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Sydney Sweeney’s Grandparents Think She Has ‘The Best T*ts In Hollywood’

Being an actor has to be very hard when you are constantly criticized for your looks and body. That’s definitely the case for women, anyway. Well, Sydney Sweeney recently admitted she brought her grandparents to the season 2 premiere of Euphoria earlier this year, and, well, she sort of forgot that she has a nude scene in it.

While chatting with Ellen, Sweeney brought up her iconic character Cassie, who she says is a “basket case.” She then recalled inviting her whole family, including uncles and grandparents, to see the season premiere. “I invited my entire family and I didn’t really think about [the nudity],” the actress explained. “I was like, ‘It’s a Hollywood premiere! You’ve got to come!’ We were all sitting next to each other and giant screen — ginormous screen.”

Sweeney famously has several topless scenes throughout the series, including in the season premiere. But her grandparents didn’t seem to mind! When asked about their reaction, Sweeney exclaimed, “They said I have the best t**s in Hollywood.” Sweeney’s grandmother was even in the audience during the interview and nodded in agreement.

The actress then went on to talk about working on her antique car, which she often posts about on TikTok. “I’ve been learning the whole process, it’s been a lot of fun.” Maybe Cassie will ditch Nate for an antique bronco in season three.

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These Miami Music Week Photos Will Convince You To Go Party On A Yacht ASAP

Miami offers an exclusive club scene, a thriving art community, a diverse selection of culinary options, and beaches that make you forget about your everyday problems. For music lovers and festival-goers, it also boasts an energetic atmosphere that’s ideal for weekends full of good beats and dancing. This year’s Miami Music Week, which went down from March 22 through March 27, was yet another successful addition to the post-pandemic nightlife of the city.

While the infamous Ultra Music Festival was raging on throughout the weekend, Miami’s indie and electronic music scenes extended beyond the festival gates. For those who weren’t able to attend Ultra (or just didn’t want to deal with those crowds), Tamago, a new streaming platform, hosted an epic yacht party aboard the South Beach Lady boat. The massive yacht launched in the shadow of Bayfront Park into the high mellow seas, complete with sunset ocean views. Fans danced non-stop throughout the five-hour event, which featured renowned music acts and rising performers like Felix Da Housecat, Clarian, Sinca, Doc Martin, and Desert Hearts’ Lee Reynolds.

Not only was it the ultimate day-ger, but the event also raised thousands of dollars for Save The Children: Ukraine. A fundraiser where you can get hyped and give back? That’s the definition of a win-win.

If you’re stuck at your desk and need something to daydream about, scroll through the plethora of sunshine-filled photos from Tamago’s Miami Music Week boat party below.

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‘NORCO’ Is An Emotional Experience That Everyone Needs To Play

Is it possible for a game to be both dour and beautiful at the same time? Yes, and one of the prime examples of this is NORCO. This point-and-click adventure is set in the very real town of Norco, Louisiana and it manages to capture the beauty of the American South in a rare way, but alongside that beauty is an off-putting style that perfectly matches the tone of the game’s narrative.

“I think what I personally wanted to capture above anything else was the sunsets of Louisiana because they are so brilliant and so beautiful.” Yuts, the creator and main writer for NORCO, told UPROXX. “The kind of like dismal quality that a lot of the art has is it just comes naturally to me. I guess I’m attracted to somewhat forlorn landscapes and things that are a little broken, a little roughshod. I think that was part of the reason (Jessie Jacobi) is part of the project is because I think he has similar sensibilities.”

NORCO is many things. A sci-fi adventure where a cult wraps up an entire family into its absurd vision. A coming home story. A commentary on development’s impact on the environment. Whatever you take away from the game, and it is open to many interpretations, all of it will feel gripping and emotional. What this game arguably does best above anything else is that everyone has a Norco, Louisiana in their life. Whether it’s the hometown you left and planned to never return to, or maybe you still live there. A family member you had a falling out with only to be thrust back into each other’s lives unexpectedly. Or friends you saw go down a path you couldn’t follow. You don’t need to be from Louisiana, or the South, to appreciate the subtleties of NORCO.

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This isn’t a game to play so you can get to the end, see credits, and move on. It’s a game where despite its linear progression there are always details to look at. Details ranging from a house still boarded up from a past hurricane, to an LSU calendar hanging in an office. All of these details are presented to you through the eyes of Kay. After her mother’s death from cancer, Kay returns home. When discovering her brother, Blake, appears to not be home, she goes out to figure out where he went off to. From this point on most of how she reacts to situations is up to the player. What’s brilliant though is that, despite this, the player can’t change what is happening to Kay. They’re forced go on Kay’s adventure with her. The player’s agency is more about how they feel in certain situations than actively changing the story.

This doesn’t mean the player is completely out of control. Small events can change by going briefly off the beaten path and there are multiple endings, but unlike other games similar to NORCO where the player is given multiple paths and options, this is not one of those. Don’t go into NORCO trying to change the world but instead with the intention of experiencing it.

“The reason Kay is so vague is because I do I want her to be a conduit for the player.” said Yuts. “They can interpret both Kay, her past, and her interpretation of the world how they want. There is a lot of kind of player maybe quasi or like meta player agency involved in that. My interpretation of Kay is that she has almost an ambivalence where there’s this constant sense of her just kind of going along with the momentum of the evening that she’s experiencing because she couldn’t be bothered to change that inertia or to redirect the night. So she gets swept along.”

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NORCO is the first time Yuts has ever created a video game. After signing a contract with publisher Raw Fury it occurred to Yuts that the game had to actually get made. Now, Yuts and the team that created NORCO are Geography of Robots and the game they have created is an artistic masterpiece, but the game had many forms before what ultimately became the finished product. A side-scrolling adventure starring Million, one of the characters in the game, and even before that there is roots all the way back to an oral history on Hurricane Katrina.

“It’s rooted somewhat in a project that I was doing with friends after Katrina probably around 2007.” said Yuts. “So Katrina’s 2005. We started an oral history project where we were interviewing people about their experiences of the storm, their experiences of living in Louisiana living next to heavy industry, things like that, and it was somewhat of a mixed media project. We’d do interviews and we would edit the interviews into these video montages, and other things, and we would project images, take pictures of it, just all kinds of experimental stuff that we were doing to kind of narrativize and make sense of the climate socially and ecologically in Louisiana at the time. Part of that project was a small experimental side scroller as well as a little small interactive text piece and there are a number of other small creative projects. So the number of other small projects I was working on kind of congealed slowly over the course of the years into something that was more tangibly a game.”

All of these elements can still be found in NORCO today. Mentions of hurricanes, infrastructure’s impact on the region, and how the social climate was responding. Alongside this are a lot of modern feelings. This was a game made during the COVID-19 lockdowns and Donald Trump’s presidency. While not obvious, there are subtle moments in the game that comment on everything that has happened to not only Louisiana but the entire United States. That said, the ties to Louisiana are strong and some of the best parts of the game. Anyone that knows anything about the culture of that state, from its people to its love of football, will appreciate these moments.

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Play NORCO. Not because it’s a look into the American South, or because of its social commentaries, or even for the very gripping story. Play it because it’s going to fill you with emotions. Everyone who plays this game is going to experience something different from it and that is an example of a game that is for everyone.

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Eddie Murphy Will Get Funked Up As George Clinton In A Biopic About The Parliament-Funkadelic Leader

After starring as the “Godfather of Rap” in My Name is Dolemite, Eddie Murphy will portray another legendary “godfather” in an upcoming biopic.

Deadline reports that the Coming to America actor is in “early talks” to play George Clinton, the “Godfather of Funk” who has led the Parliament-Funkadelic collective since the late 1960s. The passion-project film “will tell the story of the iconic musician’s humble beginnings in North Carolina in the 1940s, to the formation of his groundbreaking band George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, and ultimately to becoming a musical influence on artists of the hip-hop generation including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Outkast, and Wu-Tang Clan, among many others.”

“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker),” “One Nation Under a Groove,” and “Flash Light” are the songs you hear on the radio, but be sure to take a deeper dive into the Parliament and Funkadelic discographies, as well as Clinton’s solo material. Not only for the funky grooves, but also the song titles. I, for one, can’t wait to hear Eddie Murphy sing “Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow,” “Standing on the Verge of Getting It On,” and my personal favorite, “Do Fries Go with That Shake?”

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Florida Republicans Are Already Trying To Retaliate Against Disney For Opposing The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill

Earlier in the week, Disney took its strongest stance yet against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill after Governor Ron DeSantis signed it into law on Monday. After weeks of employee pushback over the company’s tepid response to the anti-LGBTQ legislation, Disney came out with a forceful statement demanding that the law be repealed. “We remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that,” the company said in a statement.

With the House of Mouse now firmly opposed to the discriminatory legislation, state Republicans have already begun exploring avenues to retaliate against the entertainment giant. One such move involves repealing an over 50-year-old statute that would severely impact Disney’s ability to invest in its Florida theme parks.

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“Yesterday was the 2nd meeting in a week w/fellow legislators to discuss a repeal of the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which allows Disney to act as its own government,” including oversight of land use and environmental protections within the District, and [providing] essential public services such as regulation of the EPCOT building code and maintenance of roads. [State Rep. Spencer] Roach continued, “If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County.”

According to Deadline, “there is still a very long way to go” before the Reedy Creek Improvement Act can be repealed, if it even gets that far. However, should Republicans continue with their efforts, there is a possibility such a move could impact Disney’s decision to move over 2,000 of its California-based jobs to its campus in Orlando. At that point, who are Florida Republicans really hurting: Disney or the state?

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Lil Durk And Future Treat Their Lady Friends To A Designer Shopping Spree In The ‘Petty Too’ Video

Lil Durk isn’t done with 7220 yet. After the album helped the Chicago rapper secure his first solo No. 1 album, he returns with the video for the album’s standout track, “Petty Too” featuring Future. The standout track was also the centerpiece of Lil Durk’s performance on The Tonight Show shortly after the album’s release, with Durk bringing out Future to perform alongside him to the live audience’s delight.

Like all of Durk’s videos this cycle, it’s directed by Jerry Productions and features a stripped-down concept, with Durk and Future rapping on a rooftop and treating some lady friends to a private shopping spree. As the women peruse a pair of clothing racks, Durk and Future declare their petty ways and spit boastful rhymes about their disdain for romance.

In addition to “Petty Too,” Durk has put out videos for the menacing “Ahhh Ha,” the chest-beating “Golden Child,” and the sneering “Computer Murders.” The videos helped push 7220 to No. 1, and helped Durk secure an extension on his record deal reportedly worth $40 million, something he was quick to brag about on social media. Next month, you can catch Durk on tour beginning April 9 and running through May 2.

Watch Durk and Future’s “Petty Too” video above.

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What To Watch: Our Picks For The Ten Movies We Think You Should Stream This Weekend

Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish movies available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.

10. (tie) The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

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Benedict Cumberbatch gives a villainous performance for the ages in The Power of the Dog, the first film in 12 years from director Jane Campion. The western is expected (and deserves) to be an Oscars frontrunner, so hop on the horse-drawn bandwagon now. Watch it on Netflix.

10. (tie) Don’t Look Up (Netflix)

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Jennifer Lawrence is back in Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay’s apocalyptic satire about two low-level astronomers (J-Law and Leonardo DiCaprio) who try to warn everyone on Earth about an approaching comet — but no one seems to care. The ensemble cast also includes Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, and Tyler Perry. Maybe that’s why no one cares about the comet. They’re too busy looking at all those stars. Watch it on Netflix.

10. (tie) Marry Me (Peacock)

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Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson star as a preposterously attractive couple who get together after her character — one half of a global sensation pop duo — discovers her lover and music partner has been stepping out. That’s right, it is rom-com time over here. Will they? Won’t they? Whose hair will look better in the pivotal scene that will probably take place in the driving rain? There’s one way to find out: Grab some popcorn and comfy pajamas and set up shop on the couch. Watch it on Peacock.

9. Kimi (HBO Max)

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Zoe Kravitz plays a stay-at-home digital detective in this latest thriller from Steven Soderbergh who — with the help of her friendly A.I. sidekick Kimi — uncovers a string of murders she traces back to the company she works for. She then must venture out into a pandemic-ridden Seattle in search of the reason why. Honestly, we can’t relate. But, Kravitz is quickly becoming a bonafide action star and a Soderbergh script rarely disappoints. Watch it on HBO Max.

8. Windfall (Netflix)

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Let’s go straight to the official description of this one: “A man breaks into a tech billionaire’s empty vacation home, but things go sideways when the arrogant mogul and his wife arrive for a last-minute getaway.” Hmm. Intriguing. As is the cast, which features Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins and Jason Segel. We could tell you who plays the arrogant CEO and who plays the thief. You could look it up, too. But, really, either way would work just fine. Watch it on Netflix.

7. Cheaper By the Dozen (Disney Plus)

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Well, guess what: It’s a remake of the 2003 classic with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, which was itself a remake of a film from 1950, only this time is stars Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union as the flustered parents and can be found on Disney Plus, a service that did not even almost exist when the other versions came out. Which is fine. Time marches on. And this one is written and produced by Kenya Barris from Black-ish, which is also fine. Good, even. Round up the family and grab some snacks. Watch it on Disney Plus.

6. The Adam Project (Netflix)

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Ryan Reynolds plays Mark Ruffalo’s time-traveling son, so there’s a little MCU crossover there for you before Deadpool makes his possibly sooner than expected MCU return. They’re going to save the future, of course, and this film also has Ruffalo’s 13 Going On 30 co-star, Jennifer Garner, so there’s reteaming aplenty here. Expect both family drama and romance and drama across four dimensions. Watch it on Netflix.

5. West Side Story (Disney Plus)

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Steven Spielberg brings the classic musical to the big and/or small screen, to the delight of both older fans and newer ones who get to experience it all for the first time. Get in there. Really let the experience wash over you. Sing along. Dance around your living room. Get in a knife fight with your sworn enemy. Okay, maybe not that last one. But the other ones, definitely. Watch it on Disney Plus.

4. Turning Red (Disney Plus)

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In Domee Shi’s Turning Red, a boy band-loving teenage girl turns into a red panda whenever she experiences strong emotions, which as every parent of a teenager knows all too well, is often. Too often. It’s all the time, really. Turning Red is being called Pixar’s best movie in years, as it should. It’s about time red pandas got the cinematic showcase they deserve. Watch it on Disney Plus.

3. Deep Water (Hulu)

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Deep Water is an erotic thriller that stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as… honestly, what more do you need? It’s a “weird, wild mess” of a movie from the director of Fatal Attraction and Unfaithful, with a murder mystery, duplicitous characters, and Affleck as an alpha cuck. Deep Water is the kind of sleazy mainstream movie that rarely gets made anymore, so it feels like a sexy treat that it even exists (from Disney, no less). Break out your Ana de Armas cardboard cutout and make it a double feature with Basic Instinct. Watch it on Hulu.

2. Apollo 10 1/2: A Space-Aged Childhood (Netflix)

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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is loosely inspired by director Richard Linklater’s childhood in Texas. The coming-of-age animated film (think: Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, but more nostalgic) is set during the summer of the Moon landing, and features performances from Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, and Jack Black. Linklater brings out the best in Black (he’s fantastic in both School of Rock and Bernie), and Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood looks to be no exception. Watch it on Netflix.

1. The Bubble (Netflix)

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Judd Apatow’s The Bubble is a pandemic-era movie about making a movie during the pandemic. We’re through the looking glass, people. The comedy, which stars Karen Gillan, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Pedro Pascal, and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm breakout Maria Bakalova, was produced like a “two-hour Simpsons episode,” according to Apatow, and reportedly inspired by the production of Jurassic World Dominion. If enough people watch it on Netflix, maybe we’ll get a full-length Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle For Everest movie. Watch it on Netflix.

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What To Watch: Our Picks For The Ten TV Shows We Think You Should Stream This Weekend

Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.

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10. Pachinko (Apple TV)

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Based on a best-selling book of the same name, this epic, generations-spanning saga follows a Korean family on an immigration journey, with the action taking place in Korea, Japan, and America. Looking for a well-reviewed, emotionally moving series that starts with a forbidden romance? Of course you are. Watch it on Apple TV.

10. (tie) Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max)

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A pirate comedy starring Taika Waititi, Rhys Darby, Leslie Jones, and Hodor from Game of Thrones? Don’t mind if I do. Our Flag Means Death is about an 18th-century aristocrat (Darby) who gives up whatever aristocrats do to become a swashbuckler alongside Blackbeard (Waititi). If it’s anything like What We Do in the Shadows but with pirates, prepare to be… Hook-ed. Watch it on HBO Max.

10. (tie) Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (HBO Max)

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Jerrod Carmichael’s Rothaniel feels like an intrusion, and we mean that in the best possible way. Deeply personal, the comedian – in what is technically his third HBO special following 8 and Home Videos – comes to the spare stage of the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City on a winter day ready to bare his soul. And while some of the truths he tells are things he may have alluded to in the past, this feels unique, naked, and gripping, elevated by the vision of director Bo Burnham, whose focus is unrelenting as Carmichael seems to be processing the experience of sharing the most intimate details and observations about his life in real-time with an audience whose feedback he welcomes. It is remarkable, human, and a special that everyone is going to be talking about. Watch it on HBO Max.

10. (tie) Minx (HBO Max)

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We are going back in time, again, this time to the 1970s, again, to see the dawn of an erotic magazine made specifically for women. That sounds fun. It also co-stars Jake Johnson from New Girl as a seedy pornographer who wears shirts unbuttoned halfway to his navel, which sounds… really fun. Worth a shot, at the very least. Watch it on HBO Max.

9. Human Resources (Netflix)

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Do you enjoy Big Mouth, the Netflix animated series where a bunch or horny teens are mentored and/or terrorized by teams of very literal fur-covered hormone monsters, some of whom are voiced by Nick Kroll and Maya Rudolph and David Thewlis? You probably do, because Big Mouth is awesome. And now it has this spinoff, which focuses exclusively on the hormone monsters working in their office behind the scenes. It’s a fun idea, made by people who are good at this. That’s all you can really ask for sometimes. Watch it on Netflix.

8. The Girl From Plainville (Hulu)

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If Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville wasn’t based on a true story, we’d say it was a bit too unrealistic. But, since all of this actually happened, we’ll just call it the wildest f*cking true crime drama we’ve seen in a while. It’s got Elle Fanning playing a sociopathic teenager so obsessed with mirroring her life off a Ryan Murphy musical that she convinces her boyfriend to kill himself so she can take all the glory. It’s also got some terrific performances – from Fanning, obviously but also from Chloe Sevigny who plays the dead boy’s mom. Fanning’s Michelle Carter is both an ego-maniac and a shy, mentally disturbed young girl who idolizes Leah Michele, and her Glee alter-ego, Rachel Berry. That’s clearly her first mistake, but things turn dark when she decides her own love story should also turn out like Michele’s real-life relationship with co-star Cory Monteith. It’s just … bizarre. And yet, like a train car full of feral cats veering off the tracks, we just can’t help but watch. Watch it on Hulu.

7. Severance (Apple TV Plus)

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“Am I livestock?” Who among us hasn’t asked ourselves that question while grazing amongst the cubicles at work? But the workplace in Severance (a new Adam Scott starring and Ben Stiller produced Apple TV+ series) is a little different, running workers through a process that effectively breaks people in two with zero crossovers between their work life and non-work life. Sound ideal in a world where work stresses bleed into home life and Sunday scarys seem to always kneecap your weekend? Perhaps in some respects. Susan from HR probably LOVES the idea, seeing it as the ultimate NDA, but as the show is set to explore, it’s a less tidy experience that raises all kinds of questions about what happens when people are severed from the awful things they might be asked to do at work. Watch it on Apple TV Plus.

6. Halo (Paramount Plus)

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Audiences can’t get enough of space-bound conflict these days, and the ever-morphing Pablo Schreiber leads this cast as the indispensable “Master Chief,” who’s apparently the deadliest weapon in existence and the key to ensuring humanity’s survival against all odds. Expect a ton of action as humanity battles “the Covenant,” but more importantly, get ready to meet characters from all walks of life. Clearly too, this selection will be of interest to the gaming crowd. Watch it on Paramount Plus.

5. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO)

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If you think about it, Winning Time (HBO’s new Adam McKay-produced series about the 1980s LA Lakers) has all the elements of a classic heist movie. Assembled by a larger than life fast talker with equally big ambitions (in this case, former Lakers owner Jerry Buss), a rag-tag group comes together, leaning on their exceptional and unique talents to paper over any personality conflicts that might arise while taking the thing (a whole mess of gold trophies) no one thought they’d ever get their hands on. This while having some wild misadventures along the way. We’re simplifying, of course, but the point is this should appeal to basketball fans and non-basketball fans alike, earning the right to be the most buzzed-about piece of basketball culture crossover content since The Last Dance helped us all stave off boredom for a few months by telling the story of another mismatched group of big personalities and champions. Watch it on HBO.

4. Abbott Elementary (Hulu)

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Abbott Elementary has done something wild. It poked through the bubble of pop culture to become a phenomenon despite being a weekly network sitcom in 2022. Do you understand how crazy that is? Do you understand the odds against this happening? It’s basically impossible. And yet, here we all are, talking about Quinta Brunson and her very sweet, very good show. And Principal Ava. We are always talking about Principal Ava. Watch it on Hulu.

3. Bridgerton (Netflix)

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The bad news, for enthusiasts of The Duke, is that Regé-Jean Page isn’t back this season (as planned), but the good news is that the show still brings the momentum despite the odds. This season focuses upon Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) seeking his own match as outlined by Julia Quinn’s books. Lady Whistledown (already revealed as Penelope, portrayed by Nicola Coughlan) is still doing her thing and f*cking with everyone during her society letters, thank god. Watch it on Netflix.

2. Atlanta (FX/Hulu)

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Well, guess what: Atlanta is back, four years since its second season and just as ready and willing to throw you for a loop. Earn and Paper Boi and Darius are still off in Europe on that tour they were en route to way back then, but there are detours and flights of fancy and all the other weird, stunning, inventive stuff that made (and makes) this one of our greatest shows. Donald Glover and this crew are pretty good at this stuff. It’s great to have them back. Watch it on Hulu.

1. Moon Knight (Disney Plus)

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Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke are in the MCU now, but don’t expect either of them to be the typical Marvel superhero or villain. This show is sheer chaos (and joyous to behold) with Isaac’s character plagued with dissociative identity disorder and tormented with mockery by an Egyptian god. He’s a gift-shop employee, a mercenary, and a hero? Sure. Hawke plays a David Koresh-esque cult leader. Hold on tight. Watch it on Disney Plus.

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People are loving this sassy little girl trying to convince everyone how ‘evil’ she is

One little girl is delivering some Grade-A cuteness to the internet. With just a dash of diabolical.

The now-viral TikTok video opens with little Maddy (what an innocent name right?) being told “you’re gonna change the world someday.”

Her response? “No I won’t. I’m evil.”

Whoa! Dad wasn’t expecting that! So much for a heartfelt moment.

But Maddy is fully committed to her role now. She squints her eyes and gives a sinister gaze into the camera as she exclaims, “I’ll make everybody witches and bats and vampires!”

Oh, and she’s also going to make us all sassy, just like her. [insert head wobble with lots of ‘tude here]


And then, poof! Evil Maddy is gone. She giggles, and says, “I’m kidding. I would never do that.”

(Seriously, I don’t know what to believe here. That performance was just too good.)

Her mother was quick to come to her defense in the caption: “Maddy doesn’t have a mean bone in her body! Sass…yes!! Mean..No!!”

People in the comments weren’t so convinced.

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Maddy’s know she doesn’t have a mean bone in her body!! Sass…yes!! Mean…No!! 😆😆

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One person wrote, “She 100% said she was kidding in case anyone decided to foil her plans to do EXACTLY as she said.”

Another person added, “She realizes she said too much.”

Someone posed a different theory in the Reddit comments, suggesting that perhaps Maddy had an impromptu change of heart.

“She decided at the last moment that with her great power comes great responsibility.”

Whether or not she’s truly evil might still be up for debate, but Maddy’s adorable video has been a force for good, giving us all a good laugh.

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E3 2022 Has Been Cancelled And Reportedly Plans To ‘Regroup’ In 2023

E3 has for decades been one of the biggest events of the yearly video game calendar. Usually slotted into the summer, it was an opportunity for some of gaming’s largest publishers to showcase what it had coming in the future.

Unfortunately, the last few years have not been kind to the showcase. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then forced to be an all digital showcase in 2021. However, while there was hope that in 2022 the showcase would return back to having a physical presence — it was reported back in January that the 2022 showcase would be entirely digital.

At the time, the digital-only showcase was said to be due to health concerns with COVID-19, but many reports stated that the future of the entire show was in doubt when the hosts of E3, the ESA, remained oddly quiet about their biggest event of the year. On Thursday, those fears came to fruition when the ESA informed partners the event would be cancelled entirely.

Many major publishers have recently opted to have their own yearly presentations sans the event. A lot of them did this when E3 was cancelled in 2020 and we’ve seen the physical presence of major publishers like EA and Sony pull out of the event in the past.

Despite these concerns, E3 is reportedly planning to return in 2023 according to IGN’s Rebekah Valentine.

Sources connected to the event tell IGN that discussions about a possible digital equivalent have been ongoing ever since, but without strong momentum to drive them. Instead, the ESA seems to be making plans to regroup for a larger comeback in 2023.

What a larger comeback would look like, we aren’t entirely sure. One thing that does seem certain is if E3 does return, it isn’t going to be the same showcase many of us have grown to know.