11 things New York Times critics are looking forward to in 2021

As a new year begins, our critics highlight the TV, movies, music, art and streaming dance and theater they anticipate before summer.Swearing with Nicolas CageSure, the new Netflix series “History of Swear Words,” which premieres Tuesday, features a cast of comics like Sarah Silverman, Joel Kim Booster and Nikki Glaser working as talking heads, breaking down the meaning, impact and poetry of six major bad words, which mostly cannot be published here. An exception is “Damn,&rdqu