If we set aside the esteemed John Leonard and Sasha Frere-Jones for a moment, critics of sound mind generally like to write in plain English about stuff that matters for an audience that cares. Like it or not, this means television, and the Partisan Review of television is Television Without Pity, where anonymous fans rehash and synopsize last night’s backlit drone in prose that’s often three or four times as amusing as the episodes themselves.Television Without Pity.