Kathryn Vanarendonk

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TV Staff Writer at Vulture

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Articles

Are You Happy With How You Watch TV?

6 days ago | vulture.com | Joe Adalian |Kathryn Vanarendonk

Last year — more than a decade after Netflix’s first binge-drop series, House of Cards, established a new mode of TV consumption, and with popular weekly release series such as Shōgun and Hacks on our minds — we started to wonder about the preferences that were settling in with modern TV viewers. Had the on-demand appeal of streaming’s binge releases achieved primacy? Was the traditional weekly rollout enjoying a cultural resurgence?
The Baldwins Almost Succeeded

1 week ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

Sometimes you nearly forget this exercise in crisis management was a wild miscalculation. At the conclusion of the eight-episode season of The Baldwins, the mind turns to contemplate what it just experienced. It is challenging — not because there’s nothing to reflect on, but because watching the full season of The Baldwins feels like entering a Hamptons-themed pinball machine.
‘The Pitt’ Creator Explains Finale, Season 2 Plans

1 week ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

As The Pitt shuts down season one, the next shift is taking shape for creator R. Scott Gemmill. “Fifteen episodes of our show is like 24 episodes of a regular season of television,” says The Pitt’s creator and showrunner, R. Scott Gemmill. “Fifteen episodes of our show is like 24 episodes of a regular season of television,” says The Pitt’s creator and showrunner, R. Scott Gemmill. The finale of The Pitt feels like an exhale.
The Last of Us Grows Up

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

Zombies are never just zombies. They’re metaphors for disease, as in World War Z, or for infectious emotional states like panic and fear, as in The Walking Dead. They can be exaggerated expressions of becoming a brainless follower zapped by digital life. Sometimes they’re classic “every human has a monster inside them” monsters.
‘The White Lotus’ Finale Didn’t Earn Laurie’s Speech: Review

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

Spoilers follow for The White Lotus season-three finale, “Amor Fati.” The pinnacle of The White Lotus’s third season could have been Laurie’s monologue. At dinner on the last night of their girls’ trip, Laurie, played by Carrie Coon, listens to her friends Jaclyn and Kate talk about how lovely the trip has been, how happy they are, and how it feels like they’ve finally come into a season of life where they can reap the rewards of their past choices. “My garden is in bloom,” Kate says.
The White Lotus Didn’t Earn It

2 weeks ago | gossipbucket.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

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The White Lotus Didn’t Earn It

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

2 hours ago“Chekhov’s blender,” the ghost of Tanya and a bloody end to a languid time in Thailand. The vacation’s over, White Lotus guests have been sent home in body bags, and we’re all out of lorazepam. If you don’t want spoilers, take a lesson from the monkey statues and hide your eyes right now. The third …
Netflix Medical Drama Dead on Arrival

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

Pulse makes clear from its earliest shots that a critical percentage of its creative drive has been phoned in. As the Netflix medical drama begins, an oncoming hurricane causes a bus of student athletes to careen off a bridge into the ocean. The sequence looks like a poorly rendered outtake from a video game circa 2012, a bus-shaped object nose-diving into waveless water as one-dimensional storm clouds gather behind.
Which New Medical Show Is Right for You?

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

It’s not just The Pitt; we’re in the midst of a medical-show boom. The emergencies are fictional. The doctors are sexy. The emotions are palpable, but they’re also happening on a pleasantly individual scale. The trouble is there are so many new med series it’s hard to know which one to start. Here, we match you with the doctor who best meets your criteria.
One ‘Severance’ Scene Explains the Whole Series

1 month ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

One sublime finale scene cuts through all the season’s noise. Spoilers follow for Severance season two, episode ten, “Cold Harbor.” There’s a scene in Severance’s season-two finale that feels inevitable and impossible at the same time. To this point, the showhas maintained a nearly impervious wall between grief-stricken widower Mark Scout and his alternate self, imprisoned Lumon Innie Mark S. They are intimately linked; each Mark’s existence relies on the continued participation of the other.