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  1. backstories
    Emilia Pérez States Its Case Right AwayThe film’s impressive opening number drops you into a world of corruption and chaos.
    By Paula Aceves
  2. backstories
    What I Saw Inside the Love Is Blind Control RoomToggling between ten simultaneous pod dates is like standing in front of a fire hose of gossip.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. behind the scenes
    My Favorite TeethTen behind-the-scenes creators on how some of film and TV’s scariest, silliest, and most iconic chompers came to be.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  4. backstories
    How The Substance Created the Ultimate Body of HorrorsAnd turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year’s best movie monsters.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  5. sequential art
    The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley QuinnThe character was on her way to becoming DC Comics’ most successful villain well before she was stealing scenes in major movies.
    By Abraham Josephine Riesman
  6. backstories
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    Industry Scatters the PiecesAs the show advances and destroys its major characters, the creators and cast explain how they got to this moment.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. backstories
    The Dragons Should Sound ‘Like You Can Pop Them on the Nose’House of the Dragon’s Paula Fairfield imagines dragon anatomy, embeds secret phrases in Caraxes’s growl, and is terrified for season three.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  8. backstories
    LILO, STITCH, LILO and STITCH, 2002
    An Oral History of Lilo & StitchThe beloved Disney movie made in a “secret hangar” that almost brought hand-drawn animation back.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. backstories
    Faust Goes to FidiThe producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. chat room
    Interpreting Shōgun Was More Than Just TranslationAs the series’ bridge between cultures, producer Eriko Miyagawa had to consider everything from Sengoku-period accuracy to the nuances of “fuck.”
    By Bethy Squires
  11. backstories
    ‘Look at Me Like a Human Boy!’An oral history of Clifford, the 1994 cult comedy about a deranged little boy played by Martin Short.
    By Rob Turbovsky
  12. exit interview
    The 3 Body Problem Creators Just Want to Give You More Spectacle“By the last season or two, we would be giving people an experience they’ve never had before.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. oral history
    ‘We Were a Part of History’Beyoncé and the Chicks’ audacious CMAs set, and the volatile reaction offstage, as told by its background performers.
    By Zach Schonfeld
  14. backstories
    A Party, a Spanking, a Radio PlayThe past came looking for Killers of the Flower Moon in its three most ambitious scenes.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  15. backstories
    What’s Real and What’s Not in Dune: Part Two’s Biggest Action ScenesCinematographer Greig Fraser breaks down the “magic tricks” that made sandworm riding, bazooka attacks, and gladiator fights look convincing.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  16. backstories
    Why Christopher Nolan Fell in Love With Bulky, Expensive, Way-Too-Loud FilmImax used to be considered odd. The Oppenheimer director can’t resist it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  17. on location
    Where the Cold Looms Over EverythingProduction designer Daniel Taylor breaks down how True Detective: Night Country took Ennis, Alaska, to Iceland.
    By Nicholas Quah
  18. backstories
    ‘The Movie Just Couldn’t Withstand Another Brother’s Death’The Iron Claw director Sean Durkin on the hardest decisions he made while telling the tragic (and true) story of wrestling’s Von Erich brothers.
    By Chris Lee
  19. behind the seams
    ‘She Says Good-bye to Him in Pants’Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla splits a young woman’s life into three distinct phases, with each step toward self-actualization reflected in her clothes.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  20. outbackstories
    ‘Time Has Caught Up With Us’How Baz Luhrmann reengineered 2008’s Australia to bring new perspectives to Faraway Downs.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  21. photo realism
    ‘A Photo Can Destroy a Life’How The Crown re-created the images of Diana’s final days within the constraints of taste, decency, and copyright.
    By Devon Ivie
  22. backstories
    Assembling OkernReservation Dogs’ art department designed its fictional hometown to mirror the memories of its most important audience: the series’ cast and crew.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  23. music notes
    How This Fool Captured the Underground Sound of L.A.“Why not give groups in Southern California money instead of using a song from a well-known punk group that’s been played to death?”
    By Roxana Hadadi
  24. backstories
    How Reservation Dogs Became the Best-Cast Show on TVAll it took was a little Hollywood royalty, a lot of Oklahoma talent, and the eye of casting director Angelique Midthunder.
    By Jen Chaney
  25. backstories
    Reservation Dogs’ American Horror StoryIn telling a story of Indian boarding school abuse, director Danis Goulet sought to honor, not exploit: “Our people have to have agency.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  26. vulture investigates
    Untangling the Mystery Behind Dennis Quaid’s Full Circle Braid“I mean, it’s fabulous,” says hair-department head Adenike Wright. “But it’s just like … I can’t believe he made me do that.”
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  27. backstories
    A Righteous Cock FightHow The Righteous Gemstones pulled off a giddy, gruesome, emotionally devastating “mid-jack-off” altercation.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  28. backstories
    How Here Lies Love Transformed Its Theater Into a DiscoOut with the velvet seats, in with the dance floor.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. backstories
    How Clone High Rose From the DeadAn oral history of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s vexed animation experiment and its unlikely return 20 years later.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  30. backstories
    The Tragedy of Hope“With Open Eyes” needed to feel like “a slow boil toward that final boardroom scene,” says Succession director Mark Mylod.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  31. backstories
    ‘Make Him Tell the Machine Story!’Stand-up Bert Kreischer chronicles the journey behind his megapopular joke.
    By Jesse David Fox
  32. backstories
    The Dead Cells Toxic Sewers Level Is Hard (But It Doesn’t, Er, Stink)What makes the game’s most daunting area so difficult and how new efforts around accessibility have changed the experience.
    By Aidan Moher
  33. hard mode
    Finding the Fun in FailureBennett Foddy’s video games are maddening, tedious, unfair, and borderline impossible — that’s just how he wants them.
    By Clayton Purdom
  34. backstories
    Into the Breach’s Final Level Is Hard Without Breaking the Rules“A high level of difficulty,” explains developer Matthew Davis, “makes every decision interesting.”
    By Aidan Moher
  35. backstories
    ‘They’ve Taken a Toy and Broken It’Succession director Andrij Parekh channeled the energy of Adam McKay’s 2016 Election Night party into “America Decides.”
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  36. backstories
    The National Want Their Taylor Swift Duet Played ‘in Context’In “The Alcott,” she “inhabits this story as her own character,” says Aaron Dessner.
    By Ryan Leas
  37. backstories
    How Jury Duty Orchestrated the Trial of a LifetimeProducers Lee Eisenberg and Todd Schulman discuss getting James Marsden to play himself and casting TikTok’s new favorite star, Ronald Gladden.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  38. backstories
    Building Succession’s Haunted HouseFor the first episode without Logan, director Lorene Scafaria wanted to keep the claustrophobia alive.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  39. backstories
    ‘This Was The Fast & the Furious — But One of the Cars Is a Bear’Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the “scientific precision” of that mostly improvised ambulance chase.
    By Chris Lee
  40. backstories
    ‘It Needed to Be an Unbroken Performance’Director Mark Mylod breaks down the exhausting 28-minute take that changed the course of Succession.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  41. backstories
    Inside 80 for Brady’s Most Surreal and Guy Fieri–est Moments“[Marshawn and Rita] hit it off behind the camera and now they text each other, just to check in.”
    By Derek Lawrence
  42. meat deets
    ‘Who’s Gonna Throw Up First?’“Edible Complex” writer Jonathan Lisco dissects Yellowjackets’s long-awaited feast.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  43. backstories
    One Take. Three Days. A Painstaking Dance.Here’s how the explosive John Wick: Chapter 4 Dragon’s Breath shoot-out came together.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  44. backstories
    Inside the Weirdest Oscars Performance of All Time“Those were Michelle’s hot-dog fingers.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  45. stunt awards
    The Hardest Stunt I Ever Pulled OffStunt drivers and performers recall their toughest days on the job — and why they never want to waste Michael Bay’s time.
    By Elana Scherr and Brandon Streussnig
  46. by order of the king
    ‘I Still Don’t Know What It Was’An oral history of Kings, the ambitious, expensive, and admittedly weird drama on which NBC bet its prestige-TV future and lost.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk and Jackson McHenry
  47. backstories
    ‘If That App Existed, It Would Replace God’Mrs. Davis creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof map the audacious road to one nun’s crusade against AI.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  48. backstories
    How The Last of Us Raised Death From BelowMonths of preparation, weeks of night shoots, and dozens of extras went into unearthing Kansas City’s infected infestation.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  49. backstories
    ‘There Couldn’t Be Any Normal Scenes in This Movie’Damien Chazelle and his collaborators explain Babylon in three key scenes.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  50. backstories
    ‘A Rosetta Stone for The Last of Us’How two non-player characters and an unexpected love story elevated the HBO series beyond its source material.
    By Nicholas Quah
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