• Television

    In Praise of Quitting

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    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

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    SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALL SORTS OF STUFF… Dear Television, THIS WEEK, AHP and I will be talking about the virtues …

    Superheroes and TV IV: Possibilities and pitfalls of contemporary television

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    THE TERM TVIII has been used in television studies to describe the state of television in the 21st century. This …

    Steampunk Dracula

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    SCIENCE FICTION television this season continues to work through the anxieties of our contemporary moment in coded ways, from Revolution’s …

    There Will Be Peplum: On the Television Uniform

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    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

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    A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, in this very column, I made an off-hand claim that The Good Wife is “the best …

    You Won’t Read This Review of “Masters of Sex”: The Problem of Episodic Criticism

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    I WANT TO TALK with you about Masters of Sex. I want to talk about Michael Sheen’s acting, Lizzy Caplan’s …

    Sex and the Slightly Unreliable Narrator

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    Dear TV, I’D HOPED Masters of Sex would resist following Mad Men down the sepia brick road to the land of overburdened …

    One Season Wonders: “Outcasts” and “Terra Nova”

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    by Jonathan Alexander ONE OF THE PLEASURES of TV these days is the Netflixable delight of watching entire seasons in …

    Ambivalent about Horror

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    Dear Television, TO LOVE HORROR is to love genre. As Annie’s piece on abjection and Phil’s on “Hellmouth” (new meme, …