Our Favorite Films & Television Shows in 2023

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of films and television shows our community loved in 2023.

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Films

• 20 Days in Mariupol by Mstyslav Chernov
  
• Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
  
• American radical: The trials of Norman Finkelstein by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier
  
• The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
  
• Barbie by Greta Gerwig
  
• Bottoms, directed by Emma Seligman, who co-wrote it with Rachel Sennott
  
• Dicks, the Musical by directed by Larry Charles, based on the off-Broadway musical Fucking Identical Twins by Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson
  
• Earth Mama, directed and written by Savanah Leaf
  
• Fire of Love by Sara Dosa
  
• Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan
  
• Saltburn by Emerald Fennell
  
• Theater Camp, directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, screenplay by Gordon, Lieberman, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin
  

TV/Serial

• All The Light We Can Not See, directed by Shawn Levy and developed by Steven Knight
  
• Fellow Travelers by Ron Nyswaner
  
• How I Met Your Father by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger
  
• Jane the Virgin by Jennie Snyder Urman
  
• Lupin by George Kay and François Uzan
  
• Somebody Somewhere by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen
  
• Ted Lasso Season 3, Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly
  
  

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