Alan Sepinwall is an American television reviewer and writer. He gre up in Pine Brook, N.J. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began writing television reviews during his sophomore year in 1993. Sepinwall began working as The Star-Ledger's television columnist in 1996. He spent 14 years there until leaving the newspaper in 2010 to work for the entertainment news website HitFix. He reviews as many as 15 television shows each week.