Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Streaming Revolutionizes Television

 I've seen a lot of technological advancements with our television viewing habits over the years, from remote controls and VCRs to the explosion of cable channels and digital video recorders. But I think streaming may be the biggest change yet. 
Not only can you watch dozens, if not hundreds, of traditional TV shows, both old and new, at whatever pace you like, but much of the best television content comes from original programs airing for the first time - sometimes dumped all at once for immediate binging or doled out slowly, one per week, just like old times. 

Here are the shows that I have watched all available episodes so far...

Stranger Things
Daredevil
Luke Cage
Jessica Jones
Iron Fist
The Defenders
Flash
The Mandalorian
Severance
Only Murders in the Building

Wednesday
Umbrella Academy
The Rings of Power
WandaVision
Loki
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Hawkeye
The Book of Boba Fett
Obi Wan Kenobi
Moon Knight
Ms Marvel
She Hulk
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Reacher
Slow Horses
Outer Range
The Old Man
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Andor
Tulsa King
Willow
Dahmer
The Good Place

And streaming shows I am not finished with

His Dark Materials
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Crown
Titans
Yellowstone
Ted Lasso
The Witcher
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Picard
Better Call Saul
The Chosen
Alaska Daily
Abbott Elementary
Outlander


Older TV series I am watching

Downton Abbey
Walking Dead
Boston Legal
NCIS
Elementary
Grimm
Psych
Monk

And a few I have finished

West Wing
White Collar
Bones
Lie To Me

2022 Movies I've Seen

 It's getting harder and harder to compile this list every year. I used to be able to go to one website listing all the Hollywood Box Office stats and come up with my list. But now I have to also go to half a dozen other sites and find all the original streaming movies that I might have seen during the year. So here is my best effort at compiling my list for this year...

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Minions: Rise of Gru
The Batman
Thor: Love and Thunder
Elvis
Uncharted
Nope
Lightyear
The Lost City
Ticket to Paradise
Bullet Train
The Bad Guys
Turning Red
Sing 2
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Morbius
Death on the Nile
Don't Worry Darling
Marry Me
The King's Man
The 355
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Spirited
Luck
The Adam Project
The Sea Beast
The Gray Man
Samaritan
Slumberland
The Princess
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Enola Holmes 2
Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Hocus Pocus 2

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Avatar: The Way of Water
Top Gun: Maverick
Strange World
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery


And now the movies that I still plan to see at some point...


Black Adam
Babylon
Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Menu
She Said
Triangle of Sadness
Amsterdam