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

"RuPaul's Drag Race" (Logo)

What we could lose when — not if — Netflix and its kind take over TV

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Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP/Mark Humphrey)

Super Bowl in the age of anxiety: Maroon 5’s boring halftime show was a symptom, not the disease

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Desus Nice and The Kid Mero in "Desus & Mero" (Micaiah Carter/Showtime)

“Desus & Mero” won’t give 2020 candidates a pass: “We bring up receipts”

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"Busy Tonight;" "The World's Best" (Jordin Althaus/E! Entertainment/Tyler Golden/WB)

Bring the joy: Watch “The World’s Best” and “Busy Tonight” for a shot of comfort

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Aliyah Royale and Noah Wyle in "The Red Line" (CBS)

What if TV told the truth about Chicago?

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Rachel Bilson as Helen and Vanessa Hudgens as Marge in "Drunk History" (Comedy Central)

“Drunk History” may be the most necessary show on TV now

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"Broad City" (Cara Howe)

What “Broad City” gives us: Celebrating the safe space of Abbi and Ilana before it’s gone

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"Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes" (Netflix)

Ted Bundy, “I Am the Night” and our secret obsession with psychos

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Ted Danson and Kristen Bell in "The Good Place" (Colleen Hayes/NBC)

None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC’s comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today

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Savannah Guthrie interviews Nick Sandmann (NBC)

How the media centers whiteness: “Today,” Nicholas Sandmann and “the others”

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Juliana Wimbles and Lamorne Morris in "Valley of the Boom" (National Geographic/Ed Araquel)

How “Valley of the Boom,” a story of tech world disruption, disrupts TV too

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Sonequa Martin-Green and James Frain in (Jan Thijs/CBS)

Where “Star Trek: Discovery” boldly goes: Season 2 explores feminist frontiers

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Regina Hall and Don Cheadle in "Black Monday" (Erin Simkin/Showtime)

Where to invest: “Black Monday,” “Suits” or Snoop Dogg’s “The Joker’s Wild”?

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Terry Crews and Melissa Fumero in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (Vivian Zink/NBC)

The good cops of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” are a scathing critique of destructive policing

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Lana Condor as Saya and Benjamin Wadsworth as Marcus in "Deadly Class" (Katie Yu/SYFY)

Hogwarts for killers: “Deadly Class” takes teen drama to deadly extremes

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(Twitter/bfmitchell)

Why the CBS digital team needs black reporters covering the 2020 election

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Mahershala Ali in "True Detective" (Warrick Page)

“True Detective” is still a mess: Mahershala Ali can’t save Nic Pizzolatto’s story

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Steve Zahn in "Valley of the Boom" (National Geographic/Bettina Strauss)

Smart Watch: “Valley of the Boom,” “Corporate” returns, and “The Dictator’s Playbook” on PBS

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Asa Butterfield and Emma Mackey in "Sex Education" (Jon Hall/Netflix)

From “Porky’s” to “Sex Education”: Teen raunch comedies thrive in the worst of times

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President Donald Trump speaks to the nation in his first-prime address from the Oval Office of the White House on January 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Kevin Dietsch)

Damned if they do: Trump played TV networks with dishonest address and they fell for it again

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Hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh speak onstage during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Sandra Oh saved the Golden Globes: The good, bad and ugly of the 2019 awards

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Melissa Fumero and Andy Samberg in "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (Vivian Zink/NBC)

9 great TV shows returning in January 2019, from “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” to “True Detective”

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Sparkle in "Surviving R. Kelly" (Photo by Courtesy of Lifetime)

Is time finally up for R. Kelly? “Surviving” series shows why he’s been protected for so long

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"The Masked Singer" (Fox)

American spirit, as seen on TV via “The Masked Singer” and “The Titan Games”

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