Favorites of 2021 – TV/music/books/film

Source: mankabros.com

Here’s my list of the best for 2021, as updated through 12/30/21. This post will continue to be updated as needed through the end of 2021. Enjoy!

TV Comedies

1. Ted Lasso
2. The Wonder Years
3. The Conners
4. American Auto
5. Solar Opposites
6. The Kominsky Method
7. Young Sheldon
8. A.P. Bio

TV Dramas

1. A Handmaid’s Tale
2. For All Mankind
3. The Crown

TV Mini-Series seen in 2020

None

Albums released in 2021

1. Blue Weekend by Wolf Alice
2. The Battle at Garden’s Gate – Greta Van Fleet
3. OK Human by Weezer
4. Into the Blue by The Joy Formidable
5. Van Weezer by Weezer

New songs released in 2021

1. “Delicious Things” – Wolf Alice
2. “Last Man on Earth” – Wolf Alice
3. “Numbers” – Weezer
4. “Broken Bells” – Greta Van Fleet
5. “Heat Above” – Greta Van Fleet
6. “How Can I Make it Okay?” – Wolf Alice
7. “Enter Sandman” – Weezer
8. “Leave the Door Open” – Silk Sonic
9. “Screens” – Weezer
10. “Into the Blue” – The Joy Formidable

Books read in 2021

Fiction:

1. Project Hail Mary
2. Reset
3. Three Degrees and Gone
4. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
5. The Martian Chronicles

Non-Fiction:

1. Unlost: A Journey of Self-Discovery and the Healing Power of the Wild Outdoors
2. The Cloudspotter’s Guide
3. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
4. Trooper: The Bobcat Who Came in from the Wild
5. Walking to Samakand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
6. Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
7. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
8. Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road
9. Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
10. The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography
11. The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
12. Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

Films released in 2021

1. CODA
2. The Dig
3. Don’t Look Up
4. Free Guy
5. The Mitchells vs the Machines
6. Red Notice
7. Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas

Recent Films (first seen in 2021)

1. The Railway Man (2013)
2. The Impossible (2012)
3. Kodachrome (2017)
4. Rocketman (2019)
5. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
6. Midnight Special (2016)
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
8. Steve Jobs (2015)
9. One Night in Miami (2020)
10. Nomadland (2020)
11. ParaNorman (2012)
12. Bombshell (2019)
13. Concrete Cowboy (2020)
14. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
15. Snowpiercer (2016)
16. Palm Springs (2016)

Classic Films (first seen in 2021)

1. Gandhi (1982)
2. The Long Walk Home (1990)

Documentaries (first seen in 2021)

1. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
2. Count Me In (2021)
3. 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible (2021)
4. Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry (2021)
5. The Last Blockbuster (2020)
6. Miss Virginia (2019)