Well that’s that, then.

Except, I have a whole bunch of genre-specific lists of things I loved sitting in a Google doc, and I can’t resist posting them here, so the honourable mentions get their honourable mention. These are “top x” lists: just however many entries I could think of that I liked, ranked. The ones that made the top 25 are in bold.

Movies

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Carol
3. Inside Out
4. The Hateful Eight
5. Spotlight
6. The Revenant
7. It Follows
8. What Happened, Miss Simone?
9. The Lobster (saw it at VIFF; look out for the upcoming wide release)
10. The Martian
11. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
12. Amy
13. A Most Violent Year

Television

1. Mad Men
2. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
3. Better Call Saul
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Doctor Who
6. Last Week Tonight
7. Hannibal
8. The Jinx
9. Parks and Recreation
10. Louie

Music

1. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Hamilton: An American Musical
2. Vulfpeck: Thrill of the Arts
3. Björk: Vulnicura
4. Africa Express: In C Mali
5. CHVRCHES: Every Open Eye
6. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
7. Roomful of Teeth: Render
8. Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid: Spin Cycle
9. Max Richter: From Sleep
10. Bryce Dessner: Music for Wood and Strings

Podcasts

1. The Memory Palace
2. Reply All
3. Mystery Show
4. Love and Radio
5. Pop Culture Happy Hour
6. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything
7. StartUp
8. Radiolab

Books/Comics

1. David Cavanagh: Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped Shape Modern Life
2. China Miéville: Three Moments of an Explosion
3. Kieron Gillen/Jamie McKelvie: The Wicked and the Divine, vol. 2
4. Kelly Sue DeConnick/Valentine De Landro: Bitch Planet, vol. 1
5. Matt Fraction/Chip Zdarsky: Sex Criminals, vol. 2

Games

1. Sunless Sea
2. Undertale

(I played a couple of others but did not enjoy them.)

There you go. 48 wonderful things. A good year, by any standard.