Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall (born October 19, 1973) is an American television reviewer and writer. He spent 14 years as a columnist with ''The Star-Ledger'' in Newark until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix. He then wrote for ''Uproxx'', where he worked for two years. Since 2018, he has been the chief TV critic for ''Rolling Stone''.

Sepinwall began writing about television with reviews of ''NYPD Blue'' while attending the University of Pennsylvania, which led to his job at ''The Star-Ledger''. In 2007, immediately after ''The Sopranos'' ended, series creator David Chase granted his sole interview to Sepinwall. In 2009, Sepinwall openly urged NBC to renew the action-comedy series ''Chuck'', and NBC Entertainment co-president Ben Silverman sarcastically credited Sepinwall for the show's revival.

Slate.com said Sepinwall "changed the nature of television criticism" and called him the "acknowledged king of the form" with regard to weekly episode recaps and reviews. Sepinwall and television critic Dan Fienberg hosted a podcast at HitFix called ''Firewall & Iceberg'', in which they discussed and reviewed television until October 2015. During his time at Uproxx, Sepinwall hosted a podcast called ''TV Avalanche'' with fellow television critic Brian Grubb. Provided by Wikipedia