The new Hulu show fuses some usually contrary themes in a drama — murder, mystery, and comedy. But when you realize that the leads are Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez you begin to understand the contradiction. Find out why the series is both savvier and sadder than you might expect.

“In expanding the legend and creating a bigger story about racial violence as a whole, it definitely shifted us away from, you know, seeing people in the hood getting killed. Part of that was wanting to flip on its head what happened in the [1992] film,” she says. How did she do this?

“‘Annette’ is the product of a creation during which people of course made a living, but which has to do with amateurism in the original sense of the word,” explains the film’s cinematographer Caroline Champetier, AFC. Learn more about this magic.