TV And Movie-Based Costume Ideas For Your Stay-At-Home Halloween

It’s that time of year again. The season when you start scouring the internet for last-minute costume ideas for your upcoming Halloween parties. Only this year… is Halloween even a thing Seriously, we have no idea what shape Halloween will take this year (masks on masks!), but we do know it’ll be unlike any Halloween we’ve ever had before. Whether you’re doing a low key kick back with the people in your quarantine bubble, or just hanging online with some friends over Zoom, the only thing about Halloween 2020 promises is that you’re still going to need a costume.

The pandemic may have ended almost every conceivable way to have fun — and with the stress of this year and the upcoming election, we need a little fun — but it’ll never take away our desire to play dress up as full-grown adults. For costume inspiration, we’ve decided to look to all the TV and movies that were culturally relevant this year to help ensure that whatever costume you end up putting together will be easily recognizable. Even over Zoom.

Because nothing stings quite like when a person thinks you’re a waiter and you were trying to be James Bond.

No, a new season of Succession didn’t air in 2020, but that’s not a good enough excuse to not dress up as Kendall Roy so that you can give an “L to the OG, dude be the OG, A-N. He playing!”

Okay, this will be our last 2019 reference, we promise. Big Mouth is just such a great show to pull costume ideas from. You can dress up as the Hormone Monster, the Hormone Monstress, or Andrew Glouberman!

The Mandalorian came out last year but by the time Halloween hits, we’ll be knee deep in season 2, so Star Wars nerds, the galaxy far far away is fair game. We’re expecting to see a lot of annoying parents dress their babies up as Baby Yoda (don’t do this, your kid isn’t as cute as Baby Yoda) and we know super nerds are going to bust out their Mandalorian armor and shout “This is the Way” over their zoom chat all night.

Instead, we’re going to opt for Werner Herzog’s ‘The Client’ just so we can try out our dope Herzog impression.