Inspired by @mrfb, his end of the year summary and I guess an extension of my end of year music show list, I picked a TV Show and Movie that I watched for the first time for each month in 2022.
If you want to know far too much about what I watched, you can check out my Trakt year in review as well
More details and thoughts below the break
tv and movies by month
- Station Eleven + The Vast of Night
- Ping Pong the Animation + Wolfwalkers
- Drive to Survive + The Worst Person in the World
- Orbital Children + Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Vampire in the Garden + Mondocane
- Irma Vep + Oops I forgot to any movies this month
- The Bear + Shiva Baby
- The Rehearsal + Prey
- Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt + Columbus
- Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared + Heat
- Turn A Gundam + Paris, Texas
- Bocchi the Rock! + Sound of Metal
Movie Thoughts
- Columbus is a movie that I think is near perfect in a lot of ways, just a series of gorgeous pictures strung together with a story about two people and their relationship to their parents. It features all these gorgeous architectural buildings and I adore it and think about it often.
- A couple of movies at the end of the year were revisiting classics that I had never seen, like Paris, Texas and Heat and turns out they’re classics for a reason! Paris, Texas was another one that just had all these gorgeous images strung together
- Shiva Baby lived up to all the hype and then some
- I put off watching Sound of Metal because I wasn’t sure if it was the type of movie I wanted to watch alone. I was correct in it being emotionally moving but much more cathartic then I expected. It also had some of the best sound design of any movie I’ve seen
This was the most TV I’ve watched… maybe ever? At least consciously watched as opposed to being at home in high school and watching a lot of the office.
- Station Eleven is based on a book by one of my favorite authors and had a fantastic adaptation. Episode 7 was beautiful and tragic and heartwarming and had a scene involving Tribe Called Quest that is one of my favorite scenes. I think it almost holds up better having experienced a pandemic
- Irma Vep is a weird show I don’t think I’d recommend to many people, but the people I’d recommend it to I want to know their every thought about it. It’s an example of new TV made for streaming services that’s really pushing the boundaries of what TV is.
- The Bear is a show I think I’d recommend to anyone and contains so many emotions and an excellent soundtrack. It’s an example of new TV made for streaming services that in a lot of ways feels like an evolution of a traditional syndicated TV show
- The two reasons I have not finished Turn A Gundam is 1) I was frustrated by the lack of Turn A Gundam gifs, especially of Harry Ord, so I started making gifs after episode 2) When I finish the show it will be over and I will miss it so much
- Bocchi the Rock! is another one where I didn’t want it to end so I dearly hope they’re making a second season. It used the medium of animation very well, expressing feelings and emotions through changes in animation style, which is cool and fun imo!