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Emily Nussbaum

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Daria: Season 5 (2001) 100% EDIT “Anyone who ever wanted to opt out of adolescence entirely (writer meekly raises hand ...) could relate.” – Slate Apr 8, 2021 Full Review Outsourced: Season 1 (2010) 34% EDIT “The timing is ideal for an international sitcom that messes with intra-ethnic tension, but Outsourced feels more like a xenophobic sketch from 1979, one that assumes that viewers find Indian food scary and Indian names yucky.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 10, 2020 Full Review My Generation: Season 1 (2010) 39% EDIT “And it's not that it has promise, exactly, but it has ... something. The cast is likable... And basically, the last decade was so insanely eventful that it's perfect fodder for a show like this: a Thirtysomething for the aughts.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 3, 2020 Full Review Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 14 (2012) 60% EDIT “None of this would work if it weren't for Hargitay's Benson, a Xena with empathy, the woman created from -- but not destroyed by -- rape. The worse the stories get, the stronger she becomes; it's the show's unspoken dialectic.” – The New Yorker Apr 16, 2020 Full Review Lovesick: Season 1 (2014) 95% EDIT “The title suggests The Hangover marinated in home-brew backwash, but Scrotal Recall is in fact the most delicate of these shows... Like a folded-paper fortune-teller revealing someone's fate.” – The New Yorker Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Dare Me: Season 1 (2019) 82% EDIT “Dare Me is certainly not the only show on TV with gorgeous cheerleaders-it's a cliché of many teen series, in multiple genres-but it treats their experiences with a freaky, sensual gravity, not as an arch joke.” – The New Yorker Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Work in Progress: Season 1 (2019) 100% EDIT “In many ways, Work in Progress is a familiar entry in an established genre: it's an indie comedy by and about a clever, dyspeptic misfit looking for love.” – The New Yorker Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Watchmen: Season 1 (2019) 96% EDIT “In Watchmen, blackness is the root of the story, as well as its underlying purpose: it's a show about the potential for pop culture to treat black identity as a default...” – The New Yorker Dec 3, 2019 Full Review Dickinson: Season 1 (2019) 77% EDIT “It's lovely and sincere, joyful and sensual - and, in its way, richer and more honest about teen-agers than nihilistic contrivances like Euphoria or Riverdale are.” – The New Yorker Nov 22, 2019 Full Review The Morning Show: Season 1 (2019) 62% EDIT “Sadly, by its finale, The Morning Show is less addictive train wreck than glum clunker, symptomatic of peak TV: it's yet another lacquered, poorly structured ten-episode story, whose sparks are dampened as it becomes more earnest.” – The New Yorker Nov 22, 2019 Full Review 9-1-1: Season 3 (2019) 75% EDIT “I guess I could theorize about how the show's madcap pace mimics our crisis-ridden news cycle, but some days silly just hits the spot.” – The New Yorker Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Evil: Season 1 (2019) 92% EDIT “The cast is universally strong, especially Herbers, who, with her warm eyes and her air of wary dishevelment, makes Kristen feel strange and a little dirty...” – The New Yorker Nov 7, 2019 Full Review The Good Wife: Season 7 (2015) 91% EDIT “I doubt that this finale will be beloved, either, because it didn't reward the characters. But for me it was an ending that commanded respect.” – The New Yorker Nov 5, 2019 Full Review Breaking Bad: Season 3 (2010) 100% EDIT “I was tugged in by the sheer physical grandeur of the cinematography... Then there was the dark wit and that cast of characters who were somehow both realistic and cartoonish, symbolic and unpredictable, giving it the aura of a fable.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 17, 2019 Full Review 30 Rock: Season 7 (2012) 95% EDIT “I'm genuinely sad to lose my Thursdays with this awesomely dense comedy, which amounted to a grenade made of zingers.” – The New Yorker Oct 12, 2019 Full Review In Treatment: Season 3 (2010) 91% EDIT “The excellent third season may be the best yet...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Trust Me: Season 1 (2009) 52% EDIT “The ensemble is smart and spiky, particularly Griffin Dunne as Tony Mink, the office's opaque, magisterial, cranky boss.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 7 (2015) 89% EDIT “It papered over every difficulty in a way that felt less like resolution than a cheat -- adopting an almost cult-like insistence on perfect happiness in life, and happiness in a particular mold.” – The New Yorker Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 5 (2012) 96% EDIT “"Parks" is not an overtly ideological show, but buried within it are thoughtful, complex political themes that extend into the larger world in a way that's rare for modern network shows.” – The New Yorker Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 1 (2009) 68% EDIT “Parks has begun to kick free for me, mainly because the writers are onto something timely and resonant with Leslie, a fool who is also a budding heroine.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Dollhouse: Season 1 (2009) 63% EDIT “Whedon isn't the first TV auteur to try an experimental spin on this genre... Despite some clunky elements, Whedon's attempt is far more provocative and promising than those earlier gambits, bubbling with Philip K. Dickish mind games.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 19, 2019 Full Review Our Boys: Season 1 (2019) 94% EDIT “The show is unusually fearless about letting moral discomfort linger, and manages to be stirring without ever offering false hope, a rarity for even the best-made dramas.” – The New Yorker Sep 18, 2019 Full Review Emmys: Season 68 (2016) 89% EDIT “It was an invigorating night at the Emmys -- and not because the right shows won... The show itself was well paced and funny.” – The New Yorker Sep 11, 2019 Full Review Emmys: Season 69 (2017) 78% EDIT “For me, last night did feel like a letdown: it made me feel angry and sad, frustrated by the limits of my favorite medium.” – The New Yorker Sep 10, 2019 Full Review Emmys: Season 70 (2018) 29% EDIT “Other than these few bright spots, the Emmys were, if not the Bad Place, the Blah Place.” – The New Yorker Sep 10, 2019 Full Review
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