![]() In “The Big Pump: Vanderpump Rules,” originally published in The New Yorker in 2016, she lists the cast members, who she describes as “somehow both memorable and interchangeable”: “There’s Stassi, who is basically a grown-up version of the nasty little girl in the Free to Be…You and Me fable ‘Ladies First,’ the one who gets eaten by tigers…There’s a selection of sulky brunettes, including Katie, ‘the Shakespeare of rage-texting.’” The mention of the early 1970s book, album and television special spearheaded by Marlo Thomas marks Nussbaum as a member of Generation X. Nussbaum’s reviews are close readings of media texts in which she demonstrates a gift for finding the details that display the essence of a television series. Nussbaum has selected essays she wrote for New York magazine, The New Yorker and elsewhere in I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution. ![]() ![]() As a television critic, Emily Nussbaum shares her standpoint with other media savvy Gen Xers: from having to get up off the couch to change the channel to the introduction of cable television and on to the era of so-called “quality television,” she has not only been thinking about but also writing about television through these transformations. ![]()
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