The 13 best TV shows of 2021
Television will not be kept down. Given the ongoing emergency — not the destruction of American democracy, the other one — the medium produced an impressive number of first-rate programs in 2021, bearing no mark of the straitened circumstances under which they were produced. Nearly all also treat the pandemic as a thing of the past or some other reality entirely. Whether this is good social policy is hard to say, but it's surprisingly easy to get used to this unrestricted other world, where people go about their business in unmasked, relaxed close quarters. It may be an illusion — COVID protocols seem to
