I'm frontloading my weakest picks here since they're the tougher choices.
Travelers, 2016. some soybeard shit in it. lots to recommend otherwise, decent sci fi.
Dirk Gently also 2016ish. YMMV. very reddit or very BBC-tier goofy depending on your perspective. some faggotry and black boss-grrlism. But I did enjoy it at the time.
Severance on HBO was all right, but considering that S2 hasn't come out yet and it's all hinging on weird cliffhangers, plus it's also quite faggoty, I don't hold out much hope.
Someone mentioned GotG 2014, that's in there. I enjoyed that and the sequel a bit less so. About the only MCU or capeshit I did genuinely enjoy.
Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Casey Affleck movie I liked a lot. It's all emotional and sheeit, but bretty gud.
Someone else mentioned The Expanse. I posted elsewhere how it was a guilty modern pleasure for me, but really the pleasure didn't extend much beyond the second season.
Hey Witcher 3 is technically the last 10 years and I shamelessly enjoyed that and both DLCs. On the same WRPG menu, I liked Pillars of Eternity (1) a lot. Kingdom Come: Deliverance almost gets a mention in the same breath here, but not quite - I'm a storyfag, see, and although I remember KCD fondly, I didn't finish or really care about the story at all. They're all 'entertainment media', though right.
But don;t you fuckin dare talk to me about Netflix Witcher.
Does Obra Dinn count? At this point we could get into the definition of 'entertainment media', but I'm too tired for that pedantry and right now I'm focussing on stuff that has a narrative element to get invested in, rather than just disposable game entertainment, so those WRPGs would qualify and Obra Dinn would at least squeeze in there.
Eggers movies - The Witch, Lighthouse and Northman (not so much that last one, but eih). I liked the Coens last oddball anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in 2018.
That's about it. There seems to be a fairly hard cutoff around 2014-2016 for stuff that is really worth a damn. There's multiple shows I really love (eg. Hannibal, the anime Uchouten Kazoku) which fall just outside that time frame. But within the last decade, I'm barrel scraping, hard.
I'm frontloading my weakest picks here since they're the tougher choices.
Travelers, 2016. some soybeard shit in it. lots to recommend otherwise, decent sci fi.
Dirk Gently also 2016ish. YMMV. very reddit or very BBC-tier goofy depending on your perspective. some faggotry and black boss-grrlism. But I did enjoy it at the time.
Severance on HBO was all right, but considering that S2 hasn't come out yet and it's all hinging on weird cliffhangers, plus it's also quite faggoty, I don't hold out much hope.
Someone mentioned GotG 2014, that's in there. I enjoyed that and the sequel a bit less so. About the only MCU or capeshit I did genuinely enjoy.
Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Casey Affleck movie I liked a lot. It's all emotional and sheeit, but bretty gud.
Someone else mentioned The Expanse. I posted elsewhere how it was a guilty modern pleasure for me, but really the pleasure didn't extend much beyond the second season.
Hey Witcher 3 is technically the last 10 years and I shamelessly enjoyed that and both DLCs. On the same WRPG menu, I liked Pillars of Eternity (1) a lot. Kingdom Come: Deliverance almost gets a mention in the same breath here, but not quite - I'm a storyfag, see, and although I remember KCD fondly, I didn't finish or really care about the story at all. They're all 'entertainment media', though right. But don;t you fuckin dare talk to me about Netflix Witcher.
Does Obra Dinn count? At this point we could get into the definition of 'entertainment media', but I'm too tired for that pedantry and right now I'm focussing on stuff that has a narrative element to get invested in, rather than just disposable game entertainment, so those WRPGs would qualify and Obra Dinn would at least squeeze in there.
Eggers movies - The Witch, Lighthouse and Northman (not so much that last one, but eih). I liked the Coens last oddball anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in 2018.
That's about it. There seems to be a fairly hard cutoff around 2014-2016 for stuff that is really worth a damn. There's multiple shows I really love (eg. Hannibal, the anime Uchouten Kazoku) which fall just outside that time frame. But within the last decade, I'm barrel scraping, hard.