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The year is coming to an end. What are your favorite things from 2022?

Favorite 2022 books?
Favorite 2022 movies?
Favorite 2022 TV?
Favorite 2002 songs? Etc...?

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[+3] - jespah - 12/23/2022Right now, my favorite thing is that it's almost over. I did like some of the music (this is in alpha order only because I'm lifting names from WERS): [color=#0000FF]ALLISON PONTHIER...

@tsarstepan,

What are yours?

I'm having a hard time coming up with a favourite anything from this year except maybe that people have returned to to pre-pandemic life, for the most part. Not a great year, IMO. Not terrible (could be in Yemen, Haiti, etc), but not great.

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@Mame,

Same here, Mame!

2022 was kind of non-descriptive. I had high hopes in the beginning, it started out fun and exciting, but then fizzled out soon after March. Book? "Lessons in Chemistry" was more memorable than others. I couldn't tell a movie now....
Netflix had this awful show "Squid game" - horrible!
Then there was this really cute, feel-good series "Extraordinary Attorney Woo"
(if you haven't seen it, you should, it's so cute).

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@tsarstepan,

Favorite 2022 books:
Rated 5/5 on Goodreads.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (I started this graphic memoir yesterday and I'm sure it will perfect.

Rated 4/5.
Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen
Quantum of Nightmares (The New Management #2) by Charles Stross
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk and Robot #2) by Becky Chambers
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
From Below by Darcy Coates

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@tsarstepan,

AS for my favorite 2022 films?

My Top 10: (barring seeing any other remaining 2022 films yet to be seen)
Goodbye, Don Glees! (2021)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Inu-oh (2021)
The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022)
Turning Red (2022)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Decision to Leave (2022)
White Noise (I) (2022)
Tár (2022)

Honorable Mentions:
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021)

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@tsarstepan,

Imaging of Sagittarius A* wasn't much to look at, but extraordinary all the same...

And the Webb telescope has sent us some stunners this year. Its first:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field.jpg

Also the Cincinnati Bengals

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AS for 2022 TV:
Wednesday (2022- )
Only Murders in the Building (2021– ): season 2
The current seasons of ...
Bob's Burgers (2011- ) and The Great North (2021- )

And...
Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure (2022– )
Peacemaker (2022– )
Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022– )

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@tsarstepan,

I haven't even heard about those movies.....never mind seeing them.
Admittedly, I am not a movie goer, I will check them out now, though.

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@tsarstepan,

Right now, my favorite thing is that it's almost over.

I did like some of the music (this is in alpha order only because I'm lifting names from WERS):

ALLISON PONTHIER — “HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY”
CAAMP — “THE OTTER”
DERMOT KENNEDY — “SOMETHING TO SOMEONE”
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE — “MY LOVE”
GORILLAZ FT. THUNDERCAT — “CRACKER ISLAND”
HARRY STYLES — “AS IT WAS”
INHALER — “THESE ARE THE DAYS”
JACK JOHNSON — “ONE STEP AHEAD”
LISSIE — “NIGHT MOVES”
MATTIEL — “JEFF GOLDBLUM”
NILÜFER YANYA — “THE DEALER”
NOAH KAHAN — “STICK SEASON”
PORTUGAL THE MAN — “WHAT, ME WORRY?”
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS — “THESE ARE THE WAYS”
ROSA LINN — “SNAP”
THE BLACK KEYS — “WILD CHILD”

Faves of these ^ are in blue.

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Liz Truss killing the Queen. She was fine until she saw what was to become the next prime minister, no wonder she decided to cash out.

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@izzythepush,

Book---"The Day the dinosaurs Died" everal argumnst are pasd around and done in a popular fahion.

Book---"Life Imprisonment"

Movie---"Top Gun--Mavrick"

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Throw in the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Way way better then it has any right for a Shrek spinoff to be. So funny and gorgeous to look at.

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Movies:

Top Gun - Maverick ('nuff said)
The Woman King (you gotta see that!)
Unchartered (fun, light entertainment)

Doin' stuff:

Reopened my dojo (karate school) after a 2.5 year closure.

Published Volume 2 of my series for Eastern Culture, and finding that I have enough still coming in for a Volume 3.

Saving the life of (and adopting) yet another kitten.

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@tsarstepan,

Hard to say, it was a rough year for me but the toy of Iron Man Very Happy

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@tsarstepan,

Houston Astros are World Champions

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Two more incredible movies I saw at the end of December.

Women Talking (2022) and Living (2022)
Both showing some of the best acting from 2022. The first one shouldn't work (by the premise alone). A group of Mennonite adjacent women debating on whether to leave their colony, stay and fight, or stay and forgive their husbands and families for the decades of assault and abuse.

The second one is a remake of a very classic Akira Kurosawa film but has a career topping performance from Bill Nighy.

These will get the Academy's attention come Oscar season.

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@tsarstepan,

Yeah, I'd like to see the Bill Nighy one. It's not here until the 20th.

What does "Mennonite adjacent women" mean?

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@Mame,

Mame wrote:

What does "Mennonite adjacent women" mean?

They never say what religion the group belongs to. I suspect it's a completely fictional religion created for the book. They're similar (belief and practice wise) to Mennonites (at least as mentioned by film reviewers).

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What are your favorite things from 2022?

I can start using my 2023 calendar!

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List of overlooked films from last year according to The Guardian.. I've not seen any of the films so I can't really comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/09/and-the-winner-should-be-the-seasons-most-overlooked-movie-performances

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