Orange is the New Black Season 5 Teaser
The new season of Orange Is The New Black is picking up right where we left off, and if you watched season 4, you know that it’s a wild moment for the women of Litchfield Penitentiary.
The newly released teaser brings us back to Daya (Dascha Polanco) holding a gun at the terrible prison guard Humphrey (Michael Torpey), with all the women going absolutely nuts and adding to the chaos. Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon) join the wild commotion and the teaser ends with a bang...
The Leftovers Production Designer on Season 3’s Mind-Bending Finish
"It's really hard to create Gary Busey as a blow-up doll," says production designer John Paino, and he should know. For HBO's third and final season of The Leftovers (debuting April 16), Paino oversaw the creation of a 35-foot inflated figure of the toothy celebrity, a major attraction for the Texas spiritual mecca-turned-tourist trap known as Jarden. "The blow-up doll is about this mix of a pop culture sensibility with the beginnings perhaps of some spiritual movement,"...
Mr. Robot‘s Cinematographer on Season Three’s Wild Ride
Sam Esmail’s critically-acclaimed drama Mr. Robot follows vigilante hacker Elliot (played by Rami Malek) as he wrestles with his personal demons while navigating the murky waters of good versus evil in the corporate world. We chat to director of photography Tod Campbell about creating a ground-breaking aesthetic for the show, how Malek’s arresting eyes influenced the cinematography and the ‘wild ride’ we can expect from season three.
You've really managed to create an exciting,...
The Weirdest/Best Sketches From Louis C.K.’s SNL Episode
You knew that Louis C.K. wouldn't be afraid to go dark, or weird, during his hosting gig of SNL. While he may have eschewed the glitzy promo for the show, he certainly brought it where it matters most—into several supremely weird, dark, and very funny sketches.
Arguably the darkest sketch was "Birthday Clown," which had a childen's birthday party clown (Bobby Moynihan) show up for a job to perform at little Ernie's birthday, only to find out little Ernie is actually a grown man (C.K.),...
Louis C.K. Isn’t Interested in Doing a Splashy SNL Promo
SNL has been having a field day lately with catchy, two-person promos for their upcoming hosts. Whether it's Kate McKinnon and host Chris Hemsworth trying to recreate Dirty Dancing, Ryan Gosling and Aidy Bryant weiling on their pecs or Vanessa Bayer and Lin-Manuel Miranda discussing Miranda's inability to get Hamilton tickets, the promos have been a hoot.
Louis C.K. is not having it...
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Kaitlin Olson on her new Show The Mick
The comedic chops Kaitlin Olson has been consistently displaying over 12 seasons as Dee in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia have earned her a well-deserved starring role in Fox’s sitcom The Mick. She plays Mickey, an irresponsible hustler who suddenly finds herself guardian to her obscenely wealthy, estranged sister’s children. We chat to Olson about getting out of her comfort zone, working with kids and her newfound lust for power.
First of all,...
Westworld Season 2 Will Shift Perspective and Play With Time (Again)
When Westworld ended its premiere season, park creator Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) had been killed and the robot revolution had begun. Lead by the sentient “host” Maeve (Thandie Newton), Westworld’s finale was a riveting coup that left us expecting that season two would pick up right where we left off, with the hosts now tasked with figuring out what to do with their hard fought freedom (and the surviving humans still in the park)...
Unpacking The Walking Dead‘s Tense Season 7 Finale
The Walking Dead ’s season finale took viewers on a wild ride as the cable juggernaut wrapped up yet another whirlwind season filled with deception, death and Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) backbends. (Spoiler alerts)
One of the episode’s biggest moments was one that fans were more or less waiting for—the death of Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green, the upcoming star of Star Trek: Discovery). Sasha had been brooding to avenge Abraham’s (Michael Cudlitz) murder,...
Fran Drescher on Creating The Nanny and her Mission to Eliminate Cancer
This month, we have been celebrating "reel women" whose drive, talent, and creative vision have shaped the landscape of film and television and inspired generations of artists who follow. We had a chance to sit down with one of the women who paved her own way in Hollywood, created a sitcom classic, and brought to life one of the most iconic television roles of all time. In the tradition of Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore, Fran Drescher created a character so memorable that she carried an entire series...
Get Your First Look at Game of Thrones Season 7 in New Promo
Now this is what we call a promo. HBO has just released their new promo for Game of Thrones season 7, entitled "Long Walk." It features the three most powerful players left on the board—Jon Snow (Kit Harington) walking through what might be Winterfell's Great Hall, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) walking through an as-of-yet unidentified setting, and Cersei Lannister (Lena Heady) walking through the Red Keep, all ostenibly moving towards to their "rightful" seat on the Iron Throne...
Celebrating Reel Women: TV Shows with Female Showrunners
More and more, television is where you can find incredibly compelling and lively stories that have the ambition and audacity of feature films. From relatable characters figuring out how to balance life and love to suspenseful thrillers that leave you wanting more, our golden age of television has given us more choices than ever before. Have you ever spent an entire Saturday (or weekend) in front of a screen, binge-watching a gripping show? Yeah, us too.
These stories wouldn’t be as captivating if it weren’t for the skillful people behind them,...
Which Robot was the First to Have Free Will in Westworld?
After a long production schedule and some delays, once Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy Nolan's Westworld’s premiered on HBO, millions of us were more or less immediately hooked. The story of synthetic androids (called “Hosts”) who entertain the rich guests at the Western-themed amusement park known as Westworld struck a nerve. Unlike Michael Crichton's original, in this Westworld, the humans were the villains. The guests paid top dollar in order to live out their dreams and fantasies,...
Ewan McGregor Sees Double in First Trailer for Fargo Season 3
We’ve been waiting for a glimpse of Fargo Season 3 ever since we got a load of this season’s sensational cast. The marquee addition was Ewan McGregor, who will be playing twin brothers Ray and Emimitt Stussy (each with different accents and having lead very different lives). Then there’s Scoot McNairy, playing a sketchy pal of Ray’s. Finally, we were super pumped about the inclusion of David Thewlis, playing the dentally challenged villain V. M. Vargas...
Celebrating Reel Women: Women in Focus
Meet the women who are calling the shots behind the scenes. We’re talking about the influential women who have produced some of the most entertaining movies and television shows to have ever hit the big and small screens. Sure, you may know about famous actresses who have made the leap to producers such as Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore, but what about all the movers and shakers who are responsible for some of your favorite titles that you haven't heard of?...
Music Supervisor Frankie Pine on Nashville‘s Original Sound
Award-winning Music Supervisor Frankie Pine knows how to orchestrate powerful sounds to accompany action and drama — her extensive credits for film and television include Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, Aaron Sorkin’s series Newsroom, and the Academy Award-winning movie, Traffic, for which she nabbed a Grammy nomination. Pine oversaw music for Dead Man Walking, Notting Hill and The Big Lebowski...
Season 7 of Game of Thrones Will Feature Biggest Dragons Yet
Watching Dany’s dragons grow up has been one of the most heartwarming aspects of Game of Thrones. Really, they’re the only children who seem to have had it pretty good. Okay, well not that good—being chained up in a dungeon isn’t exactly ace parenting. But, we’ve watched them go from adorable babies in season one to touchy, tetchy adolescents through season four. By the ninth episode of season five, they’d become (we thought) pretty much full grown,...
New American Gods Trailer Brings Neil Gaiman’s Iconic Novel to Life
Author Neil Gaiman is a legitimate living legend. He’s left a huge mark in the realms of short fiction, novels, comic books and graphic novels, with legitimate masterpieces to his name. His The Sandman series, for instance, is one of the great comic book series of the last 40-years, becoming just one of five graphic novels to make Entertainment Weekly’s “100 best reads from 1983 to 2008.” It ranked at 46.
Of all of his work,...
How the Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Costume Designer Keeps the Fashions Coming
Cynthia Summers knows how to make women look their best. She’s crafted the looks for trendy shows including UnREAL, The L Word, and now Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. The Bravo show just wrapped up season three and is already slated to air two more thanks to fan fervor. Audiences immediately fell in love with the show’s women who are seemingly able to do it all while wearing four-inch heels...
Behind the Sets of Saturday Night Live with Veteran Designer Eugene Lee
78-year old Eugene Lee skipped out on his MFA from Yale (they later awarded him the degree) to design the Tony award winning set for Candide on Broadway. Lee humbly recalls that his sets caught the eye of “some guy” from NBC who requested a meeting. “You know, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know anything about television, but what’s the harm?’” Lee said. “So I made the appointment, went to New York, knocked on the door. Nice young guy,...
The Music of the Emotional First Season of This is Us
This is Us was this year’s break out show that everyone can’t stop crying about. The first season came to its heart-wrenching conclusion last night, but fans didn’t witness the death of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) as previous episodes hinted they might. What could be an overly saccharin family melodrama becomes a tightly woven emotional power punch thanks to sincere performances and a thoughtful score by Siddhartha Khosla. Founder of the band Goldspot, Khosla’s music navigates each episode through every dramatic twist over the span of the show’s four decade setting...
