SEEN/READ IN 2022

Inspired by one of my favorite filmmakers, Steven Soderbergh, here is a comprehensive diary of everything I watched and read in 2022. 

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 TWIN PEAKS (3), STRANGE CULTURE

01/02 TWIN PEAKS (6), THE MATRIX

01/03 TWIN PEAKS (6), HOW IT ENDS (‘21)

01/04 TWIN PEAKS (3), HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON (2)

01/05 TWIN PEAKS (4), THE LOST DAUGHTER, STATION ELEVEN (2) 

01/06 PAPER MOON, STATION ELEVEN

01/07 STATION ELEVEN, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, MOTHERLAND

01/08 MOTHERLAND (3), WEST SIDE STORY (‘21), STATION ELEVEN

01/09 STATION ELEVEN, EUPHORIA, MOTHERLAND (2)

01/10 STATION ELEVEN (2), BIG NIGHT (‘96)

01/11 THE NORTH WATER (2)

01/12 STATION ELEVEN, ACE IN THE HOLE

01/13 STATION ELEVEN, BRIGHT STAR 

01/14 White Noise, Don DeLillo, YELLOWJACKETS (2)

01/15 YELLOWJACKETS (2), CHICAGO (‘02)

01/16 COWBOYS AND OTHER YOUNG MEN*, IN SUSPENSION*, THE NORTH WATER, EUPHORIA, MOTHERLAND

01/17 YELLOWJACKETS (3)

01/18 YELLOWJACKETS (2)

01/19 YELLOWJACKETS

01/20 THE WIRE (3)

01/22 MOTHERLAND

01/23 BILLIONS, THE NORTH WATER, EUPHORIA

01/26 THE NORTH WATER

01/27 MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, DETROITERS

01/28 DETROITERS, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE

01/29 THE VISITORS (‘72), DETROITERS, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

01/30 BILLIONS, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY (2), EUPHORIA

01/31 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY (2)

02/01 ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (4)

02/02 ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2), STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET, MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN

02/03 MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, DRIVE MY CAR, PAM & TOMMY

02/04 PAM & TOMMY (2), HIGH ART, The Comedians: Thieves, Drunks, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, Kliph Nesteroff

02/05 DOPESICK (3), THE LAST DUEL

02/06 THE AFTERPARTY (3), EUPHORIA

02/07 THE AFTERPARTY, THE WIRE (2)

02/08 DOPESICK, THE WIRE, DETROITERS (2)

02/09 DOPESICK (2), PAM & TOMMY, THE WIRE

02/10 DOPESICK (2), KIMI, DETROITERS

02/11 BILLIONS, “The Merchant of Venice,” William Shakespeare, Theatre for a New Audience (Brooklyn, NY), DETROITERS

02/12 THE AFTERPARTY, INVENTING ANNA

02/13 Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay, Phoebe Robinson, INVENTING ANNA, SUPER BOWL VLI, EUPHORIA, DETROITERS

02/14 TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, KING OF NEW YORK

02/15 BILLIONS, INVENTING ANNA

02/16 TWIN PEAKS, DETROITERS

02/17 DETROITERS (3), ALI WONG: DON WONG, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, PAM & TOMMY

02/18 INVENTING ANNA (2)

02/19 DOWNFALL: THE CASE AGAINST BOEING

02/20 DETROITERS, EUPHORIA, INVENTING ANNA

02/21 INVENTING ANNA

02/22 DETROITERS, BILLIONS, INVENTING0 ANNA

02/23 INVENTING ANNA 

02/26 Began principal photography on WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, DETROITERS (2)

02/27 Wrap principal photography on WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*

02/28 EUPHORIA, MR. JEALOUSY

03/2 PAM & TOMMY (2), THE WIRE

03/03 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER, BILLIONS, JEEN-YUHS: A KANYE TRILOGY – ACT I: VISION, JEEN-YUHS: A KANYE TRILOGY – ACT II: PURPOSE, THE WIRE

03/04 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

03/05 TWIN PEAKS, JEEN-YUHS: A KANYE TRILOGY – ACT III: AWAKENING

03/06 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, BILLIONS, THE THINGS YOU THINK I’M THINKING*, THE WIRE 

03/07 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER, AFTER YANG, DETROITERS (2), SEVERANCE (2)

03/08 GAS FOOD LODGING, SEVERANCE, MOTHERLAND

03/09 PAM & TOMMY, SEVERANCE, THE DROPOUT (2), WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*

03/10 THE DROPOUT (2)

03/11 SEVERANCE, THE WIRE, FRESH (‘22)

03/12 Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, Jeff Pearlman, ALL ABOUT EVE, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY

03/13 BILLIONS, SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, MOTHERLAND

03/14 THE WIRE

03/16 THE WIRE

03/17 THE DROPOUT, MOTHERLAND

03/18 SEVERANCE, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO

03/20 Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Nancy MacLean, BILLIONS, MOTHERLAND

03/21 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, BRINGING UP BABY, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, MOTHERLAND

03/22 THE WIRE

03/23 THE WIRE, MOTHERLAND

03/24 FLEE, MOTHERLAND

03/25 NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS, Kings Theatre (Brooklyn, NY)

03/26 ATLANTA (2), THE KILLING

03/27 BILLIONS, SEVERANCE, THE 94TH ACADEMY AWARDS, MOTHERLAND

03/29 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER, MOTHERLAND

03/30 FAR FROM HEAVEN

03/31 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER

04/01 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, SEVERANCE, THE DROPOUT

04/02 THE DROPOUT, WINNINIG TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY

04/03 BILLIONS, MOTHERLAND

04/04 MOTHERLAND

04/05 Billionaires and Stealth Politics, Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY

04/06 ATLANTA, WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*

04/07 OLD ENOUGH!, THE DROPOUT, SEVERANCE

04/08 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, STARSTRUCK

04/09 STARSTRUCK (2), ATLANTA, WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, TWIN PEAKS

04/10 INLAND EMPIRE, BILLIONS, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, STARSTRUCK

04/11 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER

04/12 SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER, SLOW HORSES (2)

04/13 SLOW HORSES, BETTER CALL SAUL (4)

04/14 BETTER CALL SAUL (4), Less Than Zero, Brett Easton Ellis

04/15 PERSONA

04/16 ATLANTA, SLOW HORSES, BETTER CALL SAUL (4)

04/17 BETTER CALL SAUL (3)

04/18 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE 

04/19 WILCO, United Palace (New York, NY), STARSTRUCK (2)

04/20 THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE

04/21 THE WIRE 

04/22 THE SQUARE (‘17) 

04/23 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 

04/24 RAMBLING ROSE, GHOSTS (U.K.)

04/25 BARRY

04/26 THE WIRE

04/27 BETTER CALL SAUL (3), IN A BETTER WORLD, GHOSTS (U.K.) 

04/28 BETTER CALL SAUL (2), WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY

04/29 BETTER CALL SAUL, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, GIRLHOOD

04/30 THE LIVES OF OTHERS

05/01 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, BETTER CALL SAUL, PRIDE & PREJUDICE (‘05)

05/02 BETTER CALL SAUL, BARRY, THE APARTMENT 

05/03 BETTER CALL SAUL, GHOSTS (U.K.)

05/04 ATLANTA, SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER

05/05 ATLANTA, SLOW HORSES

05/06 WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR, WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, BILLY ELLIOT

05/07 ATLANTA

05/08 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*

05/09 BARRY, SLOW HORSES, GHOSTS (U.K.) 

05/10 THE NORTHMAN

05/12 WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY, HACKS (2)

05/14 ATLANTA, BETTER CALL SAUL, BILLY JOEL, Madison Square Garden (New York, NY), FUNNY GIRL

05/15 “Funny Girl,” Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Harvey Fierstein, August Wilson Theatre (New York, NY)

05/16 BARRY, WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, THE WIRE, GHOSTS (U.K.)

05/17 VICTOR/VICTORIA

05/18 BETTER CALL SAUL (2), GHOSTS (U.K.)

05/19 HACKS (2), TWO LOVERS

05/21 ATLANTA, EVE’S BAYOU

05/22 BETTER CALL SAUL­­­­

05/23 BARRY, TOP GUN

05/24 YOUR LIFE AS A SPY*, GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM: PART 1

05/25 GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM: PART 2

05/26 HACKS (2)

05/27 BETTER CALL SAUL (2), WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, TOP GUN: MAVERICK

05/28 THE COUNTERFEITERS (’07), GHOSTS (U.K.)

05/29 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, BETTER CALL SAUL, MEMENTO, GHOSTS (U.K.)

05/30 THE WIRE, THE PARALLAX VIEW, GHOSTS (U.K.)

06/01 COP LAND

06/02 BARRY, HACKS (2)

06/03 “Something’s in the Water at Abortion Beach,” Scottie Harvey and Henry Ryeder, Ars Nova Supra, BETTER CALL SAUL (2)

06/04 BETTER CALL SAUL (2), JURASSIC PARK

06/05 NEARLY EVERY DAY*, LIGHT SLEEPER

06/06 BARRY, TICKLED

06/07 GHOSTS (U.K.), THE WIRE

06/08 THE WIRE, GHOSTS (U.K.)

06/09 The Secret History, Donna Tartt

06/11 How to Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy, BETTER CALL SAUL, MEN, “Fixed,” Emily Wilson, Asylum NYC (New York, NY)

06/12 THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

06/13 BARRY, GOD’S TIME

06/14 THE WIRE

06/16 PAUL MCCARTNEY, MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, NJ)

06/17 NORM MACDONALD: NOTHING SPECIAL

06/18 BETTER CALL SAUL, THE WIRE, GHOSTS (U.K.)

06/19 BETTER CALL SAUL

06/20 THE WIRE (2)

06/21 THE WIRE

06/22 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER* (3 times), Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths, Rachel Lindsay, GHOSTS (U.K.) 

06/23 WAITING FOR LAUGHTER*, THE WIRE

06/24 GHOSTS (U.K.), PERFORMED LIVE at The Delancey (New York, NY)

06/25 BETTER CALL SAUL (2)

06/26 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE BEAR (2)

06/27 THE BEAR

06/28 THE BEAR, Cockeyed, Ryan Knighton

06/29 BETTER CALL SAUL

07/01 BETTER CALL SAUL

07/03 BETTER CALL SAUL (3), ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

07/04 BETTER CALL SAUL, THELMA & LOUISE

07/05 BETTER CALL SAUL, THE BEAR (2)

07/06 THE BEAR (2)

07/07 LOST HIGHWAY, BETTER CALL SAUL, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING

07/08 BETTER CALL SAUL (4)

07/09 BETTER CALL SAUL (3)

07/10 BETTER CALL SAUL (2), TWIN PEAKS, All I Stole From You, Ava Bellows, THE OLD MAN

07/11 THE OLD MAN, BETTER CALL SAUL

07/12 THE OLD MAN

07/13 THE OLD MAN, NAVALNY

07/15 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2)

07/16 THE REHEARSAL, KISSING JESSICA STEIN

07/17 THE OLD MAN, ADVENTURELAND

07/18 THE OLD MAN, BETTER CALL SAUL

07/19 THE WIRE, GHOSTS (U.K.)

07/20 THE WIRE, THE OTHER TWO (3)

07/21 COURTNEY BARNETT, Radio City (New York, NY)

07/22 THE OTHER TWO (3), NOPE

07/23 THE REHEARSAL, NATHAN FOR YOU, THE OTHER TWO (2) 

07/24 THE OLD MAN, THE LOST WEEKEND (‘44)

07/25 BETTER CALL SAUL

07/26 MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON, THE WIRE, THE OTHER TWO (2)

07/27 CHINATOWN, THE OTHER TWO

07/28 THE WIRE, THE OTHER TWO

07/29 TWIN PEAKS, DRESSED TO KILL, THE REHEARSAL, THE OTHER TWO

07/30 I LOVE MY DAD

07/31 THE WIRE, THE OTHER TWO

08/01 BETTER CALL SAUL, THE OTHER TWO

08/02 THE LAST MOVIE STARS, THE OTHER TWO

08/03 THE DAYTRIPPERS

08/04 THIRTEEN LIVES, THE OTHER TWO (2)

08/06 THE REHEARSAL, THE LAST MOVIE STARS

08/07 THE OTHER TWO (2), The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

08/08 BETTER CALL SAUL

08/11 BROADCAST NEWS

08/12 BODIES BODIES BODIES

08/13 THE REHEARSAL, VOIR (2)

08/14 I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, PREDATOR

08/15 BETTER CALL SAUL

08/16 EMILY THE CRIMINAL

08/18 RESERVATION DOGS (2)

08/19 MILLER’S CROSSING

08/20 THE REHEARSAL, FUNNY PAGES

08/21 DOCUMENTARY NOW! (2)

08/22 THE WIRE

08/23 E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL

08/24 THE WIRE, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

08/25 SLACKER

08/26 DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB 

08/28 THE WIRE

08/29 US OPEN, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

08/30 Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), Jeff Tweedy

08/31 ROGER WATERS, Madison Square Garden (New York, NY)

09/01 MICHAEL CLAYTON

09/02 WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/03 JAWS, THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

09/04 DEADWOOD

09/06 Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby, DOCUMENTARY NOW! (2)

09/07 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/08 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/11 MALIGNANT, DOCUMENTARY NOW! (2)

09/12 BARBARIAN

09/13 “ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME,” Daniel K. Isaac, La Mama’s Ellen Stewart Theatre (New York, NY)

09/14 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/15 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/16 MOONAGE DAYDREAM

09/17 ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: COMPANY, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/18 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/19 THE WIRE, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/21 THE WIRE, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/23 BARBARIAN 

09/24 PERFORMED LIVE at Pianos (New York, NY)

09/25 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/26 THE WIRE

09/27 FIRST NATURE, Heaven Can Wait (New York, NY)

09/28 DOCUMENTARY NOW!

09/29 BROS

09/30 BLUE COLLAR, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

10/01 FIRST REFORMED, DOCUMENTARY NOW!

10/02 MASTER GARDENER

10/03 TAPE (‘01), DOCUMENTARY NOW!

10/04 AVATAR

10/05 SHOWING UP 

10/07 TÁR 

10/08 AFTERSUN

10/09 DERRY GIRLS 

10/11 DERRY GIRLS

10/14 TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

10/15 RRR 

10/16 WHITE NOISE (‘22)

10/17 THE WATCHER 

10/19 THE WIRE 

10/20 THE WIRE 

10/21 THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

10/22 THE WIRE

10/23 THE WIRE, DERRY GIRLS

10/26 THE DEPARTED 

10/27 ARMAGEDDON TIME

10/28 THE WIRE

10/29 NOSFERATU (‘22)

10/30 THE WHITE LOTUS

10/31 ANDOR, HALLOWEEN (‘78)

11/01 THE WIRE 

11/02 THE WIRE

11/03 ANDOR, THE WIRE

11/04 ANDOR

11/05 THE WOMAN KING

11/06 A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin, THE WHITE LOTUS

11/07 DON’T WORRY DARLING

11/08 ANDOR

11/12 BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER

11/13 THE WHITE LOTUS

11/14 THE WIRE

11/15 THE WIRE, DERRY GIRLS

11/16 ANDOR

11/18 NICK KROLL: LITTLE BIG BOY

11/19 THE WIRE (2)

11/20 “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson, Lyceum Theatre (New York, NY), THE WHITE LOTUS

11/21 THE WIRE

11/22 ANDOR, THE WIRE, FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE (2) 

11/24 GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

11/25 THE MENU 

11/26 EYES WIDE SHUT

11/27 LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS: NIGHT OF THE MINI DEAD, THE APOCALYPSE*, LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS: WHEN THE YOGURT TOOK OVER, SILLY HUMAN*, THE WHITE LOTUS

11/29 Life’s Work: A Memoir, David Milch, THE WIRE 

12/01 ANDOR 

12/02 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

12/03 “Death of a Salesman,” Arthur Miller, Hudson Theatre (New York, NY), SR., NATHAN FOR YOU

12/04 THE WHITE LOTUS

12/10 “The Old Man and the Pool,” Mike Birbiglia, Lincoln Center (New York, NY), “Poly Play,” Catherine Bloom and Art Kopischke, Under St. Marks Theater (New York, NY)

12/11 THE WHITE LOTUS

12/12 THE WIRE, DERRY GIRLS, ANDOR

12/14 THE WHALE, ANDOR

12/17 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, ANDOR

12/18 Pure Colour, Sheila Heti, THE WIRE

12/19 THE WIRE (2), FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE (2)

12/20 DOCUMENTARY NOW! (2)

12/21 THE GOOD DOCTOR (3), THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (‘74)

12/22 ANDOR

12/24 Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin, BABYLON

12/25 THE FABELMANS, NEAR DARK

12/26 HUSTLE (‘22)

12/27 BEAU TREVAIL, IF THESE WALLS COULD SING

12/28 STUTZ

12/29 Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers, James Andrew Miller, ANDOR

12/30 FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE (4), THE WIRE, GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

12/31 Poetics, Aristotle, THE WIRE (2), DERRY GIRLS, BEETLEJUICE