I Think You're Interesting

By Vox

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Episodes: 95


 Nov 22, 2018

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The entertainment industry is brimming with interesting people who are responsible for your favorite movies, TV shows, and more. Join Vox’s critic-at-large Emily VanDerWerff every Thursday as she speaks with the very well known, up-and-coming and need to know folks responsible for the most exciting projects in art, entertainment, and pop culture – diving deep into their influences, inspirations, and careers in a frank, uncensored fashion. The series finale aired in December 2018.

Episode Date
Mahershala Ali, from Moonlight to True Detective
Dec 20, 2018
What do The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Parks and Rec have in common? Michael Schur.
Dec 13, 2018
Christmas music you won't get sick of, with R&B star PJ Morton
Dec 06, 2018
Losing is hard. But comedian Chris Gethard says it’s necessary.
Nov 29, 2018
How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with Salt Fat Acid Heat's Samin Nosrat
Nov 22, 2018
Hollywood’s past can help us understand its present. Karina Longworth shows us how.
Nov 15, 2018
Writer Diablo Cody, on Jennifer's Body, Juno, and Jagged Little Pill (the musical)
Nov 08, 2018
How to build a civilization from scratch
Nov 01, 2018
What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place
Oct 25, 2018
Why Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, launched a true crime podcast
Oct 18, 2018
Better Call Saul's showrunner tells us everything about the show's amazing finale
Oct 11, 2018
The history of the American circus, with the people who worked there
Oct 04, 2018
BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it
Sep 27, 2018
Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert’s bandleader, on making music in New Orleans, on the subway, and on late night TV
Sep 20, 2018
Janet from The Good Place and Kelli from Insecure on making TV's funniest shows even funnier
Sep 13, 2018
TV ratings, explained
Sep 06, 2018
One of the best TV shows of the year is a documentary about racial inequities in education
Aug 30, 2018
How to make a movie starring the internet, with Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham
Aug 23, 2018
The incredible true story behind Spike Lee's new movie BlacKkKlansman
Aug 16, 2018
Why the binge model doesn’t always make the best TV
Aug 09, 2018
Sharp Objects’ Patricia Clarkson on finding the mom roles worth playing
Aug 02, 2018
Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism, and his hit movie
Jul 26, 2018
How Neko Case writes her beautiful, brilliant songs
Jul 19, 2018
The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 and the summer’s biggest movies, discussed and explained
Jul 12, 2018
Inside the world’s best true-crime podcast
Jul 05, 2018
You may not immediately recognize Bob Balaban’s name. But you know his voice
Jun 28, 2018
Stand-up Hari Kondabolu is so much more than The Problem with Apu
Jun 21, 2018
Aisha Tyler on Archer, standup comedy, and being Aisha Tyler
Jun 14, 2018
How to make great TV, according to the showrunners of Black Lightning, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Vida
Jun 07, 2018
The Americans' showrunners and star bid farewell to TV's best show
May 31, 2018
What great horror looks and sounds like, with the makers of The Terror and A Quiet Place
May 24, 2018
Veteran comedy writer Nell Scovell on 30 years of being "the only woman in the room"
May 17, 2018
The Magicians' Sera Gamble on making great fantasy TV without Game of Thrones money
May 09, 2018
Thanos and Roseanne: how two mad titans took over pop culture
May 02, 2018
Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is still one of the greatest films ever made, 50 years later
Apr 25, 2018
How Jean Smart beat Hollywood's age biases to build a nearly 40-year career
Apr 18, 2018
Wonderful Midwestern moms, explained by comedian Louie Anderson (who plays his own mom on TV)
Apr 11, 2018
The 5 best coming-of-age movies about teen girls
Apr 04, 2018
Jason Katims, showrunner of Friday Night Lights and Rise, on why teens make great TV
Mar 28, 2018
How to write a joke for President Obama
Mar 21, 2018
Bill Nye, on becoming the Science Guy and Saving the World
Mar 14, 2018
Designing the worst workplace in the world. (Only for a TV show. Don’t worry.)
Mar 07, 2018
The "I Think You’re Interesting" Oscars Spectacular
Feb 28, 2018
Love the look of Black Panther's Wakanda? Meet the woman who designed its costumes.
Feb 21, 2018
Finding work — or just creating your own — as a deaf actor in Hollywood
Feb 14, 2018
"Narnia was not up to code": The Magicians' Lev Grossman on building fantastical worlds
Feb 07, 2018
Justina Machado is giving one of TV's best performances. Here's her acting advice.
Jan 31, 2018
How Hans Zimmer found the music of the ocean
Jan 24, 2018
The best film and TV performances of 2017, according to our critics panel
Jan 17, 2018
Phil Rosenthal created Everybody Loves Raymond. Now he hosts a food and travel show. Can we have his life?
Jan 10, 2018
Ask Todd Anything, with guest host Caroline Framke
Jan 03, 2018
Is the secret to battling climate change a better promotional strategy?
Dec 27, 2017
What happened in Hollywood in 2017 — and where it might go in 2018
Dec 20, 2017
How 2017's best animated film came to be
Dec 13, 2017
John Ridley, Oscar-winning screenwriter, on how Los Angeles has and hasn’t changed since Rodney King
Dec 06, 2017
Exploring the role of religion in the Trump era with Matt Carter, co-host of the Bad Christian podcast
Nov 29, 2017
Holly Hunter, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, and Emily V. Gordon talk about their movie The Big Sick
Nov 22, 2017
How to not screw up Thanksgiving dinner, with chef Samin Nosrat
Nov 15, 2017
The man who wrote the West Wing theme tells us how TV music is made
Nov 08, 2017
Glenn Gordon Caron reinvented TV in the ’80s. Now he’s reviving the case-of-the-week show.
Nov 01, 2017
Russell Brand on life, addiction, and the pursuit of happiness
Oct 25, 2017
BoJack Horseman's sly, funny brilliance, explained by the people who make it
Oct 18, 2017
The 5 best superhero performances of all time, according to The Tick’s Griffin Newman
Oct 11, 2017
Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet on making it as a heavyset actor in Hollywood
Oct 04, 2017
Novelist Tom Perrotta on white privilege, gender identity, and Tracy Flick 20 years later
Sep 27, 2017
Ken Burns’s name is synonymous with American history. His new film is eerily prescient.
Sep 20, 2017
Nancy Cartwright is a grandmother — who plays the world’s most famous 10-year-old cartoon boy
Sep 13, 2017
Actress Kellie Martin has been working since she was 7. Listen to this, and you'll love her as much as we do.
Sep 06, 2017
How The Handmaid’s Tale traveled from page to screen, explained by showrunner Bruce Miller
Aug 30, 2017
Actress Ann Dowd on how she builds her twisted, darkly iconic characters on The Handmaid's Tale and The Leftovers.
Aug 23, 2017
How beloved book The Glass Castle became a movie.
Aug 16, 2017
How PBS is navigating an especially hostile political era.
Aug 09, 2017
How one small town recovered from being gutted by the Great Recession — and how it didn’t.
Aug 02, 2017
Michaela Watkins on audition rituals, her worst college party, and playing a “coastal elite”
Jul 26, 2017
How did a sheet with eyeholes come to be the symbol for a ghost? Director David Lowery explains.
Jul 19, 2017
Errol Morris, one of the best interviewers ever, on true crime and the art of the documentary.
Jul 12, 2017
Tired of boring blockbusters? Our critics pick the best summer movies of the 2000s.
Jul 05, 2017
Comedian Maz Jobrani on making people laugh in a deeply divided America
Jun 28, 2017
Alan Sepinwall, on why he doesn’t like the Netflix model of full-season stories
Jun 21, 2017
Fear the Walking Dead's cast on shooting in Mexico in the era of Trump
Jun 14, 2017
Damon Lindelof
Jun 07, 2017
The Americans showrunners
May 31, 2017
Alan Yang
May 24, 2017
Ane Crabtree
May 17, 2017
Chris Parnell
May 10, 2017
Ezra Klein
May 03, 2017
Full Frontal
Apr 26, 2017
Richard Kelly
Apr 19, 2017
Phil LaMarr
Apr 12, 2017
Rhea Seehorn
Apr 05, 2017
Ceyda Torun
Mar 29, 2017
Dave Malloy
Mar 22, 2017
Laura Zak and Kate Fisher
Mar 15, 2017
Desmin Borges
Mar 08, 2017
Ryan Murphy
Mar 01, 2017