What’s New Tonight: December 27, 2020: Netflix’s Death Until 2020



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Leslie Jones

Leslie Jones
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Here’s what’s happening in the TV world for Sunday, December 27th. All hours are Eastern.


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Death to 2020 (Netflix, 3:01 am, premiere): Sounds like a year, doesn’t it?

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones (from Black mirror) return to their special roots for comedy with this flip-of-the-bird to the year that was. Look for Zack Handlen’s review on this special, which features Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracey Ullman, Samson Kayo, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Morgan, Leslie Jones, Cristin Milioti, Joe Keery and Laurence Fishburne.

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We have reached the point in this long, long year where most of the delivery options are either a) festive or b) repeat. So for the rest of 2020, we’ll be highlighting some of that festive stuff, but also some great shows or episodes from the year that you might have missed.

The masked dancer (Fox, 8 p.m., series premiere): This spinoff seems like a fitting addition to 2020. Dancers, they’re masked, and celebrities never will be.

Pen15 (Hulu): “It’s easy to poke fun at the extremely awkward experience of puberty, a time that offers the kind of uncertainty and pain that middle school outcasts Maya (Maya Erskine) and Anna (Anna Konkle) endure at the pound. Finding ways to balance said suffering – an accessible, bottomless well of comedy – with moments of growth, emotional depth, and the occasional social triumph in a way that doesn’t signal a total overhaul is much more difficult … For a coming-of-age comedy that was brilliant enough, Pen15 continues to deliver overly relatable growing pains, with a side of amateur witchcraft, in the cleanest and most recognizable way possible. Read the rest of Shannon Miller’s thoughts on our list of the best TVs of the year.

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