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Alison Herman

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Neighbors: Season 1 (2026) 55% EDIT “It isn’t always fun to watch, but “Neighbors” is never not compelling.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review How to Get to Heaven From Belfast: Season 1 (2026) 91% EDIT “Adding dual timelines, deadly intrigue and a doubled runtime to the “Derry Girls” blueprint, “Belfast” sometimes strains under the weight of all these extra elements, yet never loses the infectious appeal of the platonic chemistry at its core. ” – Variety Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Vanished: Season 1 (2026) 46% EDIT ““Vanished” often feels like a slighter redux of a mode Cuoco has already explored at greater length and depth.” – Variety Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Wonder Man: Season 1 (2026) 90% EDIT “Amid increasing signs of Marvel fatigue at the box office, the pivot is an overdue correction. With “Wonder Man,” the strategy also pays dividends.” – Variety Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Memory of a Killer: Season 1 (2026) 45% EDIT “A disappointingly flat take on its inherited premise. Angelo may be a killer, but the show he leads sure isn’t.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Drops of God: Season 2 (2026) 91% EDIT “Like the beverage its characters have built their life around, “Drops of God” gets more multifaceted and mature with age.” – Variety Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Ponies: Season 1 (2026) 96% EDIT “The platonic chemistry between Clarke and Richardson is the glue that binds the whole enterprise together.” – Variety Jan 15, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 94% EDIT “From a 10,000 foot view, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is savvy IP management, acquainting fans with lesser-known corners of Martin’s intricately constructed lore while providing a more regular fix than the flagship show.” – Variety Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Night Manager: Season 2 (2026) 88% EDIT “I can’t say I spent much time in the intervening years since Season 1 wondering what became of the reluctant spook, nor did I find him an especially enjoyable hang after our reunion.” – Variety Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Golden Globes: Season 83 (2026) 45% EDIT “Tame yet respectable choices are at odds with sponsored content for legalized gambling, or an unending ramble by Judd Apatow. Chasing too many contradictory aims at once ends up frustrating all of them. ” – Variety Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Industry: Season 4 (2026) 96% EDIT “It’s an effort so commendable in principle and enjoyable in practice that a little leeway is the least “Industry” can ask. ” – Variety Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 99% EDIT “The Pitt instead thrives in quieter moments, especially as the actors ever so slightly modulate their performances to reflect the evolution of their characters. ” – Variety Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Little Disasters: Season 1 (2025) 53% EDIT “You can’t fault the show itself for how saturated its subgenre is, though executives should really take note; you can fault it for not fully capitalizing on its own strengths.” – Variety Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abandons: Season 1 (2025) 30% EDIT “The Abandons is a frustrating, incomplete take on a compelling premise. The title refers to its underserved protagonists in more ways than one.” – Variety Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5 (2025) 83% EDIT “By declining to enrich its characters as they age, “Stranger Things” traps itself in arrested development. When you get bigger without going deeper, you end up stretched thin.” – Variety Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Malice: Season 1 (2025) 44% EDIT “From performances to plot, much of “Malice” feels like it’s on autopilot. Watching it feels much the same. ” – Variety Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 84% EDIT ““The Beast in Me” fills itself out with enough plot to propel a satisfying binge, and provide the momentum that might otherwise come from the friction between Aggie and Nile. ” – Variety Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “Pluribus can have the feel of an acting exercise... That’s not a criticism; it’s a joy for a production this big to have such an experimental, risk-taking slant, and for a talent like Seehorn to get the canvas it deserves. ” – Variety Nov 7, 2025 Full Review All Her Fault: Season 1 (2025) 80% EDIT “Even “Apples Never Fall” had a breeziness that’s sorely lacking in “All Her Fault,” which doesn’t land any incisive points about parenting, class, codependency or hired child care but does get bogged down trying to make them. ” – Variety Nov 6, 2025 Full Review I Love LA: Season 1 (2025) 86% EDIT “Whether "I Love L.A." is commenting on the times or simply embodying them, I can already hear Maia asking: As long as it gets people talking, does it really matter?” – Variety Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Down Cemetery Road: Season 1 (2025) 79% EDIT “The show shares enough positive qualities with its predecessor, from a mordant wit to some riveting action once things heat up, that “Slow Horses” fans will find plenty to tide them over between seasons.” – Variety Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Talamasca: The Secret Order: Season 1 (2025) 64% EDIT “The six-episode season is a disjointed and muddled attempt to turn Rice’s centuries-old secret society into a vehicle for a half-hearted spy thriller. ” – Variety Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% EDIT “The same issues that keep “Nobody Wants This” from being a nuanced, meaningful story are also the ones that keep it airy enough to gobble up like popcorn. ” – Variety Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Sheriff Country: Season 1 (2025) 75% EDIT “Starting with the nonsensical name and flatlining from there, the show is a generically conceived, limply executed take on small-town law enforcement.” – Variety Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “There's a well-articulated sense of why we're revisiting one of the most picked-over, thoroughly covered killing sprees of the 20th century, and what the series wants to say about the people and events it depicts. ” – Variety Oct 20, 2025 Full Review
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