Alison Herman
@aherman2006.bsky.social
tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com
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PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS variety.com/2025/tv/acto...
‘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'.
variety.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS variety.com/2025/tv/acto...
PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS variety.com/2025/tv/acto...
‘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'.
variety.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
PLURIBUS needs rhea seehorn and rhea seehorn deserves PLURIBUS variety.com/2025/tv/acto...
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"
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"
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 variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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.
variety.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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 variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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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...
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.
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
add me to the chorus of critics telling you ALL'S FAIR is offensively half-baked girlboss nonsense!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
finally watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE...what happened to the other 2/3 of the movie?!?!
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
finally watched A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE...what happened to the other 2/3 of the movie?!?!
talked to sterlin harjo about THE LOWDOWN, ethan hawke and what america has to learn from tulsa. good show!! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘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
variety.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
talked to sterlin harjo about THE LOWDOWN, ethan hawke and what america has to learn from tulsa. good show!! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
add me to the chorus of critics telling you ALL'S FAIR is offensively half-baked girlboss nonsense!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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.
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
add me to the chorus of critics telling you ALL'S FAIR is offensively half-baked girlboss nonsense!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
I LOVE LA (2025)
November 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I LOVE LA (2025)
premieres tonight!
watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point? variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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.
variety.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
premieres tonight!
randy newman's "i love la" was the playoff song at my wedding so in a way this win belongs to me
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
randy newman's "i love la" was the playoff song at my wedding so in a way this win belongs to me
deep frying is a weeknight activity if you want it bad enough
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
deep frying is a weeknight activity if you want it bad enough
Reposted by Alison Herman
watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point? variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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.
variety.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point? variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point? variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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.
variety.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
watching I LOVE LA feels like staring into a black hole. I think that’s the point? variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
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
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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) variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
‘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.
variety.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
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...
‘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.
variety.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
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
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
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.
a key tenet of twitter zionists is that if you don't agree with them you're not really jewish.
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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.
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: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
‘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.
variety.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
NOBODY WANTS THIS fixes its weird thing with jewish women in season 2, but still feels frustratingly slight: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
NOBODY WANTS THIS fixes its weird thing with jewish women in season 2, but still feels frustratingly slight: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
‘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.
variety.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
NOBODY WANTS THIS fixes its weird thing with jewish women in season 2, but still feels frustratingly slight: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
TASK: a good show, now streaming in full on hbo max!
with TASK, MARE OF EASTTOWN creator brad ingelsby returns to delco (accents and all) but switches formats from whodunnit to cat-and-mouse, a pivot that pays dividends. also, mark ruffalo!
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
variety.com/2025/tv/revi...
HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown’ Follow-Up ‘Task’, Starring Mark Ruffalo, Is a Riveting Cat-and-Mouse Chase: TV Review
HBO's 'Mare of Easttown' follow-up 'Task', starring Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey, is a riveting cat-and-mouse chase.
variety.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
TASK: a good show, now streaming in full on hbo max!
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
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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 variety.com/2025/tv/news...
meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘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
variety.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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...
meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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...
meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘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
variety.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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...
meet jared lindner: first time actor, long time suit salesman and a total pleasure to talk to variety.com/2025/tv/news...