Killing Eve has found increasingly inventive, often brutal ways to dispatch beloved characters, but this week’s episode makes stabbing MI6 agents in the club, and spearing bodies like you’d poke holes in the plastic film over a TV dinner before popping it into the microwave, look like mere child’s play.

“Still Got It” gives us another two-for-one murder special, and while watching Villanelle play a game with her prey before suffocating a poor widow with a hose from her own greenhouse was a delightful romp — or as delightful and premeditated murder can be — award for most memorable attack goes to her mentor, Dasha (Dame Harriet Walter).

Let’s revisit one of the bloodiest kills of the season so far.

The Pitchfork Surprise

Here’s Niko (Owen McDonnell), Eve’s estranged husband, at the beginning of the episode. He’s in Poland, delivering bread to village women, filling up his social calendar, and taking generic nature selfies. He’s the Eastern European version of a basic white b*tch, and honestly, good for him. He’s escaped the insanity of his wife’s job and relationship with a psychotic assassin, and he seems to have gotten a handle on his PTSD over Gemma’s death last season. Niko is experiencing what we in the biz call “growth.”

Which means that Niko is not long for this world.

No spoilers dammit!

Cut to Villanelle. She’s baking cakes, still hung up on her sexually-charged encounter with Eve on London’s public transit system. Dasha tries to curb her obsessive tendencies when it comes to the former MI6 agent by teasing a meeting with the Twelve. Looks like someone might be getting a promotion.

Or not. It seems a secret international organization of highly trained assassins and ex-government agents isn’t too forgiving when one of their own goes off-book, which is exactly what Villanelle did with that whole “Smell me, Eve” bit. Even the scent of a Roman gladiator can’t protect her, or Dasha, from their ire. A representative for the Twelve comes to warn Dasha that her dream of returning to Mother Russia won’t happen if she can’t temper her protege’s more dangerous impulses, suggesting that Dasha drive a wedge between the two women in an imaginative way.

She also comments on Dasha’s hat hair and insults Eve’s proclivity for turtlenecks so really, f*ck this woman.

Still, while Villanelle’s doing a job as a favor to Konstantin in exchange for information on her family, Dasha is jetting off to Poland to put her master plan into action. She stalks Niko, pretending to be an elderly village woman who enjoys pub culture in order to steal his phone and text Eve his whereabouts. For a moment, it looks like Dasha might be planning to kill Eve, despite the Twelve ordering her not to.

But no, she’s got something even crueler in mind. As Eve prepares to reunite with Niko, Dasha spears his neck like a stalk of cooked broccoli with a pitchfork. Her timing? Impeccable.

She also leaves a note, a calling card meant more for Villanelle than Eve herself.

The line harks back to a conversation the two female assassins had earlier this season about their respective legacies.

We’re left with a broken Eve, still in shock over witnessing her husband’s grisly murder, but we’re also left with plenty of questions. It seems strange that Dasha would leave a clue for Villanelle, linking her to Niko’s murder. Perhaps she intended for Eve to believe Villanelle is the one who sent her husband to his grave, but it’s unlikely that plan would work once Eve recovers from her emotional breakdown over Niko’s death. Eve knows Villanelle, her style of killing, her handwriting. She also knows Villanelle has had plenty of chances to off her husband and she chose not to because Villanelle has assumed Eve would never forgive her for that.

So, if this kill doesn’t drive a wedge between the two, but instead, pits Dasha against Villanelle … what was the point? Perhaps Dasha, knowing how fickle the Twelve have been when it comes to her retirement, plans to unite Eve and Villanelle together against the group so that she’ll finally be free of them? Or maybe her ego just got the best of her and she’s inadvertently signed her own death warrant. Who knows?

BBC America’s ‘Killing Eve’ airs on Sundays at 9:00 PM EST with simulcasting on AMC.

It doesn’t matter if production is shut down and the scheduled release date of November 13 will have to be pushed back, Red Notice is still “the only movie that matters.” The action-thriller stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as “the world’s greatest tracker,” who is after “the world’s greatest art thief,” played by Gal Gadot. Ryan Reynolds is in the movie, too, as “the world’s greatest con-man.” Everyone in the movie is the world’s greatest something, therefore, Red Notice will be the world’s greatest movie. That’s just science.

Reynolds dropped by The Tonight Show on Tuesday to discuss the Netflix movie, which he joked would have been finished by now, “if we didn’t spend 90 percent of the time d*cking around laughing. I’ve known Dwayne for like 15 years, so we spend most of our time together trying to make each other laugh, which is a really irresponsible thing to do with [Netflix’s] money.” What’s the key to making Johnson break during a scene?

“I think one of the reasons I’ve been friends with him for a long time is that he really laughs at himself,” the Deadpool star explained to host Jimmy Fallon. “So if you just parrot back his thing that he’s doing in the movie, like if his line is, ‘I’m special agent John Harvey of the FBI,’ and if you parrot it back just 27 percent faster with a swear word, like, ‘I’m special agent John Harvey of the FBI, motherf*cker,’ he just… he’s gone. He leaves the room and he never comes back.” It helps if you do a terrible, gravely-voiced impression of the Rock while dropping the “motherf*cker.”

Watch the rest of Reynolds’ interview with Fallon above.

Less than a day after the release of Young Thug’s joint mixtape with Chris Brown, Slime & B, Thug revealed that it took him only a day to finish recording all his verses for the project. The Atlanta trap rap pioneer explained on Twitter, writing that, “I recorded all the verses in one day.”

The 14-song project was released to mixtape services and SoundCloud yesterday with almost no promotion but plenty of fanfare after both artists plugged it on their respective social channels. Fans quickly gravitated to the mixtape, which was released on Brown’s 31st birthday, causing both artists and the mixtape’s title to trend on Twitter. The project also featured appearances from veteran rappers E-40 and Too Short, Thug-associated trap rappers Gunna and Lil Duke, and Shad Da God, Hoody Baby, and Major9.

The tape was Young Thug’s second release in as many years as well as his second joint mixtape. He dropped Super Slimey in 2017 with Future and rumors have circulated that Future and Thug are working on a follow-up to that project with Gunna and Lil Baby. In the meantime, Thug released his debut album, So Much Fun, as well as a deluxe version.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The ongoing pandemic has changed how the entire music industry operates, most notably on the live entertainment side of things. In-person concerts are a thing of the past at the moment, but some people are looking to change that. A performer in Denmark recently held a drive-in concert, and now electronic musician Marc Rebillet is taking that concept and expanding it into a tour.

Rebillet currently has a string of seven shows lined up (mostly in Texas) for his “Drive-In Concert Tour,” which runs from June to July. Additional dates are expected to be added in the future. Fans will be able to purchase food and merch, and instead of opening acts, short films will be screened.

In a video announcing the tour, Rebillet said (with much enthusiasm), “Guys, check this out. So I know that we’re hungry for live entertainment. God knows I’m hungry to get out there and play for you, which is why I’m super f*cking pumped to announce right now the Marc Rebillet drive-in live concert tour 2020. That’s right, I am coming to drive-in movie theaters and playing motherf*cking shows, dude! Social distancing observed. My team and I have been working super, super hard to put this together quickly and ensure that it happens safely and responsibly. Man, it’s f*cking going down! I’m pumped!”

Check out Rebillet’s upcoming tour dates below.

6/11 — Charlotte, NC
6/18 — Kansas City, KS
6/20 — Tulsa, OK
6/25 — Fort Worth, TX
6/26 — Fort Worth, TX
7/02 — Houston, TX
7/03 — Houston, TX

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Last week’s episode of Raw was watched by a historically low number of people, and this week’s was watched by even fewer. The May 4 edition of the WWE’s red brand, which featured a gauntlet match and AJ Styles returning from being buried alive, had the smallest live cable audience in the show’s over twenty-seven-year history.

The last episode of Raw before the 2020 Money In The Bank pay-per-view had a live cable audience of 1.81 million viewers for the first hour, 1.69 for the second, and 1.56 for the third. According to Showbuzz Daily, Raw averaged 1.69 million viewers over its three hours of programming, down from an average of 1.82 million last week. While April 28 episode of Raw drew the show’s lowest ever viewership for a non-holiday episode at the time, and the May 4 audience was even smaller than that of any holiday episode.

Like last week, Raw was still one of Monday nights highest-rated shows on cable. News programs drew many more viewers than Raw, but only Love & Hip Hop Atlanta and 90 Day Fiancé beat its first and second hours in the ratings; the third hour was also out-ranked by part of the TBS Star Wars marathon. However, Raw’s ratings with 18-49-year-old viewers were down from last week. The April 28 episode drew an on 0.51 average rating over its three hours, while May 4 drew an 0.46.

As recently reported, Tom Cruise is indeed going to win his unofficial space race with the Fast and Furious franchise to film a movie in the great beyond (or, at least, the very edge of the great beyond). The initial news revealed that Cruise would be teaming up with SpaceX CEO (and giver of strange baby names) Elon Musk to make the first narrative feature that actually films in outer space. And it won’t be part of the Mission: Impossible franchise (or any other current Cruise-associated projects), so mystery swirled on what studio would be picking up the dime, where this project would film, the level of Musk’s involvement, and so on.

At least one of those questions has been answered. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine confirmed on Twitter that the U.S. governmental agency would be participating in this movie. Cruise will film on the International Space Station, and Bridenstine expressed NASA’s hopes that the movie will “inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists” to boost the agency’s future plans.

Very clearly, Bridenstine shouted out Cruise in this tweet. He did not tag Musk or SpaceX, but Musk weighed in with a reply: “Should be a lot of fun!”

I’m certainly reading far too much into the omission of Musk from the tweet, other than Bridenstine maybe sidestepping an association with Musk’s recent (and very political) stances about the pandemic. After all, NASA’s gearing up to host May 1 briefings for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, which places NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. It should be a historic mission, and the Top Gun: Maverick star’s upcoming, space-set movie will do likewise. Sorry, Dominic Toretto, you’ve been Cruise’d.

Folks are itching to see live concerts right now, and people are trying to find ways to make it happen. One performer hosted a drive-in concert in Denmark. One designer has also come up with a protective suit that could be useful for safely gathering in large crowds. Now a venue in Fort Smith, Arkansas has a plan they’re implementing, and they have a show set for next week, on May 15.

Bishop Gunn frontperson Travis McCready is set to perform at TempleLive. The venue typically holds 1,100 people, but that number will be reduced to 229 for this show, and something called “fan pods” will be implemented. A lot of other measures are being taken as well, as Ticketmaster notes:

“Balcony only accessible by stairs. TempleLive COVID operating protocol capacity reduced 80% from 1,100 to 229. Venue will be sanitized by independent third party prior to each event via fog sprayers. Masks will be required by all attendees and employees. Masks will be available for purchase. Per CDC guidelines one way walk-ways in theater managed by TL employees. 6 feet of separation from all seating groups or fan pods. 10 person limit in all restrooms. All soap and paper towel dispensers will be no touch. Closure of bathroom fixtures to maintain 6 feet of distance during use. Temperatures of attendees to be taken at entry points. All beverages will be prepackaged or have lids. TL employees will be actively wiping down touch points in venue and restrooms.”

Notably, this show does not seem to adhere to a directive from Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, which is set to go into effect on May 18 and which “allows the venues to open for audiences of fewer than 50 and that requires strict social distance among performers, contestants, and members of the audience.”

Oh, you thought just because Westworld’s third season ended, we wouldn’t have any wild-yet-completely-plausible theories to obsess over during the show’s hiatus?

The world is on lockdown. Productivity is a thing of the past. Showers have become optional and months of the year are now 80 days long. We have nothing but time when it comes to falling down the Reddit theory rabbit hole and since Christopher Nolan and Lisa Joy are taking a break, we’re writing our own premise for season four.

Here are some hypotheticals we’re working with. As always, get your bullshit meter back online.

1. Dolores Is Only Kind Of Dead

The show’s third season ended with Dolores Prime sacrificing herself to save the world, having a quick heart-to-heart with Maeve before Rehoboam erased her memories, effectively killing her … for good. It was heartbreaking and bittersweet and exactly the kind of stakes the show needed to introduce in order to justify the chaos of season three. But, let’s get real for a second, this show is not going to throw away an actor as talented as Evan Rachel Wood. Luckily, Westworld’s already laid the groundwork for Wood to come back in some form — but it probably won’t be as the enlightened hero she went out as this season. Remember, Dolores still exists, at least partially, in her clones which include Charlores, Lawrence, Mushashi, and Connells (their pearls haven’t been shown to have been destroyed so we’re going to remain uncharacteristically optimistic). And though Maeve seems like a good choice to lead Caleb in this restoration of humanity project, eventually those two will need Dolores’ help in dealing with the enemies she created this season. We’re guessing she’ll pop up a few episodes into season four in some capacity, though don’t expect her to be as “woke” as she was at the end of this episode.

Read the full thread here.

2. Charlores’ Revenge

Tessa Thompson really put in work this season, first playing a confused and terrified clone of Dolores before shifting into one of her more dangerous adversaries. Halores was meant to infiltrate Delos and prevent Serac from buying the company, but she struggled with the influence of her host and the emotions tied to pretending to have a son and husband that she loved. Eventually, Halores chose them over Dolores’ plan and her reward was watching as her family became barbecued casualties of the bigger war. That trauma forced Charlores — look, we don’t make up the nicknaming rules, we just respect them — to effectively disassociate herself from her emotions. She popped up in the season finale a colder, more bitter version of herself, one intent on destroying humanity and manufacturing a robot rebellion. There were serious Wyatt vibes being thrown off by this new iteration of the character and that, coupled with the show’s crazy after-credits scene seems to suggest Charlores will be the big bad next season. Again, that would necessitate a Dolores comeback — who better to face off against her than herself? — but it’d also give Thompson more time on screen and present an interesting dilemma for Caleb in this new world he’s trying to build.

Read the full thread here.

3. Return Of The Gunslinger

The Man In Black has had one of the more complex and, let’s face it, confusing storylines this season, first going mad trapped in his mansion, conversating with his dead daughter, then being forced out of his own company and sent to a reprogramming center. There, he confronted past versions of himself, eventually killing them all and emerging as the Man In White. His mission: kill every host and save the f*cking world. Well, it didn’t turn out too well for this heroic version of the character, but Ed Harris is probably happy with where Nolan and Joy seem to be taking William next season. Now that his clone has killed off the character’s human iteration, it looks like he’ll be taking a decidedly darker path to reshape this new civilization — one that sees him act even more ruthlessly than before and all in the name of Charlores’ master plan. Well, it does if you believe Reddit.

Read the full thread here.

4. Aaron Paul Is Out / Bryan Cranston Is In

Look, by the thickness of dust currently coating Bernard’s body, a lot of time must have passed between the events of season three and what’s to come in season four. Now, the show could solve that problem by presenting multiple timelines so that Aaron Paul’s character can simply look the same, or they can age him up with make-up. Still, he can’t live forever so if we’re wanting to jump even 70 years in the future, it seems like Caleb’s mortality might present a problem. We don’t have an answer for how the show should handle that to be honest, but if Paul doesn’t want to sport the prosthetics, Reddit knows who should take his place. After all, Westworld and Breaking Bad do exist in the same universe. This is a confirmed fact.

Read the full thread here.

5. Stubbs In The Tub

Stubbs has really been through it this season but if we take into consideration just how terrible the show has treated him, we’ve got to assume he’s still in that damn motel tub, probably rotting away because the ice has melted, screaming “Eff you, Bernard” because his “friend” couldn’t be bothered to stitch him up real quick before taking a decades-long nap. #JusticeForStubbs

Read the full thread here.

Within days of each other, Netflix and Hulu recently released two new titles… actually, Netflix and Hulu often release titles within days of each other, as the streaming wars faucet can never be turned off (how else to explain The Big Show Show?), but I would like to talk about two new shows in particular, Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and Hulu’s Normal People. They are both extremely good teen-focused series, one based on a New York Times best-selling book and the other on a… popular drinking game (the “Never Have I Ever” of it all is mostly a device for the episode titles) that adults can enjoy, too.

But which show is the right show for you? Let’s break it down, using eight “if” scenarios.

– If you, an adult, want to watch something alongside an actual teen

You should probably steer clear of Normal People. Here are some of the headlines that it has inspired:

“Is This the Sexiest Thing About Normal People?”

“Normal People Tackles the Pain of Being Hot and Horny”

“How Normal People Does Sex So Good“

I would not recommend watching the show with your child. Never Have I Ever, meanwhile, is perfect for the entire family. It tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Devi Vishwakumar (played by the fantastic Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), who lives with her mother (Poorna Jagannathan) and cousin (Richa Moorjani) in California. After recovering from being paralyzed for three months following the death of her father (Sendhil Ramamurthy, mostly seen in flashbacks), Devi does normal teen things, like crushing on hunky Paxton (Darren Barnet) and feuding with her academic rival Ben (Jaren Lewison). The series goes through the beats of dozens of high school-set shows and John Hughes movies that came before it, but it finds clever new tweaks on tropes with a diverse cast. I would gladly watch Never Have I Ever, and not Sixteen Candles, with my teenager.

– If you want a story that takes place over years, not months

Spoiler alert for Normal People…

….I didn’t know about the time-hopping conceit when I started watching, and it didn’t decrease my enjoyment of the show. It follows Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), two students at a secondary school in Ireland; they’re both smart, but they travel in different circles: he’s the athletically-gifted hunk, she’s an outspoken loner. They’re connected by his mom working as her family’s housekeeper — and also they’re both attracted to each other, and begin having near-constant sex in their senior year. But when he refuses to stick up for Marianne in public, and actively chooses to ignore her existence when they’re outside of the bedroom, they fall apart, only for a time-jump between episodes, where they both attend the same university. Had the show stayed with Marianne and Connell in secondary (high) school the entire time, the plot would have grown stale; moving the setting to university (college) keeps it invigorating.

– If it’s been too long since you’ve listened to Robyn

The winner: Never Have I Ever. Any amount of time without Robyn is too long, btw.

– If it’s been too long since you’ve listened to Imogen Heap

If a song becomes forever associated with a TV show, other shows should be forbidden from using it. I’m talking “Don’t Stop Believin’” on The Sopranos, “With or Without You” on The Americans, “The Final Countdown” on Arrested Development. I’m still mad about Dexter using “Make Your Own Kind of Music,” which Lost already laid claim to, and that was seven years ago. The only exception to this rule: if the song is being used ironically or for parody, like when the Lonely Island used Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” to spoof The OC on SNL. The song should have been retired from all soundtracks forever… and yet, it pops up in the second episode of Normal People. It’s very distracting, even if it cuts off before the part that Jason Derulo probably thinks he made famous. If I hear “Hide and Seek” in a show, I had better see Marissa shooting Trey or Andy Samberg shooting Bill Hader, and nothing else, especially not a montage of Connell and Marianne neglecting each other in school and having steamy car-sex in private. No thank you!

Good song, though.

– If you’re looking for a show with 30-minute episodes

It’s a tie! Both shows are regularly under 30 minutes, and Never Have I Ever is only 10 episodes, while Normal People clocks in at 12 episodes. There’s no streaming bloat here, unlike 13 Reasons Why, which is like Never and Normal, except it’s unwatchable.

– If you’re a fan of The Office

Never Have I Ever was created by Mindy Kaling, of The Office fame, and Lang Fisher, a former writer for The Mindy Project, and it feels like the show both Kelly Kapoor and Mindy Lahiri would have obsessed over as a teen. It’s up there among the best post-Office projects from the show’s core cast, alongside Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper), Silicon Valley (Zach Woods), and hopefully Space Force, which finds Steve Carell re-teaming with The Office co-creator Greg Daniels (that show premieres later this month).

– If you’re looking for something sweet and delightful

The best word I can think of to describe Never Have I Ever: smitten. As in, I am smitten with Never Have I Ever. It tackles real issues, like feeling like an imposter within your own culture and the confusing pains of being a teenager (including how they can be wonderful almost-adults one second and monstrous jerks the next), but it never dips into melodrama or takes itself too seriously. The whole series (with the exception of one standout episode) is narrated by cranky tennis legend John McEnroe, for crying out loud. If you watch Never Have I Ever, expect two things: 1) to be delighted, and 2) to become way too invested in a love triangle (twist, I’m Team Devi’s hot dad).

– If you’re looking for something kinda sad and tender and horny

I know I mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating: Normal People is a very horny show. Devi is horny, too, but it’s an awkward horniness, the kind that’s easy to look back at as an adult and laugh about. Meanwhile, the Normal People leads are frequently naked, and there’s one scene where, after Connell does something sh*tty to Marianne, his mom yells at him, “And you don’t think maybe you should have asked her, seeing as how you f*ck her every day after school?” With all due respect to Comedy Bang Bang, it is that kind of show. But it’s not horny how Skins was horny; it’s horny in the way Barry Jenkins’ movies are horny, where the emotions between the characters are uncomfortably and relatably real, like you’re watching a private moment between real-life partners, not naked actors being paid for our enjoyment (did I just describe porn?). The sex scenes are too vulnerable to be hot, but they are horny as hell.

Or, here’s an idea: watch them both. Done!