In this week’s New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Emily Nussbaum talks about the latest season of “Mad Men” with Sasha Weiss and Michael Agger: http://nyr.kr/19hb5yt

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Amy Davidson on “The Americans,” a show about “delusions—romantic, political, bureaucratic, tactical, marital…”: http://nyr.kr/150Zeb6

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“Winnie Cooper was, in a sense, the first pretty girl to smile at me—at all of us—and for that reason, because of her benevolence and sympathy—because she appeared to understand—she continues to endure while so many others have fallen away.” 

Mike Spies on the cultural impact of The Wonder Years’s Winnie Cooper: http://nyr.kr/11BGwlE

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Cartoon by Danny Shanahan. For more: http://nyr.kr/XRcARE

Shouts & Murmurs - We got our hands on a working copy of the script for Episode One/Season Four of “Downton Abbey,” or, the worst Badger Counting Day the Dowager Countess ever knew: http://nyr.kr/ZH1G3S

“By constantly recycling established works, we may remain trapped.”

Ian Crouch on “Parades End,” a five-part interpretation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel coming to HBO on Tuesday night, and television adaptations: http://nyr.kr/X9gXHX

Photograph by Nick Briggs.

Emily Nussbuam on “House of Cards,” “Scandal,” and her Team Brian attitude to “The Office”: http://nyr.kr/Z39j0t 

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Last week, I wrote a column about Lena Dunham’s HBO show “Girls.” I had a bunch of abstract, cranky, intellectual goals: I wanted to pluck “Girls” out of the debate about Millennials, for starters. I wanted to analyze its critical reception. I wanted to put the discussion of “privilege” in a different light. And I wanted to talk about “Girls” specifically as television.

But that’s just one way of doing criticism, and last night’s excellent episode, “One Man’s Trash,” deserves a more direct response…

Emily Nussbaum writes about the sex scene on last night’s episode of “Girls”: http://nyr.kr/XCn2KG

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