By Jacob Surpin It’s been a big week for television coverage here at LARB. Along with Dear TV, two other …
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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Dear Television Weekly Roundup: June 8–14
By Jacob Surpin It’s been an unusually quiet week for Dear Television. Mad Men is currently on a mid-season hiatus, and …
Dear Television Weekly Roundup: May 31 – June 7
By Jacob Surpin It’s summer, and times are changing here at the LARB Blog. In addition to the LARB Channels …
The McConnaissance: An Alternate Reading
Dear Television, IN EPISODE TWO of HBO’s stunning new series True Detective, the laconic Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey, …
Your Urine-Soaked Life
Dear Television, DEAR TV superfans may remember that I really liked the Natalia arc from last season. I liked the actress — …
Space Invaders
THE THIRD SEASON of Girls opens with Hannah and Ray discussing the aftermath of a breakup in the show’s version of New …
Truthers and Darers
WHEN I WAS A KID, every girl I know played Truth or Dare. It’s a girl sleepover rite of passage, …
Best Television GIFS of 2013
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
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
Phil: KRISTEN SCHAAL as LOUISE in BOB’S BURGERS SO, HERE BEGINS our round-robin discussion of the year in television. Today we …