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Allison Williams as Peter Pan (NBC/Nino Munoz)

The boggling mixed signals of “Peter Pan Live!”: Why on earth did NBC decide to do this show?

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The year in TV: How 2014 remade the workplace comedy

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Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Edelstein and Beau Garrett in "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" (Bravo)

Bravo’s first scripted series knocks it out of the park: “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” is like a more grounded “Sex and the City”

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(Netflix)

Netflix’s revolution continues: Why “BoJack Horseman” is like nothing you’ve ever seen

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Anthony Anderson in "Black-ish" and Jeffrey Tambor in "Transparent" (ABC/Amazon/Salon)

The year in TV: These two new shows overhauled the idea of the “modern family”

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Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" (Lionsgate)

“Mockingjay”s eerie echoes of Ferguson: Our real dystopian nightmare

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(Showtime/Kent Smith)

How “Homeland” became an action movie

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Steven Pasquale, Sarah Steele, Julianna Margulies and Alan Cumming in "The Good Wife" (CBS/Jeffery Neira)

“The Good Wife’s” murky moral politics: Why this might be the most ambitious season yet

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Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback" (HBO/John P. Johnson)

“The Comeback” keeps getting better: Tonight’s episode dismantles male privilege in 22 minutes

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Kerry Washington in "Scandal"; Viola Davis in "How to Get Away with Murder" (ABC)

“How to Get Away With Murder” and “Scandal” end with a bang: The most riveting power struggles on TV

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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in "Broad City"; Chris Geere and Aya Cash in "You're the Worst" (Comedy Central/FX)

The year in TV: How two young, raunchy comedies reinvented the small-screen love story

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Katherine Heigl as Charleston Tucker of "State of Affairs" (NBC/Nino Munoz)

NBC’s frankenshow: “State of Affairs” borrows heavily from every other show on TV

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Still from "Frontline: Firestone and the Warlord" (PBS)

TV’s forgotten continent: Why television refuses to depict the real Africa

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(Lifetime)

Reality TV is not the “new blackface”: How reality shows became some of our most useful explorations of race in America

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"Too Many Cooks" (Adult Swim)

Making viral TV: How “Too Many Cooks” and “Over the Garden Wall” work their hypnotic magic

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TV’s curse of the sophomore slump: Why genre shows like “Sleepy Hollow” and “Reign” go off the rails

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Ben Sinclair in "High Maintenance" (Vimeo)

The subtle class politics of “High Maintenance”: Welcome to young, bougie, weed-smoking New York

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John Cho and Karen Gillan in "Selfie" (ABC/Eric McCandless)

Why “Selfie’s” cancellation is a massive shame: This was the most promising interracial couple on TV

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Jeff Daniels in "The Newsroom" (HBO/Melissa Moseley)

The smuggest superhero show on TV: “The Newsroom” blusters into its final season

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Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback" (HBO/John P. Johnson)

“The Comeback”: HBO airs the sharpest critique ever made of HBO

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"Fake Off" (truTV)

Meet the weirdest show on television: Why you need to watch “Fake Off”

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Contestant Samuel and Chef Ramsay in "MasterChef Junior" (Greg Gayne)

“Kids cut themselves far less than adults”: Inside “MasterChef Junior,” the best cooking show on television

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Louis C.K. and Jerry Seinfeld in "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee" (Crackle)

The sneaky power of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”: How Jerry Seinfeld cracks celebrities open

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Cristela Alonzo in "Cristela" (ABC)

The new all-American TV: How “Cristela” is changing the meaning of family television

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