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

Omarosa Manigault on "Big Brother: Celebrity Edition" (CBS/Cliff Lipson)

From White House to fake house: Omarosa debuts on “Celebrity Big Brother”

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A carrying-in boy at a Virginia glass factory. He worked all night, every other week. (Museum Of The City Of New York)

“The Gilded Age” reflects upon our divisions then, and now

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Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore in "This Is Us" (NBC Universal Media)

This week on “This Is Us”: It’s the Super Bowl of TV deaths!

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J. K. Simmons as Howard Silk in "Counterpart" (Starz/Nicole Wilder)

The Multiple Lives of J.K. Simmons

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A scene from "The Trade" (Our Time Projects/Courtesy Of Showtime)

“The Trade” and the many faces of our opioid crisis

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Joel Kinnaman in "Altered Carbon" (Netflix)

“Altered Carbon”: Same bleak future, different title

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Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson in "2 Dope Queens" (HBO/Mindy Tucker)

“It feels like the future of comedy and entertainment”: The magic of “2 Dope Queens”

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Nas, on stage at the Kennedy Center (13th Witness)

“Great Performances” gives us Nas’ Illmatic, orchestrated

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Rose McGowan participates in the "Citizen Rose" panel during the NBCUniversal 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour (Getty/Frederick M. Brown)

Fractured feminism and “Citizen Rose”

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"Murphy Brown" (CBS)

Rebooting “Murphy Brown,” “Charmed” and a female “Greatest American Hero”

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Mackenzie Crook and Kelly Reilly in "Britannia" (Amazon Studios)

“Britannia”: A frothy stand-in for better TV epics

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Mo'Nique; Jessica Chastain (AP/Willy Sanjuan/Jordan Strauss)

Get that money: TV writers open the book on compensation

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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in "Portlandia" (IFC/Augusta Quirk)

Salon Exclusive: “Portlandia” gets all up in your lady business

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Taylor Kitsch in "Waco" (Paramount Network)

“Waco”: An incomplete view of the humanity behind the story

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Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome in "Another Period" (Comedy Central)

“Another Period” lampoons our new gilded era

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Matthew Shear and Douglas Smith in The Alienist (TNT/Kata Vermes)

Heady and harrowing, “The Alienist” enthralls

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Scientist Alexander Vail in Blue Planet (BBC America/Yoland Bosiger)

Oceanic wonder, as celebrated in “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II”

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American Masters: Lorraine Hansberry (Courtesy of David Attie)

“Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”: An absorbing portrait of an activist’s soul

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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in "Portlandia" (IFC/Augusta Quirk)

The end of the dream: “Portlandia” kicks off its final season

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Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning in "Black Lightning" (The CW/Bob Mahoney)

“Black Lightning”: A necessary jolt to the superhero genre

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James Cameron; Eliza Dushku (Getty/C Flanigan/AP/Chris Pizzello)

No mercy: Eliza Dushku, James Cameron and responsibility in our age of reckoning

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Edgar Ramirez as Gianni Versace in "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" (FX/Jeff Daly)

A trick of fashion: The bait and switch of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace”

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Lena Waithe (AP/Charles Sykes)

“This is the Chicago I know”: A conversation with Lena Waithe

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Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice Quinn in "The Magicians" (SYFY/Eike Schroter)

Mirror, mirror: “The Magicians” and the loss of wonder

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