Dear Television ended a fun year by recapping all of our favorite things for the LARB blog. From favorite performances to favorite and least favorite episodes to our year-end GIFstravaganza, it’s all here. I wrote about Kristen Schaal’s performance as Louise on Bob’s Burgers, my favorite episode of Game of Thrones, and why Mad Men was such a compulsively GIFfable series thisContinue reading “DEAR TV 2013”
Monthly Archives: December 2013
THE SING OFF!
In what will hopefully become a holiday tradition, the wonderful Jane Hu and I wrote about NBC’s The Sing-Off and our shared love of a cappella music for The Hairpin: Phil: Yes, Jane! “Keep A Cappella Weird.” Speaking of the future, though, if you and I were looking to put together an a cappella group for next year’s Sing-Off, whatContinue reading “THE SING OFF!”
ARCADE FIRE!
This week, Dear Television wrote about music videos, and I turned in a #longread post on all three of Arcade Fire’s music videos for their single, “Afterlife.” “This video is good because Gerwig is dancing to the song. Part of what makes the [Black Orpheus] lyric video so uncanny and ultimately uncomfortable is that the dancers inContinue reading “ARCADE FIRE!”
