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When Amazon called to tell me that they were greenlighting the pilot episode of As We See It, the euphoria of getting a pickup quickly morphed into low-level anxiety. Then some physical discomfort. And finally, straight-out panic. While the show is an adaptation of the beautiful Israeli show On the Spectrum, it is also a deeply personal story to me. I have a son with autism who is the same age as the three lead characters in the show, so I felt a deep sense of responsibility to get the story right. And to get it right was first and foremost about treating the three leads of the show with respect and dignity. Typically, the first steps after a greenlight call might be finding a director, making a preliminary budget,…

When it comes to dressing for selfexpression, teens do it best — especially as displayed through costume design in today’s exceptionally smart, poignant and often humorous stories. Portrayals of those angsty formative years feel forever relatable, no matter the age. Euphoria HBO Diverging paths of self-discovery and experimentation are universal hallmarks of the adolescent experience. But, over at East Highland High, costume designer Heidi Bivens depicts the journeys — often heightened thanks to creator Sam Levinson’s vision — through an Instagrammable fashion fever dream. On New Year’s Eve, kicking off season two, Maddy (Alexa Demie) finds empowerment in a cut-out black minidress designed by the two-time Emmy nominee and built by Silvia’s Costumes using fabric sourced by Bivens and Demie. Accented with fingerless opera gloves, the revealing ensemble feels particularly…

DRAMA SERIES This Is Us Network TV’s last best hope in the top drama race — long a ratings juggernaut and a winner of four Emmys — ended on an emotional note after six seasons May 24 when NBC aired the Pearson family’s tearful farewell to matriarch Rebecca (Mandy Moore). The episode was well received by fans and critics alike. SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Sydney Sweeney Euphoria The 24-year-old actress, who also steals scenes on HBO’s The White Lotus (she’ll soon appear on Carpool Karaoke with Lotus co-stars Murray Bartlett and Alexandra Daddario), was named the recipient of the second annual Breakthrough Award at the ATX TV Festival in Austin. COMEDY SERIES The Pentaverate Netflix’s expensive Mike Myers vehicle — inspired by a Myers line from his 1993…

On the second episode of this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David meets with an actor to consider casting him as a young version of himself on an upcoming Netflix series. Teen Wolf and Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien recalls first meeting with the Curb creator-star for a short improv session over Zoom to test for the role of, well, Dylan O’Brien. “I even screen-recorded it, because I wanted to keep it as a memory,” says O’Brien, whose first acting experiences came in improvised sketches he performed as a teenager (which led to him pursuing an acting career). “I had headphones on at the time,” he laments of his session with David, “so I just have this 10-minute screen recording of me and Larry improvising without sound.” Luckily, O’Brien landed the…

The way Elle transforms like that is incredible,” says The Girl From Plainville costume designer Mirren Gordon-Crozier. Just two weeks after wrapping season two of the historical comedy The Great, Fanning pivoted from 18th century Imperial Russian regalia, by Sharon Long, into the oversized T-shirts and printed leggings of a suburban Massachusetts teenager dealing with body-image issues and alienation from her peers. “When we did our first fitting, it made me sigh [with] relief because the costumes were there and I could start to feel glimmers of Michelle,” says Fanning, who is an executive producer on both Hulu series. Her portrayal of Michelle Carter, who was convicted in 2019 of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging “texting suicide,” as sensationalized by the media, reveals layers of a troubled 17-year-old struggling with mental…

1883 PARAMOUNT+ Production designer Cary White describes Taylor Sheridan’s prequel to Yellowstone as “one of the hardest” series he’d ever worked on, noting the project involved traveling to the various states along the Dutton family’s journey from Texas to Montana on a tight production schedule. “We had triple-digit temperatures in Fort Worth and single-digit temperatures in Montana, and then we had wind storms in West Texas,” he remembers. “The physicality of this production was just grueling.” The production converted two blocks of Fort Worth into Hell’s Half Acre, an area of the city that no longer exists. “At that time, a million and a half Texas cattle were driven through Fort Worth, and Hell’s Half Acre was the area where cowboys went for saloons, dance halls, gambling houses, prostitution,” White says.…

What makes a Megan Stalter character? The pandemic-era internet comedian turned show-stealing supporting player has become synonymous with a certain kind of kooky personality — marked by a subpar grasp on social cues, an inability to decipher nuance and difficulty finishing full thoughts and sentences — to the point that people on Twitter now sometimes declare below news reports or strangers’ online videos, “This is a Meg Stalter character.” There is the customer upset with Starbucks for its corporate refusal to say “Christmas” and a woman auditioning to be a stayat-home wife without grasping how a vacuum works. As it so often goes with good comedy, trying to explain the bit is a disservice to it. Luckily for audiences, much of Stalter’s work is readily available online. “It is so…

In the second season of Peacock’s Girls5eva, the eponymous girl group have bigger plans for their reunited musical act: a new album. Now all in on finally achieving the superstardom they failed to capture in their youth, the foursome — Sara Bareilles’ Dawn, Renée Elise Goldsberry’s Wickie, Busy Philipps’ Summer and Paula Pell’s Gloria — go into “album mode” with fresh aspirations (or, possibly, delusions) of fame and fortune. The potential of a new Girls5eva album was also an exciting prospect for the show’s creator and showrunner, Meredith Scardino. “We were trying to do the math,” she recalls of mapping out the season in the writers room. “What scale of album could they pull off?” The group’s professional limitations provided a comic premise: The band begins the second season by…

As Sean Penn’s prosthetic makeup and hair designer on Gaslit, Kazu Hiro had to turn the two-time Oscar winner into former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell. That meant a full face of prosthetics. (Penn also wore a bodysuit to change his frame. “We wanted to make it look believable,” Hiro explains, “but not to pile things up on the actor so he can’t move well.”) Hiro had to create prosthetics that wouldn’t render Penn immobile or trapped in the makeup chair for excessive hours. “I have to consider the makeup time. How long it will take on set? Because if it’s one day, we can spend five hours. But he worked, I believe, about 40 days. We have to know how long it will be good for him to sit…

CANDY (HULU) For a while, Candy, created by Robin Veith and Nick Antosca, coasts on style and the promise of substance. The latest entry in the current boom of miniseries based on notorious real-life crimes, this one centers on Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel), a suburban Texas homemaker who in 1980 became the prime suspect in the murder of Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey) — Candy’s friend and the wife of her ex-lover Allan (Pablo Schreiber). Investigators determined Gore had been hacked 41 times with an axe. It’s a story so horribly compelling, there’s a whole other miniseries based on the same case coming later this year. The better of the recent truecrime series have come armed with some larger purpose beyond simply recounting the juicy details. Initially, Candy appears to want…