We all know the feeling: you sit down in front of the TV, exhausted after a long day, only to become absolutely paralyzed by choice. There’s so much to watch and play that settling on one single thing to do can be a challenge. So we’re here to make your evenings a little less stressful. Throughout 2022 this page will be regularly updated with all of our favorite entertainment experiences — everything from the latest hit on Netflix to that open-world game people can’t stop talking about — to make those moments of choice that much easier. If you see a show, game, or movie in this collection, know that it’s an experience we fully recommend.
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Games
- God of War Ragnarök is what God of War is supposed to be
- Signalis is old-school PlayStation-era horror at its best
- Return to Monkey Island is like hanging out with an old friend
- Splatoon remains the most playful and stylish shooter around in third outing
- Cult of the Lamb is a baaaalm in Gilead
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is as enjoyable as it is inscrutable
- Stray improves adventure games by turning you into a cat
- Neon White turns you into a demon-hunting speedrunner
- Nintendo Switch Sports isn’t a must-own, but it’s a great party game
- There’s still nothing quite like Gran Turismo
- Elden Ring is a sprawling fantasy epic so good I don’t want it to end
- Horizon Forbidden West’s incredible world is easy to get lost in
- OlliOlli World captures the essence of skateboarding, and then makes it weird
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus breathes new life into Pokémon
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is an emotional culmination of a decade-long journey
Film
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a gnarly and spiritual fairy tale about what makes life beautiful
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a breathtaking and cathartic step forward for the franchise
- Wendell & Wild is a classic Henry Selick joint about living with your personal demons
- Decision to Leave is a gloriously frustrating mystery
- Glass Onion solidifies Knives Out as the next great mystery franchise
- Prey understands what makes Predator interesting: the hunt
- Jordan Peele’s Nope is a breathtaking celebration of filmmaking as an art form
- Hatching finds horror in grotesque acts of self-care and violence
- Everything Everywhere All At Once is charming, sprawling, and completely ridiculous
- Pixar’s Turning Red captures the wonder and horror of being a teen in 2002
- Kogonada’s After Yang finds beauty in the quiet dystopia of grief
- Bigbug’s a charming nightmare about the internet of other people and their things
- Netflix’s The House is an unsettling anthology wrapped in cozy stop-motion
- Leonor Will Never Die is what true love of cinema looks like
Television
- Willow is back, and he brought an incredibly fun show with him
- Netflix’s Cabinet of Curiosities is much more than a del Toro anthology
- Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is small-screen high fantasy done right
- AMC Plus’ Pantheon is a haunting hyperproductivity nightmare that shouldn’t feel so real
- Netflix’s The Sandman is a dream adaptation of a classic
- Obi-Wan Kenobi is entirely predictable — but that doesn’t make it any less fun
- The Umbrella Academy’s excellent third season is an apocalyptic transition of power
- Ms. Marvel feels like the future of the MCU
- Stranger Things 4 cranks everything up way past eleven
- Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet looks so good it feels like a real nature documentary
- The new season of Love, Death and Robots doesn’t miss
- Amazon’s Outer Range brings the weird fiction mindset to Westerns
- Russian Doll levels up in season 2 by catching a new existential train of thought
- Severance’s first season is a wonderfully tense workplace horror story
- Apple TV’s Pachinko is an enthralling historical epic
- Search Party found enlightenment in the doomsday cult of fandom
- Netflix’s All of Us Are Dead takes zombie shows to new places
- Yellowjackets’ first season is a collective fever dream
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