Seen, read and played 2020

A year of media consumption in review.

Christoph
Log

Since this was mostly a stay-at-home year with only some very light travelling, it was quite high in media consumption. I took some inspiration from the Soderblog.

Here is the list of a lot of the stuff read, watched and played in 2020. This is probably not complete, though. Interesting to look back nonetheless. Maybe next year I will organize this differently and approach it even more systematically.

TV Shows

  • Messiah
  • King of Queens
  • The Grand Tour
  • Our Man in Japan
  • Treadstone
  • Picard
  • Unbelievable
  • Pastewka (S11)
  • The Stranger
  • The Sinner
  • The Valhalla Murders (Lost interest after Ep. 1)
  • Freud
  • Tiger King (Just like everybody else during the first lockdown. 2x.)
  • Tidying up with Marie Kondo
  • Unorthodox
  • How to Fix a Drug Scandal
  • Simpsons (random episodes, all over the year)
  • Fauda (S3)
  • Collateral
  • Community (Uncounted rewatch)
  • 4 Blocks (S3)
  • Dead to me (S2)
  • Hollywood (Lost interest after Ep. 1)
  • Trial by Media
  • Space Force
  • Dark (S2 + 3)
  • Little Fires everywhere
  • Babylon Berlin
  • The Alienist (S2; DNF)
  • Babylon Berlin (Ep 1+2, DNF)
  • Devs
  • The Mentalist
  • Vienna Blood (Ep. 1; DNF - The distinct lack of an Austrian accent turned me off)
  • The Crown (S4)
  • Deadly Class
  • Monaco Franze
  • Family Guy (S17)
  • Away
  • Whose Vote Coutns
  • A perfect crime
  • Young Wallander (Ep. 1 Did not really catch on with me.)
  • The Chalet (Ep. 1)
  • Challenger (Limited Series)
  • Schuld (S3)
  • Ozark (S1, Ep 1 + 2)
  • High Score (Limited Series)
  • Biohackers (S1)
  • How to sell drugs online fast (S2)
  • Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia
  • History 101
  • Watchmen
  • The Boys (S1 + 2)
  • The Expanse (S3 + 4)
  • Good Omens
  • Bild. Macht. Deutschland.
  • Sherlock (Ep. 1-4)

Movies

  • Tatort (multiple)
  • The Monuments Men
  • Super Size Me 2
  • The Report
  • Midsommar
  • War Dogs
  • A Fall from Grace
  • The Bling Ring
  • Bad Boys 2
  • A most wanted man
  • Prisoners
  • The Laundromat
  • Cold Pursuit
  • Terminator Dark Fate
  • Pokemon Detective Pikachu
  • The coldest game
  • Knives Out (2x)
  • Jaws
  • The Naked Gun
  • Lost Girls
  • I, Tonya
  • Molly’s Game
  • The Dark knight Rises
  • Jurassic Park
  • Disobedience (2017)
  • Extraction
  • Woman in Gold
  • The Boat (Easily the worst movie all year. Not the war movie. Some random Netflix find.)
  • The Bone Collector
  • The Old Guard
  • Jurassic Park 2
  • Jurassic Park 3
  • Godzilla, King of the Monsters
  • James Bond (Thunderball, For your eyes only)
  • Avengers Infinity War/Endgame (+ a couple of other Marvel movies)
  • Anna (2019)
  • Johnny English 3
  • Psycho
  • Superman II
  • Batman vs. Superman
  • Abgeschnitten
  • The Irishman
  • American Murder - The Family next door
  • Tag
  • Red Heat
  • Nothing to hide
  • Project Power
  • Kill me three times
  • Official Secrets
  • The Social Dilemma
  • Stromberg - Der Film
  • Herr Lehmann
  • Inferno
  • Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Tenet
  • Rogue One (rewatch)
  • Star Wars (EP III)
  • The Booksellers
  • Star Wars (EP VI, VII, VIII)
  • Die Harder
  • Die Hard: With a Vengeance
  • Star Wars Episode I
  • Star Wars Episode II
  • Die Hard 4.0
  • Hunter Killer
  • The Midnight Sky

Books

  • Robert Sheckley Megapack
  • 4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie
  • Crooked House, Agatha Christie
  • David Lough - No more Champagne (an interesting spin on the genre of biographies)
  • William Manchester - The Last Lion (1.5 out of 3 volumes)
  • Jonas Salzgeber - The Little Book of Stoicisim
  • Mikitani - The power to compete
  • Pahl/Beitz - Konstruktionslehre (9th edition)
  • Greg McKeown - Essentialism
  • Effective Altruism (Interesting, but at the same time quite boring. Some of the examples came across as quite elitist.)
  • Agatha Christie - Miss Marple Collected short stories (Read during summer trip to Italy; makes for an excellent beach-read.)
  • Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism
  • NASA Schedule Management Handbook (I guess that counts as a book. Not exactly a page-turner, but interesting nonetheless. One just marvels at the methodical approach and the undoubtedly crushing bureaucracy that brings along.)

I suspect that I have read more than that, but I have not kept account of everything. Also, I did not list all the other technical and research papers over the year.)

Games

  • Uncharted 4 (Was a lot of fun indeed!)
  • Hitman 2 (The first two or three missions were interesting but then it felt a bit repetitive.)
  • Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice (Yeah, I gave up on that pretty quickly.)
  • Stardew Valley (Sunk more time into that than I care to admit.)
  • Counter Strike Global Offensive (Played a couple of rounds during the first lockdown in March)
  • Batman: Arkham City (I replayed the main story for a while.)
  • Ghost of Tsushima (Started)
  • Cyberpunkt 2077 (Started)
  • Pillars of Eternity (Started)
  • Control (Started)
  • Metal gear Solid V (Started, quit after the first mission to Afghanistan. I loved MSG up to IV. Somehow this one didn’t feel “right”. I might come back to it. Eventually.)

Apparently I started a lot of games but lost interest in most of them rather quickly. And the actual library is even larger, including all the free games I scored.