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

Breeders (FX)

“Breeders” feels your parenting pain and cusses right along with you

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Isa Briones and Patrick Stewart, "Star Trek: Picard" (CBS All Access)

In these darkest of times “Star Trek: Picard” is a humane light from a distant, possible future

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Ava DuVernay (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Ava DuVernay talks to Salon about her revolutionary — but not political — series “Cherish the Day”

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Caleb Malis, Azhy Robertson, and Morgan Spector in "The Plot Against America" (Michele K. Short/HBO)

“When do we stop being safe here?”: How the U.S. resembles this HBO show’s scary alternate history

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Washington Nationals' Victor Robles watches his ball as he hits a solo home run off New York Yankees pitcher Jonathan Loaisiga during the third inning of a spring training baseball game, Thursday, March 12, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Do you miss sports? It’s always game day somewhere streaming on your TV

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Octavia Spencer in "Self Made" (Amanda Matlovich/Netflix)

Netflix’s lush “Self Made” deftly glams up an underexposed history

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Alison Pill in "Devs" (FX)

Given the current state of affairs, “Devs” might be more hopeful than it initially looked

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Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Two weeks of supplies: What should be on your disaster grocery list

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Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

“Little Fires Everywhere” is a gripping, soapy reminder that yesterday’s ills are still present

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Evan Rachel Wood in "Westworld" (John P. Johnson/HBO)

“Westworld” rides towards its manifest destiny, this time in a straighter line

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Hillary (Hulu)

“Hillary” director reflects on the “self-fulfilling prophecy” on women running for president

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Dylan O'Brien in "Amazing Stories" (Apple TV+)

The “Amazing Stories” reboot doesn’t live up to its name, but it doesn’t have to

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Nick Offerman in "Devs" (Miya Mizuno/FX)

“Devs” is Alex Garland’s aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story

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Better Things (Pamela Littky/FX)

Pamela Adlon wants you to let “Better Things” wash away the anger

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Steve Kornacki on MSNBC's live coverage of Super Tuesday 2020 (MSNBC)

Ain’t no party like an MSNBC party, even on this weirdly sober Super Tuesday

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MSNBC Commentator Chris Matthews / Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (AP Photo/Dreamworks)

Goodbye Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s reigning Ron Burgundy

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Outlander Ice Cream (Jeni's/Widen/Salon)

Sassenachs, this “Outlander” ice cream is worth your time . . . and a few hours of effort

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Jason Segel and Eve Lindley in "Dispatches From Elsewhere" (Zach Dilgard/AMC)

“Dispatches From Elsewhere” casts a wondrous spell, but can it overcome our cynicism?

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson in "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (HGTV)

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is back, just in the nick of (the worst of) times

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Anthony Mackie in "Altered Carbon" (Diya Pera / Netflix)

“Altered Carbon” returns with a familiar story in a new skin, and not necessarily for the better

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Rhea Seehorn & Bob Odenkirk in "Better Call Saul" (Warrick Page/AMC/ Sony Pictures)

“Better Call Saul” star Bob Odenkirk: Season 5 will go “more wrong than it’s ever gone” before

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Andrew Yang and Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/Salon)

Warren fought back at the media erasure that felled other candidates by stealing Bloomberg’s show

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Logan Lerman and Al Pacino in "Hunters" (Christopher Saunders / Amazon)

Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon’s “Hunters” is the show for you

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“Fresh Off the Boat” stars Randall Park as Louis Huang, Constance Wu as Jessica Huang, Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang, Ian Chen as Evan Huang, Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang and Lucille Soong as Grandma Huang. (ABC/Bob D’Amico)

“Fresh Off the Boat” didn’t transform the sitcom as we know it, but that’s why it mattered

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