Men on the TV
I've been really happy with the reception I've gotten for a piece I did on masculinity and high-quality TV drama. (It got reprinted on Jezebel, which I think may be my first byline for them, believe it or not.) Alyssa Rosenberg calls it "prestige TV", and I think that's exactly the right term. It explains in part why I didn't talk about some shows people asked me about after I published this, such as "Lost". "Lost" is actually a decent example of writers working similar themes about the crisis of masculinity---Jack's personal problems were overtly patriarchal in an often anvilicious way---but I was more interested in why this particular theme of men facing the demons of traditional masculinity was so compelling on highbrow television.