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  1. exit interview
    ‘It Was So Hard to Remember, Don’t Cry’Shōgun’s Hiroyuki Sanada on off-screen methods, onscreen battles, and the scene that moved him to tears.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    How Clipped Dramatized the Facts to Expose the TruthShowrunner Gina Welch on filling in the narrative gaps of the Donald Sterling affair “in a way that implicated the viewer.”
    By Jen Chaney
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    ‘The Show Is Built to Make People Feel Insane’A season-two post-immortem with Interview With the Vampire showrunner Rolin Jones.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    ‘The Team Wanted It to Be the Next Mamma Mia!’Corey Cott on why theatergoers and Tonys voters snubbed The Heart of Rock and Roll.
    By Devon Ivie
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    ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Creator Nida Manzoor Explored the Gray Areas in Season 2“I didn’t want to give the audience the answer because I don’t have it.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    ‘I Hate Clear Blue Skies’Why Steven Zaillian brought a monstrous, black-and-white version of The Talented Mr. Ripley to Netflix.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The 3 Body Problem Creators Just Want to Give You More Spectacle“By the last season or two, we would be giving people an experience they’ve never had before.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Issa López Wants You to DecideThe showrunner calls True Detective: Night Country’s ambiguous ending “my gift and my curse.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    A Darker, Sadder SuccessionMonths after his masterpiece finale, Jesse Armstrong ponders the real tragedy of his show’s ending.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    A Big ‘What If’How the Scott Pilgrim Takes Off co-creators reclaimed the element of surprise.
    By Nicholas Quah
  11. explain yourselves
    The Morning Show Was Supposed to Feel UnhingedFor season three, incoming showrunner Charlotte Stoudt wanted to replicate “what it was like to be alive while making that show.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    ‘Our Pirates Stand for a Life of Belonging to Something Larger’‘Our Flag Means Death’ showrunner David Jenkins on capturing love in its many forms and the third season he envisions for Ed and Stede.
    By Sophie Brookover
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    Reinventing the Wheel of TimeFor the series’ breakout second season, showrunner Rafe Judkins followed a different kind of fantasy.
    By Sean T. Collins
  14. a long talk
    Sterlin Harjo Lays Reservation Dogs to Rest“We’ve watched this world grow from four kids to a whole community.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Winning Time Will Not Shoot for 3Producer Kevin Messick breaks down the HBO series’ abrupt cancellation and how they turned season two’s ending into a series finale.
    By Josef Adalian
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    ‘There’s No Cheating in These Plays’Marin Ireland on the embarrassing part of performing Uncle Vanya in an apartment.
    By Jason P. Frank
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    John Wilson Wants to Leave You With (Complicated) OptimismThe filmmaker used How To as a Trojan horse for all his grudges against New York City.
    By Hershal Pandya
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    The Riverdale Cast Is Ready to GraduateAfter seven seasons on one of TV’s weirdest teen soaps, the show’s stars say nothing can shock them.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    ‘We’re Up to Try Anything’Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ co-showrunner on a season that swings from war epic to musical and back again
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    ‘We Can Choose to Not Create More Damage’The creators of docuseries Last Call use a true crime frame to uncover the cycle of hate and violence that stalked queer communities in ’90s New York.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Boots Riley Wants a ConversationWith I’m a Virgo, the agitator, activist, and first-time TV creator hopes to “ramp up the contradictions in people’s lives.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Happy Valley Was Never a Cop ShowHow Sally Wainwright’s most internationally popular show to date evolved from police procedural to psychological study of Catherine Cawood.
    By Valentina Valentini
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    What Is It About These Identical Twins?Rachel Weisz and Alice Birch on adapting Dead Ringers for TV and the gynecologist siblings that keep us coming back.
    By Rachel Handler
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    How American Auto Navigated Season TwoCreator Justin Spitzer breaks down the workplace sitcom’s recalibrated second season and putting a corporate spin on the Superstore formula.
    By Hershal Pandya
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    Sasha Colby Manifested ThisThe legendary queen knew the time was finally right for her Drag Race domination.
    By Jason P. Frank
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    ‘We’re Going to Do the Biggest Stair Fall You’ve Ever Seen’Chad Stahelski on hurling Keanu Reeves into the gnarliest pratfall imaginable, why Scott Adkins appears in a fat suit, and whether this is good-bye.
    By Chris Lee
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    Bill Lawrence Is Still Figuring It OutDespite a rapidly shifting TV landscape, the Shrinking and Ted Lasso co-creator hasn’t abandoned his earnest worldview.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    ‘We Can Be Serial Killers Too’Swarm co-creator Janine Nabers cuts through the buzz to explain the series’ elusive protagonist and bittersweet ending.
    By Sam Sanders
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    ‘We Have to Interrogate How We Feel About Our Heroes’The Last of Us co-creator Craig Mazin questions the inherent positivity of love.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    A (Now Unredacted) Interview With You Co-creator Sera GambleBreaking down all the details of season four’s whodunit, that big twist, and the long arc of Joe Goldberg.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Rian Johnson Wants Poker Face to Break Expectations Without Breaking FormThe creator of Peacock’s howdunit discusses the virtues of episodic structure and the challenges of keeping it satisfying week after week.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Steven Soderbergh Can’t Quit Magic MikeHe says there was “no compelling reason” to make a third movie, and then Channing Tatum’s live show happened.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    ‘We Only Ever Talk About It in Terms of What Makes Us Laugh’I Hate Suzie Too co-creator Lucy Prebble dissects Suzie Pickles’s latest breakdown.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Tony Gilroy Built Andor’s Finale Crescendo FirstThe showrunner illuminates the long road to Maarva’s big moment.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    ‘Can We Do It One More Time?’Dead to Me creator Liz Feldman on saying good-bye with an ellipsis …
    By Jen Chaney
  36. into it
    Atlanta Wasn’t for EveryoneStephen Glover on testing the boundaries of television as his (and his brother’s) show signs off.
    By Sam Sanders
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    Baz Luhrmann Is the Stanley Kubrick of ConfettiThe Elvis director’s opulent movies aren’t for everyone, and he’s okay with that.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    ‘I Couldn’t Believe the Things I Was Aspiring to Be’For Selena Gomez, watching herself through the lens of My Mind & Me documentarian Alek Keshishian was shocking, upsetting, and necessary.
    By Rachel Handler
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    ‘There Are a Fairly Limited Number of Ways This Could End’The Patient’s creators, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, unpack that brutal series finale.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Bad Sisters’ Sharon Horgan Wanted You to Root for MurderThe co-creator and star on building a despicable husband and acting out that finale confession: “I would find a little corner and just curse myself.”
    By Jen Chaney
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    Matt Skiba Is As Excited As You Are About the Blink-182 ReunionThe onetime singer and guitarist clears the air about Tom DeLonge’s return.
    By Justin Curto
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    The Long Road to MordorThe Rings of Power creators explain Sauron’s identity and their plan to explore the edges of Tolkien’s map.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    Sterlin Harjo Is Not Afraid to Sacrifice a Good IdeaThe Reservation Dogs showrunner leads by instinct: “There are a lot of first ideas out there. You have to break through that for it to be good.”
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    ‘They’re Hardwired to Something Transactional’Industry’s creators on season-two twists and the crushing power of the Establishment.
    By Jackson McHenry
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    ‘The Original Sin Is Still Embedded Within’Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy unpacks the true architects of season four’s reality.
    By Rebecca Alter
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    ‘This Show Is a Lot of Things, But Subtle Is Not One of Them’Showrunner Eric Kripke is clear about whose side The Boys is on.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Peter Strickland Wants the Work That Hacks Are Getting“I don’t see hack as a dirty word,” says the director of Flux Gourmet, an empathetic look at the cost of good art and the perils of human digestion.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Bill Hader Wanted the Barry Finale to Feel Like a Panic AttackThe writer, director, and star maps out season three’s journey to that final frame: “Everything has consequences.”
    By Jesse David Fox
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    ‘The Human Race Is Truly Flawed’After 40 years of making movies and TV, The Survivor director Barry Levinson has come to some conclusions about “ordinary” life.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    David Cronenberg Explains HimselfHe says his latest film Crimes of the Future works on multiple levels. “But I really do think we’re kind of destroying the earth.”
    By Rachel Handler
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