Here's a list of what I watched in 2022...well in terms of movies and scripted TV shows. I'm not including all the YouTube and Instagram videos...or the many videos my family shares via text. I also don't count the shows that I get a glimpse of when I go into the kitchen and Tim is watching something. Although if I sit down to watch; then I count it.
Shows and movies are divided by geography—settling location not necessarily the filming location. I put some shows in multiple places if applicable.
Blue font means I especially loved the show or movie. Though lack of blue doesn't mean a lack of love...at the time. Sometimes I will love a show when I see it but then later my enthusiasm fades. I'm going to try, though, to remember my initial love for a show.
Red font means I didn't like it.
Orange font is for shows that I watched a little bit of when I had control of the remote control during MY 50th Birthday Disney trip. I was so excited to have control of the TV and do the old fashioned thing of flipping through channels. I decided if I sat down to watch at least 5-10 minutes of something (before flipping to the next thing), I was going to count it.
There are certain shows in which I sort of lie about location because of spoiler issues. I'm not going to specify which shows, because that in itself would be a spoiler. It's kind of like when people tell you there's a twist at the end of the movie and just knowing there is a twist ends up being a sort of spoiler.
Also....I started writing this a few weeks before posting. It gets a bit confusing, because things are a bit out of order. Most of the stuff I watched in the past throughout the year. But other shows, I watched in the midst of working on the post. Because this post is ordered by geography rather than time-of-watching, with the more recent watchings, there's a Doctor-River Song sort of vibe.
For anyone interested: Here's my 2017, 2020, and 2021 list.
CANADA
Turning Red
The Handmaid's Tale
Trevor Noah-I Wish You Would
COLUMBIA
Encanto
EGYPT
Moon Knight
GREECE
Glass Oven: A Knives out Mystery
IRELAND
Belfast-Didn't remember to add this until January 5. I had forgotten to add it to my Google Docs where I write down everything I watch. I can't remember how I thought of it. But then I went through texts to find the conversation with my parents inviting me over to watch. Hopefully, I didn't miss any other movies or TV shows
ITALY
The White Lotus-What we're currently watching. It will probably be our 2022-2023 bridge show.
JAPAN
Mushishi-I was bored.
KOREA
Train to Busan-Koreans are very good at horror.
Dr. Brain
Miss Granny
All of Us Are Dead-I loved this and was disappointed that we didn't see any trick or treaters dressed as the students.
The Call-Very scary. I realized while watching that it was a scary version of The Lake House. And then with some Googling, I learned the Lake House is actually a remake of a Korean movie.
Seoul Station
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
SOUTH AFRICA
Chappie-I actually more-listened to this than watched. I used the Netflix narration. I enjoyed the experience.
UNITED KINGDOM
Coronation Street
Ted Lasso-This is one of those shows where I also even liked the odd low-rated-on-IMDb episode.
Afterlife-I like this show. BUT it could have done without the transphobic joke. I also found it annoying that the deceased wife was shown as being so overly perfect.
Green Wing-It took quite awhile for this to grow on me. But by the last episode of season one, I was okay with it.
Cold Feet-The more seasons I watch of this, the more emotionally attached I get.
Moon Knight-I think this was the first show we watched on our new big screen in the theater/media room.
Doctor Who-Two years ago, I was very much into Jodie Whitaker as the doctor...like crush level. Now as I plan to get back to the show I feel nothing. I'm just eager for the 14th Doctor. Though by the time I reach the end of the season, I'll probably be back in love with the 13th Doctor and heartbroken that she's leaving. BUT...I'm excited for Millie Gibson as a companion. I had sat on our backyard bench crying with relief when I realized I misunderstood spoilers and that Kelly Neelan was not going to fall gruesomely to her death; she was just moving away from the street. Then to find out, the Tardis was picking her up? What wonderful news. I'm eager to see her adventures with the Doctor. I'm also hopeful that one day Kelly Neelan will return to Coronation Street.
The Sandman - I love it but it took me several episodes to get to that point.
I was confused and bothered by the show not seeming to be in the same universe as Lucifer. I wish they were more connected. Or that we, at least, had answers to explain away the differences. Why are Cain and Abel together in dream realm in The Sandman but in Lucifer Cain has supposedly been walking the earth for many many years? Why does Lucifer have a human face in hell in The Sandman? Why wouldn't he be using his demonic face?
Thinking...From what I know, Lucifer is a spin-off of The Sandman. And knowing that different realms have different timelines, maybe in The Sandman, Cain and Able are in a before-period. And God punishing Cain comes after their time in the dreaming realms? Or whatever realm they're in. I'm not 100% sure it's the dreaming realm.
I personally would have preferred that they use the same cast, director, writers, mood as Lucifer. I mean the casts would be different, because the central characters are different. But I would have preferred the same Lucifer, the same Cain, the same Mazikeen, etc. (Guest appearance kind of things Or at least have Gwendolyn Christie-Lucifer mention or show that she/he has shift-shaping abilities.
Anyway....Although I never disliked the show, my like turned to love with the Rose Walker storyline.
UNITED STATES
Nine Perfect Strangers
The Power of the Dog-We saw this with my parents. My parents and I rarely agree on anything. But we were united in thinking this movie was quite awful. Well, I wouldn't say it was awful. I think, as a piece of art, it's great. But I found it very unenjoyable.
American Horror Story-I'm not sure which seasons we watched this year. Maybe "Roanoke" and "Double Feature"? I think most of my strong-liking comes from the settings.
Criminal Minds
Cobra Kai-We watched two seasons this year
Empire-I watched one season of this in the beginning of the year and another towards the end of the year.
What We Do in the Shadows-I still love this show, but I loved the latest season a little bit less than the other seasons.
Ozark-I can't believe the priest that helped the family in Chicago and all those foster kids on that Island turned out to be such a violent shithead.
Schitt's Creek-LOVED this show and was super into it. And then suddenly I wasn't. It's nothing about the show itself. I think it's personal issues really. I was going to tie my fading love to trauma. But you know, I think what really happened is I got really into using headphones and am almost constantly listening to TV shows, audiobooks, podcasts. Prior to that, while I did kitchen chores, I had this whole thing of re-watching Schitt's Creek. But then I stopped. And well, actually...part of that was because of climate-trauma and moving. But mostly...I think it was the headphones. In my quest to re-watch...I left off at the second to last episode. I think it's kind of this unfinished business for me. I feel uneasy about the whole thing.
Scandal-This show keeps getting better and better. The more outrageous it gets, the more I like it.
Orange is the New Black-Watched the first season. Hope Random.org picks more seasons for me...someday.
Succession-One of my ChatGPT adventures was asking the AI to write a pitch for a crossover TV show between this one and Empire.
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West Side Story-I tried watching this with Tim, thinking I was being supportive. Because the original is one of his favorite movies. I didn't like it...and I don't think he was as into watching the remake as I expected.
The Last Man on Earth-This is such a fun show.
Greenleaf
Stranger Things-I greatly enjoyed this but then all the Holocaust stuff kind of put a damper on things. Still. It's a fun show.
Outer Range-We watched the whole season. By the end, I had sort of warmed to it. But looking back, I feel cold towards it.
Brooklyn 99
Flight Attendant
The Shining Girls
Shameless-I was less into the 2nd season than the 1st. But I still liked it.
Community
The Handmaid's Tale-Well...it sort of (partly) takes place in the United States. Location-wise.
Complete Unknown-I had to Google this movie to remind myself what it was. I now can remember it. BUT I have no idea of whether I liked it, disliked it or loved it. I should check to see if I rated it on IMDb. That might help.
Severance- This show is SO SO SO good.
Nope-This was one of those things where I didn't like something UNTIL talking to other people and reading about it...and thinking about it. My initial feeling was that I liked it much less than Get Out and Us. But later...well, I still prefer Us and maybe Get Out, But now, I also like Nope.
Heredity-Super creepy. I didn't like the message the movie (intentionally/unintentionally) sends about mental health and people with neurological differences. Well, I want to say more but it would be total spoilers. I think what I'll do is write something at the way bottom of this post... I didn't like the movie, because I found it offensive. But I did like the movie, because it was so creepy. Although the creepiness scared me which I find unpleasant. At the same time, the fact that it scared me impressed me.
Station Eleven-This miniseries is so beautiful. Although not exactly in its entirety. Some of the episodes were amazing. Others were mediocre. I think Tim and I both preferred the flashback episodes. It's a great story about stories, and it replies to the assholes who think writers, artists, actors, filmmakers, musicians are not doing important work or were a waste of space during the pandemic.
I became obsessed with one of the trailers—watching it repeatedly and memorizing the lines. I like to recite it sometimes. ALSO...the miniseries is part of what inspired me to work on turning bits of my blog and my novel into a book-book instead of just an online thing.
The whole miniseries revolves around a graphic novel written by a woman who makes only a few copies before a pandemic kills most of the population. It made me think of how my writing is very unpopular now. But there's a chance it could be super popular during the apocalypse when there's less reading material out there. Or it might not be popular, but it might be special to one or two survivors. And that would be nice. I mean...so sad about the apocalypse. Of course!
The Bear-I probably would have liked this more if I didn't watch it while addicted to the color-water sorting game. My heart and mine were more into the game. That being said...I still liked the show.
Chasing Life
The Lost City
Invasion of the Body Snatchers-I'm pretty sure this was the first time I watched the entire movie. I think we watched bits and pieces during my childhood. It was scarier than I expected. It makes me want to watch more horror movies of the 1960's, 1970's, and early 1980's.
Poltergeist-Wrote a whole post about this one.
Bosch-It's nice to see a universe where Sophia survives and grows up...well reaches her teen years, at least.
Modern Family-The last two seasons. Our family enthusiastically watched the first three or four seasons; then the interest faded. A few years ago, Tim and I got back into it and watched some of it...kind of jumped into where they were rather than going back to catch up with what we had missed. We kind of forgot about it (or really it got buried underneath everyone else in our to-watch agenda. Then a few months ago, Tim started watching the whole series from the beginning. I asked if he'd mind stopping at season 10, because that's where we left off. So we watched 10 and 11 together...actually a few episodes at the end of episode 9 as well.
Reboot
Enchanted
Just Go With It
The Conners-This was comforting in that I'm-not-the-only-one-aging kind of way.
Family Guy
Charmed
Young Sheldon
Legends
The Sandman
Wednesday - I like it. But I'm tired of seeing the dance everywhere. In some ways, I like social media trends. It's cool seeing humanity come together to inspire and copy each other. On the other hand, I'm realizing I much prefer original content. I mean nothing is 100% original. But I think I prefer the stuff that's vaguely inspired rather than seeing the same thing (with tiny variations) over and over.
Lucifer-Just got back to watching this...I'm on season 4. I usually love it, but it's probably going to take me a couple of episodes to get back into it.
VARIOUS
Don't Look Up-Sometimes comedies have very sad moments.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness-This is one of those movies where I feel I should like it more, because of the subject matter. But I don't. I didn't like Wanda turning evil. I have a huge soft spot for bad characters turning good and find the opposite depressing. I mean I know she also did bad things in WandaVision. But I think all that was more understandable...and also fun.
1899
Everything Everywhere All At Once-I liked this much more than Doctor Strange.
NOT EARTH
Obi-Wan Kenobi For the stronger Star Wars fans like Tim and Jack...going on Rise of the Resistance was like, Oh, it's just like the movie! For me, I watch this TV show and think Cool! I feel like I'm on the ride I love so much! I'm really NOT into the Star Wars franchise...compared to Tim, Jack, and other people. At least when it comes to movies and shows. Yet I've decided my favorite land of all the Disney parks is Galaxy's Edge.
Mandalorian-I wanted to like this and expected to like this but was kind of bored. I think we watched only one or two episodes. We would have probably watched more, so I could give it more of a chance. But there were too many other shows we wanted to watch. Just for the record: Tim had already watched it on his own and liked it. (I don't want inadvertently smear his Star Wars fan reputation)
Rogue One-This one we watched recently. I started to have certain questions about the Star Wars universe. If this is a whole galaxy, why is there a Star Wars look? Why does the design and landscape of so many different planets look similar? Tim tried to explain it away with the imperialism, because I think he thought I was referring to the Vader stuff. But no...I was referring more to the rebel and town/village sort of places. It all very much looks like Galaxy's Edge. However, then we saw the palm tree area...which I appreciated.
ALSO...during the movie I started to think they should make a PRE-PRE prequel about one of the planets before they all became intergalactic. I think it would be cool to have a (first) UFO/alien encounter movie in the Star Wars Universe. Does anyone know which planet initiated contact? Or were there multiple planets having success simultaneously? Googling....
And now giving up. It looks like there is a very elaborate and long history...thousands of years. I can't easily find anything pre-republic.
Added weeks later: I just asked ChatGPT, and it says the planet Coruscant was the first to travel through the galaxy. Cool. Unless they're wrong.
Andor-Watching this now (at time of writing...this post). I've now thought of justification for why there's a Star Wars look so prevalent throughout the entire galaxy. It's just like how, with the Internet, on Earth we're probably starting to see and will continue to see more similarities between different countries whether it be in conspiracy theories, architecture, language, art, popular culture, etc.
I didn't much like Andor except for the storyline involving Andy Serkis. That I loved. I told Tim that Disney should make an attraction based on these scenes. Disney guests can pay to have the chance to build equipment for the Imagineers. It would also provide more career placements for cast members who tend to be snarky/grumpy rather than cheerful and friendly.
Lightyear- But maybe they were sometimes on Earth? I forget.
The Midnight Club-Not bad, but I liked it less than the Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass. It was fun seeing Heather Langenkamp.
MYSTICAL PLACE
Schmigadoon-We watched only one episode. I love musicals. But I didn't like the songs. And since the songs were a big part of the show, I let Tim know I wasn't interested in continuing with it. I don't think he was either. Sometimes, one of us will like a show the other wants to quit; then we end up watching it alone. OR, in my case, I put it in my long too-watch list and hope that Random.org comes through for me.
Some shows that Tim has dropped out of that I'm waiting for Random.org to pick for me: Evil, The Walking Dead, and Doctor Who. Good news is...my last Random.org pick was for Doctor Who. I'm excited for that.
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Lost City-An island somewhere. I was just trying to find out where it was supposed to take place and Google informed me it is similar to Romancing the Stone. I vaguely remember liking that movie, but I guess I didn't remember the movie itself enough to recognize the similarities.
Westworld-I liked season four better than season three but much less than season one and two. I was just thinking. It's not just the loss of the main setting that bothered me. It's more Aaron Paul. And I think Aaron Paul is wonderful. I love him as Todd in BoJack Horseman. I also loved him in The Path. But in Westworld, he almost feels like a cousin Oliver.
I think it would have been fine to add Paul to the cast. But they didn't just do that. They made him the central character. My heart wasn't with him. It was almost like the creators were thinking...we can't have women robots or a Black man robot as our main protagonist. We need a white man.
Maleficent
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My issue with Heredity: The daughter in the movie acts...strange, different. She seemed kind of autistic. As an autistic person myself, I had that secret wish that in the end, it would turn out that despite her weirdness, creepiness...it would turn out she was a good person. Instead...if you dig deep and read what the director intended, the daughter was possessed by a demon all along. Also, with the title and other scenes, the movie seemed to imply that the whole family was believed to have mental health challenges and/or neurological differences. Instead, it turns out...they were just involved with demonic stuff. The movie could provide a pretty big contribution to negative mental health stigmas.
