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Judy Berman
Berman is the TV critic at TIME. Along with reviewing current television, she writes about the ways in which entertainment and pop culture intersect with our larger social and political realities. Her TIME essay on Ted Lasso and modern masculinity won a New York Press Club award in 2022.
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