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Recommendations from the world of culture we think you should check out.
This riveting docuseries explores why police failed for years to catch Peter Sutcliffe.
The new PBS series has small-town shenanigans and neato animals.
The book’s hot-button premise could only be handled by a trans novelist.
The 10-episode miniseries tells the story of a teacher-student affair — and the trauma it causes.
It’s a great choice for your first binge-watch of the year.
The Hard Tomorrow is about seeing dark times ahead and choosing to live.
Housebound’s surly protagonist is fed up with her house arrest from day one. It’s the perfect 2020 mood.
It’s the holiday pick-me-up you might need right now.
Dylan Thomas’s prose poem will make your Zoom Christmas festive.
Watch Ramsay prepare Christmas favorites with a twist while his mom gives him a hard time
Summer Camp Island, now on HBO Max, is gorgeous, charming, and wise beyond its years.
Discovering the world’s beautiful weirdness on How To With John Wilson
Alice Is Missing takes the tabletop RPG to new, incredibly moving places.
The series turns New York City into a holiday scavenger hunt.
This excellent album got lost in the 2020 chaos. Now is the perfect time to listen.
The series about a therapist has 106 episodes of quiet, enthralling television to get you through a rough patch.
Alex Mar’s 2015 book “Witches of America” is about a lot more than witches.
Studio Ghibli’s masterful animated classic turns the pains of adolescence into something hauntingly magical.
Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services melds charming audio drama and practical magic.
Diana Wynne Jones’s classic is a joyful love letter to middle school weirdos.
Great American Witch is your perfect Halloween gateway to the world of tabletop RPGs.
The seven-episode miniseries shows why Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the most exciting actors working today.
Over the Garden Wall is like a forgotten fairy tale, and it can be watched in under two hours.
From Smash Mouth’s “All Star” to the Yahoo yodeler, Cicierega makes music that sounds like using the internet.
This award-winning book is equal parts Game of Thrones, Cold War realpolitik, anti-colonialist tale, and Star Wars prequel.
The world continues to be the worst right now. Thankfully, there are old-school video games.
How “the Vine cut” reflects our own mortality (yes, really).
The Hulu comedy achingly captures the trials and tribulations of puberty and teenage best friendship.
It’s a little like The Sims on a boat, except your Sims are animals who’ve recently died.
Borgen is like an Aaron Sorkin show that acknowledges the problems with centrism.
Only Colbert can work through a “Your internet connection is unstable” warning popping up during a Zoom interview.
The new film Howard tells the story of how Little Mermaid lyricist Howard Ashman brought new life to Disney animation.
Junji Ito’s horror has been thoroughly memed — but his new anthology, Venus in the Blind Spot, is still terrifying.
Punisher, Bridgers’s sophomore release, sounds like driving up the coast when the world is on fire.
Steven Soderbergh’s unusual sports drama is a story of Black athlete empowerment.
“Bro! Tell me we still know how to talk about kings!”
Tanner ’88 perfectly satirized the faux authenticity that candidates adopt to get elected.
Leo Tolstoy’s epic might be the best book ever written, and — hot take here — you should read it.
Watch the show, now on HBO Max, for its snarky jokes. Stay for its overtly queer romance.
The British import brings searing emotion and dry wit to a story about sexual assault.