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If 2020 was the year the entertainment industry pressed pause, 2021 was the year it learned to dance in a hurricane. It was a year of contradictions: movie theaters clawed their way back to life while streaming services cemented their dominance; the music industry returned to the stadium tour, only to be upstaged by a video game concert in Fortnite ; and audiences, exhausted by pandemic fatigue, demanded comfort food but couldn’t look away from the most brutal survival dramas. : Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home shattered pandemic-era