2022 has come to a close! Time for some too fives

Fill out as many as you’d like and add any other categories that you want

Top 5 movies
Top 5 tv shows
Top 5 video games
Top 5 books
Top 5 songs or albums
Top 5 places you traveled
Etc

Feel free to do (example) five movies released this year or five movies that you watched this year regardless of when they came out. Whatever you’d like. I don’t make the rules!

Top 5 movies from 2022:

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. The Batman
3. Nope
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. Pearl

Still quite a few that I need to see that I think could make top five

Top 5 movies prior to 2022:

1. Mass
2. Pig
3. Licorice Pizza
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5. Ghostwatch

Surprisingly few options! Almost all of my non-2022 movies this year were either for 39 horror, 2021 catch-up, or rewatched. I had almost no catch up movies from previous years at all. Slacking!

Top five TV shows (with seasons that aired in 2022):

1. Better Call Saul s6
2. Severance s1
3. Barry s3
4. The White Lotus s2
5. The Rehearsal s1

I looked quickly at a list of movies that were released in 2022. I didn't expect to have seen many of them, but surely there'd be more than one. lol I will have to check other sources. But so far, there is only one.

it's a good one lol	+
A Madea Homecoming

Apparently there was a second one from 2022 that I watched on Prime.

I Want You Back.

It'd be tough to rank those two films. lol

Top 5 movies (from 2022):
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Triangle of Sadness
3. Aftersun
4. Barbarian
5. RRR

Top 5 movies (pre-2022, first time watch):
1. Perfect Blue
2. Red Rocket
3. A Simple Plan
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. Thelma & Louise

Vidja games:

1. Half-Life: Alyx
2. Inscryption
3. Hades
4. Hitman 3
5. Afterparty

Top 5 movies

1. The Batman
2. Bullet Train
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. See How They Run
5. Lightyear

I did not see a lot of movies last year that came out in 2022. Everything Everywhere All at Once is most probably gonna be #1 for me, I just haven't watched it yet. The Batman, Bullet Train, and Top Gun: Maverick were amazing. The other two are the best of what I could remember.

Top 5 tv shows (that i watched in 2022)

1. Goblin (2016)
2. Her Private Life (2019)
3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)
4. Reacher (2022)
5. House of the Dragon (2022)

My TEN favorite KDramas that I watched this year were

1. Goblin
2. Her Private Life
3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay
4. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
5. Because This Is My First Life
6. The King: Eternal Monarch
7. Extraordinary Attorney Woo
8. Bad and Crazy
9. Clean with Passion for Now
10. The Uncanny Counter

Top five books:

1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
1. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
3. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
4. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
5. Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by HP Lovecraft

Books!

In no order:

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Poirot Loses a Client by Agatha Christie
Curtain by Agatha Christie
Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Easy to Kill by Agatha Christie

There were more but I'm not sure if I'd read them in 2021 or not.

I loved "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip José Farmer, so I read the sequels to it last year. The first sequel The Fabulous Riverboat was okay. The next two were boring to atrocious to yeah. I struggled through three and four and dipped out after the story got wrapped up and never read the tacked on last one. I wouldn't recommend reading past the first book, tbh, especially if you think it's a great book.

I read The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers. Thought it was pretty good. And another one called Charlie Chan Carries On.

For 2023, I've got the first five Nero Wolfe Rex Stout mystery books, and a bunch (8 or 9) of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books on my shelf. I'm thinking of getting some sci-fi books, too. The one's I'm considering are Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance, Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Blindsight by Peter Watts. Not sure if I'll get to them, though. I still have two Star Trek DS9 pocket books that have been on my shelf for a year.

Curtis @ 3/1/2023 20:04

Top five books: 1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 1. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 3. My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones 4. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie 5. Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by HP Lovecraft

Dark Matter is #16 on my favorite books list!

Stargate @ 3/1/2023 20:00

My TEN favorite KDramas that I watched this year were 1. Goblin 2. Her Private Life 3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay 4. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim 5. Because This Is My First Life 6. The King: Eternal Monarch 7. Extraordinary Attorney Woo 8. Bad and Crazy 9. Clean with Passion for Now 10. The Uncanny Counter

I heard Extraordinary Attourney Woo is really good!