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?"...
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....
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....
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....
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."...
