Adam sits down with editor Jody Avirgan and writers Brian Steele and Hadley Meares to discuss crafting the series. Learn more... more

Episode 8 | The fall of the studio system, the rise of the nuclear age, and the lives caught in... more

Episode 7 | The wild story of Errol Flynn, who just kept hanging around as a symbol of Hollywood’s misogynistic... more

Episode 6 | How Hollywood’s use of Black actors clashed with the rising Civil Rights movement, and how the first... more

Episode 5 | As television transformed American life, George Reeves became a star, only to get trapped inside the part... more

Episode 4 | The life of James Dean, a restless man-child desperate to express himself in uptight post-World War II... more

Episode 3 | A new generation of actors questioned the status quo; a rattled establishment fought back; dire consequences ensued.... more

Episode 2 | The Life and Death of Willie Bioff, a gangster who bled American unions dry right just as... more

Episode 1 | As post war Hollywood strives to define itself, it mirrors the divide happening in America. A rising... more

This season, we’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’... more