Category: Watch

2025 felt like a particularly good year for television. I sit down every Tuesday and Saturday with my wife to watch whatever our chosen show at the moment is (we’ll have a “Tuesday show” and a “Saturday show”—Saturday usually allows us to get two or three episodes in, while Tuesday is better for shows we want to digest a little more slowly) and there were definitely parts of the year where we were spoilt for choice. In addition to Tuesday and Saturday I also carved out some other mid-week slots to watch particular shows with one or other of my kids.

As such I managed 33 complete seasons of TV this year (a season being typically 10 episodes or less) and most of it was very good. I want to talk about some of my favourite TV watches this year below.

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I watched over 130 films in 2025, which is not bad going at all. Some of those were new films, some were rewatches, and some were films I was long overdue watching for the first time. It takes discipline and careful planning to get through this much time sitting on the sofa, so I have a weekly film viewing routine going which runs more or less as follows:

• Friday night is Horror Night. Can be new horror, old horror, or old favourites. Just has to be horror. Most of the time.
• Sunday night is alternately Family Movie Night (where I introduce my boys, primarily my youngest, to movies they should see and will hopefully enjoy) or My Movie Night (where I pick a film I haven’t seen before either that I feel I should watch or because I want to. Sometimes it’s even both.)
• Friday afternoon is occasionally Cinema Club where me and my eldest son will sit down and watch some classic of cinema; often one neither of us have seen, or sometimes one that I want to introduce my son to.

Watching films with my kids is always awesome. My youngest (13 currently) has a remarkable capacity for enjoying movies that should be well beyond his years. My eldest, meanwhile, has turned into a true cinephile and it was at his urging that I’ve finally got around to watching essentials like Lawrence of Arabia and exploring the works of Akira Kurosawa.

I’m certainly not going to go though every movie I watched in 2025 below (you can thank me in the comments) but I am going to pick out a few that have made a particularly big impression. So let’s go for it.

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