Should auld acquaintance be forgot...but remember your pop culture favorites of 2019. Okay, so those aren’t the real words but we did take some time to look back and reflect on our favorite TV shows, books, movies, music, theatre and comedy that we loved together and individually over the past year. So come on this journey with us and realize that we love some of your favorite things, too, or maybe you’ll discover something new. Cheers!

We mentioned all our previous episodes in this episode, so be sure to check out our episodes on Ben Platt’s album Sing to me Instead, the musical The Prom, season 1 of Pose, Fleabag, and our holiday episode featuring Noelle.

Be sure to check out our Patreon, which will be updated soon with new content, to support the show. Follow our podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Meanwhile, you can also follow Tay on Twitter and Instagram and Olivia on Twitter and Instagram. 

Tay and Olivia’s Favs Streaming Guide: Here’s where you can watch our favorite TV shows and movies (in the U.S., at least).

• Netflix: The Good Place, Schitt’s Creek, Pose, Derry Girls, Bojack Horseman, Big Mouth, Ugly Delicious, The Taco Chronicles, Street Food, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, One Day at a Time, Mindhunter, Stranger Things, Into the Spiderverse, Short Term 12, John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch, Daniel Sloss: Live Shows (Dark and Jigsaw), Bo Burnham: Make Happy
• Hulu: The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, Booksmart
• Amazon Prime: Fleabag, Ladybird, Eighth Grade, The Skeleton Twins (streaming starting Jan. 17), Spongebob Musical Live! (Available to rent/buy)
• Disney+: Noelle
• HBO: Barry, The Leftovers, Chernobyl, Watchmen, His Dark Materials, Julio Torres: My Favorite Shapes, Los Espookys, Daniel Sloss: X, Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh, The Favourite

Also, Olivia really wants you to watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the Laser Cats compilation from Saturday Night Live. Meow. 

Here's a full list of the books we mentioned (we’re not sorry for what we’re about to do to your TBR):

• Dig by A.S. King
• The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Year We Fell From Space by Amy Sarig King
• How it Feels to Float by Helena Fox
• Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson 
• Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley 
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian 
• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
• Guts by Raina Telegemeier 
• Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt 
• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• Reverie by Ryan la Sala
• I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi 
• Well Met by Jen de Luca 
• Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart 
• You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn 
• Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Giovanni's Room and If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• The Fire Next Time and No Name in the Street by James Baldwin 
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
  
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• The Midnights by Sarah Nicole Smetana 
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
• Spinning by Tillie Walden
• Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow

Instead of our usual theme music, we played this license and royalty free version of Auld Lang Syne, performed by the US Marine Band. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/United_States_Marine_Band/Holiday_Music_Selections/auld_lang_syne_1993

Happy 2020 from Olivia and Tay! Remember there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism and we look forward to you all referencing The Great Gatsby out of context over the next decade.