Critic Emily Nussbaum Says You Should Never Feel Shame for Loving that TV Show
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🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On today’s show, we interview one of our favorite writers and thinkers, Emily Nussbaum, the Pulitzer prize-winning TV critic for the New Yorker. Nussbaum is the author of a new collection of essays called “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution”, released last month. The book is full of language she thinks we’re lacking in this so-called Quality Television era: language about unabashedly loving the TV shows you love, without being shamed into calling them “guilty pleasures” by snooty cultural gatekeepers. Nussbaum talks to Mother Jones assistant news editor, Becca Andrews, about being Jane the Virgin mega-fans, and the messy task of critics who need to wrestle with certain male artists as the MeToo era forces painful new assessments of their work.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:04.0 | On today's show, |
| 0:08.0 | on today's show, |
| 0:12.0 | one of my favorite writers and thinkers, and if you're not already in on this, |
| 0:18.1 | she's also a great Twitter follow. She just had a book come out. I got my hands on it and it's so good. I just read an essay on the sopranos. |
| 0:25.4 | It's one of my favorite TV shows ever and she has some really, really great insightful analysis. |
| 0:30.0 | TV critic for the New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize winner, Emily Nusbaum. |
| 0:35.0 | Nusbaum is the author of a new collection of essays called I Like to Watch, |
| 0:38.7 | arguing my way through the TV Revolution. |
| 0:41.2 | It's great, it's feminists. Basically it's about loving the TV shows |
| 0:45.2 | you love without shame, without being forced to call them guilty pleasures. It's also |
| 0:50.5 | about the messy job of critics who have to wrestle with certain male artists |
| 0:55.2 | as the Me Too era forces painful new assessments of their work. |
| 0:59.2 | A really wonderful interview with Emily Nusbaum. |
| 1:02.0 | Stick around. |
| 1:03.0 | Our assistant news editor at Mother Jones is Becca Andrews and she's a massive fan of |
| 1:16.1 | Jane the Virgin that is also one of the greatest shows if you are not team raffa I don't |
| 1:20.7 | know you I mean like massive fan when Becca got the opportunity to |
| 1:25.0 | interview fellow Jane the Virgin Groupie Emily Nusbaum she left at the opportunity. |
| 1:29.7 | What a great way to kick off our Mother Jones podcast Summer Series of fascinating one-on-one interviews |
| 1:36.3 | with thinkers, artists, activists, comedians, and even one ice skater. |
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