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Emilia Clarke in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

“Game of Thrones” recap: “Never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it”

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Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski in "Manhunt: Unabomber" (Discovery Channel)

Discovery’s “Manhunt: Unabomber”: Kaczynski as a true, heartless prophet

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Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahr in "The Last Tycoon" (Amazon)

“The Last Tycoon”: Visually rich, spiritually poor

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Sarah Hay in "Room 104" (HBO/Jordin Althaus)

Hotel-based shows “Room 104” and “The Guest Book” have limited staying power

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Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm and Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

More bad sex in Westeros: Why the recent “Game of Thrones” love scene left us wanting

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Allison Tolman in "I'm Sorry" (TruTv)

Salon video exclusive: Check out Allison Tolman’s guest star turn on truTV’s “I’m Sorry”

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A view of a great white shark. (Discovery Channel)

The strange bargain of “Shark Week”: Salon talks to a marine biologist about Discovery’s annual event

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Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

“Game of Thrones” recap: “Stormborn” demonstrates that might is usually right

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Yvonne Orji and Issa Rae in "Insecure" (HBO/Justina Mintz)

Review: HBO’s “Insecure” offers a more confident second season

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Jason Bateman (Getty/Mike Coppola)

With “Ozark,” Jason Bateman takes a dramatic turn

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Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

Taking heed of the women on “Game of Thrones”

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Christina Davis (Getty/Michael Buckner)

Amid “Hawaii Five-0” fallout, CBS loses its head of drama

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Grace Park, Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, and Daniel Dae Kim on "Hawaii Five-0" (CBS/Art Streiber)

“Hawaii Five-0” replaces lost Asian leads with three minority actors, is it enough?

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Gabrielle Union as Mary Jane Paul in "Being Mary Jane" (BET)

How “Being Mary Jane” becomes the new “All About Eve”

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Laurie Davidson as William Shakespeare in "Will" (TNT/Aidan Monaghan)

Fact or Fiction? A Shakespeare expert takes on TNT’s “Will”

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Jodie Whittker (Getty/Ben Gabbe/BBC America/Salon)

It’s about time: The coming of a female Doctor Who is even more consequential than you thought

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Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

Now, where were we? “Game of Thrones” returns with an hour that resets the board

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Cobie Smulders and Annie Parisse in "Friends From College" (Netflix/David Lee)

“Friends from College”: A lesson in how Netflix takes advantage of the patience we once gave HBO

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(HBO)

In “Game of Thrones,” salvation is left up to the least favorite children

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Stranger Things; House of Cards; The Americans (Netflix/Curtis Baker/David Giesbrecht/FX/Patrick Harbron)

Emmy nominations: What voters got right and continue to get wrong

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Thandie Newton in "Westworld," Elisabeth Moss in "The Handmaid's Tale," Sterling K. Brown in "This Is Us" (HBO/Netflix/NBC)

Surprise! The Emmy nominations (kind of) got it right for 2017

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John Bradley in "Game of Thrones" (HBO/Helen Sloan)

Hot take: “Game of Thrones'” lefty “wizard porn” is endangering your soul

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Santiago Cabrera in "Salvation" (CBS)

“Salvation” gives us the fantasy of ending with a bang in a story that whimpers

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Meghann Fahy, Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee in "The Bold Type" (Freeform/Phillippe Bosse)

In “The Bold Type,” fluffy female empowerment is always in fashion

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