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TV Shows that helped me escape 2020

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2020 was quite a dystopian year. There is so much that went wrong that it is hard to recall it all. Some events that stood out to me were: The CAA-NRC legislation The Delhi riots The global economic downturn Deepening caste divides including the cruel and disgusting murder and rape of a young Dalit girl  The polarized US Elections  The poorly thought-through farming acts and the subsequent agitation  All of this was happening in the background of the pandemic unfolding and taking away millions of lives as well as democratic institutions, including judiciary and media, being dismantled in India and many parts of the world. The pandemic made it harder to travel or socialize, which meant I had plentiful idle time to overthink about every update in the daily news cycle. While I caught myself early from these traps and took plenty of measures for my own wellbeing , I was missing the occasional escape from reality. This was where the on-demand TV shows on largely Netflix and oc...