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

Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell in "The Shrink Next Door" (Apple TV+)

“The Shrink Next Door” is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell

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Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson in "Passing" (Netflix)

Thanks to its stars, “Passing” is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white

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Michael Brown Sr. holds a painting of Jr. donated by an artist on "Ferguson Rises" (Rafael Roy/PBS)

“Ferguson Rises” explains why America needs its modern civil rights movement through a father’s eyes

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Michael C. Hall in "Dexter: New Blood" (Seacia Pavao/SHOWTIME)

“Dexter: New Blood” is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure

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Four Seasons Total Documentary (MSNBC)

“Four Seasons Total Documentary” captures the Trump campaign’s emperor-has-no-clothes moment

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Jason Sudeikis and Sarah Niles in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

The “Ted Lasso” way to make shortbread fit for “Biscuits with the Boss”

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Jennifer Aniston on "The Morning Show" (Apple TV+)

“The Morning Show” finally finds its raison d’etre as a satire about workplace toxicity

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Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang in "Love Hard" (Bettina Strauss/Netflix)

“Love Hard,” a holiday catfish story masquerading as a romance, is a swipe right and a miss

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Larry David on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (John P. Johnson/ HBO)

Between “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Succession,” TV presents the fall (and rise) of old white guys

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Matt Berry in "What We Do in the Shadows" (Russ Martin/ FX)

“What We Do in the Shadows” proves the first law of thermodynamics with its refreshing cliffhanger

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Colin Kaepernick in "Colin in Black & White" (Netflix)

Netflix’s new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject

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Love Life (Sarah Shatz/HBO Max)

“Love Life” resets the rom-com by presenting a Black man’s perspective on what it’s like “out there”

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Issa Rae in "Insecure" (Merie Wallace/HBO)

“Insecure” to the end: Issa Rae’s groundbreaking comedy sails into its final season

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Kayvan Novak as Nandor and Harvey Guillén as Guillermo in "What We Do in the Shadows" (Russ Martin: FX)

Why the latest “What We Do in the Shadows” twist makes sense in The Great Resignation era

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Meghan McCain on "The View" (ABC/Lou Rocco)

From Hasselbeck to McCain, “The View” needs the “right” hook when casting its conservative co-host

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Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in "Dune" (Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures)

“Dune” is the masterful adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic we’ve been waiting for

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Only Murders In The Building (Barbara Nitke/Hulu)

“Only Murders in the Building” boss on the killer, who’s back next season and a case for rewatching

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Brian Cox as Logan Roy in "Succession" (Graeme Hunter/HBO)

“Succession” returns after two years, and the Roy family hasn’t changed a bit

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Great British Bake Off (Netflix)

The seasonal joy of “The Great British Baking Show”

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Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in "You" (JOHN P. FLEENOR/NETFLIX)

The latest “You” makes a killing in the ‘burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we’d rather ignore

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Michael Keaton in "Dopesick" (Antony Platt/Hulu)

“Dopesick” is an ineffective prescription for telling the story of the opioid crisis

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Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis and Brett Goldstein in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

In the final analysis, “Ted Lasso” is all about a man, a team and their daddy issues

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Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fox News: 25 years of making everyone’s lives progressively crappier

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Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in "Scenes from a Marriage" (Jojo Whilden/HBO)

“Scenes from a Marriage” boss Hagai Levi on empowering the wife to leave: “I have to fight for her”

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