Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Over at Surf, New York 's Emily Nussbaum assesses ABC's rebooted Scrubs and its most annoying new character : "We're only two episodes in, but though I don't exactly want Lucy to be stabbed during a Valentine's Day episode, I don't exactly not." [ Surf ] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: surf , scrubs , tv
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Over at Surf, New York 's Emily Nussbaum weighs in on last night's widely acclaimed Mad Men finale: "The script, the acting, the emotion: This episode transformed elements that felt choppy (the Brits, the Don-Roger fallout, Peggy's disenchantment) into brilliantly structured foreshadowing. I laughed; I cried! And that's no glib joke, I mean it literally: It made me think and argue...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Emily Nussbaum and Logan Hill have responded to the show on Vulture and Surf , respectively. But they can't stop debriefing. E.N.: As you pointed out in the recap, the finale was satisfying on a fan-fic level ... L.H.: So much so that I worry I've been suckered! E.N.: "Joan is back!" and "Peggy gets hers!" But it somehow didn't feel like some ridiculous holodeck of...
Seth's blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Emily Nussbaum, the brains behind New York’s The Approval Matrix, which I read religiously, blogs about television here. Other magazine journalists I wish would blog: David Owen, Lauren Collins, Mark Singer, Adam Sternbergh. Interview with Nussbaum.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Over at Surf, New York 's Emily Nussbaum writes : "Without getting into serious spoilers, tonight's episode of Dollhouse deal with Sierra's backstory, and it's the most straightforward representation yet of the show's obsessive concern: rape fantasies. I mean this in a good way." [ Surf ] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: surf
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Over at Surf, New York 's Emily Nussbaum notes : "Like Dollhouse , it's become increasingly clear that Mad Men is at heart a nihilistic vision of a prefeminist universe, a near-McKinnonite nightmare in which women are brainwashed into making choices that feel individual, but are the result of psychological pathways so narrow as to be suffocating." [ Surf ] Read more posts by...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Over at Surf, New York TV critic Emily Nussbaum ponders this week's episodes of How I Met Your Mother , Ugly Betty , and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , and demands an end to the Mad Men backlash: "I'm not saying the show is flawless, but a panicky jump-the-shark reflex is a reliable phenomenon among audiences during the third season of almost every great series." [ Surf...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
If the modern-day cougar, as Emily Nussbaum recently wrote in New York , is classically defined as a "vain, horny, lacquered, mouthy" older woman, unapologetic about getting what she wants, then Danielle Chiesi is a prime example of the breed, according to today's oddly slut-shamey Bloomberg article on the 44-year-old New Castle analyst, who was recently charged as part of...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Unfortunately, this bout of "family matters" has nothing to do with Urkel. Production on the hit show (and Emily Nussbaum fave ) was halted late last week as the former Monica Geller-Bing was excused from the set to deal with a "private family matter." While we have no official word when production is supposed to resume, we can only hope that Vulture buddy Nikki Finke...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... exhibit at MoMA. Boris Kachka has a conversation with Mary Karr about her latest memoir , Lit . Emily Nussbaum comes to grips with her feelings about the "gleefully anti-psychological series" that is Matthew Weiner's Mad Men . Justin Davidson spends some time at the evocative exhibit Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future , currently running at the Museum of the City of New York....
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... first season's eight episodes, your friendly Vulture editors (and even New York television critic Emily Nussbaum ) have warmed to the show's many inherent charms. So we made our way over to the Paley Center for Media in midtown Manhattan last night for a sold-out panel discussion entitled "From Raymond Chandler To Craigslist: HBO's Bored To Death ," which featured stars...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In this week's magazine, Emily Nussbaum traces the history of the TV cougar , from Samantha Jones to Cougar Town . Tim Murphy spends 93 minutes with Lynn Redgrave . Andrew Marantz talks to the apocalypse experts Sony recruited to help sell 2012 . Justin Davidson tells us how New York is sneaking great new buildings into tiny, unexpected places . David Edelstein reviews Precious . Logan...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... be written up by the magazine's talented stable of writers, including Logan Hill , Will Leitch , Emily Nussbaum and Adam Sternbergh . As the writer of EW.com first regular TV recap, Wolk seems like the best choice for NYMag.com as it seeks to expand its online content selections. Earlier: NYMag.com Launches Sports, TV Blogs Full release about Wolk after the jump continued... New Career...
A Blog Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Not often can one drop the names of (feminist thinkers) Andrea Dworkin and Catharine McKinnon when discussing a network show, but that is exactly what Emily Nussbaum did over at her blog Surf when discussing last night's episode of Dollhouse "Belonging." And damn if it's not a great read! Written by Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen and directed by Jonathan Frankes, this...
