In late 2015 Jenn and I went on a shopping spree for theater tickets. It’s something we did a lot of early in our relationship. We spent many Friday and Saturday nights at a theater in the round in Downtown Riverside. The theater is something that the older we get the more we seem to enjoy. We waited for Black Friday and Cyber Monday and purchased season passes at both Segerstrom and South Coast Repertory and also bought tickets for two separate performances outside of the season passes. In total from January to May we have tickets to go see eight performances. Our first was If/Then a musical set in New York at Segerstrom Hall.

While on our trip to Napa Valley we spent our last evening in Santa Clara at the movie theater. This is something that Jenn and I did often on mini vacations with her parents and the tradition has continued with the two of us. We went to a theater called the Roxy Theater a couple of miles from our hotel in Santa Clara to see the movie The Big Short starring more actors then I care to list.

Nearly six months after the release of Daredevil on Netflix comes Jessica Jones. If you didn’t read my review of Daredevil you should know that it was one of my favorite shows of 2015 and is one I’m eagerly anticipating the release of season two in early 2016. I remember watching the trailers for Jessica Jones over the summer and not being sure whether or not it would live up to the high bar set by Daredevil but I’m happy to report the first 13-episode season of Jessica Jones was phenomenal.

One of the shows that's been on Jenn and I's "to watch list" (which we do keep track of on Wunderlist) has been Amazon's first big hit, Transparent. It's a show that has gotten so much buzz both from an award standpoint and also just word of mouth. I've had several people tell me that I would love Transparent. A couple of weeks back when we finished up Man in the High Castle we moved on from one Amazon show to another with Transparent. 

If you're like Jenn and I you spent a lot of the late 90's and early 2000's in love with Friends. I know we both have watched most of the episodes but we were both going through Junior High and High School when the show was on so we definitely didn't watch all of it. At the start of 2015 Netflix added all ten season to their streaming service and so Jenn and I made it our "fill in" show for much of last year into the first month of 2016. 

I had a couple of vacation days that I had to use this year so I took the week of Christmas off. Although I spent much of the break playing Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and spending time with Jenn I did get a chance to take two hours out of my vacation to watch the Netflix movie, Beasts of No Nation. The movie stars Idris Elba as a war lord in an unknown country in Africa and a boy Agu played by Abraham Attah.