Ah, tis the season, for making lists.

So let's make one together.

I want to hear all of your year in review recommendations.

Movies, TV, books, which pieces do you think told us something about ourselves as a society right now?

Things that offered windows into our collective soul.

We'll be joined by the New York Times' co-chief film critic Ayo Scott,

who's been thinking about the increasingly blurred

line between performance and real modern life. Plus I'll share some musical history that

grabbed me this year, a black woman who was called the voice of a century and who captured

the globe's ears with her empathy.

And that's the thing about her.

I mean, no matter what she was singing, she made it seem so personal like she had lived that experience.

Find out who she was coming up on the United States of Anxiety. Can you

this past year?

this past year. Jane the Virgin on Netflix, the elements of magical realism

just created such moments of joy, and it just points out that life is absurd in and of itself and even the things that feel mundane and like trivial there's magic in it.

The film The Good Lyer, oh my God the twist and turns and then like right when you think you've solved it, no.

It's a completely different ending.

What sustained me is artists on social media showing through their art that like we're not alone.

There also other people going through the same thing.

My friends and I started a theater company over Zoom.

Creating art has been a really helpful outlet for me.

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