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Media Diary 2021

 

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