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Guest Essay

By Alan Sepinwall

Mr. Sepinwall is a TV critic, most recently for Rolling Stone.

Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, television executives and creators have been faced with the notion that maybe they don’t understand the rest of the country after all — and left them grappling with how to better tell the stories of rural and red state Americans. They’ve struggled to cater to viewers who think that the economy and the country have been passing them by, and who don’t see their lives or values reflected on shows set on the coasts, like “The Studio,” “And Just Like That........

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