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The 25 Best Things I Read, Watched, and Heard in 2018

Need a new TV show, movie, podcast, or book? Here’s 25 to get you through the new year…

Brandon Anderson
15 min readJan 4, 2019

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2018 was a year to forget in many ways, but it was also packed with a litany of excellent television, movies, books, and podcasts. Some were good for a laugh; others made us think. Some helped us escape the world we were stuck in; others helped us face 2018 head on.

I didn’t watch or read everything — how could you possibly? — so this is not meant to be exhaustive. It’s not a Top 25, nor is it ranked or arranged in any particular order. It’s simply 25 books, TV shows, movies, and podcasts I loved in 2018. Here’s last year’s list if you’re still catching up…

Black Panther

Black Panther was the best and most memorable movie I watched in 2018. On its surface, Black Panther was just another Marvel superhero movie. A good one, sure, but one like the other thousand that came before and will surely come after. But Black Panther was different than the rest because it gave…

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Brandon Anderson

Sports, NBA, NFL, TV, culture. Words at Action Network. Also SI's Cauldron, Sports Raid, BetMGM, Grandstand Central, Sports Pickle, others @wheatonbrando ✞