My Streaming Diet [Media Notes 145]

I’ve written previously about my posting habits over the long-term, posting charts showing wide variation over time, with periods lasting two to four months where I post very little, between longer periods with many posts per month, over a 100 in recent years. I’ve attributed this to mood swings; I’m depressed during periods when I’m not posting much.

What do I do with my time when I’m not making many blog posts? I’m streaming a lot of movies and TV programs on Netflix and Amazon Prime and watching more YouTube videos that I otherwise do. I’ve been keeping a list of movies and TV programs since sometime in 2018. I’ve decided to post that list online as deep background for an article I’m preparing on my mood swings. 

The list is simple. I list the titles by year, and then by whether or not they’ve movies (films) or TV programs. I define movies as titles that are somewhat over an hour long and that reach a definite conclusion at the end of the title. This, I realize, is a crude criterion. There may, of course, be sequels. Everything else is a TV program. TV programs typically have multiple episodes and may or may not continue the same plotlines in the same story from one episode to the next. TV programs tend to have (somewhat shorter than) half-hour episodes or (somewhat shorter than) one-hour episodes.

The distinction is rough, but reasonable. The list says almost nothing about how many episodes to a TV program I watch. In many cases I’ve watched all of the available episodes, which may stretch into the hundreds in some cases. I’ve watched some titles more than once and I’ve generally listed the title more than once.

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2018 more or less

TV

Bourdain: A Cooks’ Tour, Parts Unknown
Death in Paradise
Shetland
Iron Fist
Luke Cage
Jessica Jones
Lilyhammer
The Get Down
Samurai Gourmet
The Ranch
The Chinese Mayor
The Crown
Sunny in Philadelphia
Bordertown
Sherlock
Master of None (Aziz Ansari)
Hip-Hop Evolution
Sense8
Fyre
Grace and Frankie
Jack Ryan
Lost in Space, S1
The Man in the High Castle
Transparent
Sneaky Pete

Movies

Jurassic Park, 1, 2, 3
Gimme the Loot (2 graffiti artists)
Sand Castle (war in the Middle East)
Road House (Patrick Swayze)
Indiana Jones, all of them
Ex Machina
One Mississippi
Running Man
American Playboy
Spectre
Wild Card
Julie & Julia

2019

TV

Battlestar Galactica
Friday Night Lights
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Good Place
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Star Trek TNG
Star Trek DS9
Star Trek Voyager
Star Trek Enterprise
Enlightened
White Dragon
Turn Up Charlie
The Romanovs
One Day at a Time (remake)
Bosch
Body Guard
Longmire – on the Rez
Partners (Kelsey Grammer, Martin Lawrence)
Farscape
Deadwood
The Sopranos
The Wire
The Chef Show
CSI Miami
Jessica Jones
Mars
Madam Secretary
Boston Legal
Magnum PI
GLOW
The Good Life
Great British Baking Show
Broadchurch
BBC Africa
Goliath
Law and Order SVU
The Kominsky Method
Mr. Sunshine
Jack Ryan
Fleabag
Great British Bake Off
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, S3
Lost in Space, S2, S1
Anne with an “E”, S2, S3

Movies

Incredibles 2
Logan’s Run
Casino Royale
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The Fifth Element
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Stargate
Dances with Wolves
Pulp Fiction
Dumbo (2019 live action)
Road Show
Be Cool (sequel to Get Shorty)
Guava Island
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie film w/ Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes)
The Last Jedi (Star Wars)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Congo
John Carter
Three Days of the Condor (Pollock, Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow)
Catch-22
Ronin (De Niro)
Shanghai
The Firm
Middle Men
The King of Thieves (Michael Cane)
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Gosford Park
Snowpiercer
Network
Rim of the World
Murder Mystery (2019, Adam Sandler, Jenifer Anniston)
Alan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Aziz Ansari: Right now
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max: Road Warrior
Legally Blonde
They Call Me Dolomite
The King (Falstaff rehash)
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
The Irishman
Skins (2002) “An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.” – on the Rez
Jo Jo Rabbit
Irma La Douce
El Camino Christmas
Edge of America (2003) – on the Rez

2020

TV

Anne – with an “E”, S2,3
The Expanse, S1, S2, S3
Cheer
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Magnum PI
The West Wing
Law and Order: SVU
Cheers
The Hunters (NY Jews hunting Nazis in America)
Monk
Cheers
Mad Men
Queen Sono
30 Rock
Downtown Abby
Tiger King
The Rockford Files
Stargate Atlantis
Bosch
Giri/Haji
Hollywood [Netflix]
Stargate SG-1
Great British Baking Show
Madame Secretary (S6)
Bordertown
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Space Force
The Last Dance
Studio 54
Dancing with the Birds
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2 episodes)
Peter Gunn 1958-61
The City and the City (China Miéville, Amazon)
Atelier (Japanese)
Away (mission to Mars, 10 episodes)
Jeeves and Wooster
The Boys (Amazon, season 1, 2, 3)
Get Shorty (Amazon TV)
The Ranch
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (Kim Kardashian West, Robert Downy Jr., Dave Chapelle, Lizzo)
Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine (Netflix)
The Crown, S4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
DS9
Ozark
Borgen
Cobra Kai

Film

Cowboys and Indians (movie on Amazon, about the death of JJ Harper, cop kills an Indian)
The Foreigner (Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan)
Tootsie
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Documentary)
Harlem Nights (Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor)
Shawshank Redemption
To Catch a Thief
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 4
Angel Has Fallen (Netflix)
Badland – Pinkerton pursues Confederate war criminals
Hail, Caesar
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Miss Hokusai
Uncut Gems
The Last Airbender
The Social Network
Studio 54 (documentary – 1977-1980)
Inside Man (Spike Lee)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Uncut Gems
Spaceballs
Charlie’s Angels
Chasing Trane
Jurassic Park
Quantum of Solace (James Bond)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Knight’s Tale (Heath Ledger)
Ocean’s Twelve
The Cotton Club Encore
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
In This Corner of the World (anime, ¬¬WWII)
Funny Face (Astaire and Audrey Hepburn)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Booksellers
My Octopus Teacher
Over the Moon
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Moneyball
Romancing the Stone
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Christmas Chronicles
My Spy
True Lies
The Midnight Sky
Mank
End

2021

TV

Borgen
Cobra Kai
Lupin, S1, P1
The Bernie Mac Show
The Expanse (rewatched the 5 seasons)
Midnight Diner
Sam Cooke: Legend
The Queen’s Gambit
Billions
Star Trek TNG
Schitt’s Creek
Quincy (documentary about Quincy Jones)
ZeroZeroZero
Star Trek: Enterprise
The Underground Railroad (Amazon, based on Whitehead)
K-Pop Explained (Netflix)
Mr. Sunshine
The Chair (6 episodes, 2021)
Angel (Smile Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_Time)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
House
The Closer (Chappelle 2021)
The Expanse
Seinfeld
Sex Education
Cowboy Bebop [live action 2021]
Longmire

Movies

Sylvie’s Love
The American President (1995)
One Night in Miami
Master and Commander
I Am Not Your Negro
Catch Me If You Can
Star Trek: Insurrection
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned How To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Runaway Bride (1999, Julia Roberts)
Charlie Wilson’s War
Iron Man 2
Space Sweepers
A Bridge Too Far
Tropic Thunder
Coming 2 America (sequel to Coming to America)
Two Weeks Notice (Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant)
Training Day
The Prestige
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth
Vanity Fair
The Bank Job (2008 Stratham)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Skylines
My Cousin Vinny
Devil in a Blue Dress (Denzel)
Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian (2002)
State of Play (2009 Russell Crowe)
Notting Hill (1999, Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant)
Sense and Sensibility
The Pelican Brief (1993)
The French Connection
The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
The Terminator
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2021)
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016, documentary)
Double World (2020, Henry Lau)
Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
I Spy (2002, Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson)
The Fisher King (haven’t finished it)
Safety Not Guaranteed (Aubrey Plaza)
The Founder (2016, Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc)
Nightcrawler
ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas (1999)
The Outsider (2021) Pam Yoder and Steve Rosenbaum
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)
Election (1999, Matthew Broderick & Reese Witherspoon)
The Paper Tigers (Netflix)
Tropic Thunder
Major League
Patton (1969)
The Abyss (1989)
The Apartment
Crimson Tide
The Tomorrow War (2021)
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Star Trek (2009, the  Abrams reboot)
Jaws (1975)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Planet of the Apes (2001, Tim Burton)
Die Hard
Mad Max: Fury Road
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
The Last Action Hero
Bullworth
The Odd Couple
Pretty Woman
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Knives Out
In the Line of Fire (Clint Eastwood)
Midnight Run
The Thomas Crown Affair
American Gangster
Sleepless in Seattle
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 remake)
Green Lantern (2011)
Dead Poet’s Society
Hail Caesar
The Graduate
Mars Attacks
Don’t Look Up (2021)
Cobra Kai, S4

2022

TV

Cobra Kai, S4
NCIS, S15, 16
Star Trek: Picard, S1
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek, the original series
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
NCIS: New Orleans
The Good Fight (Baranski et al)
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: Hawaii
Inventing Anna
Jack Reacher
Hawaii Five-O (new version)
The Goodwife
Vincenzo
Kotaro Lives Alone
Old Enough
Grace and Frankie
Bosch: Legacy
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (Letterman)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
How to Change Your Mind
Borgen, season 2
Street Food: USA
The Sandman
Columbo
Inside the Mind of a Cat
Chef’s Table: Pizza
Magnum PI
Rockford Files
Cobra Kai, S5
The Andy Warhol Diaries
1883

Movies

48 Hours
Moby Dick (1956, Gregory Peck, Dir. John Houston)
Kung Fu Yoga (2017, Jackie Chan)
Robocop
The Russians are Coming (1966)
Being the Ricardos
Charade (1963)
The Great Debaters (2007)
Zoolander
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Imitation Game
Good Morning Vietnam
The Last Waltz
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Lost City (Sandra Bullock)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
When Harry Met Sally
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 Steve McQueen)
Sleepless in Seattle
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Gattica
Margin Call
Road House (Patrick Swayze)
The Color of Money
White Men Can’t Jump
Shaft (Samuel Jackson 2000)
Cocktail
The Talented Mr. Ripley-
War Games
The Dark Knight Rises
The Doors
Persuasion (2022)
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Jerry and Marge Go Large
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
A Song is Born (1948)
Beverly Hills Cop
Clueless
Thirteen Lives
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Grease
Galaxy Quest
The Devil Wears Prada
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Men in Black III
Dirty Harry
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Seven
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Elysium
Robin Hood (2010) Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchette
The Spy Next Door
Drunken Master
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Fight Club
Mr. Baseball (Tom Selleck in Japan)
City Slickers
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Oblivion
Steel Magnolias
Flawless (crime heist, Michael Caine)
Troll
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Chi-Raq??
LA LA Land

2023

TV shows

Kaleidoscope
Remington Steele
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Daisy Jones and The Six
Cunk on Earth
Unstable (Rob Lowe, biotech craziness)
1923
Hot Wings (First We Feast)
The Diplomat
Pine Gap
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
McGregor Forever
FUBAR (Arnold S.)
Citadel [spy, international intrigue]
The Good Cop
Lilyhammer
Longmire
Deadloch
The Good Place (Season 4)
The Lincoln Lawyer
News Radio
Wednesday
Surf Girls Hawai’i
The Night Agent
Monk
Boston Public
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Sex Education, S4
Pluto (Japanese anime)
Blue Eye Samurai
Xena: Warrior Princess

Movies

Top Gun: Maverick
You People (Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
Twins
Aviator
Lupin the 3rd vs. Cat’s Eye
The Woman King
Tucker
The Three Musketeers
The Sting (1973)
Jerry McGuire
The Magnificent Seven (Denzel)
Animal House
Smokey and the Bandit
A League of Their Own
Bad Boys
Good Will Hunting
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Bad Boys II
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Charlie Wilson’s War –
Ticket to Paradise
Emily the Criminal
The Dressmaker
Hoosiers (Gene Hackman)
Jurassic World Domination
Legal Eagles
Pitch Perfect
American Gangster
The Courier
The Peacemaker
Galaxy Quest
Young Sherlock
Kindergarten Cop
Ender’s Game
American Hustle
True Grit (2010)
Almost Famous
Bullet Train (Brad Pitt)
Austen Powers: International Man of Mystery
Hustle (basketball, Adam Sandler as scout/coach)
Lost in Translation
A Man Called Otto
Air (Ben Affleck, M. Jordan)
The Big Lebowski
2Guns
Uncharted (2022 treasure hunt)
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Terminal (Hanks)
Thelma and Louise
Dallas Buyers Club
Slap Shot
Crazy Rich Asians
Fletch
The Transporter
Transporter 2
The Secret of My Success (a young Michael J. Fox)
Cliffhanger (John Lithgow, Sly Stallone)
Stepmoms
The Mule (2018 Clint runs drugs)
True Lies
Eraser
The Nice Guys
Black Hawk Down
Traffic (2000)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Flight (Denzel)
The Last Stand (Arnold)
Spider-Man 3
Sully
White House Down
Hot Fuzz
Silver Linings Playbook
The Cheap Detective
Hackers
California Split
Men in Black
The Northman
Scarface
Under the Tuscan Sun
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2
Battleship
Groundhog Day
Julie and Julia
The Substitute
65
Jackie Brown
Blacklight
80 for Brady
The Untouchables
No Time To Die
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Leon: The Professional
Miami Vice (2006 movie)
The Presidio
Rampage (2018)
Ride Along (Ice Cube & Kevin Hart)
Ray
Hidden Strike (Jackie Chan 2023)
The Big Easy
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
America Graffiti
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Men in Black II
Unleashed
London Has Fallen
Babylon (2022)
Terminator Genisys
Wanted
Cocaine Bear
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Coming to America
The Road to Perdition
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Wonder Woman
Stand by Me
War of the Worlds
A Beautiful Mind
Heart of Stone
Sugarland Express
Dune (2021)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
The Adventures of TinTin (2011 Spielberg)
Silverado
The Last Waltz
Leave the World Behind
Asteroid City (unfinished)
Maestro (Leonard Bernstein biopic)
Sword of the Valiant (unfinished)
Candy Cane Lane (Eddie Murphy)
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
White Christmas (1954)
Elvis (2022)

2024

TV Shows

Reacher, Season Two
Norsemen
Northern Exposure
S3 E5 The Body in Question
Wrestlers
Hazbin Hotel
Suits
The Last Airbender
The Gentlemen (2024 selling weed from the estate)
Superior Donuts
3 Body Problem (Netflix)
Elsbeth
Invincible, S2
Sex and the City
South Park: The End of Obesity
South Park (Not Suitable for Children) – “CRED”
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 1
South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2
South Park: Post Covid
South Park: Post Covid: The return of Covid
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (animated)
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (animated)
The Boys (Amazon, season 4)
Pretend It’s a City
Lone Wolf and Cub (live action)
The Brothers Sun
JAG (1995....)
NCIS: Sydney
Unstable, Season 2 (Rob Lowe, biotech craziness)
The Outer Range
Emily in Paris
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Enterprise
Dark Winds (Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee)
Dexter
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2024 TV series)
Royal Pains
Grey’s Anatomy
What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates
Noble House
Las Vegas
The Lincoln Lawyer (S3)
Moonlighting
The Equalizer (Queen Latifah series)
Killing Eve
The Perfect Couple
Your Honor (Bryan Cranston, New Orleans judge)

Movies

The Dreamer (Chappelle)
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
School of Rock (2003)
The Founder (Michael Keaton, McDonald’s)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Saltburn
Erin Brockovich
The UnderDoggs
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrman version)
Angry, White, and American (documentary)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Yesterday (2019)
First Knight (1995)
Bull Durham
Ocean’s 8 (Bullock)
Mean Girls (2024 Tina Fey)
John Wick [the original one]
John Wick 2
Road House (2024 remake)
Man of Steel (2013)
Beat the Devil (Huston & Bogart)
The Seven Year Itch (1952)
Tower Heist (Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy)
Wrath of Man (Stratham)
Cowboys and Aliens
Minions: The Rise of Gru
The Terminator (the original one 1984)
Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story (2024)
Beverly Hills Cop
The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix: Reloaded (2003)
Moscow on the Hudson
American Fiction
The Gentlemen
The King of Comedy
Atlas
Godzilla Minus One
Hit Man {unfinished}
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Burn After Reading {unfinished}
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Animal Crackers
Oppenheimer
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) 

The Aviator
Shampoo
The African Queen
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
On the Waterfront
I am: Celine Dion
The Aristocrats (2005)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Mechanic: Resurrection
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Cirque Du Soleil: Without a Net
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: In Search of Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek: First Contract
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek: Beyond
Passengers
Jack Reacher (2012, Tom Cruise)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
The Paper (1994)
The Union (2024)
Midway (1976)
The Equalizer 3 (2023 Denzel)
Red (2010 – Bruce Willis)
Red 2 (2013 – Bruce Willis)
Killer Heat
Superman (the movie, Steve Reeve)
Superman II
Rez Ball 

Frybread Face and Me
Safehouse
Goldfinger (Bond)
Tai-Pan
Dr. No (Bond)
From Russia with Love (Bond)
Thunderball (Bond)
The Little Things
You Only Live Twice (Bond)
Diamonds are Forever (Bond)
Live and Let Die (Bond)
Spartacus
The Man with the Golden Gun (Bond)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Bond)
Moonraker (Bond)
For Your Eyes Only (Bond)
Octopussy (Bond)
A View to a Kill (Bond)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Bond)
License to Kill (Bond)
GoldenEye (Bond)
Tomorrow Never Dies (Bond)
The World Is Not Enough (Bond)
Die Another Day (Bond)
Prizzi’s Honor
Skyfall (Bond)
Spectre (Bond)
Quantum of Solace (Bond)
No Time to Die (Bond)
Infinite (Mark Wahlberg, scifi)
Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Part One)
Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation
Mission Impossible III
Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Collateral (Cruise)
Silverado
The Lost City
Mission Impossible – Fallout
Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval
Superman III