I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution

"Emily Nussbaum doesn’t just “like to watch” TV, she’s been on something of a campaign to give the boob-tube, as many parents once called it, the cred she believes it deserves: “a critical stance less hobbled by shame – a language that treated television as its own viable force, not the weak sibling to superior mediums,” she writes. This collection of new and previously published essays includes profiles of showrunners Kenya Barris and Jenji Kohan and deep dives into such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Americans, Black-ish and Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette. In the new essay “Confessions of the Human Shield,” she grapples with a conundrum of the #MeToo movement: Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?"