My favourite books, games, and TV from 2022

29 Jan 2023

I've been putting off publishing my 2022 review for all of January now, so I decided to give up on it and just publish the media section for now.

Favourite books

(All links are from Goodreads.)

• Undoctored by Adam Kay
• Vital Signs by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
• Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
• State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby
• Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Favourite movies

• Bob's Burgers movie
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• The Last Family
• Petite Maman (I'm not sure how much I loved this movie, and how much I just loved the outfits)
• Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
• The Rabbi's Cat
• Boiling Point

Favourite TV

Taskmaster continues to be a favourite, including the original UK version (of course), NZ, Stormester (Denmark), Bäst i test (Sweden), and Kongen Befaler (Norway). This year we also added Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian versions of Alone to the original version.

Some other shows I loved that were new (or had new seasons) this year:

• Our Flag Means Death
• Old Enough
• The Bear
• Big Fat Quiz Of The Year
• The Great
• Old People's Home For Teenagers
• The Rehearsal
• This Is Going To Hurt
• Severance
• White Lotus

Favourite games

This is my first annual review to include video games! I bought a Switch early this year, so these are all Switch games.

• Unpacking
• A Short Hike
• Immortals: Fenyx Rising
• TOEM

Also good: Animal Crossing, Cozy Grove, Wilmot's Warehouse, Zelda BOTW, Picross S7

Favourite music

• Tones & I (Westside Lobby was my favourite track this year)
• Triple J Hottest 100 2021
• HAIM
• AJR
• Alex Lahey