![]() ![]() The essay functions as a kind of eulogy: not for the men, but for the things we had the privilege of loving uncomplicatedly, before we were forced to know better. Here, her ambivalence is more affecting than the gleaming certainty of prior chapters. The collection's one new piece of writing.is a queasy, poignant 50-page consideration of the question: 'What should we do with the art of terrible men?'. But what about the people who make TV? Here, she is not so certain. Maisel, as she insists implicitly and explicitly that TV should be mind-expanding, complex, generous, and, above all, have things to say about who we are and what we want. ![]() It's thrilling to watch Nussbaum stake the slick misogyny of True Detective, or the cloying phoniness of The Marvelous Mrs. ![]() They are marbled with her thinking about prestige and power and gender and taste, but they are also funny. Nussbaum's essays aren't merely moralizing, though they can fit into the genre of 'The Thing You Thought Was Bad Is Actually Good' essays, or the slightly rarer converse, 'The Thing You Thought Was Good Is Actually Bad' essays, which lose value quickly unless the writer is able to significantly engage with the artwork in its own right, outside of its role as a David or a Goliath. I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution is a collection of 32 brilliant, generous essays, most of which have been previously published by The New Yorker, where Nussbaum is a TV critic. ![]()
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