Alison Herman

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

Padma Lakshmi on Building Her Own Cooking Competition After Being ‘Burnt Out’ by ‘Top Chef’: ‘I Didn’t Want to Go Back to Just Being Talent’ Longtime 'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi talks leaving the Bravo show and creating 'America's Culinary Cup', her own cooking competition on CBS.

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...

it is also a critical error to try and make *RACHEL WEISZ* a poster woman for being over the hill of hotness. some leaps of faith are simply too great

Netflix’s Steamy Campus Sex Comedy ‘Vladimir’ Has Chemistry Between Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, But Never Reaches a Climax: TV Review Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall have chemistry in the Netflix adaptation of Julia May Jonas' hit novel 'Vladimir', but the series never reaches climax.

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...

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Padma Lakshmi on Building Her Own Cooking Competition After Being ‘Burnt Out’ by ‘Top Chef’: ‘I Didn’t Want to Go Back to Just Being Talent’ Longtime 'Top Chef' host Padma Lakshmi talks leaving the Bravo show and creating 'America's Culinary Cup', her own cooking competition on CBS.

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...

really liked this way of describing the protagonists’ relationship to their season 1 selves: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

‘Industry’ Bosses on That Shocking Finale and Whether [SPOILER] Was Inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘All of This Was in Her From the Very First Moment’ 'Industry' creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay break down the Season 4 finale and whether Yasmin is inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell

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-...

‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘Marshals’ Turns Taylor Sheridan Franchise Into a Workmanlike CBS Procedural: TV Review The Kayce Dutton-centered 'Yellowstone' spinoff 'Marshals' turns the Taylor Sheridan franchise into a workmanlike CBS procedural.

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...

I don't really watch tv trailers but my understanding is that this show's does not exactly communicate the tone haha

not to diminish conrad's own authorial stamp, but I was shocked how similar the rhythms were!

HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’ Is a Perversely Hilarious Spin on an Erotic Thriller: TV Review Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini star in HBO's 'DTF St. Louis', a perversely hilarious erotic thriller from creator Steven Conrad.

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...

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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!!

‘Industry’ Renewed for Fifth and Final Season at HBO "Industry" has been renewed for Season 5 at HBO, which will be the show's final season.

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

NBC Sitcom ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ Is Tracy Morgan’s Best Star Vehicle Since ’30 Rock’: TV Review NBC's 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins', a mockumentary sitcom produced by Tina Fey, is Tracy Morgan's best star vehicle since '30 Rock'.

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...

gagged me tbh variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Max Minghella on Playing the Big Bad of ‘Industry’ Season 4: “I Would Almost Black Out Shooting the Show” Max Minghella breaks down Season 4, Episode 7 of 'Industry' and playing con man Whitney Halberstram on the HBO finance drama

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

this is such awful news and you'll be in my thoughts. wishing you a fast and full recovery

Netflix Animated Comedy ‘Strip Law’ Is a Joke-Dense Love Letter to Las Vegas Lunacy: TV Review Netflix animated comedy 'Strip Law' stars Adam Scott and Janelle James as a pair of Las Vegas lawyer who tackle cases with Sin City flair.

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....

some people seem to disagree!

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

The ‘Scrubs’ Revival Is Millennial Cringe: TV Review Medical sitcom 'Scrubs' reboots with a Season 10, airing on Hulu and ABC with Zach Braff returning, that typifies millennial cringe.

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

HBO’s Josh Safdie-Produced Docuseries ‘Neighbors’ Is Nextdoor Brought to Life by Way of ‘Uncut Gems’: TV Review Directors Harrison Fishman and Dylan Redford, backed by Josh Safdie, expose the dark heart of American entitlement in HBO docuseries 'Neighbors'.

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’ Follow-Up ‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’ Is Another Delightful Northern Irish Romp — This Time With a Dead Body: TV Review Netflix dramedy 'How to Get to Heaven from Belfast' is another delightful Northern Irish romp from 'Derry Girls' creator Lisa McGee.

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...

‘Industry’ Star Miriam Petche on Taking the London Finance Drama to Africa and Sweetpea’s Big Moment: ‘I’m Worried for Her!’ 'Industry' actor Miriam Petche discusses Sweetpea's spotlight episode of the HBO drama, including a trip to Africa and standing up to Harper.

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