The weirdest pop culture of 2020

Filed under:2020 was a weird year — here are our favorite weird moments2020 has been a strange year, by nearly any metric you choose to use. The documentary itself isn’t that weird — it’s brilliantly done — but the subject matter is so strange it can only possibly have existed in America. — Chaim Gartenberg“I hope this email finds you well in these strange times.” — It’s reassuring that even when normal life all but disappears, you can still count on a daily deluge of emails in your inbox. Just replace X depending on your mood, whether it’s “unprecedented,” “difficult,” or just plain “strange.” — Jon Porter“I hope this email finds you well”How the email found me: pic.twitter.com/JAca0f6Ag7Four Seasons Total Landscaping — It started as a series of incredulous tweets from political reporters in Pennsylvania covering President Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election — “Is Donald Trump convening the world’s press at a small landscaping company on the outskirts of Philadelphia?” — and it ended as one of the strangest, uncomfortable, and most meme-worthy turns in an already unorthodox election season. HawkinsHow To with John Wilson — Maybe it’s my nostalgia for being able to freely walk around New York City, but HBO’s How To with John Wilson is the closest thing that comes to the joys of real-life people-watching. From thousands of miles away, he cheers on people’s deepest obsession with his Harry Potter character — and it’s positively charming.