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

The Big Flower Fight (Netflix)

“The Big Flower Fight” is Netflix’s unnecessary reality floral arrangement

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Daveed Diggs in "Snowpiercer" (Warner Media/TNT/Justina Mintz)

“Snowpiercer” isn’t a disaster train, but it’s not a joyride either

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Insecure (Warner Media/HBO/Merie W. Wallace)

The “Insecure” BFF breakup was inevitable – and what makes this season so great

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Nick (Christophe Tek), Peter (Nicholas Hoult) and Catherine (Elle Fanning) of the series "The Great" (Ollie Upton/Hulu)

“The Great” is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we’ve been waiting for

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Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart of the series "The Good Fight" (CBS All Access)

“The Good Fight” maps a way to pull victory out of a string of losses

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Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm and Cate Blanchett As Phyllis Schlafly in "Mrs. America" (Sabrina Lantos/FX)

“The patriarchy will not shift”: Cate Blanchett and Uzo Aduba discuss the “Mrs. America” gut punch

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Mark Ruffalo in "I Know This Much Is True" (HBO)

“I Know This Much Is True” offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness

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The Eddy (Netflix)

Le sigh! Netflix’s Damien Chazelle drama “The Eddy” mixes jazz with misery

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Michelle Obama in "Becoming" (Netflix)

“Becoming” is a feel-good portrait of Michelle Obama that’s a better concert film than biography

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George W. Bush (Courtesy of George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum)

“This is not a whitewash”: PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series

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Evan Rachel Wood and Aaron Paul in "Westworld" (HBO)

“Westworld” chooses chaos in apocalyptic third season finale

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Damian Lewis in "Billions" (Jeff Neumann/SHOWTIME)

“Billions” is as wild as ever, but its vicious capitalism hits different in our uncertain economy

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Andy Allo in "Upload" (Amazon)

In Amazon’s sci-fi comedy “Upload,” the system is programmed against us, even in the afterlife

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Laura Harrier and Darren Criss in "Hollywood" (Netflix)

Ryan Murphy on “Hollywood”: “I wanted to give a happy ending to so many people who didn’t have it”

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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal in "Normal People" (Hulu)

“Normal People” takes a common teenage love story and matures to a rated-M, sex-driven heartbreak

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Lee Rodriguez as Fabiola Torres, Ramona Young as Eleanor Wong, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi Vishwakumar in "Never Have I Ever" (LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX)

Mindy Kaling’s smart teen sex romp “Never Have I Ever” may be her best series yet

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Natalie Dormer in "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels" (Showtime)

“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”: Glam Nazis menace LA in this high style, no heart spin-off

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Money Raining On Yoga Instructor (Getty Images)

Pay for those Zoom fitness classes if you can. Your instructor needs an income too

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Defending Jacob (AppleTV+)

In taut legal drama “Defending Jacob,” Chris Evans shows up as the daddy America needs

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Reese Witherspoon in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

“Little Fires Everywhere”: An honest finale clears the smoke and reveals signs of hope

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Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill in "Better Call Saul" (Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television)

The “Better Call Saul” point of no return: Jimmy McGill is dead, and Saul Goodman rises

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Kate McKinnon on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

“Saturday Night Live at Home” shows us the honesty in live comedy without an audience

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Kenya Barris and Rashida Jones in "#blackAF" (Netflix)

Netflix’s “#blackAF” is Kenya Barris’ wealthier, shallower, and meaner “Black-ish”

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

“What We Do In the Shadows” was a vampire comedy. Now it’s a feel-good show about quarantine life

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