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“There’s a lot of very tense, heavy scenes with a lot of dialogue,” says cinematographer Natalie Kingston. “A lot of the times, it was about restraint. It was about not moving the camera and just letting the audience sit uncomfortably in this tense, awkward, creepy conversation… Sometimes when you don’t…

“To create all these different looks, on an episodic schedule in the Hudson Valley, was a challenge but also the most gratifying,” says Poker Face production designer Judy Rhee. “We created this seamless show in terms following of Charlie’s travels and to have it feel authentic and convincing to the…

“The exciting thing about a mystery is that you do a lot of withholding, and in the withholding of information you’re actually drawing the audience closer,” says Only Murders in the Building cinematographer Chris Teague. “It’s that feeling of peering around a corner and seeing something for the first…

“Every season, the vampires have to do formal wear, so every year we are kind of upping the ante with them,” says What We Do in the Shadows costume designer Laura Montgomery. “But this year with it being [Nandor’s] wedding and him being a total groomzilla, he really had to be extra special.” What We D…

“Its wonderful to see that our little show, that we still have that little team of heart that we bring to it, is connecting with so many people across the world in a large way,” says editor Jamie Martin. “The stories we tell really resonate with a lot of people, and it’s wonderful to see it get that…

“[The design is] always guided by the story, and the story very much in season 3 was focused on Peter and Catherine’s storyline together as a couple,” says production designer Francesca di Mottola. “The palace changes in that way that you just see more spaces that you hadn’t seen before.” In season 3…

“It’s all about serving the story and the characters, so we all work together to build that,” says VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet. “But its gotten bigger and crazier, and it continues to do so.” The Boys follows a group of vigilantes, led by Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), who set out to take down corrupt…

“I’m really pleased with how the hair and makeup looked for the show,” says hair and makeup designer Nic Collins. “Its like we took flavors of the period and we put them into the show, but we also created our own look, which I think was really important.” Queen Charlotte tells the story of a young…

“They’re legends,” music producer Rachael Moore says about George Jones and Tammy Wynette. “They’ve always been kind of ridiculed and made fun of… and the thing that I appreciated about Abe [Sylvia] and Jessica [Chastain] and everyone involved with this project is they really wanted to do them justice and…

“We are dealing with time in a different way,” says The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power costume designer Kate Hawley. “You have to understand where the characters are coming from, where they begin and how their paths eventuate.” Based on J. R. R. Tolkien's novels, The Lord of the Rings: The Ring…

Editor’s note: We are experiencing an issue with the video for this post and will update once it is fixed. “I see The Last of Us as a big story, like a Shakespearean play,” says composer Gustavo Santaolalla. “I think The Last of Us is a fantastic story.” Based on the 2013 video game of the same…

“Grease is the thing that really made me want to dance,” says choreographer Jamal Sims, “seeing John Travolta dance was like magic for me.” Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies is a spinoff prequel to the 1978 musical Grease. Four years before the original film's events, the series follows the…