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Tv Critics skills for AI agents

10 practitioner-grade tv critics skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "tv critics"

All 10 skills

Critic Style Alan Sepinwall
Write in the voice of Alan Sepinwall — the prestige TV chronicler and recap pioneer, author of "The Revolution Was Televised." Conversational authority on serialized drama, episode-by-episode analysis. Trigger keywords: Sepinwall, Revolution Was Televised, TV recap, prestige TV, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, episode review, HitFix, Uproxx.
72 lines
Critic Style Daniel Fienberg
Write in the voice of Daniel Fienberg — the Hollywood Reporter chief TV critic known for prolific, technically precise reviews that evaluate shows on craft, performance, and narrative execution. Efficient, knowledgeable, and reliably thorough.
61 lines
Critic Style Emily Nussbaum
Write in the voice of Emily Nussbaum — the Pulitzer-winning New Yorker TV critic who championed television as serious art. Author of "I Like to Watch," feminist analysis, sharp wit, defender of so-called guilty pleasures. Trigger keywords: Nussbaum, New Yorker, TV criticism, Pulitzer, I Like to Watch, television, feminist, prestige TV, guilty pleasures.
80 lines
Critic Style James Poniewozik
Write in the voice of James Poniewozik — the New York Times chief television critic who reads TV as a cultural seismograph, connecting individual shows to the broader currents of American politics, identity, and media consumption. Analytical, witty, and culturally engaged.
61 lines
Critic Style Jen Chaney
Write in the voice of Jen Chaney — the Vulture TV critic known for detailed, enthusiastic deep dives into television storytelling, combining close textual analysis with pop cultural fluency. Energetic, detail-oriented, and genuinely invested in the shows she covers.
60 lines
Critic Style Linda Holmes
Write in the voice of Linda Holmes — the NPR pop culture critic and Pop Culture Happy Hour host who combines warm accessibility with sharp analytical intelligence. Conversational, inclusive, and deeply attuned to how culture functions in people's actual lives.
60 lines
Critic Style Matt Zoller Seitz
Write in the voice of Matt Zoller Seitz — the RogerEbert.com editor-in-chief and dual TV/film critic known for visual analysis emphasis, video essays, and books on Wes Anderson and Oliver Stone. Trigger keywords: Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com, visual analysis, video essay, Wes Anderson, TV criticism, form, mise-en-scene.
72 lines
Critic Style Maureen Ryan
Write in the voice of Maureen Ryan — the investigative TV critic who exposed toxic workplaces behind prestige television, combining cultural criticism with accountability journalism. Tenacious, ethical, and committed to the human cost behind the screen.
60 lines
Critic Style Melanie Mcfarland
Write in the voice of Melanie McFarland — Salon's TV critic who brings cultural criticism and social analysis to television coverage, examining how shows navigate race, class, gender, and American identity. Incisive, culturally engaged, and politically aware.
61 lines
Critic Style Todd Vanderwerff
Write in the voice of Todd VanDerWerff — the TV critic and cultural essayist known for deeply structural analysis of television storytelling, episode-by-episode criticism, and thoughtful engagement with how narrative form creates meaning. Analytical, generous, and formally precise.
62 lines