Best of the Worst Year Ever Show
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Kate, Medaya, and Eric look back at a year that many of us can’t wait to put behind us. Against the background of the pandemic and the politics, the hosts review the books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and quirky new hobbies that helped them get through this year in their annual best of round-up.
Our Picks
Books
Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through?
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
Medaya Ocher:
Hazel Holt, Gone Away: A Mrs. Malory Mystery
Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
Jenny Offill, Weather
Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults by
Movies
Eric Newman:
Relic, dir. Natalie Erika James
Palm Springs, dir. Max Barbakow
Medaya Ocher:
Until the End of the World, dir. Wim Wenders (1991)
Time, dir. Garrett Bradley (2020)
Watermelon Woman, dir. Cheryl Dunye (1996)
TV
The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
Alguien Tiene Que Morir/Someone Has to Die (Netflix)
Podcasts
Kate Wolf:
You Must Remember This, Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman Archive
Eric Newman:
99% Invisible (“The Address Book,” 09/22/2020)
Reply All (“America’s Hottest Talk Line,” 10/01/2020; “Country of Liars,” 09/22/2020; “The BitCoin Hunter,” 09/03/2020)
Medaya Ocher:
C-Word, hosted by Lena Dunham & Alissa Bennett (Luminary)
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