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

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

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