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Jessica M. Goldstein

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Jessica Goldstein has been a regular Vulture contributor since 2012. She recaps shows about Washington, D.C.(Veep, House of Cards); Irish millennials (Conversations With Friends, Normal People); campy murderers (Pretty Little Liars, You); girls with superpowers (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Marvel's Jessica Jones) and sociopaths (Emily in Paris). She is also a contributing writer to the Washington Post’s “Arts & Style” section and magazine and a contributing editor to Washingtonian.

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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Ain’t Nothing But a HeartacheFrances refuses to tell anyone anything. So much for having conversations with your friends, right?
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Can We Talk?Now that Melissa knows about Frances and Nick, it’s time for an interesting arrangement.
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: I’m Coming CleanFrances and Bobbi’s relationship finally makes sense!
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: You Are The Bane of My ExistenceOkay, so maybe having an affair with an older married man is more challenging than it initially seemed.
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Who Says You Can’t Have It All?Everything’s coming up Frances!
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: The Last SupperFrances is devastated to learn that Melissa is “a good person,” which suggests Frances was the bad person all along. Whoops!
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: A Bit of PressureRemember Frances’s cramps from hell from the first episode?
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Get Out of TownGood-bye, dreary Ireland. Hello, unimaginably luxurious Croatia!
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Are We Still Having an Affair?In which we all collectively scream, “Put the phone down, Frances!”
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    Conversations With Friends Recap: Kiss and TellBobbi is too self-absorbed to realize Frances has a crush of her own.
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    Conversations With Friends Series-Premiere Recap: Just Being PoliteWe’re back to the Sally Rooney Cinematic Universe, this time investigating the inner lives of four friends/lovers.
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    Emily in Paris Season-Finale Recap: Choose Your Own AdventureFor some reason, Emily thinks this is a hard decision, rather than a very cool and convenient opportunity.
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    Dickinson Series-Finale Recap: The Great Poet Emily DickinsonEm and Death reunite to hype themselves up and face the future in Dickinson’s series finale.
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    Emily in Paris Recap: Mixing Business With PleasureMommy and mommy are fighting! Emily is torn asunder! This should have happened, like, five episodes ago!
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    Emily in Paris Recap: The Cutting EdgeA detour to the Chateau theoretically complicates things for Emily, but in practice just leads to another dead end.
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    Emily in Paris Recap: Just Play It Cool, BoyWhat’s this? A guy with an air-conditioned apartment in Paris and something resembling actual chemistry with Emily?
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    OMG, Emily (in Paris) Has an Age!One of the great mysteries of our time has been solved in the most fleeting, random way possible.
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    Emily in Paris Recap: Scenes From a Parisian RestaurantGabriel and Antoine apparently never discussed their vision for their restaurant’s future before opening night. Seems weird!
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    Emily in Paris Recap: The Love BoatFinally, a good and story-centric use of Mindy!
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    Emily in Paris Recap: What We Have Here Is a Failure to CommunicateOur show has painted itself into quite the corner here re: Emily’s redemption.
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    Emily in Paris Recap: Well, If It Isn’t the Consequences of My Own ActionsEmily’s birthday ends up being a gift to anyone who’s been wanting something resembling stakes on this show.
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    Emily in Paris Recap: Out of OfficeCamille is providing a neat solution to all of Emily’s problems and Emily’s response is to attempt to derail it at every opportunity.
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    Emily in Paris Season-Premiere Recap: I Did Something BadEmily may have to do something this show has never demanded of her before: face the consequences of her actions.
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    Dickinson Recap: Sibling RevelryThe Dickinson siblings are reunited!
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    Dickinson Recap: Hell Is a Place on EarthGhosts! Hell! Family drama! Dickinson is really going for it in its last moments.
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    Dickinson Recap: 20th-Century WomenEm and Vinnie travel to the future to meet with Sylvia Plath at a mid-century sad-girl summit.
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    Dickinson Recap: Was I Out of My Head?A family field trip to an asylum makes for a bit of a disappointing episode.
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    Dickinson Recap: A House DividedWhat is going on with Sue?
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    Dickinson Recap: The Body ElectricWhat a total joy to have Billy Eichner show up as Walt Whitman and do his phenomenal yet character-appropriate YELLING.
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    Dickinson Recap: I Think the Poets Might DisagreeThe war may be raging, but Emily has poetry to get published.
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    Dickinson Recap: Love, Labor, LossAs Frazar goes off to war, it’s baby time for Sue and Austin.
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    Dickinson Season-Premiere Recap: Winging ItThe Civil War is well underway. So it appears one of our big questions is, was Emily a war poet?
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    You Season-Finale Recap: It’s Always the HusbandThis show is so much more fun when Joe isn’t the craziest person in it.
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    You Recap: Run Away With MeYou finally reaches the level of bonkers it should have been at all season.
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    You Recap: We’re Going Down SwingingIt’s more apparent than ever that Love and Joe’s love language is violence.
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    You Recap: Curiouser and CuriouserWhat exactly is Joe’s plan here? It’s hard to keep sight of his endgame.
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    You Recap: Brotherly LoveWhy does Joe think he can stalk without getting obsessed or making Love murderously jealous?
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    You Recap: Where the Wild Things AreJoe’s weekend camping trip with the boys is a shirtless romp, and it’s insane that none of them end up kissing.
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    You Recap: Coming Out of My CageSure, Joe and Love kill people, but they don’t want to be “the kind of people who kill people.” You know?
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    You Recap: Search PartyCan we make it through even twenty minutes of this show without a parenting cliche?
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    You Recap: Can You Dig It?A lot is riding on Joe and Love’s couples therapy.
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    You Season-Premiere Recap: New Kids on the BlockL.A. didn’t work out the way Joe hoped, so he and Love make a fresh start where the grass is green and the public schools are competitive.
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    A Highly Condensed Recap of You Season TwoWith season three of this gloriously deranged, deeply twisted love story upon us, let’s retrace the bloody path that led us here.
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    Gossip Girl Week 6 Report Card: Casually Cruel in the Name of Being HonestAbsolutely nothing makes sense anymore.
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    Gossip Girl Week 5 Report Card: The Liar, the Bitch, and the WardrobeIt’s summertime Halloween, when the costumes are suspect, the consequences are meaningless, and we’re grading on a curve.
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    Gossip Girl Week 4 Report Card: Go Play Your Video GamesBig secrets are OUT, new allegiances are IN, and logical behavior in general is MIA.
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    Gossip Girl Week 3 Report Card: Is It Me? Am I the Drama?Our students are showing their softer sides, but our teachers are getting ruthless, and so am I.
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    Gossip Girl Week Two Report Card: Are We Having Fun Yet?A hallowed GG tradition — throwing a swanky affair for the flimsiest of justifications — delivers secrets, kissing, bloodshed, and more.
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    Gossip Girl Week One Report Card: God, It’s Brutal Out HereUnlike the underpaid, overworked educators at Constance Billard, we answer to no teens and all our grades are final.
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    Made for Love Season-Finale Recap: Bring It on Home to MeAfter a diner debate with Byron on the meaning of free will and happiness, Hazel makes a decision directly at odds with her position.
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