All Seasons

Season 2017

• S2017E01 Ryan Murphy

  • March 1, 2017

• S2017E02 Desmin Borges

  • March 8, 2017

• S2017E03 Laura Zak and Kate Fisher

  • March 15, 2017

• S2017E04 Dave Malloy

  • March 22, 2017

• S2017E05 Ceyda Torun

  • March 29, 2017

• S2017E06 Rhea Seehorn

  • April 5, 2017

• S2017E07 Phil LaMarr

  • April 12, 2017

• S2017E08 Richard Kelly

  • April 19, 2017

• S2017E09 Full Frontal

  • April 26, 2017

• S2017E10 Ezra Klein

  • May 3, 2017

• S2017E11 Chris Parnell

  • May 10, 2017

• S2017E12 Ane Crabtree

  • May 17, 2017

• S2017E13 Alan Yang

  • May 24, 2017

• S2017E14 The Americans showrunners

  • May 31, 2017

• S2017E15 Damon Lindelof

  • June 7, 2017

• S2017E16 Fear the Walking Dead's cast on shooting in Mexico in the era of Trump

  • June 14, 2017

• S2017E17 Alan Sepinwall, on why he doesn’t like the Netflix model of full-season stories

  • June 21, 2017

• S2017E18 Comedian Maz Jobrani on making people laugh in a deeply divided America

  • June 28, 2017

• S2017E19 Tired of boring blockbusters? Our critics pick the best summer movies of the 2000s.

  • July 5, 2017

• S2017E20 Errol Morris, one of the best interviewers ever, on true crime and the art of the documentary.

  • July 12, 2017

• S2017E21 How did a sheet with eyeholes come to be the symbol for a ghost? Director David Lowery explains.

  • July 19, 2017

• S2017E22 Michaela Watkins on audition rituals, her worst college party, and playing a “coastal elite”

  • July 26, 2017

• S2017E23 How one small town recovered from being gutted by the Great Recession — and how it didn’t.

  • August 2, 2017

• S2017E24 How PBS is navigating an especially hostile political era.

  • August 9, 2017

• S2017E25 How beloved book The Glass Castle became a movie.

  • August 16, 2017

• S2017E26 Actress Ann Dowd on how she builds her twisted, darkly iconic characters on The Handmaid's Tale and The Leftovers.

  • August 23, 2017

• S2017E27 How The Handmaid’s Tale traveled from page to screen, explained by showrunner Bruce Miller

  • August 30, 2017

• S2017E28 Actress Kellie Martin has been working since she was 7. Listen to this, and you'll love her as much as we do.

  • September 6, 2017

• S2017E29 Nancy Cartwright is a grandmother — who plays the world’s most famous 10-year-old cartoon boy

  • September 13, 2017

• S2017E30 Ken Burns’s name is synonymous with American history. His new film is eerily prescient.

  • September 20, 2017

• S2017E31 Novelist Tom Perrotta on white privilege, gender identity, and Tracy Flick 20 years later

  • September 27, 2017

• S2017E32 Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet on making it as a heavyset actor in Hollywood

  • October 4, 2017

• S2017E33 The 5 best superhero performances of all time, according to The Tick’s Griffin Newman

  • October 11, 2017

• S2017E34 BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it

  • October 18, 2017

• S2017E35 Russell Brand on life, addiction, and the pursuit of happiness

  • October 25, 2017

• S2017E36 Glenn Gordon Caron reinvented TV in the ’80s. Now he’s reviving the case-of-the-week show.

  • November 1, 2017

• S2017E37 The man who wrote the West Wing theme tells us how TV music is made

  • November 8, 2017

• S2017E38 How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with chef Samin Nosrat

  • November 15, 2017

• S2017E39 Holly Hunter, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, and Emily V. Gordon talk about their movie The Big Sick

  • November 22, 2017

• S2017E40 Exploring the role of religion in the Trump era with Matt Carter, co-host of the Bad Christian podcast

  • November 29, 2017

• S2017E41 John Ridley, Oscar-winning screenwriter, on how Los Angeles has and hasn’t changed since Rodney King

  • December 6, 2017

• S2017E42 How 2017's best animated film came to be

  • December 13, 2017

• S2017E43 What happened in Hollywood in 2017 — and where it might go in 2018

  • December 20, 2017

• S2017E44 Is the secret to battling climate change a better promotional strategy?

  • December 27, 2017

Season 2018

• S2018E01 Ask Todd Anything, with guest host Caroline Framke

  • January 3, 2018

• S2018E02 Phil Rosenthal created Everybody Loves Raymond. Now he hosts a food and travel show. Can we have his life?

  • January 10, 2018

• S2018E03 The best film and TV performances of 2017, according to our critics panel

  • January 17, 2018

• S2018E04 How Hans Zimmer found the music of the ocean

  • January 24, 2018

• S2018E05 Justina Machado is giving one of TV's best performances. Here's her acting advice.

  • January 31, 2018

• S2018E06 "Narnia was not up to code": The Magicians' Lev Grossman on building fantastical worlds

  • February 7, 2018

• S2018E07 Finding work — or just creating your own — as a deaf actor in Hollywood

  • February 14, 2018

• S2018E08 Love the look of Black Panther's Wakanda? Meet the woman who designed its costumes.

  • February 21, 2018

• S2018E09 The "I Think You’re Interesting" Oscars Spectacular

  • February 28, 2018

• S2018E10 Designing the worst workplace in the world. (Only for a TV show. Don’t worry.)

  • March 7, 2018

• S2018E11 Bill Nye, on becoming the Science Guy and Saving the World

  • March 14, 2018

• S2018E12 How to write a joke for President Obama

  • March 21, 2018

• S2018E13 Jason Katims, showrunner of Friday Night Lights and Rise, on why teens make great TV

  • March 28, 2018

• S2018E14 The 5 best coming-of-age movies about teen girls

  • April 4, 2018

• S2018E15 Wonderful Midwestern moms, explained by comedian Louie Anderson (who plays his own mom on TV)

  • April 11, 2018

• S2018E16 How Jean Smart beat Hollywood's age biases to build a nearly 40-year career

  • April 18, 2018

• S2018E17 Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the greatest films ever made, 50 years later

  • April 25, 2018

• S2018E18 Thanos and Roseanne: how two mad titans took over pop culture

  • May 2, 2018

• S2018E19 The Magicians' Sera Gamble on making great fantasy TV without Game of Thrones money

  • May 9, 2018

• S2018E20 Veteran comedy writer Nell Scovell on 30 years of being "the only woman in the room"

  • May 17, 2018

• S2018E21 What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place

  • May 24, 2018

• S2018E22 The Americans' showrunners and star bid farewell to TV's best show

  • May 31, 2018

• S2018E23 How to make great TV, according to the showrunners of Black Lightning, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Vida

  • June 7, 2018

• S2018E24 Aisha Tyler on Archer, standup comedy, and being Aisha Tyler

  • June 14, 2018

• S2018E25 Stand-up Hari Kondabolu is so much more than The Problem with Apu

  • June 21, 2018

• S2018E26 You may not immediately recognize Bob Balaban’s name. But you know his voice

  • June 28, 2018

• S2018E27 Inside the world’s best true-crime podcast

  • July 5, 2018

• S2018E28 The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 and the summer’s biggest movies, discussed and explained

  • July 12, 2018

• S2018E29 How Neko Case writes her beautiful, brilliant songs

  • July 19, 2018

• S2018E30 Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism, and his hit movie

  • July 26, 2018

• S2018E31 Sharp Objects’ Patricia Clarkson on finding the mom roles worth playing

  • August 2, 2018

• S2018E32 Why the binge model doesn’t always make the best TV

  • August 9, 2018

• S2018E33 The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman

  • August 16, 2018

• S2018E34 How to make a movie starring the internet, with Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham

  • August 23, 2018

• S2018E35 One of the best TV shows of the year is a documentary about racial inequities in education

  • August 30, 2018

• S2018E36 TV ratings, explained

  • September 6, 2018

• S2018E37 Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier

  • September 13, 2018

• S2018E38 Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert’s bandleader, on making music in New Orleans, on the subway, and on late night TV

  • September 20, 2018

• S2018E39 BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it

  • September 27, 2018

• S2018E40 The history of the American circus, with the people who worked there

  • October 4, 2018

• S2018E41 Better Call Saul's showrunner tells us everything about the show's amazing finale

  • October 11, 2018

• S2018E42 Why Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, launched a true crime podcast

  • October 18, 2018

• S2018E43 What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place

  • October 25, 2018

• S2018E44 How to build a civilization from scratch

  • November 1, 2018

• S2018E45 Writer Diablo Cody, on Jennifer's Body, Juno, and Jagged Little Pill (the musical)

  • November 8, 2018

• S2018E46 Hollywood’s past can help us understand its present. Karina Longworth shows us how.

  • November 15, 2018

• S2018E47 How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with Salt Fat Acid Heat's Samin Nosrat

  • November 22, 2018

• S2018E48 Losing is hard. But comedian Chris Gethard says it’s necessary.

  • November 29, 2018

• S2018E49 Christmas music you won't get sick of, with R&B star PJ Morton

  • December 6, 2018

• S2018E50 What do The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Parks and Rec have in common? Michael Schur.

  • December 13, 2018

• S2018E51 Mahershala Ali, from Moonlight to True Detective

  • December 20, 2018

Season 2019

• S2019E01 Introducing Switched on Pop

  • March 21, 2019