Sam’s 2024 Media Diet
A look at all the things I watched, read, listened, and experienced live this year.
Steven Soderberg does this each year and it’s always an interesting journey to read what one of Hollywood’s most prolific creators consumes each year. I decided pretty early on in January that I would do the same. I opened a note on my iPhone and started documenting what I consumed, both old and new.
Here’s what shook out:
Bold and * = My favorites
My Year in TV
Reacher s2
True Detective: Night Country
*Mr and Mrs smith
Traitors s2
Curb Your Enthusiasm Final Season
*Shogun
*The Gentlemen
3 body problem
*Ripley
Top chef: Wisconsin
Survivor 46
Under the bridge
X-men 97
Hannah Einbinder comedy special
House of Dragons S2
Ren Faire
Alex Edelman comedy special
The bear S3
The acolyte
Bluey s3
*Presumed Innocent
*Industry S3
Perfect couple
*English Teacher
The Penguin
Survivor s47
Nobody Wants This
Veep rewatch
Langston Kerman comedy special
Seth meyers comedy special
Rivals
Breath of Fire
Day of the Jackal
*Say Nothing
Detroiters S1 and S2
Diplomat s2
Shrinking s2
Black Doves
Slow Horses s4
A Man on the Inside
Everybody’s is in LA
My Year in Movies
Jackie Brown
Self-Reliance
Anatomy of a Fall
Down Sizing
Topkapi
*Dune 2
American fiction
Bottoms
*Challengers
Anyone But You
The Nest
Slapshot
*Hitman
Bodies bodies bodies
Practical magic
Monkey Man
The Contestant
Beekeeper
Bikeriders
Incoming
*Rebel Ridge
Marmalade
Snack Shack
Napoleon
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Wicked Little Letters
Will & Harper
It’s What’s Inside
First Man
*Anora
The Instigators
*Conclave
Parachutes
Megalopolis — I walked out of this. But it was both spectacularly bad and spectacularly great in its bad-ness. I may have thought more about this than anything else I’ve consumed.
I Used to be Funny
A Real Pain
Emilia Perez
*Kneecap
MyYear in Books
Red Rising Book 6
Sea of Tranquility
Between Two Fires
Trust
Under Land (nf)
Babel
A Shadow Intelligence
The Guest
Mountain In the sea
*Trust (work in translation)
Four Lost Cities (nf)
Crossroads
*Big Swiss
Department of Speculation
Before the Fall
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A Swim In the Pond In the Rain
Lady in the Lake
Socrates Express (nf)
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Gilead
The Lying Life of Adults
*Secret Memory of Men
The English Understand Wool
Fractured Lands (nf)
The Torqued Man
Demon Copperhead
Black Wave (nf)
Liars Dictionary
Everybody Knows
Ice (nf)
There there
*Peacock and the Sparrow
Against Happiness (nf)
No Drama Discipline (nf)
Joyland
Zero Cool
How to Not Lose Your Shit With Your Kids (nf)
*Destiny of the Republic (nf)
Come and Get It
Baby X
My Year in Live Concerts (Dad’s Rock)
Ben Kweller
Vampire Weekend Night 1
Vampire Weekend Night 2
MJ Lenderman
