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We certainly didn t get to see a lot of movies in theaters in 2020, but while we have all been home in various stages of quarantine since the beginning of the year, there have been countless documentaries and docuseries on various streaming services and premium cable channels to help expand our horizons and give us an escape for a short period of time. Over the course of the past 12 months, we ve seen series like HBO s
Beastie Boys Story and
Jasper Mall.
If there were a golden age of non-fiction storytelling, it would be now thanks in part to all of the outstanding films and series that have been released this year. But with so many out there, keeping track of them all is no easy task. Fret not because here is a list of more than a dozen of the best of what the world of documentaries and docuseries had to offer in 2020.
I May Destroy You was one of the most exciting of 2020. Natalie Seery / HBO
It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV.
A pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this year, we each had a lot of stuff on our lists no one else did.
All four critics agreed that Michaela Coel s series
I May Destroy You was one of the most exciting of 2020. Natalie Seery/HBO
It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV.
A pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this year, we each had a lot of stuff on our lists no one else did.
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In times when the entire world is surfing, streaming and recommending, finding the right entertainment that suits one s taste may not be easy, considering platforms are varied and content widely distributed. However, as the year winds up, we bring to you the absolute best of movies and TV series from the streaming universe that landed in the year 2020.
The Outsider (Disney+ Hotstar)
Based on a Stephen King novel, The Outsider towers above the rest as one of the best horror offerings of the year. Cynthia Erivo (Holly Gibson) leads as a private detective with perceptive abilities and steals the show with her expressive face. Will Holly s unconventional ways find acceptance when Cherokee City is being haunted by the unknown?
Kingdom and
The King: Eternal Monarch/Netflix
This year was also the year of reality television, with shows like
Love is Blind, The Last Dance, Tiger King and
Unsolved Mysteries ranking in the top 10 for more than 30 days in 2020.
Love is Blind/Netflix
With quarantine cooking and baking trends firing up in the spring, Netflix searches for baking shows in Canada shot up by 81% from March to April, and searches for cooking shows went up by 65% in the same time frame.
Netflix Canada reported that thrillers remained one of the most viewed genres for Canadians for the months of March, April, and May, with titles like