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From the comforting to the confronting, the uplifting to the bizarre, telly kept us sane in this godawful year.
Of all the heroes we looked to this year, there’s one that doesn’t get the respect it deserves: the humble television screen. This year when we retreated to our homes to stay safe, old mate telly was there for us. When we needed to escape an exhausting world, television comforted us and distracted us from our strange new reality. Luckily, there was a bumper catalogue of shows to be distracted by. Here are 10 television shows we couldn’t stop talking about during 2020.
21/12/2020 What the TV3 show means for queer as folk on TV. Photo credit: Newshub
It s been the storyline of dozens of gay movies and the foundation of hundreds of soap characters, being gay in a small town and moving to the city to live with the beautiful people.
How gay male characters are portrayed onscreen still has some distance to go, but it has come a long way since the 1990s.
As a teenager discovering my sexuality during that decade, (a decade I can t believe was more than 20 years ago!) I remember thinking that perhaps I wasn t gay because I didn t identify at all with characters such as the Will of Will and Grace, or Julian Cleary. Even the occasional heartthrob gay nurse on Shortland Street didn t seem to reflect who I was.
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Taranaki Hard delivering unmissable Kiwi stories of mirth, mire and mayhem. We didn’t know we needed Black Hands until it arrived, turning in a beautifully grim retelling of New Zealand’s darkest day, utilising our finest actors, writers, directors and set builders. It left us wondering, yet again: Whodunnit?
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The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) It took an orphaned prodigy to make us pull those dusty chess sets out from the back of the cupboard and begin creating irreparable family rifts again. Based on a 1983 novel,
The Queen’s Gambit floundered for years as a movie script but then found its proper home on TV, spending seven episodes tweaking rise-to-the-top sports tropes with the drug-addled chess expert Beth Harman. With the searing talent of Anya Taylor-Joy on full display, and some stunningly tense scenes set entirely around a chess board, this became Netflix s biggest ever hit, so it s no wonder that chess has been on everyone’s m
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