Best Streaming Entertainment 2022

 l made a list of stuff I watched this year that I liked for a friend:

MOVIES

Picture a Scientist (doc) - exceptional film about sexism in science

The Janes (doc) - great film about the Chicago collective providing illegal abortions right before Roe v Wade

Emily the Criminal - fun strange film about a woman who sort of falls into a life of crime and flourishes there

School for Good and Evil - really fun fantasy that satirizes fairytale conventions

I Want You Back - kind of an anti rom-com

Good on Paper - great cynical rom-com based on a true story

The 355 - kick ass girl power action movie

Lou - Allison Janney in an odd spy thriller

SERIES

Kindred - adaptation of Octavis Butler's novel - super well done and not too gruesome

Yellowjackets - weird badass series about women in a plane crash with a great cast

Away - terrific speculative fiction series about the first mission to Mars with Hilary Swank as the commander

The Bear - exceptional drama series about a family diner in Chicago

Damnation - violent but excellent series based on a true story about union organizing in the Midwest in the early 20^th century

Midnight Mass - super weird but riveting limited series about dark doings on an isolated (Canadian?) island

The Patient - disturbing but compelling limited series with Steve Carell as a therapist kidnapped by his patient

Pieces of Her - thriller with Toni Collette, limited series based on a book

Our Flag Means Death - weird but charming series from Taika Waititi

Heartstopper - absolutely adorable limited series about first (gay) love, based on a graphic novel