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On Letterkenny, Schitt's Creek, and the ways we romanticize rural lives
Emily VanDerWerff
9 hr
Or: I watched the Mr. Robot finale and had an existential crisis
Emily VanDerWerff
Jan 13
A cut excerpt from my recent end-of-the-2010s culture piece
Emily VanDerWerff
Jan 6
What's your favorite pop culture New Year's Eve/Day?New Year’s strikes me as a potentially great holiday to build into pop culture — but it’s very rarely present in even TV series (which usually o…
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 31, 2019 9
(Not including all of the things I wrote in 2019 that you won't see until 2020 at the earliest)
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 30, 2019
Let's make tiny New Year's resolutions togetherA few years ago, I made the New Year’s resolution to learn how to use chopsticks — and I succeeded at this incredibly minor task. The year after…
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 28, 2019 8
Give us your pop culture prediction for the 2020sWhat do you think will happen to pop culture in the 2020s? You can take this question as seriously or lightheartedly as you like, but let’s pres…
Dec 27, 2019 9
What was your favorite pop culture moment of the 2010s?This should not be more than just a few split seconds — no more than a minute or two — of a larger work. Whether it’s Furiosa wailing and kneeli…
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 26, 2019 24
What was the best TV show of 2019?We’ve already discussed the best TV show of the 2010s, so let’s turn our focus to just the last 365-ish days. I’ve published my list of the best…
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 25, 2019 9
The Christmas Conundrum by Emily Dickens
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 24, 2019
What was the best TV show of the decade?I just published my list of the decade’s defining shows, so now I want to know what your favorite show of the decade was. You can name anything …
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 18, 2019 27
That time I tried to win a journalism award and instead wrote something hollow
Emily VanDerWerff
Dec 16, 2019
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