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February 4, 2014
Laura Bennett
TV's Boring Obsession With Accidental Viral Video Stars
January 27, 2014
Jeet Heer
Herblock Was a Fine Political Cartoonist. Liberals Don't Need to Deify Him.
January 17, 2014
David Thomson
HBO Once Again Has the Best New Show on TV
'True Detective' could be the next 'Breaking Bad'
January 16, 2014
Eric Sasson
HBO's 'Looking' Isn't 'Girls' For Gay Men, But It Is The First Truly Post-DOMA Show
January 10, 2014
Laura Bennett
'Girls' Has Grown Up—And Isn't As Funny
How Lena Dunham's show went from a coming-of-age story to a comedy of manners
October 28, 2013
Daniel D'Addario
The Veep Is More Popular Than the President
How the worst job in Washington became television's favorite role
August 12, 2013
Laura Bennett
Larry David Keeps Playing Himself, and It's Getting Old
July 12, 2013
Marc Tracy
Love and Hatewatching
A defense of Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom'
June 21, 2013
Anthony Flint
Gandolfini as Robert Moses? The Dream Role He Never Got to Play
The actor hoped to direct and star in an adaption of my book
May 10, 2013
Laura Bennett
Christopher Guest Was Not Made for TV
What makes his films so good is what hurts 'Family Tree'
April 5, 2013
Laura Bennett
Journalism As Extreme Sport
HBO's "Vice" goes from Brooklyn to Afghanistan, ironic distance intact
March 29, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Man Behind Game of Thrones's Murky Moral Worldview
George R.R. Martin and the genesis of a fantasy world
March 23, 2013
David Hajdu
Pacino as Phil Spector, Power Player Extraordinaire
January 17, 2013
Laura Bennett
An "Enlightened" Mike White Wants to Change TV
January 9, 2013
Laura Bennett
Lena Dunham Caved to Her Critics on Race, and It Made "Girls" a Better Show
November 1, 2012
Noreen Malone
The Most Famous Tongue in America
October 23, 2012
David Thomson
HBO's Creepy and Revealing Take on Hitchcock
October 5, 2012
Laura Bennett
Generation Whine
July 1, 2012
David Thomson
From Howard Beale to Aaron Sorkin
June 22, 2012
Jake Tapper
The Snoozeroom

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