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My favorite (non-movie) pop culture of 2016!

Last updated on: December 20, 2016 at 10:13 pm   by Chris Williams

My favorite (non-movie) pop culture of 2016! 2016-12-20T22:13:29-05:00 Chris Williams

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2016 is coming to a close. And while there are a lot of reasons to be happy that we’re saying goodbye to this year, let’s not forget that this wasn’t a terrible year in every area. True, we might be skipping toward the apocalypse. But at least there were some fun diversions along the way.

My post for the best movies of 2016 will be coming later. I hope to have it up before the new year, but the fall has been so busy that I’m behind on movies. There are a few I need to see before I put the list together, but I have a few days to make that happen over the holiday break. In the meantime, I wanted to post a list of my favorite non-movie items of the year. These are the TV shows, books and other items that captured my attention in 2016 and, in many cases, were better than some movies I saw. It was a good year for consumers of media; I’m looking forward to seeing how 2017 tries to top it.

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