Barbara Palvin had no downside strolling in her mirrored wings on the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Style Present — that are heavier than you’d anticipate.

The 31-year-old Angel completely opened as much as Us Weekly about her larger-than-life wings whereas getting glammed up for the present on Tuesday, October 15. “This yr mine are heavy, which simply means they’re larger!” she exclaimed, noting that “some [wings] are actually gentle.”

Palvin guessed that her wings, which featured massive mirrors within the form of feathers, weighed round “40 kilos.”

“They’re actually well-made, so it’s not too exhausting [to walk in the wings] with heels on,” Palvin informed Us.

Palvin additionally shared that she prepped for the present by staying “hydrated” and (trying) to get an excellent night time’s relaxation.

“I’ve been up since 2:30 [a.m.],” she laughed to Us, noting she had an excessive amount of adrenaline to fall again asleep. (Palvin’s glowy complexion made it unimaginable to inform she was low on sleep.)

For the catwalk, Palvin regarded like a sizzling goddess in a sheer costume that includes a cowl neckline, a thigh-high slit and a dainty prepare. Beneath, she confirmed off her determine in a silver crystal bra and matching string underwear.

Palvin gave Us much more fairy vitality with butterfly heels that wrapped round her ankles. She additional accessorized with diamond earrings. After strutting down the runway — which, by the best way, Palvin did so flawlessly, and even beamed alongside the best way — the mannequin took off her pumps and held them within the air whereas returning backstage.

Her glam included stuffed in-eyebrows, rosy cheeks, shiny lips and sparkly eyeshadow that made her blue eyes pop. Palvin’s brunette strands have been parted down the center and styled in unfastened curls.

On the subject of her relationship with Victoria’s Secret, Palvin informed Us she goes manner again with the model and even bought her first pair of Pink panties years in the past. “I nonetheless have it!” she quipped to Us, joking the lingerie might depend as classic now.

Early within the first season of Shrinking, I wasn’t fairly positive what to make of the present’s premise. It’s one factor to observe a therapist with unconventional strategies, however Jimmy’s manner of doing issues was clearly unethical, and the present knew it. How sustainable might that be as a plot engine for a comedy like this one? By the midway level of the season, although, the present had moved away a bit from that central hook, remodeling (like so lots of Invoice Lawrence’s different exhibits) right into a extra low-concept hangout sitcom a few group of characters. Then, we received that literal cliffhanger of a last scene: Grace, one in every of Jimmy’s greatest success tales, pushed her husband off a cliff.

It was a reminder that therapists typically have various energy in terms of their sufferers, and wielding that energy irresponsibly can have critical penalties. However it was additionally a return to a narrative line that the present had largely moved previous. As a lot as I loved how the season ended, I puzzled what tack the following season would take.

This premiere means that Jimmy quitting his normal offbeat strategies could possibly be troublesome; Jimmying his sufferers has develop into one thing like an habit, filling the void left by all of the liquor and medicines he as soon as used to deal with his spouse Tia’s dying. Season one additionally recommended this concept early on as we noticed Jimmy come again to life after a 12 months of grief, reinvesting his power into his work life whereas working onerous to make up for misplaced time along with his daughter. However I do hope that if the season sticks with this battle (fairly than dropping the quirky remedy and reverting again to a extra common therapist-led hangout sitcom), we’ll study extra about why precisely Jimmy depends on this a lot.

Nonetheless, I like that this episode continues to acknowledge the dangerous results of that kind of remedy. Grace is the obvious instance: Because of Jimmy’s overly specific recommendation, she’s in jail, going through a possible life sentence for the tried homicide of her husband. (He did survive, however he may by no means stroll once more.) Jimmy tries to justify this to Paul as “sample interruption,” a well-known time period in regular remedy which means precisely what it appears like. However there’s actually no solution to see this as a win; Grace even factors out that she’d fairly have a shitty husband than spend her life in jail.

Maybe the larger downside is that Jimmy simply cares an excessive amount of about his sufferers, letting them stay in his head rent-free whereas he’s off the clock. The dream model of Paul attracts an insightful distinction between their respective relationships with their sufferers: Jimmy would come undone if one in every of his sufferers didn’t end up okay, whereas Paul can separate himself.

Throughout Jimmy’s real-life discuss with Paul about this topic, his mentor reassures him that he didn’t essentially fuck up, although he ought to most likely stick to standard remedy for some time. However his efforts are short-lived, particularly when Alice inadvertently will get him to vow to maintain committing therapist malpractice. She’s fearful about the potential for him regressing, particularly as a result of his assurance that he’s “good” doesn’t sound any completely different from the lies he instructed her when he decidedly wasn’t good. Nonetheless, although, I’ve to surprise why Jimmying is so, nicely, therapeutic to him. There should have been years previous to Tia’s dying the place he was extra comfy with conventional remedy. Why can’t he discover his manner again there now?

Regardless, it’s clear that Jimmy is as fragile as Alice and Paul say, primarily based on his explosive response to the (conveniently timed) look of the drunk driver chargeable for Tia’s dying within the last scene. (That’s Ted Lasso co-star and Shrinking co-creator Brett Goldstein, startlingly clean-shaven.) That fragility is affecting his relationships along with his household and associates, together with Paul, who was pressured to assuage Jimmy’s earlier fears about messing up along with his sufferers. However it’s additionally affecting his sufferers themselves, together with Sean, who’s too afraid of disappointing Jimmy to be open about any private failure.

Sean is in a fairly good place general, particularly now that his and Liz’s meals truck is up and working. However he’s nonetheless uncomfortable with reminders of his previous. When an previous military buddy involves city, he’s tempted to flake, even after Jimmy will get within the ring to problem him to a struggle in his newest Jimmying relapse. (It goes about in addition to you’d anticipate.) Sean is extra impressed by Jimmy’s confidence in him than his goofy antics, so he decides to undergo with the dangle at first — however in the long run, he pulls out on the final second, strolling proper previous the door of the spot.

Sean’s continuous lack of associates outdoors his therapist’s circle completely proves Paul’s level about their complicated twin relationship, particularly along with his lie about the way it went with the military buddy. So for his subsequent appointment, Sean goes to Paul as a substitute of Jimmy. Their little whats up feels a bit bittersweet, nevertheless it’s for the most effective. Moreover, they do actually stay collectively, so it’s not like these two are out of one another’s lives. At most, he’ll most likely see Jimmy 50 minutes much less per week any further.

Jimmy is coping with quite a bit proper now, so turning his informal sexual association with Gaby into an actual relationship isn’t entrance of thoughts. Perhaps at some point Jimmy shall be able to get critical, however as we speak is just not that day, and Gaby is conscious of that. It’s an “uneven dynamic,” she factors out to Liz, and the longer she retains sleeping with him regardless of that, the extra probably her emotions will get harm. And but like Jimmy, Gaby wants this launch now, confused as she is with transferring, educating a category, mediating an ongoing struggle between her mother and sister, and coping with her common sufferers. She tries to give up Jimmy, however she simply can’t — as a “pathological caretaker,” she’s nonetheless holding out hope he’ll give her an actual shot ultimately.

Liz takes it upon herself to intrude, as normal, resulting in some basic Gaby-and-Liz preventing. This one doesn’t get too intense, although. Liz enlists her husband and Brian to unpack all of Gaby’s stuff whereas she’s away, and all is forgiven. (Gaby’s most likely going to rearrange all that after they’re gone, although, proper?)

The sunshine C-plot of the episode belongs to Paul, who’s beginning to reluctantly come to phrases with the truth that he’s deeply in love along with his physician girlfriend, Julie. They’re not simply “roomies with bennies”; they’ve common morning dance periods of their lounge, they usually even watch sports activities collectively. Paul is a cussed man who typically struggles to be open about his feelings, so at first he goes the other manner, suggesting they see an excessive amount of of one another. However an evening away from Julie is sufficient to remind him how a lot he likes spending time along with her, so he marches over to her place and does the mature factor by telling her he loves her. (She says it again, after all.)

A lot of Shrinking is about that want for communication and connection, about having an open and sincere coronary heart. So when Jimmy pulls again out his previous recurring lie on the finish of the episode — telling Alice that his day was nice — there’s actual trigger for concern. Typically, you suppose the whole lot’s superb till the previous comes roaring again.

• Liz and Derek’s son, Connor, remains to be fairly into Alice, and for some cause, he appears incapable of speaking to her regardless of their historical past (they misplaced their virginities to one another).

• Gotta love Harrison Ford’s grin when Jimmy says Paul pushed him off a cliff in his dream.

• Not a ton for Brian to do but, however he’s taking over Grace’s case professional bono, so that ought to assist maintain him concerned.

• Gaby’s pupil Keisha looks like a enjoyable new character.

• Not likely a fan of enamel humor, so I used to be extra amused by Jimmy’s preliminary effort to cover what occurred (the leaking blood was fairly good) than the precise visuals of his fucked-up enamel.

• “I don’t must numb myself by snorting molly off of some stripper named Ecstasy … I may need been snorting ecstasy off a stripper named Molly.”

• “After Mother died, at some point you had been my dad, and the following I used to be getting a experience to high school from a intercourse employee.” “She was additionally a Lyft driver. She did each.”

• “Woof.” “That’s my factor.”

The Apple TV+ dramedy “Shrinking” is — or a minimum of, was — a couple of therapist, Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel), throwing skilled ethics out the window within the wake of his spouse’s tragic dying. No matter one considered how the present portrayed remedy, and many have been appalled by the concept that doctor-patient boundaries are extra annoying inconvenience than ironclad precept, Season 1 of “Shrinking” a minimum of had a hook-y premise to construction its broader examine of grief. Season 2, which premieres this week after a 19-month hiatus on account of final yr’s strikes, backs away from this fundamental basis, leaving a narrative that’s simply as tonally muddled however even much less centered.

To the present’s not-really-defense, it’s by no means taken a powerful stance on Jimmy’s new strategy, which adopted a yr of catatonia, debauchery and pawning his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) off on their neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) to surrogate dad or mum. When the Season 2 premiere sees Jimmy’s boss and mentor Paul (a curmudgeonly Harrison Ford) demand his protegé cease treating Sean (Luke Tennie), the veteran with anger points crashing on Jimmy’s sofa, it’s unclear why he’s placing his foot down now relatively than at any earlier juncture. However on “Shrinking” — a team-up of Segel and “Ted Lasso” collaborators Invoice Lawrence and Brett Goldstein — Jimmy’s antics are neither a brand new flip within the widower’s downward spiral nor a superb innovation his friends may stand to study from, nonetheless problematic such an angle may be. They’re only a setup for a handful of vaguely comedian conditions, like Jimmy crashing a affected person’s date. Having taken a minimal curiosity within the observe of remedy to start with, “Shrinking” already finds itself distracted.

In Season 2, Jimmy offers his method a reputation (“Jimmy-ing”), however appears to do much less of it than ever. With Sean off his docket, a pure new focus can be Grace (Heidi Gardner of “SNL”), a girl who snapped within the Season 1 finale and pushed her abusive husband off a cliff, impressed by Jimmy’s unfiltered recommendation. This consequence is a logical immediate for Jimmy to do some critical introspection. That by no means arrives, subjecting poor, jailbound Grace to a wildly oscillating spectrum of stakes. Jimmy’s different sufferers don’t seem till previous the season’s midway mark; he takes on no new ones. Sean sticks round, however his relationship with Jimmy and Paul bears more and more little resemblance to any type of remedy, conventional or not. He’s simply one other participant in a shaggy hangout, one oversharing good friend amongst many.

Jimmy’s colleagues are equally disengaged. Paul pushes his longtime cost Raymond (Neil Flynn) out of the nest, leaving him to concentrate on his Parkinson’s prognosis and budding romance with neurologist Julie (Wendie Malick). Gaby (Jessica Williams), Jimmy’s coworker, shut good friend and someday fuck buddy, has largely turned her consideration to instructing a university class, in addition to some household strife that’s abruptly launched. Together with Miller, Williams offers one of many few performances that appears to grasp “Shrinking” is a sitcom at its core, however she stays marooned on a extra pleasing present.

This pivot begs the query: If “Shrinking” isn’t about remedy, what is it about? The lengthy tail of mourning continues to loom massive, with Goldstein casting himself as a personality with an essential half to play in Jimmy and Alice processing their trauma. The particular function is taken into account a spoiler, although the efficiency comprises ample alternatives for Goldstein to look pained whereas on the verge of tears. Maybe the author and performer wished to point out off his dramatic vary. The arc is nonetheless an overcorrection from the comedian ire of “Ted Lasso’s” Roy Kent.

However for probably the most half, “Shrinking” sans shrink-ing is a shapeless, listless mess. The present takes place in a model of Pasadena, the prosperous Los Angeles suburb, that appears to be the dimensions of a snow globe, or possibly Stars Hole with palm timber. Characters continuously collide at random, like when Sean’s semi-estranged father stumbles on the meals truck he’s began with Liz. The Sean-Liz partnership is one in every of many random-seeming relationships among the many ensemble, an undifferentiated mass the place everybody appears equally, unconvincingly near everybody else.

Jimmy’s lack of boundaries might now not be as related to his skilled life, nevertheless it’s nonetheless felt within the sequence’ construction, or lack thereof. Storylines really feel more and more atomized: Jimmy’s good friend Brian (Michael Urie) considers having a child; Gaby counsels her college students; Liz, now an empty nester, casts about for a function. Performances, too, are discordant; Segel and Urie particularly go so large they drown out extra refined deadpans, like Ford’s, or dramatic work, like Maxwell’s. Platonic chemistry alone can’t present sufficient glue to cobble these mismatched components collectively. “Shrinking” is meant to be in regards to the work of therapeutic wounds, however in Season 2, it’s damaged into extra items than when it started.

The primary two episodes of “Shrinking” are actually out there to stream on Apple TV+, with remaining episodes airing weekly on Wednesdays.

Demetrius “Huge Meech” Flenory is out of federal jail.

The previous drug lord—who gained notoriety because the co-founder of the Black Mafia Household felony enterprise—was launched from FCI Coleman Low in Florida Oct. 15, Federal Bureau of Prisons officer Scott Taylor stated in an announcement to E! Information.

Following Flenory’s launch, the 56-year-old was transferred to group confinement—which consists of both house confinement or a midway home—the officer instructed E! Information. His projected launch date is now January 27, 2026.

Flenory co-founded his drug dealing enterprise alongside his youthful brother, Terry Lee “Southwest Tee” Flenory, in Detroit within the Nineteen Eighties, in accordance with Newsweek. Per the outlet, the enterprise finally grew right into a nationwide enterprise, distributing over $270 million price of cocaine all through the U.S. earlier than the brothers’ arrest in 2005. They each pleaded responsible to working a seamless felony enterprise two years later, and had been sentenced to 30 years in jail.