“Netflix released Bridgerton on Christmas Day, and while it’s not meant to be a strictly historical portrayal of Regency life, the big inaccuracy that caught my eye just from the trailer was the costumes. Not only did the show seem to be using costumes from different centuries, with typical Regency looks from around the late eighteen-teens mashed against much earlier looks from forty years prior, but they also did the thing I hate in period movies and made a joke about a woman not being able to breathe in a corset.” Read more at The Mary Sue. The Boys‘ character Stormfront is a personification of the modern day Neo-Nazi movement, and a dose of reality in the escapism that is the superhero genre. Read more at Inverse. January used to be the “dump month” for Hollywood movie studios. Except, in the age of social distancing, every month is now January for these studios. “In a good year, the average Rotten Tomatoes score of movies released in January might hover in the 40s; in a very bad year, like 1989, when DeepStar Six and something called Gleaming the Cube were on the calendar, it can be as low as a dismal 16 percent. At least, that’s how it used to be, before every month was January.” Read more at The Week. Tokyo is home to many strange things, including the Meguro Parasitological Museum, a museum full of parasites. Read more at Mental Floss. Tesla Inc. fell 450 sale short of its half a million units sold goal Elon Musk set in 2020. “Most people don’t stick to their New Year’s resolutions. Most people aren’t Tesla, Inc., though. The electric vehicle maker delivered a record number of cars in the final quarter of 2020, but fell just short of its 500,000-unit goal for the year.” Read more at PCMag. 2021 is shaping up to be another great year for TV. Check out the top 50 shows to look forwards to this year. Read more at Thrillist.
