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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Twenty-twenty has been a year of seeking comfort in media , both in the nostalgia of old favorites and the exciting discovery of new and excellent stories. This year, more than any recently, we’ve looked for new bonds and new characters to fall in love with. Here are the heroes who kept us going as this long, long year… Read more.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Here’s how weird 2020 was for movies : Unless you saw something in January or February (like The Invisible Man, Birds of Prey, or Bloodshot ), there’s a good chance you didn’t see a movie in a movie theater for the entire year. A whole year without going to the movies. Frankly, it’s hard to even fathom, even though we… Read more.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

We’ve already counted up our best and worst TV shows of 2020. But now we’re getting micro-focused on those special (and not-so-special) TV moments that made us laugh , cry, shriek, recoil, rewind, and make memes. You know, the ones that remained burned in our memories long after the episode or season ended. Read more.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people needed them the most. Read more.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds and dimensions this year. While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Read more.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news , pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s highlights and… Read more.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was a rough year for all of us in the real world, but those fictional universes we spend so much time in didn’t get off scot-free. A lot of television shows ended their runs this year, and a lot of our favorite characters from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror took their final bows as well. Here are most of who and what… Read more.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

In spite of the challenges, io9 still… Read more. Twenty-twenty is one of those (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime events that impacted so much of our lives. We saw countless movie delays , comic cons were canceled or moved online, theme parks shut down , and everything had to happen over video.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s tempting to think that since 2020 was basically one real-life nightmare after another , the last thing anyone would want to do is engage with fictional horror on top of that. But that would be discounting the positive power of certain horror movies, TV shows, and video games that helped us navigate through the… Read more.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Twenty-twenty hasn’t been good for much, but it has been given us bountiful free time— time you hopefully used to finally make good on that statement “Oh, I’d love to watch that but I don’t have time.” Well, in 2020 you did. As a result, many of us revisited and once again fell in love with old favorites, or finally… Read more.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Here are the TV series the io9 staff felt stood out as the best and worst… Read more. We might have seen a shortage of new movies in 2020 , but one thing we still got a lot of was television shows. This was a year of saying goodbye to many beloved series while introducing some new ones into the fold. Some sparked, others fizzled.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

It has been a year of weirdness , especially when it comes to wrangling the kinds of media we’ve been watching. Though there’s been new things to read, watch, listen to, and play, 2020 has seen many of us revisit familiar favorites as well as things we missed when they first came out. Here’s the media of years past… Read more.

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