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The best programs on TV this week

Enlightened

Laura Dern is fierce and funny in this new series, as a onetime corporate high-flier who returns from treatment for a nervous breakdown wanting both her old job and new meaning in her life—only to run up against rude realities. Luke Wilson, Mike White, and Diane Ladd (Dern’s real-life mother) co-star in this offbeat comedy-drama about the rocky road to transcendence this world of ours presents. Monday, Oct. 10, at 9:30 p.m., HBO

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