Alison Herman
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tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com
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PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS
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‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan’s Ambitious Apple Drama ‘Pluribus’ Gives a Magnificent Rhea Seehorn the Canvas She Deserves: TV Review
'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan gives 'Better Call Saul' breakout Rhea Seehorn the canvas she deserves in the ambitious sci-fi drama 'Pluribus'.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/actors/pluribus-review-vince-gilligan-rhea-seehorn-1236572049/
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PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS
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‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Vince Gilligan’s Ambitious Apple Drama ‘Pluribus’ Gives a Magnificent Rhea Seehorn the Canvas She Deserves: TV Review
'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan gives 'Better Call Saul' breakout Rhea Seehorn the canvas she deserves in the ambitious sci-fi drama 'Pluribus'.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/actors/pluribus-review-vince-gilligan-rhea-seehorn-1236572049/
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just discovered a fascinating corollary to "this person's parents have their own wikipedia page": "this person's *childhood home* has its own wikipedia page"
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not only is ALL HER FAULT, a rich mom kidnapping thriller that marks sarah snook's big return to tv, no SUCCESSION — it's also no BIG LITTLE LIES, and a middling entry in the industrial complex that show inspired
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Sarah Snook Kidnapping Thriller ‘All Her Fault’ Is a Middling Entry in the Rich Mom Mystery Genre: TV Review
Sarah Snook returns to TV post-'Succession' with the Peacock kidnapping thriller 'All Her Fault', a middling entry in the rich mom mystery genre.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/all-her-fault-review-sarah-snook-peacock-1236570952/
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add me to the chorus of critics telling you ALL'S FAIR is offensively half-baked girlboss nonsense!!
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Kim Kardashian Legal Drama ‘All’s Fair’ Is a Clumsy, Condescending Girlboss Fantasia: TV Review
Ryan Murphy's Hulu legal drama 'All's Fair', starring Kim Kardashian as a divorce attorney, is a clumsy, condescending girlboss fantasia.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/alls-fair-review-kim-kardashian-ryan-murphy-1236569795/
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finally watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE...what happened to the other 2/3 of the movie?!?!
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talked to sterlin harjo about THE LOWDOWN, ethan hawke and what america has to learn from tulsa. good show!!
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‘The Lowdown’ Creator Sterlin Harjo on the Bittersweet Finale, What America Could Learn from Tulsa and How Ethan Hawke Can ‘Break Your Heart While Making You Laugh’
'The Lowdown' creator Sterlin Harjo on the Season 1 finale, what Tulsa has to teach America and working with Ethan Hawke
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-lowdown-season-finale-interview-sterlin-harjo-1236569561/
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add me to the chorus of critics telling you ALL'S FAIR is offensively half-baked girlboss nonsense!!
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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Kim Kardashian Legal Drama ‘All’s Fair’ Is a Clumsy, Condescending Girlboss Fantasia: TV Review
Ryan Murphy's Hulu legal drama 'All's Fair', starring Kim Kardashian as a divorce attorney, is a clumsy, condescending girlboss fantasia.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/alls-fair-review-kim-kardashian-ryan-murphy-1236569795/
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I LOVE LA (2025)
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premieres tonight!
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randy newman's "i love la" was the playoff song at my wedding so in a way this win belongs to me
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deep frying is a weeknight activity if you want it bad enough
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watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point?
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Rachel Sennott’s HBO Vehicle ‘I Love L.A.’ Channels Internet Fame’s Empty Nihilism a Little Too Well: TV Review
Rachel Sennott's HBO starring vehicle 'I Love L.A.' channels the empty nihilism of modern internet fame almost too well for its own good.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/i-love-la-review-rachel-sennott-hbo-1236565107/
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watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point?
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Rachel Sennott’s HBO Vehicle ‘I Love L.A.’ Channels Internet Fame’s Empty Nihilism a Little Too Well: TV Review
Rachel Sennott's HBO starring vehicle 'I Love L.A.' channels the empty nihilism of modern internet fame almost too well for its own good.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/i-love-la-review-rachel-sennott-hbo-1236565107/
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money diaries, one of the great institutions of the internet, posted a couple pieces of klarna spon ~2 weeks ago and nothing since. BRING HER BACK
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from the weekend: with TALAMASCA, amc's immortal universe is now 1 for 3 on shows that successfully channel the spirit of anne rice (and this show isn't the 1)
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‘Anne Rice’s Talamasca’ Is Another Disappointing Entry in AMC’s Immortal Universe: TV Review
The third installment in AMC's Immortal Universe, based on the works of Anne Rice, 'Talamasca' is a disappointment.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/anne-rice-talmasca-review-amc-1236561145/
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from the weekend: with TALAMASCA, amc's immortal universe is now 1 for 3 on shows that successfully channel the spirit of anne rice (and this show isn't the 1)
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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‘Anne Rice’s Talamasca’ Is Another Disappointing Entry in AMC’s Immortal Universe: TV Review
The third installment in AMC's Immortal Universe, based on the works of Anne Rice, 'Talamasca' is a disappointment.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/anne-rice-talmasca-review-amc-1236561145/
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posted on IG that I just read my first tana french novel and every woman in my phone has now reached out to congratulate me
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a key tenet of zionism is that true assimilation is impossible — no matter how integrated a society is, it can always turn on jews and that's why we need a state a key tenet of twitter zionists is that if you don't agree with them you're not really jewish.
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NOBODY WANTS THIS fixes its weird thing with jewish women in season 2, but still feels frustratingly slight:
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‘Nobody Wants This’ Gains More Depth in Season 2, but Still Never Goes Deep: TV Review
Season 2 of the Netflix rom-com 'Nobody Wants This' — starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody — goes deeper than Season 1, but still never goes deep.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/nobody-wants-this-season-2-review-netflix-1236558804/
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NOBODY WANTS THIS fixes its weird thing with jewish women in season 2, but still feels frustratingly slight:
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‘Nobody Wants This’ Gains More Depth in Season 2, but Still Never Goes Deep: TV Review
Season 2 of the Netflix rom-com 'Nobody Wants This' — starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody — goes deeper than Season 1, but still never goes deep.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/nobody-wants-this-season-2-review-netflix-1236558804/
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TASK: a good show, now streaming in full on hbo max!
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AFTER THE HUNT manages the incredible feat of being a movie reverse-engineered to seem "provocative" and "controversial" that is simply too incoherent to bother being mad at
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if you watched the shirt shop scene in THE CHAIR COMPANY and thought “who is *that*?!” I have the article for you! meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to
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‘The Chair Company’ Star and Real-Life Suit Salesman on Acting for the First Time With ‘Unbelievable’ Tim Robinson: ‘I Hope I Don’t Make a Fool Out of Myself in Front of My Wife’
'The Chair Company' star Jared Lindner, a first-time actor and real life suit salesman, discusses his appearance in Tim Robinson's HBO comedy
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-chair-company-interview-jared-lindner-1236556650/
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if you watched the shirt shop scene in THE CHAIR COMPANY and thought “who is *that*?!” I have the article for you! meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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‘The Chair Company’ Star and Real-Life Suit Salesman on Acting for the First Time With ‘Unbelievable’ Tim Robinson: ‘I Hope I Don’t Make a Fool Out of Myself in Front of My Wife’
'The Chair Company' star Jared Lindner, a first-time actor and real life suit salesman, discusses his appearance in Tim Robinson's HBO comedy
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-chair-company-interview-jared-lindner-1236556650/
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the new season of THE DIPLOMAT shakes up the series' status quo to put the protagonists' oddball marriage back in the spotlight:
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‘The Diplomat’ Re-Centers Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell’s Live Wire Chemistry With an Effective Season 3 Shake-Up: TV Review
Season 3 of Netflix political drama 'The Diplomat' re-centers Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell's live wire chemistry in an effective shakeup.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/the-diplomat-season-3-review-keri-russell-1236554173/
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peacock's john wayne gacy show DEVIL IN DISGUISE is a deliberately anti-sensational take on scripted true crime, avoiding gore and killer clown tropes in favor of victim-centric storytelling:
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Peacock’s John Wayne Gacy Drama ‘Devil in Disguise’ Is a Tasteful, Considered Take on the Sensationalized Serial Killer: TV Review
The Peacock drama 'Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy' is a tasteful, considered take on the sensationalized serial killer.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/devil-in-disguise-john-wayne-gacy-review-peacock-1236553092/
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always a pleasure, even if watching a tim robinson show sometimes (by design) is not!
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I once spotted diane keaton at jar (real la heads know) and I’ve never seen a celebrity look more like themselves. hat, glasses, black and white coat — an icon you could clock from clean across the room. rip to a queen
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THE CHAIR COMPANY is to tim robinson as THE REHEARSAL is to nathan fielder: a blank check from hbo to realize the creator-star's vision with more resources and zero compromises, winning no converts but delighting the die-hards
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HBO’s ‘The Chair Company’ Expands Tim Robinson’s Distinct, Polarizing Comedy Into an Entire Eerie World: TV Review
Tim Robinson's HBO comedy 'The Chair Company' expands his unique, polarizing persona into an entire eerie world.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/the-chair-company-review-hbo-tim-robinson-1236543774/
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THE CHAIR COMPANY is to tim robinson as THE REHEARSAL is to nathan fielder: a blank check from hbo to realize the creator-star's vision with more resources and zero compromises, winning no converts but delighting the die-hards
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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HBO’s ‘The Chair Company’ Expands Tim Robinson’s Distinct, Polarizing Comedy Into an Entire Eerie World: TV Review
Tim Robinson's HBO comedy 'The Chair Company' expands his unique, polarizing persona into an entire eerie world.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/the-chair-company-review-hbo-tim-robinson-1236543774/
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I reviewed RED ALERT, an israeli series that keeps a tight focus on the minute-to-minute horrors of october 7th but arrives in a world where the attacks' legacy is hotly contested — hence david ellison putting his thumb on the scale
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Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review
The Paramount+ series 'Red Alert', a scripted recreation of the October 7 terror attacks, is a harrowing watch that can't escape its fraught context.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/red-alert-review-october-7-paramount-1236541151/
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I reviewed RED ALERT, an israeli series that keeps a tight focus on the minute-to-minute horrors of october 7th but arrives in a world where the attacks' legacy is hotly contested — hence david ellison putting his thumb on the scale
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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Oct. 7 Series ‘Red Alert’ Is a Harrowing Recreation of the Hamas Terror Attacks, but Can’t Escape Its Politically Fraught Context: TV Review
The Paramount+ series 'Red Alert', a scripted recreation of the October 7 terror attacks, is a harrowing watch that can't escape its fraught context.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/red-alert-review-october-7-paramount-1236541151/
about 1 month ago
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taylor is obsessed with high school because it’s the last time she had a broadly relatable social experience
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opalite is a kindergarten singalong
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it is honestly very funny that tree wrote this canned statement (that made taylor look v mature!) while her client was breaking out the burn book
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Taylor Swift Praises Charli XCX After ‘Sympathy Is a Knife’ Reignited Feud Rumors: ‘Her Writing Is Surreal and Inventive’
Taylor Swift is clearing the air after one of Charli XCX's recent songs led fans to think there might be bad blood between the two pop stars.
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/taylor-swift-charli-xcx-sympathy-is-a-knife-feud-1236118108/
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not to be all parasocial but going from the left to the right actually bums me the fuck out
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I love obaa but I'm almost taken aback how unanimous and ubiquitous the praise is relative to prior pta films. feels more like a function of studio scale than its position in his filmography
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doing karate chops in my living room while blasting this on the stereo goes so hard thank you mr anderson
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I love glen powell as much as the next girl but CHAD POWERS is basically a new star reheating his own (and eli manning's, and jason sudeikis's) nachos
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Glen Powell’s Hulu Football Comedy ‘Chad Powers’ Needs More Practice Before Becoming the Next ‘Ted Lasso’: TV Review
Glen Powell's Hulu football comedy 'Chad Powers' needs more practice before becoming the next 'Ted Lasso.'
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/chad-powers-review-glen-powell-1236534452/
about 1 month ago
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me and my husband — a san diego native and a california state employee who regularly commutes to sacramento, respectively — watching one battle after another
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found pta putting this in one battle after another almost unspeakably romantic
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/m...
about 1 month ago
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before sean penn was in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER he was a talking head in the bizarre charlie sheen docuseries, ripping cigs in his living room and waxing poetic on what a coke habit does to your sex drive. banner month for him
about 1 month ago
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today I blocked someone on instagram for trying to argue REAL american food is unseasoned white ppl cuisine but like, from the left
about 1 month ago
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I am on vacation and doing my best not to engage with The Horrors. anyway, here’s me with a cheese cart
about 2 months ago
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Alan Sepinwall
about 2 months ago
Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:
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Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
https://alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-believing/
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it should not be hard for the party of “maybe we *shouldn’t* give guns out like candy” to condemn a seeming political assassination while maintaining its principles
about 2 months ago
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absolutely gorgeous grid today if I do say so myself Wordle 1,544 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
about 2 months ago
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I wish the padded-out netflix doc AKA CHARLIE SHEEN were more interesting than its most salacious details. jon cryer mvp tho!!
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Netflix’s ‘aka Charlie Sheen’ Is a Frustrating, Salacious Self-Portrait: TV Review
Netflix docuseries 'AKA Charlie Sheen' is a frustratingly salacious self-portrait of the beleaguered star.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/aka-charlie-sheen-review-netflix-1236508502/
about 2 months ago
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER TICKETS ON SALE GO GO GO
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