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

"Generation KKK" (A&E)

This is not normal: A&E announces new series “Generation KKK”

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Geena Davis in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (New Line Cinema)

“Chefs do that”: The underappreciated holiday joy of “The Long Kiss Goodnight”

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Rufus Sewell in the Man in the High Castle (Amazon Studios/Liane Hentscher)

“The Man in the High Castle” season 2: an alternate “then” only slightly removed from our “now”

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Barry (Netflix/Linda Kallerus)

Netflix’s “Barry”: Barack Obama as a young modern invisible man

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"The Birthday Synchronicity" Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) (CBS/Monty Brinton)

The baby postulation: Is “The Big Bang Theory” formula potent enough to survive a bundle of joy?

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Brittany O'Grady, Queen Latifah and Jude Demorest in "Star" (Fox)

With Fox’s “Star,” Lee Daniels expands his nighttime soap empire

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(ABC/CBS)

The cold comforts of “Designated Survivor” and “Madam Secretary”

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(Hallmark Channel)

A super white Christmas: The Hallmark Channel gives us TV’s most homogeneous view of the holiday

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(Hulu)

Hulu’s lazy “Shut Eye”: The long winter’s long con

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(HBO/John P. Johnson)

“Westworld” season finale: Violent delights, violent ends and new questions

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Susan Kelechi Watson, Eris Baker, Sterling K. Brown in "This Is Us" (NBC/Ron Batzdorff)

One show at a time: Keeping TV culturally inclusive is crucial to winning the battles ahead

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(HBO/John P. Johnson)

We, Robots: As “Westworld” finale looms, we have about as much of a clue as the hosts

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(Syfy)

The future, Trumpified: Syfy’s dystopian drama “Incorporated” feels too close to reality for comfort

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Leah Remini (AP/Richard Shotwell/Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/Photo montage by Salon)

A&E’s “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath”: Your antidote to seasonal belief disorder

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(Comedy Central)

Lin-Manuel Miranda gets toasty on “Drunk History”: ‘Here comes sick-ass Hamilton on a flaming ship!’

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(History)

How do we learn to stop worrying and keep loving “Vikings”?

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Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel in "Gilmore Girls" (Netflix)

“Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life”: Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Or just too much.

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Aden Young in "Rectify" (Sundance TV)

An “acute observation of the absurdity of being alive”: The star and creator of “Rectify” discuss ambiguity and the series’ end

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Fall TV ratings: The networks felt our election pain too

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Alia Shawkat in "Search Party" (TBS)

TBS’s “Search Party”: A holiday trip through tragedy appropriation

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(HBO/AMC/ABC)

“It was kind of fun to play Darwin”: Tracing TV’s evolution in “The Platinum Age of Television”

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The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP/Jack Thornell)

History repeating: PBS’ “Black America Since MLK” shows progress made and lost

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"Good Behavior" (TNT)

Lady Mary Behaving Badly: TNT’s “Good Behavior” lets Michelle Dockery break bad

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church in "Divorce." (HBO)

HBO’s “Divorce”: “It would have been easier to make as a drama”

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