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Dec 4, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
5 min readAdapting The Piano Lesson, one of the most often produced plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, was equally intimidating and thrilling for co-writers Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington. “It’s sacred text for sure,” says Washington, who took on the challenge for his directorial debut.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
Martha Stewart, business maven and cultural legend, looks back in R.J. Cutler's powerful documentary. 6 min readMartha Stewart claims an incomparably protean decades-long career, paving a historic path across an unprecedented range of industries. For the first time, she looks back on her storied ups and downs in MARTHA, a documentary from the Emmy-winning director R.J. Cutler (Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, The September Issue).
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
The James Beard-nominated pasta aficionado and Chef’s Table: Noodles star sets the table for his dream gathering. 5 min readThroughout Evan Funke’s busy career, one thing has remained consistent: a love of pasta.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
Malcolm Washington makes his directorial debut with an adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. For his feature directorial debut, Malcolm Washington set his sights on adapting August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, the fourth installment of the playwright’s American Century Cycle, Wilson’s magnum opus about the African American experience through the twentieth century.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
A look back on six seasons of Peter Morgan’s indelible series, and how it has forever changed TV. As Netflix’s first original show produced and filmed in the U.K., The Crown has been in the habit of breaking records and setting precedent for prestige television since the day it debuted in November of 2016. Six seasons, 60 episodes, and 341 award nominations (and counting) later, the dynastic series has earned millions of fans and proved what TV craftsmanship can be, at its best.
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May 30, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
Benedict Cumberbatch plays a desperate father transformed by his son's puppet in Abi Morgan’s imaginative and visceral series, Eric. Few actors have demonstrated as wide a range — and earned as much acclaim — as Benedict Cumberbatch. He’s played real-life figures such as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game; Marvel’s larger-than-life Doctor Strange; and literary icons from Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock to Patrick Melrose in the Emmy-nominated series and The Hobbit franchise’s formidable dragon Smaug.
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May 22, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
McKinley Belcher III was making history as the first Black Happy Loman on Broadway in Death of a Salesman when he got the call about auditioning for the role of Michael Ledroit, an NYPD detective in Abi Morgan’s limited series, Eric. Belcher secured the part, and given his astonishing performance, it’s hard to imagine anyone else portraying the dedicated officer tasked with finding a missing nine-year-old boy named Edgar.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
The SNL photographer teams up with Netflix is a Joke to create the 2024 festival campaign, delving into the process with her longtime collaborator, Pentagram’s Emily Oberman. “The joy business” is how Mary Ellen Matthews, who has photographed every single Saturday Night Live host for the past 25 years, describes her work.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
R.J. Cutler charts Juul's rise and fall in Big Vape. As students at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, James Monsees and Adam Bowen came up with the idea for Juul, a vaporizer that offered the ritual and buzz of smoking with less carcinogenic harm, while on a smoke break in 2004. Combining a sleek design (“the iPhone of e-cigs”) with early influencer advertising and aggressive social media campaigns, Juul became the fastest-growing company in world history.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
netflixqueue.com | Brookie McIlvaine
The on- and offscreen powerhouses behind the sports drama NYAD discuss filming an inimitable athletic feat. 8 min readWhen she first received the script for NYAD, Annette Bening was so moved by the strength of real-life legend Diana Nyad and the potential of working with Oscar-winning filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that she immediately said yes to playing the swimmer in the film’s titular role.
