When a director arrives at a filming location, they have a lot of important tasks before the real work can begin. Department heads to consult. Actors to be prep. Schedules to lock. When Noah Hawley got to Bangkok to direct the first episode of Alien: Earth, he immediately had to …
Read More »Juno Temple Is 'F-cking Really Not Good at Reality.' But She's One of the Best at Make-Believe
T he actress Juno Temple is good at many things, but one of them is not — and has never been — living in the real world. “I’m fucking really not good at reality,” she’d said on a recent Friday afternoon, while taking a turn or two around Tokio7, one …
Read More »ATX Fest Delivers a 'Fargo' Premiere, a 'Halt and Catch Fire' Reunion, and More
The ATX TV Festival, founded by TV superfans Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland and held annually in Austin, is an intimate, enlightening, taco-adjacent celebration of all things small screen. Each year brings an eclectic mix of panels, some focused on individual series (both new and old), some on industry-wide themes, …
Read More »Djo Has a Hot 100 Hit. For Joe Keery, It's a 'Rebirth'
When Joe Keery first moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University’s Theatre School, he had no idea what direction his life would take. After graduating in 2014, the Massachusetts native stuck around for three more years, working at a restaurant, getting small acting gigs, playing in his former band Post …
Read More »'Fargo' Season Five Finale: Don't Go the MAGA Way
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Fargo, now available on FX and streaming tomorrow on Hulu. At the end of Fargo the movie, justice is mostly done. The kidnapping orchestrated by Jerry Lundegaard, and carried out by Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud, results in a lot of …
Read More »'Fargo' Season Five Is a Return to Form With Jon Hamm's MAGA Sheriff
When last we saw FX‘s Fargo nearly three years ago, its creator, Noah Hawley, had taken the franchise away from its home turf, both physically and demographically. The fourth season roamed hundreds of miles south from the show’s usual Minnesotan stomping grounds for a story set on the mean streets …
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