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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Sep
15
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
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Sep
09
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
05
Episodes:
Privilege is a hard thing to talk about, both in art and in life. It's almost impossible to
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Sep
04
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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Sep
02
Episodes: Missing Chrissy (spoilers for The X-Files)
"For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we
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