I recently realized that through the years, there have been a lot of fantastic Thanksgiving episodes ; more so even than Christmas. Why could this be ? Maybe it is simply due to the fact that Thanksgiving happens during a sweeps month. But I think there’s more to it than that. Many of the best television series are about ersatz families ; groups of friends or coworkers who act as families for each other because their real families are emotionally or geographically distant. It also might be (...)