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As we’ve covered here on TVLine before, pilots are a tricky beast, trying to both sell a show and make a good first impression. For a variety of genres, we’ve talked about the shows that started with their best foot forward, like the best sitcom pilots of all time. But now we’re talking about the…

The most difficult episode of a sitcom to put together is always, invariably, the pilot. Whether you’re the creator-slash-writer trying to put all the pieces into place without looking like you’re straining, the director working to establish a strong but malleable style that can be trusted to bring out the best in future scripts, or…

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The Western is one of the most oversaturated, predictable, and aesthetically exhausted genres on television, and it has been for the majority of the medium’s existence. Any network or producer who wants to make a new show in this space has one episode to prove why they’re different from 70 years of cowboy capers —…