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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.”...
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Pathos Porn About Climate Change: On Scott Z. Burns’s “Extrapolations”
Aaron Bady reviews Scott Z. Burns’s new climate change series “Extrapolations” (Apple TV+)....
Police and Thieves: On Tony Gilroy’s “Andor”
Aaron Bady reviews Tony Gilroy’s “Andor,” streaming on Disney+....
The Heirs and Their Hair: On HBO’s “House of the Dragon”
Sarah Mesle assesses the first season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” spinoff, “House of the Dragon.”...
Magic (Half) Hour: On "Reservation Dogs"
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak writes about FX's Reservation Dogs, the best show of 2021, and the greatness of half-hour TV...
Flick and Feather: On Diana’s Hair
Sarah Mesle reckons with what Diana's hair, in Spencer and in real life, says about feminism, power, whiteness, and princesses...
Bloodsuckers, Bad Readers: "Midnight Mass" and "What We Do in the Shadows"
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak thinks about What We Do in the Shadows and what Midnight Mass is doing on Netflix...
Law and Wooder: On Mare of Easttown
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady thinks about what justice means on HBO's Mare of Easttown and asks why anybody would ever want that....
Close Magic: Derek DelGaudio's Illusions of Other People
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak sobs his way through the magic of pre-pandemic closeness in Derek DelGaudio's Hulu film In and Of Itself....
The WandaVision Cul-De-Sac
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady watches WandaVision and finds the Marvel Cinematic Universe dreaming about itself once again....
Dickinson's Hair
For Dear Television, Sarah Mesle explores the follicular politics of gender, race, and poetics on Apple TV+'s revisionist fantasy Dickinson....
Dance Yourself Clean: Lovers Rock x The Crown
For Dear Television, Phillip Maciak explores the two Londons, the two lovers, and the two dance sequences of Lovers Rock and The Crown....
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: One Month of "The Queen's Gambit"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady remembers what it was like to watch the soothing counterfactuals of The Queen's Gambit all the way back in October 2020....
L.A. Hallucinations: The Spiritualism of "Better Things"
Phillip Maciak on friendly ghosts, ordinary hauntings, and why Pamela Adlon's Better Things is the best show on television....
The Jordan Rules, Recycled
ESPN’s documentary “The Last Dance” is an “untold story” we’ve all heard a million times....
Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality Quiz
We took that Psychometric Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, and we're not happy. And, come to think of it, who are *we* at all?...
Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: "Watchmen" and Frantz Fanon
Aaron Bady, for Dear Television, considers the way that HBO's Watchmen came so close to unmasking the world's real supervillain....
The Year in Yelling: "Catastrophe," "Marriage Story," "Moonstruck"
Phillip Maciak, for Dear Television, considers the year in culture by way of three arguments: from Catastrophe, from Marriage Story, and from Moonstruck....
Good Crumb: On The Great British Bake Off
For Dear Television, Sarah Mesle talks rough puffs, proving drawers, self-saucing puddings, and The Great British Bake Off in the age of Brexit....
A Television of Her Own: On Emily Nussbaum
Dear Television's Sarah Mesle considers Emily Nussbaum as a feminist critic and a chronicler of the televisual cult of seriousness....
Big Little Lies, "The End of the World"
This week on Dear Television, Phil Maciak asks why the third episode of the second season of Big Little Lies won't follow the money....
Big Little Lies, "Tell-Tale Hearts"
For Dear TV, Jane Hu and Phil Maciak put Big Little Lies, season two, episode two under surveillance — it's disappointing....
Big Little Lies, "What Have They Done?"
For Dear Television, Phil Maciak considers season two of Big Little Lies, and what director Andrea Arnold has in store for people with kitchens like that....
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Iron Throne"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle consider the new occupant of the Iron Throne and what got them there and ask, "But why, though?"...
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