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

John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in "Doctor Who" (James Pardon/BBC Studios/BBCA)

Like 2020, “Revolution of the Daleks” is dark. The heroic Captain Jack insists “hope is still there”

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Cobra Kai (Netflix)

In its third season, “Cobra Kai’s” one-note villain knocks it off its game

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Sarah Cooper in "Everything's Fine" | J. Lo and Shakira | Jackie Tohn and Kia Stevens in "Glow" (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix)

Wait, that happened this year? A reminder of the TV events that 2020 erased from our memories

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Laverne Cox in Disclosure (Ava Benjamin Shorr/Netflix)

“Disclosure” director Sam Feder on the trans TV experience: “People don’t know what they don’t know”

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I May Destroy You | Better Call Saul | What We Do in the Shadows (Photo illustration by Salon/Warner Media Group/AMC/FX)

The best TV shows of 2020 that made staying at home bearable

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Pedro Pascal as "The Mandalorian" (Disney+)

Is this the way? “The Mandalorian” depicts struggling belief more realistically than that last Jedi

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Bridgerton (Netflix)

“Bridgerton” is Netflix’s randy costume confection that you’ll want to put in your face straightaway

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Alice in Borderland (Netflix)

Forget “The Stand” – “Alice in Borderland” is the wild dystopian ride we’ve been waiting for

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Homelander of "The Boys" | Barack Obama (PHoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Amazon Studios)

Obama releases his TV Top 10 List, reminding Americans that he (unlike Trump) is just like us

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SNL Host Kristen Wiig during the Monologue on Saturday, May 9, 2020 (NBC)

Oh joy! Kristen Wiig comes home to “SNL” for a holiday edition rife with promise and peril

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Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag and Glynn Turman as Toledo, in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (David Lee/NETFLIX)

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”: Chadwick Boseman’s finale performance is stunning

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The Stand (Robert Falconer/CBS)

“The Stand” is barely alive enough to capture this year’s “end of the world as we know it” vibe

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Small Axe (Amazon Studios)

“Education” culminates Amazon’s “Small Axe” film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle

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Sean Spicer | Newsmax (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Watching Newsmax, the Fox News challenger: Like home shopping TV for dangerous far-right fantasies

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The Mandalorian (Disney+)

The success of “The Mandalorian” made spinoffs inevitable – but at the expense of originality

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Big Mouth (Netflix)

Even beyond the voice recast, “Big Mouth” nails the adventures of an awkward Black girl

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Biscuit-Topped Pot Pie (Getty Images)

This versatile biscuit-topped pot pie is the perfect dish for your leftover holiday turkey or meat

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Jason Sudeikis stars in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)

The “Ted Lasso” way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced

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Your Honor (SHOWTIME)

Bryan Cranston is breaking bad in familiar ways for Showtime’s dark thriller “Your Honor”

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Baby Chimp Rescue (AMC)

“Baby Chimp Rescue” is just as adorable as you expect, and surprisingly emotional as well

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LeVar Burton | Jeopardy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Our wish for the future host of “Jeopardy!”: Who is LeVar Burton?

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Trafficked (National Geographics)

Nat Geo’s “Trafficked” delves into the criminal underworld, while putting its reporter at risk

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Hugh Grant (Warner Media Group)

How Hugh Grant’s charming villain who plays the victim embodies 2020

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Jason Schwartzman, E'myri Crutchfield, and Ben Whishaw in "Fargo" (Matthias Clamer/FX)

“Fargo” season 4 has spun a complex, compelling American fable of race and crime

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