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America's top TV critic Matt Roush answers your burning questions

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Too many "limited series" based on true stories could have been told in a two-hour movie. Did we really need so many episodes of Hulu's Pam & Tommy (eight) or Netflix's Inventing Anna (nine)? Some episodes are so padded out with fiction, it's disgraceful even to say it's based on reality. Plus, they're making many of these shows about really unlikable people (The Dropout, Anna, The Shrink Next Door and so on). Great actors, but such rotten characters. The Dropout is already getting on my nerves trying to paint Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) as a poor victim. And again, most of these stories could have been covered in a succinct telemovie. -Benji