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Review: 'Everyone Else Burns' is a dysfunctional family comedy you can believe in

From left, Kate O’ Flynn, Harry Connor and Simon Bird in "Everyone Else Burns."

As we move farther into the fall non-season, the CW continues its policy of importing programs, and though I do not have the attendance figures, the creative results, coming mostly from Canada, have been on the whole good. Included on its schedule, which once favored superheroes and the supernatural, are family sitcoms; a School of Jessica Fletcher detective show with Lea Thompson; a "Virgin River" cousin; and a top-notch international eco-thriller.

There is something to be said, I guess, for picking and choosing from available items, like stocking the shelves of a specialty market, rather than having to cook things up oneself —

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