Besides enjoying this year’s dark comedy “Eddington,” with its shockingly hilarious, Portland-tied scene of buffed up crisis actors in antifa drag doing pushups in a private jet, why would anyone want to look back at 2020?

Yes, it was a time of doomscrolling and mask maintenance and sheltering at home without air conditioning in the midst of wildfire season. But there were moments of joy as well: Learning a new baking trick. Finding a private pocket of nature. Hearing your neighborhood playground had finally reopened.

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