<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also the author of a book about religion and early cinema called The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), and his film, television, and literary criticism has appeared in Slate, Film Quarterly, J19, PMLA, The New Republic, 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

<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

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

Jane Hu

Jorge Cotte is a writer living in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Complex, and Remezcla. When not writing, he is cooking, binging, and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranziaFanon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">tweeting</a>.

Jorge Cotte

Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality Quiz

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

Dear Television

Big Little Lies, "Tell-Tale Hearts"

Can Ghosts Buy Drugs? The Haunting of Hill House (Eps. 6-10)

The Shirley Jackson 5: The Haunting of Hill House (Eps. 1-5)

Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.

Aaron Bady

The Hellish Comedy of Now: Silicon Valley, Season Five

Occasional Corgis: The Crown's Canine Politics

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season One

The Handmaid's Tale Finale

The Handmaid's Tale, "A Woman's Place"

The Handmaid's Tale, "Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum"

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

Lili Loofbourow

The Girls Finale

Lena Dunham’s House of Mirth

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

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