Learning to see
Why do we watch movies and television anyway?
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.
The repersonalization of Emily VanDerWerff
On discovering you exist
An Emily Hartley Thanksgiving, OR Emily Hartley Takes Her Leave
A Fantasia on The Bob Newhart Show Thanksgiving episode
I regret to inform you I am Elsa
This is now a Frozen fanzine
Parks & Rec or Community
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Stealth is over; please check out my new newsletter!
There's been an influx of subscriptions to Stealth in the last few weeks -- probably because I have a link to it as a pinned tweet, so that would make sense -- but I'm no longer regularly updating this newsletter! I have a new one over
Final girls
You only live twice
I'm out
I loved TV criticism until I didn't
Dead name
If I'm finally me, then where did I go?
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
This newsletter is not about television, except when it is.
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Is that all there is?
Mad Men, one of my favorite TV shows ever made, begins its final stretch of episodes with a melancholy reflection on impermanence. Don Draper, who has just learned of the death of a woman who might have been the love of his life, but for all of the ways his