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Here’s Everything New On Netflix This Week, Including ‘Queer Eye’ And ’13 Reasons Why’

Netflix kicks off the month of June with the return of two original series and an action flick that hopes to be the next Extraction. Queer Eye is back and heading to Philly to give some people in need a life makeover — and us a feel-good weekend binge. The teen crime drama 13 Reasons Why also returns to deal out some justice before wrapping for good. And Edgar Ramirez fronts a sci-fi crime film based on a futuristic comic book story.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix this week of June 5.

The Last Days of American Crime (Netflix film streaming 6/5)

Edgar Ramirez and Michael Pitt star in this futuristic action flick based off a graphic novel. Ramirez plays a criminal who, along with Pitt, plans to pull off the last great American heist before the government enacts a new law that broadcasts a signal essentially preventing people from committing crimes. This looks like a worthy successor to Extraction, just with a more sci-fi bent.

Queer Eye: Season 5 (Netflix original series streaming 6/5)

We’re all in need of some good news right now and Netflix knows that. Why else would they give us a brand new season of this reality makeover series? The Fab Five are heading to Philly to renovate the lives of more people in need, including a “super mom,” a gay pastor, and a medical student. Your weekend comfort watch is now sorted.

13 Reasons Why: Season 4 (Netflix original series streaming 6/5)

This show has been a rollercoaster filled with crime, truly bad takes on sexual assault and mental illness, and drama. So much drama. It’s ending this season, but not before someone makes sure Monty doesn’t go down for Bryce’s (deserved) death.

Here’s a full list of what’s been added in the last week:

Avail. 6/1
Act of Valor
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Bad News Bears
Cape Fear
Casper
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clow Card
Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura Card
Clueless
Cocomelon: Season 1
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Healer
Inside Man
Lust, Caution
Observe and Report
Priest
Silence of the Lambs
Starship Troopers
The Boy
The Car
(1977)
The Disaster Artist
The Help
The Lake House
The Queen
Twister
V for Vendetta
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
West Side Story
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Zodiac

Avail. 6/2
Alone: Season 6
Fuller House: The Farewell Season (Netflix Original)
Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On
True: Rainbow Rescue (Netflix Family)

Avail. 6/3
Killing Gunther
Lady Bird
Spelling the Dream
(Netflix Documentary) .

Avail. 6/4
Baki: The Great Raitai Tournament Saga (Netflix Anime)
Can You Hear Me? (Netflix Original)

Avail. 6/5
13 Reasons Why: Season 4 (Netflix Original)
Hannibal: Season 1-3
The Last Days of American Crime (Netflix Film)
Queer Eye: Season 5 (Netflix Original)

And here’s what’s leaving next week, so it’s your last chance:

Leaving 6/7
Equilibrium
From Paris With Love

Leaving 6/9
Mad Men: Season 1-7

Leaving 6/10
Standoff

Leaving 6/11
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Series 1

Leaving 6/12
Dragonheart
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer
Dragonheart: A New Beginning
Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire
Cutie and the Boxer

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Billie Eilish Points Out A Double Standard In Music That Wrongfully Categorizes Black And White Artists

The last week has found Billie Eilish using her voice once again to speak about the overlooked and unknown aspects of both herself and the music industry. The Grammy award-winning singer shared a video titled “Not My Responsibility” in which she addressed her body image, clothing style, and more. Continuing this discussion in the upcoming July/August feature of GQ, Billie Eilish touched upon the aforementioned topics while highlighting a double standard in the industry as well.

Eilish pointed out a double standard in the industry after being asked for thoughts on Tyler The Creator’s Best Rap Album Grammy award speech for Igor. “I have always hated categories,” she said. “I hate when people say, ‘Oh, you look like ‘blank.’ You sound like ‘blank.” It was such a cool thing Tyler said. I agree with him about that term.” Eilish would then question why Lizzo was placed in the R&B category when, as she said, “she’s more pop than I am.”

“Look, if I wasn’t white I would probably be in ‘rap’. Why? They just judge from what you look like and what they know. I think that is weird,” Eilish said. “The world wants to put you into a box; I’ve had it my whole career. Just because I am a white teenage female I am pop. Where am I pop? What part of my music sounds like pop?”

In the same GQ issue, Eilish also spoke on her public persona and revealed that she had “never felt desired.” “I am clickbait at the moment. Anything with my name on it or anything I say or do can and will be used against me.”

The July/August issue with Eilish arrives on newsstands June 5th.

[via GQ]

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Top Chef Power Rankings, Week 12: The Pitfalls Of Cooking Italian Food For Italians

This week, the Top Chef gang traveled to Italy for part one of the season 17 finale, the series’ first in Italy. I was hoping for some incredibly provincial Italian food criticisms, about how you should-a never cook-a this thing in-a this way, and we did get some of that, though not enough. Not that it’s ever enough. Frankly, I could’ve used more hand gestures, too.

Before they went anywhere though, the show had to squeeze in four or five minutes of infomercial content about how great the food is in the American Airlines Admiral’s Club and how comfortable the seats are on American Airlines Business Class while the contestants all smiled and gushed about what a great time they were having on American Airlines Business like some fresh-faced kids on the cover of a course catalog. Aw, see how much ass the show had to kiss in order to afford going to Europe? Basic cable productions are just like us!

Even after they arrived — at the luxurious Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa — the show had even more generous product placement to do for Birra Peroni. “I love Peroni!” Steph whispered, in what was surely a moment of pure spontaneity.

In the quickfire challenge, “Champagne Padma” from last episode became “World Traveler Padma” in the Piazza dell’Anfiteatro in Lucca, showing off her not inconsiderable Italian skills. Oh, did you not realize that Padma is fluent in Italian? The things one learns when one is an internationally famous model… You know what I learned at my first job? How to nap with my sunglasses on so it looked like I was awake.

The first challenge was to make an “aperitivo,” which we were given to understand is basically the Italian version of a tapa — something small you eat to whet your appetite for more food while putting just enough calories in your belly to provide ballast for your drunk ass to waddle from bar to bar. Ugh, stupid Europeans, always drinking and having a good time. I’m so proud we “won” two world wars. Meanwhile, they all spend three days a week (plus 12 random holidays) getting sloshed and eating cured meats and still live 10 years longer than we do. Wonderful culture we’ve got here. I’d probably resent them for their food, and scenery, and history, and ample vacation days, if we didn’t have so many beautiful cities here like, uh… Scottsdale, and… Topeka. Yeah.

Anyway, the contestants had to cook their aperitivo for 30 people in 30 minutes, continuing this season’s trend of impossibly hard challenges. The locals mostly went easy on them, with no gesturing or crotch grabbing or giving of the evil eye. Which was frankly very disappointing. After that, Tom showed up looking like he was auditioning for a Fellini movie:

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Ay, Signor Colicchio, come fa? My man looks like he’s about to say buongiorno to all the bellisima lady and drive off in an extremely small car.

In the elimination challenge, the chefs got to tag along for a truffle hunt. That’s when a team of men in rubber boots and adorable dogs go snuffling around a forest in search of your mother’s panties. Jk, jk. I actually saw an incredible documentary at Sundance called The Truffle Hunters about this very thing — one guy sang songs on an accordion and another got a benediction for his truffle dog at a cathedral. It was incredible. Sony Pictures Classics, get off your asses and release that.

All of this was, naturally, a prelude for a challenge in which the chefs had to create a dish to showcase the flavors of Tuscany’s famous white truffle. Now, if you had “someone shaving $800 worth of truffle onto a dish with more spices than an average mole” on your Top Chef bingo card, you can definitely check that one off. Che peccato, non me piace, why you donna respect-a mama’s a-truffles?

The chefs also learned a very important lesson this week, about how Italian supermarkets don’t sell chicken broth. Which does seem extremely Italian. “Chicken-a broth? Basta! You donna have-a due o tre hora to cook-a di brodo you-a self, you donna deserve-a no brodo!” (*spits on ground, crosses self*)

(Don’t look at me like that, you knew this week’s recap would have lots of terrible fake Italian).

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5. (-3) ((eliminated)) Gregory Gourdet

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AKA: Kravitz. Aka Hepcat. Aka Lids. Aka Pollos Hermanos.

Yep, Gregory is out. Can you believe it? This one was both painful and shocking. Not since Stefan in season five have we seen such an odds-on favorite all season stumble in the finale. Gregory was also the second contestant eliminated this season after the end of Last Chance Kitchen — meaning he and Malarkey and the next few eliminated chefs will be the only ones not to get a second chance.

And he did so after a top-three finish in a quickfire. And in the midst of back spasms. As a backiotomy-needing American myself, I commiserate. It’s easy to imagine not giving too much of a shit about cooking when your back hurts. There aren’t too many things worse for your back than taking a trans-Atlantic flight and then standing hunched over a cutting board all day. Especially when you’re a long-legged dude like Gregory.
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The Dish: Wild boar with tomato, prunes, cocoa, and white truffle polenta.

The Reviews: “The truffle was lost.”

According to some stuff I Googled just now, “cinghiale in dolceforte” is a traditional Tuscan dish made of wild boar and dark chocolate that is often compared to mole. Gregory’s version looks bomb as hell but yeah, I guess I can see how shaving a few hundred bucks worth of white truffles on top of something that resembles mole would be an elimination-worthy offense. Seems like Gregory would’ve been better off incorporating truffles into something Haitian-ish rather than serving the Italians his version of their food. Gotta keep them Italians on their heels, Gregory! You can never let an eye-talian get too comfortable, I always say.

I don’t know what’s worse, a clear favorite going home so early or that we only got half an episode worth of Gregory-in-Italy’s-fashion to enjoy.

4. (+1) Stephanie Cmar

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AKA: C-Monster. Aka Underdog. Aka C-Truffle.

I nicknamed Steph “C-Truffle” for totally non-truffle related reasons, and this week it showed. She, like pretty much everyone else, made a dish that didn’t let the truffles shine. The C-Monster was actually in the bottom of both challenges this week, but somehow she’s still hanging on.

First, in the quickfire, she attempted a “venison en carrozza”, with venison stuffed into two slices of focaccia toast spread with gorgonzola and then deep fried. That actually sounded pretty good, though deep frying venison went as badly as you might imagine and the townsfolk nearly broke a tooth trying to gnaw through it.

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The Dish: Squash and brown butter mezzaluna, porcini brodo, rosemary, braised radicchio & white truffle.

The Reviews: “Too much going on.” “Truffle gets lost.” “Please don’t make us any more pasta.”

The most Italian moment of the episode was probably when Steph served her elimination challenge dish and an Italian woman walked over to say “please, don’t-a cook us anymore a-pasta, we-a so tired of-a eating the pasta.” Hey, thanks, lady. Great timing.

At first, I thought Steph’s squash ravioli looked pretty good, but then when I read the actual ingredients I get mad that Gregory got sent home instead of her. Rosemary, porcini, and radicchio? What the f*ck? She also served the radicchio even after she tasted it and made a gross face. C’mon, C-Monster! There’s no rule that says you have to serve everything you buy! Was it because Kevin won the quickfire with a radicchio dish? Let this be a lesson, not every radicchio is a winner.

I’m half rooting for C-Monster as the clear underdog but she keeps sabotaging herself with these rookie mistakes. Clean it up, C-Monster.

3. (+1) Kevin Gillespie

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AKA: Hops. Aka Oops All Kevins. Aka Thicc Kev. Aka Foghorn Kevhorn.

Thicc Kev screamed into an early lead this week, winning the quickfire with his creamy polenta with radicchio agradolce. In the elimination challenge, the editors would have us believe Kevin was undone by his lack of familiarity with Italian supermarkets, when he accidentally bought ground pork, wild boar, and veal instead of whatever single ground meat he intended to (unclear).

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The Dish: Polpette with chestnut honey, roasted onion, pecorino, and white truffles.

The Reviews: “The spices he used are competing with the white truffle.” “It didn’t need the meat at all.”

When Gail asked Kevin why he chose to deep fry his meatball, Kev said “I didn’t want it too saucy, there was already so much fat elsewhere on the plate that I didn’t want to add more.” Which has to be the first time a chef said they deep-fried something in order to make it less fatty. Only a Southern chef…

Say what you will about Foghorn Kevhorn, if he was going to go out, it was going to be the way he came in — atop a shield of deep-fried meat. You gotta respect it. I want to see at least one tater tot dish out of Kevin before this season ends.

2. (+1) Bryan Voltaggio

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AKA: Flatbill Dad. Aka Bry Voltage. Aka Kyle Shanahan. Aka Linkin Clark Griswold. Aka Family Bry.

Linkin Clark couldn’t speak a lick of Italian, but he oozes the kind of raw dadliness that requires no translation. The way the collar of his plaid shirt sticks out the neck of his sweater… it screams “quit messin’ with the dang thermostat!” in any language. Where nü metal meets New Balance, that’s where you’ll find Bryan Voltaggio.

Bry Guy blew yet another quickfire challenge (too many spices in the lamb tartare) but redeemed himself in the elimination challenge with yet another hyper-competent yet slightly boring white tablecloth take on the challenge.

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The Dish: Braised veal shank ragu, chestnuts, white truffle, and aerated potato.

The Reviews: “It has the right classic flavors.” “I got the most pure truffle flavor from Bryan’s dish.”

Was this the first foam of the season? Do “aerated” potatoes count as a foam? I don’t know, but I do know that Bry Guy damn near won another challenge and his skill set seems well suited for pleasing these persnickety Italians. Have the editors and judges been sandbagging him all season? Or is he about to become runner up yet again?

1. (even) Melissa King

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AKA: Zen Master. Aka Dimples. Aka Shutterstock.

Did you catch Melissa’s fantasy of riding through Italy on a scooter with a beautiful woman on the back? I think that was the first hint at Melissa’s sexuality this entire season and they moved right along. You have to admire the way Top Chef glosses right over the kind of human interest nuggets most reality shows would beat you over the head with in umpteen promos.

With Gregory gone, Melissa is pretty obviously the odds-on favorite to win it all. First she almost won the quickfire with a pickled mussel and then she won the elimination challenge with a rice congee.

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The Dish: Truffle congee, salami, fried garlic, parsley, quail egg, and white truffle butter.

The Reviews: “I thought the quail egg was brilliant.” “If we remove the salami she made a really intelligent dish.”

Melissa did her own food with an Italian twist, rather than her own twist on Italian food, which seemed like the right move. She managed to win even as she pissed off an Italian for the unforgivable food sin of cooking salami. Once again, apparently without even breaking a sweat. How could she possibly lose at this point? I guess we’ll find out.

Vince Mancini is on Twitter. Read more of his cooking commentary in UPROXX’s Cooking Battles and Viral Cooking. For past Top Chef Power Rankings, go here.

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Kanye West Was Spotted At A Black Lives Matter Protest In Chicago

Following two weeks of police protests, fans began to wonder why some of their favorite — or at least most outspoken — celebrities were rather silent and inactive in the latest round of Black Lives Matter protests. One of the names that came up was Kanye West, who has been very outspoken over recent years in terms of his political stance and support of a certain individual in office. Before the collective mass of social media could fire off their full artillery of jokes and insults at West for his lack of support, news broke that he created a college fund to cover tuition costs for Gianna Floyd, daughter of George Floyd, a Texas native who was killed by Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25.

In addition to the college fund, West also donated $2 million to charities associated with Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Floyd, promised to cover the legal costs for Arbery and Taylor’s families, and committed to donating money to black-owned businesses in Chicago. While this may be quite a lot for one day, West is far from finished as video broke out Friday night that showed him marching with Chicago Public School students.

Fans quickly took to social media to share their thoughts on West with some commending him for showing face at the protest, while others were not so quick to buy into his appearance.

Check out videos of Kanye West at the protest above and scroll down to read some reactions from fans as well.