Max Gao

1 week ago | indiewire.com | Max Gao

[The following interview contains some spoilers for “The Waterfront.”]Kevin Williamson was ready to put down his pen. In late 2019, following the cancellation of his CBS crime thriller “The Following,” the creator behind genre- and culturally-defining hits such as “The Vampire Diaries,” “Dawson’s Creek” and the “Scream” film franchise was feeling burnt out. “I was in a deal at Warner Bros. where you have to sing for your supper a little bit, in terms of making a pilot every season.

1 week ago | teenvogue.com | Max Gao

Warning: major spoilers ahead for We Were Liars. How does an economics major with no professional acting experience or connection to the entertainment industry land a major role in one of the hottest YA adaptations of the decade? Shubham Maheshwari, the breakout star of Prime Video’s We Were Liars, is still asking himself the same question.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Max Gao

STEPHANIE DIANIWarning: major spoilers ahead for We Were Liars. How does an economics major with no professional acting experience or connection to the entertainment industry land a major role in one of the hottest YA adaptations of the decade? Shubham Maheshwari, the breakout star of Prime Video’s We Were Liars, is still asking himself the same question.

2 weeks ago | harpersbazaar.com | Max Gao

For better or for worse, children almost seem predestined to turn into their parents. Nowhere is that adage more apparent than in Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy series about a single mother attempting to outrun her criminal past by escaping to a sleepy Massachusetts town with her two children—only to discover that secrets never stay buried for long in this well-to-do community.

4 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Max Gao

[This story contains spoilers from “Everything Becomes Symbol and Irony,” the season one finale of Your Friends & Neighbors.] Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm) can never exactly go back to his past life. For the entire first season of Apple TV+’s Your Friends & Neighbors, the former hedge fund manager has fought to keep his head above water after getting cheated on, divorced and then unceremoniously fired.