The Last Five People Who Got Us Through This Awful Year

The final look at people who saved us.

This year has been awful: You don’t need me to tell you that. But to try to accentuate the positive, if that’s even possible, every Friday until the end of December I’ve been shout out five people who got us through this wretched year. (Here is the one from three weeks ago , here is two weeks ago and here is last week’s.) These people may work in politics, or entertainment, or the arts, or any field in America or around the world. All that matters is that their contributions in 2020 made it a little easier for the rest of us to make it through. This is the final installment. We thank all of them.

Michaela Coel

There is no excuse for not having watched “I Will Destroy You” on HBO yet. (It’s right there on HBO Max: You can even watch it on your Roku now.) What Phoebe Waller-Bridge was to 2019, Coel was to 2020.

Clayton Kershaw