2022 viewing

If 2022 was the year of anything for me, it was the year of Disney+. I've been devouring Star Wars series one by one, the pinnacle being Andor and the least interesting being The Book of Boba Fett. I've also allowed myself some new MCU content despite not having done the work of watching all the movies. She-Hulk was excellent (thanks to the brilliant Tatiana Maslany) and WandaVision was enjoyable despite my lacking the backstory. I've also been consuming all the new Star Trek I can get my hands on via Paramount+. Lower Decks continues to be its highest achievement in my estimation, and Picard, though I love it and am very much looking forward to the final TNG-reunion season, is a little bonkers.

A mutual interest in some mindless fun has led to a series of TV nights with neighbors. We started with the nostalgic and slightly reprehensible And Just Like That, and a subset of us continued on with RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 and the recent All-Stars season, my entrance into the series. Other group watch action included this year's three Page & Popcorn Book & Movie Club (P&P) selections: Passing, The Tender Bar, and Under the Banner of Heaven, the last of which continued an ongoing fascination with Mormon fundamentalism, along with Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey. Adjacent to (and overlapping with) Mormon fundamentalism is true crime, an obsession I satisfied by watching the creepy and excellent Candy (Hulu), the chilling and well constructed The Staircase (Netflix), and season 2 of the now-named A Very British Scandal (Prime). And speaking of the which, British productions, actors, and accents populated my year as usual; standouts included season 5 of The Crown, season 2 of Bridgerton, Crashing, and the incredibly sweet Heartstopper (and, of course, Star Wars). I also watched Downton Abbey: A New Era which demanded a rewatch of the series as a palate cleanser. On the subject of rewatches, I finished my rewatch of Friends which I started last year after watching the reunion special, and I bookended it with another watch of the reunion.

New (to me) series

• And Just Like That (watched season 1 with neighbors, watched the documentary)
• The Gilded Age 
• The Mandalorian (seasons 1-2)
• Broad City (seasons 1-2)
• RuPaul's Drag Race (season 14 and All-Stars All-Winners, with neighbors)
• Heartstopper
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• WandaVision
• Our Flag Means Death
• Anatomy of a Scandal
• Candy
• The Staircase
• Crashing
• Uncoupled
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
• The Other Two (season 1)
• The Patient
• Andor
• The Book of Boba Fett
• Under the Banner of Heaven (first episode with P&P book club, hybridly, the rest on my own)

Movies and one-offs

• Harry Potter 20th Anniversary
• The Lost Daughter
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Isle of Dogs (with neighbors, remotely)
• Groundhog Day (rewatch)
• Passing (with P&P book club, hybridly)
• Encanto
• Frankie and Johnny (with neighbors)
• The Tender Bar (with P&P book club, hybridly)
• White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
• Dear Evan Hansen (on a plane)
• Great Performances: Keeping Company With Sondheim
• Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (rewatch, with Louise)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (with Louise & Kathryn)
• Persuasion
• Obvious Child
• Inside the Mind of a Cat
• Westworld (1973 movie, with Cricket & Mark)
• Bros (in the theater, on a date)
• Downton Abbey: A New Era
• Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort
• Enola Holmes 2
• When Harry Met Sally

Continued series and rewatches

• Friends (rewatched seasons 9 and 10 and the reunion show)
• Downton Abbey (all)
• Better Call Saul (season 5)
• The Crown (season 5)
• Star Trek: Voyager (rewatched most of season 3, all of season 4, and the beginning of season 5 along with The Greatest Generation podcast)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 4)
• Stranger Things (season 4)
• Star Trek: Discovery (season 4)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (seasons 2-3)
• Dead to Me (season 3)
• Star Trek: Picard (season 2)
• Bridgerton (season 2)
• Hacks (season 2)
• A Very British Scandal (season 2)
• The White Lotus (season 2)