Television, that reassuring presence in your family room or now on your phone, often became an antagonist in 2020 — at least if you found yourself sucked into the 24-hour news cycle.
The pervasiveness of a never-ending election, a worsening pandemic and a summer of nationwide unrest meant that people also turned to TV for escape, from the gawking freak show in animal-rights clothing that was Tiger King to the comic sentimentality of Schitt's Creek to the appealing globalism of Somebody Feed Phil.
As the film world fragmented, television kept churning along, adding one new streaming service after another and premiering shows that offered distractions, harsh reminders of the outside world and sometimes a dazzling combination of the two.
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