as much as I love watching great actors do their thing, I am not convinced BEEF should’ve become an anthology: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

as much as I love watching great actors do their thing, I am not convinced BEEF should’ve become an anthology: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

I spoke to DTF ST. LOUIS creator steven conrad about midlife despair and making a silly, sad, strange show about it: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

the hacks premiere but it's just me screaming "NON-COMPETES ARE NOT ENFORCEABLE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA" for 34 minutes straight

I spoke to DTF ST. LOUIS creator steven conrad about midlife despair and making a silly, sad, strange show about it: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

for a show about tech barons obsessed with the future, THE AUDACITY feels like a throwback: a thoughtful original drama whose leads aren't movie stars, airing on amc. this is a good thing! variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

the problem with THE MINIATURE WIFE isn’t the (knowingly) silly premise, it’s all the extra padding required to turn a short story with a straightforward central metaphor into a 10-hour tv show: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

if EUPHORIA isn’t a high school show anymore, what is it? after watching nearly half of season 3, I’m entertained but still don’t really know: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

if EUPHORIA isn’t a high school show anymore, what is it? after watching nearly half of season 3, I’m entertained but still don’t really know: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

it's probably good THE BOYS is ending before it can get (even) bleaker: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

I really like the show SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN turns into. it just takes half the season to get there: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

riz ahmed's meta comedy about auditioning for james bond — courtesy of franchise owner amazon, keeping the name in the news while villeneuve works his magic — is a fun meta concept, but not much more: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

and we're off!

wrote about a very fancy lunch in hong kong: aherman2006.substack.com/p/what-i-ate...

wrote about a very fancy lunch in hong kong: aherman2006.substack.com/p/what-i-ate...

the final season of THE COMEBACK is not without flaws, but I’m so glad it exists and the core observation rings true: that in hollywood’s diminished state, *everyone* is as desperate to be heard as valerie cherish: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

bizarrely unpredictable musical chairs of individual awards only for the season-long heavy favorite to take the top prize……..never change academy

instead of watching the oscars live I am at a train station in malaysia. my transit nerd spouse is thrilled with this trade off

free zillion dollar idea: banana leaf slop bowl concept

sad chalamet seems like a long shot for the oscar rn. adrien brody was an inspirational case of the best performance winning despite a terminal case of annoying guy disease and I was hoping it set a precedent

greetings from the penang, malaysia hawker center where michelle yeoh and sean baker shot a short film that’s playing on a massive screen to a largely indifferent crowd

flying to asia tomorrow....if anyone has recs for HONG KONG, PENANG, KUALA LUMPUR and SINGAPORE, speak now or forever hold your peace!!

ahead of tonight's premiere of AMERICA'S CULINARY CUP, I spoke to living legend padma lakshmi about leaving TOP CHEF, moving to cbs and building her own cooking competition from the ground up: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

VLADIMIR is a show about sex and aging and art and the gender dynamics of inspiration that mostly made me think “man, I LOVE DICK was underrated” variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

ahead of tonight's premiere of AMERICA'S CULINARY CUP, I spoke to living legend padma lakshmi about leaving TOP CHEF, moving to cbs and building her own cooking competition from the ground up: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

interviewed mickey down and konrad kay about a heckuva INDUSTRY season!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

blogged about the biggest kitchen clusterfuck I’ve ever experienced in my life, plus the miraculous comeback: aherman2006.substack.com/p/cassoulet-...

the first present-tense YELLOWSTONE spinoff is here and it puts the lavish streaming hit through the broadcast procedural machine: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

if you are the kind of person for whom "erotic thriller in the style of tim robinson" is not a prompt to run screaming in the other direction, then DTF ST. LOUIS is for you: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

I enjoyed much of BRIDGERTON s4 but ultimately the story treating one social divide (class) as insurmountable but another (race) as all but vaporized with relative ease is too much cognitive dissonance to bear!!

this feels good and right to me! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

I wish THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS were a little less gentle to its characters, but it's still a damn good showcase for a stellar cast — first and foremost tracy morgan: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

I interviewed WHITNEY HALBERSTRAM!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

like all emerald fennell movies, WUTHERING HEIGHTS is dumb. but it is the first emerald fennell movie to *know* it's dumb and deploy said dumbness with intention. I rest my defense

vegas legal animated comedy STRIP LAW is a demented show about a demented place. all the fun of a lost weekend with none of the hangover: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

by FAR the funniest responses to this are the ones assuming I am somehow gen z. like I didn't take enough buzzfeed quizzes to earn an honorary degree....

every time I pan something popular I'm always sent screenshots of its rotten tomatoes audience score. I find the underlying assumption fascinating: that my job is to perfectly predict and reflect aggregate opinion, and that if I don't align with it I'm somehow failing

millennials are cringe now and so is SCRUBS variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

THE MOMENT and NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE are really the two genders of mockumentaries about making music and the allure of fame versus staying true to one's roots

NEIGHBORS is the latest safdie-produced hbo docuseries to star the kind of singular weirdos who would get cast in a safdie movie, this time with a focus on nextdoor fights come to life: variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

DERRY GIRLS creator lisa mcgee is back with more chaotic northern irish girlfriends but this time it's set in the present day and there's also MURDER!! not all the added elements come together but it's still a delightful hang variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

I interviewed SWEETPEA!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

I interviewed SWEETPEA!!!! variety.com/2026/tv/news...

a few words on the TODAY team navigating an impossible, awful situation this week: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

jeff bezos made a deliberate choice to kneecap the washington post in favor of his other business interests and didn't even have the decency to absorb the costs himself.

MONEY DIARIES BACK?!?!? www.refinery29.com/en-us/progra...

from the weekend: kaley cuoco stars in VANISHED, another globe-trotting crime thriller that's a major downgrade from THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT except for all the glamor shots of marseille variety.com/2026/tv/revi...

blogged a disappointing dinner and the resulting emotions about neighborhood restaurants that get too big to fulfill their stated purpose!! aherman2006.substack.com/p/can-hype-r...

blogged a disappointing dinner and the resulting emotions about neighborhood restaurants that get too big to fulfill their stated purpose!! aherman2006.substack.com/p/can-hype-r...

a quick, inadequate tribute to catherine o'hara and the renaissance she was in the midst of, now cruelly cut short: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...