My Best of 2025

Jill Pantozzi | December 30th, 2025

A block of four images, two are of Iris from the film Companion and two are of me dressed as Iris. One set is normal and the second set includes her bloody look.
My Halloween costume this year was Iris from the film Companion. No, those contacts were NOT easy to wear lol.

Like a lot of folks out there, fiction helped me get through 2025.

As usual, I didn’t consume a lot of media from this year—shockingly, I have not seen the new Frankenstein yet, for instance—but did catch up on a lot. These are the favorite movies, television shows, video games, and books I watched/played/read in 2025. What did you enjoy this year? Leave a comment!

Movies

  • Longlegs (Was hoping for something REALLY weird here and Osgood Perkins did not disappoint.)
  • Oddity
  • Smile 2
  • Cuckoo
  • Talk to Me
  • Dave Built a Maze
  • Companion
  • Omni Loop
  • Sinners
  • Superman (2025)
  • Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
  • Weapons
  • Brick (2025)
Genevieve O'Reilly as Star Wars' Mon Mothma. She's giving her big speech in front of the senate from Andor season 2. I added a microphone to the image to make it look like she was doing a mic drop.
Mon Mothma with the mic drop heard around the galaxy: “Emperor Palpatine is a gormless wanker.”

Besides watching a ton of new TV, I also did a few comfort re-watches this year like The Magicians, Orphan Black, and Schitt’s Creek.

TV

  • Silo Season 2
  • Only Murders in the Building S1-4
  • Severance S2
  • The Diplomat S2/3
  • Reacher S3
  • The Wheel of Time S3 (So mad that Amazon canceled this series!!)
  • Pagan Peak (Der Pass)
  • Yellowjackets S3
  • The Last of Us S2 (F-you, episode 2!!)
  • Andor S2
  • Utopia S1/2
  • Nine Puzzles
  • Dark Winds S3
  • The Newsreader S1/2
  • Peacemaker S2
  • Foundation S3
  • Wire in the Blood S1-6
  • Pluribus (Not sure about the longevity of this plot but I certainly enjoyed the story so far.)
  • All of Us Are Dead S1
  • Spartacus

A still from the video game Exit 8. It's a white tiled subway hallway with 6 posters hanging on the left side and 3 doors on the right. There is a business man walking toward you with a briefcase and a single strip of yellow tile going straight down the hall.
Currently obsessed with these “spot the differences” games.

TK

Video Games

  • Batman: Arkham Knight
  • House of Da Vinci 2 and 3 (I would play 50 more of these!!!)
  • The Stanley Parable Deluxe
  • Immortality
  • Cocoon
  • We Love Katamari Reroll/Royal Reverie
  • Reveil
  • Exit 8
  • The Cabin Factory
  • Superliminal
A screenshot of a bluesky post of mine where I wrote: Reading a fantasy book where a fae just said "cliff's notes." It features a picture of Maya Erskine's character on a rooftop narrowing her eyes.
I can suspend disbelief for a lot…but not this.

Had a great book year with a whopping 58 titles read!

Books

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb
  • The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Sure fell down a rabbit hole here!)
    • The Lost Sisters
    • The Wicked King
    • The Queen of Nothing
    • How the King of Elfame Learned to Hate Stories
    • The Stolen Heir
    • The Darkest Part of the Forest
  • Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
  • A Knight’s Ransom by Jeff Wheeler (I am ALL IN with this author’s interconnected worlds. I can’t get enough!!)
    • Warrior’s Ransom
    • Lady’s Ransom
    • Fate’s Ransom
    • The Widow’s Fate
    • The Duke’s Treason
  • Storm Glass by Jeff Wheeler
    • Mirror Gate
    • Iron Garland
    • Prism Cloud
    • Broken Veil
  • Invisible College by Jeff Wheeler
    • The Violence of Sound
    • Alchemy of Fate
    • Master of the Royal Secret
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
  • A Tribute of Fire by Sariah Wilson
    • A Vow of Embers
    • A Curse of Ashes

Bonus entertainment: I saw Bear McCreary, Nine Inch Nails, and Garbage (Shirley Manson talked to me!) in concert this year, and they were all awesome. I also went to a special 40th anniversary screening of Clue with special guest Lesley Anne Warren and Patti Gonia’s “Save Her” drag show! Both were very fun nights.

I know I don’t blog as much as I used to but I want to thank all of you that still follow and support me. You can find me posting on BlueSky, and you can always look to my LinkTree for official accounts. By the way, I’m currently unemployed—and it is BLEAK out there—so send everyone you know my LinkedIn page! I’ve been working in marketing for the last two years, so I have an even broader skillset than before! :)

Happy New Year, everyone, and be excellent to each other!

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