Media diet for April 2025

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I watched 18m of movies and 161h 29m of TV shows, a total of 161h 47m:

🎬 Movies

  • Cashback (2004) – ⭐️ 7/10
    • This is the original short movie, I had watched the full-length version right at the end of March. I liked this one slightly better, but both are worth a watch.

📺 TV Shows

  • The Blacklist – All 10 seasons (218 episodes with 155h 49m)

    • Wowza… I didn’t plan for this, but somehow I managed to watch this entire show within exactly one month: First episode on April 1st and final episode on April 28th. Spader is enjoyable (less so than in Boston Legal, though) but it’s painfully 2010s network televison. The show jumped the shark more often than I could keep track of before even reaching the halfway point, but the cast was (mostly) likable enough to make it bearable. It’s a shame that despite ending before being cancelled the last season was such a mess, though.

      This meme (the all-time top post from the subreddit) about sums it up.

💬 Late Night

  • The Daily Show
    • March 17, 2025 - Sen. Chris Murphy
    • March 24, 2025 - Paul Rudd
    • March 31, 2025 - Oren Cass
    • April 7, 2025 - Rahm Emanuel
    • April 14, 2025 - Ramy Youssef
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
    • April 6, 2025: Trans Athletes
    • April 13, 2025: Trump & Tariffs
    • April 27, 2025: Health Agency Cuts

🎧 Music

I scrobbled 957 tracks on 23 days in April 2025:

🎶 Top 10 Tracks

  1. Vengaboys – Up & Down (5 plays)
  2. Pilchard – Fox Problems (Jimi Hendrix vs. Jimi Bo Horne vs. Eric B & Rakim) (4 plays)
  3. DJ Tripp – Paper Rump (Wreckx-N-Effect vs. M.I.A.) (4 plays)
  4. Party Ben – Paid for My Doorbell (Eric B. & Rakim vs. The White Stripes) (4 plays)
  5. David Bowie – Space Oddity (4 plays)
  6. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (4 plays)
  7. Jain – Makeba (4 plays)
  8. Pharrell Williams – Double Life (From “Despicable Me 4”) (4 plays)
  9. Eagles of Death Metal – Speaking in Tongues (4 plays)
  10. OMC – How Bizarre (4 plays)

🧑‍🎤 Top 10 Artists

  1. Foo Fighters (70 plays)
  2. Queen (58 plays)
  3. DJs From Mars (41 plays)
  4. A Plus D (29 plays)
  5. DJ Tripp (22 plays)
  6. Titus Jones (19 plays)
  7. Party Ben (17 plays)
  8. The Beatles (17 plays)
  9. Die Ärzte (16 plays)
  10. DJ Schmolli (15 plays)

📚 Books

Still making my way through this series It’s a bit too much zombies/monsters for my taste, but the sci-fi and “Office Space”-like parts are entertaining enough that I don’t mind spending more time with the characters.

🎙️ Podcasts

I listened to 15 episodes across 4 podcasts in April 2025: