WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE ME:
Hello Gawker
Loyal reader and occasional commenter Rahel here, wishing to report for duty in service towards distracting the masses further with TV, movies and hopefully intelligent commentary.
I'm only an occasional commenter because like my interests, my commenting "life" is quite varied. From the moment I've been able to use the internet, the warm nerd fire that is the message board gave me warmth. There was my long tenure at Men's Tennis Forums, where a picture of myself and Marat Safin after a match marked my apotheosis. There was a very solid stint at your bastard child Wonkette, where I even met, and subsequently dated, a nice liberal fellow. The pure gossip blog Dlisted and the AV Club – who's TV section is definitely inspiration for this very application - are current regular stomping grounds, along with Gawker.
However, my first serious love was that prickly hive of fan boys and girls at IMDB.com. Being a movie and trivia geek is what drew me there in the beginning, using it primarily as a tool to correct my friends who couldn't play "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" for shit. This led to watching trailers for hours and before too long, getting news for hotly anticipated movies turned into talking about said movies after they were released and so on. The term "Spoiler Alert" probably existed before these particular forums, but I still remember the day when the commenting HTML added a "hide spoiler" option to combat what is still a problem with talking about TV on the interwebs.
Speaking of which, talking about TV for money IS my dream, and surely many others.' However, I also have a long history of film and theater criticism. You'll have to take my word for it since both my high school newspaper, and "the Cappies," an umbrella theater group that tasked high schoolers with reviewing each other's productions, keeps terrible online archives. If declaring minors existed at my college, Film Study would have been it. I want this job not just because it's a dream but also because lately it's been difficult to watch feature films unless I'm a captive audience in a theater.
The episodic nature of television, while demanding more time overall somehow assuages my 21st Century technological ADHD. But when television shows these days are on par with great cinema or theater - Breaking Bad or Justified for example - that doesn't seem like much of a problem. There are many great seasons of television to come, from established channels and Netflix itself and I'd like to parse them for the public's reading pleasure.