From ‘Homeland’ To ‘Freaks And Geeks,’ She Can Direct Anything

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

TV director Lesli Linka Glatter started her career as a choreographer, but after a serendipitous series of events, Glatter found her way to film and television directing. Since then, Glatter has directed a spate of well-loved shows, including Homeland, The Walking Dead, Justified, Mad Men, True Blood, Weeds, ER, The West Wing, and Gilmore Girls.

Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen sat down with Glatter to talk about the differences between directing film and TV, working on shows with strong, complex women leads, and why some days she thinks about opening a 24-hour coffee/poetry/shoe/book store.

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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:36.7	Another season of Game of Thrones is headed our way, and you know what that means.
0:40.3	Another season of Nerdat Recaps Game of Thrones with Peter Seigle.
0:44.3	It's just like regular Nerdette, except Peter Segal is there all the time for some reason.
0:49.8	It comes out on Mondays, not on Fridays, and we only talk about the most recent episode of Game of Thrones.
0:55.7	It all starts July 10th when we'll have a review of what happened last season and some predictions about season seven.
1:01.1	And then every Monday after that, we will have an episode that comes out the day after the show airs on HBO.
1:03.8	That's Nerdette Recaps Game of Thrones with Peter Sagle.
1:06.2	Subscribe for free wherever you get your podcast. From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson.
1:15.0	And I'm Trisha Bobita. Today we're talking to film and TV director Leslie Linka Glatter.
1:19.2	She's directed, and I'm just going to start reading until I run out of breath here.
1:22.7	Twin Peaks, Now and then, Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, Freaks and Geeks, Gilmore Girls, the O.C., Graze Anatomy, ER, West Wing, Weds, The Mentalist, Mad Men, Good Wife.
1:30.0	I ran out before I got to True Blood, The Leftovers Walking Dead in the newsroom. There's so many more. So, basically, a little bit.
1:36.3	And let's not forget the Gilmore Girls pilot. And the Gilmore Girls pilot. And what she's maybe best known for most recently is Homeland. Let's play a little clip that's not spoilery, so don't worry.
1:48.2	At what point did the agency, Norbrody, was a bad guy?
1:51.9	Let me handle this.
1:52.7	Miss Matheson.
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