On This “Star Wars Day,” The Galaxy is Expanding

May the 4th be with you.

It’s Star Wars Day, and this year, there’s more going on in the galaxy than at any previous moment in recent history. In fact, there’s more going on in the galaxy now than ever, considering the still recent inclusion of live-action Star Wars series on Disney+ and the news, at long last, shared by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy about upcoming feature films that will look forward into the Star Wars future as well as travel to the distant past at the very beginnings of the Force.

“Swarm” Production Designer Sara K White on Creating Fractured Spaces for the Celebrity-Obsessed

Swarm has a way of hovering in your thoughts long after you’ve finished the latest episode. The new series from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover (available now on Prime Video) takes the conceit of toxic fandom and unleashes a psychological thriller with a nasty, lasting sting. Starring a phenomenal Dominique Fishback as Dre, a socially stunted retail worker who is deeply, even desperately committed to two and only two people in her life: Her beloved sister Marissa (Chloe Bailey),

“A Small Light” Executive Producer & Director Susanna Fogel on Disney+’s Illuminating New Miniseries

With Holocaust Remembrance Day having just passed and with antisemitism on the rise around the world, the release of National Geographic’s new eight-part miniseries A Small Light couldn’t come at a more apt time. The series is based on the true story of Miep and Jan Gies, who risked everything to hide Otto Frank and his family from the Nazis during World War II. Miep Gies discovered and kept Anne Frank’s famous diary safe until after the war. 

“Love & Death” Director Lesli Linka Glatter on HBO’s Deadly Sharp New Crime Drama

Love & Death, which debuted on April 27 on HBO/Max, begins with faith, family, and infidelity. It concludes with a criminal investigation and a gripping courtroom trial. In the middle is a gruesome axe murder. And once Emmy-nominated producer/director Lesli Linka Glatter had read the script, she wanted in on it.

“I was totally swept up in the material,” says Glatter during a recent interview. “To me, this is the dark side of the American dream.

“Succession” Costume Designer Michelle Matland Breaks Down the Roy Family’s Signature Looks

Early this season on Succession, Waystar Royco executive Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) mocks the $2900 Burberry handbag carried by cousin Greg’s (Nicholas Braun) date as being “Ludicrously capacious…You could slide it across the floor after a bank job.” And in the show’s first year, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) bought a pair of $500 Lanvin sneakers to ingratiate himself with potential Silicon Valley investors, telling them, “I got these sneakers on the way down here because I thought you’d all be dressed like f*****’ Björk,

Netflix Reveals “Black Mirror” Season 6 Teaser With Salma Hayek, Zazie Beetz & More

It’s now a tired joke that the world has become a Black Mirror episode, which made it almost redundant for series creator Charlie Brooker and his talented team to continue cranking out seasons laced with tech-dystopian vibes and gimlet-eyed critiques of the human animal. Well, thankfully, the sixth season is not only happening; we now have our first look, revealing a peek at how the Black Mirror team has absorbed our increasingly Black Mirror-like reality.

“Transatlantic” Costume Designer Justine Seymour on Outfitting Socialites & Surrealists in a Time of War

In 1940, the U.S. still maintained an official stance of neutrality in World War II. Across the Atlantic, however, relief organizations were already on the ground, working their influence at local embassies and trying to convince the American government to grant entry visas to refugees. Netflix’s new limited series, Transatlantic, is based on the efforts and exploits of two such Americans at the helm of the Emergency Rescue Committee, journalist Varian Fry (Cory Michael Smith) and socialite Mary Jayne Gold (Gillian Jacobs).

Transportation Manager Ryan Doucette on How Warner Bros. Turned “Kung Fu” Season Three Green

Ryan Doucette is the manager of transportation compliance for Warner Bros. Studio Operations, Canada, and while that title might not immediately bring to mind a job at the forefront of the studio’s efforts at creating ever more sustainable productions, that’s precisely where Doucette finds himself.

“This is probably not as exciting as talking to a cinematographer,” Doucette joked when we spoke, “but it’s really important, and it’s not something we have a choice about.”

Rachel Weisz Delivers Double the Trouble in Prime Video’s “Dead Ringers”

The world needs more of Rachel Weisz. This is made evident anytime the abundantly talented performer appears in anything, and now, thankfully, we’ll be getting a double dose of her in Prime Video’s new series Dead Ringers (streaming on Prime Video on April 21), which is a new take on David Cronenberg’s deeply unsettling 1988 film. Weisz plays both Elliot and Beverly Mantle, a pair of twins who share everything—and we do mean everything.

Inside “Succession” Episode 4: Kendall Makes His Move

“The terrible bubble of grief has burst,” says Succession creator Jesse Armstrong at the top of the latest “Inside the Episode” video, which unpacks the fourth episode, the first in the series to carry forth without Brian Cox’s Logan Roy, the brutal sun upon which all the rest of Succession’s characters and plot points swirled. The promise in the show’s title is now in its final, desperate lurch towards bearing out,

“The Acolyte” Creator Leslye Headland on How Her New Series Will Approach the Jedi Order

There has been so much going on in the Star Wars galaxy lately that you need an Imperial TIE Interceptor to keep up. Since the Star Wars Celebration in London last weekend, we’ve gotten fresh glimpses of the upcoming series Ahsoka, learned more about James Mangold’s vision for a Biblical epic-style Star Wars he’s referring to as Star Wars Zero, and the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey in a brand new Star Wars movie from Oscar-winning documentarian and Ms.

“Barry” Season 4 Review Round-Up: A Stunning Coda For Bill Hader’s Hitman Series

Barry‘s end is nigh—for both the series and, one has to suspect, for Bill Hader’s haunted hitman. Critics are weighing in on the fourth and final season, and it sounds as if Hader and his Barry team have delivered a stunning coda.

Barry is not easy viewing, but it’s been a relentlessly original, occasionally hilarious, and almost always surprising masterclass in storytelling. Hader,

“Game of Thrones” Prequel Focused on “Dunk & Egg” Officially Moving Forward at HBO

Two beloved characters from George R. R. Martin’s sprawling world of Westeros are coming to HBO.

A Game of Thrones prequel based on Martin’s “Dunk & Egg” books was announced during Warner Bros. Discovery’s April 12 presentation to investors and the press—this was the same presentation in which they revealed the HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming service will henceforth be known as Max. The news about the upcoming Dunk & Egg-focused Game of Thrones prequel is manna from dragon-filled heaven for fans of Martin’s two more loveable creations.

“The Penguin” First Look Reveals HBO Max’s “The Batman” Spinoff

“This — this is one of those moments where you gotta ask yourself, what kind of life do I want? The world ain’t built for guys like us; that’s why we gotta take whatever we decide is ours.”

Welcome to the world view of Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell), also known by his unbeatable gangster nickname The Penguin. Farrell’s portrayal of the rotund demigod of the Gotham underworld was one of the many wonderful surprises nested in writer/director Matt Reeves’s excellent The Batman, 

“Succession” Writers Kept Shocking Death From Leaking By Using the Perfect Code Word

If you’re a Succession fan, you’ve either seen this past Sunday’s shocking third episode, “Connor’s Wedding,” or you’re currently on a 30-day silent retreat or plying your trade on the International Space Station (cool, by the way). And yet, out of an abundance of caution, spoilers ahead.

Still here? Great. So obviously, in order to pull off the shocking death of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) that rocked the Succession-watching world in the third episode,

Inside the Shocking Death That Rocked “Succession” Episode 3

Succession’s third episode of its fourth season delivered a death blow felt around the world (for fans of HBO’s hit series, at least). It goes without saying that this article will be a pallbearer to spoilers, so if you haven’t watched the episode yet, stop reading.

Episode three, “Connor’s Wedding,” found the four Roy siblings gathered on a boat to celebrate (we use this term loosely) Connor (Alan Ruck)’s wedding to Willa (Justine Lupe).

“Great Expectations” Cinematographer Dan Atherton Goes Dark with Dickens

How dark is too dark? For fans of Peaky Blinders, the BAFTA-winning period crime series created by Steven Knight, bleak is better. In adapting Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations,” Knight ramped up the vice and violence for a six-part FX/Hulu series running through April 23) that introduces opium, sadomasochism, attempted suicide, prostitution, F-bombs, and literal butchery to Dickens’ 19th-century novel-centered on the poor but clever orphan Pip. After being groomed by the wealthy Miss Havisham (Olivia Colman) and her chilly adopted daughter Estella (Chloe Lee/Shalom Brune-Franklin),

New “Ahsoka” Images Reveal the First “Star Wars” Series to Leap From Animation Into Live-Action

For the first time ever, the animated portion of the Star Wars galaxy is getting the live-action treatment thanks to Dave Filoni’s upcoming new Disney+ series Ahsoka. The first trailer for the Rosario Dawson-led show was revealed at the Star Wars Celebration in London last week, unveiling at least a piece of the story Filoni and his team will be telling.

Part of that story will be a direct continuation of the character’s adventures during Filoni’s 2014 animated series Star Wars: Rebels, 

“Beef” Costume Designer Helen Huang on Dressing “Chill” Angelenos Seething With Rage

Girl honks boy. Boy gets revenge. Complications ensue.

Beef features Oscar-nominee Steven Yeun and comedian Ali Wong as star-crossed L.A. malcontents whose lives go haywire after a road rage incident. Created by Lee Sung Jin (Silicon Valley, 2 Broke Girls), who was tapped last week to write Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts movie, the ten-part Netflix series (streaming now) presents outwardly chill characters who are seething on the inside.

First “Ahsoka” Trailer Reveals Rosario Dawson-led “Star Wars” Series on Disney+

Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano is one of the more intriguing characters in the Star Wars canon, and at long last, she’s got her own series. The first trailer for Ahsoka is here, revealing Dawson’s live-action take on a character who first appeared in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Ashley Eckstein), at which point Dawson stepped as Ahsoka in season two of The Mandalorian.