The year is over and we're taking stock. What pop culture drew our eyeballs this year? Good, bad, weird, and otherwise. We're going to walk back through it all and look at it again to see what we missed or misunderstood, and what we didn't appreciate enough the first time. 'Tis the season for making lists.
Dec 28, 2016, 3:36 PM UTCVerge Staff
Our favorite pop culture of 2016
Beyoncé live, an innovative VR experience, two surprisingly sophisticated kids’ shows, and more
Dec 28, 2016, 3:00 PM UTCAndrew Liptak
The 11 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016
Say goodbye to a tough year with good books
Dec 22, 2016, 8:03 PM UTCTasha Robinson
The 15 best movies of 2016
A throwback musical, an erotic Korean drama, and many unique and stylish coming-of-age tales top the year’s list
Dec 21, 2016, 3:49 PM UTCVerge Staff
The worst pop culture of 2016
The moments, movies, and memes that made us hold our noses and question our profession
Dec 15, 2016, 8:23 PM UTCAdi Robertson
3% and The Thinning are this year’s best and worst take on dystopian meritocracy
It’s like the SAT, except it kills you
Dec 14, 2016, 4:42 PM UTCLizzie Plaugic
This year, Shia LaBeouf became a new kind of interactive celebrity
How Twitter and live-streaming helped the controversial actor find redemption
Dec 14, 2016, 3:56 PM UTCVerge Staff
The weirdest pop culture of 2016
These are the things that broke our minds
Dec 13, 2016, 7:09 PM UTCKaitlyn Tiffany
How One Direction stayed the world’s biggest band even after it stopped existing
Thank goodness we had 1D in 2016 even though we didn’t
Dec 7, 2016, 7:21 PM UTCVerge Staff
The pre-2016 entertainment that got us through 2016
A roundup of our favorite older things to watch and hear this year
Dec 7, 2016, 5:01 AM UTCLizzie Plaugic
YouTube’s top videos of the year prove its only dominant community is brands
Dec 6, 2016, 8:17 PM UTCMegan Farokhmanesh
This countdown of 2016's best films will catch you up on the good stuff you missed
Dec 5, 2016, 10:16 PM UTCKaitlyn Tiffany
Tumblr trends for 2016: at least the teens had a nice year
They spent it in an entirely different universe
Dec 2, 2016, 4:01 PM UTCKaitlyn Tiffany
DJ Earworm’s yearly mash-up of pop’s biggest hits is here
With one major snub
