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.
(Fluffy Bunny's Guide to You Know What? Technically not a cutaway gag!) Like many of you, I'm sure, I spent much of the long weekend watching the Every Simpsons Ever marathon (which has now ticked over into season 10 and reached the point where the series
(Scott loved drawing sight lines on screencaps, which he called "eye lasers." Hence the image.) I first got to know Scott Eric Kaufman in the comments sections of various culture blogs around 10 years ago. The political blogosphere had been going great guns for several years, but the
I am spending the weekend in the Midwest for a family event, and the stay has finally confirmed something I have long suspected but didn't want to think about too hard: There is no good food in the Midwest. The very ethos of the Midwest is anti-flavor. Now,
I have a map of the United States that refers to every river, every city, every state, by what it means when translated from its original language into English. So, for instance, South Dakota becomes Southern Land of Friends, Wisconsin becomes Red River Land, and California becomes Land of the
The night after Donald Trump won the election, surprising essentially everyone who was supposed to know how these things worked, I woke up at 5:30 in the morning, suddenly, out of nowhere, unable to sleep. I had finally gone to bed around 3:30, the projects I was working
I have writer's block. This is not going to sound right to you if you look at, say, my publication history on Vox (as always, a fantastic website you should read all of the time). I'm still publishing one or two articles most days, even weekends,
Immediately after finishing Kelly Reichardt's achingly melancholy new film Certain Women, which tells the stories of three different women in small town Montana, whose lives intersect in unexpected ways, I headed over to Vox, to read my colleague Alissa Wilkinson's interview with Reichardt. In it, I
With the rumor that the third season of American Crime Story will focus on the murder of Gianni Versace taking flight this week, it's becoming clearer and clearer what FX and the series' producers think the series is. Where the rest of TV has followed The People
I love stories about the aftermath of the apocalypse. I especially love stories about the aftermath of nuclear war. There's just something about the terrifying randomness of it, the way that the bombs mark a clear delineation between "before" and "after." A plague takes
I don't know if you heard, but this weekend sees the debut of the 600th episode of The Simpsons, a feat that will bring it in line with just one other scripted primetime program in American TV history (which would be Gunsmoke). There are a lot of reasons
There are a lot of TV shows I love that people reflexively write off, but none gets written off as often as Green Acres, CBS's 1965 to 1971 sitcom about two rich city dwellers who decide to get a taste of the country life and descend into a
A couple of weeks ago, a friend was arguing with me, saying she didn't understand how someone could be a Republican. She wasn't saying she didn't know any Republicans or anything like that. Indeed, she had many in her family and had grown up