I had to leave a lot of great stuff off of the list this year, which just goes to show how good 2021 was for television. A good thing given how much we had to stay at home. (And probably will, you know, forever at this point.) 10. Mare of…

This one is coming out only two months after 2021 instead of ten so, progress? 10. tick, tick…BOOM! Andrew Garfield shines in Linn Manual Miranda’s adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical broadway musical documenting his journey to become a successful playwright. …

So…this took a while. But 2020 was just, what, a couple of months ago? 10. Palm Springs There was no film that better captured the mood of 2020 than Palm Springs, the latest in a long line of films in the “repeating the same day over an over” genre with…

The value of art to get us through difficult times was on full display in 2020. To wit… 10. Bridgerton I did not expect to like Bridgerton, but it was very much my cup of tea. Witty, smart, progressive, subversive, sexy in all the ways folks have come to expect…

Memorial Day invites us to honor those who gave their lives for this country. Specifically in the US Armed Forces. Because I’m me and because it’s 2021, I can’t help but think of those who never got the opportunity to enlist, but whose sacrifices nonetheless contributed fundamentally to what this…

Amazon had what they thought was a great idea. Create a bot to help figure out whom to hire. There was only one problem. It kept recommending men. In fact, if it saw the name of a women’s college on an application, it demoted it. How did an AI, this…

There’s a scene in Blazing Saddles where two black men are sent out in a handcar to discover if there is quicksand on a railroad track up ahead. There is, and as they are sinking in it, their white bosses show up and throw them a rope. But the rope…

It was a helluva good decade for television. To be clear, there are individual seasons that were downright amazing (Jessica Jones Season One, for one) but if the whole show didn’t hold together as well as any single season (I’m looking at you, Sherlock) it didn’t make the cut. 10. John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City One…

This was the decade that filmmakers took genre out for a spin to see what it could really do. 10. The LEGO Movie Here was a movie that should not have worked. The marketing was right there in the title. And yet, the actual things they wanted about the brand to come through—creativity, ingenuity…