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The house dress is having a 2020 renaissance. "I think #stayathome made people realize that we need to not just dress to go outside — we need to dress to be inside, love what we wear and feel comfortable," designer Malgosia Archer says. Żaneta Mieszczak/Malgosia Archer hide caption
Your animals will demand your attention in Planet Zoo, just one of several simulation games that might distract you from quarantine. Frontier hide caption
Halt! Cthulhu goes there? (L to R):Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance), Atticus (Jonathan Majors) and Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) in HBO's Lovecraft Country. Eli Joshua Ade /HBO hide caption
Kumail Nanjiani, pictured here in 2019, is a longtime friend of Pop Culture Happy Hour. He recently joined the panel for a virtual 10th birthday party. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for THR hide caption
Kumail Nanjiani And A 10th Birthday Pop Culture Quiz
A woman named Un A leads viewers on a tour of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, in a recent YouTube video. "Every building in Pyongyang is going through general cleaning to shake off winter dust," she says in English. Echo of Truth/YouTube hide caption
Regina King (pictured right) recently received an Emmy nomination for her lead role in the limited series Watchmen. Mark Hill/HBO hide caption
The woodsy cover image of Taylor Swift's new album Folklore evokes cottagecore. Republic Records via AP hide caption
Top to bottom: must-watch TV shows that people are binge-watching around the world: The Bad Kids in China, Pasión de Gavilanes in Colombia, and Tehran in Israel. Youtube/ Screenshots by NPR hide caption
Tim Minchin plays Lucky in the new series Upright. Mark Rogers/Sundance Now hide caption
Ensigns Tendi (voiced by Noel Wells), Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid) do Starfleet's grunt work on Star Trek: Lower Decks. CBS All Access hide caption
Seth Rogen stars alongside ... well, Seth Rogen, in the HBO Max movie An American Pickle. Hopper Stone/HBO Max hide caption
A quarantine seance performed over Zoom goes awry in the new horror movie 'Host,' streaming now on Shudder. Shudder hide caption
Author Michelle McNamara, in the HBO documentary series based on her book. Robyn Von Swank/HBO hide caption
Actor Wilford Brimley attends the premiere of Did You Hear About the Morgans? in New York City on December 14, 2009 Brimley passed away on August 1, 2020 at 85. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images hide caption
(L-R): Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin perform in 1981. Cassy Cohen/Showtime hide caption
Players compete in a Magic: The Gathering tournament at Hasbro's HASCON in 2017. Josh Reynolds/AP hide caption
HBO's eerily prescient Watchmen received 26 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, more than any other program. Mark Hill/HBO hide caption
Taylor Swift's eighth album, Folklore, was surprise-released Friday. The record features production by The National's Aaron Dessner and a new set of songwriting tools. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Alex Trebek on the set of Jeopardy! on Dec. 19, 2019. Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty Images hide caption
In Wolfenstein II: New Colossus, our hero B.J. Blazkowicz has grown into far more than a couple of chunky pixels — but he still kills a lot of Nazis. Bethesda Softworks hide caption
A high-contrast mode makes The Last of Us II more accessible to visually impaired gamers. Sony Entertainment/Naughty Dog hide caption