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Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones in "Jessica Jones" (Netflix/David Giesbrecht)

“Marvel’s Jessica Jones” maps the rough road to recovery — for all of us

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(AP)

“Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like”: a special, with feeling

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Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (Chris Pizzello/invision/ap)

The 90th Oscars: Kimmel succeeds by not trying too hard

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Summer Bishil, Hale Appleman, Rizwan Manji in "The Magicians" (SYFY/Eric Milner)

No fairy tale: “The Magicians” conjures empowerment after violation

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Harvey Weinstein (Getty/Yann Coatsaliou)

“Frontline” and “#MeToo, Now What?”: A different kind of Oscar retrospective

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Jesse Williams (AP/Richard Shotwell)

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams discusses “Survivors Guide to Prison”

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Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman in "Corporate" (Comedy Central)

Salon video exclusive: “Corporate” holds up a black mirror to our work life

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Jeff Daniels as John O'Neill in "The Looming Tower" (Hulu/ JoJo Whilden)

The striking hindsight of “The Looming Tower”

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Lakeith Stanfield and Donald Glover in "Atlanta" (FX/Guy D'Alema)

“Atlanta” returns to FX with its “robbin’ season”

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James Norton as Alex Godman in "McMafia" (AMC/Nick Wall)

AMC’s “McMafia”: From Russia, with reservations

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Anna Deavere Smith in "Notes from the Field" (Courtesy of HBO)

Anna Deavere Smith on “Notes from the Field”: “I see this as a mating call”

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Fred Rogers (AP/Gene J. Puskar/Mark Wallheiser)

Fred Rogers, champion of gentle masculinity, has a cure for the gun violence that plagues us

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Oprah Winfrey (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Why Oprah offends Trump to his very (dark) soul

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Jimmy Fallon (AP/Rich Fury)

Why we still can’t stomach Jimmy Fallon

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"The Trade" - Matthew Heineman (Getty/Kevork Djansezian/Showtime/Our Time Projects)

Up close and personal with Matthew Heineman, director of “The Trade”

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Spelman College class, 1898. (Courtesy of Spelman College)

“Tell Them We Are Rising”: An education in resilience

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"One Day At A Time;" "This Is Us;" "The Good Place" (Netflix/NBC)

Television takes on death and magical thinking

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Jeffrey Tambor (AP/Richard Shotwell)

It’s official: Jeffrey Tambor is no longer part of “Transparent”

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Jahi Di'Allo Winston and Peyton Kennedy in "Everything Sucks!" (Netflix/Scott Patrick Green)

“Everything Sucks”: Another feat of Netflix engineering

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Marvin "Krondon" Jones III as Tobias in "Black Lightning" (CW/Richard Ducree)

“Black Lightning”: How Marvin Jones III makes a villain a hero

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Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter in "Here and Now" (HBO/Ali Paige Goldstein)

“Here and Now” and the unbearable whiteness of progressives

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Animated cast of "Our Cartoon President" (Courtesy Of Showtime)

“Our Cartoon President”: That joke isn’t funny anymore

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“Strike Back” brings women into the action

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Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" (Netflix/Carin Baer)

“Queer Eye” and the view from here

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