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

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, "The View" (ABC)

“The View” receives Hillary and Chelsea Clinton with uncharacteristic bipartisanship

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(PBS/BBC America)

From fat bears to “Nature”: TV displays our complicated feelings about the natural world

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Folake Olowofoyeku in "Bob Hearts Abishola" and Kal Penn in "Sunnyside" (Michael Yarish/CBS and Colleen Hayes/NBC)

With “Bob Hearts Abishola” and “Sunnyside,” sitcoms are showcasing the immigrant’s story

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Fox's Chris Wallace & MSNBC's Chuck Todd (Getty Images/Salon)

The impeachment party is in full swing with the media as its unprepared host

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Still from Amazon Prime Video's "Transparent" (Amazon Prime Video/EPK/Erin Simkin)

The “Transparent Musicale Finale” is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series

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Ben Platt in the Netflix series "The Politician" (Netflix/Adam Rose)

“The Politician” is a show about ambition – Ryan Murphy’s

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William Jackson Harper as Chidi on NBC's "The Good Place" (Colleen Hayes/NBC)

Once more into “The Good Place”: William Jackson Harper on Chidi and the final season

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Mira Furlan, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Terry O'Quinn, and Evangeline Lilly in Lost (2004) (Mario Perez/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc/Getty Images)

Fifteen years after “Lost,” which drama most successfully carries its legacy?

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Billy Porter accepts the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for "Pose" at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

These wins made an otherwise dull 2019 Emmys watchable

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John Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) in season 8 of Game of Thrones (Helen Sloane/HBO)

2019 Emmys: One last great battle for “Game of Thrones”

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Dex Parios – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of – works as a PI in Portland, Oregon. With only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own, finding herself at odds with the police and in the firing line of criminals, on the series premiere of “Stumptown,” WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25 (ABC/David Bukach)

Law, be a lady: “Stumptown” leads the new squad of TV women fighting for justice

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Youths chat at a cafe modeled after the "Central Perk" cafe in the "Friends" sitcom (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Why millennials and Gen Z love “Friends”

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Laura Carmichael stars as Lady Hexham, Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Grantham and Michelle Dockery stars as Lady Mary Talbot in DOWNTON ABBEY, a Focus Features release. (Liam Daniel / © 2019 Focus Features, LLC)

“Downton Abbey” is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans

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Shane Gillis on Comedy Central Stand Up (Comedy Central)

Shane Gillis fired from “Saturday Night Live,” robbing world of racist, homophobic originality

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Still from Amazon Prime Video's "Undone" (Amazon Prime Video)

The rules of TV are coming “Undone”

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Dwight Yoakam signs Martin D-28 guitar. Yoakam is among the 76 of the 101 country music artists interviewed for the series who signed two Martin D-28 guitars. (Jared Ames)

Think you don’t like country music? Ken Burns’ new PBS opus will play your heart like a fiddle

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Bowen Yang (IMDB/ Alex Schaefer)

With Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live” has finally hired its first cast member of Asian descent

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Shoshannah Stern as Kate, Josh Feldman as Michael in "This Close" (Michael Moriatis/SundanceNow)

Step into the “This Close” bubble with two deaf best friends in a hearing world

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The two-year FRONTLINE investigation "Flint's Deadly Water" uncovers the extent of a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak during the Flint water crisis — and how officials failed to stop it. (PBS/ Frontline)

This is our “Chernobyl”: Frontline’s “Flint’s Deadly Water” exposes shocking Legionnaires’ crisis

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TV personality Tamron Hall attends the ABC "TCA Summer Press Tour" Carpet Event at the Soho House, in West Hollywood, California, on August 5, 2019. (VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)

Tamron Hall is back, and she’s ready to talk with America

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Margarita Levieva and James Franco in "The Deuce" (HBO/Paul Shiraldi)

Smart Watch: A week to look back with “The Deuce” and . . .”The Brady Bunch”?

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Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Spy" (Netflix/David Lukacs)

“The Spy”: Sacha Baron Cohen uses his identity-shifting talents in solid Netflix drama

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"Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones" Netflix Special (Netflix/Mathieu Bitton)

What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of “Sticks & Stones” is a sign of the times

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Harvey Weinstein (Getty/Stephanie Keith)

“Untouchable” Harvey Weinstein: Everyone agreeing with Dave Chappelle on #MeToo needs to watch

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