Yahoo LifestyleHow we spent our winter vacation: All the A.V. Club stories you may have missed over the holidays
Even with the pandemic keeping us from our usual Planes, Trains, and Automobiles antics over the holidays this year, we hope you got to actually disconnect and spend some time away from your screens. That said, we welcome you back now with open arms (virtually of course, stay six feet away otherwise, please).
To get you up to speed on everything that happened while you were busy wrapping and unwrapping gifts, here’s everything The A.V. Club has been up to during the past few weeks with all our features, reviews, and highlights of our news coverage.
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Reports of Tanya Roberts' death have been greatly exaggerated, says rep who reported it
Jarod Nandin, "The <i>South Park</i> Guy" Cosplayer, Has Died
How to Watch the Last New Episodes of 'Jeopardy!' Hosted by Alex Trebek
How to Talk to a Real Human at the IRS Without Waiting on Hold Forever
The rest of the best
The most notable podcasts of 2020
The best TV performances of 2020
Hey, Keyboard Geniuses: Here are the games you liked in 2020
The best things on the internet in 2020
The worst things on the internet in 2020
The best of The A.V. Club: Our favorite pieces from 2020
Features
How’re ya now? Good, now that Letterkenny is back
The best action movies on Amazon Prime
George Clooney says he's an optimist, even in the face of world-ending disaster
The Stand showrunner Benjamin Cavell on centering the real protagonist of Stephen King’s story
Pixar's Soul tackles some big ideas, but its filmmakers know how perceptive young audiences can be
This week in Savage Love: Livestream 2
The best '80s movies on Netflix
Fuck 2020: The entertainers and creators we lost this year
Finally: Nicolas Cage picks up a sword, goes Full Cage on some martial-arts aliens
Andrea Riseborough on studio sexism in Oblivion and being at home in Birdman
Promising Young Woman makes smart, devious use of Bo Burnham
Bridgerton showrunner Chris Van Dusen on the possible season 2 of his Netflix drama
This week in Savage Love: Lesbian drama
For this lonely New Year’s, a party playlist with the sounds of revelry baked right in
Reviews and recaps
There’s not enough action (or Wonder Woman!) in Wonder Woman 1984
Vanessa Kirby simmers with grief in the loud but hollow Pieces Of A Woman
The moving Irish family drama Herself puts hardship and hope on equal footing
Shondaland’s Bridgerton rips the bodice right off
After all that drama, this season of The Bachelorette ended with a big ol' shrug
Robert Rodriguez goes back to the kids’ table with the sweet but chintzy We Can Be Heroes
Death To 2020 offers an unnecessary summary of a miserable year
Cobra Kai karate chops its way back to broad, dumb fun with an improved season 3
In its return, Vikings pulls its characters from the brink, only to send one over again
Yearly Departed is a moderately fun way to say good riddance to 2020
A disappointing Doctor Who special highlights the weaknesses of the show’s current era
RuPaul’s Drag Race kicks off season 13 with goops and gags, courtesy of “The Pork Chop”
Plus new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, The Stand, Next, His Dark Materials, Vikings and Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.
News
Read this: The journalist who covered Martin Shkreli's arrest ended up falling in love with him
The next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm will be set post-COVID
John Mulaney enters rehab for cocaine and alcohol abuse: Reports
Somehow, Congress' lackuster COVID-19 stimulus bill would make illegal streaming a felony
Hey big-budget directors, now's not the time to grumble about no one seeing your movie in a theater
Thread decoding Simpsons jokes is blowing even the writers’ minds
Read this: Add the Sorting Hat to the list of things J.K. Rowling is wrong about
Somebody wrote lyrics for the Mandalorian theme song
Producer working with Game Of Thrones team on Three-Body Problem poisoned in alleged murder plot
Trump thinks "elitist snobs" kept Melania off fashion magazine covers the past four years
Warner Bros. bets on us all wanting Wonder Woman 3
Steven Soderbergh is working on a "philosophical" sequel to Contagion
Clark Kent is going through some stuff in this new trailer for The CW's Superman & Lois
Ray "Cyborg" Fisher now refusing to be in any movies made by current DC Films president
Alex Trebek's final Jeopardy! episodes will air next week
