which this year has one of the We March We Protest October 2 2021 Shirt Furthermore, I will do this most stacked lineups in recent memory. While Cynthia Erivo in Genius: Aretha and Elizabeth Olsen in WandaVision are more than deserving of their places on the list, the real run-off will be between Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit, Kate Winslet for Mare of Easttown, and Michaela Coel for I May Destroy You. First things first, I’m just as big a Michaela Coel fan as you are, and I hope she sweeps every award for writing and directing. But for me, the performance of the year was Winslet’s extraordinary turn as Mare, and not just for that pitch-perfect Pennsylvania accent. At once breathtakingly fierce and heartbreakingly raw—and often unintentionally hilarious—it was career-best work:
I laughed, I cried, and by the We March We Protest October 2 2021 Shirt Furthermore, I will do this end of it, I somehow found myself falling in love with Mare. Kate, I’m rooting for you.—Liam HessLike the rest of the country, I watched The Queen’s Gambit in one fell swoop and was enthralled. I’ve been a fan of Anya Taylor-Joy ever since she donned an archival Bob Mackie dress inspired by My Fair Lady to the L.A. premiere of Emma, but her portrayal of the unrelenting, unromantic Beth Harmon took my appreciation to the next level. Admittedly, the series didn’t go so far as to transform me into a daily chess player—although a board now has pride of place in my living room—but I did rock a cat-eye à la Harmon all Fashion Week–long.