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WandaVision is zany and funny and nostalgic, with occasional bursts of creepiness and dread.

Our team highlights their favorite TV shows from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Just as Scrooge re-evaluates his life and actions when he comes face-to-face with his tombstone, so too does the tradition of memento mori ask us to evaluate our lives in light of eternity.

In the untrained hands of one so powerful as Grogu, the Force is a recipe for calamity.

We’ve had to do what we’ve had to do, which meant saying goodbye, for a time, to the good things—even some of the sacred things—in order to survive.

This episode did for Boba Fett what Rogue One did for Darth Vader.

My favorite idea of any Star War is when that dusty old Jedi teaching is shredded and burned to the ground.

The female experience in life very frequently feels like that of a queen on a chessboard, especially when we get into traditionally male-dominated spaces.

For creators and the participants both, there lies a danger in loving a story to its own detriment. A perverse love fails to love a story for the good within it, but rather desires it to go on and on, never ending.

And so it came to pass that in one fell swoop, the showrunners connected The Mandalorian to the worst ideas of the prequel and sequel trilogies.

Even if your inward-facing, self-replicating church—or Mandalorian group, for that matter—never becomes a cult, in my experience, it can (and does) start to get weird.

The thing about lies is that eventually they have to give out. No matter how badly liars want truth to be relative—it isn’t.

Look, I’m not a youth pastor, but if I were, I would tell you teens that just as the wages of sin is death, the wages of eating a Frog Lady’s eggs means getting eaten alive by a thousand baby space spiders.

Ted Lasso is striking, in this particular time, because it shines a light into our own darkness.

But The Mandalorian also really really wants to delight and tickle its Star Wars fanbase. To a fault.