The “Shōgun” Sound Team on Recreating 17th-Century Japan One Katana Clash at a Time

Praised for its authenticity, beauty, and sensitive storytelling, FX’s Shōgun has just been renewed for two more seasons. Created by Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, the show follows the plot of James Clavell’s 1975 novel, set in Japan in 1600. English pilot John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) and his ship’s crew run aground in a Japanese fishing village, and after a brief imprisonment, Blackthorne is taken on by Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada, also one of the series’ producers) to share his knowledge on European warfare and the Portuguese merchants and priests insinuating themselves into Japanese society.

Yes Chef! “The Bear” Cooking Up Season 3 and 4 Back to Back

After a glorious second season and a coronation at the most recent Emmys, FX’s spicy series The Bear has been renewed for a fourth season, and what flavors the broth considerably is that seasons three and four will be shot back to back.

It was only this past November when The Bear‘s third season was announced, ahead of its sizzling performance at the Emmys, where it won Best Comedy Series and its three stars,

“The Bear” Season 3 Officially Happening

FX’s brilliant series is coming back for a third course.

Hulu has officially renewed The Bear, FX’s critical smash focused on Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a top-flight chef returning to Chicago and taking over his late brother’s sandwich shop. Of course, for lovers of The Bear, that description barely scratches the surface of what this often very funny and equally dramatic series brings to the table, so to speak.

Provincetown International Film Festival Honors the Great Billy Porter

The irrepressible Billy Porter, actor, singer, and style maven, fit in perfectly with the quirky but sophisticated vibe of the Provincetown International Film Festival, which celebrated its 25th year June 14-18.

The Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award winner was this year’s Excellence in Acting Honoree at PIFF. Audiences also got an early look at his latest film, director Bill Oliver’s indie drama Our Son. Porter and Luke Evans portray husbands going through a divorce and fighting over the custody of their 8-year-old son.

Cinematographer Kira Kelly on The Dark & Desperate World of “Y: The Last Man”

Y: The Last Man kicked off the fall TV season with a dramatic debut. Based on the DC Comics series, the show chronicles families in mourning, supply chains upended, and a democracy dominated by men dismantled when every person born with a Y chromosome suddenly dies. It’s a shocking and abrupt event that leaves a mystery behind when Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) realizes he is the only one left of his kind.

“Snowfall” DP Tommy Maddox-Upshaw on Transforming Memory Into Light & Optics

Season 4 of the FX drama Snowfall opens on antihero Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) imploring CIA agent Teddy (Carter Hudson) to help him keep local gang rivalries in check. Tensions are getting out of hand in mid-1980s Los Angeles, even if Franklin, erudite and unassuming, appears as on top of his own drug-related dealings as ever. Far and near, the show’s other characters are going through upheavals of their own. Teddy’s machinations in Mexico go off the rails in part due to trouble with an Israeli gangster,

Costume Designer Analucia McGorty on Creating the Looks for the Groundbreaking “POSE”

Set in the Eighties and Nineties, POSE is a dance musical that juxtaposes several versions of life and society in New York: the downtown social and literary scene, the ball culture world, and the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe. So when it comes to what everyone in the show is wearing, Costume Designer Analucia McGorty—recently Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Period Costumes—has some challenging, and extremely fun, work to do. 

Devs Production Designer Embellishes Big Tech Aesthetic in Alex Garland’s Gorgeous, Beguiling Series

What if a Silicon Valley behemoth ran a top-secret project that threatened the well-being of unwitting civilians? That’s the not entirely outlandish premise underlying Devs, now streaming on FX on Hulu. Created by Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, the sci-fi limited series largely takes place at a sleek big tech “campus” surrounded by woods.

The exteriors evoke Google, Apple,

Devs Trailer Reveals Annihilation & Ex Machina Director’s Intriguing new Series

So you were a fan of Alex Garland‘s Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018)? Yeah, us too. Garland has made a name for himself as one of the most compelling writer/directors of sci-fi in the business. Ex Machina took the artificial intelligence run amok narrative and made something wholly new (with an incredible trio of cast members in Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Domhnall Gleeson).

Beanie Feldstein to Play Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story

Yesterday we found out FX had picked up Donald Glover’s brilliant Atlanta for an additional fourth season. Now, we find out the great Beanie Feldstein (last seen in Olivia Wilde’s excellent Booksmart) will be playing Monica Lewinsky in FX’s brilliant anthology series American Crime Story. Titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, this installment will focus on Bill Clinton’s presidential sex scandal and impeachment.

Some Good News: FX Has Renewed Donald Glover’s Atlanta for a 4th Season

Atlanta fans everywhere are feeling very good right about now. FX has renewed Donald Glover’s brilliant, offbeat comedy for a 4th season, which is somewhat surprising considering filming hasn’t even begun on season three. FX’s announcement came at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. We already knew that FX had secured a third season for the singular series way back in June of 2018, but now they’ve added a fourth season before production for season three has begun.

What We Do In the Shadows Trailer Introduces New Breed of Vampire

Don’t believe in vampires? Here is a new theory that could make you a believer. According to the first full trailer for the What We Do in the Shadows spinoff series, not all vampires drink blood. there is an entire breed that survives by boring people to death. We all know them and are now going to be certain that they exist. Mostly in our offices.

These “energy vampires” are a highlight of the preview for the new series that appears to capitalize on all the things that were great about the original movie.

The Vampires are Coming to America in First What We Do in the Shadows Teasers

What We Do in the Shadows sheds a light, although not sunlight, on a very important cultural divide. Not New Zealand and America, although the new series will take place in the states. The culture shock is more like the Middle Ages and millennials. The vampire series based on Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s 2014 masterpiece is coming to FX and we finally got the first look. Meet the new roommates.

The original mockumentary followed Viago (Waititi),

American Horror Story: Cult‘s Emmy-Nominated Actress Adina Porter on Playing in the Dark

Bronx born and raised with theater roots, Adina Porter’s path to her first ever Emmy-nomination has taken her from the boards to the small screen in some of TV’s most demanding yet delicious roles. Before she became one of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror regulars, you may have seen her Alan Ball’s True Blood on HBO as Lettie Mae Thornton. Lettie Mae was Tara (Rutina Wesley)’s alcoholic mother, a character who was supposed to be killed off in season one but who survived,

Legion Season 3 is in the Works, and it’s Only Getting Darker

The season finale of FX and Marvel’s Series Legion saw its protagonist, David, hit low points that only someone like Walter White would understand. And his downward spiral won’t be turning upward soon.

Dan Stevens’ David Haller, a mutant with psychic powers from the X-Men universe, has always been an antihero. He acts immorally because his grip on reality is shaky at best, and the Marvel comics more explicitly identify the multiple personalities—a legion of them—in his head.

FX Renews Donald Glover’s Atlanta for Third Season

FX has ordered another season of Donald Glover’s award-winning, mind-bending comedy Atlanta. This series has been a hit for FX, both critically and commercially. Atlanta has won Emmys, Golden Globes, an AFI Award and a Peabody, to name a few of the accolades the show’s piled up. For the uninitiated, Atlanta follows Earn (Glover) and his cousin Al (Brian Tyree Henry) as they attempt to make it in Atlanta’s competitive rap world.

Get Caught up on FX’s Mind-Blowing Legion Before Tonight’s Season 2 Premiere

Noah Hawley’s Legion (FX Network) was one of the most ambitious and deeply weird takes on the superhero genre on TV. Fully investing in its central character’s mental instability, Legion‘s season one was a boldly visualized and brilliantly performed head trip. Starring Dan Stevens as David Haller, a troubled you man who was misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic (more on what he really is in a second), Legion‘s first season was as much Kubrick as it was comic book.

Inside the Americans Writer’s Room with Screenwriter Justin Weinberger

Over the past five years—a period that has seen more quality TV than all previous years of televisual output combined—The Americans has established itself as one of television’s smartest dramas (even if the Emmy cognoscenti have been slow to realize it). Now in its sixth and final season, the FX series (starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as undercover Soviet spies living in Washington D.C. during the Cold War) is finally,

The Opening Title Sequence of American Horror Story: Hotel is Biblical

The premiere of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s spine-chilling fifth season of the horror anthology American Horror Story is less than a week away. The newly released opening title sequence for AHS: Hotel is about as creepy as it gets. If you are someone like me, who does not deal well with horror movies and scary TV shows, you should watch between your fingers and then find a puppy to cuddle.

Lady Gaga Terrifies in American Horror Story: Hotel Teaser

The hallways and rooms of the Hotel Cortez are alive in the new teaser for Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel. The 30-second sneak peak gives us our first look at all the major characters. The teaser is titled ‘Hallways,” and as we take a trip through those creepy corridors we are introduced to the ridiculously talented ensemble cast set to the freaky and repetitive score, “Bury Me” by Brodinski.