Dear Television, HERE’S THE THING no one wants to admit about televised Christmas movies: they’re all horrible. Don’t get me …
Dear Television
Dear Television is Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, and Anne Helen Petersen. They write epistolary criticism about TV. Each week, the gang will select a different series, issue, or pet peeve, and their correspondence about it will appear here on the LARB blog, Monday through Wednesday.
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I Don’t Know I’m Beautiful
Dear Television, I FIND MUSIC VIDEOS to be a lot of work. When someone sends me a link to a …
3 Ways of Looking at Arcade Fire
Dear Television, EVERYBODY HATED “Bound 2.” I don’t mean the song. In fact, if you ask Yeezy purists, probably too …
How to Make a Music Video About Nothing: Ke$ha, Pitbull, & “Timber”
Dear Television, WE WATCH MUSIC VIDEOS for three overarching and often related reasons: hotness, dancing, and story. You might not …
Saturday Night Live’s Alumni Problem
Dear TV, WE’RE TALKING SNL this week, and I’m … excited. Which isn’t a feeling I’ve gotten from SNL in …
Good, Giving, and Game: Towards a Theory of SNL Hosting
Dear Television, WHEN PHIL FIRST emailed to ask if we wanted to cover this week’s Saturday Night Live, he was …
In Praise of Quitting
Dear Television, I’VE QUIT ONE JOB, I’ve quit two sports, I quit one (very ill-advised) diet. I finish all my …
Trust Fumes: Staying With Homeland
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALL SORTS OF STUFF… Dear Television, THIS WEEK, AHP and I will be talking about the virtues …
There Will Be Peplum: On the Television Uniform
Dear Television, WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my favorite show was Star Trek: The Next Generation. There are many reasons for this …
The Fastest Show on TV: On The Good Wife
A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, in this very column, I made an off-hand claim that The Good Wife is “the best …