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

BoJack Horseman (Netflix)

In a fitting series finale, “BoJack Horseman” finds out what it truly means to be canceled

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Jameela Jamil as Tahani, Manny Jacinto as Jason, D'Arcy Carden as Janet, Kristen Bell as Eleanor, William Jackson Harper as Chidi in "The Good Place" (Colleen Hayes/NBC)

“The Good Place” comes to a worthy end, where it finds the bittersweet joy of what makes us human

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Richard Armitage and Hannah John-Kamen in "The Stranger" (Netflix)

Netflix’s “The Stranger” is an anxiety-inducing thriller that asks how well you know your loved ones

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Geraldine Viswanathan and Steve Buscemi in "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" (Stanislav Honzík/TBS)

Sweet but unchallenging, “Miracle Workers: Dark Ages” dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb

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How To Get Away With Murder / NCIS / Law & Order (ABC/CBS/NBC)

Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here’s the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers

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Hillary (Hulu/Barbara Kinney)

“Hillary” review: Scorching contempt is this trailblazer’s lot in Hulu’s candid Clinton docuseries

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Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD (James Dimmock/CBS)

“Star Trek: Picard” marks the engaging return of the Enterprise’s greatest captain

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Pamela Adlon on "Better Things" (Beth Dubber/FX/Getty Images/Salon)

This “Better Things” chili is a homemade meal to warm the body and soul

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Awkwafina in "Nora From Queens" (Zach Dilgard/Comedy Central)

Awkwafina’s “Nora From Queens” channels “Broad City” but must hone its own rowdy identity

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Mare Winningham and Ben Mendelsohn in "The Outsider" (Bob Mahoney/HBO)

“The Outsider”: Crafting Stephen King’s suburban horror despite a New York state of mind

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Hugh Laurie in "Avenue 5" (Alex Bailey/HBO)

“Veep” creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO’s wacky comedy “Avenue 5”

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Conphidance in “Little America” (Apple TV+)

“Little America” is a joyful roadtrip through the American dream in Apple TV+’s best series yet

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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu)

Hillary Clinton discusses being “the Rorschach test for women” and urges voters to take out Trump

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Jude Law and John Malkovich in "The New Pope" (Gianni Fiorito/HBO)

“The New Pope” is still sexy and it knows it

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Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo in "The Outsider" (Bob Mahoney/HBO)

The slow dread of “The Outsider,” HBO’s series that defies Stephen King expectations

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Press secretary Ari Fleischer, "American Experience: George W. Bush" panel for PBS at TCA press tour (PBS)

Why Ari Fleischer is against resurrecting the extinct White House press briefings

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On the heels of the iconic Tournament of Champions, “JEOPARDY!” is coming to ABC in a multiple consecutive night event with “JEOPARDY! The Greatest of All Time,” premiering TUESDAY, JAN. 7 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. Hosted by Alex Trebek, “JEOPARDY! The Greatest of All Time” is produced by Sony Pictures Television. (ABC/Eric McCandless)

Alex Trebek reveals how he’ll decide when it’s finally time to leave “Jeopardy!”

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Party Of Five (Freeform)

“Party of Five” reboots the ’90s classic with a family orphaned by deportation

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Host Ricky Gervais speaks onstage during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Why the Golden Globes and host Ricky Gervais felt particularly pointless

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Better Things, Fleabag, The Good Place, and Russian Doll (FX/Netflix/Amazon/NBC)

As the world burns, existential TV reflects viewers’ needs to make sense of life

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Dracula (Netflix)

Netflix’s “Dracula”: Put a stake in it – it’s not well done

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split of Pedro Pascal as a Mandalorian bounty hunter and Henry Cavill as The Witcher (Disney+/Netflix)

“The Witcher” and “The Mandalorian,” heroes of the gig economy

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Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor, Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien - Doctor Who Season 12 (Ben Blackall/BBC Studios/BBC America)

Before the first female 007 debuts, Jodie Whittaker’s “Doctor Who” gets into the spy game

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Taveeta Szymanowicz as Riri Curtis, Marlo Kelly as Beth Cassidy in DARE ME (Rafy/USA Network)

In USA’s clever potboiler “Dare Me,” mean girls can be murder

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