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.
This should not be more than just a few split seconds — no more than a minute or two — of a larger work. Whether it’s Furiosa wailing and kneeling in the sand in Mad Max: Fury Road or the way Elizabeth Jennings gasps when she realizes something big in The
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We’ve already discussed the best TV show of the 2010s, so let’s turn our focus to just the last 365-ish days. I’ve published my list of the best shows of 2019. What’s your pick?
The Christmas Conundrum by Emily Dickens
I just published my list of the decade’s defining shows, so now I want to know what your favorite show of the decade was. You can name anything that aired in the 2010s — but only the episodes that actually aired in the 2010s are eligible.
That time I tried to win a journalism award and instead wrote something hollow
Why do we watch movies and television anyway?
On discovering you exist
A Fantasia on The Bob Newhart Show Thanksgiving episode
This is now a Frozen fanzine
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
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
You only live twice