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One of the few bright spots in 2020 was Season 2 of
The Mandalorian, which recently aired on Disney+. Fantasy author Erin Lindsey had mixed feelings about Season 1, but thought that the new episodes were a big improvement.
“They showed a lot more narrative patience in this run than the last one,” Lindsey says in Episode 448 of the
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “So some of the more dramatic moments felt genuinely dramatic because they had been leading up to them, and building up to them, and earned them. Whereas I think they didn’t really do that as well in the first season.”
Gift Guide: TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2020
It goes without saying, but 2020 was a bad year for a lot of people.
For many, it was a year of stress, sadness and anxiety. It was a year of missing friends and family; of just getting to the next day, even as each day seemed to blur into the last.
As we’ve done at the end of each of the past few years, we invited our team to look back and highlight some of their “favorite things” the things that, as we look back from the depths of December, put smiles on our faces, or helped us pass the time, or taught us some new skill. Most years this question feels like “What made your year better?” This year it felt more like “What made your year suck less?”