Where Is Bill Bakula, Walter Mercado’s Ex-Manager, Now? The filmmakers behind Netflix’s Mucho Mucho Amor explain how they tracked down the man who made and destroyed the famous astrologer’s career.
foodie love
July 17, 2020
Foodie Love ’s Creator Wanted to Make a Deliciously Different Romance SeriesFor her first-ever series, Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet built a story around two main characters who have little in common except food.
emmy insider
July 13, 2020
How Pose ’s Mj Rodriguez Pulled Off an Incredible Whitney Houston Lip Sync And Blanca’s emotional hospital scene with Pray Tell in Pose ’s season finale.
emmy insider
July 9, 2020
How Insecure Wrote the Year’s Most Romantic Bottle Episode Natasha Rothwell has always wanted Issa and Lawrence to reunite. With “Lowkey Happy,” she finally got her chance to make it happen.
emmy insider
July 7, 2020
documentaries
June 18, 2020
How Lenox Hill Filmed a Special Coronavirus Episode Inside a Hospital For 33 days over two months, the Netflix docuseries witnessed the pandemic erupt inside a Manhattan hospital.
the dot com
June 11, 2020
Insecure ’s Jay Ellis Is Convinced That Issa and Lawrence Are Soul Mates“I think they will always be in each other’s lives no matter what happens.”
There Is No Villain in Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story “To this day, I believe that Betty believes it was either her or them,” says Dirty John ’s showrunner.
Homecoming ’s Showrunners on the Art of Building a Conspiracy ThrillerWithout the guidepost of their popular podcast, but with the addition of Janelle Monáe, Homecoming crafts a brand-new mystery.
behind the scenes
May 4, 2020
How All Rise Made a Brand-New Episode in the Middle of a Pandemic The cast of the CBS legal drama had to essentially become one-person production crews inside their own homes.
A Parks and Recreation Reunion Episode Was Off the Table. Then a Pandemic Hit. Showrunner Mike Schur and Amy Poehler agreed against a reunion long ago, but the prospect of a quarantine-era episode proved too compelling to resist.
Vida Wasn’t Supposed to End This WayCreator Tanya Saracho went through “all the stages of grief” while making the final season of her groundbreaking show.
Behind Little Fires Everywhere ’s ‘Surprising and Inevitable’ Ending Breaking down the miniseries’s biggest departures from the book with showrunner Liz Tigelaar and novelist Celeste Ng.
Better Call Saul ’s Showrunner Teases ‘Big Trouble Ahead’ for Kim and Jimmy“‘Tragedy’ is a big word, and sometimes it can be big things like death, but there are other things that tragedy can mean.”
Better Call Saul ’s Tony Dalton Hopes That Lalo Gets a ‘Worthy Death’“That’s the whole concept of Lalo. As far as he’s concerned, he could die any second.”
How Little Fires’ Flashback Cast Young Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington AnnaSophia Robb and Tiffany Boone talk channeling their heroes’ distinctive performances while also making Young Elena and Young Mia their own.
‘He Was the Music’ The creators, songwriters, and cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend remember Adam Schlesinger.
socially distanced tv
Apr. 2, 2020
If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.
so many questions
Apr. 1, 2020
Florida Sheriff Is Here to Debunk Your Tiger King Cold-Case Theories Fans of the Netflix series are sending in tips about Carole Baskin’s ex-husband every day. Here’s what’s new with Don Lewis’s missing-person case.
Sterling K. Brown on That ‘No-Holds-Barred’ This Is Us Finale Confrontation The Emmy-winning actor unpacks the highs and lows of Randall Pearson’s mental health journey in season four.
backstories
Mar. 19, 2020
How Little Fires Everywhere Expanded the Novel’s Meditations on Motherhood Showrunner Liz Tigelaar and novelist Celeste Ng break down how the Hulu series takes its exploration of race and class beyond what Ng’s book allowed.
coronavirus
Mar. 16, 2020
Inside a Writers’ Room That’s Social Distancing Itself How One Day at a Time ’s showrunners are coping with the coronavirus.
on my block
Mar. 16, 2020
How On My Block Turned Jasmine From a Punch Line Into a Star Jessica Marie Garcia on her breakout role, Jasmine’s sex fantasies, and the season’s twist ending.
How The Most Dangerous Animal of All Unraveled a Zodiac Killer Theory After a best-selling memoir claimed to solve the Zodiac mystery, the creators of FX’s docuseries decided to investigate.
McMillions Found the Informant Who Took Down the McDonald’s Monopoly ScamThe directors of the HBO true-crime series reveal how they solved a 20-year-old mystery.
It Took Five Seasons, But Better Call Saul Finally Brought Back Hank and Gomie “It’s classic Hank yappin’ about ridiculous stuff. And poor Gomie has to put up with it.”
Playing Gentefied ’s Pop Let Joaquín Cosío Get in Touch With His Softer Side The Narcos: Mexico actor talks playing “a rough man with a gentle touch,” and how he reacted to the Morales patriarch’s season-ending fate.
How Gentefied ’s Stars Found Themselves in the Morales Cousins Karrie Martin, Carlos Santos, and J.J. Soria discuss how the new Netflix series allowed them the rare opportunity to be authentic without compromise.
the industry
Feb. 21, 2020
They Felt Like Hollywood Outsiders. Then They Got a Netflix Show. How two first-generation artists made Gentefied , a bilingual love letter to their families, their culture, and East L.A.
OITNB’s Dascha Polanco Is Hosting a Latinx Podcast for Netflix It’s based on a (fictional) podcast in the upcoming Netflix show Gentefied .
a very good episode
Feb. 10, 2020
Why Shrill Took Aim at ‘Sinister’ Empowerment Conferences “It feels like a surface-level approach to women’s issues. Wear pink! Be loud! Go off, queen! That’s not reality, you know?”
Victoria Pedretti on You Season Two, Love’s Big Secret, and That Shocking Finale “In her great efforts to protect the ones she loves, she’s willing to do anything.”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw on The Morning Show ’s Finale Shocker “What I appreciated was that they went for the gray area. They didn’t try and oversimplify it.”
The Morning Show ’s Billy Crudup on the ‘Thrill and Terror’ of Cory Ellison“I’m constantly being told to speed up. Cory’s often way ahead of where I am, I can just barely keep up with him.”
the confession killer
Dec. 10, 2019
How The Confession Killer Tackled the Myth of History’s Worst Serial Killer The Netflix docuseries’ dive into the false confessions of Henry Lee Lucas explores the law’s fixation on closing cases, and the toll it takes.
truth be told
Dec. 5, 2019
Truth Be Told ’s Creator Wanted to Show True Crime’s ‘Ripple Effect’With the new Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer, creator and showrunner Nichelle Tramble Spellman set out to explore true crime’s gray areas.
the mandalorian
Dec. 3, 2019
Baby Yoda Toys Are Finally Here, But You Still Won’t Get Them Before Christmas Next spring, you can have a Baby Yoda plush toy, bobblehead, or Funko Pop! doll of your own.
After 33 Years, Alex Kapp Is Ready to Talk About ‘the Preppy Killer’ “I feel terrible guilt, still to this day. I don’t know what to do with that.”
If Emily Dickinson Were Alive Today, She’d Love Billie Eilish Dickinson pairs the 19th-century poet’s life with modern needle drops. Here’s how they picked out 12 songs.
Fresh Off the Boat to End After Six SeasonsThe longest-running sitcom about an Asian-American family in broadcast TV history will air its last episode next year.
Maura Tierney Says Good-bye to Helen, Noah, and The Affair “I’m not sure exactly how or why, but it ended up being about Noah and Helen. And that didn’t feel weird to me.”
the morning show
Nov. 1, 2019
The Morning Show Was a Challenge Kerry Ehrin Couldn’t ResistAsked to rebuild the new Apple TV+ series from the ground up, the showrunner reconceived the pilot as a Me Too story in just three weeks.
the streaming wars
Oct. 29, 2019
South Park Will Stream Exclusively on HBO MaxThe WarnerMedia service also announced original shows from Mindy Kaling, Greg Berlanti, Issa Rae, and Elizabeth Banks.
backstories
Oct. 15, 2019
How El Camino Pulled Off Its Surprise Walt and Jesse Reunion “Both of us had to wear these ridiculous looking cloaks, like we were part of a very, very, very demented cult.”
The Breaking Bad Movie Almost Had a Very Different Ending Vince Gilligan reveals his bleak alternate ending for El Camino . (And why he changed his mind.)
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