2020 has been, let’s be clear, a dumpster fire in so many ways.

But it did also bring us outstanding new series likeMrs.

ButPicarddelivered plenty of new characters and a new mystery to check that it didn’t feel like reruns.

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If you don’t want to watch that…

I mean, really?

-Liz Shannon Miller

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They love food, they love sharing it, and you love to see it.

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Pun very much intended.

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In fact, some of you are going to hate it.

-Jeff Sneider

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-Vinnie Mancuso

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-Jeff Sneider

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And theDispatches From Elsewherefinale…

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It’s really hard to explain just how weird and wild and wonderful it was.

You just kinda need to see it, as well as the seven episodes that lead up to it.

-Liz Shannon Miller

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But like Lears landmark works of television, they aint afraid to get real either.

-Gregory Lawrence

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It’d be considered too far-fetched, too ludicrous.

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And that’s the unlikely brilliance ofTiger King.

-Jeff Sneider

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It’s a strange choice, though Episode 6 does flip it in a very amusing way.

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