Melanie McFarland is the TV Critic for Salon.com. Prior to that was IMDb's TV Editor and the TV critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving on the 2004 and 2005 juries for American Film Institute's 10 Most Outstanding TV Programs of the Year. McFarland also served on the Board of the George Foster Peabody Awards between 2006 and 2012 and has been featured as an expert on CNN, NPR, American Public Media, and the BBC. She has been a member of the Television Critics Association since 2003. Her work has appeared in The Oregonian, the Chicago Tribune, RollingStone.com, Rotten Tomatoes and Variety.
