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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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Alice Wetterlund, Wyatt Cenac and Ana Gasteyer in "People of Earth" (Ian Watson/TBS)

Wyatt Cenac & Ana Gasteyer on “People of Earth” and Taliban Dance Party

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“South Park” nails the postelection mood: “This isn’t how it was supposed to happen!”

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Bret Baier; Megyn Kelly (Getty/Scott Olson/Jim Watson/Photo montage by Salon)

What I learned about the “circle of doom” while watching Fox News all election night

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Bruce Campbell in "Ash vs Evil Dead" (Starz)

“Big Bang” with blood: How “Ash vs Evil Dead” became a horror comedy that flips gender roles

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Peter Dinklage in "Game of Thrones," Norman Reedus in "The Walking Dead" (HBO/AMC)

“The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones”: When is it time to abandon the source?

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Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg in "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party" (VH1)

The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party”

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"The Crown" (Netflix/Robert Viglasky)

Long live “The Crown”: Netflix’s prestige drama makes Queen Elizabeth II beautifully human

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Pamela Adlon as Pam (FX/Colleen Hayes)

Pamela Adlon’s “Better Things”: Self-care for women during a traumatic election year

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Wyatt Cenac in "People of Earth" (TBS)

Don’t get weird, OK? Let new comedy “People of Earth” take you to a better place

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(Amazon Studios/Jessica Miglio)

Not quite the new “Mad Men”: Amazon’s “Good Girls Revolt” lets us know how far we haven’t come

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“Insecure” in the workplace: Issa Rae nails the frustrations of being black at the office

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(Sundance Tv/Jackson Lee Davis)

Lonely, at last: Brilliant drama “Rectify” soothes and breaks our hearts for one final season

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(HBO)

Dany’s dragons, Wun Wun the Giant and Westerosi wildfire, explained with science

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan on "The Walking Dead" (AMC/Gene Page)

“It feels like we’re watching misery porn”: Salon’s “The Walking Dead” experts break down the show’s issues with race and representation

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Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (BBC America)

Marvelously strange: “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” asks us to trust that it’s all connected

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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Mike Blake)

The Las Vegas puppet show: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s substantive final debate signals the show’s almost over

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Lin-Manuel Miranda in "Hamilton’s America" (PBS/Joan Marcus)

“Hamilton’s America” takes us into the rooms where it happened

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Shepard Smith (AP/Richard Drew)

The future of Fox News: Shepard Smith’s coming out isn’t the most interesting news from inside the network

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