Lili Loofbourow

Culture critic

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.

A television remote and a prescription form.

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Analysis

I prescribe TV shows to people based on their life problems. Here's one for you.

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Analysis

Westworld is globalizing

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Opinion

Thanos is America

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Analysis

The mysterious Christian symbolism of Westworld

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Opinion

The lessons of Bill Cosby's dizzying downfall

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Analysis

Killing Eve's lethal femininity

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Analysis

Westworld is playing a new game

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Analysis

The 15 biggest questions going into Westworld's second season

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Opinion

Comey's big interview was a masterclass in civics

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Analysis

Legion is finally starting to make sense

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Opinion

Beyond the pee tape

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Analysis

Silicon Valley is better without T.J. Miller

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Analysis

The brutal referendum of Paterno

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Analysis

How Chappaquiddick rewrites the Great Man Tragedy

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Analysis

The emptiness of Ready Player One

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Analysis

The Americans is still the best show on television

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Analysis

The new Roseanne is unexpectedly good

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Opinion

The Stormy Daniels scandal is not gossip

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Analysis

Lost on Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs

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Analysis

The biggest liar of The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Students protest in front of the White House

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Analysis

Young people are cleverly using imagery to change the conversation on gun violence

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Opinion

Stormy Daniels is crushing President Trump at his own game

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Opinion

A Wrinkle in Time isn't very good. That's okay.

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Analysis

Jessica Jones' second season might be even better than the first

Frances McDormand accepts the Oscar for best actress

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Analysis

Frances McDormand's cryptic Oscars speech could start a revolution in Hollywood

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Analysis

Will the #MeToo movement upend the Oscars' red carpet charade?

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Analysis

Bewildered in Atlanta

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Analysis

Heather Graham's #MeToo comedy needs to be taken seriously

Marco Rubio and students at a CNN town hall.

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Opinion

The CNN town hall on gun control was a failure. And that's good for our democracy.

Opinion

Fifty Shades and the secret compromises of women

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Analysis

Inside Black Panther's all-black universe

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Analysis

The sexist myth of the Winchester Mystery House

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Analysis

This year's awful Super Bowl ads show America's corporations are freaking out

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Analysis

High Maintenance gets paranoid

Analysis

The Good Place crashes back to Earth

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Opinion

The female price of male pleasure