Media Diary 2020

Below is Gwydion Suilebhan’s media diary for 2020.

Read: Fiction

1. Chloe Arijdis, Sea Monsters
2. Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
3. Matt Fraction, Sex Criminals, Volume One
4. Julie Langsdorf, White Elephant
5. Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
6. Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
7. Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
8. Peter Rock, The Night Swimmers
9. Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow
10. Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
11. Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

Read: Non-Fiction

1. P. Carl, Becoming a Man
2. Lawrence J. Epstein, The Haunted Smile
3. Drew Friedman, Old Jewish Comedians
4. Drew Friedman, More Old Jewish Comedians
5. Moss Hart, Act One
6. Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
7. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club
8. Jerry Seinfeld, Is This Anything?
9. Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express

Read: Plays

1. Zakiyyah Alexander, Sweet Maladies
2. Kaaron Briscoe, Tallahassee
3. Olivia Lilley, Diary of an Erotic Life
4. Claudia Rankine, The White Card
5. Gwydion Suilebhan, Cracked

Read: Poetry

1. Margaret Atwood, The Door
2. Robert Bly, This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years
3. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Bastards of the Reagan Era
4. Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things

Watched: Comedy

1. Hannah Gadsby, Douglas
2. Jim Gaffigan, Noble Ape
3. Ilana Glazer, The Planet Is Burning
4. Chelsea Handler, Evolution
5. Wendy Liebman, Taller on TV
6. Sarah Silverman, A Speck of Dust

Watched: Documentaries

1. Disclosure
2. The Last Dance
3. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
4. Monty Python: Almost the Truth
5. Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
6. Tiger King

Watched: Movies

1. 1917
2. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
3. Airplane
4. The Avengers
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
9. Billy Elliot
10. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
11. Black Panther
12. Bombshell
13. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
14. Brooklyn
15. Call of the Wild
16. Contact
17. Da 5 Bloods
18. Die Hard
19. Enola Holmes
20. Extraction
21. Ford V. Ferrari
22. Gentleman’s Agreement
23. Groundhog Day
24. The Italian Job (2003)
25. Jojo Rabbit
26. Justice League
27. The King of Staten Island
28. Knives Out
29. The Last Laugh
30. Little Shop of Horrors
31. Little Women
32. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
33. The Midnight Sky
34. Mission: Impossible
35. Mission: Impossible II
36. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
37. Motherless Brooklyn
38. National Treasure
39. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
40. The Old Guard
41. Parasite
42. The Parent Trap (1961)
43. The Pink Panther (2006)
44. The Princess Bride
45. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
46. Stand by Me
47. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
48. Terminator: Dark Fate
49. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
50. The Trial of the Chicago 7
51. Troop Zero
52. The Two Popes
53. Uncle Frank
54. Uncut Gems
55. White Christmas
56. Wonder Woman 1984
57. X2
58. X-Men
59. X-Men: Days of Future Past

Watched: Plays

1. The Amateurs, Jordan Harrison
2. Grand Horizons, Bess Wohl
3. The Inheritance, Parts 1 and 2, Matthew Lopez
4. My Name Is Lucy Barton, Rona Munro
5. Perfect Arrangement, Topher Payne
6. Sheltered, Alix Sobler
7. The Sound Inside, Adam Rapp

Watched: Reality Television

1. Crazy Delicious
2. Floor Is Lava
3. The Great British Baking Show, season 11
4. Great British Baking Show Holidays, seasons 2 and 3
5. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, season 3
6. Queer Eye, season 5
7. Tiny House Nation, season 2

Watched: Television

1. After Life, seasons 1 and 2
2. Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse
3. Arrow, season 8
4. The Boys, season 2
5. Call the Midwife, seasons 8 and 9
6. Criminal Minds, season 15
7. Dead to Me, season 2
8. The Expanse, season 5
9. Flash, season 6
10. The Good Place, season 4 (twice)
11. Grey’s Anatomy, season 16
12. Hunters, season 1
13. Halt and Catch Fire, seasons 1, 2, and 3
14. Killing Eve, seasons 1, 2, and 3
15. The Kominsky Method, seasons 1 and 2
16. Legends of Tomorrow, season 5
17. Little Fires Everywhere
18. Lost in Space, season 2
19. The Mandalorian, season 2
20. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 3
21. Modern Family, season 11
22. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., season 7
23. Modern Love, season 1
24. Mrs. America
25. Ozark, season 3
26. Perry Mason, season 1
27. The Queen’s Gambit
28. Schitt’s Creek, seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (x2)
29. Shameless, season 10
30. Star Trek: Picard, season 1
31. Succession, seasons 1 and 2
32. Supergirl, season 5
33. The Umbrella Academy, season 2
34. Unorthodox
35. Will & Grace, season 11
36. You, seasons 1 and 2