Lili Loofbourow

• The Male Glance (Virginia Quarterly Review)
• Zelensky is resurrecting “the West” (Slate)
• The Post-Traumatic Novel (New York Review of Books)
• Chile’s People Have Had Enough (Slate)
• Louis CK’s special “Sorry” isn’t bad. But it shows what he’s lost.(Slate)
• On that Harper letter, or: “Illiberalism” isn’t why there’s no good-faith debate (Slate)
• How conservatism failed its women (Slate)
• The myth of the male bumbler (The Week)
• The female price of male pleasure (The Week)
• Kavanaugh and the cruelty of male bonding (Slate)
• It’s not hypocrisy (Slate)
• How political amnesia helps us mishandle the pandemic (Slate)
• How the enemy’s decided (Slate)
• Pat Maginnis, America’s pro-choice pioneer (Slate)
• The “Debt” immigrants can never repay (Slate)
• Re-encountering a letter about the 1918 pandemic in 2020 (Slate)
• The price of rage (Slate)
• When the sky is orange (Slate)
• “Believing” rape victims isn’t enough (Slate)
• Joe Biden’s “character” issue (Slate)
• Anger isn’t honesty (Slate)
• Can “Black Lives Matter” do what “Me Too” Couldn’t? (Slate)
• What it means to evacuate (Slate)
• The great #MeToo hypercorrection (Slate)
• The self-pardon epidemic (Slate)
• We’re not better than this. But we can try to be. (Slate)
• The America we thought we knew is gone. (Slate)
• The rise of the #MeToo metatext (Slate)
• How to narrate Trump (Slate)
• The sexual assault backlash is coming. Here’s how to respond. (The Week)
• The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany (The New York Times Magazine)
• Dinosaurs as Pandemic Sitcom (Slate)
• The Outing of Elena Ferrante and the power of naming (The Week)
• The Fandom Menace: The Problem with Star Wars (Salon)
• The Trump Glossary: Part 1 and Part 2.
• The Kellyanne Conway Glossary
• The Decline and Fall of the Gilmore Girls (The Week)
• The End of the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffs (The Week)
• Introduction: The Time of the Semi-Public Intellectual (PMLA, co-written with Phillip Maciak)
• Brangelina Matters (on elections and reality TV)
• TV’s New Girls’ Club (The New York Times Magazine)
• Bull Shipping: On Chilean Mothers and California Gold (VQR)
• Dinosaurs is the Only Sitcom Grim Enough for this Moment (Slate)
• Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels (Post 45)
• Why Bill Cosby Walked Free (The Week)
• How Recaps Changed the Way We Think About TV (The Guardian)
• Maria Bamford and the Hard Work of Acting Normal (The Cut)
• Marty, the Monster on the True Detective finale (LA Review of Books)
• Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
• Brainwashing Woody –On Woody Allen and Mia Farrow (Buzzfeed)
• No to profit –on the student movement in Chile and the privatization of education under Pinochet (Boston Review)
• Interview with ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos on the Student Movement Against the Privatization of Education (El Mostrador) (Spanish)

• Somebody Somewhere
• The Gilded Age
• Servant of the People
• Station Eleven
• Succession (is it in a rut?) (Shiv sucks) (Succession is a sitcom)
• The Undoing
• Money Heist
• Ted Lasso
• The Crown
• The Morning Show
• Leaving Neverland
• One Day at a Time
• The Good Place is the new Arrested Development
• The Good Place theories
• The Good Place (second season finale)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• The Deuce
• High Maintenance
• Sherlock
• The Americans recaps
• Westworld recaps (finale)
• Game of Thrones: The Sansa Problem; How Magic is Ruining It, The Cinematography of Battle of the Bastards; Analyzing the musical opening of the S6 finale; The Game of Thrones Book of the Dead; Christ this show has gotten bad; seriously it makes NO sense
• One Mississippi (Season One) (Season 2)
• The Assassination of Gianni Versace
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Back
• The Chi
• SMILF
• Man Seeking Woman
• Handmaid’s Tale
• Search Party
• GLOW
• The Leftovers
• Veep
• Big Little Lies
• Feud
• Baskets
• One Day at a Time
• Insecure
• Atlanta
• I Love Dick
• Jane the Virgin
• American Gods
• Legion
• Murder, She Wrote
• Jessica Jones
• Gilmore Girls Year in the Life
• Grace and Frankie
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• The Night Of
• Will and Grace
• Crashing
• I Love Lucy
• How Better Things Got Too Mean (The Week)
• Mr. Robot (Psycho references; Video games; S2 Finale)
• Horace and Pete
• Bojack Horseman
• House of Cards: Shakespeare Performance Art (LARB)
• How the reality of Trump’s America outpaced  House of Cards (The Guardian)
• Bless your heart, House of Cards (The Week)
• Fleabag (The Week)
• Episodes (The Week)
• How Better Call Saul fixed Breaking Bad’s Skyler Problem (The Week)
• Master of None (The Week)
• Vice Principals (The Week)
• Fortitude (The New Republic)
• Taboo is hilarious (The Week)
• Silicon Valley (The Week)
• Orange is the New Black and makeovers (Racked)
• Why Orange is the New Black Has the best dialogue (The Week)
• Orphan Black has the best monster on television (The Cut)
• Can Orphan Black escape its tangled morality? (The Week)
• Orphan Black‘s beautiful cathartic finale (The Week)
• The Young Pope (The Week) 
• Alone Together (The Week)
• Dirk Gently (The Week)
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Racked)
• Outlander (Racked)
• Outlander had the smartest sex scene on television (Season 3, The Week)
• The Fall (LARB)
• Broad City (S2 Premiere, S2 Episode 3,  S2 Episode 5) Talking Points Memo)
• Getting On (LARB)
• True Detective (LARB)
• Game of Thrones fails the female gaze (Salon)
• Community (LARB)
• Why Frasier is the best show to sleep to (The Week)
• Downton Abbey (The New Republic)
• Masters of Sex (LARB)
• What Gilmore Girls shows us about money and love (The Cut)
• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (The Week)
• Transparent went to the Middle East and all I got was this heartbreaking show about selfishness(The Week)

Selected Recaps

• The extraordinary ordinariness of The Americans’ finale (The Week)
• Something is going on with The Americans (The Week)
• The profound despair of The Americans (The Week)
• The Americans forever hold their peace (The Week)
• The ghosts that haunt The Americans (The Week)
• Claudia’s plot on The Americans: a theory (The Week)
• The Americans‘ dilemma: spy or die (The Week)
• The camera is getting sneakier on The Americans (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, 23 questions for the final season of Game of Thrones (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, Why Game of Thrones has become so incoherent (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones has become a terrible show (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, The sins of Sansa Stark (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, The Game of Thrones characters need to hang out more (The Week)
• Game of Thrones is performing some serious plot acrobatics  (The Week)
• What’s with all the staring on Game of Thrones? (The Week)
• “The Spoils of War” was one of the best Game of Thrones episodes ever (The Week)
• Game of Thrones has a Starks Problem (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, The buried tragedy of Tyrion Lannister (The Week)
• Finally, death matters again on Game of Thrones (The Week)
• Game of Thrones, What Sansa learned from Cersei (The Week)
• The Game of Thrones Book of the Dead (The Week)
• Louie, Extreme Makeover (Slate)
• Louie, “Man on the Brink”, on how the arc of this season of Louie seems to be about gradually challenging the audience to see Louie as an abuser. Elevator, Part 6 on Pamela, Part 1 (LA Review of Books)
• Louie, Season 4, “Back” and “Model“
• Louie, “Louie vs. Louis CK”
• Louie, “RapeJoke and the Politeness Police”
• Louie, “Louie’s Choice: Lynch, Dads, and the Weird Chains of Causality”
• Louie, “Dad”
• Louie, “Bellies and Balloons”
• Mad Men Fantasies (Season 7(2) premiere, LARB)
• Mad Men, The Hangover (Season 7 premiere, LARB)
• Mad Men, Rhapsody in Beige (Season 6 premiere, The New Republic)
• Mad Men, The Awful Over-Sympathizers of Mad Men (The New Republic)
• Mad Men, Mad Men as Minstrel Show (The New Republic)
• Mad Men, Time to Go Home (The New Republic)
• Mad Men, Baby Mad Men
• Girls, The Ballad of Hannah and Adam (The Week)
• Girls, Killing Carrie Bradshaw (Dear Television)
• Girls, Makeovers, Makeunders, and Makeouts (Dear Television)
• Girls, Never Don’t Worry: In Which Dunham Kills Horror (Dear Television)
• Girls, Sexiting Sexcapades (LARB)
• Girls, The Great Daisy (LARB)
• Girls, Children’s Death Games (LARB)
• Girls, Bad Art and Betrayals (LARB)
• Girls, Reality Bites (LARB)
• Girls in Drag (finale, LARB)
• Girls, Space Invaders (LARB)
• Girls, The Other Shoe (LARB)

• The end of the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spin-offs (The Week)
• From Titanic to Downsizing: How American Fantasies have shrunk (The Week)
• HBO’s Confederate and the creative bankruptcy of prestige TV (The Week)
• How The Last Jedi divided Star Wars fans (The Week)
• TV’s New Girls Club (The New York Times Magazine)
• The politics of Superbowl ads (in 2017, in 2018, The Week)
• Awards Shows (Golden Globes Time’s Up movement, politics of Academy Awards nominations,
• TV dystopias, afterlives, and purgatories (The Week)
• Against Pop Freud (Dear Television at The Los Angeles Review of Books))
• Just Another Princess Movie (The New Inquiry)
• Why We Watch Netflix in the Middle of The Night (Dear TV at The Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Marty, The Monster (LARB)

• High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip (Avidly)
• No to Profit: Fighting 40 Years of Privatized Education in Chile (The Boston Review)
• Interview with ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos on the Student Movement Against the Privatization of Education (El Mostrador) (In Spanish)
• Limit Points
• Dear Mark Yudof: The Cemetery You Manage Can Hear You