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My Favourite Things of 2022
Films
- Top Gun: Maverick
- The Worst Person in the World
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Nope
- Entergalactic
- The Batman
- After Yang
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Jackass Forever
Honourable mentions (in order)
- Guillermo de Toro’s Pinocchio
- Elvis
- Turning Red
- Sharp Stick
- The Bad Guys
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Prey
- The Woman King
- The Fallout
- Fire Island
Pre-2022 favourites (not in order)
- Princess Cyd (2017)
- Tramps (2016)
- West Side Story (2021)
- Petite Maman (2021)
- Her (2013)
- Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
- Blue Jay (2016)
- The Beguiled (2017)
- Rush (2013)
- Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
- Mustang (2015)
- C’mon C’mon (2021)
- Gravity (2013)
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
- Train To Busan (2016)
- The Sword of Trust (2019)
TV Shows
- The Bear (season 1) – Disney+
- Yellowjackets (season 1) – (Sky, also on Paramount Plus)
- Bad Sisters (season 1) (Apple TV+)
- Stranger Things (season 4) (Netflix)
- Heartstopper (season 1) (Netflix)
- The Rehearsal (season 1) (Sky)
- She-Hulk (season 1) (Disney+)
- Peacemaker (season 1) (Sky)
- House of the Dragon (season 1) (Sky)
- The Boys (season 3) (Amazon Prime)
Honourable mentions (not in order)
- The Last Movie Stars (Sky)
- This Is Us (season 6) (Disney+, also on Amazon Prime)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+)
- Atlanta (season 3 and 4) (Disney+)
- Never Have I Ever (season 3) (Netflix)
- Everything I Know About Love (series 1) (BBC)
- The Grogu and Mando scenes only in The Book of Boba Fett (Disney+)
Pre-2022 favourites (not in order)
- Seinfeld (1989 – 1998)
- Trying (2020 – present)
- Abbott Elementary (2021 – present)
- The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021 – present)
Books
- Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid (2021)
- Heartstopper Volume One – Alice Oseman (2019)
- The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood (2021)
- Persuasion – Jane Austen (1817)
- Evidence of the Affair – Taylor Jenkins Reid (2018)
- Love on the Brain – Ali Hazelwood (2022)
- Solitaire – Alice Oseman (2014)
- Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney (2017)
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo (2015)
- Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays – Minnie Driver (2022)
Honourable mentions
- Radio Silence – Alice Oseman (2016)
- Period – Emma Barnett (2019)
- More Than a Woman – Caitlin Moran (2020)
- And Away… – Bob Mortimer (2021)
Music
- CUFF IT – Beyoncé
- Backburner – NIKI
- Midnight Rain – Taylor Swift
- up at night – Kehlani
- Sleep Tight – Holly Humberstone
- About You – The 1975
- Boyfriend – Dove Cameron
- touch tank – quinine
- Cate’s Brother – Maisie Peters
- Charlie Be Quiet! – Charlie Puth
Honourable mentions (not in order)
- I Love Your Girl – Mabel
- Already Over – Sabrina Carpenter
- Angelica – Wet Leg
- All She Wanna Do – John Legend
- Baby – Aitch
- This Love (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift