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Kathryn Vanarendonk

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TV Staff Writer at Vulture

critic @vulture, child wrangler. kathryn.vanarendonk @ https://t.co/6LbuHJVbFk - i'm hanging out more at bsky lately

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  • 3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

    Because Pryce “Stick” Cahill (Owen Wilson) cannot just be a golf pro who blew up his career and is now trying to make good, Stick has to make a game of why he is the way he is. Apple TV+’s new sports show Stick feels good. It feels good so, so hard, with effort and with focus. Stick’s good feeling is not just superficial, either. It lives on a structural, aesthetic, performative, and almost molecular level.

  • 4 weeks ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

    In its first season, Hackshad a specific, well-articulated identity. It was a comedy, sure, but really it was a show about comedy. As veteran stand-up comic Deborah Vance and her new young writer Ava Daniels chipped away at reshaping Deborah’s persona, they tried to hash out ideas about what comedy is, what makes it good or bad, and when it is and is not a form of art.

  • 1 month ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

    The most striking thing about Jerrod Carmichael’s new special, Don’t Be Gay, is how much it resembles a familiar, run-of-the-mill comedy special. He has made a standard hourlong special before: His 2014 hour, Love at the Store, a relic from a much earlier place in both his career and his public persona, looks and sounds like the competent, does-the-job Funny or Die production that it is. But since then, Carmichael’s work has been distinguished by his investment in messing with the form.

  • 1 month ago | vulture.com | Kathryn Vanarendonk

    Spoilers ahead for the entirety of season two of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, including the finale. Let it never again be said that reality shows need alcohol to be absolutely, unreservedly out of control.

  • 1 month ago | vulture.com | Joe Reid |Kathryn Vanarendonk

    Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. From left: Lashana Lynch in The Day of the Jackal, Diego Luna in Andor, Keira Knightley in Black Doves. In all the years of the Emmys, only two shows about espionage have ever won the Outstanding Drama Series award: Mission: Impossible in 1967 and 1968 (it was the 1960s) and Homeland in 2012 (we’d just killed Bin Laden).

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Kathryn VanArendonk
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren
9 Feb 25

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ShookEarthMedia
ShookEarthMedia @ShookEarthMedia

Did Severance Just Have the BEST Bottle Episode EVER? Season 2 Episode 4 Was AWESOME! https://t.co/k2BOS6izjt

Kathryn VanArendonk
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren
18 Dec 24

RT @e_alexjung: yes: https://t.co/dyTJ7CNWTC

Kathryn VanArendonk
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren
16 Dec 24

fine, here are thoughts about the yellowstone finale https://t.co/qKQoFMaKdk