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Television’s so-called Golden Era could also be labeled “The Age of Bad Men.” For the first 15 years of the new millennium, volatile and abusive antiheroes dominated the prestige TV landscape: Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Vic Mackey and a handful of imitators fascinated as much as they frightened. These characters flourished when cable was still king, but as the deluge of streaming content continues to flood the entertainment marketplace, there’s finally room for more than just charismatic scoundrels to mesmerize us. It’s now the women’s turn to breathe fire. The year 2019 has been a banner one for the antiheroine. Sure, a Nancy Botwin (Weeds), Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife) or Olivia Pope (Scandal) has occasionally penetrated the zeitgeist. But in the past several months alone, female-led shows…

BIG LITTLE LIES Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern With “lies” in the title, what else is to be expected from these five leading HBO ladies? In Monterey, California, a facade of adoring mothers, beautiful kids and exquisite homes hides a community that is fueled by secrets and cover-ups, keeping everyone guessing about the others’ motives. The second season saw the group of women hiding a crime involving a man’s death. “There’s just so many complex emotions at play,” says Woodley. “These women, I think, deep down want to resent one another, but can’t because they genuinely love each other. It’s just messy, like so many of our relationships are. I don’t think any friendship or relationship is black and white.” DEAD TO ME Christina Applegate…

Jon Snow, Arya Stark and the rest of the best fighters on Game of Thrones owe their combat skills to the various masters they trained under along the way in Westeros and beyond — a list that includes Rowley Irlam, the award-winning English stunt coordinator who presided over the HBO drama’s biggest set pieces starting with season five. As with most stories related to Thrones, Irlam’s introduction to the world of ice and fire begins with both of those elements: ice during the battle in season five’s “Hardhome” and plenty of fire one episode later in “Dance of the Dragons.” Indeed, while Jon Snow’s battle against the White Walkers draws the most attention when fans look back on the epic fifth season, it was Daenerys Targaryen’s first dragon-riding flight that…

DICKINSON RELEASE DATE Nov. 1 STARS Hailee Steinfeld, Toby Huss, Jane Krakowski, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt SHOWRUNNER Alena Smith PREMISE In the half-hour comedy, the teen poet’s writing offers a glimpse at 19th century societal constraints that still persist. “My concern with this show is not to give a book report on the truth about Emily Dickinson,” Smith told THR. “It’s to use Emily as an avatar for looking around us at the world that we’re in today.” FOR ALL MANKIND RELEASE DATE Nov. 1 STARS Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten SHOWRUNNER Ron Moore PREMISE In an alternate historical timeline, the USSR landed on the moon first, forcing NASA to reevaluate in order to stay in the space race. Kinnaman told THR that the series…

Ben Platt went from headlining a soldout run of one of Broadway’s biggest new hits, Dear Evan Hansen — and winning a Tony in the process — to becoming No. 1 on the call sheet for Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix series, The Politician, starring alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Lange. Platt, 26, spoke to THR about playing Payton Hobart, a privileged teenager whose first step toward becoming president of the United States is winning the student body elections at his competitive Santa Barbara high school. What was the biggest difference in moving from Broadway to TV? A lot of it is in the practicality of showing up to work and having someone 4 feet away from you and pointing a camera in your face as opposed to walking into a…

TV ENSEMBLES Barry (HBO) Actors love shows about actors, and this comedy series — which star Bill Hader co-created, co-writes and often directs — provides a hilarious window into their struggle. It has the added benefit of featuring one of the most beloved of their lot, Henry Winkler, in a key supporting role. Fleabag (Amazon) There is nobody whom actors — like the rest of the biz — are more enamored with at the moment than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who wrote and stars in this comedy series’ second and final season, just like its first, again surrounding herself with pros like Colman, Sian Clifford and “hot priest” breakout Andrew Scott. The Politician (Netflix) Ryan Murphy’s shows feature large and diverse ensembles, so there’s usually something for everyone to like. This dramedy…

LOGAN OFFERS SHIV THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM Episode 1, “Summer Palace” Succession’s season two premiere kicked off with exactly what actress Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy, was hoping for. “Last September [showrunner] Jesse [Armstrong] asked me what I want for Shiv,” she shared in a THR cover story in August. “I was like, ‘Obviously, I take over the company.’ ” In the episode, Logan Roy (Brian Cox) offers Shiv the keys to Waystar Royco. “I was terrified,” Snook told THR of the scene. “It’s quite a pivotal moment for my character, and I wanted to do it justice.” But as the season progresses, her heir-apparent status disappears. “Shiv’s problem is that she can’t keep her big mouth shut. She’s a hopeless poker player,” said Cox, who disputes the…

With more than 20 years in the industry under her belt, Linda Cardellini has become one of Hollywood’s biggest chameleons, in the past year having taken on drama (Green Book), horror (The Curse of La Llorona), superheroes (Avengers: Endgame) and, most notably, headlining Netflix’s genre-defying series Dead to Me. The star, 44, spoke to THR about her year, the dynamics between her and co-star Christina Applegate, navigating the show’s twists and turns, and telling a comedic story about grief. What did you think when you first read the script? I loved the idea of playing a character where in the first episode you can’t know what’s happening, you can’t be let in on what she’s hiding. By the rest of the series you’re in on the secret with her, and…

GLOW Stunt coordinator Shauna Duggins nabbed two Emmy wins for her work on the Netflix series, which moved its setting to Sin City for season three. She spearheads the action in the ring for 15 actresses who perform their own stunts for the variety wrestling show-within-the-show. STRANGER THINGS Season three of Stranger Things may be set at Starcourt Mall during a summer of romance, but that doesn’t mean the Netflix hit was skimping on the fighting in Hawkins’ new hotspot. The show ups the ante between the Mindflayer and supernatural Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). THE WALKING DEAD AMC’s zombie show has earned seven SAG Award nominations for its stunts so far, and the 10th season included plenty of battle action in its postapocalyptic universe. The communities join forces as an…

GODFATHER OF HARLEM (EPIX) Created and written by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein (Narcos), the series mashes up historical and political events to tell the larger tale of social justice for African Americans in the early 1960s. The all-star cast (Forest Whitaker, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Sorvino, Vincent D’Onofrio and Chazz Palminteri) doesn’t let the show down, and fans of mob stories can expect guns, drugs, women and turf wars — all violently portrayed. — DANIEL FIENBERG HIS DARK MATERIALS (HBO) From its not-quite-steampunk alt-world take on Oxford to the ritzy art deco high-rises of London to the seedy mining reaches of the North, the latest adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novels nails much of what makes the books pop. But while it’s vastly better than the 2007 film adaptation of The…

MARIO PAINT Twitter user @adamcatino remade the show’s theme song in Mario Paint’s music sequencer, prompting HBO to respond on Twitter, “This got me wondering about Mario’s relationship with his father.” PUSHA T’S ‘PUPPETS’ “Puppets,” Nicholas Britell’s remix of his song with Pusha T, was the composer’s own creation, said Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong. “He’s got much more [sophisticated] musical tastes. We chatted about it when he had the idea, but that was really his call.” BRITELL’S EMMY After Britell’s song won the Emmy for original main title theme music, he thanked the TV Academy with a video of himself playing a piano rendition, Emmy statuette in frame. BOBBING IN SYNC A clear beneficiary of meme culture, @PeterKelly25 released a synced-up version of thousands of concertgoers bobbing along in perfect…

In his latest project, Netflix’s Living With Yourself, Paul Rudd follows in the footsteps of Armie Hammer, Lisa Kudrow and Lindsay Lohan in the ultimate acting test — working opposite himself. “I had never done anything like it,” Rudd, 50, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I think any actor wants to challenge themselves and try new things, and certainly I viewed it as that.” In the eight-episode dramedy series, created by Tim Greenberg, Rudd stars as Miles Elliot, a depressed man frustrated with his life who undergoes an experimental spa treatment in hopes of becoming happy. The treatment involves him being cloned and replaced with a new and improved version of himself while his original self is killed — but the procedure goes wrong, leaving two Mileses fighting for one life.…

To play a young version of 19th century poet Emily Dickinson in one of Apple TV+’s first series, Hailee Steinfeld had to don period-appropriate clothes, including a waist-cinching corset and layers of petticoats, costumes that she says required the help of “one, if not two, women.” The singer-actress and star of Dickinson points out, however, that unlike “what the women of the time went through,” she “could loosen [her corset] up at lunch and to go to the bathroom.” But when it came to the social struggles Dickinson faced in trying to make an impact as a woman, Steinfeld can’t help but see similarities to the present day. “There are so many parallels,” Steinfeld tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Here’s [someone] who in her time had to fight fearlessly for her…

Midway through the first episode of On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Krystal Stubbs — the central character played by Kirsten Dunst — tells her husband, Travis (Alexander Skarsgard), “I won’t be poor again.” The line serves as something of a mission statement for Krystal, a water-park employee who’s pushed by circumstance — and often against her better judgment — into the upper echelons of the cult-like pyramid scheme that consumed her husband. The series also lets Dunst show off her comedic chops, while always maintaining Krystal’s core of determination to hold on to what she’s earned. “She’s like a survivalist,” says Dunst, who is also an executive producer. “She has a daughter to take care of, so she’ll do whatever she can not to put her in that…

The British royal family has been unusually generous to Olivia Colman in providing roles. Playing the 18th century’s Queen Anne in 2018’s The Favourite brought Colman, 45, an Oscar for best actress. And she’s the only actor to have played both Queen Elizabeth II, which she’s doing now on Netflix’s The Crown, and that royal’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, which she did in 2012’s Hyde Park on Hudson. Prior to these film roles, Colman was probably best known in the U.K. for appearing on sitcoms. She gained attention in 2003 as the Sophie Chapman character in the comedy series Peep Show, created by Succession mastermind Jesse Armstrong. American audiences probably know her comedy work from Amazon’s Fleabag, where she portrayed the just-evil-enough stepmother. With Hudson, she co-starred in a Focus Features…