Ryan Donnelly Favorites from 2025
Back at it! Here are my favorite albums, movies, and television shows from 2025:
馃捒 Albums
- El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports
- Matt Wilde - Find a Way
- GoGo Penguin - Necessary Fictions
- Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant
- Sven Wunder - Daybreak
- Balu Brigada - Portal
- The Circling Sun - Orbits
Honorable Mention: Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush - Cherry Pick the Past, Wednesday - Bleeds, Theo Croker - Dream Manifest, Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture, sombr - I Barely Know Her
Music was especially weird and hard to figure out this year. A lot of albums I really liked didn鈥檛 stick with me over time, so these are the ones that really held up after multiple listens.
馃嵖 Movies
- Sinners
- Black Bag
- 28 Years Later
- Marty Supreme
- Weapons
Honorable Mention: Bugonia, Warfare
Good year for movies! I didn鈥檛 see as many as I would have liked, but there were a lot of great ones in the mix. As of this writing, I still haven鈥檛 seen One Battle After Another or No Other Choice, both of which I鈥檓 super excited to check out. Maybe they make the list in an edit!
馃摵 Television
- Star Wars: Andor S2
- The Pitt S1
- The Rehearsal S1
- Adolescence
- Task S1
Honorable Mention: The Studio S1, Dept Q S1
Television had an insane top end this year. There were so many good shows. And then kind of a drop-off (at least for what I saw). A quick turnaround for follow-up seasons would be much appreciated (The Pitt already picking up where it left off with S2!).