"There's an idea that musicals are fluffy and, in a lot of ways, this show was intentionally fluffy," said series creator Cinco Paul. In July 2021, Apple TV+ unveiled the first episode of their ambitious musical series, "Schmigadoon!"
There's now a desire to go beyond the headlines and show these characters in a way that feels authentic. Grifters are littering the TV landscape. From Netflix's "Inventing Anna" and true-crime documentaries " Bad Vegan" and " The Tinder Swindler," to Hulu's " The Dropout," and Apple's new series " WeCrashed," audiences are flush for choice when it comes to the art of being bad.
From the dramatic to the comic, these actors broadened the boundaries of what a great performance means on screens big and small. After a year of will-it-ever-end lockdown, 2021 ushered in some small semblance of normality. Movie theaters reopened and, with the advent of vaccines, people were able to go inside feeling a bit safer than in 2020.