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.
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