Top Super Favorites of 2026

Movies & TV

Twin Peaks (S1 & S2 + Fire Walk with Me, 1990-1992)

I’ve been putting off Twin Peaks for years because it just seemed so hard to approach. Not because of its weirdness but its intensity. I don’t know if I want to get into my full feelings on it (or if I even could) but I haven’t felt this impacted by a piece of art since I first watched I Saw the TV Glow. Insane vibes, immaculate direction, one of the best soundtracks for anything ever. There’s like 3 different performances in both the show and movie that felt like they rearranged the very core of my being. One of those works of art that feels like a piece of you that’s just been sitting there, waiting for you to find it. Terrifying, cozy, familiar, strange. Nothing has occupied my brain in this way before. I can’t even comprehend how this was made by human hands. Cannot believe I’ve slept on Lynch’s work for this long. RIP my goat. I’m trying to save watching The Return for Halloween but I am not a patient person. It is taking all my strength to save it. I watched Fire Walk with Me three times in a row. I think most of the things on this list I could write a thesis on if I had the time and energy but I think that applies to this the most (Nana & Deltarune are close behind it though).

Nana (Anime, 2006-2007)

Similar to how I described Twin Peaks, feels like something that’s been out there waiting for me. Honestly feels more brutal and intense to me than Twin Peaks does even if the subject matter isn’t as intense, I think it’s the lack of the surreal elements. Me and my bestie have been having to watch it with each other for the emotional support & we haven’t even been able to finish it, we’re only half way through the show & then have the manga to read after. Weird that it feels more real despite being animated. Immaculate art and vibes though, just off the charts. Nana and Hachi’s dynamic means the world to me. Feels so honest in a way that’s really refreshing, how much they care for each other is so endearing. I feel like just labeling them as a lesbian couple is very reductive. Same with them & the members of Blast. Friendship is so beautiful dude. I’ll probably have much more to say about this once I finish, I feel like I can barely organize my thoughts on this. It’s just everything to me. Look at how fucking cool this intro is dude.

American Graffiti (1973)

Another one I put off for too long. With Twin Peaks I was at least terrified of it but this one I don’t really have any excuse. Really great though! I think George Lucas is an incredibly underrated director (I don’t say this to excuse him for the Star Wars prequels, those are ass), and this felt like him firing at all cylinders, someone putting what flows through their blood right on the screen. Reminded me heavily of Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves, while the whole movie is drenched in nostalgia it isn’t with rose colored glasses. It feels so true and sincere, which is something that I think is really hard to pull off in this type of movie. Just an outstanding vibe all around. The lighting and editing are so insane, the radio station being the connecting thread of the movie is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t blame anyone for saying that this is better than Star Wars (1977). I really wish George Lucas spent more time in the director’s chair, it’s a shame he’s done so little. (Psst here's my letterboxd review.)

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Video Games

Stardew Valley (2016)

I’ve tried for years to get into Stardew Valley but it’s never really clicked before now. I’m not really sure why that is, I think maybe I just didn’t want to learn a new game this expansive until now. But holy shit man, this game is like actual crack cocaine. Me and my bestie started a farm like 5 days ago and already have 30 hours in it. This feels like the biggest and most fleshed out game ever and that I’ve barely scratched the surface of it. We’re at the beginning of year 2 and have a majority of the community center items completed & the mines completed, but also we’ve barely interacted with the townspeople and I know there’s a ton of shit there. Can really only compare it to Minecraft in terms of how endless this feels. Gotten so obsessed with the farm animals in this game look too. Insane work. Also this has like the funnest fishing minigame ever. I can’t really understand why cozy games took off as a genre after this since I can’t imagine needing one that isn’t Stardew.

Deltarune (2018-)

Don’t know where to begin with this. Undertale blew me away when I first played through it and while that game is still a masterpiece this feels like it’s 15 steps ahead of it. Nobody is moving like Toby Fox. Somehow get more and more shocked with each chapter just how inventive this is gameplay & story wise and how funny it consistently is. I’ve seen people be disappointed with Chapter 5 story wise but I can’t really understand it, the character work here was so great, and more importantly this chapter was fun as hell to play. The battles were maybe my favorite yet and the platforming was such a fun mixup. The Festival intro was trying its best to kill me too. The best game of the decade continues to be the best game of the decade. There is nothing else even close to being what Deltarune is.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (2026)

Just the dumbest game ever. I can’t really understand where people who find this game boring or lacking are coming from because I put 85 hours into this and still have so much new shit going on with my miis and still have another 5 mii slots left. Just so stupid. Just so beautiful. Very powerful. The mii editor in here is so insane, probably the best character creator I’ve ever used in a game. I keep trying to push my creations up to the next level after seeing what other people are doing. Just a really fun one to go through alongside your friends also doing stupid shit on their islands. I just wish it wasn’t so annoying to upload screenshots.

Red Dead Redemption (2010)

Somehow my first Rockstar game? Just in time for GTA6 I guess. I first tried this out early last year and absolutely hated it then. I was so excited for open world cowboy stuff but as soon as I hit a mission that was just walking and talking I dropped it. I was a total idiot. This game is really good actually. I’m still probably not that far into it but it’s finally clicked and it’s soooo good. While it’s not on the level of something like Breath of the Wild the map feels so alive for a PS3 game in a way that really shocked me. Was also really shocked by just how good it’s aged visually. While there’s plenty of other great looking PS3 games, the muddy brown “realistic” look that was popular in that era has made a lot of that generation hard to go back to for me. But this is right up there with The Last of Us in terms of actually pulling that look off, this shit looks amazing still (I imagine the fact that I’m playing on a PS5 at 4k60 helps that but other than that I don’t think they changed too much of this game’s presentation?). The landscapes & the sky are jaw dropping. While I’m still in the middle of playing the game and don’t think I’ve progressed the narrative a ton (and don’t really care about it at all), the voice performances are pretty good and are a fun addition alongside the type of gameplay here. The shooting also feels very fun. Just really into this game, I want to go and play the GTAs I missed so bad. I think next up for me will be GTA4, I’d go right to Red Dead 2 but I think I want to give that one some breathing room considering how long that one is, I don’t want to get burnt out on it. Cannot believe I’ve been putting off Bully & GTA 4 for so long that this one ended up being my first Rockstar game in the year 2026.

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Music

Breath from Another (1998)

December of last year something in my brain finally clicked and I just started liking music. I think it was just one of my friends talking to me about her obsession with it in a non-condescending way? Idk. But anyways pretty instantly got on a lot of stuff she sent me and still mostly just listen to her recs. Back in January she introduced me to Breath from Another, and I’ve listened to it way too much since. I’m not anywhere near as good at talking about music as I am at talking about games or movies (not like I’m good at those either). Just immaculate vibes and sounds. I needed to give this a shoutout on here. My favs are Half a World Away & Swallow Me.

Geek the Girl (1994)

Not really sure how to approach this one either. Used songs from this one in letterboxd reviews for Fire Walk with Me and Blue Velvet but it would feel cheap to explain this one by just comparing it to those. I really value art like this that doesn’t look away from things like this while also not feeling cheap in what it’s doing. A Psychopath is one of the scariest pieces of art I’ve ever experienced. Doesn’t feel compromised in any way & feels so true. Everything I said about Twin Peaks could apply to this as well.

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Last update 6/26/26. None of these images or videos are my own.