Monday, January 1, 2018

TV Shows watched in 2017

SHOWS I CURRENTLY WATCH (2017 edition)

American Crime Story
American Gods
American Horror Story
American Vandal
The Americans (will end with season 6)
Angie Tribeca
Another Period
Archer
Ash vs. Evil Dead
Atlanta
Baskets
Better Call Saul
Better Things
Big Little Lies
Big Mouth
Black Mirror
Bob's Burgers
BoJack Horseman
Broad City
Broadchurch
Brockmire
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Carmichael Show
Casual
Catastrophe
Channel Zero
Chewing Gum
Claws
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Daredevil
The Defenders
Desus & Mero
Detroiters
Deutschland 83
Difficult People
Doctor Who
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
The Fall
Fargo
Fleabag
Fortitude
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Game of Thrones
Ghosted
Good Behavior
The Good Place
Grantchester
Halt & Catch Fire (will end with season 4)
The Handmaid's Tale
Happy Valley
How to Get Away With Murder
Humans
Idiotsitter
Inside Amy Schumer
Into the Badlands
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
iZombie
Jessica Jones
Lady Dynamite
The Last Man on Earth
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Legion
Lip Sync Battle
Loosely Exactly Nicole
Luke Cage
Luther
Master of None
The Mayor
Mr. Mercedes
Mr. Robot
Nathan for You
Orange is the New Black
Orphan Black
Outcast
People of Earth
Playing House
Poldark
Power
Preacher
The President Show
Rick and Morty
Riverdale
The Rundown with Robin Thede
RuPaul's Drag Race
Saturday Night Live (sporadically)
Search Party
Sense8
Silicon Valley
The Sinner (limited series)
South Park
Speechless
Steven Universe
Stranger Things
Survivor's Remorse
Take My Wife
Top of the Lake: China Girl
Twin Peaks: The Return (limited series)
Transparent
The Trixie & Katya Show
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Underground
UnReal
Veep (will end with season 7)
Vice Principals (ended with season 2)
The Walking Dead
Westworld
The Young Pope (limited series)
You're the Worst (will end with season 5)
Zoo

Catching up on: Grace and Frankie (s. 1).
ON NOTICE: Silicon Valley.
Ended its run: Big Little Lies; Review; Bates Motel; Please Like Me; The Leftovers; Broadchurch; Orphan Black; Twin Peaks: The Return; The Sinner; Halt and Catch Fire; Vice Principals; Difficult People; The Young Pope.
Cancelled: Loosely Exactly Nicole (BOOOOOOO); Sweet/Vicious (BOOOOOOOO); American Crime; Underground; The Carmichael Show; Zoo (BOOOOOOOOOOO); Survivor's Remorse; Playing House.
Gave up on: Sherlock; Powerless; Designated Survivor; The Last Man on Earth; Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath; The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; The Mayor; The Walking Dead; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Fortitude; Grantchester; Humans; South Park; Transparent.
Attempted watching: The Mick; Wrecked; 24: Legacy; Imposters; Samurai Jack; The Boondocks.

Movies 2017

I watched 44 movies this year.  6 were re-watches.

5 stars
Get Out
John Wick: Chapter 2
Moonlight
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder Woman

4.5 stars
Atomic Blonde
Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 2
Spiderman: Homecoming

4 stars
Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin'
Logan
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Invitation

3.5 stars
Sinister
Snowpiercer
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

3 stars
Cub
Moana
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Phantasm II
Star Trek: Beyond
The Accountant
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Final Girls
The Lego Batman Movie
The Man From U.N.C.L.E
The Secret Life of Pets

2.5 stars
Cult of Chucky
Ouija
Phantasm III
Suicide Squad
The Belko Experiment
X-Men: Apocalypse

2 stars
Chopping Mall
Phantasm IV: Oblivion
The Amityville Horror (2005) (5 stars for Ryan's ABS)
The Conjuring 2

1 star
Phantasm Ravager

Re-watches
Captain America: Civil War
Curse of Chucky
Guardians of the Galaxy
Phantasm
Thor: The Dark World
What We Do in the Shadows

Books 2017

I read 102 books this year.  6 were re-reads. 

Afterlife with Archie, Book one / Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate / Al Franken
Alone / Scott Sigler
Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian, The / W. Kamau Bell
Behind Her Eyes / Sarah Pinborough
Bitch Planet, vol. 1 / Kelly Sue DeConnick
Bitch Planet, vol. 2 / Kelly Sue DeConnick
Black Panther & the Crew: We Are the Streets / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Panther, book 2 / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Panther, vol. 3 / Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze
Black Panther: World of Wakanda / Roxane Gay
Blood of Emmett Till, The / Timothy B. Tyson
Bombshells, vol. 2 / Marguerite Bennett, Marguerite Sauvage
Book You're Not Supposed to Have, The (Timmy Failure, v. 5) / Stephan Pastis
Cat Stole My Pants, The (Timmy Failure, v. 6) / Stephan Pastis
Chew, vol. 12 / John Layman, Rob Guillory
Civil War: Black Panther / Reginald Hudlin
Colony in a Nation, A / Chris Hayes
Couple Next Door, The / Shari Lapena
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate / Zoe Quinn
Crooked Kingdom / Leigh Bardugo
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / Jane Mayer
Dark Triumph / Robin LaFevers
Every Body Yoga / Jessamyn Stanley
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book / Jomny Sun
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City / Matthew Desmond
Faith, vol. 1 / Jody Houser
Faith, vol. 2 / Jody Houser
Faith, Vol. 3 / Jody Houser
Field Guide to Awkward Silences, A / Alexandra Petri
Final Girls / Riley Sager
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America / Jill Leovy
Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, The / David Lagercrantz
Girls on Fire / Robin Wasserman
Give Us the Ballot / Ari Berman
Grave Mercy / Robin LaFevers
Hate U Give, The / Angie Thomas
Hero of Ages, The / Brandon Sanderson
Icon / Genevieve Valentine
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People / Thomas Frank
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy / Tressie McMillan Cottom
Lumberjanes, vol. 3 / Noelle Stevenson
Manhunter, vol. 1 / Marc Andreyko
March: Book 1 / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
March: Book 2 / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
March: Book 3 / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Mistborn / Brandon Sanderson
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove / Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, vol. 1 / Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 2 / Amy Reeder
Mortal Heart / Robin LaFevers
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6 / G. Willow Wilson
Murder of Crows / Anne Bishop
Nailbiter, vol. 1 / Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson
Nailbiter, vol. 2 / Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson
Nailbiter, vol. 3 / Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson
Nailbiter, vol. 4 / Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson
Nailbiter, vol. 5 / Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond / Marc Lamont Hill
Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs / Pete Souza
Obelisk Gate, The / N.K. Jemisin
Outcast, vol. 4 / Robert Kirkman, Paul Azaceta
Outcast, vol. 5 / Robert Kirkman
Paper Girls, vol. 1 / Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
Paper Girls, vol. 2 / Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang
Paper Girls, vol. 3 / Brian K Vaughan
Parable of the Sower / Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents / Octavia E. Butler
Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, vol. 1 / Kate Leth
Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, Volume 2 , Kate Leth
Pretty Deadly, vol. 2 / Kelly Sue DeConnick
Rick and Morty, vol. 1 / Zac Gorman
Ruin and Rising / Leigh Bardugo
Saga, vol. 7 / Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Sex Criminals, vol. 3 / Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
Shade, the Changing Girl, vol. 1 / Cecil Castellucci
Shadowhouse Fall / Daniel Jose Older
Six of Crows / Leigh Bardugo
Stone Sky, The / N.K. Jemisin
Talon of God / Wesley Snipes, Ray Norman
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement / Wesley Lowery
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare / Gabourey Sidibe
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology / Leah Remini
Unkindness of Magicians, An / Kat Howard
Vengeance Bound / Justina Ireland
Vision in Silver / Anne Bishop
Walking Dead, vol. 27 / Robert Kirkman
Well of Ascension, The / Brandon Sanderson
What the Hell Did I Just Read / David Wong
Wicked + the Divine, vol. 4 / Kieron Gillen
Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5 / Kieron Gillen
Written in Red / Anne Bishop
Wytches, vol. 1 / Scott Snyder
Y is for Yesterday / Sue Grafton
Yoga Bunny / Brian Russo
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain / Phoebe Robinson

Re-reads:
Cujo / Stephen King
Handmaid's Tale, The / Margaret Atwood
Mirror / Graham Masterton
Needful Things / Stephen KingWind in the Door, A / Madeline L'Engle
Wrinkle in Time, A / Madeline L'Engle