Emily St. James

Emily St. James

Los Angeles
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.
Sep
28
Episodes: Let's get stupid. (Spoilers for Gotham)

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
21
Episodes: All the selves we will not be

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.
4 min read
Sep
18
Episodes: What we talk about when we talk about multi-camera sitcoms

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
3 min read
Sep
17
Episodes: Why we all decided we don't like rape scenes at once (spoilers for everything)

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
16
Episodes: The first rule of criticism

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
15
Episodes: Celebrity Jeopardy is the best thing Saturday Night Live has ever done

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.
3 min read
Sep
14
Episodes: Make room for time travel (Spoilers for Make Room for Daddy, I guess?)

Episodes: Make room for time travel (Spoilers for Make Room for Daddy, I guess?)

Until today, I'm relatively certain I had never seen an episode of Make Room for Daddy, the Danny
4 min read
Sep
08
Episodes: Counting stars

Episodes: Counting stars

When I was 10 or 11, a relative gave me a big sack of glow in the dark stars to
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Sep
04
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Privilege is a hard thing to talk about, both in art and in life. It's almost impossible to
4 min read
Sep
03
Episodes: Darkness on the Edge of Town

Episodes: Darkness on the Edge of Town

The hospital where I visit my wife as she convalesces sits at the square corner of the town I grew
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