Reasons To Live Through This Election
1 min readAug 1, 2016
(send me ideas at @lauraolin)
- The Gilmore Girls sequel that premieres Nov. 25.
- Thanksgiving, generally.
- Dogs and cats (who need you for pats and treats).
- The Black Panther movie.
- Christmas/Chanukah.
- Twin Peaks 2017.
- Channing Tatum as a mermaid.
- Ava DuVernay’s Wrinkle in Time.
- Star Wars Rogue One.
- Theoretical Mad Max: Fury Road sequels.
- The return of college basketball.
- Season 4 of Broad City.
- 2017 Great British Bake-Off.
- The new Star Trek series that starts in January.
- Sasha and Malia at their last Thanksgiving turkey pardoning.
- Theoretical Magic Mike sequels.
- New Frank Ocean album (????????????????).
- Ice-skating!!
- A new Zadie Smith novel.
- The national release of Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation.
- Chicago Cubs World Series run. (ED. NOTE: THIS HAPPENED AND IT WENT WELL)
- 2016 being over.
- The supermoon on Nov. 14.
- The new Legend of Zelda game.
- Catastrophe Season 3.
- Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley in The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Hamilton tour (and whatever Lin Manuel Miranda does next).
- Season 4 of Sherlock.
- Star Wars VIII.
- MINI NINTENDO!
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2 is CONFIRMED.
- A total solar eclipse that will be viewable from most of the U.S.
- Fast 8 featuring Helen Fucking Mirren.
- Stephen Sondheim’s new musical might debut next year.
- Moana!
- All-female Ocean’s Eleven sequel feat. all your faves.
- MOULIN ROUGE: THE MUSICAL!!
- …