As noted in the past few days’ round-up posts, I did not do a whole lot of television or movie watching in 2025. Despite the huge number of DVDs I own and streaming services I subscribe to. But here’s what I did watch:
MOVIES
I had a goal of one movie per week (regardless of whether on DVD, streaming, or in an actual movie theater), so 52 total. I managed: three. Yes. I watched three whole movies in an entire calendar year. If you know me at all, this is definitely not my normal modus operandi.
Those movies were:
Superman (2025), directed by James Gunn; starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult. (theatre)
Fantastic Four: First Steps, directed by Matt Shakman; starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jospeh Quinn. (theatre)
The Life of Chuck, directed by Mike Flanagan; starring Tom Hiddleston, Karen Gillen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benjamin Pajak, Mark Hamill, and Mia Sara.
I greatly enjoyed all three. I keep meaning to do a “page to screen” post about The Life of Chuck. Maybe sometime this month.
TELEVISION
I had a goal of watching an average of one episode of television per day in 2025. I managed 63. Again, quite unusual for me. There are several shows I love that I’m now at least a full season or more behind on (like Slow Horses and The Wheel of Time), or that returned late in 2025 and I haven’t started yet (season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and a bunch of shows I have yet to start but keep meaning to (I keep hearing great things about The Expanse and Down Cemetery Road) and shows that are soon to show up on American TV from overseas (Mark Gatiss’ new bookshop-set mystery series sounds right up my alley), not to mention all the “one season wonders” I have DVD that I want to do a series of posts about after I re-watch them. So hopefully 2026 will be a better television viewing year as well.
Here's what I did manage to watch:
· The 78th Annual Tony Awards
· The 97th Annual Oscar Awards
· Doctor Who Classic (7 episodes, all while dining at The Pandorica restaurant in Beacon NY)
· Doctor Who 2005 (4 episodes, 1 at the Pandorica, the others at a friend’s house)
· Doctor Who 2023 Season 2 (all 8 episodes, streaming, Disney+)
· Only Murders in the Building Season 5, (all 10 episodes, streaming, Hulu)
· Poker Face (1 episode from S2, at a friend’s house)
· Shoresy Season 4 (all 6 episodes, streaming, Hulu)
· Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 (all 9 episodes, streaming, Paramount+)
· Stranger Things Season 5 (all 8 episodes, streaming, Netflix)
· What If…? Season 3 (all 8 episodes, streaming, Disney+)