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

Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Dryuary for TV news: Sober up and start doing your job

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Bird Box (Saeed Adyani/Netflix)

Why “Bird Box” is smashing Netflix records: We’re so close to apocalypse ourselves

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Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in "Green Book" (Universal Pictures)

Hollywood still loves a white savior: “Green Book” and the lazy, feel-good take on race

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Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski in "The Handmaid's Tale" (George Kraychyk)

2018’s biggest TV disappointments, from moderately painful to the absolute worst

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Lulu Wilson and Carla Gugino in "The Haunting of Hill House" (Steve Dietl/Netflix)

The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list

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Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri in "Killing Eve" (BBC AMERICA/Sid Gentle Films Ltd 2018)

10 best TV shows of 2018: The continuing crippling horror of the year-end TV list

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Nicole Tutewohl and Karl Collins on "Temptation Island" (John Tsiavis/USA Network)

Why “Temptation Island” is back and “90 Day Fiancé” is having a moment

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Eliza Dushku (AP/Brent N. Clarke)

Eliza Dushku’s scathing indictment of “Bull” sexual harassment shows how deep CBS rot still goes

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"Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable" (Netflix)

Extremely “Relatable”: Even Ellen DeGeneres is entitled to her darkness

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Host Matt Damon on "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, December 15, 2018. (Will Heath/NBC)

“Saturday Night Live” has a problem not even Matt Damon can solve

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Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor in "Doctor Who" (Adrian Rogers)

The regeneration of “Doctor Who”: Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord proved the naysayers wrong

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Kurt Russell in "The Christmas Chronicles" (Michael Gibson)

Smart Watch: We need hot Santa Claus, now more than ever

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"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Classic Media)

It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell

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Donald Trump argues about border security with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Vice President Mike Pence sits nearby in the Oval Office on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV

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"Sorry For Your Loss" (Facebook Watch)

“Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good

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When Daniel Sawka began making “Icebox” he had to convince people child migrant detention was real

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Rachel Brosnahan in season 2 of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon Studios)

“Midge has picked a man’s world”: “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators talk season 2’s struggles

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Hasan Minhaj (Mark Seliger/Netflix)

Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal

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"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon Prime Video)

Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2

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"Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus" (Cinemax)

Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus”

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"The Conners" (ABC/Eric McCandless)

Without Roseanne, who are “The Conners” now?

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(CNN)

CNN and NBC betray Sunday viewers seeking analysis on damning climate change report

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The Panama Papers (Epix)

“The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all

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"Christmas Everlasting" (Hallmark)

Smart Watch: Finally, Hallmark Channel’s Christmas romances aren’t all white

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