Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Four: The Swamp," "Chapter Five: Avatar Day," and "Chapter Six: The Blind Bandit"
In which I finally figure out who "Toph" is
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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The X-Files
When did network television dominance end?
I have an answer to this question: on November 22, 1998
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter One: The Avatar State," "Chapter Two: The Cave of Two Lovers," and "Chapter Three: Return to Omashu"
In which I love a second season
The Lobster
Changing the Grey: How The Lobster helped me come out as asexual
by Adam Bumas
The Last Airbender (2010, dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Oh God make it stop
We've forgotten the power of protest musicals' most popular songs
"Let the Sunshine In" from Hair and "Seasons of Love" had all their context stripped away for an awful inauguration medley.
The loop
Or: things I learned from reviewing TV at The A.V. Club
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: "Chapter Eighteen: The Waterbending Master" and "Chapters Nineteen and Twenty: The Siege of the North"
In which my inner 9-year-old thinks this is the best show ever made
What are you going to watch this weekend? (March 11 edition)
The Haunting of Bly Manor and the horrors visited on the othered body
In the Netflix limited series, trauma is the greatest terror of all. But it's also reserved for those with less societal privilege.