My Movies, Television, and Books of 2021
I’d like to say that I blame the pandemic for the amount of content I consume, but for as long as I can remember I watch/read whatever I can get my hands on. In part I want to keep up with general conversation, but also partly I want to be able to give recommendations where I can. That, and I was finding it hard to remember what I actually watched when asked and started keeping a list. Thus, my tracking & rating system was born.
The general rules are simple. Something gets added to the list if it’s brand new to me - so no rewatches, otherwise this would actually be much, much longer. For Movies/TV if I don’t finish them and/or really hate it they get one star, and for books I only list what I actually finished. Everything gets scored on a 1-5 star system:
⭐️ = Total Garbage, Don’t
⭐️⭐️ = Didn’t Like It, Wasn’t a Fan
⭐️⭐️⭐️= Liked It, but no Strong Feeling
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️= Pretty Good, Feel Good Recommending
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️= Absolutely Loved I & I Hope You Do Too
The list below is in watch order for 2021:
Television:
Schitt's Creek (S1-6) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pretend it's a City (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mad Men (S1-7)⭐️⭐️⭐️
Long Way Up (S1)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spycraft (S1)⭐️⭐️
Firefly lane (S1)⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ted Lasso (S1)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Supergirl (S6)⭐️
WandaVision (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Good Place (S1-4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Broad City (S1-5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S1-17) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Younger (S5-7) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Little Fires Everywhere (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hacks (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mare of Easttown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mrs. Fletcher (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lucifer (S5) ⭐️⭐️
Handmaid's Tale (S4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Falcon & Winter Soldier (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Loki (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grey's Anatomy (S17) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Parts Unknown (S1-4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
New Girl (S1-7) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Manifest (S1-3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy Endings (S1-3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Story of Late Night (miniseries) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good Girls (S1-4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Squid Game (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You (S3) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Riverdale (S5) ⭐️
Ted Lasso (S2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Schmigadoon (S1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
iZombie (S4-5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Morning Show (S1-2) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Great British Baking Show (S1-5) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Voir (S1): ⭐️⭐️
Hawkeye (S1): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Movies
Death to 2020 (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lost Girls and Love Motels (2020) ⭐️⭐️
Castaway (2000) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gone With the Wind (1939) ⭐️⭐️
The Pixar story (2007) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
RocketMan (2019) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Promising Young Woman (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Before I Fall (2017) ⭐️⭐️
Locked Down (2021) ⭐️
Love, Guaranteed (2020) ⭐️⭐️
Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bliss (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) ⭐️⭐️
Zach Snyder Cut: Justice League (2021) ⭐️⭐️
Kong: Skull Island (2017) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Godzilla (2014) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Godzilla vs Kong (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Seaspiracy (2021) ⭐️
Thunder Force (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
WeWork Documentary (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thunderforce (2021) ⭐️⭐️
Stowaway (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Like a Boss (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1 Night in San Diego (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Buffaloed (2019) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Greenland (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nice Guys (2016) ⭐️⭐️
State of Play (2009) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plan B (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fake Famous (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wrath of Man (2021) ⭐️⭐️
Luca (2021) ⭐️⭐️
Good on Paper (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Tomorrow War (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grown Ups (2010) ⭐️⭐️
Casablanca (1942) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Black Widow (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Suicide Squad Redo (2021) ⭐️
Fear Street: 1994 (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Here Today (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) ⭐️
Fear street: 1978 (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fear Street: 1666 (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
What If (2013) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sum of all Fears (2002) ⭐️⭐️
RIPD (2013): ⭐️
Free Guy (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This Changes Everything (2018)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thelma & Louise (1991) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kissing Booth 3 (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Raya and the last Dragon (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) ⭐️
Love & Monsters (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cruella (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Let Them All Talk (2020) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dune (2021) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maleficent (2014): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Maleficent 2 (2019): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Premonition (2007): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Halloweentown (1998): ⭐️⭐️
Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Halloweentown High (2004): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Return to Halloweentown (2004): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gunpowder Milkshake (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021): ⭐️⭐️
Red Notice (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 rings (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Begin Again (2013): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Klaus (2019): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2021): ⭐️
New York Philharmonic: Celebrating Sondheim (2019): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Single All the Way (2021): ⭐️
Aviator (2005): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Amazing Spiderman (2012): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Amazing Spiderman 2 (2014): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Being the Ricardos (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Matrix Resurrections (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Superintelligence (2020): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Don’t Look Up (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Venom (2018): ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
No Time To Die (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Death to 2021 (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Books
Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno by Nancy Jo Sales ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In-Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Purpose Mindset by Akhtar Badshah⭐️⭐️
Calypso by David Seders ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe ⭐️⭐️
Here’s to 2022’s entertainment!