''I Like To Watch' is a must-read for everyone obsessed with the relationship between politics and American culture.' Our review:
Not to mince words, the New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum is one of the best, if not the best, critic writing about TV today. “I Like to Watch,” a collection of her reviews, essays and blog posts, is no mere miscellany. She has fashioned them into a sustained argument for both the uniqueness and importance of television as an art form distinct from movies and novels. As she puts it, “TV as TV.”
To call these essays “reviews” doesn’t do them justice. They are provocations, springboards from which she plunges into deep waters, the big questions that roil the culture, like the relationships between politics, gender, art and audience. Nussbaum is fond of word play and startling paradoxes. She writes of Kevin Spacey in “House of Cards”: “He’s miscast by beingwell cast — there’s no tension in seeing a shark play a shark.” She describes “Rosemary’s Baby” as “a feminist masterpiece created by a sex criminal.” Her prose succeeds in creating an easy intimacy that feels like conversation.
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