Two days ago, I posted my annual summary of every book and story I read/listened to in 2021. Today, I’m summarizing every television show and movie I watched in 2021, as well as the few live events I attended. This is only my second year tracking this info in any concrete way.
Live Events:
I attended 4 live events this year (thanks, COVID-19!), two online and two in person.
· The Firflake (a full-cast performance of my Christmas novel, aired on YouTube)
· The Comedy of Errors (full-cast performance, on Zoom)
· 74th Annual Worldcon / DisconIII (5 days, at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington DC)
· Assassins (at the Classic Stage Company theatre in New York City)
As I said in my 2020 summary: I miss live theater and live music.
Movies:
I only watched 35 movies this year (8 more than 2020!), totaling approximately 71 hours. The shortest were one hour long and the longest was three hours. Of these, 26 were movies I viewed for the first time, the rest movies I’ve seen before. I gave 12 of these a 3-star rating, 10 a four-star rating, and 13 a five-star rating.
The breakdown of what I watched where:
· 8 on DVD
· 5 in the theatre
· 1 on live television
· 21 on digital platforms
The genre breakdown was thus:
· Science Fiction: 2 (Dune; Logan’s Run)
· Action/Adventure: 5 (Casino Royale; Quantum of Solace; Spyfall; Spectre; A Time to Die)
· Comic Book (Non-Super-hero): 1 (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World)
· Concerts: 3
o 2 Musical (Not the Messiah; John Barrowman in Concert)
o 1 Stand-Up Comedy (Bo Burnham’s what.)
· Documentary: 1 (For the Love of Spock)
· Horror: 3 (The Black Cat; White Zombie; Brides of Dracula)
· Kaiju: 1 (Godzilla vs. King Kong)
· Musicals: 9 (Tick, Tick …Boom!; Sweeney Todd (Angela Lansbury, George Hearn); Pitch Perfect; Dear Evan Hansen; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; Come from Away; In the Heights; Allegiance; Godspell 50th Anniversary)
· Mystery: 1 (Knives Out)
· Romantic Comedy: 1 (Single All the Way)
· Shakespeare: 2 (Henry IV, The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse productions))
· Super-Hero: 4 (Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Spider-Man Far from Home; Eternals) (wow, ALL Marvel…)
· Thriller: 1 (The Gift)
· Western: 1 (The Harder They Fall)
Television:
I watched approximately 411 hours of episodic television (almost double 2020’s viewing!). Taken alphabetically, the shows were:
· Animaniacs (13 episodes)
· DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (21)
· Doctor Who (7)
· Hawkeye (6)
· Live From Lincoln Center (3)
· Locke & Key (10)
· Logan’s Run (14)
· Loki (6)
· Only Murders in the Building (10)
· Paul Lynde’s Halloween Special (1)
· Penn and Teller: Fool Us (1)
· Route 66 (1) (Halloween episode with Karloff, Lorre, and Chaney)
· Schmigadoon! (6)
· Stargirl (13)
· Star Trek: Discovery (20)
· Star Trek: Lower Decks (20)
· Star Trek: Prodigy (5)
· Supergirl (18)
· Superman and Lois (15)
· Superman and Lois: Legacy of Hope (1)
· Suspense! (1) (Bela Lugosi in “A Cask of Amontillado”)
· Sweet Tooth (8)
· Telephone Time (1) (“backdoor pilot” for The Veil)
· The Kennedy Center Honors (1)
· The Tony Awards (1)
· The Beatles: Get Back (3)
· The Book of Boba Fett (1)
· The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (6)
· The Flash (23)
· The Goes Wrong Show (12)
· The Muppet Show (118)
· The Ready Room (8)
· The Veil (11)
· The Wheel of Time (8)
· WandaVision (9)
· We Are Who We Are (1)
· What If (9)
Genre breakdown for television watched:
· Comedy/Variety: 144 episodes / 4 shows
· Super-Hero: 127 episodes / 11 shows
· Science Fiction: 75 episodes / 7 shows
· Concerts: 3 / 1 show
· Horror: 23 episodes / 4 shows
· Mystery: 10 episodes / 1 show
· Magic: 1 episode / 1 show
· Drama: 2 episodes / 2 shows
· Musical: 1 episode / 1 show
· Awards: 2 episodes / 2 shows
· Documentary: 3 episodes / 1 show
· Talk: 8 episodes / 1 show
· Fantasy: 8 episodes / 1 show
All were live action except for 3 animated shows (Animaniacs; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Star Trek: Prodigy).
13 episodes were watched on live television (while in hotels traveling for work) and 18 episodes were on DVD; the rest were on digital platforms.
133 episodes were “rewatches” (Logan’s Run, The Muppet Show, and the Paul Lynde Halloween Special), all the rest were first viewings.
Next post will be my (very brief) summary of the writing, proofreading, and editing work I did in 2021.