BEST: 10.
As a hip-hop musical with a predominantly black cast, it didnt look like anything else on TV.
But its over-the-top plot twists (semi-incestuous hookups!)
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rivaled the best 80s soaps, the music was impossible to get out of your head (drip drop!
BEST: 9.
BEST: 8.
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Catastrophe (Amazon)
Who wouldve thought that such a practical rom-com could be so romantic?
Their story is freeing, not just because its a blow to the retrograde fantasy of Mr.
Right, but because it proves that settling for Mr.
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Right Now can be even better.
BEST: 7.
(Though, to be fair, those geek jokes are hilarious.)
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BEST: 6.
BEST: 5.
And as a character study, its an even more powerful tool for progress.
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Simon understands that viewers politics only change once they get to know the human beings behind the debate.
BEST: 4.
When was Jarecki obliged to alert authorities about this new evidence?
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Could Dursts legal team actually use the finale to defend him?
One thing was certain: Debating aboutThe Jinxwas almost as disturbingly addictive as watching it.
BEST: 3.
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Dont hold that against it.
(One episode captures the double bind that the Bill Cosby scandal put women in.)
But its also an insightful series about what prevents anyone, famous or not, from being fulfilled.
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And seeing these fuzzy creatures suffer the same hopelessness as the rest of us only makes it more affecting.
BEST: 2.
BEST: 1.
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But theres something deeper going on, too.
WORST: 5.
WORST: 4.
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No wonder it was fall TVsonly canceled new show.
WORST: 3.
Truth Be Told (NBC)
Is a white dude allowed to use the N-word?
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Does Chinese food taste better if its served by a woman with a fake Asian accent?
WORST: 2.Dr.
Jeong used to be a doctor in real life.
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He gave that up for this?
WORST: 1.
True Detective (HBO)
The hard-boiled detective-show cliches.
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The inability to differentiate one troubled alcoholic cop from the next.
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