Polygon:

From seven years, I was Entertainment Reporter at Vox Media’s Polygon. I primarily write about about animation, streaming, theme parks, and internet and fandom culture. Sometimes my pieces are serious, sometimes they’re funny, but they always aim to go deeper.

All articles can be found here.

Some highlights include:

Beloved Animated Failures series:

A running column diving deep into the animated movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which despite often being financial and critical flops, were beloved by a generation that grew up with them. 

Critical Essays:

• Every Hunger Games book gets blunter about the messages fans keep missing
• Avatar: The Last Airbender confirms it — we need the filler episode
• Netflix has a troubling problem with its biracial characters
• Haikyu!! helped me understand why people care about sports

Reporting:

• Into the Spider-Verse’s greatest legacy is giving American animators freedom to play
• The controversial cut that solidified Mulan as an Asian-American film
• The abandoned X-Men movie of the 1980s isn’t missed by anyone involved
• The curious case of dust in The Lion King

Reviews:

•  Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End goes where few fantasy stories dare to go
• Wish is a pale imitation of the better Disney movies that came before it
• Blue Eye Samurai is the best thing Netflix has done in years

Interviews:

• Robot Dreams’ director founded an animation studio just to adapt a graphic novel he loved
• The Disney renaissance was just a stepping stone for Glen Keane
• Prince of Egypt director Brenda Chapman: ‘We wanted to do something that reached more adults’