for the weekend binge crowd!

‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Didn’t Have a Defining Disaster — and Proved It Doesn’t Need One Season 2 of HBO Max's hit medical drama 'The Pitt' didn't have a defining disaster like PittFest, and ultimately didn't need one.

THE PITT season 2 was a masterful bait-and-switch that swapped a cathartic shared trauma for many individual, unresolved crises: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

‘Beef’ Is Overcrowded and Unfocused in an Unnecessary Season 2: TV Review Creator Lee Sung Jin's follow-up to the Netflix hit 'Beef' stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and more stars in an overcrowded and unfocused Season 2.

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...

‘Beef’ Is Overcrowded and Unfocused in an Unnecessary Season 2: TV Review Creator Lee Sung Jin's follow-up to the Netflix hit 'Beef' stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and more stars in an overcrowded and unfocused Season 2.

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...

‘DTF St. Louis’ Creator on Who Killed Floyd and That Heartbreaking Finale: ‘All the Sweetness in the World Can’t Save’ Him 'DTF St. Louis' creator Steven Conrad breaks down the series finale, including who killed Floyd Smernitch

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

‘DTF St. Louis’ Creator on Who Killed Floyd and That Heartbreaking Finale: ‘All the Sweetness in the World Can’t Save’ Him 'DTF St. Louis' creator Steven Conrad breaks down the series finale, including who killed Floyd Smernitch

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...

AMC Silicon Valley Satire ‘The Audacity’ Is a Sharp, Sweeping Take on What Makes Tech Moguls Tick: TV Review Sarah Goldberg and Billy Magnussen star in AMC tech satire 'The Audacity', a sharp and sweeping look at Silicon Vally from a 'Succession' alum.

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...

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Feels Like Entertaining but Disjointed Fan Fiction: TV Review In the long-delayed Season 3 of the HBO teen drama 'Euphoria', creator Sam Levinson makes his signature show unrecognizable — if always entertaining.

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...

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Feels Like Entertaining but Disjointed Fan Fiction: TV Review In the long-delayed Season 3 of the HBO teen drama 'Euphoria', creator Sam Levinson makes his signature show unrecognizable — if always entertaining.

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...

‘The Boys’ Ends Right on Time With a Heavy, Blood-Soaked Season 5: TV Review The final season of Amazon Prime Video superhero satire 'The Boys' is a heavy, blood-soaked finale for the five-season hit.

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

Netflix Wedding Horror Series ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Has a Great Hook, but Takes Too Long to Get There: TV Review Produced by the Duffer Brothers of 'Stranger Things', Netflix wedding horror series 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen' takes too long to pay off.

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...

maybe it's cynical of me, but I also found "personal story about navigating the industry as a muslim and south asian actor" hard to square with "clever ip exploitation"! sometimes we can't have it all!

Riz Ahmed’s Meta James Bond Casting Comedy ‘Bait’ Is Too High-Concept for Its Own Good: TV Review Riz Ahmed creates and stars in a meta Amazon comedy about casting the next James Bond that's too high concept for its own good.

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...

her moriarty is named mr toupee

they would send out four episodes but valerie would spoil the entire season at the press conference

classic case of "every critic loves it but no one else can figure out how to watch" smh

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 Comeback’ Season 3 Is a Bittersweet Swan Song for Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish — and Hollywood as We Know It: TV Review The final season of HBO's mockumentary spoof 'The Comeback' is a bittersweet swan song for both Lisa Kudrow's Valerie Cherish and Hollywood at large.

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

was going mostly off precursors but I really hope you’re right!

I don’t even think timmy is like, a fraction as annoying as brody can be!! but it was nice to get a brief glimpse of the oscars as meritocracy and not popularity contest

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!!