Emily St. James

On editing

How to make sense of your writing (and also maybe your past)

Babylon Berlin: "Episode 9" and "Episode 10" (with Steve Greene)

In which season two (or season 1.5??) begins in style and Charlotte ditches the most boring part of the show, hopefully for good

Good shows to binge watch on Netflix, and 17 other SEO friendly headlines I have deployed

Why has it become so damn hard to tell people what to watch?

Babylon Berlin: "Episode 7" and "Episode 8" (with Allison Keene)

In which season one draws to a close on an incredibly odd cliffhanger

And now a needlessly detailed oral history of The A.V. Club's reviews of The Office

Courtesy of Emily VanDerWerff and Myles McNutt

So what is it about Cats?

Thoughts on the cinematic catasterpiece of our time.

Which TV show is going to have the worst quarantine episode?

This question is just what it sounds like on the tin. Predict for me a show that is going to go all in on doing something meaningful about This Time in Our Lives and badly botch the execution — vaguely similar to the infamous “Isaac and Ishmael” episode of West Wing.

Babylon Berlin: "Episode 5" and "Episode 6" (with Emma Fraser)

In which lazy summer days are here and Lotte and Gereon are just adorbs you guys you guys you guys

Babylon Berlin: "Episode 3" and "Episode 4" (with Liz Shannon Miller)

In which the show's tonal audacity becomes apparent and Emily really hopes a certain two people kiss

An incomplete list of things I miss

Mourning without mourning

Babylon Berlin: "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" (with Libby Hill)

In which Gereon Rath gets to Berlin, Lotte wears a great hat, and Emily finds a new favorite TV show

Name a TV character. How are they handling quarantine?

Name literally any TV character and tell me how quarantine is going for them. (You could also do characters from other media, but TV feels like a rich medium for quarantine-related storytelling.) I’ll start: Don Draper decides that he can end the quarantine and escape a small space where