SEEN/READ IN 2021
Inspired by one of my favorite filmmakers, Steven Soderbergh, here is a comprehensive diary of everything I watched and read in 2021.
All caps, bold: MOVIE
All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT*
All caps: TV SERIES (# of episodes)
Italics: Book, Author
Quotation marks: “Play,” Venue (City)
All caps, underline: CONCERT/SHOW, Venue (City)
01/01 STATH LETS FLATS (2), BOOGIE NIGHTS
01/02 THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
01/03 STATH LETS FLATS (2), TOAST OF LONDON
01/05 STATH LETS FLATS
01/07 STATH LETS FLATS
01/09 MAD MEN (2), INGRID GOES WEST
01/09 MAD MEN, SOUND OF METAL
01/10 STATH LETS FLATS
01/12 MAD MEN, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
01/13 PRETEND IT’S A CITY (2)
01/14 STATH LETS FLATS (2)
01/15 MAD MEN (2), REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
01/16 VEEP, MAD MEN, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI...
01/17 PRETEND IT’S A CITY, TIGER: PART I
01/18 PRETEND IT’S A CITY (2), TIGER: PART II, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
01/19 MAD MEN, ANOTHER ROUND
01/20 VEEP, LOCKED DOWN
01/21 PRETEND IT’S A CITY (2)
01/22 MAD MEN, MISERY
01/23 VEEP (2), MR. MAYOR (2), MAD MEN (2), OUT OF SIGHT
01/24 REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, DERRY GIRLS (3)
01/25 DERRY GIRLS
01/26 MAD MEN, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
01/27 DERRY GIRLS (2), MAD MEN
01/28 DERRY GIRLS
01/29 MAD MEN, REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, DEREK DELGAUDIO’S IN & OF ITSELF
01/30 VEEP, MAD MEN, SYLVIE’S LOVE, DERRY GIRLS
01/31 DERRY GIRLS (2)
02/01 EUPHORIA
02/02 EUPHORIA
02/03 MAD MEN, NOTES ON A SCANDAL, DERRY GIRLS
02/04 DAYS OF HEAVEN
02/05 Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney, MALCOLM & MARIE
02/07 SUPER BOWL LV, OKJA, DERRY GIRLS
02/08 EUPHORIA
02/10 MR. MAYOR (2), SUPERGIRL
02/11 DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
02/13 SUPERGIRL, MAD MEN, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
02/14 ELECTION, SUPERGIRL (2), SIDEWAYS
02/15 REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, EUPHORIA
02/17 EUPHORIA
02/19 ROCK CAMP, NOMADLAND
02/20 THE FORTY YEAR-OLD VERSION
02/21 AS GOOD AS IT GETS
02/22 VEEP, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
02/23 PATHS OF GLORY
02/24 ROBBIE (2), NEBRASKA
02/25 ALLEN V. FARROW, ROBBIE
02/26 ROBBIE, MAD MEN, MINARI
02/27 ROBBIE, MAD MEN, KLUTE
02/28 MAD MEN, THE 78TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, ALLEN V. FARROW
03/01 DOWN BY LAW
03/02 BADLANDS
03/03 JOINT SECURITY AREA
03/04 MAD MEN
03/06 MAD MEN (2), DAZED AND CONFUSED, I CARE A LOT, VEEP (2)
03/07 MAD MEN (2), ALLEN V. FARROW, VEEP
03/08 BILLIE EILISH: THE WORLD’S A LITTLE BLURRY
03/09 EUPHORIA
03/10 OPRAH WITH MEGHAN AND HARRY, A.P. BIO (2), EUPHORIA (2)
03/11 A.P. BIO (2), Making Movies, Sidney Lumet, THE MORNING AFTER
03/12 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (3), SHIVERS
03/13 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (5)
03/14 TENET, ALLEN V. FARROW, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2)
03/15 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2)
03/16 SNEAKERHEADS (6), INSIDE MAN
03/17 OPERATION VARSITY BLUES, EUPHORIA SPECIAL PART 1: RUE
03/18 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (4)
03/19 TOAST OF LONDON (2), WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (4), BOYS STATE
03/20 STATH LETS FLATS (3), NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
03/21 STATH LETS FLATS (4)
03/22 TOAST OF LONDON, STATH LETS FLATS (4), ATONEMENT
03/23 STATH LETS FLATS, PATERSON
03/24 PARIS, TEXAS
03/25 A HARD DAYS NIGHT, EUPHORIA SPECIAL PART 2: JULES, Q: INTO THE STORM
03/26 Q: INTO THE STORM, LOVE & BASKETBALL
03/28 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN
03/29 Q: INTO THE STORM (2), RABID
03/30 MOONBASE 8 (2), A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
03/31 MOONBASE 8, THE END OF THE F**KING WORLD (2), GODZILLA VS. KONG
04/01 MOONBASE 8, COMEDIAN, COOLEY HIGH
04/02 MOONBASE 8 (3)
04/03 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (3), FAKE FAMOUS
04/04 THE FATHER
04/05 Q: INTO THE STORM (2)
04/06 MOONBASE 8
04/07 BAD TRIP
04/08 SAVE RALPH*, UNFORGIVEN
04/09 SEXY BEAST
04/10 THE KNICK, SUPPORT THE GIRLS
04/11 TINA
04/13 SOMEONE GREAT
04/14 VEEP
04/15 THE SOPRANOS
04/16 VEEP, BAMBOOZLED
04/17 VEEP, COLLECTIVE
04/18 TOAST OF LONDON
04/19 TOAST OF LONDON, THE SOPRANOS
04/20 MARE OF EASTTOWN
04/21 TIME
04/22 THE SOPRANOS
04/25 THE SOPRANOS (2), THE 93RD OSCARS
04/26 MARE OF EASTTOWN
04/27 THE SOPRANOS
04/29 THE SOPRANOS, DINER
04/30 MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
05/02 TOAST OF LONDON, ROMAN HOLIDAY, MARE OF EASTTOWN
05/04 THE SOPRANOS
05/05 THE SOPRANOS
05/06 THE SOPRANOS
05/07 THE KNICK, KILL BILL VOL. 1
05/09 MARE OF EASTTOWN
05/11 THE SOPRANOS
05/12 KILL BILL VOL. 2
05/13 THE SOPRANOS
05/14 THE SOPRANOS, PULP FICTION
05/16 MARE OF EASTTOWN, VEEP
05/19 THE SOPRANOS
05/21 JACKIE BROWN
05/23 VEEP, MARE OF EASTTOWN
05/24 THE HEARTBREAK KID (’72)
05/29 VEEP (2), A NEW LEAF
05/30 VEEP, HACKS (2), MARE OF EASTTOWN
05/31 Operation Mincemeat, Ben McIntyre, HACKS (2)
06/01 HACKS (2)
06/02 VEEP
06/05 HACKS
06/06 HACKS, TO DIE FOR
06/09 BO BURNHAM: INSIDE
06/10 IN THE HEIGHTS
06/12 HACKS (2), “Persou,” Nancy Manocherian
06/13 DATING & NEW YORK, OCEAN’S ELEVEN (’01)
06/19 GIRLFRIENDS
06/20 STARSTRUCK (2), LA PISCINE
06/21 THE SOPRANOS
06/22 KICKING AND SCREAMING (’95)
06/25 THE SOPRANOS
06/27 STARSTRUCK
06/29 STARSTRUCK
06/30 THE SOPRANOS, STARSTRUCK (2)
07/01 PERFORMED SOLO ACOUSTIC at Marshall Stack (New York, NY)
07/02 NO SUDDEN MOVE, VEEP (2)
07/03 VEEP, SHIVA BABY
07/04 SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
07/06 VEEP, BLOW OUT
07/08 SHITHOUSE
07/09 VEEP
07/10 VEEP
07/11 I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE (4)
07/12 THE WHITE LOTIS, SAINT MAUD
07/13 THE SOPRANOS (2), I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE (2)
07/14 SOUL, I HATE SUZIE, VEEP
07/15 VEEP, THE KNICK, THE VISITOR
07/16 THE SOPRANOS (2), ZOLA
07/17 THE SOPRANOS, DONNIE DARKO
07/18 THE SOPRANOS (2), RUNNING ON EMPTY
07/19 CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE
07/20 ORANGE COUNTY, VEEP
07/21 THE WHITE LOTUS, VEEP
07/22 THERE WILL BE BLOOD, I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE (3)
07/23 I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)
07/24 BOUND
07/25 THE WHITE LOTUS, NORTH BY NORTHWEST
07/26 I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE (2), THE KNICK (3), VEEP
07/27 THIEF
07/28 MANHUNTER
07/29 Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino, WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
08/01 METALOCALYPSE (2), STRANGER THAN PARADISE
08/03 THE WHITE LOTUS
08/05 THE GREEN KNIGHT, I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE
08/06 CROUPIER
08/07 VAL
08/08 MCCARTNEY 3, 2, 1
08/09 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino, THE WHITE LOTUS, RANGO
08/10 NOBODY, A QUIET PLACE: PART II, THE KNICK (2), VEEP
08/11 VEEP
08/14 REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER
08/15 VEEP (2), THE WHITE LOTUS
08/16 DETROITERS (2)
08/18 THE SOPRANOS
08/20 THE SOPRANOS
08/22 THE KNICK, TAKE SHELTER, THE CHAIR
08/23 THE SOPRANOS
08/24 THE KNICK
08/25 The Road, Cormac McCarthy, THE SOPRANOS
08/28 THE SOPRANOS, CANDYMAN (’21)
08/29 KILLING THEM SOFTLY, MODS AND ROCKERS: “SEPT JOURS DU MONDE”*, THE SOPRANOS
08/30 THE SOPRANOS
08/31 THE SOPRANOS, THE DROP
09/01 PIG, THE CHAIR (2)
09/02 THE CHAIR (3)
09/03 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2), ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
09/04 METROPOLITAN, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
09/05 THE SOPRANOS (2), ANNETTE
09/06 ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, AMERICAN MOVIE
09/07 THE SOPRANOS, AMERICAN CRIME STORY: IMPEACHMENT
09/08 “Gifted,” Simon Rich, THE SOPRANOS (2)
09/09 THE SOPRANOS (2), THE CARD COUNTER
09/10 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
09/11 MARIE ANTOINETTE (’06)
09/12 ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, THE SOPRANOS (2), THE PIANO
09/13 THE SOPRANOS (2)
09/14 THE SOPRANOS, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, AMERICAN CRIME STORY: IMPEACHMENT
09/15 THE KNICK
09/19 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
09/21 THE SOPRANOS, AMERICAN CRIME STORY: IMPEACHMENT
09/23 DIRTY WORK, THE SOPRANOS (3)
09/25 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
09/26 IN THE CUT, THE SOPRANOS, TITANE
09/27 THE KNICK
09/28 THE SOPRANOS (2)
09/29 THE SOPRANOS (3)
09/30 THE SOPRANOS (6), Chronicles Volume 1, Bob Dylan
10/01 THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK
10/02 RUSHMORE, DR. DOG, Terminal 5 (New York, NY)
10/03 THE FRENCH DISPATCH, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
10/04 ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
10/05 IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
10/06 DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE CLOSER
10/08 THE KNICK
10/09 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, BILLIONS, NO TIME TO DIE
10/10 THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
10/11 WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, BILLIONS
10/12 PERMANENT VACATION
10/13 BILLIONS, IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
10/14 JAPANESE BREAKFAST, Brooklyn Steel (Brooklyn, NY)
10/15 SCHITT’S CREEK (2), WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
10/16 SCHITT’S CREEK (2), THE KNICK, “What To Send Up When It Goes Down,” Aleshea Harris, Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY)
10/17 SUCCESSION, Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, SCHITT’S CREEK
10/18 THE DEPARTED
10/19 IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
10/20 BILLIONS, THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
10/21 THE MORNING SHOW (2), THE SAME STORM
10/23 HAMILTON LEITHAUSER & KEVIN MORBY, FEAT. JESS WILLIAMSON, Stubbs BBQ Amphitheatre (Austin, TX)
10/24 BILLIONS, SUCCESSION
10/25 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)
10/26 IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
10/27 SCHITT’S CREEK
10/28 THE KNICK
10/31 DUNE (’21), VOLVER
11/01 SUCCESSION, PICKPOCKET
11/02 THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK
11/04 BILLIONS (2), ROUNDERS
11/05 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, SPENCER
11/06 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY, THE SOUVENIR, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
11/07 JENNIFER’S BODY, SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/08 BILLIONS (2)
11/10 BILLIONS
11/11 BILLIONS (2), TICK... TICK... BOOM!
11/12 IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
11/13 ALL TOO WELL: THE SHORT FILM*, BILLIONS (2), MARC MARON, The Town Hall (New York, NY), KRAMER VS. KRAMER
11/14 THE KNICK, SUCCESSION
11/15 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, BILLIONS (2)
11/16 In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
11/17 DAN IN REAL LIFE
11/18 THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS (2)
11/20 THE KNICK, BILLIONS (3)
11/21 SCHITT’S CREEK, BILLIONS (5), SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/22 BILLIONS, THE KNICK
11/23 BILLIONS (2)
11/24 BILLIONS (2), MYSTERY TRAIN
11/25 BILLIONS, THE BEATLES: GET BACK – PART 1
11/26 BILLIONS (2), LICORICE PIZZA
11/27 THE BEATLES: GET BACK – PART 2, BILLIONS, C’MON C’MON
11/28 THE BEATLES: GET BACK – PART 3, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
11/29 BILLIONS (3), SUCCESSION
11/30 BILLIONS (2)
12/01 BILLIONS (3)
12/02 BILLIONS (5), MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
12/03 BILLIONS (5), STATH LETS FLATS (3)
12/04 BILLIONS (4), KING RICHARD
12/05 BILLIONS (5), BUT HUMBLE SINNERS*, SUCCESSION, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, STATH LETS FLATS
12/06 STATH LETS FLATS (2), HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON (2), THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS
12/09 ZODIAC
12/10 THE KNICK, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
12/11 HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON, NIGHTMARE ALLEY (’21), THE KNICK
12/12 THE VICTIM COMPLEX*, THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS (3), THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (’21), SUCCESSION
12/13 RESERVATION DOGS (2), Normal People, Sally Rooney, CODA (’21)
12/14 RESERVATION DOGS (3), THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
12/15 RESERVATION DOGS (3), THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS (4)
12/16 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, THE MORNING SHOW (2)
12/17 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2), HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON
12/18 THE MORNING SHOW (4), LENNY, SCHITT’S CREEK (2)
12/19 Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, THE POWER OF THE DOG
12/20 BELFAST, THE NOVICE
12/21 ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN, STILLWATER, SHADOW OF A DOUBT
12/22 THE MORNING SHOW (2), THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2), MULLHOLLAND DRIVE
12/23 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2)
12/24 THE PLAYER
12/25 THE SUICIDE SQUAD, HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (THEATRICAL), MUSIC BOX: MR. SATURDAY NIGHT
12/26 REMEMBER THE TITANS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (THEATRICAL)
12/27 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, WEST COAST POTTERY CLUB*, WINE NIGHT*, THE DOORS
12/28 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (THEATRICAL), THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (2)
12/29 TWIN PEAKS, FANTASTIC FUNGI
12/30 TWIN PEAKS (5), MUSIC BOX: JAGGED
12/31 TWIN PEAKS (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, Another Country, James Baldwin, STOP MAKING SENSE