I LIKE TO WATCH

From her creation of the Approval Matrix in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prizewinning columns for The New Yorker, Em ily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum wr ites about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the y ear that jok...[Read more]