Alison Herman

3 days ago | variety.com | Alison Herman

The 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was a critical and commercial success at the time, but hasn’t had much staying power in the cultural consciousness. A prequel to “A New Hope” extrapolated from that movie’s iconic opening crawl, “Rogue One” was vestigial by design.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Alison Herman

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThe 2016 film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was a critical and commercial success at the time, but hasn’t had much staying power in the cultural consciousness. A prequel to “A New Hope” extrapolated from that movie’s iconic opening crawl, “Rogue One” was vestigial by design.

3 days ago | variety.com | Alison Herman

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 7 of “The Righteous Gemstones,” “For Jealousy Is the Rage of a Man,” now streaming on Max. As the youngest child of the namesake family on HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” Adam Devine’s Kelvin Gemstone hasn’t always held the spotlight.

1 week ago | variety.com | Alison Herman

The fourth episode of “Ramy,” the semi-autobiographical Hulu show starring and co-created by namesake comedian Ramy Youssef, took the audience back to September 2001 — a traumatic time for all Americans, but especially for a tweenage Egyptian-American Muslim living just across the river from Manhattan.

1 week ago | variety.com | Alison Herman

The first season of Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” was an extended attack on its own premise. In the HBO series’ first episode, the Canadian comedian laid out his central thesis — that meticulously recreating the conditions of real life would leave one better prepared for the real thing — and successfully executed a rehearsal of a trivia night in Brooklyn. The win would prove Fielder’s last. Gradually, Fielder’s framework falls apart, first for his volunteer subjects and eventually for himself.