Welcome to the Watchies, the Still Watching award show. On the penultimate episode of VF’s TV podcast, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy discuss, debate, and ultimately award the greatest TV shows of all time—well, at least according to them. Busis, Lawson, and Murphy doled out awards in three categories: drama, comedy, and … Read more
Ryan Murphy is back with a new anthology series that explores the inner workings of one of America’s most hallowed institutions via a tragic and true story. In the inaugural season of American Sports Story, Murphy dives into the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the New England Patriots star who battled inner demons and … Read more
Team Black is finally taking flight. By the end of House of the Dragon season 2, episode 6, “Small Folks,” Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) has joined the fray, hopping on her dragon, Syrax, in search of the mysterious dragon rider who tamed Seasmoke. On Team Green, things fall further into disarray as Prince Regent … Read more
What was your experience like shooting the big dragon fight scene? Cool, man. It’s kind of a little boy’s dream. It’s just something that you think of when you’re a child as being the coolest thing in the world. And it really was. They basically build a screen around you so you know where to … Read more
The heir to the throne is dead. In the premiere episode of season two of House of the Dragon, HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, the conflict between the families of friends turned rivals Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) … Read more
The Christmas carp may have escaped the palace, but Agnes was not so lucky. On the penultimate episode of The Regime, “All Ye Faithful,” Andrea Riseborough’s steadfast right-hand woman met her untimely demise, shot to death in the palace during a violet uprising. Riseborough dropped by the Still Watching podcast to chat about Agnes’s unceremonious … Read more
Oh, how The Foundling has fallen. In the third episode of The Regime, “The Heroes’ Banquet,” Matthias Schoenaerts’s Corporal Zubak is banished from the palace after an intense and violent confrontation with Kate Winslet’s Chancellor Elena. On a new episode of Still Watching, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy dissect Elena’s sudden change … Read more
Some big questions were grimly answered in part five of True Detective: Night Country, with a conspiracy’s web at least partially unveiled. It turns out that mean old sad-sack Hank Prior (John Hawkes) has indeed been a bad guy all along and has now paid for his sins. Though creator Issa Lopez was careful to … Read more
