Kathryn VanArendonk
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524 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 30 May
Kathryn VanArendonk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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World domination for a thing created by one man that's just kind of about him hanging out with his family is a really fascinating prospect.
So I have a lot of original conversations with the creator and with animators, but then it is also really attempt critically to grapple with
what that show says about parenting, what it expects, what sort of good childhood looks like.
And yeah, I'm almost done with the process of getting that book to final edits.
And I'm really excited about all of the elements of that.
This is literally why I wrote the book.
I was writing about the last episode, The Sign, this big sort of finale thing.
And I had all these thoughts and feelings about it.
And I like went and took a walk and I was like, somebody's going to write a blue book.
And then I was like, damn it, damn it.
I'm going to have to do it, aren't I?
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so happy to be able to come and yell about Good Night Moon and Ed Baldwin, two topics that I'm just perpetually saying.
Evergreen, that's right.
Yes, they actually have one very, very important thing in common that has directly to do with what you are saying, which is that they are released weekly.
My name is Catherine Van Arendonk, and I'm a critic at Vulture and New York Magazine.
No, there are hundreds, thousands. You could be buried underneath them. There are so many medical shows right now. It's wild.
Well, so a lot of these live on network television. And if you have only ever been watching Netflix or Max in the last couple years, but you're like, I need more doctors. Where are all the doctors? They're on network TV. They've always been. They've never left. But now there are all these other options. There is one called Watson on CBS, and that one is your more detective-y kind of medical drama.
Not a lot of blood, not a lot of guts, a lot of people staring at a board and being like, what if it's this genetic mystery? That's the vibe of Watson. There's a truly bonkers one called Doc that's on Fox. And the premise of Doc, roughly, is that the main character suffered a traumatic brain injury and does not remember the last eight years, but does still remember mostly how to be a doctor.
And so she's just wandering around the hospital, like, being a doctor, even though she's also, you know, not fully compos mentis. But... The other great thing about Doc is that it turns out eight years ago, she was a jerk. And now she's nice. So she's trying to understand everything that happened to her in the last eight years to turn her into a jerk. That show's crazy.
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