Episodes publishes books of new writing on television. Through thought-provoking long-form essays, Episodes seeks to explore and unravel television and its impact on contemporary culture.
Philippa Snow explores the ambivalent feminism of Carrie Bradshaw in her portrait of Sex and the City’s complicated heroine. Snow elegantly threads questions of authorship and the romantic comedy, womanhood and celebrity, and what television’s feminist icons owe their audience.
Ariela Gittlen on
Grey’s Anatomy
Ariela Gittlen investigates Grey’s Anatomy as the “Television of Bad Feelings,” exploring how watching the pain and suffering at Seattle Grace Hospital can be just as cathartic as it is excruciating, and how we watch their agony to feel well ourselves.