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...PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
Flick and Feather: On Diana’s HairSarah Mesle reckons with what Diana's hair, in Spencer and in real life, says about feminism, power, whiteness, and princesses...SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISIONFILM
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...PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
Law and Wooder: On Mare of EasttownFor Dear Television, Aaron Bady thinks about what justice means on HBO's Mare of Easttown and asks why anybody would ever want that....AARON BADYDEAR TELEVISION
Close Magic: Derek DelGaudio's Illusions of Other PeopleFor Dear Television, Phillip Maciak sobs his way through the magic of pre-pandemic closeness in Derek DelGaudio's Hulu film In and Of Itself....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
The WandaVision Cul-De-SacFor Dear Television, Aaron Bady watches WandaVision and finds the Marvel Cinematic Universe dreaming about itself once again....AARON BADYDEAR TELEVISION
Dickinson's HairFor Dear Television, Sarah Mesle explores the follicular politics of gender, race, and poetics on Apple TV+'s revisionist fantasy Dickinson....SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION
Dance Yourself Clean: Lovers Rock x The CrownFor Dear Television, Phillip Maciak explores the two Londons, the two lovers, and the two dance sequences of Lovers Rock and The Crown....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
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....AARON BADYDEAR TELEVISION
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....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
The Jordan Rules, RecycledESPN’s documentary “The Last Dance” is an “untold story” we’ve all heard a million times....HAL SUNDTDEAR TELEVISIONTELEVISIONSPORTS
Dear Television vs The Psychometric Personality QuizWe took that Psychometric Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, and we're not happy. And, come to think of it, who are *we* at all?...PHILLIP MACIAK, SARAH MESLE, JANE HU, JORGE COTTEDEAR TELEVISION
Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: "Watchmen" and Frantz FanonAaron Bady, for Dear Television, considers the way that HBO's Watchmen came so close to unmasking the world's real supervillain....AARON BADYDEAR TELEVISION
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....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
Good Crumb: On The Great British Bake OffFor Dear Television, Sarah Mesle talks rough puffs, proving drawers, self-saucing puddings, and The Great British Bake Off in the age of Brexit....SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION
A Television of Her Own: On Emily NussbaumDear Television's Sarah Mesle considers Emily Nussbaum as a feminist critic and a chronicler of the televisual cult of seriousness....SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION
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....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
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....JANE HUDEAR TELEVISION
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....PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
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?"...AARON BADY, SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Bells"For Dear Television, Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak consider the relative madness of the queen(s) on Game of Thrones....AARON BADY, SARAH MESLE, PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Last of the Starks"For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle check in with the last of the Starks on the day after the long night in Westeros....AARON BADY, SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Long Night"Dear Television's Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak reluctantly celebrate all the characters who survived "The Long Night," they guess....AARON BADY, SARAH MESLE, PHILLIP MACIAKDEAR TELEVISION
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle talk about all the listening and learning going on in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."...AARON BADY, SARAH MESLEDEAR TELEVISION