(more over at the byline since I don’t update this frequently enough)
Interviews/features: on how TV cop shows addressed the racial reckoning of 2020, on how Hollywood grappled with 9/11, time with Sydney Sweeney and Eliza Scanlen
Essays: on the siloed success of Yellowstone, on the exhaustion in Netflix’s Hype House, on The Lost Daughter and the taboo of maternal ambivalence, on the compelling messiness of The Morning Show, on the queasiness of the Britney Spears documentaries, on The White Lotus, on Bo Burnham’s Inside, on Promising Young Woman and the limits of revenge, on abortion road trip movies, on how few films accurately capture social media, on Nomadland
TV/film reviews: Somebody Somewhere, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Yellowjackets, Reservation Dogs, Only Murders in the Building, Gossip Girl, The Nevers, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Mrs. America, Shrill, PEN15, Ramy
Documentary features: Cusp, LulaRich, The Way Down, Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss, Allen v Farrow, Roll Red Roll
