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2020: Best TV of the Year

  I can't keep up with new TV as it happens--the idea seems overwhelming--so my TV Hero of 2020 is Tami Taylor, from "Friday Night Lights." Yes, Tami has been absent from the small screen for several years. But 2020 is When I Found Her. Tami lives in a heavily Christian town in West Texas, and her husband coaches football, and yet so many of Tami's issues are relatable for me. She can't connect with an inexplicably difficult teenager, and she spends many of her on-screen hours wondering about the cloud of adolescent moodiness wafting down through the hall. She, Tami, would like to have a career, and she finds this project difficult in the context of her family. Also, Tami can be hot-headed; she is correct to identify a young new English teacher as "skeezy," but she is perhaps unwise in the way she handles this skeeziness. Tami would like information about her daughter's possible new boyfriend, but she can't get that info, and so she just begins c...