I decided to track a Steven Soderbergh-esque media diet that focused on the books, televisions, movies, video games, and podcasts that I consumed over the past year. I chose these media because they contained a full story or an important section of a story. This lists only contains media I finished consuming and doesn’t have any media I quit partway through. The “S” at the end of each television show stands for a complete season consumed. The podcasts on this list are self-contained stories. This doesn’t include the many podcasts I listen to weekly. Overall, I watched 41 films, 51 seasons/arcs of television series, and read 62 books.
| Date | Medium | Title | Year | Author/ Director/ Artist |
| 1/8/17 | Film | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Joe and Anthony Russo |
| 1/19/17 | Book | Strong Motion | 1992 | Jonathan Franzen |
| 1/21/17 | Book | Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most | 2014 | Marcus Borg |
| 1/27/17 | Televison | Maron S4 | 2016 | Marc Maron |
| 1/28/17 | Book | Imperial | 2014 | George Bilgere |
| 1/30/17 | Book | The Long Goodbye | 1953 | Raymond Chandler |
| 2/2/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S1 | 2000 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 2/4/17 | Film | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright |
| 2/6/17 | Book | In Between Days | 2012 | Andrew Porter |
| 2/11/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S2 | 2002 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 2/12/17 | Book | The People in the Trees | 2013 | Hanya Yanagahara |
| 2/13/17 | Book | Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law | 2013 | Isaac West |
| 2/20/17 | Book | The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation | 2015 | Daniel Wanzer-Serrano |
| 2/23/17 | Book | The Vegetarian | 2007 | Han Kang |
| 2/26/17 | Book | Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on Network News | 2014 | Bonnie Dow |
| 2/28/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S3 | 2003 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 3/4/17 | Film | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele |
| 3/6/17 | Film | Doctor Strange | 2016 | Scott Derrickson |
| 3/7/17 | Album | Care | 2017 | David Bazan |
| 3/9/17 | Television | Party Down S1 | 2009 | Thomas, Rudd, Etheridge, Enbom |
| 3/21/17 | Book | The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship | 2016 | Robert Hariman & John Lucates |
| 3/24/17 | Film | Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children | 2016 | Tim Burton |
| 3/25/17 | Film | Ghostbusters | 2016 | Paul Fieg |
| 3/25/17 | Film | Jurassic Park | 1995 | Steven Spielberg |
| 3/27/17 | Book | Igniting The Internet: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea | 2016 | Jiyeon Kang |
| 3/28/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S4 | 2004 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 3/30/17 | Film | Indie Game: The Movie | 2012 | Lisa Pajot, James Swirsky |
| 3/30/17 | Album | Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset | 2017 | Richard Edwards |
| 3/31/17 | Film | They Live By Night | 1948 | Nicolas Ray |
| 4/1/17 | Podcast | S-Town | 2017 | This American Life |
| 4/1/17 | Book | The Goldfinch | 2013 | Donna Tartt |
| 4/3/17 | Book | Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture | 2014 | Raka Shome |
| 4/8/17 | Film | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante |
| 4/10/17 | Book | Gendered Asylum | 2016 | Sara McKinnon |
| 4/10/17 | Book | On Purpose | 2016 | Paul Froese |
| 4/12/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S5 | 2005 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 4/13/17 | Television | Louis CK 2017 | 2017 | Louis C.K. |
| 4/15/17 | Book | It’s Complicated | 2014 | danah boyd |
| 4/16/17 | Film | Lights Out | 2016 | David Sandberg |
| 4/17/17 | Book | Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice | 2007 | Phaedra Pezzullo |
| 4/20/17 | Book | Saga, Vol. 7 | 2017 | Brian Vaughn |
| 4/22/17 | Film | Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | Richard Linklater |
| 4/23/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S6 | 2006 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 4/23/17 | Book | Queer Migration Politics | 2013 | Karma Chavez |
| 4/24/17 | Book | Annihilation | 2014 | Jeff Vandermeer |
| 4/28/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls S7 | 2007 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 4/29/17 | Television | Party Down S2 | 2010 | Thomas, Rudd, Etheridge, Enbom |
| 4/30/17 | Television | Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life | 2016 | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| 4/30/17 | Television | Samurai Gourmet S1 | 2017 | Masayuki Kusumi |
| 5/3/17 | Television | Slasher S1 | 2016 | Aaron Martin |
| 5/4/17 | Book | A Long Way Gone | 2007 | Ishmael Baeh |
| 5/4/17 | Television | Crashing S1 | 2017 | Judd Apatow & Pete Holmes |
| 5/5/17 | Book | Spreadable Media | 2013 | Henry Jenkins |
| 5/6/17 | Television | This Is Us S1 | 2017 | Dan Fogelman |
| 5/14/17 | Film | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 5/15/17 | Film | Gentleman Broncos | 2009 | Jared Hess |
| 5/17/17 | Television | Iron Fist S1 | 2017 | Gil Kane & Roy Thomas |
| 5/17/17 | Book | Hollywood, The Dream Factory | 1950 | Hortense Powdermaker |
| 5/19/17 | Television | Master of None S2 | 2017 | Aziz Ansari |
| 5/19/17 | Book | The Television Will Be Revolutionized | 2014 | Amanda D. Lotz |
| 5/22/17 | Film | Manchester By The Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 5/26/17 | Television | The Keepers S1 | 2017 | Ryan White |
| 5/28/17 | Book | Your Name | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 5/30/17 | Television | Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King | 2017 | Hasan Minhaj |
| 6/2/17 | Book | Paper Girls: Vol 1 | 2016 | Brian Vaughan |
| 6/3/17 | Book | Paper Girls: Vol 2 | 2017 | Brian Vaughan |
| 6/8/17 | Book | The Field of Cultural Production | 1993 | Pierre Bourdieu |
| 6/8/17 | Television | Love S2 | 2017 | Judd Apatow |
| 6/9/17 | Book | Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television | 2017 | Amanda D. Lotz |
| 6/10/17 | Television | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S1 | 2005 | Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney |
| 6/11/17 | Book | Men Without Women | 2017 | Haruki Murakami |
| 6/12/17 | Television | Sarah Silverman: Speck of Dust | 2017 | Sarah Silverman |
| 6/19/17 | Television | Flaked S2 | 2017 | Will Arnett & Mark Chappell |
| 6/23/17 | Book | ESPN: The Making Of A Sports Media Empire | 2015 | Travis Vogan |
| 6/26/17 | Television | Silicon Valley S4 | 2017 | Judge, Krinsky, Altschuler |
| 6/28/17 | Book | Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture | 1998 | Barry Dornfeld |
| 7/1/17 | Television | Twin Peaks S1 | 1990 | David Lynch |
| 7/2/17 | Book | Here I Am | 2016 | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 7/3/17 | Book | Batman: The Killing Joke | 1988 | Alan Moore |
| 7/7/17 | Movie | Trolls | 2016 | Walt Dohrn and Mike Mitchell |
| 7/10/17 | Book | The Politics of Cultural Work | 2007 | Mark Banks |
| 7/10/17 | Movie | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch |
| 7/11/17 | Television | Glow S1 | 2017 | Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch |
| 7/11/17 | Movie | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent |
| 7/16/17 | Television | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S2 | 2006 | Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney |
| 7/16/17 | Book | The Underground Railroad | 2016 | Colson Whitehead |
| 7/17/17 | Television | Trailer Park Boys S6 | 2006 | Mike Clattenburg |
| 7/18/17 | Book | Global Television Marketplace | 2006 | Tim Havens |
| 7/19/17 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus |
| 7/21/17 | Movie | Moana | 2016 | Ron Clements and Jon Musker |
| 7/21/17 | Movie | Most Likely To Die | 2015 | Anthony DiBlasi |
| 7/23/17 | Book | Angle of Yaw | 2006 | Ben Lerner |
| 7/25/17 | Movie | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus |
| 7/26/17 | Video Game | Final Fantasy XV | 2016 | Square Enix |
| 7/26/17 | Movie | Logan | 2016 | James Mangold |
| 7/26/17 | Book | The Orphan Master’s Son | 2012 | Adam Johnson |
| 7/31/17 | Television | Halt and Catch Fire S1 (didn’t finish) | 2014 | Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers |
| 8/2/17 | Book | Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries | 2016 | Sylvia Martin |
| 8/12/17 | Movie | Annabel: Creation | 2017 | David Sandberg |
| 8/16/17 | Television | Insecure S1 | 2016 | Issa Rae |
| 8/18/17 | Book | The Blessing: A Memoir | 2002 | Gregory Orr |
| 8/19/17 | Television | Ozarks S1 | 2017 | Bill Dubuque |
| 8/22/17 | Television | The Defenders | 2017 | Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez |
| 8/23/17 | Book | Everything Bad is Good For You | 2005 | Steve Johnson |
| 8/24/17 | Book | The Handmaid’s Tale | 1985 | Margaret Atwood |
| 8/27/17 | Television | Game of Thrones S7 | 2017 | Benioff & Weiss |
| 8/27/17 | Television | Talk the Thrones S1 | 2017 | Chris Ryan, Andy Greenwald, Mallory Rubin, Jason Concepcion |
| 8/28/17 | Book | Capitalism and Modern Social Theory | 1971 | Anthony Giddens |
| 8/29/17 | Television | The Tick | 2017 | Ben Edlund |
| 8/30/17 | Movie | Professor | 2010 | Daniel Kraus |
| 8/30/17 | Film | Death Note | 2017 | Adam Wingard |
| 9/5/17 | Television | Marc Maron: Too Real | 2017 | Marc Maron |
| 9/9/17 | Film | It | 2017 | Andrew Muschietti |
| 9/10/17 | Book | Between the World and Me | 2015 | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 9/14/17 | Book | Chuck Klosterman X | 2017 | Chuck Klosterman |
| 9/16/17 | Film | Clown | 2017 | Eli Roth |
| 9/17/17 | Television | Insecure S2 | 2017 | Issa Rae |
| 9/17/17 | Book | Ghost World | 1997 | Daniel Clowes |
| 9/18/17 | Film | The Long Road to Decatur | 2012 | Peter Simonson |
| 9/18/17 | Film | Out of the Question: Women, Media, and The Art of Inquiry | 2012 | Peter Simonson |
| 9/20/17 | Podcast | The Adventure Zone: Balance | 2014 | The McElroy Brothers |
| 9/21/17 | Book | Heroes of the Frontier | 2016 | Dave Eggers |
| 9/21/17 | Film | The Steering Mechanism of the Ruling Class | 1981 | Herb Schiller |
| 9/23/17 | Film | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
| 10/1/17 | Film | Hocus Pocus | 1993 | Kenny Ortega |
| 10/3/17 | Book | The Sin of Certainty | 2016 | Pete Enns |
| 10/4/17 | Book | Desperate Characters | 1970 | Paula Fox |
| 10/4/17 | Book | Political Economy of Communication | 1996 | Vincent Mosco |
| 10/5/17 | Television | Gotham S1 | 2015 | Bruno Heller |
| 10/6/17 | Film | The Big Sick | 2017 | Michael Showalter |
| 10/7/17 | Film | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins |
| 10/14/17 | Film | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins |
| 10/15/17 | Film | The Babysitter | 2017 | McG |
| 10/18/17 | Television | American Vandal | 2017 | Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda |
| 10/22/17 | Book | The Democratic Surround | 2013 | Fred Turner |
| 10/25/17 | Television | Polygon: Griffin McElroy Nuzlocke Run | 2016 | Griffin McElroy |
| 10/26/17 | Book | Meddling Kids | 2017 | Edgar Cantero |
| 10/27/17 | Television | Stranger Things S2 | 2017 | The Duffer Brothers |
| 11/5/17 | Television | Mindhunter S1 | 2017 | David Fincher |
| 11/9/17 | Television | Slasher S2 | 2017 | Aaron Martin |
| 11/11/17 | Book | The Dishonest Church | 2003 | Jack Good |
| 11/15/17 | Television | Judah Friendlander: America is the Greatest Country in the World | 2017 | Judah Friedlander |
| 11/17/17 | Film | Thor: Ragnarok | 2017 | Taiki Waititi |
| 11/19/17 | Film | John Wick | 2014 | Chad Stahelski and David Leitch |
| 11/21/17 | Film | Baby Driver | 2017 | Bruno Heller |
| 11/28/17 | Video Game | Doki Doki Literature Club | 2017 | Team Salvato |
| 11/28/17 | Film | John Wick: Chapter Two | 2017 | Chad Stahelski |
| 11/29/17 | Film | Spiderman: Homcoming | 2017 | Jon Watts |
| 11/30/17 | Podcast | The Adventure Zone: Composure | 2017 | The McElroy Brothers |
| 12/1/17 | Television | Gotham S2 | 2016 | Bruno Heller |
| 12/6/17 | Television | Gotham S3 | 2017 | Bruno Heller |
| 12/6/17 | Film | I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown | 2003 | Bill Melendez, Larry Leichliter |
| 12/10/17 | Video Game | Stardew Valley | 2016 | Chucklefish |
| 12/10/17 | Television | The Great British Baking Show S1 | 2011 | Andy Devonshire |
| 12/13/17 | Television | The Great British Baking Show S2 | 2013 | Scott Tankard |
| 12/13/17 | Film | Guardians of the Galaxy 2 | 2017 | James Gunn |
| 12/15/17 | Book | Aleph | 2010 | Paulo Coehlo |
| 12/15/17 | Film | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 2017 | Rian Johnson |
| 12/18/17 | Film | Bad Santa | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff |
| 12/19/17 | Television | Judd Apatow: The Return | 2017 | Judd Apatow |
| 12/21/17 | Video Game | Pokemon Ultra Moon | 2017 | Game Freak |
| 12/22/17 | Film | How The Grinch Stole Christmas | 2000 | Ron Howard |
| 12/23/17 | Television | The Great British Baking Show S3 | 2015 | Andy Devonshire |
| 12/28/17 | Film | The Disaster Artist | 2017 | James Franco |
| 12/28/17 | Film | The Circle | 2017 | James Ponsoldt |
| 12/29/17 | Film | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2) | 2017 | Rian Johnson |
| 12/29/17 | Book | Batman: The Long Halloween | 1997 | Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale |
| 12/30/17 | Television | The Good Place S1 | 2016 | Michael Schur |
| 12/31/17 | Film | Jim and Andy | 2017 | Chris Smith |
| Unfinished | Video Game | Persona 5 | 2017 | Atlus |
| Unfinished | Book | Television Studies | 2011 | Jonathan Gray and Amanda D Lotz |
| Unfinished | Book | Approaches to Industry Studies | 2016 | Matthew Freeman |
| Unfinished | Book | The First Christmas | 2007 | Marcus Borg and |
| Unfinished | Book | A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems | 2016 | Wendell Berry |
| Unfinished | Book | Swing Time | 2016 | Zadie Smith |
How did you like Meddling Kids? I’ve seen some mixed reviews, but I actually enjoyed that one.
I really enjoyed that one! I thought it did a good job of mixing humor, interesting storytelling, and intertextuality. It wasn’t one of the more literary books I read this year, but it was at least a lot of fun to read.