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Alex Karpovsky in "Girls" (HBO)

“You need to go, white man”: “Girls” hits trolling peak by pushing anti-p.c. backlash buttons

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Chris Rock hosts the Oscars, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Chris Rock’s Oscars monologue stuns: “When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short”

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Louis C.K. at the Oscars, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

“This Oscar is going home in a Honda Civic”: Louis C.K. steals the show with a real tribute to an unloved category

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Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz (Reuters/Mike Stone)

Three bullies in a locker room: Rubio and Cruz came out swinging, but Trump’s still king of the swirlies

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Miles Brown, Jenifer Lewis and Marsai Martin in "Black-ish" (ABC)

“Black-ish” is fearless: Its brilliant take on police brutality mixes heartbreak and hope

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Eric Holder (Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Eric Holder gets real about heroin and race: It’s a crisis because white people are hooked

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in "The X-Files" (Fox)

The truthers are out there now: “The X-Files” revival failed the show’s mysterious beauty

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Michael Pollan in "Cooked" (Netflix)

Michael Pollan has no answers: Yet another patronizing appeal to “cook real food” won’t solve our broken system

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"Girls" (HBO)

The “Girls” wedding from hell: Is Lena Dunham torturing her characters or us?

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Melanie Lynskey and Mark Duplass in "Togetherness" (HBO)

Save yourself! Leave Los Angeles now: TV’s prestige comedies say living in the City of Angels will destroy you

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Colin Jost and Michael Che during Weekend Update on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC/Dana Edelson)

“SNL” has Weekend Update trouble: What this behind-the-scenes story really reveals about the floundering fake news

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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in "Broad City" (Comedy Central)

“Broad City”’s radical potty humor: The intimate truths inside Abbi and Ilana’s screwball comedy

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David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian in "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" (FX)

Kim Kardashian’s origin story works: “The People v. O.J. Simpson” translates the trial for a 21st century audience

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Alex Gibney and Kahane Cooperman at The Amazon 2016 Winter TCA, Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 11, 2016. (AP/Richard Shotwell)

“There’s something ‘X-Men’ about it”: Alex Gibney and “Daily Show” alum Kahane Cooperman on “The New Yorker Presents,” their new mutant storytelling show

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"Hamilton" music director Alex Lacamoire and creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda accept the Grammy for best musical theater album with the cast. (CBS)

“Hamilton” saved the Grammys: If you think you hate popular music, a tired, epic-length awards show isn’t going to help

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Bobby Cannavale and Olivia Wilde in "Vinyl" (HBO)

“Vinyl” falls short: Too many cooks and too much noise override the spirit of the era

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Hillary Clinton (PBS)

Hillary could be crushing it, and she’s not: Advice from “Scandal”’s Olivia Pope that Clinton desperately needs to hear

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Bob Odenkirk in "Better Call Saul" (AMC/Ben Leuner)

“Better Call Saul” keeps getting better: Romance keeps Jimmy’s dark side in check — but his Cinnabon future still looms ahead

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Samantha Bee, "Full Frontal" (TBS)

Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” nails it: Your new must-see late-night show takes down the GOP, Hillary and Bernie, and her “woman-ness” in hilarious debut

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Beyoncé performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl 50. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Beyoncé won Super Bowl 50: The halftime show started on Saturday and dominated the weekend

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Samantha Bee (TBS)

Samantha Bee’s revolution: Crashing the boys’ club of late-night news comedy with her own fearless “Full Frontal”

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Rachel Maddow (AP/Chuck Burton)

Rachel Maddow made them fight: She’s the reason for the tense Hillary/Bernie fireworks

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Hillary Clinton at the democratic primary town hall sponsored by CNN, Feb. 3, 2016, in Derry, N.H. (AP/John Minchillo)

Hillary’s humility moment: A rabbi walks into a Town Hall and asks a question you’d never hear in the GOP debates

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Richard Dreyfuss in "Madoff" (ABC)

Über-villain Bernie Madoff: New miniseries gives the Ponzi scheme mastermind the lurid horror movie he deserves

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