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In the latest installment of our “Facebook? More Like Fakenews” series, there’s a viral post going around claiming that Netflix is making Mindhunter season 3. “MINDHUNTER SEASON 3!!!” it reads. “This October, delve deeper into the dark corridors of the human mind with Season 3 of Netflix’s Mindhunter. Join the original cast as they venture further into the chilling psyches of notorious serial killers, unraveling mysteries more enthralling than ever. Brace yourself for an electrifying journey as Mindhunter returns, more gripping and intense — guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.”

The post has over 8,000 shares and 14,000 comments, and every one of those people should know: it’s fake. The “source” comes from YODA BBY ABY, the same trolls behind the Breaking Bad movie that doesn’t exist. There’s even a disclaimer that reads, “For entertainment purposes only. Not real. But it should be… David Fincher!! People clearly want this. Make it happen, Cap’N!”

Mindhunter was a good show, and it could — and maybe should! — have continued for more seasons. But, as executive producer David “Da Finchman” Fincher explained, not enough people watched it.

“Listen, for the viewership that it had, it was an expensive show,” he told Vulture in 2020. “We talked about ‘Finish Mank and then see how you feel,’ but I honestly don’t think we’re going to be able to do it for less than I did season 2… You have to be realistic about dollars have to equal eyeballs.”

So, quit asking him about it — and quit falling for fake Facebook posts.

(Via Snopes)

Five months in, 2024 appears very much to be hip-hop’s year of discontent. The malice is almost palpable in exchanges between Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj, and was downright inescapable in the all-out war between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

Now, it appears even more rappers are fixing to enter the non-stop battle royale. Fans are convinced that Atlanta trap rap stalwarts Future and Gunna are about to go head-to-head after the former appeared to announce the imminent release of a new mixtape on the same day as the latter is preparing to release his new album, One Of Wun.

So, do Future and Gunna really have beef?

Well, if nothing else, they’ve got some competitive fire. Future didn’t just warn fans on Twitter (which I’m never calling “X”) of the return of “mixtape Pluto” (a nickname stemming from his early career) on May 10, but also jibed, “F*ck yo album Sh*t ain’t slappin like my MIXTAPE.” Given the two rappers’ shared history and release date, fans quickly put two and two together, deducing that he must mean his “Pushin P” collaborator Gunna.

Gunna himself also seemingly came to a similar conclusion, as his next two tweets were more pugnacious than usual. “Turn this sh*t bac up Notch……!” he wrote. “F*c What These boys talkin bout.” The two rappers might not be engaged in open hostilities (yet), but it seems pretty clear that they view their shared release date as a point of contention.

Max’s Hacks has brought back Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder in an even spicier incarnation than previously, and the season premiere took comedy to truly uncharted territory: the coveted Tom Cruise Christmas cake. Get ready for more no-holds-barred jokes when the next episode allows everyone to throw their juiciest tomatoes at the legendary Deborah Vance with a roast.

Let’s hope that Deborah will handle this evening better than Tom Brady did. Actually, scratch that sentiment. We want the controversy instead — let Deborah throw the Cruise cake at everyone in attendance. That might be even more fitting than tossing the remnants in the trash.

The official Episode 3 description is as follows: “After learning there’s a Late Night vacancy, Deborah makes sure everything – and everyone – is operating at its finest for her roast.”

When Does ‘Hacks’ Season 3, Episode 3 Come Out?

Max will unleash the episode on Thursday, May 10 at 3:00am EST/12:00am PST.

As previously mentioned, the show returned its setting to Las Vegas with Paul W. Downs and Megan Stalter as series regulars. Carl Clemons-Hopkins will still be mopping up Deborah’s various messes, and Kaitlin Olsen will continue contributing to the drama. By the way, her character, who is Deborah’s daughter, will definitely be on the scene for the roast. Are any “boos” on the way? You gotta tune in to find out.

As Netflix has been experimenting with live programming, there are some downsides: not everything on live TV can be fit for streaming, so some edits have to be made. Some very out-of-pocket things happen on Live TV.

But in this instance, it seems like the streamer might be rewriting history in order to make it look like Kim Kardashian wasn’t roasted while trying to roast Tom Brady.

Netflix has reportedly uploaded an edited version of The Roast Of Tom Brady, which was broadcast live on the streamer over the weekend and featured a bunch of rich and famous people dunking on a richer and more famous person, Brady.

On the live broadcast, Kardashian was met with a hefty round of boos while at the podium. So much so, that Kevin Hart had to step in and cut them off.

But, when the Roast hit Netflix, the booing was seemingly cut out, and Kardashian goes straight into her (mediocre) jokes.

While neither Netflix nor the Kardashian crew have commented, your parents were right, and the internet is forever, at least when it comes to celebs. Page Six uploaded the unedited bit on YouTube, where it will live forever. Maybe!

(Via EW)

It looks like Future is going “beast mode” again in 2024. Despite releasing two projects with Metro Boomin already this year, Future has promised yet another imminent release with beef-starting potential. In a series of unexpected tweets, Future apparently teased that on May 10 (this Friday), he’ll be releasing a mixtape that is better than someone else’s album.

“F*ck yo album Sh*t ain’t slappin like my MIXTAPE,” he wrote, following up with the date and a promise of the return of “mixtape Pluto,” a play on his early nickname.

Some fans immediately clocked that May 10 is an important date for Gunna, one of Future’s fellow Atlanta trap mainstays, who has been on the outs with the street rap scene in his hometown since his release from jail in late 2022. His new album One Of Wun is also due on May 10. They say hit dogs holler, and Gunna also returned to Twitter (never calling it “X”) with a pair of his own challenging thoughts. “F*c What These boys talkin bout,” he shrugged.

If Future is indeed baiting Gunna into a separate war of words, it’ll be like the fifty-leventh rap beef this year, after Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj exchanged words, Ice Spice and Latto dug into each other, and Drake and Kendrick Lamar set Rap Twitter on fire with an incredibly explosive tête-à-tête whose reverberations are still being felt days after the final exchange.

In her Saturday Night Live monologue, host and double-duty musical guest Dua Lipa joked about her jet-setting social media presence. “There’s people online who say Dua Lipa is always on vacation, which is totally wrong,” she said. “I’m British and we call it a holiday.” But even eternal vacations, sorry, eternal holidays have their perils.

An impossibly glamorous Dua Lipa appears on the cover of Radical Optimism, her new album and first since 2020’s Grammy-winning blockbuster Future Nostalgia. In the image, she’s floating in idyllic water — save for the shark a few feet away from her. The how-to-remain-calm-in-shark-infested-waters visual metaphor isn’t exactly subtle, but Dua Lipa doesn’t do subtle. She’s one of the best at making universally understood pop music about the joys (the water) and danger (the shark) of romance.

The message might not be radical, but the finished product is. In an era of quantity-over-quality albums with bloated tracklists to manipulate the streaming charts, there is something radical about 11 breezy songs in under 40 minutes.

Forget the song of the summer — Radical Optimism sounds like summer.

Radical Optimism begins with a “1, 2, 3” countdown before a group of voices cheer with the enthusiasm of a surprise party when the birthday boy or girl walks through the door. “What’s it about a kiss that makes me feel like this? / Makes me an optimist, I guess,” Lipa sings. That’s a common theme of the album, this attempt at finding her romantic bliss. In “Training Season,” she asks a partner if they’re someone who’s worth her love, or “just the poison that I’m drawn to?” Lipa isn’t reinventing the wheel lyrically (or even reinventing her dance-pop sound, despite earlier comments about the album being a “psychedelic-pop-infused tribute to U.K. rave culture”), but she’s inhabiting her songs so fully that you’re too busy dancing to notice.

First single “Houdini” sparkles and slinks with the best of her chart-toppers; “Happy For You” shows her range as an expressive vocalist; and during album highlight “Falling Forever,” she howls like a werewolf at the moon over rolling drums. The production from high-profile names like Danny L Harle (who previously worked with Caroline Polachek) and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, is precise, but never suffocating. The songs sound light, carefree even.

But that’s the goal, and anyone who sees that as a negative is missing the point. “I think there’s just this massive stigma around pop music overall,” Lipa told CBC. “If you’re just making songs that feel good — that have the aim to make you feel positive, make you feel good — [people assume] they don’t have depth.” She added, “I’m manifesting these words and I’m going to be saying them to a lot of people who are going to be singing them back to me. Let’s put some good sh*t out into the world.”

Radical Optimism is some good sh*t. It’s supremely crafted and refreshingly free of nods to her personal life. Dua Lipa is extremely online, but there remains a mystery to her. She’s never truly knowable, and she’s not trying to be, either. But that lack of reliability (see: the vacation photos) is one of the things that makes her so captivating. I don’t want pop stars to be my friend; I need them to believe in the healing power of pop music. Dua Lipa is a believer.

Out there [points in the general direction of the world], things are bleak. But in the club playing the new Dua Lipa album, everything’s going to be okay.

Radical Optimism is out now via Warner Records. You can order it here.

At this point, the ongoing beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has permeated essentially the entirety of culture. Need proof? Joe Biden’s team is capitalizing on the situation to go after Donald Trump.

A video shared on social media by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ campaign team on May 6 is set to the part of Kendrick Lamar’s “Euphoria” that goes, “It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater / I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress / I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct.”

That scores a gallery of Trump photos and text subtitles showing off alternate lyrics, which read, “It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater. I hate the way that you walk over women’s rights, the way that you talk about immigrants. I hate the way that you dress, I hate the way that you sneak diss on Truth Social.”

Meanwhile, Seth Rogen just joked about the beef at his Seth Smokes The Bowl event last night, saying in part, “Could you imagine going to a club and seeing a room full of people dancing to a song about you being a pedophile?”

Stephen Colbert finally found his breaking point in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial. Or should I say, his puking point?

During Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show, Colbert recapped the testimony given by adult film actress and author Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual affair with the former president. “It was an historic day in the annals of American law, because today Stormy Daniels did what she does best, and that’s spank Donald Trump,” the host said. According to CNN:

In a mostly casual and conversational tone, Daniels recounted details from the floors and furniture in Trump’s hotel room to the contents of his toiletry kit in the bathroom. At one point in court, Daniels threw back her arm and lifted her leg in the witness box to re-create the moment she says Trump posed on his hotel bed for her, stripped down to his undergarments.

Among the claims made by Daniels were that she “spanked” Trump “right on the butt” with a magazine, and that after using the bathroom, she returned to the room to find him in nothing but boxers and a t-shirt. “At first I was just startled, like a jump scare. I wasn’t expecting someone to be there, especially minus a lot of clothing,” she said. Trump also allegedly told Daniels that “you remind me of my daughter,” Ivanka.

Here’s how Colbert reacted to that bit of news:

You can watch The Late Show clip above.

(Via CNN)

These days, it’s hard to count on Kanye West to do something when he says he’s going to do it. His and Ty Dolla Sign’s album Vultures 2 was originally supposed to drop in March, but it’s still not out yet, despite being given a May 3 release date recently. Another thing West has had in the chamber is launching a porn studio, but now it looks like that may not be happening at all.

As Kurrco notes, all posts related to Yeezy Porn have been removed from Ye’s X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube accounts, which seems to suggest that West is dropping the whole thing.

https://twitter.com/kurrco/status/1787925604882350204

This comes shortly after Milo Yiannopoulos, West’s chief of staff, shared a letter reading, “I cannot be complicit in the production or dissemination of pornographic films and literature, for moral and religious reasons, but also because such material and the kind of people invariably involved in its production represent an imminent danger to my life as a recovering addict and an unacceptable risk to my spiritual and physical health as a former homosexual.”

Meanwhile, last month, West attempted to insert himself into the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud with a “Like That” remix, although the song has proven to be relatively inconsequential in the context of the beef.

Ian Gelder, the actor who played Kevan Lannister on HBO‘s Game of Thrones, has died. He was 74 years old.

“It is with huge huge sadness and a heavy heart broken into a million pieces that I’m leaving this post to announce the passing of my darling husband and life partner Ian Gelder,” fellow actor Ben Daniels wrote in a heartbreaking tribute on Instagram. “Ian was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in December and yesterday he passed at 13.07. I’d stopped all work to be his carer but neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.”

Daniels called Gelder his “absolute rock and we’d been partners for more than 30 years. If we weren’t together we spoke to each other everyday. He was the kindest, most generous spirited and loving human being. He was a wonderful wonderful actor and everyone who worked with him was touched by his heart and light… He coped with his dreadful illness with such bravery, with no self pity. Ever. He was remarkable and will be so missed.”

Gelder appeared in 12 episodes of Game of Thrones as the brother of Lord Tywin Lannister and possibly the most decent member of the family (he also memorably defies Cersei). The veteran character actor also had roles in Doctor Who, Torchwood: Children of Earth, and His Dark Materials.

You can read the full Instagram post below.