Oct
03
Episodes: Half twins
(An actual, though heavily condensed, argument I had with my wife this evening.)
EMILY: Do you think if a lesbian
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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.
Oct
02
Episodes: HBO's trilogy of America
The Sopranos, The Wire, and Deadwood aren't just three of the best TV series of all time. They
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Oct
01
Episodes: The best TV lineup ever
An idea we kicked around a few times at AV Club but never quite licked was the idea of some
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Sep
30
Episodes: And now, an imagined episode of House Hunters, starring my wife and me
NARRATOR: Todd and Libby met at college, and they've been together ever since! This fun-loving couple enjoys hanging
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Sep
29
Episodes: Let's get stupid. (Spoilers for Gotham)
Somewhere around the point that a band of insane criminals dropped a bunch of bodies from the top of a
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Sep
22
Episodes: All the selves we will not be
I'm 21, just barely, when my father asks me when my girlfriend and I will be getting married.
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Sep
19
Episodes: What we talk about when we talk about multi-camera sitcoms
Fairly early in my critical career, I read a piece by someone (almost certainly Jaime Weinman) that reconfigured a lot
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Sep
18
Episodes: Why we all decided we don't like rape scenes at once (spoilers for everything)
If you read a lot of TV criticism, the spring of 2015 must have seemed as if every critic on
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Sep
17
Episodes: The first rule of criticism
(This was by far my favorite picture when I Google image searched "writing.")
People often ask me for
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Sep
16
Episodes: Celebrity Jeopardy is the best thing Saturday Night Live has ever done
I am, generally speaking, not a fan of sketch comedy. I've been trying to figure out why recently.
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