Episode 117: Highlights of 2025

About this episode

The hosts discuss their film and television highlights of 2025, including surprises, disappointments, classics revisited, and the best films and shows of the year.

The best of the year. Sarah Watt, Jeremy Downing and William Chen discuss their film and television highlights of the year, including their biggest surprise, biggest disappointment, classic revisted, best television and best films of 2025. Here are the films and television shows we discussed: • Biggest surprise of the year: Ne Zha 2 (William); The Last Showgirl (Sarah); Final Destination: Bloodlines (Jeremy) Biggest disappointment of the year: After the Hunt (Sarah); Sinners (William) - with disappointed shout outs to Den of Thieves: Pantera and The Accountant 2; The Brutalist (Jeremy) • Classic revisited: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) [Jeremy] - with a shout out to All That Jazz (1979); Tron (1982) and The Little Mermaid (1989) [William]; Scarface (1983) [Sarah] - with shout outs to Pretty Woman (1990) and Final Destination (2000) • Best television: The Pitt, Season 1 (Sarah); Andor, Season 2 (William); The White Lotus, Season 3 (Jeremy) - with shout outs to The Celebrity Traitors, The Gilded Age, Severance, Squid Games, Stranger Things, Heated Rivalry, Boots and Pluribus • Runner-ups to the film of the year: Frankenstein, The House Within and Conclave (Sarah); 28 Years Later…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah Watt, Jeremy Downing, William Chen

Topics covered

• film highlights
• television highlights
• biggest surprise
• biggest disappointment
• classic revisited
• best television
• best film

Keywords

• Ne Zha 2
• The Last Showgirl
• Final Destination: Bloodlines
• After the Hunt
• Sinners
• The Brutalist
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• All That Jazz
• Tron
• The Little Mermaid
• Scarface
• The Pitt
• Andor
• The White Lotus
• Frankenstein
• The House Within
• Conclave
• 28 Years Later
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3
• Anora

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Ne Zha 2, The Last Showgirl, Final Destination: Bloodlines, After the Hunt, Sinners, The Brutalist, Picnic at Hanging Rock, All That Jazz, Tron, The Little Mermaid

Books & works: Ne Zha 2, The Last Showgirl, Final Destination: Bloodlines, After the Hunt, Sinners, Den of Thieves, The Accountant 2, The Brutalist, Picnic, All That Jazz

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