• 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.

    Dear Television Weekly Roundup: June 15–21

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Dear Television, DEAR TV superfans may remember that I really liked the Natalia arc from last season. I liked the actress — …

    Space Invaders

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    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

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    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

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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 …