My Plex End-of-Year Review (Part 2: TV Shows)

Continuing my Plex End-of-Year Review, here’s some stats about the TV shows I watched. The logic for my adding TV shows to my Plex server is pretty similar to what my logic is for when I add movies to my Plex server: I either like/admire the show and want to keep it for future viewing (especially if I wanna stop paying for a streaming service) or I’m interested in seeing it and I want to eventually watch it one day. Like my movie list, this isn’t everything I watched this year, but the things I did watch on Plex are exceptional. Without further ado, let’s get to the stats.

My Sleepy-Time Show is Taskmaster

By a wide margin, the show I watched the most is Taskmaster. Now, my activity log doesn’t have dates and times on it, but generally speaking, if I’m not watching John Mulaney or Greg Davies stand-up specials, I’m falling asleep to Taskmaster. I may have watched it at other points during the day, but for the sake of this, let’s assume I watched these things as I was falling asleep or trying to.

There’s definite bias toward later series—part of that is shuffle, part of that is, I’ve seen the old episodes so many time, when I shuffle everything up for night-night time, I’ll skip until I find something I really like to get to sleep to.

The Full Enchiladas

There are a few shows that I decided to watch from start to finish. Here are them, along with my thoughts:

A Variety of Shows I Think You Should Watch Even If I Didn’t Watch A Lot of It Myself

Every Episode of The Simpsons I Watched On Plex

I’ve got a lot of the Simpsons on Plex, but unlike other shows like Scrubs, Friends or Taskmaster, I don’t shuffle up The Simpsons normally, since when I do I get one of those later-season ones that no one likes, so here’s the things I’ve chosen to watch (or skipped through a shuffle queue enough to find something I liked):

And that’s it! Look for part 3, all about the music I decided to listen to on Plex, in the new year.

 

My Plex End-of-Year Review (Part 1: Movies)

I don’t use Spotify—my MP3 downloading habits have refused to die. Literally since the days of Napster, I’ve had a tried and true media collection—music, TV episodes and movies, streamed to all my devices with the magic of a NAS and Plex. My media server is not all the media I ingest, but it’s the media I’ve deemed necessary to own and to be able to access wherever and however I’d like. So since I don’t use Spotify, I don’t have a Spotify Wrapped. My Plex music is logged by last.fm (yeah they’re still a thing!) so between the Plex Watch History and Last.fm, I can wrap up the stuff I’ve made it a point to download and save and watch. This isn’t everything I’ve watched this year, but it’s interesting to see what I took the time to seek out and acquire.

Here’s Part 1: Movies. Let’s walk through some interesting patterns in my viewing habits this year:

I Fall Asleep to Stand-Up Comedy Specials

Specific ones, actually—John Mulaney’s and Greg Davies’ specials, mostly. I’ll go more into this in Part 2 for TV shows, but one of the tried and true methods to get myself to sleep is to be able to shut by brain off by listening to something that I know till and rote, and these stand-up specials I’ve seen so many times, my brain can focus on what’s being said, but not be stimulated enough by it that it keeps me up:

John Mulaney’s first three comedy specials are so fucking good. They’re so tightly constructed. Greg Davies is just a loud silly angry man and it makes me smile. These are my comfort stand-up specials.

I Don’t Think I Give Off Horror Movie Fan Vibes, But…

I hated scary movies growing up. Even Are You Afraid of the Dark? was too scary for me. In high school, my mom let me use her Blockbuster card to rent movies, when they had that “rent any two as much as you’d like for one monthly fee” thing, so I’d rent a movie for my little sister, and some weird movie for me. The first one I rented was a Japanese horror movie called Suicide Club. That’s a hell of a first fucking horror movie to watch. After that, I rented Blair Witch Project. And then, before you know it, I’m a horror movie fan. Here’s all the horror movies I’ve seen this year on Plex:

For The First Time

Once Again

Stand-Up So Good, I Saved Them

These stand up specials were so good, I knew I’d wanna watch them over and over again.

Comfort Films When I Needed Them Most

I was unemployed from July 1st to about September 15th. Here’s all the movies I watched at that time, outside of the aforementioned stand-up melatonin specials. Not all of them are movies I would consider comfort movies, but at a point that I felt pretty down in the dumps, props to these films for trying to perk me up.

Other Fun Patterns of Note

On June 2, I watched The Disaster Artist, a movie recreating the filming of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, The Room. On June 3rd, I watched The Room. Speaking of cult classics, I watched Troll 2 once this year. Gotta get those numbers up.

On the night of my birthday, I fell asleep listening to Greg Davies: You Magnificent Beast.

I watched Titanic on April 13th. The Titanic sank April 15, 1912.

I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time this year. In contrast, I saw Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 twice this year alone.

Time to start owning my own place again.

It’s a bitterly cold day here in Baltimore. It’s 5 degrees above freezing, and that’s the high. The chill can be nice, but the building I work at is drafty and the electrical is subpar, so if we plug in a ton of space heaters, the power goes out. (I should just open Netflix in Google Chrome on my laptop, it’ll probably raise the temperature of the whole office.)

It’s been a very long time since I’ve had a blog of my own. Sure, there’s BuzzerBlog, but that’s a specific focus, and any time I’ve asked the community if they want to see off-topic posts from me/us, the answer has always been a loud and clear “no.” But I do wanna talk about stuff! And I want to do it more than in more than 300 characters (sorry, BlueSky). So, I’m resurrecting my blog.

Will I be posting here with any kind of frequency? Probably not. Maybe if I get a stick up my ass about something. Maybe if I want to share something that is too long for Bluesky or whatever. But I’ll be here, and I’ll make sure that I share things out on the social media platforms I’m on, so you don’t have to check my stupid website every day just to see what I think of Bonne Maman jam or who my top music artists are this year. (Unlike everyone else on the planet who has Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music or even Amazon Music, as a stubborn millennial, I’ve never let go of my MP3 collection, I’ve just moved it to a server and run PlexAmp and last.fm, so my 2024 Wrapped is actually going to deliver in January, as God intended.)

The Internet has gotten a lot more challenging to enjoy over the past few years. When I was growing up, there were social media networks that you could identify today as social media networks, even if they weren’t called that. Places like LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace—websites that made it easy to fellowship and connect with people. You’d make your page, then you’d find people or groups that interested you, and you’d connect with them. You’d have your Friends feed, where you could see what all your friends were saying. If you wanted to talk about something else, you’d have to go to that community. As I saw it, Facebook was one of the main social media networks to implement an algorithm, which tried to predict what you’d wanna see based on what other people are seeing, and now we got introduced to new things, new people, things we didn’t ask to see.

Now, there’s more “things we didn’t ask to see” and it’s absolutely annihilated the things I want to see from the people I want to see. You have to jump through so many hoops on Facebook to just see what your friends have said, in a chronological order. BlueSky’s getting there, but old habits die hard, and making new feeds isn’t particularly simple or easy. All of that to say: I think there’s value in having a space I can curate and shape exactly the way I want, and there’s no better place than the website I already own and pay for.

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