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Movies or TV shows I watched or rewatched in 2017. Ordered in approximate chronological order seen in the year. Stars (⭐️) indicate exceptional.

Hope you find something new in the ones I liked.

Movies – Liked

• Night Train to Lisbon (2013)➚ 😌🙂  ⭐️
• Everything Must Go (2010)➚ 😃🤣
• Sister (2014)➚ 🙂
• Wonder Woman (2017)➚
• Walter (2015)➚
• The Night of the Iguana (1964)➚  ⭐️⭐️
• Panic in the Year Zero! (1962)➚
• Take Me (2017)➚
• The Founder (2016)➚
• Kilo Two Bravo (2014)➚  ⭐️
• Frankenstein (1931)➚ 🙂
• Hopscotch (1980)➚  ⭐️
• Eastern Promises (2007)➚ 🙂
• It (2017)➚ 🙂
• Gerald’s Game (2017)➚ (Netflix) 🙂😝
• How I Live Now (2013)➚ 🙂🙃
• A History of Violence (2005)➚ 🙂
• The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)➚ (Netflix) 🙂😐
• Oculus (2013)➚ 👻😝😀
• Darkest Hour (2017)➚ 😀😀
• Get Out (2017)➚ 😐😆

TV Shows – Liked

• The Night Of (2016)➚ (HBO) 😁   ⭐️⭐️
• Life (2007–2009)➚ 😁   ⭐️⭐️
• Bates Motel (2013–2017)➚   ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• American Gods (2017–)➚ (Starz) 🙃   ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Westworld (2016–)➚ (HBO)   ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Billions (2016–)➚ (Showtime)   ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Lucifer (2015–)➚ 😈😆   ⭐️⭐️
• Good Behavior (2016–)➚ (TNT) 😆😏   ⭐️
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)➚ 😎😁   ⭐️⭐️
• Life in Pieces (2015–)➚ 😀😀   ⭐️  – Great first and second season; third season seems to have different, lower-quality writers.
• Elementary (2012–)➚ 😏   ⭐️⭐️
• Raising Hope (2010–2014)➚ 😀😀   ⭐️
• You’re the Worst (2014–)➚ (FX/FXX) 😀   ⭐️⭐️
• Better Things (2016–)➚ (FX/FXX) 😀😀   ⭐️
• The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–)➚ (Hulu)
• Top of the Lake (2013–)➚ (SundanceTV / Hulu) 😀😀   ⭐️
• Mindhunter (2017–)➚ (Netflix) 😀😀   ⭐️
• Stranger Things (2016–)➚ (Netflix) 😀   ⭐️⭐️
• Ozark (2017–)➚ (Netflix) 😀
• Homeland (2011–)➚ (Showtime) ⭐️⭐️, ⭐️, 😖 – Homeland, while mostly excellent, has a disturbing pattern: seasons 1 & 4 are excellent; 2 & 5 are very good; 3 & 6 are terrible.
• Young Sheldon (2017–)➚ 😅☺️
• Black Mirror (2011–)➚ 😀😀
• 11.22.63 (2016)➚ (Hulu) 😀😀😀
• Chance (2016–)➚ (Hulu) 😀😀   ⭐️⭐️
• Bosch (2014–)➚ (Amazon Prime Video)   ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Movies – Okay/Neutral

• Morgan (2016)➚
• Labyrinth of Lies (2016)➚
• War Machine (2017)➚ (Netflix)
• The Signal (2014)➚ 😐
• Dunkirk (2017)➚ 😐
• Collateral Beauty (2016)➚ 😐😞 – Good idea, poor execution.
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)➚ 😐
• Body (2015)➚ 😏 – Indie film, bordered on good.
• Drive (2011)➚ 😐
• Gold (2016)➚ 😐 – Had potential.
• Girl Most Likely (2012)➚ ☹️😴 – Disappointing–barely okay.
• Killing Ground (2016)➚ 😬 – Okay to good for a thriller.
• Sleeping with Other People (2015)➚ 😐
• 1922 (2017)➚ (Netflix) 😐🙂
• A Christmas Prince (2017)➚ (Netflix) 🙂

TV Shows – Okay/Neutral

• The OA (2016–)➚ (Netflix) 😐 – Another show ultimately about nothing?
• Mad Men (2007–2015)➚ 😐 – Only watched first season.
• 13 Reasons Why (2017–)➚ (Netflix) 😐🤔 – Okay show, but why does it need more than one season?

Movies – Disliked

• Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)➚ 😭 – Why do they make movies like this one?
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)➚
• Allegiant (2016)➚
• Babel (2006)➚ 😑 Simply inane.
• Comet (2014)➚ 😳😵 – Nearly unwatchable.
• A Good Year (2006)➚ 🙄😣 – Twaddle.
• Hell or High Water (2016)➚
• You Get Me (2017)➚ (Netflix) 😷 – Dreadful.
• Murder in the Dark (2013)➚
• Death Note (2017)➚ (Netflix) 🤢🤐😧  – Truly awful.
• The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)➚
• The Company Men (2010)➚
• Little Evil (2017)➚ (Netflix) 🙁
• Homefront (2013)➚
• Shimmer Lake (2017)➚ (Netflix) 😕😕
• I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (2016)➚ (Netflix) 😕😣😴
• The Circle (2017)➚ ☹️☹️😴
• Arrival (2016)➚ ☹️ – I really like sci-fi, but the anti-war and “soldiers-are-bad” messages ruined it for me.
• True Grit (2010)➚ 😖 – I so wanted to like this, but the dialog (iambic pentameter, free verse, etc.) was too much. Nor did I like the hallucination sequences.

TV Shows – Disliked

• I’m Dying Up Here (2017–)➚ (Showtime) 😟😴
• Baroness Von Sketch Show (2016–)➚ 😳🤢
• 9JKL (2017–)➚ 😩😧
• The Good Doctor (2017–)➚ 😕😖 – Unbelievable.
• Ten Days in the Valley (2017–)➚ 😕😔😴
• Wisdom of the Crowd (2017–)➚ 😖 – Good idea, but they injected unneeded politics into it.
• Bull (2016–)➚ 😴😴😴 – Boring. Same show, different week.