2018 Media Diet

One of my New Year's Resolutions from 2018 was to keep a media diet of every movie, book, TV show, I watched and rate it. Here is the final list.

Turns out I started 2018 by watching a lot of stand-up and noir and finished the year by watching a lot of Patrick Swayze movies. In between was a lot of meh stuff like Breach and a completely forgettable Fleetwood Mac Biography.

The *** follow the Michelin system.   * Star is among best of the year.  ** Stars is easily best of the year. *** Stars mean best of the decade/an all-timer. 

January

Dave Chappelle: Bird Revelation (C+)

Dave Chappelle: Equanimity (A-)

Todd Barry Spicy Honey (B)

Planet Earth II (A)

Drug Inc. Crack (B+)

Tom Segura: Disgraceful (B)

Michael Wolff: Fire and Fury (B)

February

*Mindhunter (A)

Nestor Burma (B)

Out of the Past (A-)

Double indemnity [Both movie (*) and book (**)] (A+)

Unfaithful (C)

March

NOVA: intelligence of Birds/Day Dinosaurs Died (B)

Angelli: HBO Doc (B)

Bob Brunning: Fleetwood Mac: Rumours and Lies (B -)

John Wick 2 (B)

April

Joel McCale show (B -)

Game Over Man (B)

Andre Giant Doc (B)

Arthur Miller Doc (A)

Becoming Mike Nichols Doc (A+)

Sideways (A-)

May

Breach (B)

Murder on Orient Express 2017 version (B)

Doubt: [the play] (A-)

The Spy who came in the from the Cold [the movie] (A-)

Magnum Force (B)

The Roman Soldier: G.R. Watson (B+)

June

*Bad Blood: John Careyou (A)

An Evening You Will Forget (C+)

LaLa Land (A)

Tig Notaro's latest stand up special (B -)

*Kolyma Tales (A)

July

Dave Barry Travels in Florida (B)

**The Staircase (the original documentary) (A)

Won’t you be my Neighbor (A-)

Difficult People Season 3 (A+)

August

***Paddington 2 (A+)

Unforgiven (A)

Mindhorn (A)

Peter Brannen: The Ends of the World (B -)

September

Mark Leibovich: Big Game: (B+)

**Dirty Dancing (A)

Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon: (B+)

Bullit (A)

Edward Lazarus: Closed Chambers (B)

October

Rambo (the movie) (B)

**Ben Macintyre: The Spy and the Gentleman (A+)

Casting Jon Benet (B -)

Ben Macintyre: Rogue Heroes (B)

Trading Places [The Movie] (B)

November

Slow Burn Season 1 (A+)

Slow Burn Season 2 (B+, except the Juanita Broderick episode is A+++)

Atlanta Child Murders (C)

Two Weeks Notice (B -)

December

***Charles Mann: 1493 (A+)

William Golding: A Season on Broadway (B+)

What Happens in Vegas (C)

Road House (B -)