Episode 44: And I watched some stuff, too

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Perry and David wind up their discussion of the best books they read in 2020 and roll on to talking about their best movies and television seen during the year.

• David’s Top 10 books of 2020 (04:51)
  1. Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
  2. Normal People by Sally Rooney
  3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  4. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  5. Truth by Peter Temple
  6. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
  7. How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
  8. Solaris by Stanisław Lem
  9. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison
  10. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Perry’s Top 10 books of 2020 (06:04)
  1. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
  2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  3. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  4. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jnr
  5. Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
  6. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
  7. The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
  8. Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
  9. Tango Briefing by Adam Hall
  10. The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John
• David’s Top films of 2020 (04:18)
  1. Brazil
  2. 12 Monkeys
  3. Solaris (dir. Tarkovsky)
  4. Yesterday
  5. Time Bandits
• Perry’s Top films of 2020 (06:33)
  1. Stalker
  2. The Old Guard
  3. Yesterday
  4. Sometimes Always Never
  5. Brazil
• David’s Top TV of 2020 (06:08)
  1. Tales from the Loop (Mini-series)
  2. Upright (Mini-series)
  3. His Dark Materials (Season 1)
  4. The Expanse (Season 4)
  5. For All Mankind (Season 1)
• Perry’s Top TV of 2020 (27:32)
  • Food (03:00)
    1. Food Safari Fire
    2. Rick Stein’s Secret France
    3. Chef’s Table : BBQ
  • Crime (07:39)
    1. Criminal : UK S01 and S02
    2. Trapped S01 and S02
    3. The Alienist S01
    4. Des
    5. Giri/Haji
  • Horror (01:15)
    • The Outsider
  • Science Fiction (03:35)
    1. The Expanse S04
    2. The Umbrella Academy S02
    3. For All Mankind S01
    4. The Umbrella Academy S01
  • Other (04:55)
    • The Queen’s Gambit
    • The Test
    • Freeman
  • Best 5 of the Year (05:51)
    1. The Queen’s Gambit
    2. The Expanse S04
    3. Criminal : UK S01 and S02
    4. The Test
    5. Trapped S01 and S02
• Wind-up (02:08)

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