2014 The Good! or “We’re so cute. I wanna punch us in the face.”

The things that I really loved this year came from all media and sometimes crossed over and back again (Veronica Mars, Comedy Bang Bang, Monty Python Live). My favorite movie moment was listening to a man explain the plot of Paper Moon at length in French. I was also lucky to see a lot of good movies in a row which was unprecedented.  In fact, I think I mostly saw ONLY good movies for a lot of the year probably because I pushed a lot of the awards season trash to after January 1^st. Favorite 2014 Movies

• Veronica Mars (I am what I am.)
• Anchorman 2 and Anchorman 2 Redux
• The Lego Movie
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Benson Movie Interruption of anything
• Monuments Men
• A Matter of Life and Death
• Captain America:  Winter Soldier
• The Trip to Italy
• Pride
• Gone Girl
• Dear White People
• Into the Woods
• Edge of Tomorrow
• M. Hulot’s Holiday
• Monty Python Live

My Favorite TV moment was Fargo.

Favorite 2014 TV

• Fargo
• Key and Peele
• Archer
• Parks and Recreation
• The Soup
• The Great British Baking Show
• Babylon
• Short Poppies
• Comedy Bang Bang
• No You Shut Up
• Shakespeare Uncovered
• Brooklyn 99

My favorite overall entertainment this year was the U Talking U2 to Me podcast and yes that’s pretty weird and sorry to everyone I tried to talk to about it.  Imagine when you tried to discuss Serial with someone who hadn’t listened to it only with a podcast where people talk about everything except U2 but also eventually U2 but only barely. Favorite 2014 Podcasts

• U Talking U2 to Me
• Comedy Bang Bang
• Doug Loves Movies
• You Must Remember This
• Serial

(I don’t really recommend books because you should read the books you like and my taste is too weird.)