I used to do an annual post on my old personal site, logging my Bests and Worsts for each year in pop culture and media. I've stopped updating that blog, but I figure why not resurrect the tradition here? I ended the year with 61 TV shows watched and at least 36 movies viewed. That's up from 52 and 25ish last year. I wasn't as diligent about counting movies—my obsessive tendencies do have limits! Speaking of those tendencies, I have a feeling I'm abusing semi-colons below. I'm so sorry. (And if you want to see the entire list of 61 shows, I'm going to put it in a reply to this post.)
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Exit, Pursued By a Baron by Aydra Richards
A Love Song For Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
*The Proposition is a bonus favorite from Judith Ivory's backlist. I read it for the first and second time this year.
Favorite Shows
Chicago Med
Citadel: Honey Bunny
Interview With the Vampire
My Adventures With Superman
Shōgun
Superman & Lois
True Detective: Night Country
X-Men '97
The Beekeeper
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Conclave
The Fall Guy
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Hit Man
The Idea of You
A Quiet Place: Day One
Favorite Lead Actresses: Anna Sawai, Shōgun; Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country; Katja Herbers, Evil; Queen Latifah, The Equalizer; Bitsie Tulloch, Superman & Lois.
Favorite Lead Actors: Ncuti Gatwa, Doctor Who; Jacob Anderson & Assad Zaman, IWTV; Tyler Hoechlin, Superman & Lois.
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| Lorraine Toussaint & Queen Latifah, c/o CBS |
Favorite Supporting Actresses: Lorraine Toussaint, The Equalizer; S. Epatha Merkerson, Chicago Med; Kristen Vaganos, General Hospital.
Favorite Scene Stealers: Jonathan Groff as Rogue, Doctor Who; Andrea Martin as Sister Andrea on Evil, Kashvi Majmundar as Nadia in Citadel: Honey Bunny.
Best Villain: Doctor Who's Maestro as played by Jinkx Monsoon. (Legit scared me!)
Worst Villain: Criminal Minds: Evolution's Elias Voit as played by Zach Gilford. (Why is Voit still on the show? Whyyy?)
Favorite Pairings (canon or otherwise): Garcia & Luke, Criminal Minds: Evolution; Jazz & Hilary, Bel-Air; Gambit & Rogue, X-Men '97; Archer & Asher, Chicago Med; Daniel & Armand, IWTV; Dhan & Zeke, Found; Robyn & Dante, The Equalizer.
The Ships I Ficced Up: Bitten's Rachel and Nick; Found's Sir and Gabi; X-Men '97's Rogue and Gambit; IWTV's Armand and Daniel; Doctor Odyssey's Max, Avery, & Tristan.
Favorite Throwback Shows: White Collar, Birds of Prey, Scarecrow & Mrs. King.
More People Should Watch: Supacell on Netflix, Wild Cards on the CW, The Cleaning Lady on Fox/Hulu.
Most Questionable Coping Mechanism/Disassociation Tactic: Four seasons of Grimm in three weeks. This is ongoing and my eyeballs hurt.
Best Pop Culture Surprises: Doctor Odyssey teasing and following through with a threesome; The Acolyte's Qimir turning out to be Sith.
Biggest Pop Culture Disappointment: Challengers teasing a threesome and not actually having any such thing; the Matlock reboot not actually being a Matlock reboot.
I Left Early: Elsbeth, Fallout, The Gentlemen, Rivals.
Most Surreal Parasocial Moment: Paget Brewster reading my thirst tweet in a Criminal Minds promo and actually expounding on it.
Canceled Shows I’m Already Missing: Superman & Lois, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, My Lady Jane.
