I’m sure we all remember Spring of 2020 to be an idyllic time. Although, certainly, no-one enjoyed it more than David Hockney, who spent it in his beautiful countryside residence in Normandy and recorded its arrival on his iPad. His ‘iPad paintings’, as he calls them, were exhibited at the RA this year. The exhibition was a thorough record of the passage of the 2020 Spring in Normandy, with a helpful visual aid of each cloud, pond and grass that crossed Hockney’s path. I was not actually going to see this exhibition until recently when in September, the ground a sludge of dead leaves and wet slugs, off I went to celebrate the Arrival of Spring.

Nia DaCosta’s 2021 revival of the classic Candyman manages to unpack police brutality, gentrification, and economic inequality in a mere ninety-one minutes. The story was first introduced to our screens in 1992, when Tony Todd starred as the vengeful man himself, with a hook for a hand and a swarm of deadly bees. Candyman is the violent ghost of Daniel Robitaille; a black artist from the 1800s that was brutally murdered by a mob after having an affair with a white girl. If you say his name five times whilst looking in the mirror, his spirit appears.

Ah, Young Royals… Netflix’s answer to a dire lack of queer series and films had me feeling dubious at first, wondering if pressing play would be the start of a huge mistake. I’d seen it all before – the stereotypes, the underdeveloped plot-lines, the unrealistic expectations set by unrealistic characters of unrealistic ages (and often body types). Hence my 4-year long Netflix abstinence was to be broken, only as an answer to a seven-hour journey devoid of entertainment. No unrealistic expectations here.

Late-night talk shows: the most entertaining way to get your news and the least entertaining way to get your celebrity gossip. Embarrassingly, watching late-night talk shows is my guilty pleasure, so I believe myself fairly qualified to rank some of the most well-known talk show hosts on American TV.

Inside is a Netflix comedy special written, performed, and directed by Bo Burnham, a 30-year-old American comedian/musician. It was written and filmed by Burnham himself over the course of 2020, as the pandemic forces Americans to stay ‘inside’, the premise of the special.