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Kathryn VanArendonk
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critic @vulture
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out

www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
best of the year blurb 1: grandiose pronouncements of sweeping significance

blurb 2: sharp pivot to apparent tone shift that's actually, surprise, more sweeping significance

blurb 8: look sometimes i just like a show, okay?
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
the hardest part of these convos is always writing the intro in a way that's not boring, and let me tell you, "ethan hawke had to pause this conversation briefly to retrieve a bespoke flavored toothpick," what a gift to me
perhaps you would like to read my conversation with ethan hawke about the end of the lowdown, and not wanting to sell out, and quixotic lead characters, and peter dinklage with hair so long it dragged on the floor
www.vulture.com/article/etha...
Ethan Hawke Is Always Chasing the Feeling of Being Lee Raybon
The Lowdown star asks, “How can we be good feminists, and truth tellers, and courageous and functioning members of our community — and still be wild?”
www.vulture.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
everyone please watch pluribus, it rules so hard; when i got a new batch of screeners last month i sent my husband a text saying "i need you to come back from singapore right now so we can watch this" and he was like "haha" and then i made him watch as soon as he landed, still delirious from jetlag
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
8yo just suggested that the cover of weezer’s the blue album looked like the saja boys

to be fair the thumbnail was VERY small
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the real question is what tony nominee will be found throwing a hoagie on elsbeth this january
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
fear not, it's ross moderating a conversation between two (conservative) women, so it's not like he's the one spouting off nonsense, it's him smirking in the middle between two white women telling each other exaaaaacctttlyyyyy
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
in my quest to make sure no one ever mistakes my children for cool, I have been reading them aloud a bunch of fantasy series recently - did the pratchett tiffany aching, did the patricia wrede dragons, currently doing dianna wynne jones’s chrestomanci

what should we do next!!
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
the hardest part of these convos is always writing the intro in a way that's not boring, and let me tell you, "ethan hawke had to pause this conversation briefly to retrieve a bespoke flavored toothpick," what a gift to me
perhaps you would like to read my conversation with ethan hawke about the end of the lowdown, and not wanting to sell out, and quixotic lead characters, and peter dinklage with hair so long it dragged on the floor
www.vulture.com/article/etha...
Ethan Hawke Is Always Chasing the Feeling of Being Lee Raybon
The Lowdown star asks, “How can we be good feminists, and truth tellers, and courageous and functioning members of our community — and still be wild?”
www.vulture.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
perhaps you would like to read my conversation with ethan hawke about the end of the lowdown, and not wanting to sell out, and quixotic lead characters, and peter dinklage with hair so long it dragged on the floor
www.vulture.com/article/etha...
Ethan Hawke Is Always Chasing the Feeling of Being Lee Raybon
The Lowdown star asks, “How can we be good feminists, and truth tellers, and courageous and functioning members of our community — and still be wild?”
www.vulture.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
3 pieces of 8.5x11 slapped on with scotch tape loops
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
still can’t believe this man somehow went back in time to pander to vulture readers, specifically
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
i'll tell you what, i'm enjoying this night of making my haters my waiters at the table of success
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
look at this goober 😭💖
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
..... okay but also this show is SO stupid, and so empty and so ridiculous and the himbo they got to be married to kim k can barely say words out loud and everyone is wearing fur! and i am not honestly that mad at it!
bold of ryan murphy to begin All’s Fair with a scene made with such terrible de-aging filters that naomi watts looks like she’s being dubbed from a foreign language film, despite apparently speaking English
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
bold of ryan murphy to begin All’s Fair with a scene made with such terrible de-aging filters that naomi watts looks like she’s being dubbed from a foreign language film, despite apparently speaking English
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
cuomo on brian lehrer right now sounds like he is BARELY awake
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“dick cheney practiced politics the right way” by the nyt editorial board
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
tonight’s bedtime procrastination question amounted to, basically, why I would not help 8yo commit voter fraud
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
watched a TikTok of a woman making sawdust salad, a jello-based fruit dessert with crushed pineapple, bananas, mini marshmallows, and a pineapple cream topping

and that’s all well and good, I have eaten some jello salads in my time

but when she topped it with shredded cheese, man. a twist!
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
me, distracted: here kid, I picked up some books at the library!

8yo, two days later: mama I liked this book but it is about smoking weeds?
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
elementary school of approximately 400 kids, I counted 65 kpop demon hunters (not counting saja boys because I was pretty sure I saw some but they could just be regular demons)
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM