2012 Best Movies and TV shows

With the end of the year comes all the best of lists. Since I’ve already done my 2012 Best Books list, that means that it’s now time for the 2012 Best Movies and TV shows.

This list, in some ways, harder to do than the books list. There are very few science fiction shows on TV and very few science fiction movies. And many of these TV shows or movies don’t actually do that well, as you can tell by the fact that two of my TV shows were canceled this year. And the biggest name science fiction movie of the year, Prometheus (my review) looked good, but had huge plot holes that left many people shaking their head. But, the show must go on, so I present my 2012 Best Movies and TV shows.

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2012 Best Books

It’s that time of year again for the 2012 best books columns. I have a love/hate relationship with best of columns. They are a wonderful source for finding books that I might have overlooked. However, they are also so genre specific, that I often read the best of columns without seeing a single book I’d be interested in. But I do love writing these columns to make sure that books which I loved this year are given one last push to recommend for people.

So, with that intro out of the way. here are my candidates for the 2012 best books (with an added bonus for a 2011 book that I read in 2012). It wasn’t a great year for books and several of the ones I picked probably wouldn’t have made the top books for other years.

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