All Forms of Art

  One of the things that made the first season of Silo so fascinating was the mystery surrounding the world outside. What happened to humanity? Why were people living underground? Who built the Silo? And, perhaps most importantly, why was everyone so determined to keep its inhabitants from asking questions? Season 2 doesn't simply answer those questions. In many ways, it does something more interesting: it rearranges them. The mystery gets bigger, but so does the focus on the people living inside it. If Season 1 was largely about discovering that the world we are being shown may not be real, Season 2 is about understanding why people accept that world in the first place. That makes  Silo  feel increasingly  like a fascinating manual on human nature. The Importance of Order The Silo is built around the Order. There are rules for almost everything. People have assigned roles, limited information, controlled reproduction and, above all, a carefully constructed unde...

  Miles Teller has built a career around characters who are rarely as straightforward as they first seem. From an obsessive jazz drummer to a troubled teenager, a reckless arms dealer and a determined fighter pilot, Teller often plays people driven by ambition, insecurity or the need to prove themselves. Early Career Born in Pennsylvania in 1987, Miles Teller studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his professional career with smaller roles before making an impression in the 2010 drama Rabbit Hole , appearing alongside Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. His early work quickly suggested that Teller was particularly comfortable playing flawed and complicated young men. That became even more apparent in  The Spectacular Now (2013). As Sutter Keely, Teller played a charismatic teenager whose confidence hides a more troubled side. The performance established him as an actor who can make an imperfect character sympathetic without making him arti...

  The Gorge initially seems to set up one kind of story, then suddenly becomes something very different. What begins as a slow exploration of isolation and the human need for connection eventually turns into a much more conventional science-fiction action story about genetic experimentation, military power, and the consequences of treating human beings as expendable. I actually found that division quite interesting because the two halves of the film are connected by one idea: what happens when we stop treating people as individuals? The Loneliness of the Gorge The first part of The Gorge is surprisingly focused on solitude. Two people are placed on opposite sides of an enormous gorge, with a very specific task: watch what comes out of it and make sure nothing gets through. There is no one else around them. No colleagues, no ordinary human interaction, and, most importantly, no real possibility of leaving. The people who send them there already know they won't come back alive....

  Some actors can dominate a scene without raising their voice. Charles Dance is one of them. With his distinctive presence, precise delivery, and ability to project both intelligence and menace, Dance has built a career playing characters who often seem to have the upper hand before they even say a word. From politicians and aristocrats to villains, military figures and complicated men of authority, he has repeatedly found ways to make powerful characters feel larger than the stories surrounding them. For many modern viewers, he will forever be associated with Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones . But by the time he entered Westeros, Charles Dance had already spent decades building an impressive career across theatre, television and film. From graphic design to the stage Born Walter Charles Dance on October 10, 1946, in Redditch, Worcestershire, Dance did not initially set out to become an actor. He studied graphic design at art school in Leicester and seemed headed toward a co...

House of the Dragon never really worked for me. I know. It has everything a Game of Thrones fan could supposedly ask for: dragons, political schemes, betrayals, beautiful costumes, impressive visuals and, of course, Westeros. And yet, despite all of that, I never developed the same emotional connection to it that I had with Game of Thrones . And it made me wonder: why? Perhaps part of the problem is that Game of Thrones asked us to invest so much in its world before we even understood how much that investment would matter. From the beginning, Westeros felt enormous. There were countless characters, families, alliances, rivalries and histories to remember. It demanded an investment from the audience, not only in understanding the world but in becoming emotionally attached to the people living in it. By the time we reached the end, these characters weren't simply characters anymore. We knew them. We had watched them grow, fail, betray each other, suffer, and change. So when Ho...

  Lana Condor is a Vietnamese-American actress best known for playing Lara Jean Covey in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy. The role turned her into one of the most famous young faces of the late 2010s, but her career has since expanded beyond romantic comedies and teen dramas. Early Career Born in Vietnam and adopted by American parents as an infant, Lana Condor grew up in the United States and initially trained as a dancer before turning her attention to acting. Her first major film role came in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), where she played Jubilee. Although the character had a relatively small part, the film gave Condor an early introduction to a major Hollywood production. She followed it with appearances in films including Patriots Day and Alita: Battle Angel , gradually building experience before landing the role that would define the next stage of her career. Lara Jean Covey and To All the Boys In 2018, Condor was cast as Lara Jean Covey in To All the B...