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Rachael Eggleston and Judy Greer in "Married" (FX)

The bleakness of being “Married”: The FX comedy struggles against its darker side

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(PBS)

“Escaping ISIS”: The harrowing Frontline investigation flips the focus from lost boy villains to their living victims

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Taylor Kitsch in "True Detective" (HBO/Lacey Terrell)

“True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century

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Lizzy Caplan and Caitlin FitzGerald in "Masters of Sex" (Showtime/Michael Desmond)

“Masters of Sex”: Still struggling to make sexy material into a compelling story

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Aden Young in "Rectify" (Sundance/Curtis Baker)

Poetic crime drama “Rectify” courts “Serial” fans with hard-nosed companion podcast

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Key & Peele, Hannibal Buress (Comedy Central)

Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon

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(AP/Evan Vucci)

Our Cosby delusions, undone: We’ll go to great lengths to see powerful men as they want to see themselves

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Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch in "True Detective" (HBO/Lacey Terrell)

“True Detective” recap: A redemption, a murder, a rescue and a descent back into the underworld

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Danny Sapani as Sembene in "Penny Dreadful" (Showtime)

“Penny Dreadful” finishes strong: This sophisticated, evocative Victorian thriller appeals to fantasy and history fans alike

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Gina Rodriguez in "Jane the Virgin" (The CW)

Let’s start arguing about the Emmys now: The critic’s dream ballot that could come true

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Rachel McAdams in "True Detective" (HBO/Lacey Terrell)

“True Detective” recap: A shocking shooting, a horror ending, and “We get the world we deserve”

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Kim Jong-un watches a basketball game with Dennis Rodman at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency, Jan. 9, 2014. (Reuters/KCNA)

Dennis Rodman’s North Korea diplomacy trainwreck: His “Big Bang in Pyongyang” goes out with a whimper

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The truth about TV’s rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity, on screen and off

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James Horner (AP)

James Horner’s sweeping film scores defined a cinematic era

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Willie Robertson, Bobby Jindal (AP/Mike Stone/Alonzo Adams/Photo montage by Salon)

The “Duck Dynasty” American dream: A cynical self-parody of Southern whiteness, whistling Dixie while Jindal’s Louisiana crumbles

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Colin Farrell in "True Detective" (HBO/Lacey Terrell)

“True Detective” recap: “Everyone gets touched”

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Dwayne Johnson in "Ballers," Colin Farrell in "True Detective," Jack Black in "The Brink" (HBO)

It’s not TV, it’s HB-bro: Welcome to the quasi-hellscape of HBO’s brooding, bumbling, baller summer

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Meet “Bitch Planet,” your new “bold, beautiful, and baaaad” subversive feminist comic obsession

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Nick Sandow, Michael Harney and Matt McGorry in "Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)

The Nice Guys™ of Litchfield: “Orange Is the New Black” dives into toxic male entitlement

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

“Game of Thrones” finale shocker: What we saw, what we didn’t see, and what it all might mean

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Emilia Clarke in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

Have faith in “Game of Thrones”: We need its urgently human, primal fantasy now more than ever

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Eddie Marsan and Marc Warren in "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" (BBC)

The brilliant magic of “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”: “I try and grab the audience literally by the eyeballs, and I don’t let go”

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(Netflix)

Doing slow time in Litchfield: Diving back into “Orange Is the New Black”’s deep ensemble riches

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(HBO)

The female president we deserve: “Veep” brilliantly plays our cynical, broken political system for laughs

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