Last Year in Telly and Movies
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netgirl_y2kWhat Were Your Top TV and Movies this Year?
Telly: After Marvel's recent subpar output, who had Agatha All Along being totally fucking brilliant on their bingo card? Because I did not. Fallout also had absolutely no business being as good as it was. I remember finding Ncuti Gatwa delightful in his first season as the Doctor, but I also haven't really thought about it since, and I was only so so on the Christmas special, but that may have been the day drinking
Movies: Both Godzilla Minus One (a serious meditation on what it takes to rebuild yourself as an individual and a society in the wake of war) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (a movie where King Kong uses a baby King Kong as a club to beat up some bad King Kongs) were 10/10 experiences for me.
What TV shows did you DNF this year?
The Rings of Power S2, House of the Dragon S2, Dune: Prophecy. It feels like there was a moment for this sort of high budget television fantasy, and that moment is now over.
What TV and movies you enjoyed more than you expected?
Telly wise, I had a brief love affair (four episodes precisely) with Bridgerton.
Movie wise, The Fall Guy was an absolute delight.
Which TV and movies most disappointed you this year?
Telly: S2 of Arcane is by no means bad, but its pacing is fucked in a way that is honestly impossible to ignore. Speaking of fucked pacing, that is not the worst thing about S3 of What-If?, which is doubtless the episode where Darcy Lewis and Howard the Duck have a biological child, which was both off-putting to watch and impossible to explain to any hapless relatives who happened to be in the room with you on Christmas Day, but that was a weird fucking season of television.
Movies: Paddington 3. The magic is gone, it just is.
Movies and TV that you had the most fun talking about, whether they were good or bad?
I talked about Agatha All Along so much that two separate people got me t-shirts that say 'If you want a straight answer ask a straight lady' for Christmas.
The discourse around The Acolyte was obviously pure poison, but with, like, five normal people I had fun trying to reverse engineer how a premise like a Star Wars murder mystery from the creator of Russian Doll, with that cast, and mouse money to spend ended up like...that.
For the same reason Madam Web was more interesting as a conversation piece than a movie.
Did you watch any TV or movies outside of your usual preferred genre(s)?
There was my fleeting, inexplicable interest in Bridgerton, and despite being a big wimp I am starting to dip my toes into horror - my sister is threatening to take me to see Nosferatu before she flies home.
Any TV or movies you're excited to watch in 2024?
Telly: I am very much looking forward to The Last of Us s2, and very much not looking forward to the discourse surrounding it.
Movies: Superman, Superman, Superman. Please, please, please be good.
Telly: After Marvel's recent subpar output, who had Agatha All Along being totally fucking brilliant on their bingo card? Because I did not. Fallout also had absolutely no business being as good as it was. I remember finding Ncuti Gatwa delightful in his first season as the Doctor, but I also haven't really thought about it since, and I was only so so on the Christmas special, but that may have been the day drinking
Movies: Both Godzilla Minus One (a serious meditation on what it takes to rebuild yourself as an individual and a society in the wake of war) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (a movie where King Kong uses a baby King Kong as a club to beat up some bad King Kongs) were 10/10 experiences for me.
What TV shows did you DNF this year?
The Rings of Power S2, House of the Dragon S2, Dune: Prophecy. It feels like there was a moment for this sort of high budget television fantasy, and that moment is now over.
What TV and movies you enjoyed more than you expected?
Telly wise, I had a brief love affair (four episodes precisely) with Bridgerton.
Movie wise, The Fall Guy was an absolute delight.
Which TV and movies most disappointed you this year?
Telly: S2 of Arcane is by no means bad, but its pacing is fucked in a way that is honestly impossible to ignore. Speaking of fucked pacing, that is not the worst thing about S3 of What-If?, which is doubtless the episode where Darcy Lewis and Howard the Duck have a biological child, which was both off-putting to watch and impossible to explain to any hapless relatives who happened to be in the room with you on Christmas Day, but that was a weird fucking season of television.
Movies: Paddington 3. The magic is gone, it just is.
Movies and TV that you had the most fun talking about, whether they were good or bad?
I talked about Agatha All Along so much that two separate people got me t-shirts that say 'If you want a straight answer ask a straight lady' for Christmas.
The discourse around The Acolyte was obviously pure poison, but with, like, five normal people I had fun trying to reverse engineer how a premise like a Star Wars murder mystery from the creator of Russian Doll, with that cast, and mouse money to spend ended up like...that.
For the same reason Madam Web was more interesting as a conversation piece than a movie.
Did you watch any TV or movies outside of your usual preferred genre(s)?
There was my fleeting, inexplicable interest in Bridgerton, and despite being a big wimp I am starting to dip my toes into horror - my sister is threatening to take me to see Nosferatu before she flies home.
Any TV or movies you're excited to watch in 2024?
Telly: I am very much looking forward to The Last of Us s2, and very much not looking forward to the discourse surrounding it.
Movies: Superman, Superman, Superman. Please, please, please be good.
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Date: 2025-01-01 05:56 pm (UTC)I knew I had fallen off the Marvel bandwagon but I didn't know I'd been left that much in the dust.
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Date: 2025-01-01 06:06 pm (UTC)Honestly, this season especially had major vibes of 'Wait, didn't we cancel this two years ago?'
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Date: 2025-01-01 06:34 pm (UTC)I did love Agatha All Along, though. Going into it I was like "do we really need a spinoff about this character?" And we did in fact need a spinoff about this character.
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Date: 2025-01-01 06:44 pm (UTC)So what a delight it turned out to be was one of the best surprises of the year.
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Date: 2025-01-01 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-01 10:41 pm (UTC)I watched the first two again over the holidays and loved them just as much as ever, so maybe when the third one is on TV next Christmas my squishy feelings will come back.
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Date: 2025-01-02 01:52 pm (UTC)