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Blogocentric Formulations #1090922 added June 6, 2025 at 7:20pm
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Watch List - May 2025
To qualify for my Watch List every month, the following has to be something that I've watched that's new to me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a current show, but it can't be reruns or rewatches of something I've already seen. So if I'm including it in this list, it means this month is the first time I've watched it. I'll put "DNF" (Did Not Finish) next to anything that I stopped watching and have no immediate plans to finish.
Movies
 Aftermath
Exterratorial
Gladiator II
Havoc — DNF
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
The Magician's Elephant
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Sniper: The Last Stand
Of all the movies I watched this month, I probably liked Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning the most. It wasn't my favorite movie in the entire franchise, but I do really like these films and it was engaging, if a little long. For an "end of series" entry, I think the stunts and other action were a little lackluster, but I did find the story engaging.
This was also a month where I saw two of my friends' movies, which debuted on Netflix. They were both kind of generic action movies, but I'm super excited for both of them; it's really cool to be able to turn on Netflix, see a movie a friend of yours wrote, and watch their names go by in the credits. If you like direct-to-video style action movies, you could do a lot worse than Aftermath and Sniper: The Last Stand.
Television
Abbott Elementary (Season 4)
Andor (Season 2)
Hacks (Season 4)
Killer Heat (Season 2) — DNF
The Rookie (Season 7)
Shifting Gears (Season 1) — DNF
Sirens
Will Trent (Season 3)
Your Friends & Neighbors (Season 1)
I'm honestly surprised at how much television I watched this month. From really good new shows like Sirens and Your Friends & Neighbors to the return of older favorites like Hacks, it was a really good month for television. Pretty much the only things I didn't like were Will Trent (which my wife likes having on in the background), and Shifting Gears which is Tim Allen's new show where he basically just plays Tim Allen again, this time with a slightly different "manly" job and family situation, which he uses as a foil to criticize modernity and lament the loss of the good old days when the world was simpler and more conservative. 
The standout show this month was clearly the second season of Andor. I thought the first season was really good, and this one exceeded my already lofty expectations of what a sophomore effort would look like. Knowing that they were heading into a specific result (i.e., Cassian Andor's journey leading up to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), they broke the show up into four, three-episode blocks, each tackling one year in the life of all the revolutionaries, building the nascent Rebellion into a movement that could realistically defy the Empire. It was a really well done political drama/thriller that raised a lot of questions of morality, intrigue, commitment to a cause, etc. If you like political shows, even if Star Wars isn't your favorite, it's really great. And it perfectly leads into Rogue One, which in turn leads perfectly into A New Hope.
TOP PICK:
Andor (Season 2)
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