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Alexis Gunderson

Alexis Gunderson
Alexis Gunderson is a writer who left the academic world of Russian Literature to join the secular one of television and cultural criticism. Her work appears regularly at Paste Magazine, and has also been found at Birth.Movies.Death, Syfy Wire, and Screener TV. She lives in the DC area.


Teenage Queen: Behind the Scenes on the Set of My Lady Jane

Alexis Gunderson on Bringing the Little Told Story of Lady Jane Grey to the Screen
June 27, 2024  By Alexis Gunderson
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What the WGA’s Historic Contract Means for All Writers in the Fight Against Generative AI

Alexis Gunderson on the Wins of Hollywood’s Hot Labor Summer
October 3, 2023  By Alexis Gunderson
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The Ineffable Romance of Good Omens… Four Years, One Pandemic, and Two Hollywood Strikes Later

Alexis Gunderson on the Funny Calm Before a Storm
August 4, 2023  By Alexis Gunderson
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Line for (Picket) Line: How Authors Are Standing With the WGA

Alexis Gunderson on the Power of Writerly Solidarity
June 1, 2023  By Alexis Gunderson
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What is The Power Trying to Say?

Without the Novel’s Allegorical Framing, the New Adaptation Feels Like a Hollow Empowerment Fantasy
April 24, 2023  By Alexis Gunderson
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The Big Door Prize Masters the Art of Comedy-Spiked Pathos

The Thoughtfully Compact M.O. Walsh Novel Balloons into Something Bigger (and Funnier) on the Small Screen
March 30, 2023  By Alexis Gunderson
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A Bite for Every Mood: A Guide to October’s Four New Literary Vampire Shows

Sexy? Scary? The Brutal Loneliness of Blood-Sucking Immortality?
October 7, 2022  By Alexis Gunderson
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How Ten Percent, Like Call My Agent! Before it, Turns Celebrity Into Text

Alexis Gunderson on the British Remake of the Campy Celebrity Send-up
May 9, 2022  By Alexis Gunderson
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Slow Horses, Starring Gary Oldman, is Worth the Slow Burn

Come for the Spy Drama’s Creative Pedigree, Stay for the Deeply Bleak Comedy of Spycraft Gone Goblin Mode
April 8, 2022  By Alexis Gunderson
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On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

How Contemporary Writers Are Reframing Narratives Around Female Characters
May 16, 2019  By Alexis Gunderson
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