*Oooh, I did it last year too!*
I got a big hard drive in December last year, exclusively for storing videos on. I haven’t needed to delete anything all year, but I will have to quite soon. The upshot is that it’s really easy for me to list what we’ve watched this year, because it’s just anything that’s on the hard drive that we didn’t watch last year.
On the one hand, I can look at this list and think “wow, that’s quite a lot.” But on the other hand, if I’m able to list nearly everything we’ve watched on TV this year, then it can’t be that much.
Shows that Karen and I have watched together
* Blackadder (series 1)
* Criminal Justice
* CSI (series 1 to 8)
* Doctor Who (series 4)
* Gavin and Stacey (series 1 and 2)
* Heroes (series 1 to 3)
* House (series 5)
* Merlin (series 1)
* The Mighty Boosh (series 1 and 2)
* That Mitchell and Webb Look (series 2)
* Outnumbered (series 2)
* Peep Show (series 5)
* Respectable
* Sapphire and Steel (series 1)
* Spooks (series 3 to 5 and 7)
* Torchwood (series 1 to 2)
Anything that we started watching last year, and continued watching this year, is not listed a second time. Likewise, anything in the above list that we haven’t finished watching, will not be listed if I do this again next year.
Shows that I watched on my own
* 3rd Rock From The Sun (series 1 to 6)
* The Mighty Boosh (series 3)
* My Name Is Earl (series 4)
* Red Dwarf (series 4 to 8)
* Spaced (season 1)
* Top Gear (series 12)
This section should probably actually be entitled “things that I am watching on my own”, because with the exception of The Mighty Boosh and Red Dwarf, I am in the middle of a series for all of these.
I also watched the first three episodes of The Brittas Empire before concurring with Karen’s assessment that it is unwatchable shite.
Films
Again, we’ve probably watched 30-40 films. And they’re all on my hard drive, so there’s nothing to stop me giving you an exhaustive list. Haha.
* 12 Angry Men
* American Gangster
* Big Fish
* Boyz N the Hood
* Casino
* City Lights
* Crash
* The Dark Knight
* First Blood
* The Fisher King
* Gandhi
* Heavenly Creatures
* The Ipcress File
* Juno
* Knocked Up
* Leon The Professional
* Mr Smith Goes to Washington
* National Treasure
* No Country For Old Men
* Notorious
* Once Upon A Time In The West
* The Prestige
* Rebecca
* Rocky
* Taxi Driver
* There Will Be Blood
* The Third Man
* To Kill A Mockingbird
* Vertigo
* Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story
* Zorba The Greek
(We also managed to get about 5 minutes into Metropolis before giving up because it didn’t have subtitles)
And these are the ones that I watched on my own:
* Cloverfield
* Crank
* Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
* Dr Strangelove
* Futurama – Bender’s Big Score
* Futurama – The Beast With A Billion Backs
* Futurama – Bender’s Game
* Hitman
* Resident Evil Extinction
* Stardust
And, as Karen reminds me, this is the one that I’ve watched with Karen and Bernard:
6 replies on “What I’ve watched this year”
Ah, you have missed off Ratatouille! – under the separate title, Films I have watched with Karen and Bernard.
I quite liked Brittas at the time. Was it really the first 3 episodes — the original writers left after a few years and the whole character of it changed, very much for the worse in my opinion. If you’re judging it by the later series, consider giving some earlier ones a try.
Yep, literally the first three episodes. It was just nowhere near as good as I recalled.
The Wire, you must watch The Wire. I would say Deadwood as well but they never finished it.
I think we tried a few episodes of The Wire but didn’t get into it. Whenever I tell people this, they always say “oh, but it’s a grower. You need to watch it for a bit longer before you really start to appreciate it” and I say “exactly how many episodes do I have to watch before I start enjoying myself?” and they say “ooh, eleven, twelve. Thirteen at most.”
“A grower” sounds cancerous. I think the point people were perhaps trying to make is that eventually you start to realise that what you’re watching is exceptionally clever storytelling and you’re being rewarded for paying attention which is pretty rare in TV-land.