What I’ve watched

Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (T) = television series | (P) = podcast series | (TH) = theater performance | (M) = musical performance | [R] = reread/rewatch/relisten | (Tk) = talk

• 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

February

• 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?

March

• 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.

April

• 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.

May

• 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.