Thomas J. West III

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Thomas J. West III earned a PhD in film and screen studies from Syracuse University in 2018. His writing on film, TV, and popular culture has appeared in Screenology, FanFare, Screen Rant, and Cinemania. He co-hosts the Queens of the B's podcast with Mark Muster and writes a regular newsletter, Omnivorous, on Substack. 

• POSTED December 14, 2021

  
  The Subversive Pleasures of The Witcher
  What fans see (and critics miss) in Netflix's wildly popular fantasy series.
• POSTED October 25, 2021

  
  Succession: It’s Not a Soap Opera, It’s HBO
  The Emmy winner for best drama owes as much to Dynasty as it does The Sopranos.
• POSTED September 3, 2021

  
  TV and the Unrepresentable Trauma of 9/11
  20 years on, television still struggles with the enormity of that day.
• POSTED August 26, 2021

  
  Shades of Mommie Dearest: Why TV Can’t Get Enough of the Killer Cheerleader Mom
  Lifetime’s annual “Fear the Cheer” movie marathon is set to revisit one of TV’s most enduring tropes.
• POSTED August 12, 2021

  
  Netflix Forgot One Thing in its Quest For the Next Game of Thrones
  The Witcher, Shadow and Bone and Cursed all desperately need a map.
• POSTED July 22, 2021

  
  The Glorious, Complicated Humanity of Jean Smart
  From Designing Women to Hacks, the surface simplicity of her characters belies the nuance of her performances.
• POSTED June 10, 2021

  
  The Kardashians Spawned an Unlikely Cottage Industry Within Academia
  Keeping Up With the Kardashians was known for its vapidity. Reaction to it was anything but.
• POSTED June 8, 2021

  
  There's Nothing Escapist about the MCU's Shows on Disney+
  The MCU’s TV properties are telling some of the most grown-up superhero tales to ever hit the screen.
• POSTED May 13, 2021

  
  The Subversive Pleasures of The Nanny
  There’s more to the show’s resurgence than just nostalgia.