My “Favorites of 2020” List

Here’s my yearly post.

MOVIES

I will have 3 lists this year.  The first list will be my top 10 favorite 2020 movies.  Second list will be top movies released prior to 2020 that I never got around to seeing when they released.  Third will be a list of top documentaries.  

MY TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2020:

1. Possessor
2. The Invisible Man
3. The Way Back
4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
5. Tenet
6. Palm Springs
7. Extraction
8. The Old Guard
9. Sonic the Hedgehog
10. Da 5 Bloods

MY TOP PRE-2020 MOVIES WATCHED IN 2020:

• 1917 (2019)
• Parasite (2019)
• Just Mercy (2019)
• Instant Family (2018)
• Fighting With My Family (2019)
• One Cut of the Dead (2017)
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
• Downrange (2017)
• IP Man (2008)
• Doctor Sleep (2019)
• Everest (2015)
• The Contender (2000)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Hunter Killer (2018)
• Last Christmas (2019)
• 21 Bridges (2019)

MY TOP DOCUMENTARIES

• Hillary (2020)
• Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015)
• Class Action Park (2020)
• On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries (2020)
• To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
• Console Wars (2020)
• Geraldine Ferrero: Paving the Way (2013)
• Framing John Delorean (2019)
• Back in Time (2015)
• Religulous (2008)
• The Final Year (2017)
• Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017)

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TV SHOWS

Like last year, I will list all tv seasons I finished with the added info of the (year) that season was released, [#] of episodes for that season and the (source).  Source is self explanatory except where BD = Bluray Disc. 

Here goes:

1. The Office s1 (2005) [6] (Netflix)
2. The Office s2 (2006) [22] (Netflix)
3. Big Little Lies s2 (2019) [7] (HBO)
4. Barry s2 (2019) [8] (HBO)
5. The Morning Show s1 (2019) [10] (AppleTV+)
6. Justified s1 (2010) [13] (BD)
7. The Wire s1 (2002) [13] (BD)
8. Evil s1 (2019) [13] (CBS)
9. Mrs. Fletcher s1 (2019) [7] (HBO)
10. Killing Eve s1 (2018) [8] (Hulu)
11. All in the Family s1 (1971) [13] (DVD)
12. All in the Family s2 (1972) [24] (DVD)
13. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (2020) [6] (Netflix)
14. The Outsider s1 (2020) [10] (HBO)
15. Hillary (2020) [4] (Hulu)
16. Avenue 5 s1 (2020) [9] (HBO)
17. The Unicorn s1 (2019) [18] (CBS)
18. Killing Eve s2 (2019) [8] (Hulu)
19. The Wire s2 (2003) [12] (BD)
20. Devs s1 (2020) [8] (Hulu)
21. After Life s2 (2020) [6] (Netflix)
22. Breeders s1 (2020) [10] (Hulu)
23. The Wire s3 (2004) [12] (BD)
24. Blue Bloods s10 (2019) [19] (CBS)
25. All Rise s1 (2019) [18] (CBS)
26. The Wire s4 (2005) [13] (BD)
27. The Wire s5 (2006) [13] (BD)
28. Defending Jacob s1 (2020) [8] (AppleTV+)
29. Space Force s1 (2020) [10] (Netflix)
30. 11.22.63 (2016) [8] (Hulu)
31. All in the Family s3 (1973) [24] (DVD)
32. Homecoming s2 (2020) [7] (Amazon Prime)
33. Unsolved Mysteries s1 (2020) [6] (Netflix)
34. Unbelievable (2020) [8] (Netflix)
35. The People vs O.J. Simpson (2016) [10] (BD)
36. O.J.: Made in America (2016) [5] (BD)
37. All in the Family s4 (1974) [24] (DVD)
38. All in the Family s5 (1975) [24] (DVD)
39. Sanford and Son s1 (1972) [14] (DVD)
40. Ted Lasso s1 (2020) [10] (AppleTV+)
41. Barney Miller s1 (1975) [13] (DVD)
42. Cheers s1 (1982) [22] (iTunes)
43. Nora in Queens s1 (2020) [10] (HBOMAX)
44. Cheers s2 (1983) [22] (iTunes)
45. Cheers s3 (1984) [25] (iTunes)
46. The Vow (2020) [9] (HBO)
47. The Boys s2 (2020) [8] (Amazon Prime)

FAVORITE TV SEASON

1. Devs s1
2. After Life s2
3. Defending Jacob s1
4. Killing Eve s1
5. Barry s2
6. The Wire s2
7. All in the Family s1
8. Cheers s1
9. Justified s1
10. The Boys s2

FAVORITE NEW SERIES

1. Devs (Hulu)
2. Defending Jacob (AppleTV+)
3. Ted Lasso (AppleTV+)
4. Breeders (Hulu)
5. The Outsider (HBO)

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VIDEO GAMES

2020 was another year where I didn’t play many games so this list will be short.

GAMES FINISHED

1. The Last of Us [PS3] Hard Difficulty
2. The Last of Us [PS3] Hard Difficulty NG+
3. Contrast [PS4Pro]
4. Sniper Elite 4 [PS4Pro] Coop on Normal Difficulty
5. Doom (2016) [PS4Pro] 100% Collectibles Run
6. Zombie Army 4 [PS4Pro] Coop on Normal Difficulty
7. The Last of Us Part II [PS4Pro] 
8. The Last of Us Part II [PS4Pro] NG+
9. The Last of Us: Left Behind [PS4Pro] 100% Collectibles Run

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VINYL

Here’s a list of my 2020 additions...

1. The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988 (John Cougar Mellencamp) [2018]
2. Unsolved Mysteries: Bizarre Murders / UFOs / The Unknown (TV Soundtrack) [2019]
3. Number 1’s (Marvin Gaye) [2020]
4. 1917 - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Thomas Newman) [2020]
5. John Wick - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Tyler Bates) [2019]
6. John Wick: Chapter 2 - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Tyler Bates) [2019]
7. John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Tyler Bates) [2019)
8. Avengers: Infinity War / Endgame - Original Motion Picture Soundtracks (Alan Silvestri) [2020]
9. Days Gone - Original Video Game Soundtrack (Nathan Whitehead) [2019]
10. Unbreakable - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (James Newton Howard) [2020]
11. George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Goblin) [2020]
12. 28: The Biohazard EP - Track from the Motion Picture 28 Days Later (John Murphy) [2020]
13. Strangers Things 3 - Music from the Netflix Original Series (Various) [2019]
14. The Truth and the Light: Music From The X-Files (Mark Snow) [2020]
15. Field of Dreams - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (James Horner) [1989]

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GRAPHIC NOVELS

Here are the graphic novels I read this year...

1. Spider-Man: Blue
2. Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt
3. Strangers in Paradise XXV v1
4. Echo v1: Moon Lake
5. Echo v2: Atomic Dreams
6. Echo v3: Desert Run
7. Echo v4: Collider
8. Echo v5: Black Hole
9. Echo v6: The Last Day
10. Superman: Red Son
11. Strangers in Paradise XXV v2
12. Mary Jane Loves Spider-Man (2008)
13. Huck v1