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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the second season of “Pen15,” Anna (Anna Konkle) and Maya (Maya Erskine) get involved in different departments of their school play and that puts a strain on their friendship.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of “Pose.”In the end, the series finale of “Pose” left it all on the ballroom floor.Staying true to its aspirational and uplifting storytelling nature while still never shying away from the reality of being LGBTQIA+ and living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s New York, the supersized series finale of FX’s ballroom culture drama balanced moments of pure joy with true

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Testimony,” the eighth episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 4, streaming now on Hulu.When Elisabeth Moss chose the third episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 4 to mark her directorial debut, she did so because she wanted the challenge of taking characters she knew so well to new places — literally and physically.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVBack when Steven Canals was working on the first season of “Pose,” he and Misha Green had a conversation at a bar about the importance of using their voices as storytellers to make material for their communities.“Pose,” now wrapping up its third and final season, is an example of that, as Canals centered LGBTQIA+ characters of color in a narrative about the complexities of living amid the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1990s New York City.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“The Boys” creator and showrunner Eric Kripke has said he wanted to use the second season of his Amazon Prime Video superhero-vigilante drama to address the white supremacy he was seeing play out on social media. Enter Stormfront (Aya Cash), a seemingly indestructible new member of the Seven who, at first, is loved for her kick-ass female energy but is soon exposed as a Nazi.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWith more than two decades in the business, Brett Chan has racked up quite the résumé as both a stunt performer and a coordinator.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWith three shows on the air this past television season, (ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Rebel” and “Station 19”), Krista Vernoff couldn’t let pandemic disruptions slow her down. Although working remotely posed its share of challenges, some elements of her style remained consistent.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen traveling back in time to tell tales that are set in previous decades, or even centuries ago, scripted storytellers often take liberties in their world-building. They might use modern elements, from music to colloquialisms, to reflect how the show’s themes are still relevant to today’s audience and also give that audience something comfortable to latch onto.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVA teenage girl on the autism spectrum tells her girlfriend, who is also on the autism spectrum, that she realized she actually isn’t sexually attracted to women.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVEven while her character is battling alcoholism, jet-setting around the world for her job and trying to solve a murder, some of the most complex moments Kaley Cuoco has to perform on HBO Max’ “The Flight Attendant” only take place in that character’s mind.Her Cassie Bowden retreats into a mind palace, a device that the story uses so that she can comb through her — admittedly fuzzy — memories and have imaginary conversations with her dead one-night

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen the COVID-19 pandemic forced production shutdowns and office closures, Jaime Dávila, president and co-founder of Campanario Entertainment and executive producer of “Selena: The Series,” found himself “mostly working in bed, college-style,” he says with a laugh.Three months into the pandemic, though, he realized it was time to finally carve out a dedicated workspace in his Los Angeles home, the most important piece of which is his standing desk.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the third episode of the third and final season of “Pose,” the FX period drama goes back to the beginning to show off the first ball performance by Elektra’s (Dominique Jackson) new House of Abundance. The theme was “once upon a time,” but the house that appears before Abundance is more “broke-down princesses” than fairytale couture, as hair department head Barry Lee Moe puts it.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVEven before he was a polarizing politician and incendiary social media user, Donald Trump was much talked about — often for his hair.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThrough such feature films as “The Lodge,” “The Lobster” and “Keep the Lights On,” cinematographer Thimios Bakatakis has become known for artistically depicting the tension of complicated familial and romantic relationships, often in isolated settings.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Sacrament,” the series finale of “Mare of Easttown.”After watching the penultimate episode of HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” during which Billy Ross (Robbie Tann) confessed to killing Erin McMenamin (Cailee Spaeny), many audience members came away with even more questions, including that’s a fake-out, right?The finale episode, entitled “Sacrament,” revealed that yes, there was much more to this

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Panic,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.Many fans of Lauren Oliver’s young adult novel “Panic,” following high school seniors who take part in the dangerous eponymous game every year with hopes of winning thousands of dollars to help set up their adult lives, were disappointed when that novel was not turned into a multi-book series, as is common in the genre.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAfter an almost 50-year career, Stephen King has penned more than 65 books (sometimes publishing three in the same calendar year) and more than 200 short stories, making him arguably the most prolific author of our time.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor 236 episodes, the characters of “Friends” were there for its audience just as much as they were for each other.For those who watched the original NBC run and saw themselves reflected in the characters, those who reminisced over their own 20s vicariously through them or those who hoped to someday grow up to be like them the show itself has become the seventh friend for it audience.Its time in syndication and then on streaming allowed for repeat

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNahnatchka Khan launched a show (NBC’s “Young Rock”) during the COVID-19 pandemic, but she considers herself lucky that she was able to start the writers’ room ahead of the lockdown. This meant getting to sit with her new team in person for “five or six weeks” in early 2020.“It was honestly a gift,” she says.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough the obvious big deal about the “Friends” reunion was that the six original cast members would be gathering together for only the second time since the sitcom wrapped in 2004, the HBO Max special didn’t JUST give fans Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.Also making appearances were everyone from series guest stars including Reese Witherspoon and Tom Selleck, to such celebrity super

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCinematographer-turned-director Nelson Cragg has a knack for great drama, working on series such as “Homeland” and “Breaking Bad” earlier in his career.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAfter so many years — and episode re-watches — could there BE anything left to learn about “Friends”?As the highly-anticipated, almost two-hour reunion special for HBO Max shows (and with apologies to Matthew Perry for continuing to borrow his lines), “Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes.”One thing that we didn’t need to learn (because we already knew it) was just how truly there these six characters were for the audience.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWriter-producer-director Eric Kripke has been working in genre television for almost 20 years. His long-running “Supernatural” featured dramatic, awards-bait themes such as chosen family, religion, addiction and working through trauma (in addition to demon-hunting), but only picked up three Emmy noms, all in Creative Arts categories (two for sound editing and one for music composition).That show, which launched in 2005, was on the CW, though.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 4 premiere of “The Chi,” which aired May 23 on Showtime.In several ways, the third season finale of Showtime’s “The Chi” ended on a hopeful note. Sure, the crooked Otis “Douda” Perry (Curtiss Cook) won the mayoral election and strongarmed Trig (Luke James) in running his mob operations.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe cast of “Saturday Night Live” wrapped up their 46th season on May 22 by addressing the audience directly in the cold open to discuss the “crazy” year we all just went through due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Bite,” available now on Spectrum on Demand platforms.Five years ago, Michelle and Robert King created and executive produced a political satire entitled “BrainDead,” in which extraterrestrial insects began to crawl inside the ears of government officials and begin to take control of their words and actions.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCome June, Anthony Ramos will be singing and dancing his way through New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood in the delayed bigscreen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights,” but before then he co-stars as the more stationary Eladio in HBO’s continuation of “In Treatment.”Eladio is the lone patient of Dr.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHow well do you remember “Friends”? How well do the actual cast members of the modern classic sitcom remember their own show? If the trailer HBO Max dropped Wednesday for its forthcoming reunion special for the series is any indication, it looks like barely a day has passed in their memories since they were shooting on the Warner Bros.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Vows,” the sixth episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 4, streaming now on Hulu.(Spoilers are also ahead for “The Testaments,” Margaret Atwood’s followup novel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.”)The moment fans of Hulu’s adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” thought would never arrive finally did: June (Elisabeth Moss) got out of Gilead.It was a moment more than four seasons in the making when a touch of

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Zoey’s Extraordinary Goodbye,” the second season finale of “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.”The events of the first season finale of “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” — specifically that the titular Zoey (Jane Levy) lost her father Mitch (Peter Gallagher) to progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) — resulted in her temporarily losing her superpower of hearing people’s innermost feelings sung to her

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn a sketch spoofing “The Muppets” on “Saturday Night Live’s” penultimate episode of Season 46, a couple of the actual classic puppets made appearances.Kermit the Frog kicked things off, of course, as the host of “The Muppet Show,” but Statler and Waldorf were along for the ride as well, always ready to provide a heckle, such as replying to Kermit calling Melissa Villaseñor’s Lily Tomlin “a show stopper” by saying, “I’d do anything for this show to

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVKate McKinnon kicked off the penultimate episode of “Saturday Night Live’s” 46th season by stepping back into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s shoes (and glasses and combover wig) to deliver a press conference about the CDC’s announcement that fully-vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Underground Railroad,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.In November 2018 South African actor Thuso Mbedu had her first U.S. audition.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVJust a couple of days after HBO announced several major additions to “White House Plumbers,” the cast has grown again.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Getting out of my own head should be the title of my autobiography.”That’s the first thing Krysta Rodriguez says in a Zoom conversation about her new role as the legendary Liza Minnelli in Netflix’s limited series “Halston.” To be fair, though, this quick quip is in response to a question posed about whether preparing to portray such a well-known figure is as much mental as it is physical.“When I got the audition for this, I saw ‘Liza Minnelli’ and

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVTo writer, producer and director Daniel Minahan, fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was the “first influencer.”“He’s somebody who really succeeded on marketing and branding himself,” Minahan says, adding that his mark is still left on “our everyday lives and culture” today.The subject of Minahan’s five-episode limited series, aptly titled “Halston” and bowing May 14 on Netflix, first became known as a hat designer, eventually