Be Excellent To Each Other

Movie: Top Gun: Maverick, obv
TV show: Reacher, obv
Video game (single player): It was close, but Returnal beat out Vampire Survivors
Video game (multiplayer): For games released this year it's COD:MW2, otherwise it's Rocket League
Book: It's close between Verity by Colleen Hoover and The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb. I think Verity just takes it.
Song: Cadence VIP by Metrik. I don't really listen to new music much since Annie Mac left Radio 1.


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Movie: Violent Night. I loved it. It was silly and brilliant.
TV show: Severence
Song: Spaceman from the Eurovisions. It just made me smile.

I don’t know if I read/played new releases from the other categories. I’m sure I did, but my memory won’t let me access that data at the moment.

Oooh, I have opinions….

Movie: Top Gun: Maverick - best cinema experience in ages
TV show: 1883 - ten perfect episodes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_(TV_series)
Video game (single player): Horizon Forbidden West - not perfect, but very enjoyable
Video game (multiplayer): COD:MW2 for me. First one that’s hooked me for a few years.
Book: Sea Of Tranquility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Tranquility_(novel)
Song: not sure on this… will give it some more thought.

Movie: - I will also go for Top Gun Maverick, with The Batman close behind.
TV show: Reacher
Video game (single player): The Ghost of Tsushima
Video game (multiplayer): Rocket League
Book: Dead Man Running by Kevin Webber
Song: Raised by Wolves by the Interrupters. I discovered these at a festival and have been hooked.

Movie: Hellraiser
TV show: AIDS - The Unheard Tapes astounding and upsetting BBC doc.
Video game (single player): Hitman 3 for hitting men.
Video game (multiplayer): We Were Here Forever Asynchronous escape room funtimes.
Book: Echoes of Eternity man with wings destroys two other things with wings
Song: Eddie Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin
TV show: I've probably watched worthier, more intellectual programmes, but the one that's stuck in my head is The Traitors
Video game (single player): Return to Monkey Island
Book: The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales
Song: All of Frank Turner's FTHC is a hardcore return to form with touching moments, but Non Serviam is a proper jump-up-and-down-yelling-at-your-loudest anthem.

Listening to FTHC now on this recommendation. It is very good, but also has STRONG Hold Steady vibes, particularly Separation Sunday, which is worth checking out if you haven't heard it before.

Movie: Banshees of Inisherin - it's majestic.
TV show: Masked Singer - it's absolute trash with few redeeming features but I enjoy it far too much.
Video game (single player): Stray - way more than "You are a cat" suggests
Video game (multiplayer): No idea
Book: The Martian - late to this party but couldn't really put it down.
Song: IRL - Peaness The album World Full of Worry was 2022's best album, and the band are currently the band I have both seen the most, and with a different beexer each time.

Not sure if I am cheating, but I did not get to see it until 2022. So.

Movie - Ghostbusters Afterlife. I have never been so happy with a follow up/remake ever.
TV show - Again I am not sure if I am cheating because I don't have a license, but for me Dahmer was the best thing I watched. On Netflix.
Video game (single player) - - Yeah I will have to go with Stray. It was absolutely wonderful apart from the anxiety inducing chase scenes that made my heart race.
Video game (multiplayer) - Has to be PUBG. Even though it has become almost impossible because the only people playing it are pros and streamers these days. It's still a bugger load of fun.
Song - I don't really follow modern music at all. Like, radio and the charts. I would have to say "The King And I" by Eminem and Cee Lo.

Movie: Top Gun: Maverick. This is a great movie. It fulfils its remit so magnificently; to be a swept along rollercoaster of the archetypal story arc. It absolutely nails what huge slice of entertainment a film like this should be
TV show: Either Dopesick on Disney, or Slow Horses on Apple TV
Video game (single player): I don’t invest a huge amount of time in gaming nowadays, and generally don’t buy stuff on release. However, because not only did I buy a PS5 and Horizon: FW pretty close to release, I have to give it game of this year, just because I played it when it came out, and, largely enjoyed it. I was less wowed by it than its predecessor though.
Video game (multiplayer): Lol. I think I played about four hours of multiplayer coop Halo 3 with my daughter in September. That can’t count
Book: the most informative and thought provoking book I read this year, was A General Theory Of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lennon (All MDs). It’s a few years old now, and some of the neurobiology is out of date, but it was nevertheless a largely insightful read into the science of emotions. Why we feel, what goes on physically, understanding that and looking at the psychology and neuroscience as well. It gets a little clunky in places, with prose that doesn’t fit the purpose, but there’s an inevitability about that when you consider the limitations of our language, how it came about, and what they’re trying to describe.
Song: Oh, so much. Let’s throw Wet Leg in for the hugely fun On The Chaise Lounge