• Dear Television Weekly Roundup: June 15–21

    By Jacob Surpin It’s been a big week for television coverage here at LARB. Along with Dear TV, two other …

    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 …