Television

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

Gilding the Small Screen: or, “Is it just me or did TV get good all of a sudden?”
The true reasons for TV’s emergence as the preeminent mass medium of the early 21st century are primarily external to the actual business of creating televised narrative; none of them have anything to do with anyone’s personal greatness.
Javier Grillo-MarxuachSep 24, 2014
- Television
Vampire Socials
The distressingly human lives of vampires today
Becca RothfeldSep 19, 2014
- Television
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Network’s Darling: On “The Good Wife”
On 'The Good Wife'
Briana FasoneSep 18, 2014
- Television
Building a Better Panopticon: “The Wire” as Melodrama
Linda Williams argues that the strength of "The Wire" lies not in its commitment to Dickensian narrative or Greek tragedy, but its melodrama.
Noah BerlatskyAug 18, 2014
- Television
The Leftovers, Season 1
Get Lost: Why You Should Be Watching 'The Leftovers'
Phillip MaciakAug 8, 2014
- Dear Television
- Television
It Gets Better: The Evolution of "Queer TV"
Rachel EdelmanJul 21, 2014
- Gender & Sexuality
- Television
Blood Soup: The End of "True Blood"
On the final season of HBO's True Blood
Molly McArdleJun 30, 2014
- Dear Television
- Television
American Loneliness
MTV's 'Catfish' and the state of modern love
Emma HealeyJun 29, 2014
- Television
The Prison Show's Dilemma
'Orange is the New Black,' Season 2
Maurice ChammahJun 20, 2014
- Television
Funny Man: Louis C.K.'s Pulled Punchlines
First as farce, then as tragedy.
Micah HauserJun 16, 2014
- Television
The Feels of Friendship
Korean dramas have refreshing views of same-sex friendship, but do their gains depend on a gay retreat to the closet?
Eric NewmanJun 10, 2014
- Gender & Sexuality
- Television
How To Be a Person Second
The state of the televised female heroine
Lara ZarumDec 30, 2013
- Television