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

Regina King in "Watchmen" (Mark Hill/HBO)

“Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history

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Paul Rudd and Paul Rudd in "Living With Yourself" (Netflix)

We love Paul Rudd, even in his unremarkable new Netflix show “Living With Yourself”

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Parents of British Teen killed in car accident involving wife of a US Diplomat hold a press conference at the Parker Hotel in New York, New York on October 14, 2019. (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results

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TREADSTONE, Episode 101, "The Cicada Protocol." Pictured: Jeremy Irvine as J. Randolph Bentley (Jonathan Hession/USA Network)

USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today

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Cristina Rodlo as Luz Ojeda, Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama- The Terror _ Season 2, Episode 8 (Ed Araquel/AMC)

“The Terror: Infamy” twist ending: humanity wins, as long as we don’t forget our sins

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"Succession" (HBO)

“Succession” ends its second season with a killer instinct

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Stills from Fast Color and Raising Dion (LionsGate/Netflix)

Unlike “Fast Color,” “Raising Dion” may be an industry underdog tale where the little guy wins

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Kennedy McMann as "Nancy Drew" (The CW)

The all-new “Nancy Drew” is progressive and hooking up, y’all

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Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. actress Melissa McCarthy while taping Finding Your Roots. (Courtesy of McGee Media)

The stealthy politics of “Finding Your Roots”

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Saturday Night Live skits (Will Heath/NBC)

How can “Saturday Night Live” parody a farcical administration?

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MR. ROBOT -- "Unauthorized" Episode 401 -- Pictured: (l-r) Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot (Elizabeth Fisher/USA Network)

Unhinged melody: “Mr. Robot” puts a grim holiday bow on its endgame

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One American News (One American News Network)

How One America News sells an altered reality to voters who dream of wealth

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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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