Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance | [R] = reread/rewatch/relisten | (Tk) = talk
This is a non-exhaustive list of things I’ve read, watched, seen or otherwise enjoyed.
Here are the lists for 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022.
- January
- 30
- Finished reading Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst B Very compelling and, possibly, even a hint of a happy ending.
- 27
- Started watching The lying lives of adults on Netflix T Very Naples, very intriguing and quite watchable.
- 26
- Started reading Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst B Skipped the previous two, on review, and this one is again cracking.
- 24
- Finished reading The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer B Very convoluted, and gripping. Something to be said for the central premise, that you only believe what you have discovered for yourself.
- 21
- Watched Lou on Netflix F Alison Janney conquers all in epic Oedipal-ish struggle.
- 20
- Started watching Spiral s06 on SBS T Hello again, old friends. It's been a while.
- 19
- Finished watching Wednesday on Netflix T No expense spared in the FX department, and rolicking good fun. Also, friendship > romance.
- Started reading The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer B Pretty gripping cloak and dagger stuff in which nobody is quite what they seem.
- 18
- Finished watching Slow Horses s02 on Apple TV T Addictively good, so trailers for s03 very welcome.
- 08
- Finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr B Blimey. An absolutely thrilling read.
- 01
- Started watching Slow Horses s02 on Apple TV T So good
- 27
- Started watching Gangland s01 on Netflix T Fine French lowlifes.
- 25
- Saw A Quiet Girl at the cinema F And yeah, I got something in my eye, what’s it to you?
- Watched Sharper on Apple TV F Great fun, and very satisfactory twists.
- 21
- Finished watching The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, on SBS T Unable to take more than an hour at a time, but so worthwhile to make it to the end.
- 17
- Started watching Deadwind s02 on Netflix T Not much has changed.
- 15
- Finished watching The Lying Lives of Adults on Netflix T Entertaining, in a mostly unresolved kind of way, and the ending caught me unawares.
- 12
- Watched The Banshees of Inisherin at the cinema F Funny and very disturbing.
- Started watching The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, on SBS T Very disturbing and not in the least bit funny.
- 05
- Watched Citizen Kane on Apple TV F Prompted by In Our Time; holds up so well, and so much more to see.
- 01
- Started reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David and David Wengrow B Truth stranger than fiction?
- 30
- Started watching Night Agent on Netflix T National differences in this sort of thing are fascinating.
- 28
- Finished watching Deadwind s03 on Netflix T More holes than a machine-gunned corpse, but entertaining enough.
- Started reading The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri B Surprisingly good, though I don't know why I should be surprised.
- 25
- Watched The Sense of an Ending on SBS F Rather fine domestic drama with Jim Broadbent doing a great job.
- 12
- Watched Luther: The Fallen Sun on Netflix F Very silly, veering into Bond territory.
- 10
- Watched All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix F War is hell. And tedious.
- 08
- Finished watching Ganglands s01 on Netflix T Absurdly entertaining.
- 07
- Started watching Engrenage s07 on SBS T Everything’s going to hell.
- 06
- Saw Empire of Light at the cinema F So good, and all the better for having been in Margate in January. Olivia Colman is simply astonishing in the way she inhabits the character.
- Finished watching Deadwind s02 on Netflix T As usual (by now) pulled a rabbit from the hat in the final episode, the bastards.
- 30
- Started watching Treason on Netflix T and immediately binged a second episode, which tells you something.
- 27
- Started watching Spiral s08 on SBS T Feeling sad this is the end.
- 23
- Started reading Freekeh by Ruth Nieman B Dreadful writing, might be some worthwhile anecdotage.
- 22
- Watched Ghosted on Apple TV+ F Entertaining mayhem, and nice to have a hero who knows his amaranth.
- 17
- Watched Ferry on Netflix F Strange to focus on such an unlikeable character’s back story, but it worked.
- 15
- Watched Tetris on Apple TV+ F Great fun, rather like Tetris.
- 10
- Started watching Transatlantic on Netflix T No expense spared.
- 04
- Fnished watching Spiral s07 on SBS T Good people doing bad things for good reasons.
- 28
- Finished reading Blood of Victory by Alan Furst B Maybe not quite up to scratch, but gripping nonetheless.
- 19
- Started watching Queen Charlotte on Netflix T Yet more fine tosh.
- 15
- Started watching Diplomat s01 on Netflix T Eminently silly, and failing to name Rufus Sewell all episode drove me mad.
- 14
- Finished watching Transatlantic on Netflix T And they all lived happily ever after.
- 02
- Finished Treason on Netflix T Rather good, and satsifying conclusion.
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