By Recspot – 2022-12-09 00:25:16
As 2022 wraps up we are excited to look back on all of your top recommendations in entertainment and places for the year! To thank you for sharing your top recs on your socials we will be having a giveaway:
*Create your own Top recs of 2022 (list must have a minimum of 5 recommendations) for media, places or both!
*Share your list from the RecSpot app to Instagram or Tiktok and tag three (3) friends and also tag us @therecspot.
*The giveaway runs from December 9th-December 21st, 2022 and is open to US residents 18 and over. Five (5) winners will be selected at random and announced in the comments on this post below. Three 3 winners will receive a $50 e-gift card and 2 winners will receive a $100 e-gift card via Amazon or Visa.
Have fun, and happy posting!
2022, what a year you’ve been!
As we begin the final stretch of the year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all things entertainment! Here at RecSpot, we cultivated our own list of tv shows and movies that truly made 2022 special.
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The Watcher
RecSpot Rating: 5.2
Netflix
A family moves into their dream home, only to be plagued by ominous letters, strange neighbors and sinister threats.
- Welcome to Wrexham
RecSpot Rating: 6.5
Hulu
In “Welcome to Wrexham,” Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds learn to run the third oldest professional football club in the world. In 2020, Rob and Ryan teamed up to purchase the fifth tier Red Dragons in the hope of turning Wrexham AFC into an underdog story the whole world can root for, but the concern is that neither have any experience in football or working with each other. From Hollywood to Wales, from the pitch to the locker room, and the front office to the pub, the docuseries will track Rob and Ryan’s crash course in football club ownership and the inextricably connected fates of a team and a town counting on two actors to bring some serious hope and change to a community that could use it.
- House of the Dragon
RecSpot Rating: 5.0
HBO Max
The reign of House Targaryen begins with this prequel to popular HBO series “Game of Thrones.” Based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire & Blood,” “House of the Dragon” is set nearly 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” telling the story of the Targaryen civil war with King Viserys I Targaryen’s children battling for control of the Iron Throne.
- Hustle
RecSpot Rating: 5.8
Netflix
After a down-on-his-luck basketball scout discovers an extraordinary player abroad, he brings the phenom back without his team’s approval.
- Stranger Things: Season 4
RecSpot Rating: 7.5
Netflix
In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
- Top Gun: Maverick
RecSpot Rating: 4.2
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
- The Offer
RecSpot Rating: 7.7
Al Ruddy’s experience of making the 1972 film “The Godfather” with Francis Ford Coppola.
- Barry
- RecSpot Rating: 8.0
HBO Max
Disillusioned at the thought of taking down another “mark,” depressed, low-level hit man Barry Berkman seeks a way out. When the Midwesterner reluctantly travels to Los Angeles to execute a hit on an actor who is bedding a mobster’s wife, little does Barry know that the City of Angels may be his sanctuary. He follows his target into acting class and ends up instantly drawn to the community of eager hopefuls, especially dedicated student Sally, who becomes the object of his affection. While Barry wants to start a new life as an actor, his handler, Fuches, has other ideas, and the hit man’s criminal past won’t let him walk away so easily.
- Tokyo Vice
RecSpot Rating: 7.0
Jake Adelstein, an American journalist, plugs into the Tokyo Vice police squad and descends into the neon underbelly of Tokyo.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
RecSpot Rating: 4.6
When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
RecSpot Rating: 7.0
A dramatic look at the glitz and glamour of 1980s Los Angeles and the rise of the NBA’s Lakers, Dr. Jerry Buss and Magic Johnson.
- The Dropout
RecSpot Rating: 6.0
In a tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong, Elizabeth Holmes develops healthcare technology that puts millions of patients at risk and loses everything in the blink of an eye.
- Super Pumped
RecSpot Rating: 6.3FUBOTV
The story of the ride-sharing company, Uber, from the perspective of the company’s CEO Travis Kalanick, who is ultimately ousted in a boardroom coup after tense internal and external battles that ripple with unpredictable consequences.
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Severance
RecSpot Rating: 3.0
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
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Pam & Tommy
RecSpot Rating: 3.4
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s honeymoon sex tape is stolen and leaked to the public.
- Ozark
RecSpot Rating: 6.8
Created by Bill Dubuque (“The Accountant,” “The Judge”), this drama series stars Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde, a financial planner who relocates his family from Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks. With wife Wendy and their two kids in tow, Marty is on the move after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong, forcing him to pay off a substantial debt to a Mexican drug lord in order to keep his family safe. While the Byrdes’ fate hangs in the balance, the dire circumstances force the fractured family to reconnect.
