#Don’t Feel Bad About Not Having Seen The Best Of 2021

Let’s say that money was no object and there wasn’t a pandemic keeping us locked depressed indoors … I still don’t think I could have caught up with 2021’s release schedule. If you’re like me, you have to work full time to keep a roof over your head, and it’s important to note that not everyone has the luxury to watch films while they work. Even someone like myself who works in the film industry can’t watch movies while I work, because then I run the risk of starting to subconsciously type the lyrics to “30/90” from “Tick, Tick…Boom!” in the middle of some SEO piece about when you can watch the next season of “Dexter” or something. Time is precious, and if I challenged myself to see everything that 2021 had to offer, I’d not have had the time to do things like Zoom with my family I’ve not seen in the last two years, get a good night’s sleep, or clean my apartment.

It’s not just movies, either, as television is in a golden era that’s helping to split our time. Between “Insecure,” “Succession,” “Yellowjackets,” “Ted Lasso,” “Hacks,” “Squid Game,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Pen15,” “Hellbound,” all the Disney+ Marvel/”Star Wars” stuff, and now the return of “Letterkenny,” that’s a lot of hours to watch, and we’re barely scratching the surface of the new content I’ve consumed. And sure, there are those who will sit upon their throne of might and try to tell you that it means “movies clearly aren’t a priority for you,” but that toxic thinking can get gone.