God, that was a weird one, huh?
As a rule, gaming took fewer hits from 2020 than most other aspects of the entertainment industry a few delays here, the occasional massive, discourse-destroying trainwreck there but overall, pretty smooth sailing. As such, our annual list of the year’s most interesting games takes two fairly divergent paths: Those games that gave us comfort and connection in this most bizarrely hermetic of years, and those that pushed the boundaries to provide something fascinating and new. The push-and-pull there has been endlessly intriguing, as a two-year-old mobile game suddenly became the topic of congressional interest, old franchises learned some shockingly new tricks, and
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, December 16. All times are Eastern.
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The Expanse (Amazon, 3:01 a.m., season-five premiere, episodes one through three): “Once again, the writers are focused on a single novel here, it’s
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Games. But thanks to some setup in season four and the scope of
Games’s plot, every storyline feels like an equally important piece of the whole. This is critical, because the season also takes the risky move of separating its core ensemble for the bulk of its episodes. The chemistry and interplay among the crew of the