<h4>Anne Helen Petersen is a Ph.D. from the University of Texas – Austin in the Department of Radio-Television-Film. She currently teaches film and media studies at Whitman College.</h4>

Anne Helen Petersen

Mad Men, Season 7: "Field Trip"

Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, &amp; others

Dear Television

Mad Men, Season 7: "A Day's Work"

A Game of Thrones

<h4>Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is faculty at USC and Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Prior to arriving at USC, she held post-doctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a nineteenth-century Americanist by training and is interested, generally speaking, in the long history of the American popular novel and in the many ways pop culture can excite, estrange, and surprise.</h4>
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<h4>With Sarah Blackwood, she is co-editor of <a href="http://avidly.org/" target="_blank">Avidly.org</a>. You can <a href="https://twitter.com/sunsetandecho">follow her on Twitter</a>.</h4>

Sarah Mesle

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books. </em>He is also the author of a book about religion and early cinema called <em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era </em>(Columbia University Press, 2019), and his film, television, and literary criticism has appeared in <em>Slate</em>, <em>Film Quarterly</em>, <em>J19</em>, <em>PMLA</em>, <em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues. He is also the co-founder — with Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, and Lili Loofbourow — of the “Dear Television” column. He teaches in the English Department and the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

Game of Thrones: Season 4, "Two Swords"

"Broad City": Season 1

Girls, Season 3: "I Saw You"

<h4><span>Lili is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and seventeenth-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer">@millicentsomer</a><span>, blogs at<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><a href="http://www.excrementalvirtue.com/">Excremental Virtue</a><span>, and writes TV criticism over at<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><a href="http://www.deartelevision.wordpress.com/">Dear Television</a><span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at <em>The Awl</em>, <em>The Hairpin</em>, and <em>The New Inquiry</em>. <br /></span></h4>

Lili Loofbourow

<strong>Evan Kindley is senior editor at the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.</strong>

Evan Kindley

“True Detective” Finale

House of Cards, Season 2

Girls, Season 3: "Only Child"

<strong>Jane Hu is an English PhD candidate at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in Film and Media Studies. She has published in <em>Textual Practice</em>, <em>The New Yorker</em>, the <em>New Republic</em>, <em>Slate</em>, and <em>The Awl</em>.</strong>

Jane Hu

Broad City and Kroll Show

True Detective, Season 1: "Seeing Things"

Girls, Season 3: "Females Only" and "Truth or Dare"

Anne Helen Petersen is a Ph.D. from the University of Texas – Austin in the Department of Radio-Television-Film. She currently teaches film and media studies at Whitman College.