Lili Loofbourow

Oakland, Calif.

Education: University of Southern California, BS in psychobiology; USC, BA in English; USC, BA in music; University of Alabama, MFA in creative writing

Lili Loofbourow is the television critic for The Washington Post. She previously worked at Slate, where she wrote about news, politics, comedy, gender and internet culture. Before that, she was the Week's staff culture critic. She was a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and has written for venues including the New York Times Magazine, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, the Guardian, PMLA, the Virginia Quarterly Review and the Cut. Loofbourow is based in Oakland, Calif.
Latest from Lili Loofbourow
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  • Perspective

Emmy nominations are always messy. This year, they’re worse.

The 75th Emmy Award nominations were distinguished by an unusually high level of internecine competition.

July 12, 2023

The best television of 2023 so far

'The Bear,' ‘Mrs. Davis,’ ‘Barry,’ ‘Yellowjackets,’ ‘Succession,’ ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘Poker Face’ all make our evolving critics’ list of 2023’s best TV shows

June 23, 2023

FX’s ‘The Bear’ tore down what made it great. It only got better.

In the ambitious second season of "The Bear," the FX show about cooks ups the ante by taking away their kitchen.

June 22, 2023

‘And Just Like That ...’ still doesn’t know what it’s looking for

The second season of "Sex and the City" sequel "And Just Like That ..." premieres June 22 with too many characters and too few ideas.

June 21, 2023

‘The Righteous Gemstones’ is back with foul-mouthed feel-goodery

The third season of HBO comedy "The Righteous Gemstones" is less edgy than sweet, but funny as ever.

June 17, 2023

‘Black Mirror’ turns from the future to rewrite the past

The sixth season of "Black Mirror," which last broadcast in 2019, has an unexpectedly light touch

June 15, 2023
  • TV
  • Perspective

With a strong ending, ‘Succession’ overcame its own character flaws

A dramatic satire of capitalism’s Great Men, HBO's "Succession" sometimes forgot its great men were fallible, craven and wrong. The finale remembered.

May 29, 2023

‘High Desert’ is an antihero comedy with an earnest heart

"High Desert," a new dramedy starring Patricia Arquette, is a joyful experiment in proliferating storylines and schemes.

May 16, 2023

The most harrowing ‘Yellowjackets’ episode isn’t the cannibalism one

We don’t think of childbirth as horror. The Showtime series does.

May 7, 2023

‘Queen Charlotte’ makes ‘Bridgerton’ better

Happy endings are fine on the Netflix show, but what if the fantasy goes wrong?

May 4, 2023