I find Dave Chappelle’s concept of empathy for transgender people worth considering — both for what it includes and misses.

These shows shine an intimate, even glaring light on humanity in its less flattering manifestations.

Creators Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo deliver a show with impressive emotional range that achieves an honest portrayal of the hardships that many Indigenous communities face.

Both the heroes and villains of “Ted Lasso” remain quite ordinary. And it is the show’s portrayal of that daily reckoning with good and evil, those small temptations, that make it easy to relate to.

“Midnight Mass” feels like a throwback to the world that received “The Exorcist” in 1973.

The show is not about Haredi Jews; rather, it is about humans who happen to be ultra-orthodox religious.