The best releases of the year revealed something about who we are as a people, right now.
We've done it. We've managed to make it to the end of another year in the era of Peak TV. Congrats. Now, in a tried and true tradition, we gather and decide what was the best stuff we watched in the last 12 months. It used to feel easier, right? We had a manageable amount of content to sort through annually, not the constant inundation of shows from the likes of Disney+ and Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and HBO and other networks. Making any top 10 list is remarkably thorny in 2021, but we've gone and done it. All in all, the best of 2021's TV revealed something about who we are as a people, right now. That's what the art of pop culture is supposed to do: stand as a caricatured photo of the people we were, the people we are, and the people we could become. Cheesy? Yeah, we'll give you that. Blame it on Ted Lasso. A massive snowstorm, 15 barrels of beer, and a three-day Oasis cover band concert made for one very weird stay at the Tan Hill Inn. J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece spans three volumes, but doesn't stop there. Beyond lies a whole world of mythmaking to explore. "Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked the question after pointing to the admission from those who crafted Mississippi's restrictive abortion law that they'd done so with an eye on the current makeup of the Supreme Court—namely, that there's now a 6-3 conservative majority more likely to strike down Roe v. Wade. That could be the outcome of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case in which the nation's highest court began hearing oral arguments on Wednesday. Punch your ticket to winter grooming nirvana. From the most coveted smart tech of 2021 to seriously neat gadgets you never knew existed before now. In a pre-Internet firestorm, fans of the book were furious with the casting of Cruise in Interview with a Vampire. The author stoked their outrage. Cruise was hurt. The studio was furious. The movie seemed destined to flop—until it didn't. |
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