Essay Daily Media Club

Essay Daily Media Club is an ongoing series of essays about visual media. (Television, movies, video games, art, and really anything visual qualifies.) We're less interested in reviews than we are in writing that illuminates both the subject and the self in combination. This series began with the 2025 Advent Calendar, which published 25 essays about visual media, one a day during advent 2025, and continues on into the new year. Essays in this series are listed in reverse chronological order below.

Pitch us if you've got an essay in you! (We do reprint essays published elsewhere as part of this series occasionally.)

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John Haskell, Blow Me Away

Jodie Noel Vinson, Sick and Tired: on The Golden Girls

Lily Herman, Run the Train (on T2 Trainspotting)

Michael Martone, ...All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt: 8 Memoirs on Wearing Words

Wyatt Williams, Arnold

Joni Tevis, Float and Trowel, Barrow and Lantern (Eight Craftsmen, ca. 1910)

Brooke Wonders, Nightmare in the Blood

Emiland Kray: Even Robots Feel Sad Sometimes

Scott Dickensheets, In the City

Cathy de la Cruz, A Mess, a Museum

Julija Ĺ ukys, Weeds

Leah Mensch on Melancholia

Nicole Walker: Wives and Lives: from Polygamy to Polyamory

Susan Briante: You Probably Don't Even Know What You Don't Know: on Loving Reservation Dogs

Erin Keane, Dreamchild, or the Curse of Being Alice

Isabelle Robinson, Three Scenes from an Essay about Scream

Ted McLoof, The Year Seth Cohen Ruled the Earth

Dave Griffith, The Godfather at 50

Charles Jensen: My Enemy, Myself: the Weaponization of Player Agency in The Last of Us Part II

Sharon Wahl, Alone

Ander Monson, Decommissioning the Drone Priest: on Weirdness and NORCO

Patrick Madden on Midnight Mass


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