More from Mikey O'Connell
‘The Perfect Couple’ Killer (Actor) Talks Finale Reveals, Avoiding Suspicion and That Dance
[This story includes spoilers for the finale of The Perfect Couple.] In hindsight, Dakota Fanning’s line from that first trailer for the Netflix miniseries — “The key to this family is to just stay on the periphery” — said a lot. Though, maybe not in the way her character intended. Neither the victim nor the murderer in The […]
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How the ‘Perfect Couple’ Director Talked Her Mutinous Cast Into That Choreographed Dance
As unexpected choices go, few in recent TV memory approach the opening title sequence to The Perfect Couple. Netflix’s six-part adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s Nantucket-set novel kicks off with a suspicious death on the eve of a wedding — casting doubt on every have and have-not in the deceased’s orbit. But before they get to the […]
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You Can’t Scare Mike Flanagan. Can You?
Mike Flanagan built his reputation by freaking out audiences. With a string of horror hits on TV (Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and The Fall of the House of Usher) and in film (most notably adaptations of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game), the writer-director also forged a lucrative career. He understands his lane […]
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‘Three Women’ Author Lisa Taddeo’s Crash Course in Hollywood Chaos
When Lisa Taddeo got the call in early 2023 that Showtime was pulling the plug on her television series, she didn’t answer. “It was my birthday,” she recalls. “I picked up my daughter from her guitar lesson, got a flat tire and waited a couple hours for the tow truck. By the time we got […]
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‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Showrunner Is Already Getting Calls From Actors Hoping to Guest Star in Season Two
When Donald Glover announced he was remaking the feature action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith as an Amazon Prime series, few in the industry probably had this finished product on their bingo cards. Part meditation on relationships, part case-of-the-week showpiece for a who’s who of guest stars (see: Parker Posey, John Turturro and Michaela Coel, to […]
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Julian Fellowes on Writing Big First When it Comes to ‘The Gilded Age’: “I Don’t Really Spend Much Time on Budgets”
Leave it to Julian Fellowes, the man who made his career mining the aristocracy, to eke a season’s worth of narrative tension out of dueling opera houses. That’s what the Gilded Age creator did during the second run of his HBO series, which chronicled a heavily fictionalized war of the old-money-backed Academy of Music and […]
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‘Fallout’ Showrunners on Their Five-Year Journey to Making the 16-Time Emmy-Nominated Series
On paper, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner seem like strange bedfellows to adapt a postapocalyptic video game for TV. “Fallout really is a blend of our backgrounds,” Robertson-Dworet, a screenwriter whose credits include Tomb Raider and Captain Marvel, says of her partner, a writer-producer best known for comedies Silicon Valley, Portlandia and Baskets. “I come […]
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Eugene and Dan Levy Set as 2024 Emmy Hosts
ABC will indeed outsource hosting duties of the Emmys this year, tapping the father-son duo of Eugene and Dan Levy to emcee the Sept. 15 telecast. The Levys, who enjoyed a particularly fruitful Emmys in 2020 when Schitt’s Creek won every major comedy category in an unprecedented sweep, are an unconventional choice in that neither […]
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Meredith Hagner Is Avoiding Cringe at All Costs
“I keep slipping into Valerie Cherish, don’t I?” Meredith Hagner has done plenty of press in her career, particularly for her breakout role in Search Party and the Vacation Friends franchise, but this is the first time she’s sat down for a meal and really rehashed her full biography with a recorder running. She’s concerned […]
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Creative Community Calls on Hollywood to “Greenlight Disability”
Inevitable Foundation, the non-profit that focuses on supporting mid-career disabled screenwriters, is following up a July study on disability portrayals in film and television with a call to action in Hollywood. The open letter, released on Wednesday, coincides with a billboard campaign in Las Angeles and New York City calling out the 66 percent of […]
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Christine Baranski Has a Promising ‘Mamma Mia 3’ Update
Christine Baranski puts in the work. The 16-time Emmy nominee, up for her latest trophy as supporting actress in a drama for The Gilded Age, is spending her summer filming the HBO series’ third season shrouded in all the stifling accoutrements that the period piece requires. During a day off from production, the actress emphasized […]
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How Tom Cruise’s Olympics Stunt Was Inspired by… Conan O’Brien
Ben Winston might soon lose count of how many times he’s sent Tom Cruise up in the air. Previously, the pair worked to get James Corden in aloft to go skydiving and then again to co-pilot a fighter jet on The Late Late Show. During Sunday night’s LA28 segment of the Paris Olympics’ Closing Ceremony, […]
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