Favorite Movies and TV shows of 2018

Well, here we are closing out another year.  This year, more than any other, we can thank the creative people making entertaining movies and tv shows that help keep us from going mad from real life atrocities.

2018 continues a healthy string of consecutive years where the quality of tv shows outperform and outpace the quality of movies.  There used to be a time when feature film actors wouldn’t entertain the chance to appear in a network television program, even for a guest appearance.  Now, not only have most actors appeared on the small screen (in either network, cable or streaming format) but some have even starred in their own shows.  As much as I love movies, television shows are my current favorite form of entertainment.  For this reason, I will start with movies.

I watched too many movies (over 300) this past year to post them all here but the list can be viewed here.  I will have 2 separate favorite movies list.  First will obviously be my favorite movies released in 2018.  Second will be favorite movies I saw in 2018 from previous years.  Like the first list, this second list will only consist of movies I’ve never seen before.  Otherwise, the same movies would be on the list every year.  

FAVORITE 2018 MOVIES

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Mission Impossible: Fallout
3. A Quiet Place
4. Hereditary
5. Game Night
6. Ant-Man and the Wasp
7. Searching...
8. Annihilation
9. Upgrade
10. Ready Player One

Honorable mentions: Black Panther, Tully, Creed II, Crazy Rich Asians, Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and BlackKklansman.  Also, just need to mention that the Netflix special Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life is one of the funniest thing I saw all year but doesn’t make the list because it’s only about 60 minutes long, not feature length.  But highly recommended.

FAVORITE MOVIES WATCHED IN 2018 FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

1. The Greatest Showman
2. Snitch
3. Jack Reacher
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Before I Wake
6. Terrified
7. Ghost Stories
8. Molly’s Game
9. The Girl on the Train 
10. The Mountain Between Us

Honorable mention: Fury, The Equalizer, Coco, Dunkirk, Wonder and Last Flag Flying.

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I don’t have my tv show list posted anywhere so I’ll post it here:

1. Planet Earth II (2016) [6] (UHD)
2. Blue Bloods s8 (2017) [22] (CBS)
3. 9-1-1 s1 (2017) [10] (FOX)
4. The Big Bang Theory s11 (2017) [24] (CBS)
5. The Six Million Dollar Man s2 (1975) [22] (DVD)
6. The Resident s1 (2017) [14] (FOX)
7. Arrow s6 (2017) [23] (CW)
8. Madam Secretary s4 (2017) [22] (CBS)
9. Fleabag (2016) [6] (BBC)
10. The Flash s4 (2017) [23] (CW)
11. Iron Fist s1 (2017) [13] (Netflix)
12. The Defenders ( 2017) [8] (Netflix)
13. Nailed It! s1 (2018) [6] (Netflix)
14. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (2018) [6] (Netflix)
15. Nailed It! s2 (2018) [7] (Netflix)
16. G.L.O.W. s1 (2017) [10] (Netflix)
17. Supergirl s3 (2017) [23] (CW)
18. G.L.O.W. s2 (2018) [10] (Netflix)
19. The Punisher s1 (2017) [13] (Netflix)
20. Wings s1 (1990) [6] (DVD)
21. Westworld s1 (2016) [10] (UHD)
22. Blue Planet II (2017) [7] (UHD)
23. Wings s2 (1991) [22] (DVD)
24. Game of Thrones s1 (2011) [10] (UHD)
25. Defying Gravity s1 (2009) [9] (DVD)
26. Black Mirror s1 (2011) [3] (Netflix)
27. Better Call Saul s3 (2016) [10] (Netflix)
28. Better Things s1 (2016) [10] (FX)  
29. Better Things s2 (2017) [10] (FX)
30. Firefly (2002) [14] (BD) 
31. House of Cards s5 (2017) [13] (Netflix)
32. Jessica Jones s2 (2018) [13] (Netflix) 
33. Peaky Blinders s1 (2013) [6] (Netflix)
34. Black Mirror s2 (2013) [3] (Netflix) 
35. Jack Ryan s1 (2018) [8] (Amazon)
36. Peaky Blinders s2 (2014) [6] (Netflix)
37. Luke Cage s2 (2018) [13] (Netflix)
38. The Haunting of Hill House (2018) [10] (Netflix)
39. Better Call Saul s4 (2018) [10] (AMC) 
40. Iron Fist s2 (2018) [10] (Netflix)
41. House of Cards s6 (2018) [8] (Netflix) 
42. Making A  Murderer  s2

FAVORITE SHOWS WATCHED IN 2018

1. Madam Secretary s4
2. Blue Bloods s8
3. Jack Ryan s1
4. The Punisher s1
5. Better Call Saul s4
6. G.L.O.W. s2
7. 9-1-1 s1 
8. The Resident s1
9. The Haunting of Hill House
10. Jessica Jones s2

2018 SuperHero Movie Challenge

A new year, a new set of superhero movies, a smaller pool of players.

Like before, I'll be using BoxOfficeMojo.com as my source.

Here's a recap of the rules:

Accurately getting number 1 and/or number 8 gets you 13 points each.

The rest of the scoring is as follows:

• 10 points each for accurately getting numbers 2-7 
• 7 points if your pick was only 1 slot away
• 5 points if you pick was 2 slots away
• 3 points if your pick is anywhere in the top 9

The movies in this challenge, in order of release, are:

1. 02/16 - Black Panther
2. 05/04 - Avengers: Infinity War
3. 06/01 - Deadpool 2
4. 06/15 - The Incredibles 2
5. 07/06 - Ant-Man and the Wasp
6. 10/05 - Venom
7. 12/14 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. 12/21 - Aquaman

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SCORE AS OF JANUARY 7