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2020 Best TV, Movies, Music And More : Pop Culture Happy Hour At the end of the year, we like to look back on some of our favorite things from the last 12 months of pop culture. We revisit some of the TV, film and music that helped us make it through.

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Our 12 Favorite Things of 2020

Our 12 Favorite Things of 2020

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Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose in the series finale of Schitt's Creek. Comedy Central hide caption

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Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose in the series finale of Schitt's Creek.

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At the end of the year, we like to look back on some of our favorite things from the last 12 months of pop culture. We revisit some of the TV, film and music that helped us make it through.

Here's the full list:

  1. Moira's wedding officiant outfit in the series finale of Schitt's Creek
  2. Ted Lasso and the year in escapism
  3. Uncle Clifford and Lil Murda in the season 1 finale of P-Valley
  4. Michael Jordan watching interviews about him on an iPad in The Last Dance
  5. Parasite winning best picture at this year's Oscars, portending the further rise of non-English-language powerhouses
  6. The first 10 minutes of The Invisible Man
  7. Kentucky Route Zero
  8. "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" from David Byrne's American Utopia
  9. Fiona Apple chirping like a dolphin on "I Want You To Love Me"
  10. Cassidy Diamond (played by Shalita Grant) in the third season of Search Party
  11. "Uncle Naseem" (Season 2, Episode 9) of Ramy
  12. The Good Place series finale

The audio was produced by Candice Lim and edited by Jessica Reedy.