Inside ‘Widow’s Bay’s’ Creepiest Sound Cue: The Voice of the Island

Matt Yocum and the sound team spent more time on the demonic voice than any other element, turning audio into the engine of the show’s supernatural mystery.

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‘Alien: Earth’ Doesn’t Hide Its Xenomorph — But It Did Tone Down One Gory Attack

Editor Regis Kimble says the creature’s reveal was never the priority, though one episode-two scene proved too intense even for FX.

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TV’s Hottest Stars on Growing Chest Hair, Bulking Up and Peeing in Buckets — For Art, Of Course

THR sits down with Richard Gadd, Kit Harington, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Paul Anthony Kelly and Noah Wyle for a conversation about meltdowns, disrespectful cab drivers and channeling their inner Jax Teller.

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From Gilead to the Wasteland, Costume Designers Are Building TV’s Most Stylish Dystopias

The creatives behind ‘The Testaments,’ ‘Fallout,’ ‘Murderbot,’ ‘Paradise’ and ‘Pluribus’ reveal how color, tailoring and texture shape worlds defined by control.

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How ‘The Madison’ Pulled Off Michelle Pfeiffer’s Freezing Montana Creek Scene

“I don’t know how I asked this of them,” recalls director-cinematographer Christina Alexandra Voros of the meticulous planning behind the pivotal sequence starring Pfeiffer and Rebecca Spence.

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Why TV’s Small Towns Are Having a Huge Season

The creators behind ‘The Burbs,’ ‘Widow’s Bay’ and ‘The Boroughs’ explain why stories on the fringes are an award season hit: “People are inherently weird.”

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For Vince Gilligan, ‘Pluribus’ Is Worth the Wait

The creator of the acclaimed Apple TV sci-fi drama reveals the country-hopping backstory behind the most ambitious and exhausting hours of TV he’s ever made — and teases an update on season two.

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How Leslie Iwerks Turned 200 Hours of Silent Footage Into ‘Disneyland Handcrafted’

The director explains how she restored sound and used archival film to build a race-against-the-clock narrative about the 1954-1955 construction of the theme park.

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HBO Wasn’t Built in a Day, and Neither Was ‘Rome’

The cable network’s period drama chronicling the fall of Julius Caesar earned nine Emmy nominations in 2006 and took home four wins.

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