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

Norah O'Donnell (Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for International Women's Media Foundation)

New CBS nightly news anchor Norah O’Donnell’s morning show past is an asset now

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George Clooney and Christopher Abbott in “Catch-22” (Philipe Antonello)

Smart Watch: George Clooney’s “Catch-22” doesn’t always land, but “Fleabag” is still sublime

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Keanu Reeves in "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum" (Niko Tavernise)

Why do women love John Wick? (It’s not just the puppy)

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"Big Bang Theory" (Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

“The Big Bang Theory” of evolution: The show honored smart misfits and let them grow

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Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: Warning bells have been ringing on that shocking twist since season 1

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus in "Veep;" Audra McDonald and Christine Baranski in "The Good Fight" (Colleen Hayes/HBO/Elizabeth Fisher/CBS)

“Veep” is ending, but “The Good Fight” rages on

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RZA, GZA, Inspectah Deck and Ghostface Killah in "Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men" (Sue Kwon/Courtesy of Showtime)

“Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” enters the inner chambers of a hip hop legend

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A.J. Calloway, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

#MeToo and the B-list: “Nobody cares because their assailants were not famous”

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Gwendoline Christie in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/HBO)

Knights don’t cry: “Game of Thrones” and the weight of a woman’s tears

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"Game of Thrones": Kristofer Hivju as Tormund, Kit Harington as Jon Snow, and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen (Helen Sloan/HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: No such thing as a happy ending — or a secret — in Westeros

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Maggie Siff as Wendy Rhoades and Asia Kate Dillon as Taylor in "Billions" (Jeff Neumann/Showtime)

“Billions” is better than “Game of Thrones” at studying power, hate and corruption

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Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate in "Dead to Me" (Netflix)

Smart Watch: Netflix’s “Dead to Me” goes down easy, if you don’t think about it too much

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"Tuca & Bertie" (Netflix)

“Tuca & Bertie” flaunts its assets: Bouncy animation for the female comedy gaze

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Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Lena Headey in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

Major “Game of Thrones” lesson: In Westeros, women get the job done

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Noah Wyle as Daniel Calder in "The Red Line" (Elizabeth Morris/CBS)

“The Red Line” builds incredible drama around a third-rail topic: racism

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gwendoline Christie in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/HBO)

On “Game of Thrones,” all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell, and how?

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Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/HBO)

Long live Ser Brienne of Tarth: An argument for a “Game of Thrones” knight’s survival

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"Cobra Kai" (Sony Pictures Television)

“Cobra Kai” returns: Will the “no mercy” way of fighting win?

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Gabrielle Union in "Being Mary Jane" (BET)

Can an ambitious black woman “have it all”? “Being Mary Jane” finds the answer in the end

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Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth (Helen Sloan/HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: What we want on the last night in the world

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Ramy Youssef in “Ramy” (Barbara Nitke)

Smart Watch: “Ramy” blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness

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Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn in "The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle" (Ramona Rosales)

“The New Negroes”: The comedy you get “if you say ‘James Baldwin’ 3 times in the bathroom mirror”

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"Homecoming" (Courtesy of Parkwood Entertainment)

Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” transforms the concert film into an artistic, historic moment

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The steeple of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral collapses as the cathedral is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. Josh O'Connor as Marius and Ellie Bamber as Cosette in "Les Misérables on Masterpiece." (Getty/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/Courtesy of BBC/Robert Viglasky)

Watching PBS’s “Les Misérables” as Notre Dame burned: A lesson in processing spectacular loss

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