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Kathryn VanArendonk
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critic @vulture
okay but seriously was this garnet hill x wicked or what
well I did enjoy elphaba’s enormous cable knit slanket lingerie
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
why is the end of wicked dune
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
seeing wicked the way it was designed to be seen, with a dozen middle school girls at a birthday party
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨 Trader Joe’s has panettone ice cream
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
got some stuff off my chest

www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
girls just want one thing and it’s easy and well-marked access to the street while commuting in and out of the oculus
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
it's very funny that tracker has such a high turnover in the "person who reads some exposition paragraphs about the weekly case" department, especially since he mostly interacts with those people over the phone
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
Once you read this, please check out @elizabethalsop.bsky.social on the trauma backstory 📺

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!

even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
got some stuff off my chest

www.vulture.com/article/penu...
Death to the Penultimate Flashback Episode
Why do so many shows keep making episodes that feel like unnecessary homework?
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
11yo has asked for a perforator for Christmas?
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
bluesky community fund for a telos subscription when part 2 is paywalled
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
did anyone get a spoiler embargo email for the lizza newsletter, just trying to plan my ending explainer coverage
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I am writing a thing about how tv flashbacks have become infuriating and timelines should go in order but I gotta say

sometimes you get hit with “it was march 5, 2020” and it really works
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
to be fair

it is really hard to get rid of bamboo
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
huge exposé from elementary school: a kid in 3rd grade says she has been to the teachers lounge and the teachers get *filtered water*
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
svu, which continues to be good this season!, did a neil gaiman/amanda palmer ep last week with jemima kirke as kind of a gender-swapped mashup of them both
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonk
I couldn’t agree more with the conclusions in this piece and am always paper-first in my classroom, but one issue I don’t see mentioned is that many districts (including mine) use the availability of tech as an excuse to ration paper
Finally seeing the backlash to overdependence on tech in schools reach legacy media.

It’s giving me hope that we can dampen AI mania.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Opinion | The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
as holiday season comes up, just saying once again that the single subscription most read and most fought-over in my household is this weekly comic collection

thephoenixcomic.com
The Phoenix – The Phoenix is a weekly magazine for 7-14 year olds
thephoenixcomic.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
oh you know, just catching up on south park this morning
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
sadly recalling that the screeners I was really enjoying, a show where bryan cranston played a woman and was married to daniel radcliffe (?), were in fact a dream I had at like 2am last night
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
it brings me a tiny flicker of hope that someone as profoundly opportunistic as marjorie taylor greene has decided it’s fine to move away from the fold
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT
realized my piece on the metaphorical flexibility of pluribus is unintentionally an seo play for the phrase "what is pluribus about"

www.vulture.com/article/what...
Pluribus Is About Everything
And unlike anything else.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
realized my piece on the metaphorical flexibility of pluribus is unintentionally an seo play for the phrase "what is pluribus about"

www.vulture.com/article/what...
Pluribus Is About Everything
And unlike anything else.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
in 3rd grade there was this teacher, Mr Freed, who would go off on these long tangents no 3rd grader could possibly follow about free trade and America’s rise as a global superpower, and lately I have had two thoughts

1) Mr Freed knew this shit about tariffs in 1993
2) wtf was up with Mr Freed
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM