Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Homeland, Other Shows That Are Not Homeland, Renewed for a Third Season

    Almost from the start, Homeland seemed like a one-season premise, a more grounded kind of American Horror Story that could deliver some satisfying, thought-provoking thrills for a few weeks before flitting off to TV heaven and happily cementing its status as an all-time classic. Of course, Homeland was a critical and ratings success, and picked […]

  • Drake Has Graduated From High School

    On June 23, 2008, a young man named Jimmy Brooks graduated from Degrassi High School in Toronto, Canada. Despite a privileged upbringing, Brooks had overcome a lot of odds to get that diploma — he was left wheelchair-bound after an unfortunate gun-violence incident on campus, and his graduation was pushed back a year to make […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: The Promise of Youth and the Disappointment of Olds

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. Like Monet, Van Gogh, and so many great minds before them, the importance of their work will not be recognized until long after they’ve left this […]

  • Justin Bieber Has Us in the Palm of His Hand in the New ‘Beauty and a Beat’ Music Video

    While I accept and respect #ThePowerOfBieber in these troubled times, I’ll admit I’ve never exactly understood it on a personal level. It’s like knowing that there are entire cultures who consider insects a major food group in a non–Fear Factor context — I don’t hate it, but I feel like it has very little to […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Britney Is Entrusted With Teenage Lives, L.A. Reid Is Disgusted by Old People, and Simon Cowell Frankensteins Up Some New Groups

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. No, you shut up, YOUR job is ridiculous. The X Factor death march trudged along last night from the frozen tundra of Boot Camp to the […]

  • Overplayed Song of the Week: Ellie Goulding, ‘Lights’

    Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream-radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit that she has heard enough times to render the song meaningless, and thus likely to inspire otherwise inaccessible epiphanies. Weeks on Chart: 41 Peak: No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100, August 18, 2012 , 2012 Current Radio Play Frequency No. […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Britney Crying, Villains Thriving, and Cracking the Sister C Code

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. It’s a tough job, and honestly, nobody really has to do it, but — shhhhh — don’t tell them that. I’ll be honest, I’m not exactly […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Boot Camp, the First Culling, and the Great Whitney-Off of 2012

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. Abandon all hope, ye who mistakenly inter-navigate to here. The X Factor began its Thunderdome stage last night. 120 tweens, olds, and groups converged in Miami […]

  • Overplayed Song of the Week: Alex Clare, ‘Too Close’ (a.k.a. the Internet Explorer Song)

    Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream-radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit that she has heard enough times to render the song meaningless, and thus is likely to inspire otherwise inaccessible epiphanies. Weeks on Chart: 26 Peak: No. 8 on Billboard’s Hot 100, September 29, 2012 Current Radio Play Frequency No. 11 […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Li’l Monsters, Some Actual Emotion, and the Merciful End of the Audition Round

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. This is the stage on which dreams will be made and broken, and destiny waits for no one (unless you DVR it). There’s nothing like the […]

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