Drama Series
The Family Trauma That Went Into ‘3 Body Problem’ (Guest Column)
A few months before 3 Body Problem launched on Netflix, I did something I’d never done before. I showed the opening sequence to my mother. The scene depicts a “struggle session,” a public rally where a physics professor is murdered by a group of young students after refusing to renounce his teachings. These events were […]
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Dave Filoni on How ‘Ahsoka’ Brought Anakin Back
It was a moment Star Wars fans had been waiting for: the reunion of Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and her former master, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). Who better to direct that episode of Ahsoka than Dave Filoni, who created the title character (alongside George Lucas) for the animated series The Clone Wars? For Filoni, who […]
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‘And Just Like That’ Star Karen Pittman on The Possibility of Nya Returning: “There’s More Story to Tell”
Karen Pittman always looked for the humorous moments in having to juggle simultaneous shoots, on opposite coasts, for And Just Like That and The Morning Show, flying back and forth two to three times a month. One was using the time during the first-class flight from New York to Los Angeles to take out the […]
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Carrie Coon on Her ‘Gilded Age’ Character: “I Love That People Don’t Like Her”
On HBO’s The Gilded Age, Carrie Coon stands out among the stacked ensemble cast (she was just one of 34 players to receive a SAG Award nom for best drama ensemble this year), in part because her lead role of Bertha Reynolds allows her to play a rare kind of character on TV these days: […]
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Calista Flockhart on Dealing With Sudden ‘Ally McBeal’ Fame: “I Stopped Leaving My House”
Calista Flockhart is opening up about her titular role in the hit ’90s show Ally McBeal. In a conversation for The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, the Feud: Capote vs. The Swans star discussed how her quick rise to fame thanks to Ally McBeal changed her daily life. Flockhart, who was in a play at […]
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Carrie Preston on Playing Elsbeth for 14 Years (and Why She’d Play Her for Another 14)
Before Carrie Preston made her TV lead debut in the procedural Elsbeth earlier this year, she’d portrayed the title character, Elsbeth Tascioni, off and on since 2010, first as a recurring character on the drama The Good Wife and then on its stand-alone sequel The Good Fight in Robert and Michelle King’s CBS legal franchise. […]
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‘Fallout’ Star Walton Goggins on Bringing Swagger to the Gunslinging Ghoul
Walton Goggins has played gunslingers before. He’s been a renegade sheriff in The Hateful Eight, an outlaw on Justified, a Navy SEAL on Six and a trigger-happy train robber in Shanghai Noon — but Fallout marks the first time he’s been two versions of one cowboy. In Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game […]
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‘The Gilded Age’ Hairstyling Head on Crafting Period-True ‘Dos: “I’m Constantly Chasing After Wigs”
h en Sean Flanigan joined The Gilded Age as the hairstyling department head in its first season, he drew inspiration directly from the real-life, late 19th century New York figures that influenced the HBO period drama, like Caroline Astor (Donna Murphy) and Alva Vanderbilt, after whom Carrie Coon’s character, Bertha Russell, is fashioned. “We follow […]
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How ‘Fallout’ Visually Nails a Post-Nuclear War America
How do you breathe humanity into a post-nuke, radiation-poisoned America? In Fallout, it comes down to Walton Goggins’ noseless Ghoul, a cyclops vault dweller, bloodthirsty mutated bears and a centuries-decayed Santa Monica Pier, just to name a few of the series’ cataclysmic details. Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of the popular Bethesda video game is set […]
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The ‘3 Body Problem’ Creators Reveal Their 3 Favorite Scenes From First Season
A sci-fi drama unlike any other, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem provoked a mixture of critical acclaim, fandom buzz and political debate with its rather bold adaptation of author Liu Cixin’s celebrated physics-stuff novel. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss — coming off HBO’s Game of Thrones — teamed with True Blood writer-producer Alexander Woo on […]
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In ‘The Gilded Age,’ Socialites Waged War Using Opera Houses
At the end of season two of The Gilded Age, a battle between two opera houses — the Metropolitan Opera and the Academy of Music — comes to a head, with Bertha (Carrie Coon) emerging victorious at last, gazing out over the star-studded premiere she facilitated. In order to re-create the opening of the Met […]
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‘The Morning Show’ Will Enter 2024’s Media-Scape “Mid-Chaos”
The Morning Show has a knack for writing itself into a corner. “It requires a lot of junk food to manage the stress,” says executive producer Charlotte Stoudt. “Part of me was like, ‘Who is that season three showrunner? I have a few words for her!’” As said season three showrunner, Stoudt is joking. She’s […]
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