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What was the best TV show of 2019?
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?
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.
3 Ghosts, 1 Corpse
The Christmas Conundrum by Emily Dickens
What was the best TV show of the decade?
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.
The first time I screwed up
That time I tried to win a journalism award and instead wrote something hollow
Learning to see
Why do we watch movies and television anyway?
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