media i consumed in 2023

noella's recommended tv shows/movies/books from last year

happy new year, screaming into the void, but in lowercase readers!!! even though i haven’t been as active as i’d like to be on this newsletter, i’m honored that i passed 300 subscribers in the last two months, and i’m hopeful for more thoughtful (and unserious) posts to share with you all in 2024 <3

every year, my goal is to consume more media than i did in the previous year. whether this is achieved by an amc a-list subscription or a string of weekends spent bedrotting, i’m getting it done. in 2023, i became a letterboxd lieutenant and enjoyed the whimsy of logging things that i’m watching (and wrote about it here). i am so incapable of recalling the tv shows that i binge watch, so i joined serializd too! in case you’re not following me on either of those apps, i wanted to share some of my favorite non-ranked watches that were released in 2023 :)

movies

spider-man: into the spider-verse

rye lane

past lives

the marvels

poor things

tmnt: mutant mayhem

bottoms

they cloned tyrone

the boy and the heron

a thousand and one

nimona

anatomy of a fall

polite society

are you there god? it’s me, margaret

dungeons & dragons: honor among thieves

theater camp

guardians of the galaxy 3

american fiction

the persian version

the super mario bros. movie

door mouse

joy ride

red, white & royal blue

as of today, my watchlist for 2023 movies consists of earth mama, all of us strangers, the iron claw, air, killers of the flower moon, suzume, the color purple, the holdovers, kokomo city, maestro, and all dirt roads taste of salt. so much to see!!!

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tv shows

scott pilgrim takes off

loki (season two)

murder at the end of the world

castlevania: nocturne

from (season two)

moon girl and devil dinosaur

gen v

invincible (season two)

percy jackson and the olympians

lessons in chemistry

the afterparty (season two)

adventure time: fionna and cake

my adventures with superman

survival of the thickest

daisy jones and the six

the fall of the house of usher

i have to shoutout two honorable mentions that weren’t released in 2023: interview with a vampire and midnight mass. television truly doesn’t get much better than those two shows.

my watchlist from 2023 releases include: jury duty, monarch: legacy of monsters, yellowjackets, rap sh!t, the morning show, shrinking, the bear, blue eyed samurai, everything now, and one piece.

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books

i will attempt to do much better with my reading goals in 2024, but i really enjoyed no meat required: the cultural history and culinary future of plant-based eating by alicia kennedy, making a scene by constance wu, wash day diaries by jamila rowser and robyn smith, the intersectional environmentalist by leah thomas, and big friendship: how we keep each other close by aminatou sow and ann friedman.

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see you in the next newsletter with my second round of favorites (albums and songs)