• 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.

    If you’re looking for blog posts prior to September 2013, you can visit Dear Television’s page on LARB.

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    Dear Television is edited by Michael Goetzman.

    Best Television GIFS of 2013

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    Phil: Mad Men  I WON’T BELABOR this, because DearTV covered it at length in the spring, but this was a …

    Year-End Free Skate: Best Endings, Worst Ending, Best Episode

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    PHIL: Best Episode Ending (Also, Best Musical Cue, Best Shocking Violence) Game of Thrones S3.E3 Spoilers, okay? I DON’T KNOW if …

    The Year in Television: Favorite Performance

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    Phil: KRISTEN SCHAAL as LOUISE in BOB’S BURGERS SO, HERE BEGINS our round-robin discussion of the year in television. Today we …

    The Christmas Movie: A Hate/Need Relationship

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    Dear Television, HERE’S THE THING no one wants to admit about televised Christmas movies: they’re all horrible. Don’t get me …

    I Don’t Know I’m Beautiful

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    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

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    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”

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    Dear Television, WE WATCH MUSIC VIDEOS for three overarching and often related reasons: hotness, dancing, and story. You might not …