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Vulture Essays
vulture essays
Apr. 29, 2016
When Did Audiences Stop Taking ‘Middlebrow’ Television Seriously?
It’s still really good!
By
Angelica Jade Bastién
movies
Oct. 31, 2014
The Watcher in the Woods
Is a Generation’s Halloween Nightmare
Scary Bette Davis.
By
Rakesh Satyal
vulture essays
Oct. 7, 2014
Twin Peaks
Has Cast a Shadow Over All My Books
The author of
The Fever
on how David Lynch’s TV masterwork burrowed its way into her life.
By
Megan Abbott
vulture essays
Sept. 12, 2014
Why Seth Rogen Is More Serious Than Woody Allen
Cultural essays about the death of adulthood are often Trojan horses for a different complaint: the death of seriousness.
By
Adam Sternbergh
vulture essays
Apr. 7, 2014
Silicon Valley
: So Much Money, So Much Despair
The new guys feel so much like the old ones.
By
Heather Havrilesky
the vulture canon
Feb. 27, 2014
A Guided Tour of Beck: Making Sense of His Canon
Which Beck is the best Beck?
By
Maura Johnston
vulture essays
Jan. 24, 2014
That One Time I Saw
Clerks
With My Dad
In related news: Kevin Smith’s vulgar, talky debut turns twenty today.
By
Maris Kreizman
vulture essays
Oct. 15, 2013
Dave Eggers Deserves a ‘Smile’ for
The Circle
The author is getting more “frowns” than “smiles” for his depiction of “the world’s most powerful Internet company.”
By
Jen Doll
vulture essays
Oct. 4, 2013
How
Project Runway
Is Getting Deafness Right
Contestant Justin LeBlanc has been fantastic.
By
Lilit Marcus
vulture essays
Oct. 2, 2013
Warren Ellis on
Breaking Bad
and the Horrible Glory of Heisenberg
There’s a reason “Walter White lived here” isn’t scrawled on the wall of his house.
By
Warren Ellis
vulture essays
Sept. 26, 2013
Robert King Remembers
Breaking Bad
’s Laughs
“It’s a funny show.”
By
Robert King
vulture essays
Sept. 24, 2013
Krysten Ritter on
Breaking Bad
: Team Walter White Until the Bitter End
“Aaron, I love you, but you can’t hit me this hard!”
By
Krysten Ritter
vulture essays
Sept. 23, 2013
Damon Lindelof on
Breaking Bad
: How Heisenberg Is Like Batman
How is Walter White like Bruce Wayne? The co-creator of
Lost
explains in this Vulture essay.
By
Damon Lindelof
vulture essays
Sept. 10, 2013
How Fox News, Terrorists, and Truthiness Ruined
The X-Files
for Me
With the twentieth anniversary of
The X-Files
upon us, a former true believer describes how she became a skeptic of the groundbreaking Fox series.
By
Inkoo Kang
vulture essays
Sept. 6, 2013
The Holden Caulfield Effect: Perspective’s a Hell of a Thing
It’s not just the characters who come of age.
By
Margaret Lyons
vulture essays
Aug. 14, 2013
Blood in Your Eye: Why We Need Violent Stories
The outspoken author of the graphic novels
Transmetropolitan
and
Red
explains that violent stories help us understand real-world horrors.
By
Warren Ellis
vulture essays
Aug. 9, 2013
Seth Cohen Is My Spirit Animal
Everything I learned about being awkward and cool, I learned from
The O.C.
’s most enduring character.
By
Jason Diamond
vulture essays
Aug. 1, 2013
MTV’s
Rock the Cradle
and Why I Decided to Enter the Family Business
In this Vulture Essay, the novelist daughter of horror writer Peter Straub reflects on MTV’s
Rock the Cradle
and what it’s like to follow in the footsteps of a successful parent.
By
Emma Straub
vulture essays
July 12, 2013
The Bridge
and the End of Asperger’s on TV
In the wake of Asperger’s being phased out in the psychological community, the best-selling author of
Look Me in the Eye
finds some comfort in the instantly anachronistic protagonist of FX’s
The Bridge
.
By
John Elder Robison