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

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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Jeri Ryan in "Picard" (Jeri Ryan; Picard)

“Star Trek”: Watch Picard and Seven of Nine discuss their Borg past in this exclusive sneak peek

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The Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (Reuters/Gus Ruelas)

“Amazon Empire” is PBS’ frightening look at Jeff Bezos’ relentless capitalist success story

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Gayle King speaks at the 62nd Grammy Awards Nominations at CBS Broadcast Center on November 20, 2019 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

When Snoop Dogg and the trolls came for Gayle King, most of us said nothing. That’s a problem

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Xosha Roquemore & Alano Miller in "Cherish the Day" / Zoe Kravitz in "High Fidelity" (Steven Baffo/Warner Bros./OWN/Phillip Caruso/Hulu)

Romancing the music: “High Fidelity” and “Cherish the Day” find affection in their art

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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)

Samantha Bee teases big election coverage, from presidential harassment to a strategic joy offensive

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Nicholas Pinnock and Indira Varma in "For Life" (ABC/Giovanni Rufino)

“Power” producer 50 Cent brings a story of wrongful conviction in ABC’s “For Life”

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Bong Joon-ho, right, reacts as he is presented with the award for best picture for "Parasite" from presenter Jane Fonda at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. Looking on from left are Kang-Ho Song and Kwak Sin Ae. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Big wins for “Parasite” including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020

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Claire Danes as Carrie in HOMELAND (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

“Homeland” returns one last time for a final hope of ending an endless war

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U.S. President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with Jim Acosta of CNN after giving remarks a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

How can the media earn back the trust of viewers? Stop playing by Trump’s rules for coverage

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Tommy (CBS)

“Tommy” is bracing and earnestly woke, maybe even too much for CBS’ audience

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Diahann Carroll, Barry Jenkins, Nathalie Emmanuel, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jill Scott, and John Boyega (Simon Frederick/Array/Netflix)

“They’ve Gotta Have Us” could have made history, if it weren’t missing so much of it

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Shakira and Jennifer Lopez perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez stun in a stealthily political Super Bowl halftime show

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Don Lemon (Mike Pont/Getty Images)

Don Lemon, this is no laughing matter

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