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Kathryn VanArendonk
@kvanaren.bsky.social
critic @vulture
being married for a long time is very beautiful because you can watch your mom deliberately troll your dad by off-handedly suggesting that no one will want all this leftover turkey so you might as well throw it away
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
sometimes you read something and you wonder, does this exist to be a piece of writing? or does this exist mostly to be sold as a miniseries
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
OR clutch the things you care about close to your heart and refuse to give in to the temptation of nihilism (about motion smoothing only - everywhere else make your own calls)
Leave motion smoothing on this year. Who cares. Your parents or in-laws are upscaling a compressed HD image to 4K anyway. Also nothing matters.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I know you are not supposed to have children to fulfill any needs or desires in your own life, I know this is contrary to all parenting

but I did it anyway! I had children solely so that I could train them to play stringed instruments and play Christmas music with me and It Is Finally Happening
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
let’s all watch deadwood
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
sure, but call me when zohran does stavvy
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
okay having finished this episode i can say that there is truly no reason for toby huss to be here, he just walks in wearing the hat, mariska goes "still doing the hat thing huh" and then he walks out

A+
i'm sorry, last week's SVU featured toby huss wearing a fedora????
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
i'm sorry, last week's SVU featured toby huss wearing a fedora????
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
PSA for very very near-sighted people with small-ish kids - this fall FDA finally approved essilor's stellest lenses, which fit into standard glasses frames and which significantly slow the progression of myopia

they will stop your kids' eyes from getting as bad as yours!!! THAT SHIT IS MAGIC
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
okay but seriously was this garnet hill x wicked or what
well I did enjoy elphaba’s enormous cable knit slanket lingerie
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
why is the end of wicked dune
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
seeing wicked the way it was designed to be seen, with a dozen middle school girls at a birthday party
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨 Trader Joe’s has panettone ice cream
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
got some stuff off my chest

www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
girls just want one thing and it’s easy and well-marked access to the street while commuting in and out of the oculus
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
it's very funny that tracker has such a high turnover in the "person who reads some exposition paragraphs about the weekly case" department, especially since he mostly interacts with those people over the phone
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
Once you read this, please check out @elizabethalsop.bsky.social on the trauma backstory 📺

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!

even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
got some stuff off my chest

www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
11yo has asked for a perforator for Christmas?
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
bluesky community fund for a telos subscription when part 2 is paywalled
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
did anyone get a spoiler embargo email for the lizza newsletter, just trying to plan my ending explainer coverage
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I am writing a thing about how tv flashbacks have become infuriating and timelines should go in order but I gotta say

sometimes you get hit with “it was march 5, 2020” and it really works
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
to be fair

it is really hard to get rid of bamboo
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
huge exposé from elementary school: a kid in 3rd grade says she has been to the teachers lounge and the teachers get *filtered water*
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM