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

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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Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark and Kit Harington as Jon Snow (Helen Sloan/HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: It’s a reunion! The dying can start any day now

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"Game of Thrones;" "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker;" "Avengers: Endgame" (HBO/Lucasfilm/Marvel)

“Game of Thrones” in the year of the pop culture apocalypse: What happens next?

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Ryan O'Connell in "Special" (Courtesy of Netflix)

Smart Watch: Get your “Game of Thrones” TV alternatives here!

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"Abby's" (Ron Batzdorff/NBC)

Mike Schur’s new sitcom “Abby’s” is “Cheers” for the gig economy

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Early African American homesteading family, standing outside home in Nicodemus Historic District, Kansas. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Courtesy of Library of Congress/Salon)

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off

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Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams in "Fosse/Verdon" (Craig Blakenhorn/FX)

FX’s “Fosse/Verdon” dances, after a little warm up

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Sandra Oh in "Killing Eve" (Aimee Spinks/BBCAmerica)

Smart Watch: Feminist thriller “Killing Eve” still slays in season 2

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Andrew Koji in "Warrior" (David Bloomer/CINEMAX)

“Warrior” brings Bruce Lee’s TV vision to life, vividly and violently

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(AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Rachel Maddow is wrong and right: The problem with trying to be Fox News for the Left

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Tiffany Haddish and Tracy Morgan in "The Last O.G." (Francisco Roman)

“The Last O.G.” achieves perfect balance of hilarity and real talk in season 2

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Tracy Morgan and Kumail Nanjiani in "The Comedian" episode of "The Twilight Zone" (Robert Falconer/CBS)

Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline

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