It’s that time of the year again. What everyone has been waiting for… right? RIGHT? No? Well, I don’t care, I’m doing this anyway 😁.

2020 edition ft Coronavirus and the longest lockdown on Earth.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, last year I started tracking and rating on a spreadsheet everything I watched. I also wrote some code to fetch more information about the movies and shows to end up with some statistics that I then share here. If you are interested, down below you can find last year’s post.

A movie and series year in review

However, this year I switched up things a little bit. This time I’m simplifying the statistics part and, to make up for it, I’ll add a selection of the movies and shows I enjoyed the most this year.

So, without further ado, let’s start.

My year in numbers

As always, here is the spreadsheet with the raw data. Just by looking at it, you can notice that I spent A LOT MORE TIME watching movies and series this year.

Me in front of the TV this year.

To be precise, I’ve watched 101 movies and 560 show’s episodes. That’s almost 1.81 movies/episodes a day, every day…

I was right with the prediction I made last year about watching more series than movies in 2020. I didn’t foresee a global pandemic helping with that, thought…

Time spent

I spent 10,988 minutes watching movies and 23,456 minutes watching shows. A whopping total of 34,444 minutes. If you consider that a working day has 8 hours and you work 22 days a month, I would have “worked” for 3 months and 1 week… So, where can I collect my paychecks?

This is how it was divided across every month:

• January: 1721
• February: 3267
• March: 2420
• April: 7061
• May: 5844
• June: 2310
• July: 2446
• August: 2297
• September: 1227
• October: 1235
• November: 1891
• December: 2725

And this is how it was divided by each day of the week:

• Sunday: 8317
• Monday: 4493
• Tuesday: 2882
• Wednesday: 4560
• Thursday: 3916
• Friday: 3619
• Saturday: 6657

COVID-19 hit really hard and in April, the first month of lockdown, I spent an unhealthy amount of time watching movies and series… Sundays being the most active weekday is nothing new, though. That is a lazy day for everyone. I’m no exception to that rule.

Genres

I’m happy to report that I’m still a Drama Queen 😬

For this ranking I’m considering that a movie or show can have more than one genre, and I counting it for all of them. All the numbers are in minutes.

1. Drama: 23,001
2. Comedy: 12,096
3. Mystery & Thriller: 11,471
4. Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 6494
5. Action & Adventure: 6200
6. Crime: 4836
7. Documentary: 3322
8. Animation: 2742
9. Romance: 2056
10. History: 1360
11. Music: 689
12. War: 457
13. Horror: 457
14. Family: 99
15. Talk: 60

Platforms

Netflix is still the king. For a moment there Prime Video gave it a fight, but in the end it pulled away. Disney+, for only being available for one month and a half, did remarkable well. I think if next year they manage to release all the content they are planing, it will give Netflix a good fight for the top spot.

1. Netflix: 15595
2. Prime Video: 10003
3. Popcorn Time: 5283
4. Disney+: 2862
5. Cinema: 475
6. Kanopy: 116
7. YouTube: 50
8. Flow: 60

My top picks

As I said before, this time around I switched things up and not only I’m leaving down below the list of the movies and shows I enjoyed the most this year, but each of them has a link to a review I wrote as the year went by. You can click on every poster to access the post with my thoughts.

The end

I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it and writing the post for each of my top picks. However, I think this is the last year I’ll be doing this kind of post and I won’t be tracking everything I watch from now on. I’m proud I stuck with it for two years, and I really liked how everything came out. But it’s time to move on and start working on something new.

Have a happy New Year!