Connections are everything, as we trace the links between scriptwriter Craig Mazin and his college roommate Cruz, via Harvard chums Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones, to Richard Harris’s son Jared

A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls

A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller

From a biopic of the singer to the adventures of the whip-cracking archaeologist, all via a galaxy far, far away

Follow Indiana Jones into 1923, and find your way to The English and The Power of the Dog

Sail away to Pandora via ethereal-pop practitioner Enya, the cyber-cycles of Tron and the mind-melting romance stylings of French auteur Michel Gondry

From arty indie bands to US election knockouts, we join the dots around one of the most enduring stadium singalongs

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how acting royalty meets the real thing, by way of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Verve

By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate

The second series of the scathing social satire ignites a chain of terrible rich people swanning about in Italy

Brendan Gleeson, Swedish drama and a plate of potted crab bring us all the way back to the rugged west of Ireland

Go down the rabbit hole to discover how Matty Healy is just a few degrees away from Hollywood stars and super producers

Ahead of the shouty director’s latest film, we venture down the rabbit hole with Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Spike Lee

The actor’s new Disney+ show The Old Man ignites a chain of circumstance that includes his father, Lloyd Bridges, a clothing line and a mysterious wife

From horror movies to Wimbledon, where do rap star Kid Cudi’s twisty showbiz connections lead?

Sashay down the rabbit hole to discover how the Hollywood actor is connected to these cultural touchstones – as well as a medieval sex farce

With the big four fashion weeks coming up, we’re on a treasure hunt that leads from Raf Simons to London’s coolest canteen

As Middle-earth buffs get ready for the new Rings of Power extravaganza, we follow Tolkien down the rabbit hole and find Orson Welles, Michael Gambon and the Fab Four