Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, December 27. It’s all time East.
Best choice
Death to 2020 (Netflix, 3:01 am, premiere): It’s been a year, wouldn’t you?
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones (à Black Mirror) return to their comedy-specific roots with the flip-of-the-bird to that year. Look for Zack Handlen’s review of this special, featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Morgan, Leslie Jones, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery, and Laurence Fishburne.
Wild cards
We have reached the point in this long, long year when most of the broadcasting options are either a) fair or b) rebroadcast. So for the rest of 2020, we’ll be highlighting some of those festive things, but also some great shows or events from the year you might be missing out on.
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The Masked Dancer (Fox, 8pm, premiere series): This spinoff feels like a fitting addition to 2020. The dancers, they are hidden, and the celebs will never be again.
Pen15 (Hulu): “It’s easy to have fun at the awesome pubescent experience, a time that delivers the kind of uncertainty and suffering that Maya (Maya Erskine) and Anna (Anna Konkle) secondary school pariahs suffer from. pound. Finding ways to balance suffering – a source of bottomless accessible comedy – with periods of growth, emotional depth, and occasional social influences in ways that do not signify complete renewal is much more difficult… For comedy coming of age that was already great, Pen15 continues to deliver ever-increasing pain, with the side of amateur witchcraft, in the sharpest and most recognizable ways. ” Read the rest of Shannon Miller ‘s thoughts on our list of best television this year.