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Stéphane Bourgoin became an expert on serial killers after his girlfriend was murdered by one—except “Eileen” never existed. Ben Selkow, director of the new series Killer Lies, explains how Bourgoin took inspiration from Silence of the Lambs: “He kind of wants to be Jodie Foster and he kind of wants to be Anthony Hopkins.”

Another half-season of the frothy Darren Star series has hit Netflix, which means it’s time once again for GQ columnist Chris Black to defend his favorite non-prestige TV show.

The writer and comedian poured their own ambition into a satirical play about a frustrated Mary Todd Lincoln who dreams of the spotlight. It’s taken them further than they could have imagined.

Thirty-five years after playing the Ghost With the Most made him into an A-list star (and, soon after, a superhero), the legendary screen eccentric whom Jenna Ortega calls “strangely normal” returns to old haunts in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and tells GQ what he’s learned from surviving decades in a fickle business: “You can get insecure and nervous, and go, ‘Wow, boy, I'm not doing so great right now.’ But when you get desperate, you're dead.”