‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’: How Miami Became the Striking Visual Epicenter
The production and costume design spotlighted the high and low worlds of the celebrated fashion designer and his hero-worshiping killer.
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‘Halt and Catch Fire’: How Two Green Creators Blew Up Their ‘Mad Men of Tech’ Premise to Discover Something Special
Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers look back at how their show evolved into its remarkable final season.
‘Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert’ Achieved Dystopian Chic With Their Fashion-Forward Rock Opera
NBC’s live musical rendition of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera combines an industrial-looking production design with hip, urban costuming.
‘Mindhunter’: The David Fincher Look is All About Power and Control
Fincher was very particular about conveying control and dominance through lighting and production design in his Netflix FBI crime drama.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and ‘Lost in Space’ Update Classic Scores by Embracing a Diverse Future
In “Star Trek Discovery,” Emmy winner Jeff Russo emphasizes compassion, while Christopher Lennertz makes “Lost in Space” an Amblin-like musical adventure.
‘Twin Peaks’: Mark Frost Takes Us Inside the Four-Year Process of Writing a 500-Page Script Over Skype With David Lynch
From the initial inspiration to the conclusion of Agent Cooper’s Odyssey, a look at the novel-like writing collaboration that became “Twin Peaks: The Return.”
‘Black Mirror’: Meet the Only Person Charlie Brooker Trusts to Work on Every Episode
Each episode of Netflix’s sci-fi anthology is like a standalone movie with its own look, location, director, and crew. Joel Collins is the one person tasked with making sure each episode is kept “painfully real.”
‘The Terror’: Crafting the Perfect Period Monster for the 21st Century
VFX supervisor Frank Petzold and concept designer Neville Page collaborated on the most terrorizing and sympathetic monster of the TV season.
Netflix’s ‘Wormwood’: Yet Again, Errol Morris Re-Defines the Rules of Documentary
Editor and co-writer Steven Hathaway helped Morris create a new cinematic language for non-fiction storytelling with the use of fiction.
Spaceship Design 101: How the Minds Behind ‘Star Trek’, ‘Lost in Space’, and ‘Black Mirror’ Reach The Stars
The distinct shape languages of these four space ships offered tension or nostalgia in pushing sci-fi in new directions.
‘Kill All Others’: Dee Rees’ ‘Electric Dreams’ Episode Is a Masterclass in Science-Fiction World-Building
Philip K. Dick meets Trump-era anxieties in the “Mudbound” director’s paranoid exploration of being the only one awake in a time of madness.
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: How Ron Howard’s VFX Team Realized the Infamous Kessel Run
Director Howard had Industrial Light & Magic add a space monster to increase the danger in dramatizing Solo’s infamous run in less than 12 parsecs.
