Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working on Milton and 17th-century theories of eating and reading. She tweets at @millicentsomer, blogs at Excremental Virtue, and writes TV criticism over at Dear Television along with Jane Hu, Phillip Maciak, and Evan Kindley. You can sometimes find her at The Awl, The Hairpin, and The New Inquiry.

Articles

Phillip Maciak’s “Avidly Reads Screen Time”: A Symposium
“Dear Television” contributors and columnists Aaron Bady, Jorge Cotte, Jane Hu, and Lili Loofbourow review Phillip Maciak’s “Avidly Reads Screen Time.”
Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Jorge Cotte, Lili LoofbourowMay 25, 2023
- Dear Television
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Where’s ‘the Discourse’?”
A transcript of the panel discussion “Where’s ‘the Discourse’?” – a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 7.
Daphne A. Brooks, Jesse McCarthy, Lexis-Olivier Ray, Lili Loofbourow, Sarah MarshallDec 3, 2021
- Cultural Studies
Fury, Kitten, Dude: On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Lili Loofbourow and Irene Yoon check in with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at the off-kilter end of its third season!
Irene Yoon, Lili LoofbourowApr 11, 2018
- Dear Television
- Television
The Girls Finale
Dear TV says goodbye to GIRLS...
Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 24, 2017
- Dear Television
Discipline and Punish
Lili Loofbourow on whether anything bad would happen on "Girls."
Lili LoofbourowFeb 21, 2017
- Dear Television
- Television
The People v. OJ Simpson: Season 1, “The Verdict”
On the American Crime Story Season 1 Finale
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 6, 2016
- Dear Television
The Americans: Season 4, "Pastor Tim"
Dear Television recaps FX's The Americans Season 4
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakMar 24, 2016
- Dear Television
The Americans: Season 4, "Glanders"
Dear Television recaps The Americans, Season 4
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakMar 17, 2016
- Dear Television
Louis C.K.'s "Horace and Pete," Episode 1
Dear Television on Louis CK's "Horace and Pete"
Aaron Bady, Lili LoofbourowFeb 3, 2016
- Dear Television
Mad Men, Season 7: "Person to Person"
'The Waste Land'
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakMay 18, 2015
- Dear Television
Mad Men, Season 7: "Time & Life"
Not Safe For Work: Mad Men's Art of Cursing
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 27, 2015
- Dear Television
Mad Men, Season 7: "Severance"
'Mad Men' Fantasies
Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakApr 7, 2015
- Dear Television
The Fall, Seasons 1 and 2
'The Fall' pays lip service to feminism, performing it without embracing it.
Lili LoofbourowJan 23, 2015
- Dear Television
The 2014 Dear TV Questionnaire
Parts I and II
Evan Kindley, Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah MesleDec 18, 2014
- Dear Television
The Sick and the Tired
On HBO's 'Getting On'
Evan Kindley, Lili LoofbourowNov 14, 2014
- Dear Television
Louie, Season 4: "Elevator, Part 6" and "Pamela, Part 1"
Man on the Brink
Lili LoofbourowJun 6, 2014
- Dear Television