I’ve been tracking what I’ve read for some years now, and have been keeping an eye on what a few friends have been watching, as well as Kottke’s famous media diet posts, and I got to wondering what my media consumption was like.
So, I started tracking it (no spreadsheet, just a note). There’s no monthly breakdown for shows as they would sometimes get spread across months.
Anything that was a re-watch is in italics. It’s likely I missed one or two, of course.
I’ve tried to indicate where I/we saw something (AppleTV, Amazon, Netflix, Shudder, etc). Generally, if a movie isn’t indicated, it’s something I picked up on iTunes (yes, I know it’s been renamed, but iTunes is more recognized for now).
In December we signed up for Disney+ for a month to see what was there (we did this in 2021 as well), and by the time the month was over, I was really done with Marvel stuff, and Star Wars to a lesser degree. Andor was the only thing I’d say was a “must-see” there.
Overall, one of the hardest things for me now I think is that it’s just not remotely possible to keep up with the rate new movies and shows are being released at all for me anymore. I have no idea how anyone actually has time to see everything they’re interested in that comes out; my to-watch list, similar to my “to be read” list keeps growing and growing.
How to do you manage it?
Shows
- Doctor Who S11 [purchased]
- Brooklyn 99 S5 (3/5) [Netflix]
- Ted Lasso S2 [AppleTV] (4/5)
- Foundation S1 [AppleTV] (4/5)
- Wheel of Time – gave up on series after episode 3. [Amazon]
- The Witcher S2 [Netflix] (3/5)
- Invasion [AppleTV] (3/5)
- Brooklyn 99 S6 [Netflix] (3/5)
- Dickenson S2 [AppleTV] (4/5)
- The Afterparty [AppleTV] (4/5)
- The Expanse S5 & S6 [Amazon] (4/5)
- Severance [AppleTV] (5/5)
- The Morning Show S2 [AppleTV] (3/5)
- See S2 [AppleTV] (3/5)
- Resident Alien [Purchased] (DNF)
- Suspicion [AppleTV] (3/5)
- Mythic Quest S2 [4/5] [AppleTV] (4/5)
- Upload S1 & S2 [Amazon] (4/5)
- Firefly [4/5] [Purchased]
- Slow Horses [3/5] [AppleTV]
- For All Mankind S2 [AppleTV] [4/5]
- Stranger Things S3 & S4 (last half) [4/5]
- For All Mankind S3 [AppleTV] [4/5]
- Dickenson S3 [AppleTV] (3/5)
- Loot S1 [AppleTV] (3/5)
- What We Do in the Shadows S3 [Purchased]
- The Sandman [Netflix] (4/5)
- The Rings of Power [Amazon] (3/5)
- Lucifer S4 E8+ and S5 [Netflix] (3/5)
- Five Days at Memorial [AppleTV] (5/5)
- The Peripheral [Amazon] (4/5)
- Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix) (3/5)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation [Purchased] (S1 not completed by end of year)
- Mythic Quest S3 [AppleTV] (4/5)
- Wednesday [Netflix] (4/5)
- Andor [Disney+] (4/5)
- ObiWan [Disney+] (3/5)
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law [Disney+] (4/5)
- Willow [Disney+] (2/5)
- Hawkeye [Disney+] (3/5)
- Reservation Dogs [Disney+] (3/5)
- Ms Marvel [Disney+] (3/5)
- Moon Knight [Disney+] (2/5)
Movies:
January:
- The Proposal – 2009 (3/5)
- Stargate – 1994 (4/5)
- Last Night in Soho + Extras
- Last Night in Soho Writer & Director Commentary w/ Edgar Wright & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife + extras
- The Matrix (4/5)
- The Matrix Reloaded (4/5)
- The Matrix Revolutions (3/5)
- Underwater (4/5)
- The Matrix Resurrections & Extras (4/5)
- The Eternals (3/5)
- Black Bear (4/5)
- The Carmilla Movie (4/5)
- Spy (4/5) dumb fun
- Whip It (4/5)
- Office Space (5/5)
February:
- The Hating Game (2/5)
- A Perfect Host (3/5)
- Ammonite (3/5)
- Nine Days (4/5)
- Palm Springs [Amazon] (5/5)
- JawBreaker (4/5)
- No Time to Die (4/5)
- Antlers (4/5)
- See for Me (4/5)
- Rose Plays Julie (3/5)
- Don’t Say Its Name (3/5)
- Beans (4/5)
- Bombshell (3/5)
March:
- Ginger Snaps (4/5)
- Atomic Blonde – Director’s Commentary (4/5)
- The Adam Project [Netflix] (4/5 dumb fun)
- CODA [AppleTV] (4/5)
- Scott Pilgrim VS the World (5/5) (introduced to niece)
- Spiderman: No Way Home (4/5)
- Ready Player One (4/5)
- Final Destination 2 (4/5)
- Final Destination 3 (4/5)
- Final Destination 5 (4/5)
- The Thing (2011) (3/5)
- Tron Legacy (4/5)
- The Witch Director’s Commentary (4/5)
- Volcano (4/5)
- Into the Storm (3/5)
- In Fabric (2/5)
April:
- The King’s Man (2/5) – too long and boring
- MoonFall (2/5?) (Amazon)
- Psycho Goreman (3/5) (Shudder)
- The Bunker Game (2/5) Shudder
- Prometheus (4/5)
- Choose or Die (3/5), Shudder
- Till Death (3/5) Amazon
- The Martian (4/5)
- Girls Against Boys (4/5)
May:
- Alien: Covenant (3/5)
- Free Guy (4/5)
- Safety Not Guaranteed (4/5)
- Alien (5/5)
- Aliens : Directors Cut (5/5)
- The Lost City (4/5)
- The Sadness (4/5) Shudder
- The Cellar (3/5) Shudder
- Wargames (4/5)
- Tomorrow, When the War Began (4/5)
- Tragedy Girls – Director / Writer commentary
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- 6 Underground – Netflix (3/5)
- I Survived A Zombie Holocaust – (4/5)
- Black Friday (3/5)
- Mortal Kombat 2021 (2/5)
June:
- Demonic (4/5)
- Hanna -2011 (4/5)
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (4/5)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (4/5)
- Raw (4/5)
- Carrie 2013 (3/5)
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (3/5)
- Slash/Back (4/5)
July:
- Seeing Red (3/5)
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties (4/5)
- X (4/5)
- Mr Right (4/5)
August:
- Alien : Resurrection (3/5)
- Dune (2021) (5/5)
- Rampage (3/5)
- Thirteen Lives (4/5)
- Top Gun: Maverick (4/5)
- Rush Hour (4/5)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (4/5)
- Three Thousand Years of Longing (4/5)
- Jurassic World Dominion (3/5)
- Chick Fight (3/5)
September:
- Shadow in the Cloud (1/5)
- So Vam (2/5)
- Thor : Love and Thunder (3/5)
- A Ghost Story (3/5)
- Dual (3/5)
- Nope (5/5) (and extras)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (5/5)
- Unhuman (4/5)
- Emily the Criminal (4/5)
October:
- Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (4/5)
- San Andreas (4/5)
- Bullet Train (4/5)
- Fall (4/5)
- The Lost Boys (4/5)
- Blade (4/5)
- Blade 2 (3/5)
- It Chapter 1 (4/5)
- Free Guy (4/5)
- It Chapter 2 (4/5)
- Blade 3 (4/5)
- The Bubble (2022) (Netflix, 4/5)
- Underworld (4/5)
- Underworld: Evolution (3/5)
- Underworld Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2/5)
- Titane (4/5)
- Underworld: Awakening (3/5)
- Underworld: Blood Wars (2/5)
- Resident Evil 1 (3/5)
- Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (3/5)
- Resident Evil 3: Extinction (3/5)
- Resident Evil 4: Afterlife (4/5)
- Resident Evil 5: Retribution (2/5)
- Resident Evil 6: The Final Chapter (2/5)
November:
- Gone in the Night (4/5)
- Barbarian (5/5)
- Unstoppable (2010) (4/5) and extras
- Free Fire (4/5) and extras
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (1/5)
- Testament 1983 (4/5)
- Smile (4/5)
- Spirited (2/5)
- Dune 1984 (5/5)
- Dune 2021 (5/5)
- Cyrano (2/5)- a beautiful, brilliantly acted movie *ruined* by the singing
- The Northman (2/5)
- Enola Holmes 2 (4/5)
- Byzantium (4/5)
- Grettel and Hansel (3/5)
December:
- Prey (4/5)
- Amsterdam (3/5)
- Hellraiser (1987) (4/5)
- Hellraiser (2022) (4/5)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (4/5)
- No Exit (4/5)
- The New Mutants (2/5)
- Treevenge (new Xmas Eve tradition?)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special (3/5)
- Fire of Love (4/5)
- Werewolf by Night (3/5)