New Yorker
Television critic for the New Yorker
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Emily Nussbaum
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Women and TV Season one of HBO’s True Detective wraps up this Sunday. It stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as two detectives investigating murder on the Louisiana Bayou. Critics love it. Your nihilist friend who you previously thought incapable of love… loves it. But like a lot of shows -- both on HBO and elsewhere -- it’s got something of a woman problem. Emily Nussbaum is television critic for the New Yorker and she joins us now to talk about women on TV.
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