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Breaking News in Yuba County’s Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), she’s having a pretty rough day. It’s her birthday, her coworkers forgot, the cake she was forced to buy herself reads “Happy Birthday Suc!” and her husband Karl (Matthew Modine), a banker, is on the phone with some mysterious woman who asks if he’s stroking his cock right now. He isn’t not in that moment but he’s still a scumbag. Sue feels overlooked, unappreciated, unimportant. Those feelings fester. Elsewhere, Karl s brother Petey (
Westworld s Jimmi Simpson) attempts to leave a life of crime behind following news that his live-in girlfriend (Samira Wiley) is pregnant with twins. The bored but funny business owner who hired him (Wanda Sykes) needles Petey about forming a crime partnership, while the mobbed-up Mina (Akwafina) pressures him to get Karl to launder money.
As you know by now, Netflix is streaming a new three-part series called
Murder Among Jack Mormons. Authorities from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints objected on account of the Lord told them he doesn t like the term Jack. It s all quite embarrassing. The documentary focuses on Mark Hofmann who, in 1985, killed two people with bombs. Hofmann, who was a closeted Jack Mormon and a master forger, kept finding old documents that seemed to undermine the church, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. Religions are always trying to authenticate their faith like Jesus walking on water. Closer inspection reveals it was low tide. Smith was led to gold plates that held The Book of Mormon gospel by an angel called Moroni. But Hofmann discovered a letter that said it was actually a white salamander that guided old Joe. It was so shocking that Mormon leaders turned a whiter shade of pale it was that bad. They quickly bought the letter so it would never be seen. Of course, it was
Though he is a college dropout himself, Pete Davidson offered Penn State students advice on college, comedy and snacks during a Student Programming Association Q&A session late Tuesday evening.