Late capitalism gets an antihero show.
Sara Fredman
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Lindy West is Preaching to the Choir
Sara Fredman talks to author Lindy West on women and likability, the evolution of pop culture, and navigating conversations in a complex, messy world.
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How Do You Move Past a Dad?
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
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And What of My Wrath?
Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards
What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism
The Blaming of the Shrew
Golden Age antiheroes and the nasty women who humanized them.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.