<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;</em>His essays have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Slate</em>,&nbsp;<em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;<em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;</em>(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;<em>Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;</em>(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

Magic (Half) Hour: On "Reservation Dogs"

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

Dear Television

Bloodsuckers, Bad Readers: "Midnight Mass" and "What We Do in the Shadows"

Elizabeth Ito’s Neighborhood: “City of Ghosts” and the Rise of Netflix Animation

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

Television

An Alternative History of Pittsburgh

Dark Night Rises: Ed Simon’s Alternative History of Pittsburgh

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Close Magic: Derek DelGaudio's Illusions of Other People

Dance Yourself Clean: Lovers Rock x The Crown

L.A. Hallucinations: The Spiritualism of "Better Things"

Process Stories, or Who Loves the Sixers?

LARB Ball

<h4>Sarah Mesle (PhD, Northwestern) is faculty at USC and Senior Humanities Editor at the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>. Prior to arriving at USC, she held postdoctoral fellowships in English at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a 19th-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" rel="noopener noreferrer">Avidly.org</a>. You can <a href="https://twitter.com/sunsetandecho">follow her on Twitter</a>.</h4>

Sarah Mesle

<strong>Jane Hu is a critic who lives in Los Angeles.</strong>

Jane Hu

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

Jorge Cotte

Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality Quiz

The Year in Yelling: "Catastrophe," "Marriage Story," "Moonstruck"

Big Little Lies, "The End of the World"

Big Little Lies, "What Have They Done?"

Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;</em>His essays have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Slate</em>,&nbsp;<em>The New Republic</em>, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;<em>The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;</em>(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;<em>Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;</em>(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.