2025 was an amazing year in movies and especially streaming/TV! We over here at TUFR celebrate this year by giving our list of everything we watched this past year and we give our best and most disappointing shows of the year. There are some clear winners and not so clear disappointments that we really wanted to love. Tell us in the comments what your favorite and worst watches for 2025!
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Rian Johnson is back on Netflix with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and this starts off as a bit of a mystery in comparison to the prior iterations of this franchise. This star-studded cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, and of course Daniel Craig, to name a few. This mystery centers around a Catholic Church in a small town, where a young, but troubled, upstart priest gets sent there to pay recompense and mature as a man of the cloth. Mystery ensues and our favorite guy Benoit shows up to figure out the killer in this surprisingly introspective whodunnit.
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0:00 - cold open
0:22 - We love a good mystery
2:45 - Initial impressions
11:20 - Catholicism in media
14:30 - The Characters
23:20 - Absolute Power
26:10 - The death(s)
28:20 - Grace’s perspective
30:00 - The patriarchy
33:50 - Jud’s Guilting/Wicks’ Guiltiness
49:30 - Final thoughts/what’s next
In the season one finale, Manousos and Carol do the most expected thing in their first in-person meeting: hate each other. The hive is dong an effective job keeping Carol busy, as they find new ways to propagate the RNA into the remaining 12. Manousos proves to be an agent of chaos, with a purpose and is not understanding why Carol is choosing the girl over the world. If you started watching The Upon Further Review via Pluribus, let us know in the comments, because we are happy to have you kick it with us!
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0:00 - Cold open
0:29 - I don’t know, but it’s provocative.
2:20 - Manousos: chaos mission
10:00 - Embryooooooo
11:46- Peru and you
16:30- Laxmi calls in
20:10- Manousos and the frequency
25:20 - Carol choosing
33:30 - The privilege of being content
34:50 - Season 2 speculation/giving flowers
The Hive is trying to butter up Carol with some booty, while Carol is trying to individuate Zosia to the point of having her believe in her own personhood. Meanwhile, Manousos still doesn’t want any help, as his trek to meet Carol in person draws closer. This was the penultimate episode of this highly intriguing and entertaining Apple TV+ series. Keeping the end of the episode in mind, who currently has the upper hand: the Hive or Carol?
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0:00 - Rashad called it
1:55 - Manousos STILL not cooperating
5:50 - Who’s playing offense 🤔?
15:30 - Hive talk
21:30 - Biblical stuff
24:20 - The ethos of the Hive
25:55 - Carol facts & more Bible stuff
32:45 - Show appreciation/what’s next
The gap between Carol and Manousos closes in distance, but widens in ideology as these two want the same thing and are going about it in drastically different ways. Carol is starting to feel the effects of prolonged isolation, while Manousos is rejecting the notion that the hive provides and still managing to utilize his time wisely.
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0:00 - Cold Open
0:20 - Hard headed humans
12:05 -Carol is LOSING IT!
21:10 - Did the hive win?
31:00 - The Gap Explained
34:00 - Knives Out 3/Year End Review/Anime Recs
What happens in Vegas, well, the hive knows. Carol is reeling after we see what she discovers in cold storage, while Diabaté is living the life he always wanted. The main takeaway from this episode is clearly you get so much more out of life (people, too) when you kind. Carol still is struggling with this, as cynicism and skepticism are melded with the privilege she once had. Manousos down in Paraguay gets Carol’s message and finally gets activated.
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0:00 - Shenan once, you’ll shenan agsin
0:23 - Intro/HDP
9:00 - Bond. Diabaté Bond.
11:50 - It’s better to be kind
20:40 - Carol’s true fight
25:40 - From Paraguay, With Love
30:15 - Tasteful nudes/what’s next
The Netflix franchise that has been successful beyond shareholders wildest dreams is back in its finale season. Of course, they can’t drop this all at once, so we get four episodes, aka, chapter one. The crew is split up doing covert missions, visiting the upside down, and some other random place that seems to be to mindful. My question to you is who is currently on deathwatch after watching the first of the last of Stranger Things?
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0:00 - cold open
0:30 - Intro/initial impressions
12:00 - Sexy Vecna
18:50 - Predator vibes
25:00 - Girls get it done
28:50 - The Wheeler Bunch
33:30 - Will FINALLY gets a win
37:45 - Deathwatch
40:00 - A chaotic fun time
Carol proves that she has other human emotions than rage, as the Hive makes some changes about its “arrangement” with Carol. Nature is running its course and Carol fires up the proverbial Mystery Machine and plays Scooby-Doo trying to uncover something that’s hiding in plain sight.
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Episode four of the outstanding Pluribus on Apple TV+ has Carol play detective and part time experimenter, as she tries to seek the truth of what’s happening with the hive. We get a minor flashback to establish one of the non-hive humans, and Carol plays fast and loose with her hypothesis derived from said experiment.
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We are back in the Vince Staples world and boy did it get weird. This show is making a case that we need to have more shows like this, because it does all the things weird shows do, namely making you think. Centered around the death of a loved one, Vince and his family have to deal with the ramifications of death and grief that challenges them in inconceivable ways.
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Carol finds herself in a world with no one else, a non-conformist attitude, and a killer sense of sarcasm that has her understanding that even a grenade is not off limits. Zosia, Carol’s hive representative has to learn boundaries, while Carol has to wrestle with the loss of Helen.
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Pluribus on Apple TV+ is a show that quickly devolves into chaos, as the world violently falls into what can be only described as a utopia. Our main character Carol is going through it, as she tries to wrap her mind around the events that are happening. The twist of this pseudo post-apocalypse is one that should be seen and not told, so if you haven’t watch this yet, it’s definitely worth the price of admission.
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Predator: Badlands is the current entry into the firmly cemented Weyland-Yutaniverse and we get a coming of age story about how proving yourself to parental figures isn’t just a problem for humans. Both Yautja and synths are wanting to please their parent (or Mother) and not divert from their separate missions, but Dek and Thia realize they stand a better chance of survival if they work together.
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As season 2 of Peacemaker on hbo max comes to a cliffhanger of a conclusion, we’re left to ask but one main question: does it live up to the hype? James Gunn promised that he would be doing some things that have never been done before and to put it mildly, they kinda did that. The gang does get back together, albeit short lived, Rick Flagg is still the worst, and Vigilante needs to treat his moms better.
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It feels like it’s been a long time since we got some GOT, but here we are! A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms drops 1/18/26 and during NYCC we got the official teaser trailer! The tall tale that became a legend is the tagline, as we see Sir Duncan the Tall and another Aegon making their way through one of our favorite worlds to explore. With HOTD S3 dropping next summer, this six episode series will be a great holdover until we get to see the Dance of the Dragons.
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One Battle After Another is a movie that packs so much stuff in it, that you would think it would be doing way too much. However, this movie balances nearly every current issue we are dealing with in America in this fictional masterpiece. Teyana Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Wood Harris, Regina Hall, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Tony Goldwyn, and Chase Infiniti, are among the many players in this movie that are giving some of their best on-screen performances! Along with Sinners, this is definitely in the run for movie of the year.
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We reviewed Peacemaker Season 2, episodes 5 and 6 together, and Chris is very ignorant of his surroundings. The alternate dimension secret gets revealed, Vigilante likes to save things, Adebayo thinks she’s Jill Scott and wants to take a long walk, Economos can’t keep a secret, and Harcourt takes a ride. In the comments, let us know if the twist actually surprised you.
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In the season finale, we actually have cliffhangers and unanswered questions! The Lost Boys are finally growing up, Morrow looks like Martin when he fought The Hitman Hearns, Kirsch and Eins get put in their place, and the biggest Boy has been off his meds. In the comments, let us know what them to explore in season two. Will get some reference to the greater franchise, Predator sighting, will the xenomorphs leave the island? Will they all not leave the island? Can’t wait!
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Him (2025) dropped and we discuss what we liked, disliked, and were totally confused by when it come to this MonkeyPaw Production joint. Great acting can’t make up for some obvious storytelling shortcomings and visual can’t outweigh the verbal. We also get into some news from Spider-Man Brand New Day, FCC nightmare via Jimmy Kimmel and Disney, and some DC news.
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In the penultimate episode of Alien: Earth, we have the emergence of a new chest-burster, Yutani Seal Team 6, what Kirsch’s plan was all along, and what could easily mark the demise of our favorite trillionaire, Boy Kavalier. The odds are clearly not in anyone’s favor, as the Lost Boys all experience their loss of innocence at the same time. In the comments, let us know who’s the bigger menace: Kirsch or Wendy?
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