Archive - Bad Taste

I accidentally turned my apartment into a clay oven

God, I love summer, even when summer is determined to punish me.

Jul 6 •

September 2023

the mortifying ordeal of being known

It’s a soggy, fall weekend in New York, the kind I’m secretly grateful for because it means there’s nothing to do except fold laundry and put clean…

Sep 24, 2023 •

September 2022

I want to write like Diane Keaton

Why is ~the creative process~ so painless in the movies?

Sep 8, 2022 •

July 2022

A Small, Quiet Abortion

The revolution in abortion storytelling led to a perfect episode of Sex Education

Jul 12, 2022 •

December 2021

"America," from a West Side Story novice

Rita Moreno, then Rosita Dolores, was just 17 when she was scouted at a dance recital and set up for the meeting that would change her life, with the…

Dec 29, 2021 •

August 2021

Is new Gossip Girl "bad"? A debate with GG scholar Margie Truwit

Buckle up, folks

Aug 20, 2021 •

July 2021

Mae Martin made a knotty romcom about the impossibility of the romcom

I loved it, when Bart Simpson met a fit little squirrel

Jul 9, 2021 •

February 2021

Bad TV I cannot stop watching compulsively: Firefly Lane edition

Feb 26, 2021 •

November 2020

October 2020

And then they came for Jeffrey and Chris (and honestly, that was fine)

On Zoom Dicks and Hollywood Chrises

Oct 23, 2020 •

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