2025: The Wrap Up
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2026-01-06 19:03 +0000
Much along the same lines as last year, I’m leaving here the full list of what I watched and read in 2025. As far as entertainment went, 2025 was pretty good. I was pretty busy with work and current events, but what I did see was mostly stellar.
Highlights
- Severance Seasons One and Two. I didn’t get the hype when the first season came out but then I caught up this year, and it was thoroughly engrossing.
- Noir Fiction. I started picking up books by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and found them to be cracking reads, once you get around all the subtle racism, sexism, homophobia, and smoking.
- Stranger Things Season Five. Such a quality end to a quality series. As someone who graduated in the class of 1989, the whole thing was a lovely tribute to the 80s.
- Common Side Effects. As someone who works in the clinical sciences, I found this an absolutely hilarious dark comedy. I actually watched the season ender first and then went back and watched the whole season.
Other things I have on my list to watch from 2025:
- Andor Season Two. (I know, I KNOW)
- The rest of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Starfleet Academy is just kicking off and I find that I’ll probably need to finally check out some of the last episodes of Discovery Season Five to make sure I’m properly caught up. And maybe Prodigy Season Two, since the Holo-Doctor is in there, but that’s a lot of Trek to take in.
- Pluribus.
Lowlights
- And Just Like That. The thing about editing is that, when it’s great it’s invisible but when it ain’t, you definitely see it. Especially in the last episode when the news had already broken that the series was cancelled.
- Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld. For something that came out on May the Fourth, I would have expected… well, just better. Visions came out later that year and made up for it (mostly).
Other Things in 2025
I got published in early 2025. It took a bit of effort, as it should. I’ll write about it in another post but you can read it online for free here.
The Full List Already
Jan-01: Star Wars Skeleton Crew S01E06
Jan-02: Severance S01E02
Jan-05: Severance S01E03
Jan-08: Star Wars Skeleton Crew S01E07
Jan-09: Severance S01E04
Jan-10: Severance S01E05
Jan-14: AVICII: MY LAST SHOW (2024) 5/10 music was definitely there, nothing else though
Jan-15: Star Wars Skeleton Crew S01E08, Severance S01E06
Jan-16: Severance S01E07, 08
Jan-17: Severance S01E09 ok, I now get the hype
Jan-18: Severance S02E01, Beyond Saturday Night S01E01, 04
Jan-19: Beyond Saturday Night S01E03
Jan-20: Saturday Night Live S50E11
Jan-22: Beyond Saturday Night S01E02
Jan-24: Star Trek Voyager S06E03
Jan-25: Law and Order S24E10
Jan-26: Severance S02E02
Jan-27: most of Saturday Night Live S50E12
Feb-07: “And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry”, by Mike Sacks
Feb-17: most of Last Week Tonight S12E01
Feb-18: “The Last Continent”, by Terry Pratchett
Feb-20: Severance S02E03
Feb-27: part of Last Week Tonight S12E02
Feb-28: Law and Order Toronto Criminal Intent S02E01
Mar-03: part of Last Week Tonight S12E03
Mar-07: Severance S02E04
Mar-10: part of Last Week Tonight S12E04
Mar-14: “The Long Earth”, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Apr-09: MobLand S01E01
Apr-13: Doctor Who S02E01 (more like S15E01 but okay)
Apr-14: most of Last Week Tonight S12E08
Apr-20: Severance S02E05
Apr-21: Severance S02E06
Apr-23: Doctor Who S02E02
Apr-28: PATTON OSWALT: WE ALL SCREAM (2022)
May-01: Severance S02E07
May-04: Doctor Who S02E03
May-06: Star Wars Tales of the Underworld S01E01, 02, 03
May-07: Severance S02E08
May-10: Severance S02E09
May-16: Love, Death and Robots S04E01, 02, 03
May-17: Love, Death and Robots S04E04, 05, 06, 07
May-19: Love, Death and Robots S04E08, 09, 10
May-26: Severance S02E10, Star Wars Tales of the Underworld S1E04
May-27: Rick and Morty S08E01
May-29: Star Wars Tales of the Underworld S01E05
May-30: Star Wars Tales of the Underworld S01E06
May-31: And Just Like That S03E01
Jun-05: Rick and Morty S08E02
Jun-10: Rick and Morty S08E03
Jun-11: Common Side Effects S01E10, Krapopolis S02E10
Jun-14: And Just Like That S03E02, 03
Jun-16: Common Side Effects S01E01
Jun-20: Rick and Morty S08E04
Jun-21: Common Side Effects S01E02, And Just Like That S03E04
Jun-25: Rick and Morty S08E05
Jun-27: Common Side Effects S01E03
Jun-28: And Just Like That S03E05
Jun-29: Common Side Effects S01E04
Jun-30: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (2025) 8.5/10 great story overall
Jul-11: And Just Like That S03E06, 07
Jul-12: Common Side Effects S01E05
Jul-13: Common Side Effects S01E06, 07, 08
Jul-14: Common Side Effects S01E09, 10
Jul-15: Rick and Morty S08E06
Jul-18: Star Trek Strange New Worlds S03E01, And Just Like That S03E08
Jul-21: Rick and Morty S08E07
Jul-23: Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
Jul-26: And Just Like That S03E09
Jul-27: Star Trek Strange New Worlds S03E02
Aug-01: And Just Like That S03E10
Aug-02: “Reaper Man”, by Terry Pratchett
Aug-04: THUNDERBOLTS (2025) 9/10 not bad, guys
Aug-05: Rick and Morty S08E08
Aug-06: Rick and Morty S08E09
Aug-08: And Just Like That S03E11
Aug-11: Rick and Morty S08E10
Aug-13: Star Trek Strange New Worlds S03E03
Aug-17: And Just Like That S03E12
Aug-22: “Soul Music”, by Terry Pratchett
Aug-23: Star Trek Strange New Worlds S03E04
Sep-03: Alien Earth S01E01
Sep-05: South Park S27E01
Sep-11: STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) 7.5/10 classic Jarmusch
Sep-13: BLACK BAG (2025) 8/10 racy spy drama, quite British
Sep-14: “Men at Arms”, by Terry Pratchett
Sep-15: South Park S27E02
Sep-24: Marvel Zombies S01E01
Sep-26: “The Big Sleep”, by Raymond Chandler
Sep-28: “Farewell, My Lovely”, by Raymond Chandler, Marvel Zombies S01E02, 03, 04
Oct-02: South Park S27E03
Oct-04: “The High Window”, by Raymond Chandler
Oct-09: “The Thin Man”, by Dashiell Hammett
Oct-13: “The Last Hero”, by Terry Pratchett
Oct-14: The Sandman S02E01
Oct-22: JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME (2025) 8/10 heartwarming and sad, we miss him
Oct-24: “The Lady in the Lake”, by Raymond Chandler
Oct-29: Star Wars Visions S03E01, 02
Oct-30: Star Wars Visions S03E03
Nov-02: Star Wars Visions S03E04
Nov-03: Star Wars Visions S03E05
Nov-04: Star Wats Visions S03E06, 07
Nov-05: COCO BEFORE CHANEL (2009) 7/10
Nov-06: Star Wars Visions S03E08, 09 (last one was the most intense)
Nov-14: South Park S27E04
Nov-24: TRON: ARES (2025) 7/10 worked for me, good soundtrack, some pacing issues
Nov-27: South Park S27E05
Nov-29: Stranger Things S05E01, 02, 03, 04 awwwwwww yeaaaaaaaaah
Dec-06: “Pyramids”, by Terry Pratchett
Dec-19: WAKE UP, DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) 9/10 Benoit and the gang don’t disappoint
Dec-20: Emily in Paris S05E01, 02, 03
Dec-21: “The Maltese Falcon”, by Dashiell Hammett
Dec-24: South Park S27E06
Dec-25: DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE UNSTOPPABLE (2025) 10/10 no notes, Emily in Paris S05E04, 05
Dec-26: Emily in Paris S05E06
Dec-27: Stranger Things S05E05, 06, 07
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