As I did last year, I tracked the media I consumed over the course of the year, although at the end I stopped tracking television shows individually, choosing instead to rate each season as a whole. (It got really old having to enter in every single episode. A big enough pain that I just ditched that approach altogether.)
So here I have the best (and worst) movies, TV, and books that I experienced in 2017. I’m not going to include things I’d seen or read before. Only things that were new to me this year. They’re listed in the order I consumed them for each medium. Ready? Onward!
Movies I Gave a 10/10 to:
- Spotlight
- Moana
- The Last Jedi
Movies I Gave a 9/10 to:
- Memphis (the recording of the Broadway performance)
- The Two and Only (recording of a Broadway performance)
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Paddington
- Beauty and the Beast (live action)
- Little Evil
The Worst Movies I Watched (and their ratings)
- Blue Velvet (3/10)
- Pete’s Dragon (new version) (3/10)
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2/10)
- Jason Bourne (3/10)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (3/10)
- Sicario (4/10)
- Batman v. Superman (4/10)
- Starcrash (The MST3K version) 3/10
I have no idea why I finished Ice Age, other than my kids wanted to watch it. A terrible film in almost every sense of the word.
Television I Gave a 10/10 to:
- Nothing
Television I Gave a 9/10 to:
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Big Little Lies
- Game of Thrones 7
- Stranger Things 2
The Worst Television I Watched (and its rating)
- Nothing. I’m only rating a show if I watched the whole season, and if I didn’t like the first few episodes or so, there’s no way I stuck with it.
Books I Gave a 10/10 to:
- Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
- Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, by George RR Martin
Books I Gave a 9/10 to:
- Extreme Makeover, by Dan Wells
- Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage
- Bluescreen, by Dan Wells
- Ones and Zeroes, by Dan Wells
- Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone
- Two Serpents Rise, by Max Gladstone
- Full Fathom Five, by Max Gladstone
- The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell
- The Dispatcher, by John Scalzi
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic, by Andrew Rowe
- Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson
Out of professional courtesy, I don’t reveal the books I really disliked. But I’ll say that I read one book that I gave a 2/10 to, and two I gave a 3/10 to, and one I gave a 4/10 to. Additionally, one book I just stopped reading altogether because I thought it was a waste of my time.
So there you have it. I’d be interested in hearing what the best things you consumed the past year were. Share away!
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