Articles about Netflix
Making Money in Korea
A unified Korea provides the unique backdrop to Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area, an adaptation of Spanish sensation La Casa de Papel (Money Heist). Writer Ryu Yong-Jae tells DQ about his love of the original and creating the world of this remake.
Summer secrets
Twee Zomers (Two Summers) creators and writers Paul Baeten and Tom Lenaerts discuss this psychological thriller in which a group of friends reunite 30 years after a tragic accident, leading dark secrets to resurface.
Rebuilding Borgen
Borgen creator Adam Price and stars Birgitte Hjort Sørensen and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard get political again as the Danish drama returns. DQ hears all about about filming in Greenland and the trouble with elevators.
Getting Stranger
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and series creators the Duffer Brothers reveal why season four is the biggest and scariest instalment of Netflix’s nostalgic 1980s drama yet.
Shooting a Scandal
Director SJ Clarkson opens up about helming Netflix’s suspenseful thriller Anatomy of a Scandal, bringing drama to a courtroom and how her start in theatre influences her cinematic style.
Ticket to Valhalla
Die Hard screenwriter Jeb Stuart speaks to DQ about creating his epic Vikings: Valhalla for Netflix: “They didn’t come to me to remake The Tudors.”
Series to Watch: February 2022
DQ looks at the schedules to pick out 10 new series to watch this February, from the return of a Danish political drama and a US adaptation of an Israeli thriller to a UK literary adaptation and a fresh take on a beloved 90s sitcom.
Discovering Diamonds
Pieter Van Huyck, head of scripted at Belgian producer De Mensen, outlines how the company developed family crime drama Diamonds, which is set in Antwerp’s diamond district, with support from partners in Israel.
Too Close for comfort
Actors Cush Jumbo, Richard Armitage, Jo Joyner and James Nesbitt tell DQ about teaming up with Harlan Coben for the author’s latest Netflix thriller, Stay Close, in which four people are each confronted by secrets from their past.
Sending up Bollywood
The makers of Netflix original Call My Agent Bollywood reveal how they brought this Indian adaptation of French comedy-drama Dix Pour Cent to the screen.
Return of the space cowboy
British actor Alex Hassell recalls the boot camps and fight choreography he faced to get into character as the antagonist in Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s thrilling space Western based on the Japanese anime of the same name.
Preparing for War
Director Jessica Hobbs discusses her role on Netflix’s royal drama The Crown and breaks down her work in season four finale War, for which she won an Emmy award.
Heist stakes
DQ takes a virtual trip to Netflix’s Tres Cantos studio on the outskirts of Madrid to get a look at the production process behind the hotly anticipated fifth and final season of Spanish series La Casa de Papel (Money Heist).
Rising to the bait
Showrunner Tony Ayres takes DQ inside the making of Clickbait, a high-stakes thriller that uses multiple perspectives to tell a story about a man threatened with death in a mysterious online video.
Hey, Macarena
As the final season of Spanish drama Vis a Vis (Locked Up) arrives in the UK, star Maggie Civantos looks back on playing prison inmate Macarena Ferreira and how the show changed the landscape of Spanish television.
Making television online (fast)
As Netflix drama How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) returns for a third season, co-creators Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann discuss their collaboration with the streamer and its German originals manager Eva van Leeuwen.
Hail to the thief
Lupin star Omar Sy, writer George Kay and producer Isabelle Degeorges discuss Netflix’s French mystery thriller about a gentleman thief stalking the streets of Paris, based on the adventures of fictional character Arsène Lupin.
Rising from the ashes
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur tells DQ about the ideas and psychology behind his supernatural Netflix series Katla, filming during the Covid-19 pandemic and recreating a volcanic eruption.
Derry girl
Derry Girls is the proof that local comedy can travel around the world. Creator and writer Lisa McGee talks to DQ about what inspired her to create the series and how she sees comedy progressing in the future.
Casting Kostov
Bulgarian actor Julian Kostov tells DQ about his roles in fantasy drama Shadow & Bone and crime series Temple, as well as running a management company that seeks to bring greater representation to Eastern Europeans both in front of and behind the camera.