This goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, just in case you dug up this article somewhere decades after the fact and weren’t around to …
WHY WE NEEDED TV IN 2020
In one of the most tumultuous times ever, we've found that television and streaming helped us escape momentarily, and into exciting, wild worlds. Here are some of our favorite programs from throughout the year, and why they mattered to us.

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Phil Rosenthal is a lucky guy. The show for which he’s best known, Everybody Loves Raymond, ran for nine seasons, entering rarefied air for television …
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If you’ve ever seen a season of FX’s Fargo or the 1996 Coen Brothers classic from which it draws its name and inspiration, you know that much of the …