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

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Axel Springer Award 2020 in Berlin (Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images)

In hosting “Saturday Night Live” Elon Musk pulls the supervillain ploy of taking an audience hostage

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Josh Duhamel in "Jupiter's Legacy" (Steve Wilkie/Netflix)

Netflix’s self-serious “Jupiter’s Legacy” is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker

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Busy Philipps, Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Paula Pell in "Girls5Eva" (Heidi Gutman/Peacock)

“Girls5eva” is a feel-good story about what happens when one-hit wonders get a second chance

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Ming-Na Wen in "The Mandalorian" (Disney+)

A tribute to “Star Wars” badass Fennec Shand, a Force-free hero more aspirational than any princess

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Pose (FX Networks)

“Pose” kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism

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Yasuke (Netflix)

Netflix’s stunning “Yasuke” spins a fantastical Black samurai story, but needs more space to swing

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Elizabeth Moss in "The Handmaid's Tale" (Sophie Giraud/Hulu)

Hulu’s tiresome “Handmaid’s Tale” should learn from the sins of “Planet of the Apes”

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Michael Greyeyes in "Rutherford Falls" (Colleen Hayes/Peacock)

Yes, Native American culture exists, and “Rutherford Falls” digs into our collective “blind spots”

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In this handout photo provided by A.M.P.A.S., (L-R) Joshua James Richards, Dan Janvey, Mollye Asher, Peter Spears, Charlene Swankie, Chloé Zhao, Linda May, and Frances McDormand accept the Best Picture award for "Nomadland" onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)

“Nomadland” wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices

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Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in "Shadow and Bone" (Netflix)

In Netflix’s defiant “Shadow and Bone,” The Chosen One gets bent in the best way

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Anthony Mackie in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (Disney+/Marvel)

If only “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” had the guts and time to “get weird” enough for TV

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Joe Biden as Ned Stark from "Game Of Thrones" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/HBO)

On the Iron Anniversary of “Game of Thrones,” here’s hoping Joe Biden doesn’t go Ned Stark on us

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Robin Thede in "A Black Lady Sketch Show" (HBO)

Robin Thede says “A Black Lady Sketch Show” returns more ridiculous than ever to “bring some joy”

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Ed Helms as Nathan Rutherford, Michael Greyeyes as Terry Tarbell, and Jana Schmieding as Reagan Wells in "Rutherford Falls" (Photo illustration by Salon/Justin Stephens/Peacock)

In comedy “Rutherford Falls,” Ed Helms is a nice guy who prefers the myth of his whitewashed history

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Kate Winslet in "Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

With HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” come for the murder but stay for Kate Winslet and Jean Smart

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Tashira, Dr. Orna Guralnik and Dru in "Couples Therapy" (Showtime)

“Couples Therapy” is back with “something almost miraculous” born from our shared crisis

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Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson (aka Falcon) in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (Chuck Zlotnick/Disney+/Marvel Studios)

The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”

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Mason Temple and Antonia Gentry in "Ginny & Georgia" (Netflix)

Let’s have a cringey talk about multiracial identity, from “Ginny & Georgia” to Harry and Meghan

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"Diane" and Ray Romano in "Made for Love" (HBO Max)

“Made For Love” and the twist ending that asks what we’ll compromise for technology

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Laura Donnelly in "The Nevers" (Keith Bernstein/HBO)

“The Nevers” is nothing more than a recycled Victorian version of every Joss Whedon show you’ve seen

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Them (Amazon)

Scare goes the neighborhood in Amazon’s “Them,” where trauma porn collides with our visceral reality

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Danielle Brooks in "Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia" (Lifetime)

In Lifetime’s joyful “Mahalia,” Danielle Brooks’ song and fury triumphs over a tepid script

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Jenna Coleman and Tahar Rahim in "The Serpent" (Netflix)

“The Serpent” is Netflix’s seductive serial killer drama that ultimately lacks legs

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Made For Love (HBO)

Dark comedy “Made for Love” is a “Black Mirror”-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic

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