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2018 Wrap-Up

So I worked out the easiest way to do this is for me to look at all my wrap-ups of the year and just go month by month picking out my favourite Movie, TV Show and Book (extra favourites starred), so just look back, browse and enjoy. Film Stats. In 2018 according to my (mostly…

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So I worked out the easiest way to do this is for me to look at all my wrap-ups of the year and just go month by month picking out my favourite Movie, TV Show and Book (extra favourites starred), so just look back, browse and enjoy.

Film

Stats. In 2018 according to my (mostly up to date) records on Letterboxd – I watched 135 movies. The shortest movie I watched at 63minutes was Barbie: Dolphin Magic, and the longest at 163minutes was Blade Runner 2049.

My lowest rated movies at 1/2 a star were; Bad Date Chronicles, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Friends with Money and Christmas Wonderland whilst my highest rated at 4 stars included; Black Panther, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Spider-Man in the Spider-Verse.

The Favourites

January – Molly’ Game
February – Black Panther
March – Psycho ⭐
April – Avengers: Infinity War
May – The Truman Show
June – Tag
July – Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⭐
August – Batman: The Killing Joke
September – A Simple Favor
October – A Star is Born
November – Million Dollar Baby
December – Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse ⭐

Television

Stats. A little harder to quantify as I don’t always mark the shows I’m watching on the app I use; TV Time. Also I really don’t believe the numbers it crunched for me but alas, I’ll share them anyway… just don’t quote me on it!

My favored genre is Drama followed by Comedy and Crime. I average 9.2 episodes per week and allegedly watched 3002 episodes of television in 2018. Yes you read that right and in so many ways I hope that number is wrong!

The Favourites

January – Bancroft (ITV Drama)
February – Scrubs [Rewatch]
March – Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix)
April – Ordeal By Innocence (BBC One Drama) ⭐
May – A Very English Scandal (BBC One Drama)
June – The Handmaids Tale (Season One)
July – The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon Video)
August – Mark Kermode’s Secret’s of Cinema (BBC Four) ⭐
September – Vanity Fair (ITV)
October – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix)
November – The Flash (Season 5)
December – Killing Eve (BBC iPlayer)

If anyone has any recommendations for TV tracker apps or websites then please let me know!

Books

Stats. Across 84 books I read a total of 27,663 pages. The first book I read in 2018 was a classic; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and the last was another classic; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling.

The shortest book I read at 50 pages was Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde and the longest was Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas at 992 pages.

The most popular book I read – also read by 3million others was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and the least popular, read only by 66 people was Sweatpants at Tiffanies by Pernille Hughes.

The Favourites

January – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
February – Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Mass
March – I Love You… Subject to the Following Terms and Conditions by Erin Lyon ⭐
April – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
May – Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill
June – Persuasion by Jane Austen
July – We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
August – Legendary by Stephanie Garber ⭐
September – Fearless by Francine Pascal ⭐
October – American Street by Ibi Zoboi ⭐
November – Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas
December – Tempt me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas

Theatre

There are no stats for this one, and I don’t really remember what month I went to see what, but this year I saw more things on the West End than I ever had.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Part 1 & Part 2) (Play)
The Birthday Party (Play)
Annie
Matilda
The Ferryman (Play)
An Ideal Husband (Play)
Hamilton
Wicked
Heather’s The Musical ⭐
42nd Street
The Lion King

So there you have it people. The gets higher and higher every year, so it’ll be interesting to see what 2019 brings in Film, Television, Books and Theatre.

Happy New Year everyone.

Roll on 2019.

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Decade’s long Film and Television enthusiast and reviewer with the compulsion to tell you that I’ve also read the book.

3 responses to “2018 Wrap-Up”

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    Jodi Fisher

    Wow, what a great article!

    So behind on the current movie scene this year.

    Love your list of TV Shows! I loved A Very British Scandal and Season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I thought Season 2 was even better than the 1st Season. Forever on Amazon was my favorite new series of 2018.

    The Ferryman is playing on Broadway now. I’ve heard it’s really long, but it’s so good that it doesn’t feel that long.

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      JustJen

      Thanks! I tried to make it as concise as possible so glad I didn’t fail on that front 🙂

      The Ferryman did take me twenty minutes to adjust becuase their Irish accents were so strong but once I got into it was such a good story.

      I’ll have to look up Forever – if there’s one thing I don’t do it’s watch enough of Amazon Prime Video. Been meaning to watch The American’s for years but still havent – (I know it’s one of your favourites) hopefully 2019 will be the year!

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        Jodi Fisher

        I saw another play by the same playwright of The Ferryman years ago called Jerusalem starring Mark Rylance. It was so good. Not sure I’m going to make it to seeing The Ferryman, but who knows maybe, LoL.

        Oh Forever is a definite must watch and recommend! I wrote a whole review about it on my blog awhile ago, but there’s spoilers on it, LoL. It’s so good!

        Yes, The Americans is a must watch also! Since it’s over now you can watch all the episodes and don’t have to wait for any new seasons, so it’s actually a great time to watch it.

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