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1 week ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Editorial note: Spoilers ahead for season four of “Hacks.”Last night, HBO Max aired the season four finale of “Hacks,” and the show has never been in better form.
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1 week ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Editorial note: Light spoilers ahead for HBO Max’s “The Last of Us.” In “The Last of Us Part II,” the sequel to post-apocalyptic video game “The Last of Us,” gamers find themselves in an unusual setting for a video game: a synagogue. It’s early in the game and protagonist Ellie and her girlfriend Dina are looking for gasoline when they come across the abandoned shul. It’s here that Dina reveals her Sephardic Jewish identity.
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1 week ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Editorial note: Light spoilers ahead for “The Rehearsal” season two. Multiple times as I watched season two of “The Rehearsal,” mouth agape, the same thought came to my mind: “There has never been anything like this on television in my lifetime.” I thought it when Canadian Jewish comedian Nathan Fielder implied that Paramount+ is run by Nazis. I thought it again when Nathan breastfed from a giant puppet.
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1 week ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
The infinite monkey theorem states that with no set time limit, a monkey typing on a typewriter will eventually type out William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” It’s an idea which essentially states that anything is probable within the right set of circumstances. But if you’re looking for a more unique way of conveying the idea that anything is possible, I have a suggestion.
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2 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Talent must be genetic in Jewish comedian Laraine Newman’s family.
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2 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Editorial note: Spoilers ahead for “The Studio.”Early on in “The Studio,” co-creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg make it clear that yes, of course their absurdist send-up of Hollywood has to include Jews. In the first half of the show’s first episode, newly minted Continental Studios head Matt Remick (Rogen) and his colleague Sal Saperstein (Ike Barinholtz) meet with agent Mitch Weitz (David Krumholtz) about getting a Kool-Aid movie made.
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2 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Editorial note: Light spoilers ahead for “The Studio.”In the latest episode of “The Studio,” something beautiful happens. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the Kool Aid movie. In the Apple TV+ show’s season finale, Zoë Kravitz calls herself a “Black Jewish queen.”Here’s what happens. Last week’s episode of “The Studio,” the Hollywood send-up from Jewish summer camp buddies Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, ended on a huge cliffhanger.
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2 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
“My name’s Ahamed Weinberg, that’s my real name,” a stand-up comedian jokes in a recent episode of “Hacks.” “My dad’s a Jew who converted to Islam. He’s the only one to do that.” Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) cackles from the audience, before Weinberg adds, “The answering machine in my house growing up was: ‘As-salamu alaykum, you’ve reached the Weinbergs.’ That’s true.
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3 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
Charlie Cale rides again!Season two of “Poker Face” dropped last week and Jewish actress Natasha Lyonne is back as human lie detector and amateur detective Charlie Cale. Each episode features the wise-cracking Cale stumbling into a murder case while on the run from her mobbed-up employers. If that sounds like it has plenty of opportunity to get boring fast, you’re right. And yet, “Poker Face” finds a way to be fresh and sharp each week.
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3 weeks ago | 
heyalma.com | Evelyn Frick
She has over 1 million followers on Instagram, a stacked filmography and an iconic Jewish comedian as a mom. Odessa A’zion is clearly a young Jewish actress with star power. And we’re about to be seeing a lot more of her, as she’s recently been cast in projects alongside the likes of Timothée Chalamet and Rachel Sennott. So, without further ado, here are 18 things to know about her. 1. Odessa was born on June 17, 2000 in Los Angeles. 2.
