Goodbye, 2022! You were very good to me, though I had kind of a flop year in terms of media consumption. I am also usually fashionably late to things. Nevertheless, here are some lists of things I enjoyed that came out this year.
Movies and Film
- Fire of Love
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- RRR
- Fire Island
Television (new episodes this year)
- Ziwe (Showtime)
- Wednesday (Netflix)
- Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (Netflix)
- Succession (HBO)
- Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend (Netflix)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
- The Rehearsal (HBO)
Albums - The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen - Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975 - Hold the Girl - Rina Sawayama - Renaissance - Beyoncé - Midnights - Taylor Swift - Crash - Charli XCX - SOS - SZA
Podcasts/Webseries - Modern Love (New York Times) - Las Culturistas (Big Money Players & iHeartPodcasts) - 5-4 (Prologue Projects) - Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlin (Ramble) - Make Some Noise (Dropout) - Game Changer (Dropout) - Never Too Small (YouTube)
A few lists full of non-media items: Fight me!
Overrated in 2022: - The word "vibes" - Cow milk - Two-factor authentication (I'd rather get hacked) - Stress culture - FOMO - Living in fear of “The Big One” (this is just for me)
Underrated in 2022: - Using Venmo like social media - Trader Joe’s Taiwanese Green Onion Pancakes (sorry these are so good) - Going to restaurants alone - Sitting on a bench in the sun with no other stimuli - Juice... especially orange juice - Dressing up for things for the sake of it - Using the US Postal Service recreationally (huge advocate) - Facetiming your sisters and playing Splatoon 3 together (when possible)
Forecasts for 2023: - Demise of Facebook (I hope) - Demise of NFTs (I hope) - Legwarmers become mainstream fashion - Resurgence of wired earbuds and headphones - Elon Musk appears in a Marvel movie - Teenagers on TikTok mobilize to solve a major crime And? - Everyone reading this has a great year 🙂
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