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It’s been clear that Dame Helen Mirren has enjoyed doing the occasional over-the-top blockbuster over the 15 years or so — a respite from all her brilliant performances in decades of serious fare. (Although she was never above blockbusters, with Excalibur and 2010: The Year We Make Contact dotting the ‘80s portion of her CV.) She’s even done two comic book movies: the retired assassin romp RED and its 2013 sequel. But one thing she’s never done is a superhero movie, and there’s no reason to think she won’t enjoy torturing the hell out of our bifurcated heroes in the sequel to Shazam!

As per Deadline, the Oscar-winning thespian is taking on the role of Hespera, daughter of no less than the titan Atlas, in Shazam: Fury of the Gods. Atlas is one of the gods whose power our hero — Zachary Levi’s kid-at-heart Shazam, and the alter ego of Asher Angel’s teenage Billy Baston — can emulate, along with Mercury, Solomon, Hercules, and Achilles.

Much more importantly, he’ll have to square off against Mirren, who ever since winning her Academy Award for The Queen has juggled serious fare with, well, multiple Fast and/or Furious entries, including playing Jason Statham’s mom in both the eight episode and its spinoff Hobbs & Shaw. She always seems to enjoy herself, and not only because of the giant paychecks, so this should be fun for all of us.

(Via Deadline)

Mark it on your calendar folks, March 23rd, 2021 will forever go down as the day we all collectively decided to start scrutinizing every single bowl of cereal we ever pour. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is now trending on Twitter, after writer and comedian Jensen Karp first tweeted out a photo of what appeared to be dried shrimp tails in his cereal, something he made sure to explain was “not a bit.”

As you might expect, the food-loving internet can’t stop talking about how disturbing a sight it was.

But anyone with a strong enough stomach to follow Karp’s journey to discover what exactly happened to this box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch will tell you that the alleged shrimp isn’t even the most disturbing part of Karp’s cursed box. He has since shared more of his findings, which include a re-taped bag, and weird black items cooked into the cereal itself.

Sadly for Karp, he made these discoveries after he ate at least one bowl.

To be fair to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, we can’t yet say for sure that these are shrimp tails — though they certainly look EXACTLY like shrimp tails. Perhaps they’re pieces of tape that rolled while being heated and are covered in cinnamon and sugar?

Regardless, it’s very fair to say that CTC’s official explanation for what these actually are isn’t doing it for us.

“After further investigation with our team that closely examined the image, it appears to be an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can occur when ingredients aren’t thoroughly blended.”

That came from the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Twitter account, to which Karp responded:

“ok, well after further investigation with my eyes, these are cinnamon coated SHRIMP TAILS, you weirdos. I wasn’t all that mad until you now tried to gaslight me?”

Karp is currently taking the box of cereal to the lab to get to the bottom of what’s really behind this mess.

Though he seemed fairly bemused at first, Karp was clearly made more upset by the laissez-faire response from Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

One of Donald Trump’s last orders of business before leaving office was to send a clear eff-you to the 1619 Project, The New York Times‘ Pulitzer-winning attempt to reframe how America looks at a past rooted in slavery. (Meanwhile, one of Joe Biden’s first orders of business was to scratch it from the public record.) No doubt those who throw fits when people try to talk about America’s racist past will do the same over Exterminate All the Brutes, a four-part series coming soon to HBO that tries to get at the roots of modern bigotry by looking at the grim history of colonialism, both here and abroad.

The series comes from Raoul Peck, of the Oscar-nominated doc I Am Not Your Negro, which used the works and public appearances of James Baldwin to examine some of the same issues. “What if from the beginning the story was told the wrong way?” Peck, who will serve as a guide and narrator, asks over top old images of Native Americans depicted as blood-thirsty savages — just one of many ideas his series will seek to overturn.

As per the press release, Peck “deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism – from America to Africa and its impact on society today – challenging the audience to re-think the very notion of how history is being written.”

Exterminate All Brutes will debut soon, with its first two episodes airing back to back on April 7 and the remainder the following night. Its title comes from one of three books about the dark history of colonialism, and you can watch the trailer in the video above.

A hotly awaited Round of 32 contest between Iowa and Kentucky in the NCAA Women’s Tournament ended in lopsided fashion, as the Hawkeyes won 86-72, in large part because first-year guard Caitlin Clark willed it that direction. Clark scored 35 points on 13-21 shooting with six threes, six assists and seven rebounds, absolutely dominating a Kentucky team with projected future WNBA lottery pick Rhyne Howard.

The Hawkeyes controlled the game from the jump, pushing the pace and allowing Clark’s open-floor brilliance to take over the game. Clark was in double digits before the first quarter finished, and at halftime, she had outscored the Wildcats by herself, 24-22, as Iowa took a 49-22 lead into the break.

Clark, like Damian Lillard, Diana Taurasi or Steph Curry, is impossible to deal with once she steps past halfcourt because she is a threat to pull up from anywhere, doesn’t need to get her feet set, and plays with excellent pace. Her pull-up abilities from well beyond the arc punish anyone who drops back.

But when defenders step up to close out that space, it offers her lanes to get to the basket.

This game may have been billed as Clark vs. Howard, and thus Iowa winning in the manner they did may make it look as if Howard failed, but the Wildcats star put up 28-8-6 herself and was 5-12 from deep, in a valiant effort to keep her team within reach. Howard also took care of the ball, with zero turnovers to Clark’s five. But Howard’s supporting cast just wasn’t up to the challenge, which made it harder for her to keep pace with Clark.

Iowa post scorer Monika Czinano scored 14 points to go with eight rebounds, and the non-Clark Hawkeyes went 4-8 from three as well. Longtime Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder just put together an excellent gameplan around what Clark does well, while Kentucky simply didn’t have the answers early in head coach Kyra Elzy’s first Tournament appearance. Iowa just looked more ready to execute, and Clark performed at an elite level to lead the way.

The game’s result gets hoops fans one step closer to an all-time Sweet 16 matchup, with Clark and the Hawkeyes set to face friend and fellow wunderkind Paige Bueckers and her Huskies in the next round should UConn move on as well. UConn faces Syracuse on Tuesday night at 9 .m. ET, and the Sweet 16 matchup would take place next weekend.

Clear your binge-watching schedules because HBO Max dropped its April listings, and there’s a ton of cool TV and movies coming our way.

We’re talking steampunk fantasy series like The Nevers, Black Mirror-esque rom-com sagas like Made For Love, Mortal Kombat blockbusters, and a Kate Winslet-starring limited crime drama. And that’s really only a peek at all of the entertainment the streaming platform plans to deliver this month. Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and HBO Max this April.

The Nevers (HBO series premiering 4/11)

This new steampunk fantasy series set in Victorian London follows a group of people known as the Touched — mostly women with abnormal abilities given to them by way of a mysterious supernatural event. Outlander star Laura Donnelly leads the group as a brawling widow named Amalia True who, with help of her friend and inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), tries to protect their kind from those who fear their gifts.

Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros. film premiering 4/16)

Lewis Tan leads this new take on the beloved martial arts video game series playing a washed-up MMA fighter with a mysterious lineage who discovers he’s being hunted by a league of assassins. To protect himself and his family, he’ll have to join forces with a group of gifted fighters and compete in a high-stakes battled to defend Earth.

Mare of Easttown (HBO limited series premiering 4/18)

Kate Winslet plays a talented detective plagued by her own tragic past in this limited series that takes a look at the dark side of a close community.

Made For Love (HBO Max series premiering 4/1)

If the team from Black Mirror tried to do a rom-com, it’d look something like this. Cristin Milioti (Palm Springs), plays Hazel, a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire. But escaping her bad relationship is kind of hard with your Silicon Valley lover has implanted a chip in your brain.

Dates TBA:
The Big Shot with Bethenny, Max Original Series Premiere
Ellen’s Next Great Designer, Max Original Series Premiere
Generation Hustle, Max Original Series Premiere
Piano Y Mujer (HBO)
Pray, Obey, Kill, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
Wahl Street, Max Original Series Premiere

Everything Coming To HBO And HBO Max This April

Avail. 4/1
A Shock To The System, 1990 (HBO)
Abandon, 2002 (HBO)
Adam’s Rib, 1949
All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO)
Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl
Barbarosa, 1982 (HBO)
Black Dynamite, 2009
Blindness, 2008 (HBO)
The Bodyguard, 1992
Boogie Nights, 1997
Bringing Up Baby, 1938
The Butcher’s Wife, 1991 (HBO)
Caddyshack, 1980
The Collection, 2012 (HBO)
The Color Purple, 1985
Dante’s Peak, 1997 (HBO)
Dark Shadows, 2012 (HBO)
Dead Silence, 2007 (HBO)
Dirty Harry, 1971
The Eagle Has Landed, 1977 (HBO)
Early Man, 2018 (HBO)
Easy Rider, 1969
Ella Enchanted, 2004 (HBO)
The Evil That Men Do, 1984 (HBO)
Eye For An Eye, 1996 (HBO)
Fear, 1996 (HBO)
genera+ion, Season 1 Part One Finale
Ghost Rider, 2007
Goodfellas, 1990
The Great Pottery Throwdown, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
Green Lantern, 2011
Hardball, 2001 (HBO)
Happy Endings
Haywire, 2012 (HBO)
In & Out, 1997 (HBO)
Kicking & Screaming, 2005 (HBO)
King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, 2017 (HBO)
Lassiter, 1984 (HBO)
Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990 (HBO)
Let’s Go To Prison, 2006 (HBO)
The Longest Yard, 1974 (HBO)
Made For Love, Max Original Series Premiere
Man Up, 2015 (HBO)
The Mask of Zorro, 1998
The Man With The Iron Fists, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)
Missing In Action 2 – The Beginning, 1985 (HBO)
Missing In Action, 1984 (HBO)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 2006 (HBO)
The Nanny
The Natural, 1984
Now, Voyager, 1942
One Day, 2011 (HBO)
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, 1985 (HBO)
Police Academy 3: Back In Training, 1986 (HBO)
Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, 1987 (HBO)
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, 1988 (HBO)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, 1989 (HBO)
Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, 1994 (HBO)
Primal Fear, 1996 (HBO)
Reasonable Doubt, 2014 (HBO)
Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO)
The Return, 2006 (HBO)
Risky Business, 1983 (HBO)
Roger & Me, 1989
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
Sneakers, 1992 (HBO)
Space Jam, 1996
Speed 2 Cruise Control, 1997 (HBO)
Spellbound, 2003 (HBO)
Stuart Little, 1999
The Shack, 2017 (HBO)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, 2011
Wanderlust, 2012 (HBO)
The Warriors, 1979 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)
The Watch, 2012 (HBO)
White Noise, 2005 (HBO)
The Wild Life, 2016 (HBO)
Within, 2016 (HBO)
Wolves At The Door, 2017 (HBO)

Avail. 4/2
On the Spectrum

Avail. 4/3
Ted, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)

Avail. 4/4
Q: Into The Storm, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)

Avail. 4/5
Hard, Season 2 Finale (HBO)

Avail. 4/6
Genndy Tartokovksy’s Primal, Season 1B

Avail. 4/7
Exterminate All The Brutes, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)
South Side, Season 1

Avail. 4/9
Intemperie (Aka Out In The Open), 2019 (HBO)
The Other Two, Season 1
A Tiny Audience, Season 2 Finale (HBO)

Avail. 4/10
The New Mutants, 2020 (HBO)

Avail. 4/11
The Nevers, Drama Series Premiere (HBO)

Avail. 4/13
Our Towns, Documentary Premiere (HBO)

Avail. 4/15
Infinity Train, Max Original Season 4 Premiere

Avail. 4/16
Mortal Kombat, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021

Avail. 4/17
The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 (HBO)

Avail. 4/18
Mare of Easttown, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)

Avail. 4/20
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

Avail. 4/22
1,2,3 All Eyes On Me, 2020 (HBO)
First Ladies, 2020
Princess Cut, 2020 (HBO)
Rizo, 2020 (HBO)

Avail. 4/23
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)
El Robo Del Siglo (Aka Heist Of The Century) (HBO)

Avail. 4/24
Dreamgirls, 2006 (HBO)

Avail. 4/26
The Artist, 2011

Avail. 4/29
Looney Tunes Cartoons, Season 1D

Everything Leaving HBO And HBO Max This April

Leaving 4/11
Reservoir Dogs, 1992

Leaving 4/15
Lego DC Shazam: Magic And Monsters!, 2020

Leaving 4/30
3 Godfathers, 1949
9½ Weeks, 1986
Above The Rim, 1994 (HBO)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood, 1938
Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina, 2002 (HBO)
After Hours, 1985
An American Werewolf In London,1981 (HBO)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, 2012 (HBO)
Being There, 1979
Bullitt, 1968
Bundle Of Joy, 1956
Can’t Buy Me Love, 1987 (HBO)
The Candidate, 1972
Cast Away, 2000 (HBO)
Catwoman, 2004
Chasing Liberty, 2004
Cheyenne Autumn, 1964
Cimarron, 1960
Critters 2, 1988
Critters 4, 1992
Dead Man Walking, 1995 (HBO)
Diner, 1982
Dirt, 2017
The Exorcist, 1973
Femme Fatale, 2002 (HBO)
Fool’s Gold, 2008
Get Carter, 1971
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, 2019 (HBO)
Godzilla Vs. Kong, 2021
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, 2011
The Green Mile, 1999
Grumpier Old Men, 1995
Grumpy Old Men, 1993
The Hangover Part II, 2011 (HBO)
A Hidden Life, 2019 (HBO)
The Hills Have Eyes II, 2007 (Extended Version) (HBO)
The Hills Have Eyes, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012
Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, The, 2014
Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, The, 2013
How The West Was Won, 1962
I Am Sam, 2002
The Invisible Man, 2020 (HBO)
Jojo Rabbit, 2019 (HBO)
Jonny Quest, 1964
Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space, 1972
Josie And The Pussycats, 1970
Just Mercy, 2019 (HBO)
The Looney Tunes Show, 2011
Looney Tunes: Back In Action, 2003
Lying And Stealing, 2019 (HBO)
Ma, 2019 (HBO)
The Man Who Would Be King, 1975
Marvin’s Room, 1996 (HBO)
Mildred Pierce, 1945
Mister Roberts, 1955
My Blue Heaven, 1990
My Dog Skip, 2000
My Favorite Year, 1982
National Lampoon’s European Vacation, 1985
National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1983
The Neverending Story, 1984
New Jack City, 1991
New Looney Tunes, 2015
New York Minute, 2004
Of Mice And Men, 1992 (HBO)
Open Water 2: Adrift, 2006 (HBO)
Open Water, 2004 (HBO)
Paddington Bear, 1989
Patriots Day, 2016
Presumed Innocent, 1990
Pride And Prejudice, 1940
Private Benjamin, 1980
Red Tails, 2012 (HBO)
Reversal Of Fortune, 1990
Rio Bravo, 1959
Rise Of The Guardians, 2012 (HBO)
School Of Rock, 2003 (HBO)
Scooby-Doo And Scrappy-Doo, 1981
The Scooby-Doo Show, 1976
Scooby-Doo Where Are You!, 1969
The Secret Garden, 1993
She’s All That, 1999
Snakes On A Plane, 2006
Son Of The Mask, 2005
Space Cowboys, 2000
Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, 1995
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, 2005
Tom And Jerry (Classic), 1967
Tower Heist, 2011 (HBO)
Under Siege, 1992
Viva Las Vegas, 1964
We Bought A Zoo, 2011 (HBO)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, 1962 (HBO)
Where The Wild Things Are, 2009
The Wild Bunch, 1969
The Wind And The Lion, 1975
The Yogi Bear Show, 1988

Last year, a Redditor made a stir in the whiskey world by proclaiming that you only ever need five bottles of bourbon on your shelf. Those included a “daily drinker, impress your guests, cheap mixer, something great, and the saving for a special occasion bottle.” While we’d also include a quality mixer into that equation, it’s a pretty solid way to look at what bottles to always keep around.

Recently, we’ve taken this “five bottles” concept to heart. So much so that we’re going to start asking our friends in the world of whiskey, beer, and spirits to name their picks in various categories. And we’re starting with me, Zach Johnston, Uproxx Life’s Deputy Editor and head Drinks writer.

I’ve been working in hospitality since I was five-years-old, when I used to sort tomatoes and lettuce at my mom and grandma’s luncheonette before going to kindergarten every morning. I worked my way through college in sandwich shops and pizzerias. I started working behind bars in Prague almost 20 years ago, mostly at organic wine bars tucked away in hidden cellars around the city. In the mid-2010s, I began working in Berlin’s high-end cocktail scene and started getting involved in industry events and conventions.

Over the past five years, I’ve been writing about drinks for Uproxx, podcasting about beer, traveling the world to meet the people behind various spirits, and hosting tastings in person (when safe) and on social media. It’s a fun job, as you might imagine. But while I’m lucky enough to get to taste some truly amazing whiskey, rum, vodka, beer, etc., I didn’t have too much trouble winnowing my whiskey collection down to five essentials. Here you go!

End-of-the-Day Dram: Wild Turkey 101 Rye

ABV: 50.5%

Average Price: $40

The Whiskey:

Wild Turkey’s signature rye benefits from the brand’s signature move in making all their whiskey. The juice is matured for around six years in heavily charred “alligator” barrels. That heavy char and longer aging imbues a lot into the whiskey before it’s batched, lightly proofed down to the trademark 101 proof, and bottled.

Tasting Notes:

There’s this opening of cedar that leads to, I swear, firecracker black powder. There’s also a sense of savory fruit (think pumpkin) on the end of the nose that works nicely with that black gunpowder and cedar. The taste is a cream vanilla — nearly a mint ice-cream — with hints of Christmas spices next to sweet yet spicy caramel apples.

Bottom Line:

This whiskey really hits every moment of the whiskey experience just right for me. One, it’s tasty. It’s not an MGP rye, so the spice isn’t the only note you get. It’s complex while still being accessible.

It’s also an easy-drinking whiskey all-around. You’ll get a pure sense of “whiskey” with every sip while not being overly challenged. You can just sit back and let the warmth of that Kentucky hug flow over you, which is exactly what you need at the end of the day.

Mixer: Jameson Black Barrel

ABV: 40%

Average Price: $40

The Whiskey:

This is Jameson’s take on double barreling. The whiskey is first matured in old bourbon barrels. That juice is then transferred to another bourbon barrel that’s been doubly charred with a deep alligator skin char. Those barrels are batched and proofed all the way down to 80 proof.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a dark chocolate note that leads to clear vanilla and toffee. This feels very sherried with notes of holiday spice and nuts leading towards an almost cedar note. The end is creamy and smooth.

Bottom Line:

This is really solid on the rocks whiskey with a serious depth, but it’s that depth and stoutness that makes this such a solid mixer. It never gets lost in any cocktail and will always remind you’re drinking whiskey, even when you’re mixing.

End-of-the-Week Dram: Talisker 10

ABV: 45.8%

Average Price: $75

The Whiskey:

This is one of the most awarded single malts ever. The juice is matured in ex-bourbon casks in Talisker’s warehouse which is literally feet from the sea. The subtly peated malts take on a real seaside feel as those years tick past, creating a whisky that will not disappoint.

Tasting Notes:

There’s a distance to Talisker that draws you in on the nose. I like to describe it as campfire smoke smelled from a few hundred yards down a rainy beach. The sea spray mellows the smoky peat to a fine point as crushed oyster shells dance with almost sandy pears, dried apricot, and rich malt. The end doesn’t overstay its welcome and reminds you of oysters, fine liquor, and that smoldering campfire way off in the mist.

Bottom Line:

This bottle hits a nostalgic spot for me as it was the bottle my father-in-law used to introduce me to “good scotch” while we were on a trip through Scotland. I never looked back.

I really do drink a fair amount of this stuff. It’s also the dram I order when I’m at a whisk(e)y bar because I know how good it’ll be every time. But it’s the very fact that this is “the good stuff” that I save it for the end of the week as opposed to an everyday dram.

It’s worth the wait and tastes all the better when it’s really earned.

Celebration Dram: Balcones Lineage Texas Single Malt

ABV: 47%

Average Price: $39

The Whiskey:

This bottle is from one of my all-time favorite craft distilleries. The juice is a marrying of malts from Scotland and Texas in the mash, which then creates a bridge between those two diverse whisky worlds. The whisky is aged under the intense Waco sun in Balcones’ warehouse in used and new oak for just the right amount of time.

Tasting Notes:

This opens with a nose full of peach peels, vintage cream soda, hot and spicy apple cider (yes, it smells hot, not cold), and a touch of yeasty sourdough sourness. The taste veers into velvet and very fresh honey sweetness, with a hint of soft cedar and salted caramel that ends on an almost reduced and sweet balsamic tang. The end circles back to the spice with a note of hot cinnamon next to a slight black tea bitterness on the slow fade.

Bottom Line:

This is my go-to party or celebration bottle because it’s both affordable and unique. There’s nothing quite like this and it’s a home run in every aspect from nose to taste to the mouthfeel.

This feels like a bottle I can put out at a home tasting and let people really dive into it to find new depths of whisky and appreciation for craft whisky in general. And again, it’s priced well enough that if we finish one or two bottles while celebrating, I’m not going to cry over my bank account the next morning.

Once-a-Year Dram: Oban 21 (2018 Limited Release)

ABV: 57.9%

Average Price: $550

The Whiskey:

This is a monster bottle (at a very prohibitive price-point). This limited-release from 2018 is bottled from whisky mellowed for 21 years in a second-fill European oak barrel. It’s devilishly simple yet deeply provocative and well-worth the investment if you’re craving something truly special.

Tasting Notes:

Notes of salted cream mingle with a subtle sense of whisky malts and oak. The sip leans into touches of bitter cacao and toasted coconut with a hazelnut underpinning, creating a fatty feel with the cacao. Adding water brings about a counterpoint of fresh mint with the cacao and coconut like a luscious yet light salty-sweet dessert. The end is fascinatingly short, making you want to pour another dram immediately.

Bottom Line:

This is my birthday/Christmas morning/New Year’s Eve/I got a promotion/I won the lottery dram. That is, I have about three drams from my bottle every year and that’s it.

This is really special to me in that Oban is one of my favorite distilleries in the world. I love visiting and can even see retiring to a town like Oban. The sea, the cliffs, the little pubs, the seafood … it’s all very much in my wheelhouse. Taking a dram or two of this takes me back there.

This makes me think about where I’ve been, how lucky I am, and where I’m going. It’s the perfect whisky.

After being shut out at last year’s Grammy Awards, Nigerian superstar Burna Boy is officially a Grammy Award winner after taking home the statue for Best Global Music Album (Twice As Tall) at the 2021 63rd Annual Grammy Awards earlier this month. To celebrate, he has released the inspirational video for his Twice As Tall standout “23.”

Naturally taking inspiration from its iconic namesake, much of the “23” video revolves around the sport of basketball, as seen through the eyes of athletes who are ordinarily invisible: Black women. One of the players the video chooses to highlight is wheelchair-bound, but poses in front of a full case of trophies.

Other women who appear in the video are dancers, designers, and music producers — all fields where Black women are underrepresented — while Burna’s performance sequences play out before projected images of his own accomplishments. “The music make me feel I be Jordan,” he croons on the chorus, encouraging listeners to be the best they can through the life-changing power of self-belief. “Now I understand why them say aiye po gan” — “Now I understand why they say there’s enough space” — he says, highlighting how there is room for everyone to be successful.

Watch Burna Boy’s “23” video above.

Burna Boy is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Ahead of its release next month, HBO has dropped a full-length trailer for its new Victorian action-drama series The Nevers. Centered around gifted women called “The Touched,” the series looks to be a good time with its “X-Men but in old-timey London” vibes, and lead actress Laura Donnelly is a clear standout in the intriguing new trailer that showcases the first six episodes comprising Part One of the series. Part Two of The Nevers will air at a later date.

Here’s the official synopsis via HBO:

August, 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular “turns,” all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair (Ann Skelly) to protect and shelter these gifted “orphans.” To do so, they will have to face the brutal forces determined to annihilate their kind.

HBO also unveiled the official poster for the highly-anticipated series along with a character guide to its intricate cast:

Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer) as Lavinia Bidlow, the wealthy benefactress funding the orphanage for Amalia’s outcasts, who are also known as the Touched.

James Norton (Little Women) as Hugo Swann, the rich and irreverent proprietor of a den of iniquity.

Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons) as Augustus “Augie” Bidlow, Lavinia’s sweet, awkward, younger brother with a secret of his own.

Pip Torrens (The Crown) as Lord Gilbert Massen, a high-ranking government official leading the crusade against our heroines.

Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line) as Inspector Frank Mundi, who’s torn between his police duties and moral compass.

Emmy-nominee Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) as Edmund Hague, a deranged doctor searching for the source of the powers.

Amy Manson (Once Upon a Time) as the tortured, murderous Maladie, who derives power from pain.

Rochelle Neil (Terminator: Dark Fate) as the fire-wielding Annie “Bonfire” Carby, one of Maladie’s motley gang.

Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds) as orphanage doctor Horatio Cousens, whose turn equips him with healing powers.

Eleanor Tomlinson (The Illusionist) as Mary Brighton, a broken and resilient performer pursuing her dream of singing on stage.

Elizabeth Berrington (In Bruges) as Lucy Best, adaptive and streetwise, her quick-wit and high spirits mask the pain of a tragic past.

Anna Devlin (All the Money in the World) as Primrose Chattoway who, at ten feet tall and a dreamy demeanor, wishes to be an ordinary girl not taking up too much space.

Kiran Sonia Sawar (HBO Max’s Pure) as Harriet Kaur, a young Scottish Sikh and aspiring lawyer, determined to live her life as she planned.

Viola Prettejohn (The Witcher) as Myrtle Haplisch, a middle-class girl rescued from a family who cannot understand her – literally, as she can no longer speak any form of language they understand.

Ella Smith (Ray & Liz) as Désireé Blodgett, a prostitute with a power that gets her in trouble and a six-year-old son who never speaks.

Vinnie Heaven as Nimble Jack, a rakish and charming young thief and an expert at breaking and entering.

Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) as feared criminal overlord Declan “Beggar King” Orrun.

The Nevers premieres April 11 on HBO and HBO Max

(Via HBO)

John Oliver and Geraldo Rivera have been feuding since at least 2017, when the Last Week Tonight host responded to the Fox News personality saying he loves “watching bombs drop on bad guys.” Oliver called that a coincidence, as “one of my favorite things in four seasons of this show is getting to look directly into the camera and say, ‘F*ck you Geraldo! I hope your mustache gets caught in a box fan.’ Oh, that felt amazing! That felt absolutely amazing.” More recently, Oliver mocked Rivera’s “Pringles Guy auditioned for Miami Vice” look from a 1986 television special.

It must have taken Rivera a few weeks to get around to the March 1 clip, however, as he only just responded to Oliver — by inviting Meghan McCain to their feud. (Never invite Meghan to the discourse. Or anywhere.) “@iamjohnoliver criticism of @MeghanMcCain is a reminder of what an unfunny, self-righteous punk he is,” he tweeted.

Oliver recently linked the increase of hate crimes against Asian-Americans to Donald Trump’s racist terminology for the coronavirus, which The View co-host previously defended (she has since apologized). “Oh good! Meghan McCain doesn’t have a problem with it,” he said. “Listen not to the scores of Asian-Americans telling everyone that the term is dangerous and offensive. Instead, gather around and take the word of a wealthy white woman who’s dressed like she’s about to lay off 47 people over Zoom.”

As for why Rivera is defending Meghan McCain, who knows. It’s best to not ask why Rivera does anything. Or else you’ll spend the rest of your week staring at this tweet.

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil (YouTube Premium miniseries) — She’s been to post-childhood-stardom hell and back, and now, Demi Lovato is here to present her truth in a four-part series. Expect to see details of not-so-pretty moments and downright destructive ones (Lovato overdosed on a opioid-fentanyl cocktail in 2018), along with details about what led to that moment and how she continues to recover.

Mayans M.C.: Season 3 Premiere (FX, 10:00pm) — This biker drama’s kicking into its darker third gear with the club all wrestling with various personal and professional demons. This week, a very bearded Bishop decides to put EZ’s plan into fruition.

Young Rock (NBC, 8:00pm) — Back in the late 1980s, Rocky is on the road (sounds like ice cream) and Ata discovers a heartbreaking piece of information.

Kenan (NBC, 8:30pm) — Kenan’s former boy-band colleague is now a pop star, and he’s back in town, which may or may not prompt Kenan to seek change.

The Flash (CW, 8:00pm) — Abra Kadabra makes an unexpected return to Central City, and there’s vengeance and a score to settle, and a tricky situation, and, well, it sounds like chaos.

Superman and Lois (CW, 9:00pm) — The world’s most famous superhero and the most famous journalist are behaving as ordinarily as possible in this series, and one can guess how well that will work out. This week, Smallville celebrates Harvest Festival, which sounds delicious and touching and possibly heartbreaking.

New Amsterdam (NBC, 9:00pm) — Max brings Luna back to new York, Bloom’s working hard to ensure safety in the workplace, and Reynolds is shifting around while Sharpe struggles.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Dana Carvey, Imagine Dragons

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Chelsea Handler, Russell Brand, Mary Beth Barone

Late Night With Seth Meyers — Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, Sebastian Stan, Baratunde Thurston, Ash Soan

Staged: Series 2 (BBC One series on Hulu) — This is the rare COVID-era comedy that’s worth tuning into because who can resist David Tennant and Michael Sheen shooting the sh*t together while playing somewhat fictional versions of themselves? This second installment spans eight episodes and basically follows the two Brits losing their minds during this crisis that’s also making the rest of lose our minds, too. The guest lineup includes Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Schwartz, Jim Parsons, Simon Pegg, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, Ken Jeong, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Waffles + Mochi: Season 1 (Netflix series) — Michelle Freaking Obama stars in this show about two curious puppets, (obviously) Waffles and Mochi, who explore the world through food and culture. This also doubles as an educational series about fresh-ingredient cooking, so learn how to become a chef, along with the puppets and a former first lady. Don’t resist this one!