brotherhood” of GOOD Music and how it changed over the years. “I don’t know what happened,” he tweeted. “Guess those the GOOD ol days. It’s all love, but we use to really be clique’d up.”

Since then, though, various members have moved onto other endeavors — including the label’s founder, Kanye, who now goes by just “Ye” and has been busy launching his own new imprint, Yeezy Sound.

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Trump Is Now Demanding That Pulitzer Prizes Be Revoked For Journalists Who Reported On His Campaign’s Links To Russia

With his Twitter account on ice for the foreseeable future, Donald Trump has resorted to firing off official letters to scratch the incessant itch for unhinged ranting. For his latest screed, Trump has written to the Pulitzer Prize Board and demanded that it rescind awards given to journalists in 2018 for reporting on his campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. Remarkably, Trump avoids using the phrase “fake news,” but that’s basically the gist of his letter. Via Mediaite:

I call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to immediately rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting awarded to the staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post, which was based on false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign. As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation.

According to Trump, he has been “exonerated” of the charges made by the reporters, which is obviously a debatable statement.

Naturally, this letter wasn’t the only one written by Trump this week. The former president wrote to the Wall Street Journal and accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Attorney General Bill Barr of interfering with the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania. According to Trump, Barr told attorneys to stand down and not investigate “election irregularities” in the state while Zuckerberg interfered by helping cover the cost of ballot processing equipment. It’s easily Trump’s wildest claim yet, but he seems to have a lot of time on his hands these days, so who knows what he’ll think up next.

(Via Mediaite)

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A New Generation Of DIY Creatives Are Changing The WNBA Fashion Game

Diagnosed with a mysterious heart condition and yearning to get back to her artistic routes, Esther Wallace decided to get creative.

Wallace, a pro basketball player at the time, left the roster of her team, the Durham Wildcats, in northern England, found a day job, and started to think once again about the career path she once dreamt of as a child. Back then, her head was filled with thoughts of making power moves on Madison Avenue or concocting the next big fashion trend. Back in the states, in the evenings after work, Wallace began working on new clothing designs in her garage.

“I would design not just based on my experiences but also my interactions and relationships,” Wallace tells Dime, “just knowing a group of people so well and knowing what we’re missing in our wardrobe and what we would want to be wearing between games or when we’re hanging out.”

Life changed for Wallace about a year later when she landed on the design for a shirt with the phrase “Female Athlete,” which WNBA legend Candace Parker went on to wear on the set of TNT’s The Arena. Suddenly, Wallace’s pet project was something much bigger. Wallace officially launched her company, Playa Society, in January 2019, just before the U.S. Women’s National Team gold medal at the FIFA World Cup and the WNBA Bubble would create newfound excitement and momentum around women’s sports.

As women’s basketball continues to rise in popularity, television ratings, attendance and social media engagement have followed suit. So too has demand for team and league merchandise. While the orange WNBA hoodie has become synonymous with women’s hoops thanks to its distributor Fanatics, a big ESPN rollout last year, and the late Kobe Bryant, grassroots creatives like Wallace and Jasmine Baker have developed loyal followings online who are hungry to rock stylish clothing and gear to support their favorite players and teams.

“The fact that there’s such a demand for it, especially for a community that I have so much respect for and have so much fun with, it’s been overwhelming just to see stuff that I put out, it consistently sells out,” says Baker, who has put out collections with the New York Liberty and Atlanta Dream over the past year. “That means more too, the demand, more than anything.”

Like Wallace, Baker leaned on her lived experience as an athlete to keep her eyes and ears trained on the culture around the game. Baker played basketball and golf and ran track growing up, then got her start in sports media as a student at Texas A&M Commerce. Also like Wallace, it took one breakout moment to put Baker on fans’ and executives’ maps.

A viral image of WNBA star Liz Cambage filing her nails while sitting on the Dallas Wings bench during a game became instantly iconic, and Baker got to work. She put the photo on simple white and black t-shirts and saw an outpouring of excitement online. Though she couldn’t sell the shirt without having licensing rights from Cambage or the Wings, the moment distilled for Baker the possibilities of future designs — and the untapped interest among WNBA lovers.

Baker’s next moment of clarity came last fall when, like many of us, she started to get bored of the countless hours spent in loungewear and wanted to mix it up. In search of a way to mix WNBA nostalgia and at-home comfort, Baker logged onto New Jersey Sets, a customizable apparel outlet, to craft shorts with logos and images from the league’s history. After putting the finishing touches on something she thought would be just for herself, Baker got a message from the New Jersey Sets offices asking if she would be interested in collaboration.

The result was an “Origin Collection” of shorts, one for every team, that despite a relatively high price tag, sold like water in the desert. Baker hasn’t looked back.

A call from the Liberty a short while later led to a 25th anniversary #OwnTheCrown box set that was sent to influencers like broadcaster Maria Taylor and rapper Rapsody to hype up the Liberty’s first season playing at Barclays Center. This summer, Baker worked with the Atlanta Dream and its fresh front office on a “Stay Dreamin’” collection that sold online and at a pop-up shop in the city and sold out in a day.

Both women are filling a void left by the sports and apparel industries that, in an ideal world for hoops fans and women’s sports fans, would not exist. In most sports, the leagues and athletes themselves have enough partnerships and licensing deals that smaller creators are not as necessary and not met with as much excitement. In women’s sports and specifically the WNBA, that vacuum exists because the investment and organization has not been developed.

“I feel like the league is experimenting right now with merchandise and it’s one of those things that I don’t think the league was ever prepared for the amount of growth they experienced over the past three years alone,” says Baker. “I don’t think they were at any point prepared for that, and I don’t think they realized how much WNBA Twitter was going to be part of that.”

At the same time, a lot of the apparel that does exist for women is “bland,” as Baker says. Women’s sports fashion often does not feature inclusive sizing and caters toward a very specific type of femininity, with tight pink garments filling out the limited women’s section at team shops and retailers.

“For a long time, it was really the norm to think there’s just one way to be a woman,” says Wallace. “A lot of times, designs and aesthetics really reflected one path or one lane of what womanhood and femininity looked like. But things have evolved with women owning our style a lot more, and especially with streetwear, unisex apparel is much more predominant. Up-and-coming designers, we’re changing that.”

As bigger companies have been slow to react, these up-and-comers have stepped in to respond to a new generation of fans that wants inclusive, comfortable drip to match more traditional apparel.

“Women’s sports is different,” Baker says. “It’s marketed differently, the fans are different, the way fans consume it is different. You have to adjust accordingly, and I don’t know that that’s happened in the past, or even now.”

With the “Still Dreamin’” collection, Baker tried to move beyond simple team branding or mainstream basketball fashion and think local. She created the collection based upon the team’s namesake, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, and incorporated all four of the city’s area codes onto the clothing. All of the pieces were black, a low-key and unisex theme that blended nicely with the reds and whites of the team’s color scheme.

Like Wallace’s “Female Athlete,” the set took a simple element of fandom and basketball culture and packaged it in a way that the creators know people will actually want to wear.

“I look at a lot of apparel now and I feel like we’ve kind of seen it all,” says Baker. “To me, it’s just a combination of my personal taste, aesthetically what looks really dope, and going from there.”

While Baker takes a more top-down view of the industry, hoping to upend the way the league itself looks at merchandising and even its relationship with fans, Wallace approaches her craft with more granularity. Perhaps that balance is why the two have become the de facto culturalists in the women’s hoops space, a word that may not have existed before Baker created it. The two are supportive of one another publicly, plugging new releases and talking up new designs.

There is no opponent when the goal is to grow the game into something that matches the intensity in the culture and the fan base. With multiple generations of WNBA fans now looking for merchandise to celebrate their love of the league, the opportunity is there to create community through fashion. And through that community, the next batch of young folks who get the type of fulfilling fandom experience that Wallace and Baker wanted growing up.

Whenever she makes something, Wallace thinks of the same young girl. A girl who is just starting to form ideas about the world, form interests, form passions.

“She might even know what’s out there yet or know what’s possible, but through the designs that I create, she might see someone walking down the street in a WNBA sweatsuit and be inspired or curious,” Wallace says. “We’re really just exciting her curiosity or inspiring her interest and then fueling the fire from there.”

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Lil Uzi Vert Laments Lost Love On The Deceptively Upbeat ‘Demon High’

Lil Uzi Vert’s been promoting his new project The Pink Tape for the past few weeks, first promising to release it by Halloween then delaying it to make sure “it won’t suck.” Today, he gave fans the first taste of how the tape will sound, sharing the deceptively upbeat single “Demon High.” Employing a Pro Logic-produced, ’80s New Wave-inspired beat, Uzi dances his cares away as he laments a lost love, expressing his distrust for women. A more traditional rap verse on the song’s bridge finds Uzi coming out of his funk to do a little boasting before lapsing back into his insecurities.

Ever since dropping his double album Eternal Atake in 2020, Uzi’s been more active than ever, both musically and socially. Throughout the year, he’s popped up songs from Internet Money (“His & Hers“), the late Juice WRLD (“Lucid Dreams (Remix)“), Trippie Redd (“Holy Smokes“), Isaiah Rashad (“From The Garden“), and Meek Mill (“Blue Notes 2“). Meanwhile, Uzi’s social calendar has been pretty full as well; in addition to being booked at this weekend’s Rolling Loud, he also went to a friend’s wedding, gifting the happy couple with stacks of cash.

Listen to “Demon High” above.

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Krysty Wilson-Cairns On Her ‘Sinister’ Horror Film, ‘Last Night In Soho’

In 2019, Krysty Wilson-Cairns co-wrote 1917 with Sam Mendes (who directed), a sprawling World War I movie that all takes place in “one take” (with the help of movie magic). It was her first credited feature film screenplay, and the film would go on to be nominated for ten Academy Awards, including a nomination of her own for the screenplay.

For her second film, Last Night in Soho, from the outside looking in, it does look like a similar situation. This time she co-wrote the script with another revered director, Edgar Wright. And Wilson-Cairns admits there are some similarities to the two collaborations, mainly that she genuinely likes both writing partners and would never work with anyone she wouldn’t go to dinner with. (This seems like good advice in general.)

Last Night in Soho is a tough movie to talk about because the filmmakers are a bit concerned about spoilers. Wilson-Cairns describes it as a horror movie, and that’s at least partially true, but there’s a lot more going on that we can’t really get into, but we do get close to broaching some of the topics.

In Last Night in Soho, Ellie (Thomasin McKenzie) is moving to London to study to become a fashion designer. Low on money, she takes whatever apartment she can get and winds up renting a room from a mysterious woman (Diana Rigg, in her final role) who has a lot of rules about this room, which includes strict rules about both refunds and men. Ellie starts seeing visions of Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) a young singer trying to make it in London in the 1960s. Lines start to get blurred between who is Sandie and who is Ellie, as the movie takes a more and more sinister tone.

It’s interesting Wilson-Cairns describes Last Night in Soho as a Trojan Horse. She’s not wrong, at least in that if people are expecting a more typical Edgar Wright movie, that’s not exactly what they are going to get.

How similar was the collaboration with Edgar as to working with Sam Mendes on 1917? From the outside looking in, you’re co-writing a script with two very popular directors.

Well, with Sam, we did the story together. With Edgar, he very much had the story. He had the story ten years before we’d ever even met. But there’s a lot of similarities. I mean, working with a director, especially of that ilk, is always very welcomed and very good fun, because they know exactly what they want. And the one thing about Sam and Edgar is none of them are that precious. And they’re quite happy to hear your ideas and be involved. They really love to collaborate. And I think that they share that lovely quality is that they’re both fantastic collaborators and they’re both welcome your input and want to listen to you.

Is that something you’re worried about? If they would listen to you or not?

No, not really. I mean, with Sam, 1917 was our third project together. So we had a long working relationship and a lovely friendship. And the same with Edgar. I mean, I was friends with Edgar for about nine months before he ever asked to work together. So I knew them both as humans first, as opposed to just wonderful kind of magnificent authors. I knew them as people. And so I knew what I was getting into. And I very much try not to work with people that I think won’t listen to me. Call me crazy!

It almost sounds like you have a vetting process? Because I’m sure a lot of people do find themselves in situations where they think someone’s going to listen to them and that doesn’t happen.

Yeah, I have a really good vetting process. It’s my gut. And also, I just have a rule that I wouldn’t work with anyone that I wouldn’t go to dinner with.

That’s usually a good rule for life in general.

It’s a very subtle but important role that you can incorporate into your daily life.

So Edgar has had this idea in mind for some time. So how do you get in there and say, “Here’s what we need to do”?

He told me the story. And when you tell someone the story, it’s like, “This happens and this happens, and this happens.” So there’s loads to do. There’s loads to kind of build on. You need to create characters. You need to create structure, create elements. And then also, even within the story, you give notes. So originally the ’60s scenes were all going to be silent, just musical. One of the very first things I said to Edgar was, “I think we need to hear Sandy’s speech. She needs to be a fully formed character.” If Ellie’s going to fall in love with her and we want the audience to fall in love with her, I need to hear talk. And Edgar was like, “Of course. Let’s do it.”

Oh, that’s interesting. Based on that, obviously, the main two characters we’re following are women. Was there anything you were adament did not work?

No. I mean, the one thing I’ll say about Edgar, and the same with Sam in fact, is they’re both very empathetic humans and understand people’s experiences. Both of them have teams of producers that are mainly female. And so, I suppose I wasn’t used because I have a vagina, for lack of a better term. I think I was used because I’m quite a good writer and I could bring my own experience to it. I lived in Soho above a strip club. I worked in a bar in Soho. I came to London from somewhere outside of London, and I felt lost, and I felt adrift. And I studied there at film school. And it was a lot like fashion school. So it’s more about those shared experiences and your skill as opposed to like, you know what it’s like to be a woman.

Right, Edgar is empathetic. But, what you said, I don’t think anyone thinks that. But at the same time, if I’m him, with this kind of story, I want someone with a little more shared experiences from that side of things to look at this as well.

No, no. I understand. I mean, I think really, I suppose the time where that really came into play was – what it’s like to be a young woman in London – in the taxi driver scene, for instance, is everything’s been said to me in the back of taxis and worse. One of the times we were writing a scene and he said, “What’s the worst pickup line that’s ever been said to you?” And that’s the line in the film. So it’s like those kinds of tangential experiences that you can then be like, “Oh, that’s quite a funny, I’ll cannibalize my life and put that sort of stuff in.”

And what’s tough about this movie, there are themes I’d love to get into with you. But it’s really hard to do without…

Spoiling the movie.

Right. So the reason I ask questions like that, it’s not because the two main characters are women. It’s because there are some pretty heavy themes by the end of this movie. And I know we can’t get into them without ruining it for everyone, but it’s not just a movie about someone moving to London and going on some adventures. It gets really heavy.

Well, I mean, it is a horror film. And I think good horror, you should write about something that truly scares you. And toxic masculinity, the way women are treated, you only have to look at the news in the UK and over here to see that there are huge issues. And that truly scares me. And that was already in the story when I came to it. But getting to crystallize that, getting to work in that strand and with that spine, I think was great. I also think it’s really important that genre does lean into these kinds of things. A lot of people maybe wouldn’t go and see a drama about those topics. But a lot will go and see a horror or psychological thriller about those subjects. And it’s almost like a Trojan horse thing.

That’s interesting you said Trojan horse. In the marketing we’re seeing a lot of pretty lights and fantastical imagery. And the fact Edgar’s involved, if I don’t know any better, I’d probably assume it’s not what it actually is. Trojan horse does make it sound sinister…

It’s a sinister film, you know?

It is.

I mean, the whole point of like the thematic build from nostalgia is this idea of like, oh, the good old days. So, I’d love to live in that time. Or I’d love to visit there. I’d love to experience what it was like in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. You name it, everybody’s got a decade. They’re like, “Oh, that’s when I should have been born. And that’s how I should have lived.” And I think that nostalgia can be used as a weapon against you. “The good old days,” was said a lot before people voted for Brexit. “The good old days,” was said a lot before people voting…

For Trump.

Yeah.

It was literally his slogan.

I think having nostalgia just be nostalgia and just be this thing, “Oh, rose-tinted glasses. I’d love to go to the ’60s. Women had mini skirts and cool boots and the music was great.” And then when you actually do research, when you actually dig onto the surface of it, you realize, no, it wasn’t good at all. There’s so many problems, so many issues. And catalyzing that through women, what it was like to be a young female in the ’60s wasn’t all rosy at all. And that’s what this film leans into. And I think the really horrific part of it is that a lot of the issues that women facing in the ’60s, they still face today. And it’s partly because people don’t talk about it or people don’t think about it. And only in the last ten years have we had any sort of reckoning on that. And I think this film very much builds on that idea of like, hey, don’t look back with your rose-tinted glasses. Look back with your eyes open. And all the time you want to spend in the past, because you think it was great, actually concentrate on the future and build a better world.

Do you want to direct next?

I mean, I love what I do. I love collaborating. I love the people that I work with. I think if the right project came along and I felt that I really had a version and I could really bring something different then, yeah, absolutely. But I love not having to get up before 10:00 AM and only writing.

That’s the thing. If you’re a director, you’re going to get up before 10:00 AM.

Really early. Late nights. Not for me.

As someone who writes on the internet for a living, I understand what you are saying. So I’m on your side on that.

Thank you. I hope you understand it’s crucial that anything that I do in the future probably have night shoots.

So that’s the big scoop, if you direct a movie, there will be a lot of scenes at night.

A lot of scenes at night. 3:00 PM call time.

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Ed Sheeran Has A Wild Road Trip In His Adventurous Video For ‘Overpass Graffiti’

Ed Sheeran’s long-awaited fourth studio album, =, is out now, and to mark the occasion, he has dropped a new video for album highlight “Overpass Graffiti.” It’s a propulsive and upbeat tune that sounds like it was made for kicking off a road trip playlist.

Sheeran himself seems to get that, as the new video sees Sheeran embark on a wild adventure. In the clip, he gets separated from his tour bus. So, he hitches a bunch of different rides and finds himself doing all sorts of different things, like exploring a swimming hole, attending a trippy concert, and getting on the back of a motorcycle.

Sheeran previously told Apple Music of the song, “The song’s about a breakup that was years ago. You still hold on to the memory of that and it will never fade, like graffiti on the overpass. Originally, this song was a power ballad, it was very slow. Then [producer Fred Again] said, ‘Have you ever thought about making it double time?’ It gave it new life.”

Watch the “Overpass Graffiti” video above.

= is out now via Atlantic Records. Get it here.

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‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Is Trolling Facebook Over Its Corporate Name Change, And People Are Loving It

Following Mark Zuckerberg‘s bizarre video announcement that Facebook (the company not the actual site) would be changing its name to Meta as its pivots towards taking over the “metaverse,” the reactions started pouring in, but no one could’ve possibly predicted the god-level trolling that came from The Matrix Resurrections.

In a new tweet simply captioned #Meta, The Matrix Resurrections revealed a new poster featuring the iconic red and blue pills from the first movie. However, it’s the message that above those pills that is blowing people’s minds: “Now, based on reveal events.”

The poster is an obvious and expertly timed dig at Zuckerberg’s presentation where he attempted to tout Meta as a revolutionary step forward in the augmented reality sphere. “Today we’re seen as a social media company,” Zuckerberg said during the Thursday announcement. “But in our DNA, we are a company that builds technology to connect people. And the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started.”

Considering The Matrix movies are based on a virtual reality that has enslaved humanity, it makes sense that the heavily-anticipated fourth installment would get in on the trolling, and people freaking loved it.

The Matrix Resurrections hits theaters and HBO Max on December 12, 2021.

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M. Night Shyamalan‘s ‘Servant’ Season 3 Teases January Return In Latest Trailer

While it might not be here in time for Halloween, Apple TV+ is hard at work on their next installment of something full of tragedy and terror. Earlier today, the streaming service shared the teaser trailer for season three of their ongoing series Servant, a psychological horror that follows a grieving family and a mysterious young nanny. The eerie first footage showcases the horrors in store for the Turners (and their psychologically tormented hired help) as they attempt to go back to being “a normal family” with seemingly not much luck. The show is slated to return to Apple TV+ January 21, 2022, with new episodes debuting every Friday following.

After gaining notice due to horror legend M. Night Shyamalan’s (Old, The Village, The Sixth Sense) name attached to the project as its executive producer and co-director, Servant premiered on Apple TV+ on November 28, 2019 and was met with mostly positive reviews. The show follows a wealthy, East Coast couple, Dorothy and Sean Turner, who are in mourning following the sudden loss of their newborn child. To help cope with the death, the couple undergoes transitory object therapy using a lifelike doll of their son, however Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) soon believes the doll to be her real child, going so far as to hire a nanny (Nell Tiger Free) to help her take care of the “child.” Unfortunately, things only spiral deeper into darkness upon the arrival of the nanny, leaving Sean (Toby Kebbell) and Dorothy’s brother Julian (Rupert Grint) left trying to make sense of things.

In addition to Ambrose, Tiger Free, Kebbell, and Grint, Tony Revolori, Boris McGiver, Jerrika Hinton, Todd Waring, and recent addition Sunita Mani all star in the series. Servant’s season three’s directors include Shyamalan, Ishana Night Shyamalan, Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Dylan Holmes, Celine Held & Logan George, Kitty Green, and Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. Servant is the second television series for Shyamalan, who previously worked on Fox’s series Wayward Pines. The director’s most recent film, Old, hit theaters earlier this year.