Best TV Shows & Movies of 2020

Let’s be real here for a minute. 2020 sucked. I mean seriously. We could barely leave our homes. So what better way to spend your abundance of downtime than binge-watching your favorite television show? So many people have been raving about The Queens Gambit and Ozark, but let’s talk about a show that’s been flying under the radar. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (B99) has had a seven-year run with th...

“There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software” — Edward Tufte, American statistician and guest on “The Social Dilemma”.  A documentary and drama hybrid, “The Social Dilemma” sparked an important conversation at the beginning of 2020 upon its Netflix release in January. “The Social Dilemma” asks us to wonder: has humanity ente...

Based on the book Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom’s Small Prayer in a Big Way, written by Laura Sobiech, Clouds captures the inspiring story of Zach Sobiech. Zach was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2009 when he was 14 years old and just a few years later he was told his cancer was terminal. Zach learned to play the guitar at a young age and coped with the fear of death by writing a number of s...

The Queen's Gambit was released on Netflix on October 3rd, 2020. It even managed to reach Netflix's top ten for multiple weeks, placing first several times. There will be spoilers in this review. The show is a coming of age story taking place in the 1960s that involves a chess prodigy, Beth Harmon, in her quest to become the greatest chess player. Along the way, she struggles with a pill addiction. ...

Based on a novel of the same name, Little Fires Everywhere is a Hulu Original series brought to life in the 90s, but not in the whitewashed lens that is most commonly drawn upon. The show reflects upon many important themes, most notably racism, motherhood, class conflict, abortion and individuality. With a large budget and two of the biggest actresses in Hollywood, Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Was...

After a long year of turmoil, Soul is the movie we needed. Released on Christmas, Soul is a movie about a music teacher named Joe (voiced by Jamie Fox) and his struggle to become a professional jazz player. But when a sudden accident happens, he is sent to another realm called ‘The Great Beyond’, which symbolizes the afterlife. From then on, Joe is on a quest to return back to his reality, fin...

Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island” is designed to elevate the personality and career of Pete Davidson, a 27-year-old comedian. It explains to everyone his life story growing up in Staten Island. When you read the description about this movie your first thoughts would be that it would have many depressing aspects, Apatow wanted this film to be put in the mind of Scott, a 24-year-old played ...

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause is assigned to lead an Allied convoy across the Atlantic during World War II. His convoy, however, is pursued by German U-boats. Although this is Krause's first wartime mission, he finds himself embroiled in what would come to be known as the longest, largest and most complex naval battle in history, The Battle of the Atlantic. The film Greyhound takes a new approach to m...

Bad Boys for Life is a 2020 action comedy film that is the sequel to Bad Boys II (2003) and the third installment in the Bad Boys trilogy. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their starring roles in the film, which is directed by Adil & Bilall and written by Chris Bremner, Peter Craig and Joe Carnahan. The film's cast also includes Paola Núñez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melto...