Alec Berg

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“I actually don’t know what to do when things are going well,” Richard says breathlessly to Monica early in…

“Telling the truth is the right thing to do, right?”

Barry generally tends to let its Hollywood satire exist in the margins. Its main comedic targets are actorly…

For the first hour of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., Betty Elms, played by Naomi Watts, is naiveté incarnate. An…

The first thing you notice is the title card, which appears without a cold open or accompanying fanfare. Then, it’s…

“I pray that human beings can change their nature. Because if we can’t, then you and I are in deep trouble.”—Gene…

We can now add “a timely return for Silicon Valley” to semi-reluctant hitman Barry Berkman’s list of victims; per TVLi…

In just about every professional field, passion exists in spades, but talent is hard to come by. Putting aside the…

As it begins its fifth season, Silicon Valley finds itself at a disadvantage for a variety of reasons. It’s coming…

On the surface, the premise of Bill Hader’s new dark comedy, Barry, seems like it could have been pieced together…

Barry, the new HBO comedy from Bill Hader and Silicon Valley’s Alec Berg, stars Hader as the eponymous hitman who…

The fifth season of Silicon Valley premieres March 25, an occasion The Hollywood Reporter has marked with a lengthy…

There’s an interesting meta component that runs through the events of “Success Failure,” the fourth season premiere…

One of the things that makes Silicon Valley such a successful comedy is that it has the force of personality behind…