Seen, Read, 2021

Jeremy Fassler
9 min readJan 1, 2022

All caps, bold: MOVIE
All caps, bold, plus asterisk: SHORT*
All caps: TV SERIES
All italics: Book
Quotation Marks: “Play” (in theatres)
Italics and Quotation Marks: “Short Story”
Underlined: Play (read)

1/1: DUCK SOUP, YENTL, COLUMBO

1/2: The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, The Presidents vs. The Press, Harold Holzer

1/4: TIME OF THE GYPSIES

1/5: THE GEORGIA SENATE RUNOFFS (MSNBC)

1/6–8: THE SHITTY REBOOT OF THE GERMAN BEER HALL PUTSCH AT THE U.S. CAPITOL (MSNBC)

1/9: CABARET, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

1/10: MITCHELL (MST3K)

1/13: IMPEACHMENT 2: IMPEACH HARDER

1/16: SPACE MUTINY (MST3K)

1/17: NEWS OF THE WORLD

1/20: THE BIDEN INAUGURAL, CAVE DWELLERS (MST3K), THE INAUGURAL CONCERT (AMERICA — FUCK YEAH!!!!!!)

1/22: The Odyssey, Homer (trans. Emily Wilson), THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART

1/23: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI

1/24: TENET,

1/26: AMISTAD

1/29: MAC AND ME (MST3K)

1/30: THE KILLERS (’46)

1/31: THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS

2/1: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

2/3: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, TED LASSO (2)

2/5: PARTS UNKNOWN (2)

2/6: PARTS UNKNOWN

2/7: SOUND OF METAL, PARTS UNKNOWN (2)

2/8: TED LASSO (2)

2/9: IMPEACHMENT 2: THE SEARCH FOR CURLY’S GOLD, PARTS UNKNOWN, TED LASSO (2)

2/10: IMPEACHMENT 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO, PARTS UNKNOWN

2/11: IMPEACHMENT 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL

2/12: PARTS UNKNOWN

2/13: WALK HARD, The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, Lewis Raven Wallace

2/14: PATTON OSWALT: I LOVE EVERYTHING, THE THIN MAN

2/15: TED LASSO

2/16: LAST WEEK TONIGHT, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

Jeremy Fassler

Freelance writer and journalist. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.