The Literate Kitty

Deep into this week-leading-up-to-the-Oscars, you can’t turn around (not here in L.A., at least) without someone , somewhere, making predictions. Talking potential upsets. Lamenting (or applauding) all the change, as two of the (seemingly) Most-Likely-to-Take-Home-the-Big-Prize nominees— for the first time, ever —come from… streamers . That last, to me, is really the most interesting takeaway from the—well, let’s go with “once again, unusual”—2021 movie season, for which we have the Weirdness of the Global Pandemic to thank (or blame, YMMV). With theaters shuttered for sizable chunks of 2020-2021—and feeling, to many of us, like dicey propositions even after the ‘plexes resumed operations—there was little choice but to see some of, if not all, the new flicks, by streaming them from the comforts of our own sofas. Which… is precisely what I did. Every single Best Pic Nom (as well as plenty of other, un-nominated films) watched from either my sofa or my boyfriend’s, on much-smaller-th