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Willa Paskin is Slate’s television critic.

Television
Dec. 4 2013 12:16 PMNoir! What Is It Good For?Well, it makes TNT’s Mob City pretty watchable, for starters.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 27 2013 7:15 AMAwwwwwwwwwwwwww!Animal Planet gets into the adorable-video business.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 24 2013 10:00 PMHomeland’s Middle East Peace PlanWhen did you start laughing at this episode?Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 18 2013 7:00 AMAlmost Human and Sleepy HollowTwo new Fox dramas are silly enough to be serious about race.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 15 2013 8:44 AMPrimed for ComedyAmazon launches into the original-series world with its D.C. comedy Alpha House.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 10 2013 10:00 PMSaul Wins This RoundBut is it his last?Willa Paskin
Brow Beat
Nov. 4 2013 10:17 AMThe Weird, Sloppy, Occasionally Delightful YouTube Music AwardsWilla Paskin
Television
Nov. 3 2013 10:00 PMWHYYYYYY?????!!!!!Why?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 31 2013 10:04 AMThe Walking Dead, With BrainsThe amazing new French TV series The Returned.Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 25 2013 7:38 AMNothing Lives ForeverNBC tries to keep the vampire trend going a little bit longer with Dracula.Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 22 2013 11:40 PMThe Best Competition Show on TV Features Children Cooking Escargot
Television
Oct. 20 2013 10:10 PMFinally, Homeland Takes a Twist!I’m so happy I don’t even care it doesn’t make sense!Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 15 2013 4:11 PMA Donkey in Fox’s Clothing?Megyn Kelly’s new show reminds liberals she’s not the Fox News anchor of their dreams.Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 13 2013 10:00 PMWelcome to Caracas, Brody!Did we mention there’s a $10 million bounty on your head?Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 9 2013 2:08 PMAmerican Horror Story: CovenThe third season demonstrates once again that great TV doesn’t have to be self-serious.Willa Paskin
Television
Dec. 1 2013 11:24 PMHomeland Should Just Embrace the Fantasy'Cause it sure isn't working as an incisive political drama.Willa Paskin
Brow Beat
Nov. 25 2013 2:35 PMWhen Diane Keaton Played a Pot-Smoking Stand-in for Nikki FinkeWilla Paskin
Television
Nov. 22 2013 10:30 AMGetting OnI’ve never laughed so hard about the frail and failing elderly.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 17 2013 10:00 PMHomeland’s Smashmortion ProblemWould Carrie Mathison really have a baby?Willa Paskin
How We Watch Now
Nov. 13 2013 11:48 PMThe Dirty Secret of Binge-WatchingIt’s not as innovative as Netflix would like you to believe.Willa Paskin
How We Watch Now
Nov. 8 2013 1:49 PMCan I Watch Scandal by Only Reading Twitter?Maybe TV’s most-social drama is so tweetable that I don’t even have to watch it.Willa Paskin
Television
Nov. 3 2013 11:45 PMThe Guilt-Free AntiheroJames Spader in The Blacklist, the hit series that lets you have your darkness and enjoy it too.Willa Paskin
Brow Beat
Nov. 3 2013 4:27 PMSaturday Night Live Addressed Its Race Problem With Humor. That’s Not Enough.Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 27 2013 10:02 PMCareer Counseling With Saul BerensonIs he really cut out to be CIA director if he doesn’t even know that some other guy is gonna be made CIA director?Willa Paskin
Outward
Oct. 24 2013 9:30 AMLesbians Are Having a TV Moment. Where Are the Gay Men?Willa Paskin
Television
Oct. 21 2013 11:17 AMI Know That You’re Gonna Have It Your Way or Nothing at AllVH1’s TLC biopic CrazySexyCool.Willa Paskin
Movies
Oct. 16 2013 5:28 PMBurton and TaylorDominic West and Helena Bonham Carter star as the poster children for how fame warps stars.Willa Paskin
Brow Beat
Oct. 14 2013 1:11 PMAlec Baldwin’s New Show Is Basically My Dinner With AlecWilla Paskin
Brow Beat
Oct. 11 2013 11:41 AMLast Night’s Glee Was a Very Moving SpectacleWilla Paskin
Television
Oct. 9 2013 12:14 PMTelekinetic Teens! Sexy Vamp-wolves! Mary Queen of Scots, but She’s Psychic!Just another fall season on the CW.Willa Paskin

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