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 and 2020.
- January
- 31
- Watched The Dig on Netflix F And I don't give a toss what the pedants say, it was wonderful, especially the unspoken dialogue and the strange, unacknowledged flashbacks.
- 22
- Started watching Le Bureau s05 on Apple TV T I’ll be bereft by the end of this season.
- 20
- Started watching Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime T Like, is there anyone else’s Jack Ryan?
- 17
- Watched Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom On Netflix F Very fine, and very stagey. Viola Davis is magnificent.
- 15
- Finished watching Le Bureau s04 on Apple TV T So good. So sad that I know s05 is the end.
- 13
- Started watching Lupin on Netflix T Very entertaining.
- 10
- Watched Midnight Sky on Netflix F Great spaceship, but otherwise? Meh.
- 09
- Finished watching Ethos on Netflix T Strangely affecting, even though nothing much happens. A second series will be good, I hope.
- 09
- Finished reading The Quest to Conserve Rare Breeds: Setting the Record Straight by Lawrence Alderson as pdf B Interesting and repetitive. Shaky on methane, IMHO.
- 07
- Started reading The Quest to Conserve Rare Breeds: Setting the Record Straight by Lawrence Alderson as pdf B Not thrilling, and interesting.
- 06
- Finished reading Corduroy by Adrian Bell B Lovely account of farming in Suffolk in the 1920s, not too romaticised.
- 04
- Started watching Bridgerton on Netflix T Well, rip my bodice; What have we here?
- 02
- Watched Bombshell on iTunes film F And very good it was too, although the beast still lives.
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