Alison Herman
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critic @variety , writer ex- @ringer . aherman at variety dot com. "a prominent reviewer" - the new york post
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it takes a special pr genius to fumble a situation as straightforwardly sympathetic as "mother of young children suffers illness she shares with millions across the globe"
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meghan markle is busy shooting DUNE
Meghan Markle is not traveling to Balmoral, BBC reports. Prince Harry is making the trip by himself
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travis kelce is experiencing the most positive possible version of the internet digging up your tweets from 2011
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tim robinson is an emmy nominee and his headshot is perfect
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sometimes you gotta let people be 23 years old
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walked into a cathedral on a boiling hot day and felt the temperature drop 30 degrees. starting to see the historic appeal of the catholic church
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do the people freaking out about this know how quinta brunson started her career
Sabrina Brier has joined the cast of ‘ABBOTT ELEMENTARY’ season 3.
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I'm surprised how many people are taking this hand hold as "tom asserts his dominance" and not "mutual resignation." she has zillions of dollars (but no position of power) and he has the ceo gig (but is still subservient to a more powerful autocrat)
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succession is not a crazy twist kind of show and the finale was true to that but I reacted to "some filing-cabinet guy" like it was the red wedding
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one of the most radical elements of THE ZONE OF INTEREST is its anti-plot. the hösses *think* they have substantive concerns — can hedwig impress her mom? will they have to move? — but, to us, nothing matters more than what we know is going on across the wall
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what is the medical term for “not technically hungover but I can definitely tell that I drank”
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fascinated by this woman's instagram, which contains not a single photo of her husband even in photos taken *at their own wedding*
congrats once again to the editorial team at the cut lol
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today in "netflix could be better at promoting things," palme d'or winner hirokazu kore-eda created and showran a series for them that comes out in 8 days. I'm guessing you don't know that!!
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I can’t explain why but the way matthew mcfadyen does not completely totally exactly nail an american accent really enhances the Tom Wambsgans Experience
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every generation gets the wildly popular yet undeniably mid dragon ya it deserves. the children have fourth wing. we had this
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jews don't have a pope to excommunicate us but having this exchange with larry david comes pretty close
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I truly respect how lee pace has pivoted from "I'm very private actually" to "the only thing you are allowed to know about me is that I am hot." subtle — but crucial — distinction
Lee Pace, an all-time favorite, has turned himself into a 24/7 thirst trap and I am the opposite of mad about it.
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any editor who wrangles multiple nolan timelines into a coherent film deserves a purple heart, not just an oscar
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HBO IS A PREMIUM CABLE NETWORK. HBO MAX IS A STREAMING SERVICE THAT HOUSES CONTENT FROM MANY BRANDS INCLUDING HBO. ALL HBO SERIES STREAM ON HBO MAX BUT HBO MAX SERIES DO NOT AIR LIVE ON HBO. BOTH ARE OWNED BY WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY WHICH PLANS TO MERGE HBO MAX WITH ANOTHER STR—
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I love when the fabelmans is like “do you want to meet the greatest director of all time” and then it’s david lynch
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grateful to jonathan glazer for explicitly drawing a connection I couldn't stop making while watching his film. look what we do now indeed
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guys olivia wilde is a wasp who went to andover. you KNOW her “special” salad dressing is, like, a bog standard vinaigrette
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continuing the proud royal tradition of not understanding the normal-ish women who marry in are their greatest assets, then turning them into liabilities through sheer incompetence
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for her second amc ad nicole kidman should go to the theater and watch her first amc ad
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that's a face that says "I know how the internet is gonna feel about this"
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that’s brentwood for “bless your heart”
Gwyneth Paltrow whispered “I wish you well” to Dr. Sanderson, the man who sued her over ski crash, as she left the courtroom with her $1 victory.
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francesca’s impact
46% of opening night moviegoers for "Killers of the Flower Moon" were under 35 years old.
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oh these academy members *absolutely* thought they were voting for THE BEAR s2
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truly wild that yorgos lanthimos movies are now a semi-reliable route to an acting oscar
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*deep sigh* KILLING EVE
Name a TV show that should’ve ended after the first season.
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anecdotally glass onion is going over *way* worse on netflix than in theaters. funny how that happens!
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I don’t think emerald fennell even set out to make a movie about how the middle class are parasites leeching off the innocent rich, I think she got so caught up in flashy twists and “subversion” she accidentally told a story with rancid class politics
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tonight’s succession is the single cringiest hour of the entire series imo. I watched 60% of it through my fingers
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remember the scene where they're tossing clothes in the air and the frame freezes to painstakingly cite exactly where and when each garment is from within the barbie canon?
Judd Apatow Says It’s ‘Insulting’ to Put ‘Barbie’ in the Oscar Race for Adapted Screenplay: ‘There Was No Existing Material’
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need emerald fennell to direct something she didn't write and bradley cooper to direct something he doesn't act in
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going to the movies alone is my default. not gonna hinge my ability to see something on other people’s schedules when we’ll just sit there in silence!
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just because tom has logan's title does *not* make him the new logan!! to quote roman, it's not a magic chair
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shiv and tom have landed on something juuuuuust close enough to equality and honesty that they can live with it long term while still making each other miserable. romance!!
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incredibly well-timed flex by barbara boxer
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I’m at an alamo drafthouse and ready to speak my truth: eating a full meal in a movie theater is a terrible combo of two great experiences. each deserves their own moment!!
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the song of the summer is actually the caesar-ish potato salad from molly baz’s cook this book
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in high school I was lucky enough to learn art history from an excellent teacher whose wife was a fine artist. she compared the effect rothko achieved to breath fogging up a pane of glass and found it technically impossible to recreate herself
Explain what this painting means and why it is good.
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I was “spoiled” on last night’s succession before it aired — I wasn’t able to watch early due to scheduling shenanigans — and it still floored me. great art is more than its plot!!!!
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I like how THE LAST OF US implies the best way to survive the apocalypse is to have a small role on a prior hbo show
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he who has a monopoly on nature’s air conditioning rules the world
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on the one hand these individualized tributes are lovely, moving, and palpably sincere.
on the other, NO CLIPS!??!?!
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the show doesn't make a thing of it but it's a seismic reveal *no one* predicted that snaps the whole story into place
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some personal news: my funemployment is over. some professional news: today is my first day as tv critic at
@variety
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hope you're happy, academy — austin butler's stuck like that forever now
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tv has spent the better part of a decade trying to replicate GAME OF THRONES' epic scope and immersive world. SHŌGUN is the first show that even comes close:
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sleeping with ac is not enough. I need to be entombed in a refrigerator
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don and joan are the definitive instance of game recognizing game
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dan levy is in the pilot and never shows up again. this scene is not in the pilot (tedros only comes to the house at night and never interacts with dan levy)
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"According to sources, Cattrall shot her dialogue on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series."
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seeing maestro after tár is like seeing elvis after priscilla
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heading to san diego and our train conductor is openly shit talking people stuck in traffic on the 5. “we’ve been averaging 90 miles an hour……I wonder how fast they’re going”
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while I love OPPENHEIMER and think it deserves the awards, it *would* be hilariously on brand for the nominees to walk in assured of victory only to lose out on their big moment at the last possible second
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respectfully disagree. the roys would rather die than go somewhere as tawdry as a resort
I mean the Succession people would totally vacation at a White Lotus, if anyone wants to print money
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is aidan just samantha now
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SHE HAS RISEN
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the thing about A STAR IS BORN is that it was a big, booming piece of popular entertainment *first* and an awards player second (because it was so good at job
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we know there is resistance; we even see it. but we're never given the reprieve of a competing point of view, only the (literal) photonegative of "our" protagonists' experience
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"cate blanchett couldn't be here tonight because she isn't real. anyway here's lydia tár"
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i don't think non-italians will ever understand how deeply painful this is. a film about italians, made by and for italians about the difficulties of being italian in the modern world. and they didn't even nominate the leading actor or director
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THE CURSE has *everything*: gentrification discourse! jewish summer camp! architectural plagiarism! native land rights! emma stone! also it’s the single most uncomfortable piece of tv I’ve ever watched
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emily in paris is made to watch while you scroll on your phone and yet it has subtitles, requiring me to look up from my phone. I resent this
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programming note: after almost seven(!) years, today is my last day at the
@ringer
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anyway I'm not gonna link that stupid "review" but it's not a criticism to say the movie is plotless or repetitious, it's THE POINT
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today's bakeoff atrocity: brits absolutely gobsmacked by the exotic combo of.............peanut and fruit
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every hour until the end of time, someone will figure out mike white is ned schneebly
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doing tv exceptionalism on nathan fielder is funny because both NFY and THE CURSE are closely modeled after/in conversation with established forms of (unscripted) shows. you don’t make those unless you’re a student of not just the medium, but its least prestigious strain
The Curse and The Rehearsal are two of a small number of tv series i've seen that actually make a compelling case for the medium as a serious narrative art form (on par with cinema and literature)
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ebon is great in s1 but this win does not happen without "forks" dropping right around ballot time
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my favorite part of POKER FACE e3 is how the victim watches OKJA, a netflix streaming original, on physical dvd
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who am I kidding, I can try: it adds to the sense that, as much as he tries, tom can never pass as to the manner born. for him, extreme wealth will always be an awkward fit at best
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6pm dinner girlies who make it to an 8pm reservation are god’s strongest soldiers
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MAD MEN dialogue sounds both completely unlike any other show and somehow exactly like actual people
there are a lot of very good things on TV right now but nothing with dialogue this good
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that these two never canonically boned is an act of SUPERHUMAN restraint by matt weiner and co.
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I see the british film awards did *not* nominate RRR, a movie about owning the brits with the power of dance
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to my great and pleasant surprise, the glover-erskine edition of MR. & MRS. SMITH is miles better than the movie and plenty good on its own. think THE AMERICANS x CATASTROPHE x BLACK MIRROR:
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anyway in a just world there would be a knives out-type movie (original story, genre elements, stacked cast) in theaters every weekend, freeing us from this vicious cycle of breathless hype and "um actually" overcorrection
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she's gonna break the record for dollars per second of screentime
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THE ROYS ARE COMING TO LA, I REPEAT: THE ROYS ARE COMING TO LA
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love is blind s4 is an important psa that people who self-identify as “empaths” tend to be the nastiest, cruelest, least considerate people you’ve ever met in your life
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it’s the same try hardiness that gives us insane turns of phrase like “ludicrously capacious bag”!!!!
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succession characters communicate via sprays of non communication and tonight utilized that to a masterful extent
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zero acting, writing, directing, or series nominations for THE RINGS OF POWER. a billion dollars well spent!!
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