Why don't shows about college work?
Shows about 17-year-olds have a long TV history. Shows about 19-year-olds don't. Why?
Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
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Trans joy
Or: Being trans in America is hard. Transition is still the easiest thing I've ever done.
The stories a sitcom can only tell in its final season
On Kramer's job, Sam Malone's toupee, and Mary Richards's date with Lou Grant
How to write about trauma
On Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, Tamsyn Muir's Harrow the Ninth, and realizing your memories aren't your memories
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In which I start recapping TV again for money (and also try to revive the pop culture blogging world of the early 2010s).
The phantom
On the Harper's letter and what happened to me in July
The Little Guy, or: On the pleasures of watching Jason Schwartzman in Fargo
by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Why I love Nancy from Stranger Things
Would you believe it has something to do with gender dysphoria?
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the limits of Aaron Sorkin's imagination
Twilight of the elites
The only time the Oscars ended early
At least on TV
Six of Swords
I turned around. There was nothing there.