Everybody’s doing a year-end wrap up, but since the year was pretty crap, we each compiled a list of our 10 favorite things WE consumed this year, regardless of what year it was released.

Anthony’s Lists

First, a list of the top 10 things Anthony’s mind palace thinks he WOULD HAVE enjoyed if they’d actually come out this year as they were supposed to.

10: Spiral
9: Shang Chi and the ten rings
8: the French Dispatch
7:WW 84
6: No Time to Die
5: Candyman
4:the Green Knight/ the Personal History of David Copperfield
3: Top Gun Maverick
2: Promising Young Woman
1: Dune/ Twin Peaks Season 3 the Return

And now his top 10ish list of 2020ish.

Top games
Bug Snax
The Last of Us part 2
Final Fantasy 7 remake

Top things that made me feel good in 2020 from 2020
Doctor Who
Bill and Ted face the music
Mank

Top movies from The podcast
Suspiria
Lawrence of Arabia
Carol

Best film I saw this year
In the Mood for Love

Alex’s List

Honorable mentions

1. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s album Axiom (Live) is terrific but didn’t make the list because he said something stupid about Covid on it.
2. Dapper & Wise coffee out of Portland is incredibly delicious and has free shipping if you order two bags (definitely get one of the Ethiopias). Didn’t make the top 10 because it sounds too sales pitchy. They are not (yet) a sponsor.

The three movies from this season of Read it and Weep that have stuck with me the most are

1. Brazil
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Dog Day Afternoon

Top three movies I saw not for this podcast

1. The Handmaiden
2. Cabin in the Woods
3. Onward

Top three not movies but also not Ted Lasso

1. The podcast 99% Invisible, specifically episode #389- Whomst Among Us Has Let The Dogs Out
2. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. What We Do in the Shadows (TV show)

Top one favorite thing of the year of any kind

1. Ted Lasso

Hunter’s List

1. Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings by Fantasy Flight Games
2. World of Wong Kar-Wai by Wong Kar-Wai, distributed by Janus Films/Criterion Collection
3. Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
4. ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM by Tim Rogers
5. I’m thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
6. Better Call Saul: Season Five by Vince Gilligan and Co.
7. Lyndsay Ellis by Lyndsay Ellis
8. Hades by Supergiant Games
9. Yellow Magic Orchestra Discography By YMO
10. Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer