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All happy families are alike; every unhappy family, well, that’s a different story. With the holidays rapidly approaching, Inkoo Kang has some suggestions for television shows about family dynamics to help us navigate our own. Plus:

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Tom Hanks’s Off Broadway drama

A still from “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show.” Photograph courtesy HBO Max

Inkoo Kang

The magazine’s television critic.

It’s impossible not to think about family as we head into the holiday season. This is the time of year when we’re faced with

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