Servant Costume Designer Caroline Duncan on Dressing M. Night Shyamalan’s Thriller

M. Night Shyamalan and Tony Basgallop’s Servant is one of Apple TV+‘s weirdest, wildest new shows. As always with a Shyamalan production, there are creepy twists aplenty on offer here, but there’s more to Servant than narrative surprises—there’s bracing oddness to it, amplified by terrific performances from a great cast and technical mastery from Shyamalan and Basgallop’s talented crew.

Servant is set in Philadelphia (Shyamalan’s preferred location,

Director Kate Woods on Faith and Belief in her Netflix Drama Messiah

Early on in the new Netflix drama Messiah, CIA agent Eva (Michelle Monaghan), paradigmatically dogged in her duties, informs a failed prospective job candidate, “the truth may look gray, but I assure you, it is not.” It’s easy to guess that Eva’s next assignment will have her rethinking the office hiring policy. After she becomes aware of a long-locked, proselytizing enigma first spotted preaching mid-sandstorm to a band of followers in Damascus,

Freya Allan & Anya Chalotra on Playing The Witcher’s Powerful Women

For millions of excited fans around the world, the first season of Netflix’s long-anticipated fantasy series The Witcher has not disappointed. The show is based on the best-selling novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and the subsequent video games based on the stories, which have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. The Witcher follows three powerful individuals with colliding destinies living on a continent full of magic and monsters,

Best of 2019: Orange Is the New Black’s Production Designer Malchus Janocko’s Favorite Sets

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Production designer Malchus Janocko set out to be a painter and glassblower before he discovered show business as a livelihood. Janocko art-directed the glossy Gossip Girl, then channeled small-town Americana for the first season of The Leftovers before taking a deep dive into the muted world of incarceration dramatized in Orange Is the New Black.

Best of 2019: Watchmen’s Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on This Extraordinary Series

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Now that Watchmen has made its glorious debut on HBO and confounded just about every expectation, we can say with confidence that Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel is a remarkable testament to the original and a bold, powerful piece of original storytelling itself. The reason is Lindelof and his incredible team of writers,

Best of 2019: Carmen Ejogo on her Pivotal Role in True Detective’s Season Three

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In season three of True Detective, creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto returns to the series’ Southern Gothic roots, with two detectives, Vietnam vet Wayne “Purple” Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) trying to solve the murder of one child and the disappearance of another in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hays takes the lead on the case in 1980 and is doing desk work and starting to lose his memory by the time we reach 1990 (West,

Best of 2019: Makeup Designer Burton LeBlanc on Creating Misery in the Colonies in The Handmaid’s Tale

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In Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the radioactive Colonies are more felt than described. We’re told it’s where all Gilead’s undesirables, the childless handmaids, the criminals, the sick and insane, are sent to die. In Hulu’s adaptation of Atwood’s novel, however, the Colonies became one of the show’s most fecund sources of misery in season two. As Maria Elena Fernandez described in a piece for Vulture, 

Best of 2019: Craig Mazin on Getting the Details Right for the Shocking Chernobyl

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In April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded, sending radiation into the atmosphere and ultimately causing many radiation-related deaths. While the disastrous accident, attributed to faulty reactor design and insufficiently trained operators, is widely known, the details of its aftermath are less so. Screenwriter Craig Mazin looks to change this and up the knowledge base with Chernobyl,

Best of 2019: Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Crafting a Nearly Flawless Second Season

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There’s no such thing as flawless art. Flaws are baked right into anything a human being creates, and often they are hard to disassociate from the strengths that make any art worthwhile. Yet I’ve heard several people call Fleabag‘s second season flawless, and I’ve been hard-pressed to argue the point. Few shows on television are as personal,

Best of 2019: Spencer Averick on Finding Truth & Humanity in the Edit of When They See Us

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Netflix rarely releases viewer numbers, but on June 12th, the streaming service tweeted that Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us has been its most-watched content in the US since the show’s premiere on May 31st. In the UK, When They See Us has been running second only to Black Mirror.

How Watchmen Cinematographer Gregory Middleton Captured Hooded Justice’s Harrowing Origin

Vancouver-based DP Gregory Middleton has lensed his share of prestigious series before Watchmen, having scored Emmy and ASC nominations for his work on different Game of Thrones episodes, and finding himself behind the viewfinder for shows like The Killing, cult hit movies like James Gunn’s Slither and many more.

But it was working with director Nicole Kassell on episodes of The Killing—rather than his earlier toe-dip into the DC Universe,

Geralt’s Dangerous Journey is Set in The Witcher‘s Final Trailer

We’ve got both The Witcher‘s final trailer and this epic breakdown of The Witcher‘s final trailer from showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich and executive producer Tomek Baginski. So yes, we’ve got all your Witcher needs covered, folks. 

Netflix’s hugely ambitious fantasy series is available for streaming in 8 short days (its’ release date is the same as a little film called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).

Editor Gordon Rempel on the Music of Editing

Gordon Rempel sees parallels between the approach he takes editing film and television and his love of making music. With more than two decades of experience in both fields, he would know.

“I actually have a musical background. I’ve been playing in bands continuously since I was a teenager. Music takes a lot of the same parts of your brain as editing does: it’s all rhythm, tempo, and pacing. And finding that accent point.

Joker and Marriage Story Lead the Golden Globes Pack

Your 2020 Golden Globes nominations have been announced, with Noah Baumbach‘s Marriage Story and Todd Phillips’ Joker leading the pack with six nominations each. Not far behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In…Hollywood, each garnering five nominations. All four films received Best Motion Picture noms (with Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood landing in the Musical or Comedy category,

Watch The Witcher Showrunner & Executive Producer Breakdown the Final Trailer

What’s better than watching the final trailer for The Witcher? Watching an 8-minute breakdown of that trailer from showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich and executive producer Tomek Baginski. Who better to take apart and explain each and every element from the trailer than the folks responsible for getting Netflix’s ambitious new fantasy series made in the first place?

For those of you who haven’t yet decided on whether to invest in another sprawling fantasy series,

Let’s Discuss That Epic Twist in Watchmen‘s Brilliant Episode “An Almost Religious Awe”

Last week we interviewed Watchmen costume designer Megan Kasperlik about her brilliant work on one of TV’s most thrilling new shows. In the world of Watchmen, what a character wears tells you a lot. Does their mask have an inkblot on it? Then they’re a part of the white supremacist group the 7th Calvary. Does her mask come with a badge? Then you’re talking about someone like Angela Abar (Regina King),

Watchmen’s Costume Designer Meghan Kasperlik on This Extraordinary Series

Now that Watchmen has made its glorious debut on HBO and confounded just about every expectation, we can say with confidence that Damon Lindelof’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel is a remarkable testament to the original and a bold, powerful piece of original storytelling itself. The reason is Lindelof and his incredible team of writers, directors, actors, and crew hasn’t adapted the graphic novel itself,

Tom Hiddleston Watching his Thor Audition is Hilarious

Tom Hiddleston has been one of the most reliably delightful figures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since he first made his sneering entrance as Loki in Joss Whedon’s game-changing Avengers in 2012. Yet did you know Hiddleston actually auditioned for the role of Thor? The two Asgardian brothers really couldn’t be more different. Loki, as the trickster God, is not only a morally vacuous opportunist, he’s also willowy, dark-haired, and petulant. Thor, of course,

Here’s the First Teaser for The Walking Dead: World Beyond

The world of The Walking Dead is getting even bigger. AMC has revealed our first full look at their latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, which stars Julie Ormond as Elizabeth, a leader of a large, ferocious force contending with, you guessed it, the zombie apocalypse. “We are the last light of the world,” Ormond’s Elizabeth says in the new teaser. “We are the last hope.” Then we see members of her masked forces do some pretty brutal stuff,

Netflix Reveals Chilling Official Trailer for Vampire Series V Wars

There are no Edward Cullens or Eric Northmans here. For those of us who came of age during Twilight, a vampire is a dashing, pale eternal teenager who likes to brood and fight with hot-tempered werewolves—see Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen.  If you were more of a True Blood girl, then sure, your vampires were vicious, but they still looked like Alexander Skarsgård’s Eric Northman or Evan Rachel Wood‘s Sophie-Anne Leclerq.