![]() As an avid Buffy viewer, anyone who places her on the same tier as Tony Soprano has my full attention. The book begins with an introduction by Nussman explaining how Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned her away from her doctoral studies in literature in pursuit of TV a pursuit that, in 2016, earned her the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Now this, a mere three pages in, was about the place in the book where I was hooked. Nussbaum’s anthology, a personally curated selection of work from New York and The New Yorker, explores the revolution in how we view TV from “it will rot your brain” all the way to “binge-worthy”. In a collection of her own criticism, author and TV critic Emily Nussbaum reflects on her work from 2007 to the present. ![]() I’m not sure if anyone else spent the end of summer comparing the lengths of their summer reading list to that of their Netflix watch history… but for me the latter is headed for a sweeping victory. In a last ditch effort to slightly even the scales, while not venturing too far from my comfort zone, I picked up I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (also available as an eBook and an eAudiobook). ![]()
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