The Guardian’s deputy music editor, Laura Snapes, the assistant TV editor, Ammar Kalia, and books site editor, Sian Cain, discuss their favourite music, TV and books from the past six months and what they’re looking forward to hearing, watching and reading in 2021
The Guardian’s deputy music editor, Laura Snapes, the assistant TV editor, Ammar Kalia, and the books site editor, Sian Cain, tell Rachel Humphreys about their favourite music, TV and books from the past six months.
Laura looks at why it’s been such a good year for disco, with Dua Lipa, Kylie and Sophie Ellis-Bextor all releasing albums. She also discusses the stars who made music from home including Taylor Swift, who released not one but two albums this summer. Ammar says Schitt’s Creek carried him through some of the most depressing days of lockdown. ‘It’s just an incredibly heart-warming show. It was nice to watch something that was so divorced from the horrors of reality.’ Ammar also discusses why Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You and Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series are both such standout pieces of work.
