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The entertainment industry is brimming with interesting people who are responsible for your favorite movies, TV shows, and more. Join Vox’s critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff every Thursday as she speaks with the very well known, up-and-coming and need to know folks responsible for the most exciting...
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Mahershala Ali, from Moonlight to True Detective
Few actors have had as surprising a past few years as Mahershala Ali. Known for his parts on TV shows like The 4400 and House of Cards and in movies l...
What do The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Parks and Rec have in common? Michael Schur.
Michael Schur is one of the most adept minds in TV comedy. From his early days producing the Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon-era Weekend Update on Saturday...
Christmas music you won't get sick of, with R&B star PJ Morton
If you've talked to Todd at all, you know how much he enjoys Christmas music. And, sure, he enjoys the stuff that gets overplayed year after year, but...
Losing is hard. But comedian Chris Gethard says it’s necessary.
The Chris Gethard Show might have been Todd’s favorite talk show of the decade, a weird, tossed-off calamity that emerged every week like an odd magic...
How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with Salt Fat Acid Heat's Samin Nosrat
This episode originally ran in November of 2017. It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means home chefs all around the United States (Todd among them) are t...
Hollywood’s past can help us understand its present. Karina Longworth shows us how.
Karina Longworth’s Hollywood history podcast, You Must Remember This, is one of the most essential shows out there for movie fans. Each week, Longwort...
Writer Diablo Cody, on Jennifer's Body, Juno, and Jagged Little Pill (the musical)
Diablo Cody's career took off into the stratosphere when her very first produced script — 2007's quirky comedy Juno — led to a massive box office hit...
How to build a civilization from scratch
Imagine you're a time traveler whose time machine has functioned somewhere in Earth's past — after humans have evolved but before they've, say, invent...
What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place
With Halloween right around the corner, we felt it's as timely as ever to revisit this episode from earlier this year.
Sometimes, the sc...
Why Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, launched a true crime podcast
Yeardley Smith is one of the most famous women on Earth — though you might not know it if you just bumped into her somewhere, at least until she said...
Better Call Saul's showrunner tells us everything about the show's amazing finale
Few TV shows are better than AMC's Better Call Saul.
But if you told that to someone in 2015, when the show debuted, they might look at y...
The history of the American circus, with the people who worked there
The circus! At one time, it was one of the country’s most reliable forms of mass entertainment, crisscrossing American backroads to perform for people...
BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it
This episode is a rebroadcast of an episode from 2017, but with BoJack Horseman's fifth season recently debuting, we thought it was a great time to re...
Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert’s bandleader, on making music in New Orleans, on the subway, and on late night TV
Jon Batiste makes some of TV’s best music, night in and night out. As bandleader of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the multi-instrumentalist come...
Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier
We're focusing on TV scene stealers this week, as we head into a new fall season. These two performers take some of the best shows on TV and make them...
TV ratings, explained
The Nielsen ratings might not have as much power as they once held, but they still can decide the fate of your favorite TV show. If nobody's watching,...
One of the best TV shows of the year is a documentary about racial inequities in education
Steve James is one of the best documentary filmmakers to ever have lived. His movies examine the fault lines that underlie American society, often (bu...
How to make a movie starring the internet, with Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham
The new coming-of-age comedy Eighth Grade is one of the surprise success stories of the summer, turning a tiny story of a 13-year-old girl’s last week...
The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman
The new movie BlacKkKlansman is careful to let you know very early on that, yes, its story is a true one, with a few embellishments for film. And it l...
Why the binge model doesn’t always make the best TV
There’s a reason TV critics and reporters call FX Networks president and CEO John Landgraf the “mayor of television” — and it’s not just because that’...
Sharp Objects’ Patricia Clarkson on finding the mom roles worth playing
Adora Crellin is a difficult woman to love. The monstrously suffocating mother of Camille, the protagonist of HBO's terrific murder mystery miniseries...
Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism, and his hit movie
The riotously funny, incredibly inventive new movie Sorry to Bother You has become one of the summer’s most acclaimed films, as well as an unlikely hi...
How Neko Case writes her beautiful, brilliant songs
Neko Case’s nearly 20-year career has been marked by some of the best songs of that time frame, chronicles of a country and world that often seem to b...
The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 and the summer’s biggest movies, discussed and explained
Believe it or not, the summer entertainment season is half over. Fall TV will be firing up in just a few short weeks, and the summer movies of 2018 ha...
Inside the world’s best true-crime podcast
Call the APM Reports production In the Dark a “true crime" podcast, and everybody involved in it will bristle, just a bit. Yes, it starts from the pla...
You may not immediately recognize Bob Balaban’s name. But you know his voice
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Gosford Park. Moonrise Kingdom. The original cast of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. These might seem like wildl...
Stand-up Hari Kondabolu is so much more than The Problem with Apu
Hari Kondabolu identified a problem. His self-hosted, self-produced 2017 documentary, The Problem With Apu, which aired on TruTV, discusses how The Si...
Aisha Tyler on Archer, standup comedy, and being Aisha Tyler
Does Aisha Tyler sleep? That’s a question you might reasonably ask after looking at her IMDb page for a moment or two. She’s a regular on two TV shows...
How to make great TV, according to the showrunners of Black Lightning, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Vida
Another TV season is over. You might not have noticed its end, thanks to the way TV never goes away any more, but technically, the TV season wraps at...
The Americans' showrunners and star bid farewell to TV's best show
If you've listened to this show ever, or read anything Todd has ever written, then you know The Americans is one of his favorite shows of the past sev...
What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place
Sometimes, the scariest thing is what you don’t see onscreen. It’s a lesson taken to heart by the folks behind two of the best horror projects of the...
Veteran comedy writer Nell Scovell on 30 years of being "the only woman in the room"
Writer Nell Scovell has worked for some of the best, most popular TV shows of the past 30 years. She wrote for David Letterman. She wrote for The Simp...
The Magicians' Sera Gamble on making great fantasy TV without Game of Thrones money
“This shit should not be cheesy,” Sera Gamble says. She’s talking about the visual effects and production design on the terrific Syfy fantasy series T...
Thanos and Roseanne: how two mad titans took over pop culture
This week on I Think You’re Interesting, we’re trying something different, by dissecting two of the biggest pop culture stories of the spring.
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Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the greatest films ever made, 50 years later
Even if you haven’t seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s mind-melting 1968 science fiction epic, you probably know at least something about i...
How Jean Smart beat Hollywood's age biases to build a nearly 40-year career
Designing Women, Frasier, 24, Fargo, Legion, some of the best TV shows of the past 30-plus years have one terrific actress in common: Jean Smart. Tall...
Wonderful Midwestern moms, explained by comedian Louie Anderson (who plays his own mom on TV)
One of the most sympathetic, compelling portraits of motherhood on television centers on a performance by a man. On FX's Baskets, which recently compl...
The 5 best coming-of-age movies about teen girls
Lady Bird was one of the surprise hits of 2017, with its bittersweet, deeply funny depiction of teen girl adolescence. And that got Todd to thinking:...
Jason Katims, showrunner of Friday Night Lights and Rise, on why teens make great TV
Few TV heavyweights have done as much to tell thoughtful, moving stories about teenagers as Jason Katims. While he was a young playwright, Katims brok...
How to write a joke for President Obama
How do you write a joke for the president of the United States? How do you come up with something that will seem perfectly cutting but not too cruel,...