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How Costume Designer Jeriana San Juan Helped Shape HBO’s The Plot Against America

These are trying times. When The Wire creator David Simon and his longtime collaborator Ed Burns set out to adapt the late, legendary novelist Philip Roth’s terrifyingly prescient 2005 novel “The Plot Against America,” they were doing so in a pre-pandemic world. At first, Simon and his team were “merely” adapting a novel that seemed, with eerie ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  March 23, 2020
Here’s Everything New on HBO This March

March is going to be a big month for HBO. Not that the premium cable channel doesn’t try to make every month big; it hasn’t slowed down—at all—since Game of Thrones bowed. Ever since the flagship series ended its run, HBO launched the epic fantasy His Dark Materials, and Damon Lindelof’s spectacular Watchmen, just to name two major new series. ...

By The Credits  |  February 21, 2020
The First Trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America Reveals David Simon’s Gripping Roth Adaptation

When word spread that The Wire mastermind David Simon would be adapting legendary novelist Philip Roth’s brilliant dystopian book “The Plot Against America” for HBO (along with executive producer Ed Burns, another The Wire alum), we were enthused. Now that the first trailer for the upcoming series has dropped, it’s safe to say the limited series ...

By The Credits  |  January 31, 2020