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The Twilight Zone Recap: Gunshy

 The discovery of a cursed weapon evokes some provocative ideas about guns that end up landing not with a bang but a shrug. By Keith Phipps
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The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Upstate, Up Yours

 This argument is not about Luann being wronged. It’s about everyone telling Luann that she’s wronged them and her still hearing that she’s a victim. By Brian Moylan
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Jane the Virgin Recap: Go Have Sex, Alba!

 It’s poignant that a series so rooted in Alba’s convictions about virginity and purity has finally ended up here. By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Southern Charm Recap: Dizzy BatAt Chelsea’s game-filled housewarming party, everybody wins, in that nobody is rushed to the hospital.
    By Molly Fitzpatrick
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    Fosse/Verdon Recap: That’s Good, Isn’t It?The best episode of the series so far tells the story of Chicago’s difficult birthing process, mostly through Gwen’s eyes.
    By Noel Murray
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Lie DeflectorLisa’s stunt with the polygraph is obnoxious, yes, but it’s also Housewivery at its finest.
    By Brian Moylan
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    The Bachelorette Recap: She Wants a Bold ManWhen the men are subjected to a pageant competition, Luke P. demonstrates his true talent: Getting a frontrunner edit on a dating reality show.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Gentleman Jack Recap: One Hand in Your PocketThe revelation of Anne and Ann’s affair leads to a potent reminder that brains and will often have nothing on the whims of those with the most power.
    By Cameron Esposito
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    Game of Thrones Series Finale Recap: BrokenMany died playing this game of thrones, but no one really won.
    By Hillary Kelly
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    Killing Eve Recap: You Don’t Want to Touch Them?Deep down, Eve knows that there’s an explosion at the end of the path she’s walking, even if she can’t stop herself from following it.
    By Laura Hudson
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    SNL Season Finale Recap: Paul Rudd Charms Even While Being Head-HumpedThe endlessly affable and reliably funny Rudd helps close out the show’s 44th season capably, if not particularly memorably.
    By Matthew Love
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    Catch-22 Finale Recap: … And ReleaseThe miniseries nails the most pivotal scene of Joseph Heller’s novel, then makes a confounding departure from the source in its final moments.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Finale Recap: How to LoveThe show’s final installment is not a collection of happy endings, but it is a collection of right ones.
    By Allie Pape
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    Catch-22 Recap: Balls in the AirYossarian’s mental state finally starts to crumble in a shit-hits-the-fan episode that packs in much of the novel’s darkest material.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Recap: Bursting Into FlamesIn what might be its all-time best episode, Fleabag sets out to upend our expectations, and succeeds wildly.
    By Allie Pape
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    Catch-22 Recap: Last Sane Man on BaseThe first George Clooney–directed episode features the miniseries’ first truly thrilling aerial sequence — and some major breaks from the novel.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Recap: Articles of FaithJust because Fleabag wants to be told what to do doesn’t mean she wants to listen.
    By Allie Pape
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    Catch-22 Recap: When Your Number’s Up, Your Number’s UpChristopher Abbott excels at tapping into Yossarian’s moral complexity, but the series’ tonal confusion is starting to undermine the character.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Recap: A Person in BusinessThe best of this season’s many surprises has been the deepening of Fleabag and Claire’s relationship into a lifelike complexity.
    By Allie Pape
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    Catch-22 Recap: Afraid But Not AshamedAs the mission count ticks upward, Yossarian does everything in his power short of going AWOL to keep from flying back up into the sky.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Recap: 40 Days and 40 NightsFeeling powerless in the face of her family drama, Fleabag is all too willing to let The Priest lead her into temptation.
    By Allie Pape
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    Catch-22 Premiere Recap: Straighten Up and Fly RightThe Hulu miniseries kicks off with some familiar moments from Joseph Heller’s classic novel, presented with an unfamiliar sort of tidiness.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Fleabag Season Premiere Recap: Who You BelieveA year on from the end of season one, Fleabag’s commitment to seemingly “good” behavior is really a self-induced punishment.
    By Allie Pape
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    The Big Bang Theory Series Finale Recap: The Noble Nobel SpeechYes, Sheldon and Amy got their Nobel, but the real prize was the friends they made along the way.
    By Kim Potts
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    Grey’s Anatomy Season Finale Recap: Blood, Sweat, and TearsThe Big Bad Fog’s got nothing on all the man-made trauma going down in this cliffhanger-laden finale.
    By Maggie Fremont
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Closing ArgumentsThe remaining five queens get the full Top Four treatment as they make a final case for themselves to be in the finale.
    By Matt Rogers
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    The Good Fight Season Finale Recap: No GuardrailsThe season ends by asking once more when this dreadfully uncertain moment in history is going to end, and finding no answers.
    By Scott Tobias
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    The Twilight Zone Recap: Not From Around HereAn unsubtle but effective episode builds to an ending that might feel too grim if it didn’t hit so uncomfortably close to home.
    By Keith Phipps
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Upstate of MindOf all the Housewives fights in all the land, this one between Bethenny and Luanne is the easiest to adjudicate.
    By Brian Moylan
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    Jane the Virgin Recap: Jane the Anti-HeroHaving checked off one of its last major telenovela boxes — the amnesia plot — the show has Jane struggle with a far more typical human experience.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Southern Charm Season Premiere Recap: Some Bit of DifficultyHow do you excise a cancerous core character from a long-running reality-TV ensemble? Pretty easily, it turns out!
    By Molly Fitzpatrick
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    Fosse/Verdon Recap: A Nightly BrawlA major piece of backstory gets clarified amid a batch of new tidbits about Bob’s working habits and psychological underpinnings.
    By Noel Murray
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Pants on FireLisa Vanderpump is showing up with receipts that no one asked her to produce and that will change nothing about the other women’s feelings toward her.
    By Brian Moylan
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    The Bachelorette Season Premiere Recap: Enter at Your Own RiskI’m so ready for Hannah to destroy some of these dudes through her sheer determination to not appear to be a fool.
    By Ali Barthwell
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    Gentleman Jack Recap: Lesbian JusticeThis series finally starts to meet its potential thanks to an acknowledgement of real-world stakes and some deftly handled character development.
    By Cameron Esposito
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    Game of Thrones Recap: It Tolls for TheeA massively uneven, occasionally brilliant episode drags down not one but two queens.
    By Hillary Kelly
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    Veep Series Finale Recap: The. Selina Meyer. Story.Selina, who has never been exactly what you could call a good person, spent this finale morphing into the most cruel, ruthless version of herself.
    By Jessica Goldstein
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    Billions Recap: Structural WeaknessAs usual, it’s a ton of fun watching Chuck carry out his schemes, even though they never amount to anything.
    By Sarene Leeds
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    Killing Eve Recap: Does it Excite You?Make no mistake: This is about the intersection of lies and intimacy and power, and how it has both everything and nothing to do with sex.
    By Laura Hudson
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    Saturday Night Live Recap: Emma Thompson Slaps the TeacupA dauntless thesp, Emma Thompson had no nerves and no doubts in her SNL debut.
    By Matthew Love
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    Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Taking the FallDeLuca’s just a fool in love, and he might be going to prison for it.
    By Maggie Fremont
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Return of the Cyst-ersA couple of go-to challenges, but with a new twist, frame what is definitely the most dramatic episode of the season thus far.
    By Matt Rogers
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    The Good Fight Recap: Hail, HailA bizarre mid-May storm underscores a grand reckoning that shakes the foundations of Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart.
    By Scott Tobias
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    The Twilight Zone Recap: A Good Man Is Hard to FindOne of the best outings of the series so far amps up the everyday nightmares of male entitlement to their violent extremes.
    By Keith Phipps
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Bye, Bye BridieWe will always love Ramona for her dedication to the reality television arts and sciences, but her heart just doesn’t seem in it this year.
    By Brian Moylan
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    Jane the Virgin Recap: Bad ReceptionA trip to a secluded Montana ranch finally gives Jane — and the series — some clarity about the Michael-Raphael situation.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    Fosse/Verdon Recap: Staggering Through the Thin and ThickGwen exerts her power at a party dominated by dudes, working hard to persuade Bob to do whatever Lola wants.
    By Noel Murray
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Happy EndingsI have found a new role model, and her name is Denise Richards.
    By Brian Moylan
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    Gentleman Jack Recap: An Immodest ProposalWelcome to Anne’s tiny house for makeouts, Miss Walker. Make yourself comfortable.
    By Cameron Esposito
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    Game of Thrones Recap: Worst Laid PlansDid everyone suffer a collective knock on the head and forget what happened the last time a fleet of Targaryen soldiers sailed down south?
    By Hillary Kelly
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    Veep Recap: Two Weddings, a Funeral, and a Drone StrikeWhat a week for DRAMA here on our fair comedy series!
    By Jessica Goldstein
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    Billions Recap: Acts of AggressionWhile Mafee and Dollar Bill go head to head in a charity boxing match, outside the ring, the gloves come off.
    By Sarene Leeds
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    Killing Eve Recap: A Bit More FunAll of the most intimate and important parts of Eve’s life now revolve squarely around Villanelle, which leaves little room for Niko. Poor Niko.
    By Laura Hudson
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