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‘Yellowjackets’ Sting Meter: Sorry Bestie

Welcome to our Yellowjackets Sting Meter. We’ll measure the erratic, unexplainable behavior of the show’s main lineup, ranking them according to how dangerous, deadly, and certifiably insane they appear in each episode. Who’s a whacky worker bee, and who gets crowned Mad Queen of episode five’s “Two Truths And A Lie”? Let’s find out.

What separates those shallow, surface-level friendships of our youth from the deeper, more meaningful connections we make as adults is trust, and none of the women on Yellowjackets have an ounce of that between them right now.

In episode five, “Two Truths And A Lie,” secrets are spilled as easily as blood, some literally going to the grave while others are unearthed, brought to the light only to cast more shadows of doubt on what’s real, what’s imagined, and who’s manipulating who. While Lottie digs her claws deeper into Nat in the present, her spiritual connection to the wilderness helps some of the girls form a tighter bond in the past. And yet, even as they’re synching their breaths and listening to the forest, they’re still lying, avoiding, and killing each other to get ahead.

Sorry besties, no one’s escaping this one clean.

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Queen Bee – Misty Quigley

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All Misty Quigley ever wanted was a friend, which makes her villainous turn in this week’s episode all the more heartbreaking. In the past, she trusts Crystal with a devastating secret that turns the young girl against her at the worst time. And, in the present, likely haunted by the experience of being cast out by someone she felt so connected to, Misty refuses to accept Walter’s olive branch. It’s easier for her to believe the people in her life will consistently betray and disappoint her than to form meaningful relationships built on faith, so she isolates herself in the present and covers her murderous tracks in the past. RIP Not Crystal. You didn’t deserve to go out on a poop bucket run.

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Lottie

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Courtney Eaton continues to shoulder the more interesting Lottie storyline this week, playing the young girl as a reluctant spiritual guru to a bunch of ravenous, hormonal teens. She’s the mystic Peter Pan to their cannibalistic Lost Boys, and she has no clue what she’s doing. Somehow, it works. But in the present, Lottie is burying her own mental breakdown beneath stacks of blackmail and weird group therapy sessions, and abuses of power. She’s less interested in helping Nat than she is in discovering what Travis’ final words actually meant and her lies flow so easily, it’s hard to get a read on what her endgame is. Everyone knows how f*cked up Lottie is except for Lottie at this point, and it’s starting to get old.

Tai

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Young Tai has perfected her happy life, happy wife performative allyship at the beginning of the episode, seemingly going all in on Lottie’s woo-woo, tree-whispering nonsense. But that impenetrable mask she wears begins to crack when she finds herself lost in a blizzard with a teammate who’s in active labor. And it shatters all the way in the present when she shows up on Van’s doorstep haggard and haunted by the things that her sleepwalking alter-ego has done. It’s this episode that Tawny Cypress referred to when she labeled Tai as the hetero toxic ex that you can’t shake loose, and honestly, she’s not wrong.

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Van

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Van’s that messy lesbian everyone aspires to be — snacking on breakfast donuts, ignoring debt collectors, and vibing to the 4 Non Blondes while she educates some local youths about VHS systems and the golden era of Queer Girl Cinema. But Van’s got problems: a tragic past, parental trauma, and addiction to prescription pills, and a married ex on the brink of a full demonic possession who causes her to confuse her pop culture references. Haven’t we all been Van at some point?

Javi

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Surrounded by the same group of girls who tried to f*ck, then feast, on his brother during a shroom-fueled orgy months earlier, Javi still isn’t in a confessing mood in this episode. His choice to stay mum on where he was and how he survived leads some of the girls to blame him for the lack of bear meat, while the rest angrily accuse him of screwing up their rescue chances. None of this is Javi’s fault, but those weird drawings and that strange aside about a woman in the woods that he only told Coach Ben? We’re sorry, but that’s the beginning of every horror movie we’ve ever seen. At this point, Javi cannot be trusted around sharp objects, and that’s all there is to it.

Nat

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Past Natalie is still reeling from the feat of mental gymnastics her boyfriend performed when he linked her (admittedly bad) decision to fake his brother’s death to the reason the group didn’t find him sooner. But Present Natalie is trying to infiltrate Lottie’s cult, sow discord, and protect her girlfriend Misty from landing herself in this heliotropic hellhole. Unfortunately, Lottie manages to perform some bullsh*t therapy techniques just well enough to unearth a terrifying near-death experience that leaves Nat believing the group has “brought the darkness back with them.” So maybe it’s a good thing Misty ditched that f*ckboi with poor taste in musicals to rescue her punk rock soulmate.

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Akilah

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Nia Sondaya has been quietly doing some terrific character work this season but Akilah’s admission in “Two Truths And A Lie” has us worried, not only for the fate of Nugget, her pet mouse, but for her future participation in certain ritualistic killings the show has already promised fans. There’s something disturbingly relatable about her confession to Taissa about performing superstitious game-day sacraments and relating those fairly innocuous practices to whatever Lottie and company are doing in the woods. They’re not the same, but the root cause of them is: the idea that order can be found in chaos, that we have control when none exists, and that a higher power is responsible for both the good and bad done to us. Akilah probably won’t graduate to Antler Queen status, but she might just end up in the inner circle, given time.

Walter

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Not only does Walter gaslight Misty with his purposefully ignorant method of playing the social game the episode is named after, but he also accuses her of killing a man before comparing her to his late grandmother. Romance? This ain’t it.

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Shauna

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Shauna has gone from convincing us she had the stomach to off her own daughter in last week’s episode to becoming this week’s most well-adjusted player. That’s the range of Melanie Lynskey. In the past, Shauna’s just trying to stay calm as her impending due date approaches while a coven of psychos prays over the fate of her unborn child. In the present, she’s congratulating her daughter on doing the bare minimum to throw the cops off her trail and ordering Randy to jerk it in a motel bathroom because he “owes her”. All we’re saying is, Shauna Shipman would make a great criminal kingpin.

Showtime’s ‘Yellowjackets’ streams on Fridays, followed by TV airtime on Sunday nights.

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Which Marvel Stars Have Cameos In Chris Evans’ ‘Ghosted?’

(Obviously, spoilers from Ghosted will appear below.)

Earlier this month, Chris Evans teased that a few of his Marvel buddies might pop up in his new movie, Ghosted, even though he hates asking his friends to do cameos. “It’s the worst!” Evans told Good Morning America, but he bit the bullet and it appears to have paid off pretty well.

According to Decider, Evans has a cheeky Captain America reunion thanks to cameos by both Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, who both appear as hit-men in Ghosted. As Falcon and the Winter Soldier, respectively, Mackie and Stan played key roles in Cap’s journey in both Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War. In fact, Mackie’s Falcon is now the current Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Evans’ Steve Rogers bestowed him the shield in Avengers: Endgame.

But the Marvel cameos didn’t stop there. Technically, this actor isn’t an MCU star yet, but he’s on his way there. Ryan Reynolds shows up in Ghosted as an old boyfriend of Ana de Armas’ Sadie. Granted, Reynolds’ Deadpool has never appeared alongside Evans’ Captain America, but Reynolds did owe Evans one. The MCU titan made a surprise cameo in Free Guy after Reynolds personally texted him when he learned Evans was in Boston where the film was shooting. Clearly, Evans cashed in that chip real quick.

Ghosted is now streaming on Apple TV+.

(Via Decider)

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Report: The Raptors Have Fired Nick Nurse

Fresh off of a loss in the Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament that saw the team’s season come to an end, the Toronto Raptors have decided to make a change at head coach. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Shams Charania of The Athletic, Toronto has fired Nick Nurse, who helped guide the franchise to its only NBA championship back in 2019.

Per Wojnarowski, one expected candidate for the position is former Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka.

The move comes on the heels of a 41-41 campaign that saw the team sneak into the Play-In and host a win-or-go-home game against the Chicago Bulls, which they would go on to lose, 109-105. It marked a step back from last year, when Toronto won 48 games and made it to the first round of the playoffs before getting eliminated.

A longtime assistant under former Raptors coach Dwane Casey, Nurse was elevated to the head coaching role following Casey’s firing in the aftermath of the 2017-18 season. During Nurse’s first year at the helm, Toronto won 58 games and knocked off the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. While the team saw Kawhi Leonard leave in free agency following that season, the Raptors still managed to be formidable in 2019-20, as they went 53-19 and made it to the conference semifinals, with Nurse getting named the NBA’s Coach of the Year.

The team struggled to hit those highs again over the last three seasons, in part due to their relocation to Tampa for the 2020-21 season due to COVID restrictions. In all, Nurse went 227-163 during his time in Toronto, and Wojnarowski reports that the expectation is he’ll be a “prominent candidate” for the coaching vacancy in Houston.

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The Horror Jokes Are Flying After Elon Musk’s Admission That He Paid For Stephen King’s Twitter Blue Checkmark

Elon Musk has some odd priorities, as evidenced by his decision to finally (after multiple false alarms) remove legacy Twitter verified checkmarks on 4/20, thereby stirring up even more chaos than his exploding SpaceX rocket would have done on its own. Musk made this choice in an attempt to pump up subscriptions for the $8+ Twitter Blue service, but few celebrities are biting, and that includes truly verified icons such as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Soon, however, a few famous types noticed that their checkmarks remained, and they grew vocal about this phenomenon.

This included Ice-T and Stephen King (together at last!), both of whom made clear that they never intended to pay for Twitter Blue. In particular, King previously wrote, “$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*ck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”

The Cell author added, “It ain’t the money, it’s the principle of the thing.”

And speaking of cell phones, King now insists that he not only didn’t subscribe to Twitter Blue, but he also never handed over his phone number.

The mystery quickly grew less mysterious when Elon popped up in King’s replies: “You’re welcome namaste.”

Elon later admitted that he’d personally paid for some celebrities — but “[j]ust Shatner, LeBron and King” — to stay verified.

And that’s when the horror jokes began. Is Elon really King’s “number one fan”? Yikes. This also sounds like a horror story from King himself, or a really bad version of Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell.

Then there’s the most likely possibility of all: Elon is aware of King’s opposition to being verified, so he’s trolling hard.

King has yet to respond, but he cannot be happy about this development.

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Indiecast Hash Out Frank Ocean’s Coachella Appearance

On this show we talk about the biggest music news of the week, and this week the biggest music news involved Frank Ocean’s disastrous appearance at Coachella, and the subsequent cancelation of his performance this weekend. Steven and Ian try to comprehend the original concept for the performance — apparently it involved an ice rink and an army of skaters? — and why Frank Ocean is the sort of artist that people love precisely because he’s likely to bail on a Coachella headliner performance.

We also talked about the current status of AI music, which this week included a fake near-hit by Drake and The Weeknd and a faux-Oasis record that kinda replicated their mid-’90s prime. Ian tried to talk Steve out of having a nervous breakdown over the destructive potential of artificial intelligence replacing the human race. Was he successful? Find out!

After a brief conversation over whether 72 Seasons is an AI Metallica record — it kind of sounds like it! — the guys dove into the mailbag. A listener from Australia asked for a “yay or nay” verdict on the iconic punk band Against Me!, while an audience member from Quebec inquired about our favorite backyard barbecue music. Is it a surprise that Steven and Ian both had My Morning Jacket on their lists?

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talked up Superviolet, a solo project by an ex-member of the Ohio emo band The Sidekicks, while Steven stumped for singer-songwriter Kara Jackson, whose recent LP Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? is a singular jazzy folk gem.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 135 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at indiecastmailbag@gmail.com, and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

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Tom Cruise Reportedly Earned A Breathtaking Amount Of Money For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Tom Cruise does not have to do this (“this” being defined as the death-defying stunt of your choice), but at least he’s getting paid well to do it.

Deadline theorizes that Cruise landed “an old-fashioned movie star deal” for Top Gun: Maverick, the second highest-grossing film of 2022. “While some tell us it’s well north of $100 million, others tell us it’s double that of his best payday on Mission: Impossible, which would get him to $200 million,” the report reads. If true, that’s one of the biggest — if not the biggest — paydays for an actor ever. That kind of money will take your breath away.

While Spider-Man: No Way Home ($814.1 million U.S., $1.92 billion worldwide) gets credit for bringing people back to the cinema after COVID, Top Gun: Maverick is single-handedly responsible for welcoming older, non-frequent adult moviegoers back, and making them feel more comfortable in theaters, playing strong coast to coast. The movie broke a slew of records including Cruise’s best opening ever at the box office ($126.7 million over three days, $248 million worldwide) and his highest-grossing movie ever ($718.7M, $1.49 billion global).

Maverick is a loose cannon, but dammit, he gets results.

Cruise will next appear in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which comes out July 14. He deserves $200 million for the motorcycle scene alone.

(Via Deadline)

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If You Have 9 Hours To Spare, Mac DeMarco Just Dropped A Massive 199-Song Album, ‘One Wayne G’

Mac DeMarco released a new album today (April 21), One Wayne G. It’s not short: It has 199 songs and Spotify lists its length as about 9 hours and 30 minutes.

All of the songs are titled like dates, presumably named after the date the song was originally created. The album opener, for example, is called “20180512.” Some songs also have more proper titles after the numbers, like track No. 36, “20191009 I Like Her.” Most tracks are somewhere between 2 and 5 minutes long, but there are shorter songs and notably longer ones, too: “20200229 2” runs for 13:42 and “20190826” clocks in at 22:37. A lot of the songs are instrumental, but some feature singing from DeMarco, primarily the tracks with words in their titles.

One fan on Twitter put the size of the album in perspective, writing, “If you combined every single song (including demo versions of other songs) off every album & single in Mac Demarco’s streaming catalog EXCEPT for songs from this ONE album, it is a total of 164 songs; 35 songs shy of the only other album of his.”

The album arrives after a clip of DeMarco listening to then-unreleased demos made the rounds on TikTok recently. The video was shared in March and currently has nearly 2 million views. In it, DeMarco plays a funky instrumental track from his computer and happily listens before telling somebody standing out of frame, “It’s just garbage, but it’s fun to me.” (It’s hard to tell, but he may have actually said “fun to make” and not “fun to me.”) The clip is taken from a 2019 interview with DeMarco on PBS NewsHour.

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Mac says he has hundreds of unused ‘garbage’ tracks on his PC #macdemarco #demarco #mac #pepperoniplayboy

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That song, by the way, made it onto One Wayne G, as track No. 24, “20190724.” Previously (and probably still), fans referred to the track as “Garbage Funk.” Listen to that above and stream the album below.

One Wayne G is out now via Mac’s Record Label. Find more information here.

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Coi Leray Took Issue With Latto Rapping About Her Body On Her New Single, ‘Put It On Da Floor’

A few hours ago, Latto dropped a fresh single, “Put It On Da Floor.” To open the track’s second verse, she raps, “Smokin’ on that gas, blunt big as Coi Leray.” Leray didn’t care for that.

After the song came out, Leray took to Twitter. She started with, “Let’s fight [grinning face with sweat emoji].” She continued, “Latto bye . [sleeping emoji] here you go taking about my body. Please do not come on here and talk about nobody BODY. Lol like seriously . Out of all things . Lmaooo ya blunt my size ? Lmaooo this sh*t is never ending.” Leray added, “These b*tches wanna be like the n****s so bad. Y’all wanna have rap beef SOOOOOO BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD [crying laughing emojis] [grinning face with sweat emojis].” She continued, “Anybody that talk about my body wants MY BODY!!!!!!!!!!!! Like real badddddd.”

A couple house after the initial tweets, she added, “If you don’t like me , support me or fwm don’t mention my name. Period. Sh*t don’t make sense. I don’t know none of you b*tches in real life. Stay in y’all lane and leave me outta the bullsh*t. I be minding my business and showing real love offline.”

Latto hasn’t responded yet, but she did note, ““The content I’m about to roll out is a whole fresh new leaf. I genuinely love to see the new wave of female rap, and I’m honored to be a part of it.”

Listen to “Put It On Da Floor” above.

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What Time Does Blackpink Perform At Coachella 2023 Weekend 2?

Blackpink made their return to the Coachella stage last weekend for a history-making performance. They became the first-ever Korean group to headline the festival with their performance last weekend, and with their weekend two set just around the corner, Blackpink looks to repeat some of the magical moments they’ve had at Coachella. It’ll sure be a step upward from the group’s first time at Coachella back in 2019. As for this weekend’s performance, Coachella released the official set times for all the artists performing during weekend 2, so we now know when Blackpink will begin their headlining act.

Blackpink will headline on Saturday, April 22 at 9:20 p.m. PT. They will take over the Coachella Stage to end the night following performances by Rosalía (6:55 p.m. to 8:05 p.m.), Charli XCX (5:25 p.m. to 6:20 p.m.), 070 Shake (4:10 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.), and Marc Rebillet (2:50 p.m. to 3:40 p.m.).

If you’re not going to be on the festival grounds in Indio, California, don’t fret! Coachella will livestream the performances on YouTube with each stage getting its own feed, barring any last-minute changes.

Blackpink joins Bad Bunny and Fred Again.., Four Tet, and Skrillex as headliners for this weekend’s edition of Coachella 2023. Bad Bunny will headline on Friday, April 21 while Fred Again.., Four Tet, and Skrillex will headline on Sunday, April 23.

Gear up for Blackpink’s Coachella performance by revisiting their setlist here.

Charli XCX is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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What Time Does Bad Bunny Perform At Coachella 2023 Weekend 2?

Bad Bunny is undoubtedly one of today’s global superstars. That status can be credited in large part to the success of his 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti. The project was a mainstay on the charts and it set multiple records along the way. Since its release, Bad Bunny performed several shows that gave fans from all over the opportunity to hear those songs live. That trend continues with Bad Bunny’s headlining gig at Coachella’s 2023 festival. After headlining the showcase last weekend with Frank Ocean and Blackpink, Bad Bunny will return this weekend to fulfill his full Coachella duties alongside Blackpink, Fred Again.., Four Tet, and Skrillex.

A day before Coachella kicked off its second weekend, they revealed the set times for weekend two. Thanks to that, we now know that Bad Bunny will perform at 11:00 p.m. PT on Friday, April 21. His performance will take place on the Coachella Stage following sets by Gorillaz (8:35 to 9:45 p.m.), Burna Boy (7:05 to 7:50 p.m.), Becky G (5:35 to 6:20 p.m.), Pusha T (4:20 to 5:05 p.m.), Doechii (3:20 to 4:00 p.m.).

Don’t worry at all if you’re unable to make your way to Indio, California. Coachella will livestream the performances on YouTube with each stage having its own feed, barring any exceptions.

To prepare for Bad Bunny’s upcoming headlining performance, you can revisit his setlist from weekend one here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.