Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall has been writing about television for more than a quarter century and is considered one of the preeminent voices in the world of TV criticism. He has written or cowritten many books on the medium, including The Revolution Was Televised, TV (The Book), The Sopranos Sessions, Breaking Bad 101, and Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill. From 2018–2025 he served as the chief TV critic at Rolling Stone, prior to which he worked as the lead TV columnist for the Star-Ledger newspaper of New Jersey, as well as a television critic for HitFix and Uproxx. Slate has said Sepinwall “changed the nature of television criticism” and called him the “acknowledged king of the form.”