A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

Vacation Robo-Post: What's Your Make or Break TV Show?

A little explanation: this is not necessarily your favorite TV show. This is the TV show that, for some reaason, connects with you on a deep personal level, the show that gets you—the show, therefore, that you can use as a litmus test in determining your personal relations. If another person does not like this show, they cannot be your friend. What is it?

You may be too tolerant and open-minded to have a show like this; you may not be superficial enough to snuff out a friendship over a TV show. And that's fine; you can answer that. But then you cannot be my friend.

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