Mahershala Ali, from Moonlight to True Detective
Few actors have had as surprising a past few years as Mahershala Ali. Known for his parts on TV shows like The 4400 and House of Cards and i...
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The entertainment industry is brimming with interesting people who are responsible for your favorite movies, TV shows, and more. Join Vox’s critic-at-large Todd VanDerWerff every Thursday as...
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What do The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Parks and Rec have in common? Michael Schur.
Michael Schur is one of the most adept minds in TV comedy. From his early days producing the Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon-era Weekend Update on...
Christmas music you won't get sick of, with R&B star PJ Morton
If you've talked to Todd at all, you know how much he enjoys Christmas music. And, sure, he enjoys the stuff that gets overplayed year after...
Losing is hard. But comedian Chris Gethard says it’s necessary.
The Chris Gethard Show might have been Todd’s favorite talk show of the decade, a weird, tossed-off calamity that emerged every week like an...
How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with Salt Fat Acid Heat's Samin Nosrat
This episode originally ran in November of 2017. It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means home chefs all around the United States (Todd among t...
Hollywood’s past can help us understand its present. Karina Longworth shows us how.
Karina Longworth’s Hollywood history podcast, You Must Remember This, is one of the most essential shows out there for movie fans. Each week...
Writer Diablo Cody, on Jennifer's Body, Juno, and Jagged Little Pill (the musical)
Diablo Cody's career took off into the stratosphere when her very first produced script — 2007's quirky comedy Juno — led to a massive box o...
How to build a civilization from scratch
Imagine you're a time traveler whose time machine has functioned somewhere in Earth's past — after humans have evolved but before they've, s...
What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place
With Halloween right around the corner, we felt it's as timely as ever to revisit this episode from earlier this year. Sometimes, the scarie...
Why Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, launched a true crime podcast
Yeardley Smith is one of the most famous women on Earth — though you might not know it if you just bumped into her somewhere, at least until...
Better Call Saul's showrunner tells us everything about the show's amazing finale
Few TV shows are better than AMC's Better Call Saul. But if you told that to someone in 2015, when the show debuted, they might look at you...
The history of the American circus, with the people who worked there
The circus! At one time, it was one of the country’s most reliable forms of mass entertainment, crisscrossing American backroads to perform...
BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it
This episode is a rebroadcast of an episode from 2017, but with BoJack Horseman's fifth season recently debuting, we thought it was a great...
Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert’s bandleader, on making music in New Orleans, on the subway, and on late night TV
Jon Batiste makes some of TV’s best music, night in and night out. As bandleader of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the multi-instrument...
Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier
We're focusing on TV scene stealers this week, as we head into a new fall season. These two performers take some of the best shows on TV and...
TV ratings, explained
The Nielsen ratings might not have as much power as they once held, but they still can decide the fate of your favorite TV show. If nobody's...
One of the best TV shows of the year is a documentary about racial inequities in education
Steve James is one of the best documentary filmmakers to ever have lived. His movies examine the fault lines that underlie American society,...
How to make a movie starring the internet, with Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham
The new coming-of-age comedy Eighth Grade is one of the surprise success stories of the summer, turning a tiny story of a 13-year-old girl’s...
The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman
The new movie BlacKkKlansman is careful to let you know very early on that, yes, its story is a true one, with a few embellishments for film...
Why the binge model doesn’t always make the best TV
There’s a reason TV critics and reporters call FX Networks president and CEO John Landgraf the “mayor of television” — and it’s not just bec...