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Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm and Cate Blanchett As Phyllis Schlafly in "Mrs. America" (Sabrina Lantos/FX)

TV and film got abortion wrong in 2020

Stephanie Herold, Gretchen Sisson - The Conversation
A Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

The defiant honesty of Colbert in 2020

Justin Pelofsky
Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams in "Eurovision Song Contest" (Elizabeth Viggiano/Netflix)

"Eurovision," the holiday laugh we need

Anna Augusto Rodrigues - The Conversation
Claire Danes as Carrie in HOMELAND (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

Overcoming cliched disability depictions

Magda Romanska - The Conversation
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I May Destroy You | Better Call Saul | What We Do in the Shadows (Photo illustration by Salon/Warner Media Group/AMC/FX)

The best TV shows of 2020

Melanie McFarland
HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Glenn Close ("Mamaw”), Amy Adams (“Bev”) (Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

The real stories of "Hillbilly Elegy"

Chauncey DeVega
Regé-Jean Page and Adjoa Andoh in "Bridgerton" (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

"Bridgerton" boss on race, incels & more

Hanh Nguyen
Pedro Pascal as "The Mandalorian" (Disney+)

"The Mandalorian" loses its religion

Melanie McFarland
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Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in "The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

How chess holds up a mirror to life

Jenny Adams - The Conversation
Dickinson (Apple TV+)

Emily Dickinson: unlikely hero of 2020

Matthew Redmond - The Conversation
Tiny Pretty Things (Netflix)

Netflix's new take on ballet & bulimia

Ashlie D. Stevens
An employee of the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA) shows a book with Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) in Amsterdam, on November 12, 2020 - The library is removing books with traditional Zwarte Piet from the museum to a safe. (RAMON VAN FLYMEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Netherlands' changing blackface custom

Ayanna Thompson, Coen Heijes - The Conversation
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"I wouldn’t be here but for the Beatles"

Nicole Michael
Bridgerton (Netflix)

"Bridgerton," a holiday boinking binge

Melanie McFarland
Gal Gadot and Chris Pine in "Wonder Woman 1984" (Warner Bros.)

What critics say about "Wonder Woman 2"

Hanh Nguyen
Carey Mulligan in "Promising Young Woman" (Focus Features)

Revenge never tasted so sweetly venomous

Gary M. Kramer
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Alice in Borderland (Netflix)

A dystopia more brutal than "The Stand"

Melanie McFarland
Puritans going to church: (Original Caption) "Thanks be to God for winter time! That bore the Mayflower up, To pour amid New England snows the treasures of its cup, To fold them in its icy arms, those sturdy Pilgrim sires, And weld an iron brotherhood around their Christmas fires." - B.F. Taylor. (Bettman Collection/Getty)

Why Puritans cracked down on Christmas

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall in "The Midnight Sky" (Netflix)

In space, they can't hear you yawn

Gary M. Kramer
Helena Zengel and Tom Hanks in "News of the World" (Universal Pictures)

Tom Hanks' toothless throwback Western

Gary M. Kramer
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Portrait of Canadian musician Joni Mitchell in November 1968 (Jack Robinson/Getty Images)

The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River"

Annie Zaleski
Inside Jim Bulleit's Indiana ceramics studio (Courtesy of Jim Bulleit)

The return of ceramic Christmas trees

Ashlie D. Stevens
Carey Mulligan stars as Cassandra in director Emerald Fennell’s "Promising Young Woman." (Courtesy Focus Features)

Mulligan on her feminist revenge story

Alli Joseph
John Mulaney on the Leap Day 2020 episode of "Saturday Night Live" (Will Heath/NBC)

Comedian John Mulaney enters rehab

Ashlie D. Stevens
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