Mike White Promises a Much Darker Season of “The White Lotus”

The White Lotus creator, Mike White, has been refreshingly candid about what the thematic framing has been around the first two seasons. Season one, set at the titular resort’s Hawaii location, was about money, White has said. Season two, set in Sicily, was about sex. Each season, however, dealt a deliciously dark twist at its ...

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2025
Death Stalks the Vacationers in “The White Lotus” Season 3 Trailer

“By the end of the week, you will be an entirely different person,” promises a staff member at the Thailand location of the White Lotus resort in the official trailer for season 3. Mike White’s killer comedy returns, and this meaty, nearly three-minute look spells out big trouble in Thailand for our vacationers and the ...

By The Credits  |  January 27, 2025
The Vacation Continues: “The White Lotus” Renewed For Season 4

The trip continues. The White Lotus Season 4 has been officially greenlit by HBO before the first episode of Season 3 has aired. Variety reports that Mike White’s razor-sharp satire will return, with production likely to begin in 2026. There’s no indication yet where the fourth season will take place and whether any cast members will return (Natasha ...

By The Credits  |  January 23, 2025
A Riveting New Teaser Confirms “The Last of Us” Season 2 Arriving on HBO in April

The second season of HBO and Sony Pictures TV’s gripping drama The Last of Us will sink its teeth into our eyeballs this April, Sony confirmed Monday night at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A riveting new one-minute teaser for the series was released on Monday, revealing glimpses of what’s to come and confirming ...

By The Credits  |  January 7, 2025
“The White Lotus” Season 3 Trailer Unveils a Starry Cast on a Dark Path in Thailand

The first trailer for The White Lotus season 3 has arrived, with the season set in Thailand, where the titular global resort chain offers its guests the kind of peace they so sorely lack in their daily lives. Mike White’s beloved satire returns to HBO this February, with one returning cast member from the first season (Natasha ...

By The Credits  |  December 16, 2024

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Editor

“Dune: Prophecy” Editors Amelia Allwarden and Anna Hauger on Weaving the Tapestry of Sisterhood’s Growing Power

No strangers to collaborating on world-building, editors Amelia Allwarden and Anna Hauger relished the chance to come together to help shape Dune: Prophecy. The Westworld alums shaped the season finale together, as well as overseeing their own episodes of the HBO magisterial new series that extends the world of Dune set into motion by director ...

By Simon Thompson  |  December 13, 2024
“Game of Thrones” Prequel, “The White Lotus” Season 3 & More Coming to HBO in 2025

Before viewers can return to Westeros, they’ll have a slightly posher option—to check into The White Lotus for season three of Mike White’s biting, hysterical comedy on HBO. During a tech and media conference on Tuesday night, Warner Bros. Discovery global streaming chief JB Perrette revealed some key release dates for some of HBO’s biggest titles ...

By The Credits  |  December 4, 2024

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Hair/Makeup

“The Penguin” Hair Department Head Brian Badie on Styling Gotham’s Gruesome Twosome

Spoiler warning… The Penguin capped its remarkable eight-part run this past Sunday night and accomplished a rare feat—it’s a series set in a comic book world, boasting characters well known to the genre’s most read-in fans, that delivered a profoundly satisfying drama for a person unfamiliar with DC Comics or unenthused by Gotham’s most iconic resident, ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  November 15, 2024
“The Last of Us” Season Two’s Premiere Date Coming Soon-Ish

With HBO’s fantastic eight-part miniseries The Penguin drawing to a close this past Sunday, we got a fresh update on when one of HBO’s other fantastic series returns, the Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey-led The Last of Us. We’ve known for a while HBO’s first big swing out of the gate in 2025 is the expansion of the world ...

By The Credits  |  November 14, 2024

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Costume Designer

“The Penguin” Costume Designer Helen Huang on Gotham’s Gritty Glamour

Costume designer Helen Huang bridges reality and comic book storytelling in The Penguin, finding a brilliant balance that gives the series weight and a churlish glamour befitting a story set in Gotham’s criminal underworld.  The hit series led by showrunner Lauren LeFranc is familiar—Gotham is our most explored comic version of New York City—yet heightened ...

By Jack Giroux  |  October 30, 2024
James Gunn Reveals the Wild First Trailer for “Creature Commands”

James Gunn had a lot to share New York Comic Con, and arguably the biggest news also included a fun first trailer. That would be for Gunn’s new-look DC Studios’ animated series Creature Commandos, a seven-episode Max original written and executive produced by Gunn, which tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for the world’s ...

By The Credits  |  October 21, 2024
Official “Dune: Prophecy” Trailer Unveils a Powerful Sisterhood Rising in a Troubled Universe

The official Dune: Prophecy trailer has revealed the expansion of the Dune universe that Denis Villeneuve has reinvigorated in his two masterful films. Prophecy, however, is set 10,000 years before the events depicted in Villeneuve’s films, long before Paul Atreides was leading a rebellion of Fremen against House Harkonnen and eventually the rest of the craven galactic Houses looking ...

By The Credits  |  October 18, 2024
“The Penguin” Episode 4 Introduced a Classic Batman Villain

In the first three episodes of HBO’s devilishly entertaining The Penguin, Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb has made daring, painful inroads with Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti), the daughter of the late Gotham underworld poobah Carmine Falcone (Mark Strong). As the series kicked off in the wake of the Riddler’s attack on Gotham in Matt Reeves’ feature The ...

By The Credits  |  October 15, 2024

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Casting Director

“Casting Director Jennifer Venditti’s Intuitive Touch in “The Sympathizer”

Casting director Jennifer Venditti had one of Hollywood’s great chameleons to work with when she was putting together the pieces for HBO’s limited series The Sympathizer. Robert Downey Jr. plays a quartet of characters in Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as the Oscar-winning performer is in a constant swirl ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  October 7, 2024
Inside the Shaky Alliance Between Oz and Sofia in “The Penguin” Episode 3

Gotham has never looked quite so seedy and dangerous as it does in HBO’s excellent The Batman spinoff series The Penguin. Shot in and around New York City (unlike previous films in the Batman universe, which have utilized international locations and cities that are not New York to recreate Gotham), The Penguin picks up in the aftermath of the Riddler’s bombing of ...

By The Credits  |  October 7, 2024
“The Last of Us” Season 2 Unveils Haunting, Taut New Trailer

We’ve got our first look at The Last of Us season 2, and it’s a taut, tense glimpse at one of television’s most compelling series next move. The trailer opens with Pedro Pascal’s Joel Miller and newcomer Catherine O’Hara as the two sit for what appears to be a therapy session. Heaven knows Joel needs it—the last ...

By The Credits  |  September 26, 2024

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Director Screenwriter

Eye on the Emmys: “True Detective: Night Country” Writer/Director Issa López Delivers a Chilling New Season

*Ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Issa Lopez notched three nominations this year—for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Writing (for episode 6.)  Issa López loves to challenge herself. The writer/director, best known for the mystical 2017 ...

By Chris Koseluk  |  September 10, 2024
First “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos” Trailer Unveils the Making of a Mob Masterpiece

Bada bing—the first trailer for Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos has arrived. Gibney, the director behind previous stellar HBO docs Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, sets his sights on one of the most beloved television series of all ...

By The Credits  |  August 20, 2024
HBO Reveals First Look at “The Last of Us,” New “Game of Thrones” Spinoff & More

HBO has dropped a new trailer that gives us our first look at some of their most eagerly awaited upcoming series, both returning and brand new. These include season three of The White Lotus, season two of The Last of Us, and the series premiere of the latest Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an adaptation ...

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024

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Showrunner

“House of the Dragon” Showrunner Ryan Condal on the the Women Vying for Power in Westeros

For those who haven’t watched House of the Dragon since its debut in 2022, the show is based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire and Blood. The story chronicles the early days of the Targaryen dynasty in the time of Aegon the Conqueror, a forefather to the much-beloved Game of Thrones heroine Daenerys. The new series has developed its own enthusiastic ...

By Leslie Combemale  |  July 22, 2024