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Melanie McFarland is Salon's award-winning senior culture critic. Follow her on Bluesky: @McTelevision

Chocolate Bar with Coconut (Getty Images/alpaksoy)

In defense of loving Mounds candy bars

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Jada Pinkett Smith on "Red Table Talk" (Red Table Talk/Facebook Watch/Jordan Fisher)

Why “Red Table Talk” is the closest inheritor to Oprah’s mantle as TV’s great celebrity confessional

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A woman stands at a memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue after a shooting there left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting” is a warning, and a message of resilience

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Steve Carell as Alan Strauss in "The Patient" (Suzanne Tenner/FX)

“The Patient” creators on using Holocaust imagery when antisemitism is spiking: “It feels true”

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Matt Smith as Daemon Targaryen in "House of the Dragon" (HBO)

“House of the Dragon” ending flames out after a season of inhaling

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Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt in "Interview with the Vampire" (Alfonso Bresciani/AMC)

Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming

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Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in "The Good Fight" (Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+)

“The Good Fight” differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles

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Ethan Hawke sits with Winona Ryder in a scene from the film 'Reality Bites', 1994. (Universal/Getty Images)

Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican

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Madison Taylor Baez as Eleanor and Ian Foreman as Isaiah in "Let The Right One In" (Francisco Roman/SHOWTIME)

“Let the Right One In” files down its fangs for it TV adaptation, preferring to stake the heart

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Jamie Clayton as Pinhead in "Hellraiser" (Spyglass Media Group)

Resurrecting “Hellraiser” Cenobites as part of “an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires”

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Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) and Bobby (Billy Eichner) in "Bros" (Universal Pictures)

The promotion for “Bros” was botched. But its ordinary rom-com trappings may also be to blame

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Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex during the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on September 19, 2022 in London, England (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

“Archetypes”: Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won’t hear it

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"The Great British Baking Show" 2022 cast (Netflix)

“The Great British Bake-Off” adds an attention-grabbing ingredient in the mix this season

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Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer in "DAHMER Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" (Courtesy Of Netflix)

Ryan Murphy’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is an example of the brand undermining the mission

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Trevor Noah attends the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards at L.A. LIVE in 2021. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Trevor Noah isn’t gone yet, but he’ll leave “The Daily Show” better

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Dallas Goldtooth as Spirit, William Knife-Man in "Reservation Dogs" (Shane Brown/FX)

“Reservation Dogs” ends a high-spirited second season with a California dream and cinematic realism

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Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen in "House of the Dragon" (Ollie Upton/HBO)

“House of the Dragon” reminds us that hell hath no fury like an ex-best friend scorned

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Rupert Murdoch (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” CNN gives us a family drama that rivals “Succession”

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Viola Davis stars in "The Woman King" (Sony Pictures/Ilze Kitshoff)

“The Woman King” poses the conundrum of making a great action movie about exceptional killers

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Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's "ANDOR" (Lucasfilm/Disney)

There’s no hiding from it: The politics of “Andor” look a lot like the type troubling our world

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Earth Wind & Fire (David Redfern/Redferns)

On this Earth Wind and Fire Day, remember “September” as a beautiful case of accidental magic

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Milly Alcock and Theo Nate in "House of the Dragon" (Ollie Upton / HBO)

A “House of the Dragon” wedding celebration turns into a crime scene, mainly due to the dancing

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An immigrant family looking at the Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island. circa 1930. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)

With “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns makes a sobering addition to the American story

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US actress Betty Gilpin (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Betty Gilpin on battling “implanted patriarchy” and the exhaustion of women “cycling through selves”

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