It was impossible to look away, especially when she brought out her toolbox of liquorice, containing compartments of the divisive stuff from every corner of Europe.
I MAY DESTROY YOU MUSIC SERIES
Who needed TV thrillers this year when you had Nigella Lawson opening jars of Korean pickle in her fairy-lit larder? In her latest series Cook, Eat, Repeat, Lawson mesmerised the nation when she stepped into her pantry as if it were a luxury hotel room.
Streaming services found their moment with Tiger King and Normal People in a devastating year for live shows Kasia Delgado, deputy opinion editor and feature writer The cast recording is now my most listened to album of 2020 and in the week I was confined to my bed after catching Covid-19, I watched the entire two hours and 40 minutes show every single day. Unlike many of my smug friends, I have not yet seen Lin Manuel Miranda’s supposedly spectacular musical Hamilton on stage and eschewed it until the moment it arrived on Disney+ in July. If you’re wondering how a necklace worn by a fictional character helped anyone get through 2020, then I suggest episode six. Of course, we channelled all that energy into a tangible object – a silver chain hanging from Connell’s (played by the wonderful Paul Mescal) neck. Normal People came a month into lockdown, when millennials around the world were feeling equal parts horny and sad. Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You (Photo: Natalie Seery) Emily Baker, TV editor Taken together they form a surreal picture of the last nine months and you can now buy a book of them, too, should you want to remember this year ( He Used Thought As a Wife, available from .uk). Meanwhile, Key became the voice of lockdown, posting daily poems, both about the Government’s bungled response to Covid – disturbing vignettes from the imagined flatshare of “Bohnson” and “Moggeth” – and uncanny dispatches from the new world of social distancing, weekly clapping and bubbles. Her weary take on Sondheim’s Losing My Mind, replacing the refrain with “I tidy the house” spoke deeply to me. Cooper, better known as Kerry Mucklowe in This Country, posts unfiltered and lightly deranged snapshots from home, often in her pyjamas, wrangling her toddler daughter, dancing to the Countdown theme, and so on.
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