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“Know Your Critic” is a column in which we interview Tomatometer-approved critics about their screening and reviewing habits, pet peeves, and personal favorites.

Starting today, Inkoo Kang is TV Critic at The Washington Post.

Before that, she was a television critic at The Hollywood Reporter and a staff writer for Slate, with reviews also published at the LA Times, MTV News, and Village Voice – to name a few.

Suffice it to say she’s well-versed in the deluge of series available to us all, and knows how to pinpoint what makes a show worth watching: it offers something we’ve never seen before.

“I think the most distinct example I can think of is the HBO show Betty, which is about like a bunch of girl skaters in New York, and they all have a certain look to them,” Kang shared